Same ideas as before IN BULLETPOINTS:

• try to stick with movies released in 2008 in your region [ex. I will be listing movies released theatrically in the US]
• you can use this as a film log topic if you want but that makes you gay
• keep it to a single post
• don't see One Missed Call if you can help it
• i'm also going to keep track of my favorite movies i was introduced to this year [and the ones i hated the most]; pretty much only movies i really enjoyed or really hated will be in here; some of the films aren't first-time films but are films i have since completely forgotten and revisited
• link to 2007 topic if you want to continue to edit or look at the list from last year

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yes: 39
no: 68
seen prior to this year: 1

1. [086] Let the Right One In [12.15]
2. [083] Encounters at the End of the World [12.14]
3. [072] Reprise [12.06]
4. [056] WALL·E [10.05]
5. [011] Paranoid Park [03.08]
6. [054] The Unforeseen [10.01]
7. [081] Flight of the Red Balloon [12.13]
8. [093] The Wrestler [12.28]
9. [059] Rogue [11.10]
10. [102] Hunger [02.22.09]
11. [099] Happy-Go-Lucky [12.31]
12. [104] In the City of Sylvia [03.03.09]
13. [071] Still Life [12.05]
14. [076] Man on Wire [12.09]
15. [074] Burn After Reading [12.07]
16. [066] Midnight Meat Train [11.26]
17. [057] Pineapple Express [11.01]
18. [033] Shotgun Stories [07.11]
19. [058] Transsiberian [11.09]
20. [097] Timecrimes [12.31]
21. [027] Diary of the Dead [06.11]
22. [040] Shine a Light [08.02]
23. [045] The Dark Knight [08.13]
24. [021] Iron Man [05.08]
25. [061] Stuck [11.13]
26. [082] Gran Torino [12.13]
27. [100] Hellboy II: The Golden Army [01.04.09]
28. [077] The Strangers [12.12]
29. [080] Milk [12.12]
30. [042] Love Songs [08.04]
31. [017] Be Kind Rewind [03.29]
32. [041] Doomsday [08.03]
33. [088] Slumdog Millionaire [12.17]
34. [052] Step Brothers [09.01]
35. [094] Sukiyaki Western Django [12.29]
36. [047] Forgetting Sarah Marshall [08.18]
37. [013] Horton Hears a Who! [03.17]
38. [020] The Grand [04.25]
39. [004] In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale [01.26]
40. [034] The Bank Job [07.16]
41. [075] Up the Yangtze [12.08]
42. [036] My Blueberry Nights [07.17]
43. [028] The Signal [06.17]
44. [069] Speed Racer [12.03]
45. [073] Tropic Thunder [12.06]
46. [002] Cloverfield [01.18]
47. [096] Choke [12.31]
48. [092] Quantum of Solace [12.22]
49. [084] Felon [12.14]
50. [062] The Visitor [11.17]
51. [000] Re-Cycle [09.23.06]
52. [098] Water Lilies [12.31]
53. [043] The Counterfeiters [08.06]
54. [106] JCVD [05.09.09]
55. [031] In Bruges [06.25]
56. [022] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [06.04]
57. [024] Rambo [06.08]
58. [016] Loch Ness Terror [03.28]
59. [101] The Reader [01.24.09]
60. [025] Semi-Pro [06.09]
61. [051] Son of Rambow: A Home Movie [08.29]
62. [010] Wedding Daze [03.07]
63. [008] Day of the Dead [03.02]
64. [009] Cassandra's Dream [03.02]
65. [038] The Ruins [07.18]
66. [046] Hancock [08.17]
67. [064] Street Kings [11.20]
68. [068] CJ7 [12.01]
69. [087] Vengeance [12.16]
70. [001] One Missed Call [01.18] [i do not listen to my own bullet points]
71. [048] Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show [08.18]
72. [023] Teeth [06.05]
73. [070] Snow Angels [12.04]
74. [085] Conspiracy [12.14]
75. [090] Seven Pounds [12.19]
76. [067] Charlie Bartlett [11.28]
77. [063] Max Payne [11.18]
78. [050] The Happening [08.23]
79. [103] Synecdoche, New York [02.27.09]
80. [049] The Incredible Hulk [08.19]
81. [065] Deception [11.25]
82. [006] The Eye [02.08]
83. [032] Sex and Death 101 [07.09]
84. [015] Blue State [03.23]
85. [014] The Air I Breathe [03.22]
86. [039] 21 [07.28]
87. [078] Lakeview Terrace [12.12]
88. [026] Funny Games [06.10]
89. [030] The Other Boleyn Girl [06.21]
90. [055] Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? [10.03]
91. [060] Chapter 27 [11.11]
92. [095] Red [12.30]
93. [018] The Business of Being Born [04.12]
94. [053] Postal [09.03]
95. [012] Gabriel [03.16]
96. [089] Vicky Cristina Barcelona [12.18]
97. [105] Chaos [03.23.09]
98. [035] Vantage Point [07.17]
99. [029] Jumper [06.18]
100. [019] Seed [04.13]
101. [005] Meet the Spartans [02.04]
102. [003] Monster [01.23]
103. [037] An American Crime [07.18]
104. [007] Blonde and Blonder [02.29]
105. [091] Slacker Uprising [12.21]
106. [079] Mother of Tears: The Third Mother [12.12]
107. [044] The Tracey Fragments [08.07]

