Ultimate Best/Worst of 2008 Movie Survey…
It was a decent year for films, so here is this year’s best/worst movie survey for 2008. Enjoy!
Peter
1. Ten Best Films of 2008:
10. The Dark Knight
9. Forgetting Sarah Marshall:
8. Definitely, Maybe
7. Iron Man:
6. Quantum Of Solace
5. Tropic Thunder
4. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Gran Torino
2. Momma Mia!
1. Frost / Nixon
2. Five Worst Films of 2008:
5. Get Smart
4. What Happens In Vegas
3. Hancock
2. Disaster Movie
1. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls
3. Biggest Guilty Pleasure of the Year: Mommia Mia!
4. Best Title: Gran Torino
5. Worst Title: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls.
6. Movie Titles That Could Be Confused with Porn Titles: The Love Guru, Incredible Hulk, The Happening, The Dark Knight
7. Sequels We Didnt Need: Indiana Jones 4, Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor,
8. Best Sequel of 2008: Quantum Of Solace
9. Worst Sequel of 2008: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Golden Raspberries… opps, I mean Crystal Skulls.
10. Biggest Disappointment of 2008: Once again the winner is… Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls. Makes the Star Wars prequels look better by comparison. Watch the South Park episode where they show the kids reaction the new Indy flick and that’s pretty much how I felt after I watched the movie when I left the theatre: violated.
11. Biggest Breakthrough: Robert Downey Jr. This was his year… two amazing movies and one of them might land him a handful of serious awards.
12. Most Bizarre Film of 2008: Disaster Movie. Should have been given a different title since it only made fun of one disaster movie which was a big disappointment for me. I was hoping to see spoofs of Armageddon, Independence Day, Cloverfield (in more detail) and even Deep Impact… and we got was spoofs of not films of this year, just spoofs of their trailers.
13. Best 2008 Acting Portfolio: Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man, Tropic Thunder)
14. Worst 2008 Acting Portfolio: Mark Wahlberg (Max Payne, The Happening)
15. Most Fun I Had at the Movies in 2008: Iron Man
16. Best Movie I Saw in 2008 (That Wasnt Released in 2008): Michael Clayton
17. Paris Hilton Award for Worst Movie Premise: The Ruins. Seriously, plants that are alive and attack people? Is this the best horror they could come up with? No wonder the major studios are remaking everything these days…
18. Best Villain: Heath Ledger as the Joker (The Dark Knight)
19. Worst Villian: The Environment (The Happening)
20. Best Onscreen Death: The Director stepping on the land mine (Tropic Thunder)
21. Worst Onscreen Death: Cate Blanchett’s mind getting overloaded up by aliens (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls)
22. Thora Birch Award for Hottest Female Actress of the Year: Amanda Seyfried (Momma Mia!)
23. Best Actor: Frank Langella (Frost / Nixon)
24. Best Actor Runner Up: Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)
25. Worst Actor: Ashton Kutcher (What Happens In Vegas)
26. Worst Actor Runner Up: Steve Carell (Get Smart)
27. Best Actress: Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
28. Best Actress Runner Up: Meryl Streep (Momma Mia!)
29. Worst Actress: Cameron Diaz (What Happens In Vegas)
30. Worst Actress Runner Up: Anne Hathaway (Get Smart)
31. Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
32. Best Supporting Actress: Julie Walters (Momma Mia!)
33. Best Screenplay: Frost / Nixon
34. Worst Screenpley: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls
35. Best Director: Ron Howard (Frost / Nixon)
36. Worst Director: Steven Speilberg (for ever agreeing to make the latest Indiana Jones movie about ALIENS!)
37. Best Animated Film of 2008: Wall-E
38. Best Horror of 2008: Cloverfield
39. Best Comedy of 2008: You Don’t Mess With The Zohan
40. Best Musical of 2008: Mommia Mia!
41. Most Overrated Movie of 2008: The Dark Knight. (Good movie, just not the best of all time some made it out to be…)
42. Most Underrated Movie of 2008: Mommia Mia!
43. Most Overrated Actor/Actress of 2008: Jennifer Aniston. She couldn’t act before Brad came into the picture, she can’t now.
44. Most Underrated Actor/Actress of 2008: Ryan Reynolds. His amazing performance in Definitely Maybe proved he’s capable of doing more than an action/comedy film.
45. Movies From 2008 I Still Need to See:
My current must see hit list (in this order):
1. Milk
2. The Wrestler
3. Doubt
4. Valkyrie
5. The Reader
6. Australia
7. Seven Pounds
Happy New Year to you too! I haven’t seen any of your top ten films yet…
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I’m REALLY looking forward to “Doubt” – I stage managed the play a couple of years ago and it is a brilliant, brilliant piece of writing so I look forward to seeing what Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman can do with it.
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You know, they’re saying there’s a new phrase to replace “jumping the shark”. It’s called “nuking the fridge.” Hehe. I had a good laugh over it.
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Happy New Year!
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while you agree with me that “the ruins” is the best horror film of the year, you think it had the worst premise? lol. it’s loosely adapted from the novel by scott smith, who also wrote the novel “a simple plan” was based on, and that film got more respect when it came out. my fav robert downey jr movie of the year was the one no one saw, “charlie bartlett”.
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RYN: i’m interested in seeing “frost/nixon”, but i think the main conceit of the film, that frost outplayed nixon to get him to admit involvement in the watergate cover-up, is false. if you watch the original interviews, nixon never quite admits it, and since he was paid for the interview and got gross participation, it was in his best interest to deliver the “goods” anyway.
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and worst title : “in the name of the king : a dungeon seige tale”, lol…or is uwe boll disqualified from all “worst” lists bc he’d just hog them all, lol. =)
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Dad agreed with you on The Dark Knight. He and I both nearly bust a gut on Tropic Thunder, though. Mom and I just put on Momma Mia!, so hopefully it’s as good as you say! Hope you and yours have a wonderful New Years. *hugs*
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I would have to disagree on the top ten…tropic thunder! No way. That was the biggest waste of 2 hours of my life and completely horrible. I kept wondering when the moving forwards and get better.
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re: The Ruins. Isn’t that the same premise they used in The Happening? I don’t really get people attacking KOTCS for using Aliens. I mean, the other movies didn’t involve plausible macguffins either. That and I think aliens are a touch more likely than Holy Arks dispensing supernatural juju. Also, it’s Spielberg. You know, the ET, Close Encounters guy.
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I’ll be knocking out my own list soon enough (I just have to watch number 2 on your must see list before I finalize it).
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