2007 movie ratings (ranked)
Submitted by lukeprog on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 02:58
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- (2007 premieres only)
- to watch: The Aerial, The Duchess of Langeais, The Flight of the Red Balloon, The Silence Before Bach, Import/Export, In the City of Sylvia, The Sun Also Rises, It Is Fine Everything Is Fine, To Each His Cinema, Klass, The Last Mistress, The Secret of the Grain, Tropa de Elite, My Blueberry Nights,
- 7.4 I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
- 7.2 There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson
- 6.7 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel
- 6.6 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu
- 6.5 Zodiac, David Fincher
- 6.4 No Country for Old Men, Joel Coen
- 6.4 Lust, Caution, Ang Lee
- 6.3 Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg
- 6.3 Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck
- 6.1 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Sidney Lumet
- 6.1 The Assassination of Jesse Jones by Coward Robert Ford, Andrew Dominik
- 6.1 You, the Living, Roy Andersson
- 6.0 Silent Light, Carlos Reygadas
- 6.0 Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach
- Meh
- Paranoid Park, Gus Van Sant
- The Savages, Tamara Jenkins
- Juno, Jason Reitman
- Knocked Up, Judd Apatow
- Breach, Billy Ray
- The Band's Visit, Eran Kolirin
- La Vie en Rose, Olivier Dahan
- The Man From London, Bela Tarr
- The Edge of Heaven, Fatih Akin
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
- Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy
- Secret Sunshine, Chang-dong Lee
- In the Valley of Elah, Paul Haggis
- Ratatouille, Brad Bird
- No
- Flatland, Ladd Ehlinger Jr.
- Atonement, Joe Wright
- The Man From Earth, Richard Schenkman
- 3:10 to Yuma, James Mangold
- American Gangster, Ridley Scott
- The Simpsons Movie, David Silverman
- Into the Wild, Sean Penn
- The Bourne Ultimatum, Paul Greengrass
- Death Proof, Quentin Tarantino
- Funny Games U.S., Michael Haneke
- Waitress, Adrienne Shelly
- Superbad, Greg Mottola
- Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog
- Sunshine, Danny Boyle
- Snow Angels, David Gordon Green
- Stardust, Matthew Vaughn
- The King of Kong, Seth Gordon
- The Lookout, Scott Frank
- And When Did You Last See Your Father, Anand Tucker
- Confessions of a Superhero, Matthew Ogens
- Sicko, Michael Moore
- Planet Terror, Robert Rodriguez
- Spider-Man 3, Sam Raimi
- Arctic Tale, Adam Ravetch
- The Great Global Warming Swindle, Martin Durkin
- He Was a Quiet Man, Frank A. Cappello
- Transformers, Michael Bay
- My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev
- King Lines, Peter Mortimer
- The Game Plan, Andy Fickman
- The God Who Wasn't There, Brian Flemming
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Nice list, but aren't these 2007?
He probably just forgot to rename the list.
Indeed.
What about Carney's Once?
Released in 2006. I'd forgotten to add it to the list, but now I have.
Thanks for the update.
lukeprog,
you like I'm Not There? didn't you think there was too much stolen material from his three documentaries (Don't Look Back, Eat The Document, and No Direction Home) to even make it a worthy adventure? it is one thing if someone were to convert written stories to a new visual context, but it is annoying and banal to recycle already famous material. on top of that complaint, i did not like the flow of the story, or what aspects they focused on. this all coming from a blind Dylan follower. i do not understand this film's universal appeal. it was a waste of 2 hours.
I suspect I liked I'm Not There so much because I don't know much about Dylan's life and don't listen to his music much.
By stolen material, you mean the interviews? I think Ebert says it well: "Like his very different previous film, 'Far From Heaven,' he is essentially remaking cinema to reveal what it is really trying and achieving. 'Far From Heaven' exposed the gay subtext of Douglas Sirk's 1950s melodramas, and 'I'm Not There' shows how the other docs of Dylan have imposed consistency upon an elusive and mercurial person. What Haynes does is take away the reassuring segues that argue everything flows and makes sense, and to show what's really chaos under the skin of the film."
I really liked the flow of the story, but that's probably just a matter of personal taste. It reminded me of Iñárritu's first two films, which I love.