Post-2008 To-Do List

• *4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
• *Boarding Gate
• *Standard Operating Procedure
• *Summer Palace
• *The Witnesses
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Gomorrah

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Favorites Seen for the First Time

• Broken Blossoms [1919]
• A Sailor-Made Man [1921]
• The Black Cat [1934]
• The Third Man [1949]
• In a Lonely Place [1950]
• The Steel Helmet [1951]
• White Mane [1953]
• Johnny Guitar [1954]
• Diabolique [1955]
• Touch of Evil [1958]
• Charade [1963]
• Onibaba [1964]
• Pierrot le Fou [1965]
• Kings of the Road [1976]
• Stroszek [1977]
• Vagabond [1985]
• The Stepfather [1987]
• Black Rain [1989]
• The Rapture [1991]
• Lessons of Darkness [1992]
• Chungking Express [1994]
• Little Odessa [1994]
• Natural Born Killers [1994]
• Ravenous [1999]
• The Truth About Charlie [2002]
• Ten [2003]
• We Own the Night [2007]

Most Hated Seen for the First Time

• The Rock [1996]
• Funny Games [1997]
• Juno [2007]

I'm not going to jinx it, but First Sunday, Cloverfield, Dungeon Siege, 27 Dresses and Rambo come out soon. Those could be CLASSICS.

...

Yes

1. WALL-E
2. Paranoid Park
3. Let the Right One In
4. The Dark Knight
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
6. Rachel Getting Married
7. The Wrestler
8. Milk
9. Standard Operating Procedure
10. Doubt
11. Be Kind Rewind
12. Slumdog Millionaire
13.Frost/Nixon
14. Brideshead Revisted
15. The Strangers
16. Paris
17. Pineapple Express
18. Horton Hears a Who!
19. The Last Mistress
20. The Ruins
21. In Bruges
22. The Wackness
23. Wanted
24. Revolutionary Road
25. The Fall
26. Bolt
27. Funny Games

No
28. Sex and the City: The Movie
29. Quantum of Solace
30. Teeth
31. Saw V
32. Twilight
33. My Blueberry Nights
34. W.
35. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
36. 27 Dresses
37. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
38. Shelter
39. The Other Boleyn Girl
40. Cloverfield
41. Mamma Mia!
42. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
43. Eagle Eye
44. Hancock
45. 10,000 B.C

1. WALL-E
2. Paranoid Park
3. Let The Right One In
4. The Wrestler
5. Rogue
6. Burn After Reading
7. Midnight Meat Train
8. Shotgun Stories
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
10. The Dark Knight
11. Diary of the Dead
12. The Visitor
13. Be Kind Rewind
14. The Grand
15. Choke
16. Re-Cycle
17. Sukiyaki Western Django
18. Cloverfield
19. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
20. Teeth
21. Synecdoche, New York
22. Loch Ness Terror
23. Day of the Dead
24. The Happening
25. One Missed Call
26. Seed

1. One Missed Call
2. Cloverfield
3. Be Kind Rewind
4. Funny Games

1.) Cloverfield

Rating out of 4 stars

2008 movies
1. Cloverfield - *
Blair Witch Project cinematography just can't work in conventional cinemas.

