I liked atonement, so I guess joe wright?

No offense, but you're about a month too late man.

Yeah, just a bit.

But, personally, I'm going for No Country For Old Men. That film looks like it could go all the ways to the best picture Oscar.

(I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself)

Sweeney Todd is really the only film of 07 that I liked :\

i don't think it's too late to say what your favorite films of 2007 were. I have been wanting to start a thread like this for a while.

my top films of 2007 are:
1.Once
2.There Will Be Blood
3.Zodiac
4.No Country for Old Men
5.Juno
6.Eastern Promises
7.Superbad

i still haven't seen atonement...*sigh*

"The Savages." I've made myself into a one-man PR team for that movie. Best thing of the year. Do yourselves a favor and see it. Then see "Once."

--IA

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Originally posted by braininabox:
Sweeney Todd is really the only film of 07 that I liked :\

I completely forgot about Across The Universe as well.


And I can't wait to get my hands on Once

yeah the savages was amazing
so was the Darjeeling limited
Once was great ( i got to see them perform live in new - they also win best live show of 2007 in my book!)

Margot at the Wedding!!! fantastic movie.

NO country and there will be blood go without saying.

worse movie of the year
"Baewolf"
I saw it on imax - and although the 3dness in amazing - the animation looks like a bad late 90s video game.

Across the Universe is junk, unless you've never heard of the Beatles before.

And while I enjoyed Sweeney Todd (especially the visuals), how could you say that was the only film from 2007 you liked? This has literally been one of the best years for film in some time, and due to the strike, probably something we won't see again any time soon.

Evan's list pretty much has a good portion of the year's must-sees, Margot at the Wedding was quite great too. There's literally too many to list.

I thought '07 was, at best, a decent year for film, highlighted by a couple excellent movies. But in general, just not as many quality films this year.

-300
-Zodiac
-Hot Fuzz
-Once
-Waitress
-Knocked Up
-Superbad
-Into the Wild
-No Country for Old Men
-Charlie Wilson's War
-There Will Be Blood
-Away From Her
-Juno
-Margot at the Wedding
-The Bourne Ultimatum
-American Gangster
-Sweeney Todd
-Eastern Promises
-Gone Baby Gone
-The Assasination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford
-The Darjeeling Limited

And many many more which I'm sure I forgot or haven't seen yet (including I'm Not There and The Savages).

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And while I enjoyed Sweeney Todd (especially the visuals), how could you say that was the only film from 2007 you liked? This has literally been one of the best years for film in some time, and due to the strike, probably something we won't see again any time soon.

Well I guess you could say that I am just tired of films and their stories. For example... I'm sure No Country For Old Men and Zodiac had great performances, flawless cinamatography, dialog, and characters and all...but I've realized that those kind of things really don't make me excited or impressed at all anymore.
I'm sure by traditional standards these types of movies are amazing and flawless, and I appreciate them as significant filmmaking achievements, but they just don't give me any sort of excited, adrenaline filled "WHOA! THAT IS AWESOME!" kind of feel anymore.

I feel like I've seen all that these conventional stories have to offer, and I really can't get that passionate about them... Its just not what I look for anymore, and Sweeney Todd was really the only wide-release film that was able to make my heart pound this year. I guess my taste is just in these mysterious, fantastical, otherworld-immersion, experience oriented films.

I see what you're saying but the two films you mentioned, Zodiac and No Country, both go against conventions in an extreme way. In fact, they both go against cinematic conventions much more than Sweeney Todd.

Other than that I don't know what you mean. You clearly like arthouse and abstract stuff if you like Lynch, but Sweeney Todd is a conventional narrative with a dark sense of humor. To me, a great movie is a great movie, and both Zodiac and No Country sucked me in do to great filmmaking.

Hmm...It seems there were some more good films than I recalled. But I still have the same feeling - I think it's the comparison to last year, which had films like Pan's Labyrinth, The Lives of Others, The Departed, Casino Royale, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, and, yes, V for Vendetta.

I figured it out - it's the lack of major standouts, not general quality. To me, there were only a few this year (No Country, Zodiac, Juno), whereas last year there were so many. It may also be that a good deal of my favorite films came from 2006.

Well I guess what really gets me excited is being absorbed into another world...
I understand where you are coming from when you say that No Country For Old Men/Zodiac were very original and innovative. However, they still have that human, real-life quality to them that make them really hard for me to get in to, at least with the current trend I've been in recently

Then watch LOTR!

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Then watch LOTR!

Well I do have a newly found appreciation for those...however my paradoxical non-conformist core has a little problem admitting that

You have not idea how joyous that makes me (and it also makes me feel a little bit victorious...)!