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Ive only 6 movies so far this years but i will rank them and put comments about each one.[im seeing Disturbia and Hot Fuzz Tommorow]

1.300-Simply amazing a monster epic with some the best battle scenes and visual effects i've ever seen
2.Grind House- Tartinguez[thanks for the term nico] made a masterpiece.One of the most orginal impressive and interesting ive seen in a while too bad it bombed. In addtion the fake trailers especailly Thanksgiving and Machete were so funny.
3. Reno 911! Miami- I love the show I loved the movie.
4. Smokin' Aces- A fun action packed thrill ride that was a hell of a good time. The plot twist i didn't see coming.
5. Blades of Glory- You gotta Love Will Ferrell and he is the best part of this figure skating comedy.
6. Norbit- Alright this movie sucked but i have only seen 6 movies so far this year so i had to put it on here.

I would appreciate some feedback on this thanks

No, or few comments -- I'm sure most of these will be pretty self-explanatory -- but here's my take on the films I've seen thus far...

My Top Ten of 2007, Year-to-Date:

[1] The Lives of Others
[2] Breach
[3] God Grew Tired of Us
[4] Reign Over Me (more for what it attempted to do, than what it did)
[5] Amazing Grace
[6] The Wind That Shakes the Barley
[7] First Snow
[8] 300
[9] Black Book
[10] Zodiac

Honorable mention: Fido

My Bottom Ten of 2007, Year-to-Date:

[10] Pride
[9] Color Me Kubrick
[8] The Hoax
[7] The Astronaut Farmer
[6] Music and Lyrics
[5] Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters [sigh]
[4] Pathfinder: Legend of the Ghost Warrior
[3] Ghost Rider
[2] The Last Mimzy
[1] Because I Said So

Dishonorable mention: Grind House (yes, I know. I love parts of it, too... But still)

P.S. transformers2, you're welcome. [Grin] At least some good came out of it.

I remain, as always...

Nico.

Although we here in the Emerald Isle get movies a little later than you in the US (e.g. Reign Over me opens this week, Grindhouse in June [maybe], Zodiac in May), according to US releases, here's my favourite movies

1: Rescue Dawn
2: Sunshine
3: 300

That said, I've only seen 4 other movies that have been originally released in 2007, so that's not saying much. sunshine was disappointing, and 300 was just popcorn fluff (though pretty great popcorn fluff). I would rate The Lives of Others above either of those.

Of the disappointments so far, Hot Fuzz was a bummer for me. It could have been so great, but it's obvious Wright and Pegg just love action flicks too much to be funny enough with the genre.

I've seen 13 movies so far. They are, in order:

Awesome:
1. 300
2. Freedom Writers
3. Disturbia

Very Good:
4. Ghost Rider (shut UP, Nico)
5. Bridge to Terabithia

Good:
6. Premonition
7. Shooter
8. The Lookout
9. Breach

Not Good:
10. Grindhouse
11. Blood and Chocolate

I'd rather listen to Vogon poetry:
12. Hannibal Rising
13. Primeval

I just got Smokin' Aces in the mail, and I'll be watching iy in the next couple of days. I also plan to see Fracture this weekend.

"Vogon poetry is, of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem 'Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning,' four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council only survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos, who was reportedly 'disappointed' by the poem's reception, had been about to embark on a reading of his 12-volume epic entitled 'My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles' when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save the audience, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, in the destruction of the planet Earth."

My own personal low:

A Creed for the Third Amphibian

Ah! Dappled quag,
Spittling brumous globules effervescent in churlish fecklessivity,
Untangle my gibbous thoracic sac of fetid liquids;
Snarl my copious misfiring sensory clusters with fanciful delight.
Pimply is the biomass whence torpid delusion reigns!
I froth with epileptic fecundity. Your faithful joyfulness swells my paupered, sebaceous wolds.
Exult! Effluvient miasma, else bother me no more.

I remain, as always...

Nico.

Ah ! The delicate sound of Vogon poetry... Is there anything smoother in the universe ?

As far as 2007 go, I've already seen 70 films or so, but being in Paris some of them were released in 2006 in the US, and most of the others will never be released in the US.

Knowing that, here are the best films I've seen so far this year :
Sunshine
The Lives of Others
Im Sang-soo's The Old Garden
Bug
After the wedding
Johnnie To's Election
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Painted Veil
Molière (french film)
Ensemble c'est tout (french film)

number six thanks for agreeing with me on Sunshine it was dissapointing.

I know I am going to get tons of crap for this *Especially from Nico

1. Grindhouse
2.Firehouse Dog ( yeah I'm not kidding)
3. 300
4.Blood and Chocolate
5.Reno 911 Miami
6.The Last Mimzy
7.Blades of Glory
8.Number 23
9.Black Snake Moan
10.Prime Evil

P.S. I dont live in the Newfoundland

Why would I give you crap, giglifan? I defended your "right" to like Gigli, for scrying out loud. [Heh.] Besides, partner, you should see some of the films on MY list of all-time "favorites." Ask around, there was a whole contest about it here back a few weeks ago. (Six words: Doogie Howser in an SS uniform.) Besides, I don't plan my entire day around picking on you, or anyone else, no matter what ideas you've gotten into your head.