But I think the point was to reflect the Dylan's own schizophrenic and non-sequiter and frankly contradictory life and philosophy, which is also reflected in some of the dialogue:
"I accept chaos. I don't know whether it accepts me."
"People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time."
...and a couple more I couldn't remind myself of on IMDB's quotes page.
And I think the vision or gimmick of the film was carried out with unflinching panache. Different actors, playing different identities of this complex character, and each shot with a different film stock and style (paparazzi-hunted "Jude Quinn" in surrealist b&w ala La Dolce Vita, "Arthur Rimbaud" the rebel poet in grainy b&w, etc.).
Maybe I will be less impressed by I'm Not There when I finally see 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould.
hmm interesting, i thought you liked it because you are a Todd Haynes fanboy ;)
Hey, I hated The Karen Carpenter Story.
The one with the barbie dolls?
Yeah.
Are you a carpenters fan?
I loved it. Took me completely by surprise.
Not a fan of The Carpenters' music, either.
yeah, the interviews is what is was referring to. i did not like the story all that much, and then when the interviews started rolling in i started to become very irritated with it and then could not wait for it to be over. my judgment seems to be clouded, but i REALLY disliked that movie, and commented only because you have it at the top, ahead of No Country.... not that No Country is amazing, but i thought it was decent enough, and much better than the Dylan flick. maybe i have read to much about and listened to too much of DYLAN. he is by far my favorite musical artist...coltrane...vu....
I didn't love it either. I thought it was quite good, but it also felt incredibly pretentious and hackneyed at times.
Dude. You did not just give Silent Light the same rating as Little Miss Quirkfest. That right there's a form of heresy, ya know.
And I mean it. Sorry. :)
Silent Light has a few good moments, but most of it is a pretentious waste of its Tarkovsky-esque form; an empty and unnecessary addition to the history of film, even if it's not overtly bad in all the ways that ruin most films.
I thought King of Kong was genius
It was fun. But these are my rankings of artistic merit, and documentaries are almost all the same (but with different subject matter) and therefore have little artistic value to me.
Putting it another way:
Art is a stained-glass windows. Documentaries are clear-glass. I much prefer nonfiction writing and nonfiction film to be clear-glass, and that makes them poor art.
Anybody else notice that The Dark Knight is #1 on the IMDB Top 250 movies of all time, right now with 46,000 votes?
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Wow, holy crap. I had seen it at #1 with only 8,000 or so votes, but damn, it sustained that high a rating with almost 50,000 votes?
I guess I shouldn't be all that surprised; I expected it to shatter all box office records, and it would be voted highly for the same reasons. It appeals to fans of blockbusters and fans of superlatively well-reviewed films; Heath Ledger fans who want to honor his memory by seeing the greatest performance in a superhero film ever; Batman fans; Christopher Nolan fans; fans of any of the many actors in the film; and fans of crime dramas, as many reviews called it a great example of the genre aside from any superhero trappings.
But still... #1? I watched all the Lord of the Rings films climb up to the top 5 and then sink down to #14, #20, and #31, but I can't recall any of them reaching #1, and with a vote rating so far above The Godfather too.
Have you seen it Luke or AJ?
Yes, and reviewed it here. I thought it was awesome and deserved to break all those box office records, but far from the greatest film ever.
Nice review, and I was interested at your thoughts that it may have caused Ledger to have suicidal tendencies and in turn contributed to his death. I cannot wait to see it, it does look awesome. I do think it's ridiculous being that high though (and I can tell this even without having seen it), it just shows how naive and inexperienced in film most of the IMDB users are.
Not that that conclusion is untrue, but it really makes more sense when you think of it as rampant fanboyism. Imagine 69,135 people leaving the film and thinking, "H0LY SH1T BE5T F1LM EVARRRR!!!" and voting it a 10. That's really what these IMDB ratings boil down to, much as I like to read into them as well.
Yes perhaps you're right and I am looking into it too much and judging too harshly. I guess we'll just have to see whether it stays as high as it is over time. :)
Also to add to this, Spider-man will have its fair share of fan boys but spider-man 3 still only has like 6.7, so it must have something good that goes past just hype. But i guess ledger's death will be part of people's mindset when voting, his performance looks off the chain
Best music video I've seen in a while. (Cleary, music videos can make great art. Samus, you naughty girl.)