- What a tough year… There were so many great films, I simply couldn’t find a place for all of them on the list. What’s crazier is that even having seen 160 pictures in 2007 (and catching up on several early in 2008), there are still so many I feel I missed out on! I did my best on this list.. The listed films are in no particular order.
- Top 11 Films of 2007:
- Bottom 4 films of 2007:
- Film which should have been in last year’s top ten: The Queen
- Best Remake/Reworking: 3:10 to Yuma (honorable mention goes to Halloween)
- Most Unnecessary Remake/Reworking: The Invasion (So unnecessary I didn’t need to see it!)
- Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
- Best Actress: Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose
- Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
- Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett for I’m Not There
- Best Supporting Actor: Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton
- Best Ensemble: Hot Fuzz
- Best Original Screenplay: Lars and the Real Girl
- Best Adapted Screenplay: There Will Be Blood
- Best Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
- Best Soundtrack: There Will Be Blood
- Most Alarming Cinematic Trend: Remakes going 3 or 4 levels deep…
- Most Memorable Lines:
- Daniel Plainview: Drainage! Drainage, Eli, you boy. Drained dry. I’m so sorry. Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that’s a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake… I… drink… your… milkshake!
- Nicholas Angel: Are there any questions?
Danny Butterman: Is it true that there’s a point on a man’s head where if you shoot it, it will blow up? - Brian Kuh: If anybody wants to see, there’s a Donkey Kong kill screen coming up.
- Stuntman Mike: Do I frighten you?
[Arlene nods]
Stuntman Mike: Is it my scar?
Arlene: It’s your car.
Stuntman Mike: Yeah, I know. I’m sorry. It’s my mom’s car. - Best Documentary: The King of Kong (honorable mention goes to Monster Camp)
- Best use of Special Effects in a lame movie: The Golden Compass
- Best Interviews in a Documentary: The King of Kong
- Films I feel guilty for missing: In the Valley of Elah, Away from Her, The Savages, Gone Baby Gone
- Films I don’t feel guilty for missing: Atonement, The Invasion, Alvin and the Chipmunks
Oh, and I also haven’t seen “There Will Be Blood”, but need to…
Your first two quotes, i had a feeling, were from “There Will Be Blood” and “Hot Fuzz”, but I didn’t know which one was which. heh.
fine choices…
Great list of top stuff. We have a fair amount of faves in common (King of Kong, Hot Fuzz, No Country, The Lookout, Bourne Ultimatum, Eastern Promises), but thanks to the new fatherhood I missed out on a bunch of films I hope to see thanks to Netflix (Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, Juno, The Savages). I finally did catch Gone Baby Gone last week on DVD, and it ended up an easy top 10-er (even with the suspense removed thanks to having read and loved the book).
After all the praise and backlash for Juno, I’m very curious what I’ll think of it. Did you not catch it, or were you just lukewarm enough to call it neither good nor bad?
Oddly, I worship the Golden Compass books but had little desire to see the film. And still don’t. Rather keep my own brain-conjured images in place.
And thanks to you, that damn Brian Kuh quote is playing in my head again… over and over and over… gah…
Re: fine choices…
Juno was fine, but I think it was a little overrated. It was marred by having some of the MOST overwrought dialog right in the first few minutes of the film (with Rainn Wilson).