But, I digress. I honestly don't think you (or, anyone) can control which films are your (or their) favorites; like falling in love, it's not a logical / rational / explicable "decision." Let me show you what I mean:

On a recent night in January, I directed my TiVos to record the following films for me: The Program (1993), Armageddon, For Love of the Game, Anastasia (the Don Bluth cartoon), So I Married an Axe Murderer and The Prince of Egypt. Not one of these titles has an IMDb score of greater than 6.7. Here's what I ignored, that I could have watched that evening: The Color Purple (7.6), The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (7.2), Fatal Attraction (6.7), Boyz N the Hood and The Motorcycle Diaries (7.8 and 7.9, respectively).

Now, I happen to love The Life Aquatic, and consider The Color Purple, Boyz N the Hood and The Motorcyle Diaries to be among the top one percent of films released in the last twenty years. But I haven't watched Purple in better than a decade, have only seen Diaries twice and honestly get pretty emotional watching John Singleton's unnerving Boyz. So I went with Mike Myers, a cartoon Meg Ryan and Kevin Costner as a has-been Tigers pitcher, instead. Where the hell's the logic in that, I ask you. How do I defend these "preferences"? I don't. It is what it is.

Now, I'm actually pretty surprised at how some of the titles you mentioned above ended up placing on my personal "top 10" and "bottom 10" films of 2007 thus far. 300 was an excellent film, but my biggest problem with it was -- there wasn't ENOUGH of it. I could have watched another thirty minutes, easy, and I actually felt the film ended up being short on narrative. There were, what, three battle sequences? Troy ended up being (in my opinion) a far superior all-around movie. Even if it wasn't as truly kick-ass as Snyder's Spartans.

I thought The Last Mimzy COULD have been a really amazing film. It just... wasn't, for me. The special effects weren't special enough, I thought the acting was rote, and I would have preferred more suspense over the "true" nature of the technology / communication with the kiddos. It was a brave idea that needed braver execution.

Grind House (which just barely MISSED my "bottom ten") was another film I thought could have been just incredible, but at the end of the day, like so many films of late it seems, the trailer was the best part of the experience by far. (Trailers, actually.) Both 'filmlets' would have been better if they really HAD been only 50 or 55 minutes (in theaters).

I didn't rank / rate The Number 23 at all, but that's another film I had high hopes for, that just didn't deliver, for me. But, then again, I don't like Conspiracy Theory, either.

What's my point? Simply this: I don't have a "problem" with your "top 10" list of 2007. Far from it. Good on you, keep those opinions coming. Diversity of perspective makes this a far more interesting place, and (all evidence to the contrary) I'm neither always right, nor have I cornered the market on reason.

In a word (two, actually): Welcome aboard.

I remain, as always...

Nico.

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

I don't really like Gigli. I never saw it. It is just my name.

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P.S. lol I'm thinking Shryke got paid to go see Ghost Rider.

It's so hard to tell when people are being facetious...

I, for the most part, love comic book movies... even the crappy ones like Daredevil, Elektra, and yes, Ghost Rider. Why? They are what they are. I go in with certain expectations, and they meet them, nearly all the time. I rarely leave a comic-book adaptation feeling cheated.

There are, of course, exceptions to this rule, such as The Hulk or Superman Returns. I was completely underwhelmed by these films, and I would be hard pressed to really explain why.

I have heard rumors that a sequel to Ghost Rider has already been greenlit. So while Nico checks the Weather Channel to discern whether hell has frozen over or not, I'll probably be making plans to go see that as well. As a one-time comic-book fanatic, it's simply not in my nature to avoid films like these.

Living in the middle of nowhere, we don't get a whole lot of the fancier movies you big city folk might get. Have yet to see the likes of Lives of Others and Black Book. Looking forward to the DVD releases.

So out of the films I've seen.

1. 300
2. Grindhouse
3. Zodiac
4. Blades of Glory
5. Meet The Robinsons (but only in 3D)

MTR itself wasnt that great of a movie, but the RealD technology blew me away. it just seemed so natural and not forced like the old Red/Blue glasses. I can't wait for a real good movie to come along that uses it. Maybe Beowolf, or we'll have to wait until Avatar.

Shryke42 wrote:

I, for the most part, love comic book movies... even the crappy ones like Daredevil, Elektra, and yes, Ghost Rider. Why? They are what they are. I go in with certain expectations, and they meet them, nearly all the time. I rarely leave a comic-book adaptation feeling cheated.

I have to agree with you there Shryke! I really like comic book movies, even the "bad" ones like daredevil and such. Although, I also have to admit that I don't rush out to see many of these movies in theatres either. There are exceptions though (X-Men and Spidey, I even have to admit paying money to see the total let down of Superman Returns in the theaters) but comic book movies do have a special place in my heart.

~D

I think I've only seen 3 movies so far this year. Terrible, isn't it? I'd rank them as follows.

1. Reign Over Me
2. Blades of Glory
3. 300

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