Top Ten Films of 2007

[steedizzie]

This year’s selection process has occupied in my mind real estate equal to that of a small duplex or a middling condominium for the better part of the last month.  Last year, it felt as if my list just fell together easily in the course of a single afternoon, as I turned in my chair and crossed off choices until ten remained.  I could, of course

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[steedizzie]

Also incredibly satisfying for the Coens to win in general...they've made so many modern classics.

[spideman]

I was surprised you put Ratatouille in your top 10, much less your top 5. Congrats on overcoming your preconceived biases.

The amazing thing about that movie, which was pointed out to me in a newsweek article, was how passionately it argued the case for fine cuisine as it's own art...within the art of movie-making. It was a love-story from one art to another art. A true testament to the miracle that is fine food from the miracle that is fine movie-making. Pixar must have made a deal with Satan to pull shit like this off...

[schismatic_tylr]

Good list, fun read, yada.

For compare/contrast, my top ten..

10) Superbad
9) The Kingdom
8) The Devil Came on Horseback
7) Assassination of Jesse James jfdnujrbuvibuhbuynnhiukhn Ford
6) Michael Clayton
5) Once
4) Ratatouille
3) No Country For Old Men
2) Juno
1) There Will Be Blood

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Superbad, to me, is the perfect teen comedy. The Kingdom was the biggest surprise of anything I viewed last year. It was trite and predictable, but it did a solid job of examining the conflict and it's spawning points, from both angles. Rent/download The Devil Came on Horseback, enough said. Brad Pitt (Jesse James), great fucking actor, outshined by other Affleck (The Coward Robert Ford), beautiful cinematography as their backdrop. Michael Clayton, very tight screenplay, Clooney and Wilkinson give career performances. Once: best.musical.ever. That fucking track "Falling Slowly" turns me to putty. Ratatouille; Pixar doesn't know how to make shitty flicks. This ties Toy Story for their best. No Country for Old Men, a gorgeous visual novel with

[steedizzie]

Interesting, and thanks for letting me know about The Devil Came on Horseback. I had never heard of it, but I will now have to try to find and watch it.

[maximumfish]

First off, i firmly believe that a person's preferences in something so subjective as film quality or whether or not spaghetti is better than lasagna are every bit as valid as any other's. It's all a matter of opinion. There are people who feel otherwise, but they are actually retarded, and more importantly have provided no evidence to support their dissent. That all said, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Harrison Ford was the the lamest piece of boring, pretentious, different-is-art shitty filmmaking i've unfortunately been made to suffer through since The New WorldThe two had so much in common; no overarching themes, plot or sense of direction, long, meandering and mind-atrophyingly dull progression, talky Falkner-esque voiceover nonsense that sounds like it was written by a self-pitying creative writing student on a steady diet of James Joyce-infected found poety stream of conscious bullshit snobbery, zero likeable characters, zero honest-to-god portrayels of real human emotions, and a grand total of zero redeeming