Your Nominations For Film of The Year

[upsidedownwalrus]

Must watch Gomorrah and In Bruge.

 

[Dillinger4]

I thought Gomorrah was rubbish

 

[Sadken]

I really thought there will be blood. If that was 07, then In Bruges, I suppose

 

[ChrisFilter]

Top Gun.

 

[May Kasahara]

i really haven't seen enough to be able to participate, but just wanted to say that the winner had better not be Brideshead Revisited. so boring i thought i had died. by the third false ending, i wished i had.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Burn After Reading then The Dark Knight.

That's my list, cos the other 2 i was going to include weren't worth it with hindsight.

 

[Sadken]

How good out of 10 is burn...? Considering watching it tonight with some hard, hard liquor.

 

[isitme]

I think dark Knight was the only film from this year that I enjoyed

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

How good out of 10 is burn...? Considering watching it tonight with some hard, hard liquor.

8 or 9/10 imo, just on a switch your brain off and laugh along basis. Prolly good with some booze.

 

[isitme]

How good out of 10 is burn...? Considering watching it tonight with some hard, hard liquor.

It's not as good as their old stuff. has it's moments tho

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

It's not as good as their old stuff. has it's moments tho

see, i think it is as good as something like fargo on the whole. better than the big lebowski which i thought was cack. each to their own tho.

 

[Sadken]

Woah there, let's not go crazy now! Lebowski is top ten stuff for me probably - must write that list one day - Fargo is also pretty classic. Is this one quite long? I'm basically looking for the film equivalent of a handjob.

 

[isitme]

see, i think it is as good as something like fargo on the whole. better than the big lebowski which i thought was cack. each to their own tho.

I just thought it was like a parody of fargo in a way. same plot and everything, rather than adding anything new

But big Lebowski is my favourite film they've done......

 

[Orang Utan]

There Will Be Blood
Gomorrah

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Woah there, let's not go crazy now! Lebowski is top ten stuff for me probably - must write that list one day - Fargo is also pretty classic. Is this one quite long? I'm basically looking for the film equivalent of a handjob.

what a pleasant image...but yes it prolly is.

I just thought it was like a parody of fargo in a way. same plot and everything, rather than adding anything new

But big Lebowski is my favourite film they've done......

its funny, lots of people i know loved it, i was sooooooo bored and annoyed with that movie.

maybe i need to go back and try it again?

 

[cliche guevara]

I was thinking of doing this thread, but realised I am not responsible enough

About to send PM, but my choices look so mainstream and predictable.

 

[DotCommunist]

Iron Man ftw

 

[Sadken]

100% yes, Paulie.

 

[isitme]

maybe i need to go back and try it again?

For me it was a bit like Millers Crossing (I think it's that one, the gangster one) At first I didn't get it, but once I realise what it's about every single scene is funny

 

[Sadken]

For me it was a bit like Millers Crossing (I think it's that one, the gangster one) At first I didn't get it, but once I realise what it's about every single scene is funny

Same here. Took 2 viewings to "get it".

 

[trabuquera]

Like everyone else I'm still stuck in a late-2007 cinematic rut trying desperately to catch up.

Of this year's releases that I've actually seen I'd nominate:
Dark Knight
Caramel
The Counterfeiters

And if I'd seen them yet I might or might not be nominating:
The Class (frog teenagers)
Cadillac Records (soulpersons)
Gomorrah (I-tie baby gangsters)
W. (soontobe ex president and his cronies)
Che (argie rebels)

from that list on wiki it really doesn't look as though 2008 has been a top year for cinema though, not even if you like all the foreign / indie stuff.

 

[cliche guevara]

I'm gonna stick my head out and say that I thought Dark Knight was shite.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm gonna stick my head out and say that I thought Dark Knight was shite.

It wasn't total shite imo, just not as good as batman begins

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

For me it was a bit like Millers Crossing (I think it's that one, the gangster one) At first I didn't get it, but once I realise what it's about every single scene is funny

See i loved Millers Crossing first time, and it does reward repeated watchings. TBL just didn't get near that but will get up the dvd shop soon and have a watch over crimble.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Iron Man ftw

Nah, kind of impressive but the underlying politics spoilt it for me.

 

[El Jefe]

anything not nominated in PM doesn't count.

is it THAT hard to get?

 

[Jon-of-arc]

You're right that it wasn't total shite, but for all the hype I was expecting something great and was massively let down.

If they'd cut the length by 45 mins and you didn't have muppets around the world twatting themselves about Ledgers (decent, especially compared to the rest of the cast, but still not that jaw-droppingly, career definingly, outstandingly amazingly, utterly fab) performance, I'd have been more than content.

E2A This is @ Dot Commie-bastard

 

[cliche guevara]

You're right that it wasn't total shite, but for all the hype I was expecting something great and was massively let down.

If they'd cut the length by 45 mins and you didn't have muppets around the world twatting themselves about Ledgers (decent, especially compared to the rest of the cast, but still not that jaw-droppingly, career definingly, outstandingly amazingly, utterly fab) performance, I'd have been more than content.

E2A This is @ Dot Commie-bastard

After all the hype I was expecting nothing from his performance, but imo it was one of the only good things about the film. Fantastic, to the point of making everyone else look shit.

 

[DotCommunist]

After all the hype I was expecting nothing from his performance, but imo it was one of the only good things about the film. Fantastic, to the point of making everyone else look shit.

dissident voice did a fantastically grumpy review of the film...


http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/the-dark-knight-hollywood’s-terror-dream/

The film really tips its ideological hand in the Greek-tragedy-like arc of these iconic characters’ development: Dawes, the most liberal of all the “good guys,” dies at the hands of the Joker, while the liberal pragmatist Dent, scarred in a fire, abandons his ideals and embraces the Joker’s ethos of chaos—in other words, we are left in the cold embrace of Batman if we want to be secure.

But what of the Joker himself, with his advocacy of terrorism and chaos, his speeches lifted from the adolescent repertoire of might-is-right conservative anarchism à la Sade, Nietzsche, Marinetti et al.? As liberal-hawk ideologue Paul Berman showed in his 2002 Terror and Liberalism, a figure such as this can very easily stand in propagandistically for “America’s enemies,” hence Berman’s insistence, for example, that Palestinians constitute not an oppressed and exploited, diverse and divided group trying to resist its enemies in various ways, some more defensible or ethical than others, but rather that they are a fundamentally irrational, chaotic and lawless cult of death. Thus, the Joker offers only the wild, amoral, killing life beyond the protective (and expansionist) borders of “democracy,” aka corporatist imperialism.

The moral is as old, and as conservative, as Hobbes: we can live in a wild, murderous wasteland or a lawless, authoritarian police state. It doesn’t matter which of these options the film presents as more appealing or fun; all that matters is that no other options—e.g., left-wing anarchism, participatory democracy, decentralized communism, democratic socialism etc.—present themselves.

 

[Sadken]

anything not nominated in PM doesn't count.

is it THAT hard to get?

LOL @ you giving a fuck. Calm down, dear, it's only a forum.