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The nominations are in!  Vote for your favorite, or pimp your pet movie and try to get others to vote for it....

I'm voting for DARK KNIGHT as the best of the few on the list I've seen.  I'm usually not much for superhero movies, but this one worked for me.  I have a strong suspicion that IN BRUGES would have been my pick if I'd seen it, though.

Of the seven on this list I've seen, TDK gets top honors, with WALL.E a close second.

I voted Dark Knight.  I quite like Iron Man and Incredible Hulk, and felt they were fun movies.  But I felt the performances of both Aaron Eckhart as Two Face and Heath Ledger as Joker blew them away.

Wall-E is the best by far.

I second Wall*E, one of the sweetest movies I've seen, which is veddy odd considering it was an animated film about robots, from a studio I often find to be overblown! :smile:

I voted for Lars but I hope that The Orphange gets a vote. :smile:

Come on, more votes for Wall-E!

Lars and the Real Girl  just edged out In Bruges for me only because Lars made me feel better in the end. Both were great movies.

In Bruges --

For the best writing I've encountered in book or film in quite some time, plus its visual sense of Western Civilization & mythic overtones.  Plus, the writer/director had only done one other film before this one -- a 20min. short.  This is one impressive feature debut.

peter johnson/denny crane

I voted for Iron Man, but Wall-E and The Dark Knight were a tied for second.

While I loved The Dark Knight and many others on this poll, I still feel that Wall-E was the best film overall by an ever so slight margin. 

There Will Be Blood is IMO the best on the list, but it's a 2007 movie, I believe. :P

-Jimmybob

You are correct technically.  I noticed that when another member of the board nominated it.  However, since it had only a limited release in December 2007 and didn't really hit most theaters until 2008, I decided to let it slide.

There's a 3-way tie now between THE DARK KNIGHT,  IRON MAN and WALL-E.  Someone should break deadlock!

The Dark Knight is better than Iron Man by a country mile. Even though everyone wants to pick it apart now because it is so lauded, it is a brilliant film. Reminded me of Heat with the execution of some of the scenes. It's the way of society to praise something so much that you end up having to bring it down a peg or two, pathetic really. It's the best here if you consider the levels of action, cinematography and it contains at least one oscar worthy performance by an actor.

Who picked the nominations?

Where is ...

Zombie Strippers
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Ping Pong Playa
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Baghead

(Note IMDB list some if these as 2007, but they weren't release until 2008)

They were submitted by the board.  You either missed the nominations thread, or you were on sabbatical. 

I did wonder a little about POULTRYGEIST not showing up on either the good or bad movie list.  It must not have made enough of an impression on the voters one way or the other. 

These are all what the "norm" would consider "great" movies. We think blaringly obvious "bad movies" are good, so it makes sense for everyone to pick bigger budget releases. Plus, they tend to suck far worse than low budget fare.

The Dark Knight was crap.  I've finally coming around to admitting it.  My friends and I tried to watch it at our New Year's gathering because two of us hadn't seen it before.  After about 45 minutes, we just decided to watch something else.

Iron Man was much better.  If nothing else, it didn't waste time with useless love triangles and pointless subplots.  Tony Stark also didn't endanger civilians by blowing up cars that just happened to be in his way, or by beating up cops and throwing them out of buildings.  The Hulk was better than Iron Man, as it had all of Iron Man's good qualities plus more and better ass-kicking.

And Wall-E was better than all three of those put together.

That post actually scared me  :buggedout:

I watched the first 30 minutes of this the other day with my son.  Excuse the condescending tone but does it get any better after that?  I couldn't really get into it. 

My vote is for Poultrygiest, although it and Hellboy 2 are the only one's I've seen. I also seem to have missed the nominations thread. .

Then you wouldn't enjoy the rest of it.

The Orphanage doesn't have 1 vote!!!!! :hatred:
C'mon, it deserves a vote, how many classy horror films get made that don't rely on cheap shocks and top less women. It's brilliant.

*sniff...weeps for all fans of good chillers*

I missed that thread I've been gone a lot lately. Business and travel.

I haven't seen it yet...

But I can't believe you'd praise a movie for not having topless women in it!