ILP's top ten movies for 2008

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These are mine. Post yours and I’ll weight them for a compiled ILP top ten and pass it along to the Academy. :unamused:

  1. Slumdog Millionaire
  2. Doubt
  3. Rambo
  4. Cadillac Records
  5. The Dark knight
  6. The Fall
  7. Gran Torino
  8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  9. Appaloosa
  10. Kung Fu Panda

FYI, these are the Golden Globe nominations:
BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Frost/Nixon
* The Reader
* Revolutionary Road
* Slumdog Millionaire

BEST MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY

* Burn After Reading
* Happy-Go-Lucky
* In Bruges
* Mamma Mia!
* Vicky Cristina Barcelona

(Mamma Mia !!! I loved the show, but the casting for the movie sucked. I haven’t seen The Reader so I may have to modify my list. Revolutionary Road looks depressing and dumb.)

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Gran Torino was all kinds of awesome

that should be number one

Wall-E needs to be up there

3

Forbidden Kingdom is probably my fondest film memory of 2008. Awesome.

4

Did anyone see Tropic Thunder? I saw it, and loved it. I thought Tom Cruise was funny. Stupid, but funny.

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Slumdog Millionaire won the Golden Globe. They actually got one right. If you haven’t seen it, you can’t imagine what it’s like. It’s different in a lot of good ways. Europe has never approached Hollywood for real quality and innovation, IMNTBHO (except for maybe American exports like Kubrick). Fellini has no clothes, and British humor sucks. But this signals some serious competition from India.

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Although it was directed by a British guy.

British humour sucks :astonished: How dare thee! You obviously don’t have the subtle sensibilities for such refined humour, hmph! :wink:

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Yeah, and look where he had to go.

I can’t help it. I was locked in a closet for 5 years with nothing but Bennie Hill reruns on the telly. Even the TV skit in V for Vendetta was stupid.

I thought for a time that Death at a Funeral, which was funny as hell, was a Brit movie (It was filmed in England with a bunch of Brits except for Alan Tudyk) and that maybe they were coming around. But then I remembered that Frank Oz directed it. I thought I was wrong, but then it turned out I was. :sunglasses:

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I worry that benny hill is thought of as representative of british comedy…

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I don’t like Monty Python either.

The only (possibly?) good British humor they show over here is on public TV which nobody watches, including me. So far the best showing has been American redos of British stuff, most notably starting with our breakthrough comedy, All in the Family which was modeled on the British show, Till Death Do Us Part.