2. WALL-E - At this point, my slavish devotion to (almost) all things Pixar has long passed bias and moved on to full-on cheerleader mode. And as long as they keep pushing boundaries and coming up with masterpieces like WALL-E, I'm okay with that. I love that they've decided that the fact that they're going to pull in big family audiences no matter what allows them not to lazily produce derivative schlock, but instead allows them to take chances that other blockbusters (live action or animated) from other studios won't. It's not common to see artistry thrive in such big budget situations, so I choose to enthusiastically celebrate when it does.
1. The Dark Knight - Was there really any doubt? I've been salivating over this movie since it came out, declaring it the Top Comic Book Movie of All-Time. Again, as with anything this immensely popular, there has been a bit of backlash against this film of late; although interestingly, the backlash seems to be directed more at the fans of this movie than the film itself. People are tiring of the fanboys devotion to this film, and can't fucking understand why every Oscar discussion is derailed with talk about TDK's exclusion. Well, boo hoo. How dare people question why one of the best blockbuster films ever was excluded in favour of third-rate (and somewhat insulting) Nazi films and warmed over biopics that will be all but forgotten once the ceremony is aired?!? I'm not saying The Dark Knight is the greatest movie ever, but in a year that was seriously lacking in greatness, it certainly ranked as something worthy of praise.
(Note: I'm also not saying that The Dark Knight isn't the greatest movie ever. I'll leave it up for you decide how I feel).
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Article comments
1 - Jordan Richardson
Cool stuff. I thought 2008 was actually a much better year than 2007 for film. Lots of tremendous stuff out there to see.
My Top Films of the Year (in no particular order):
Let the Right One In
Revolutionary Road
Frozen River
The Wrestler
Happy-Go-Lucky
Doubt
Slumdog Millionaire
Gran Torino
WALL-E
Frost/Nixon
I've yet to see Milk, In Bruges, Rachel Getting Married, and several others too, so the list could change too.
Also, wasn't as big a fan of the "superhero" movies as everyone else was. I thought The Dark Knight was average, same with Iron Man.
2 - andre
Where is twilight?
3 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
I guess I didn't give The Wrestler much of a chance...It is rather boring in the beginning.
Wall-E was one of the best movies I have ever seen and even though I agree about Pixar("UP" is coming soon...Yay), I thought they had some competition with Sony's release in '07. "Surf's Up" was freakin awesome! If they make another one like that then we will have two companies producing great animated movies that are for everyone.
TDK was very good but I think the hype ruined something for me...I can't put my finger on it. Really, I did like it but towards the end it got a little drawn out. I guess when it comes to "Comic Book" movies I'd rather see them animated. Imho, this movie doesn't touch the Spawn Animated Series that HBO/Macfarlane put out quite sometime ago but,again, that's my opinion.
Your list is fairly accurate though I would've included "Eagle Eye". I thought that movie was gonna suck but it turned out great.
4 - Jordan Richardson
"Surf's Up" was freakin awesome!
Really? I hadn't bothered to see that one because I thought it looked bloody awful.
5 - Andy Sayers
I found Surf's Up to be merely average. I'm all penguined out.
6 - Brian aka Guppusmaximus
Well, Jordan, it's tough to say if the animation is as good as Pixar's ( I think it comes pretty damn close) but the script & voice over cast make up for whatever it lacks in that department. It was funny, a little bit touching and it presented a huge point in the same fashion as Wall-E. But, I can't take anything away from Wall-E because that film was brilliant, original & very creative. Still, Surf's Up has to,easily, be in my top 10 for Animated movies.
You should check it out...
7 - Andy Sayers
@Jordan:
Just as you didn't care for TDK and Iron Man, I disagree with Happy-Go-Lucky and Revolutionary Road, both of which I actively disliked. Diff'rent strokes, I suppose.
I'm about to watch Frozen River, so I'll see if it would've contended had I saw it in time.
8 - Cster-sama
I haven't seen most of those movies. I'll check them out in the new year.
9 - Brovky
wer da hell is the dark knight??!!
10 - Andy
You have to keep reading Brovky. Like maybe all the way to number one.