2. Rambo - **
The most violent movie I've ever seen. I expected a better story because of Rocky Balboa.

3. The Eye - **
Not the horror film I expected. Towards the end was pretty good.

4. Meet the Spartans - **
A lot of cheap laughs

5. 10,000 B.C. - *
A prehistoric clusterfuck

6. Street Kings - ***
Surprisingly good & gritty. Engrossing story that unfolds at a perfect pace.

7. The Forbidden Kingdom - ***
Entertaining popcorn movie. Consider this Lord of the Rings-lite with a Chinese/martial arts twist

8. Iron Man - ***
Another entertaining popcorn movie

9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - ***
Not as good as Iron Man and a bit boring at times

10. You Don't Mess with the Zohan - *
So over the top, so cheesy, Adam Sandler has lost it.

11. The Happening - *
So bad it's...good? Was M. Night serious about this film?
No and no

12. Get Smart - ***
The right mix of a serious storyline and laughs

13. Wanted - ***
The Matrix & Office Space's lovechild

14. The Dark Knight - ****
Its bark is as good as its bite

15. Stepbrothers - **
I'm convinced that Will Ferrell will never live up to Anchorman ever again

16. Swing Vote - **
Could have been better with more happy go lucky redneck goodness but these two kids had to be half of the movie

17. Pineapple Express - **
A fun time but I didn't laugh that much

18. Vantage Point - *
I just wanted to get to the end. I can't stand seeing the same explosion 6 times in one movie.

19. Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay - ***
Not as hilarious as the first but still decent

20. Tropic Thunder - ***
Tom Cruise' best acting performance in a long time

21. Goal 2: Living the Dream - ****
I'm a huge sucker for soccer movies like this so when I saw everything was licensed I was hooked

22. An American Carol - **
I thought it would be a lot funnier but it wasn't

23. W. - **
A half-assed attempt at explaining George Bush. Liberals will love it but the liberals that will watch it are the ones that have no lives

24. What Happens in Vegas - ***
Cameron Diaz looks amazing here. I was very skeptical because of my Ashton Kutcher bias but once I got over it I found the movie enjoyable. Rob Coddry makes an underrated funny supporting actor spot.

25. Role Models - ***
Cute, funny, Paul Rudd is so great in this. Scott has toned down his asshatery which I don't know what to think of. Mintz-Plaatz was born for this role, clearly. I would like to see what kind of a many he grows up to be.

26. The Strangers -*
This movie sucked

27. Wall-E -***
Good but not as good as a lot make it out to be. I liked Finding Nemo a lot more and for all you wannabe intellectualists who say it is better just suck it.

28. Seven Pounds - *1/2
Slow pacing. The only thing I was interested in was the ending

29. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - **1/2
It was aight

Other movies
1. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) - **
We all really are the same. Parts of the movie are dragging

2. Dan in Real Life (2007) - ****
Thankfully this isn't a typical Full House episode. Surprisingly charming, witty, and interesting

3. There Will Be Blood (2007) - ***
Slow at times but the performances by Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano make it worth watching.

4. Eat This New York (2004) - ***
As a fan of the food documentary this is an insightful look at starting a restaurant business. This is a bare bones documentary but with lots of substance especially in the DVD extras which include 10 minute interviews with industry luminaries.

5. 3:10 to Yuma (2007) - ***1/2
Russell Crowe was stellar like always. Christian Bale's performance I've seen

6. Mr Bean's Holiday (2007) - **
Mediocre comedy. The only shining light was the spoof on indie films toward the end.

7. Run Fatboy Run (2007) - **1/2
Entertaining because of Simon Pegg. Kind of predictable

8. Love & Sex (2000) - ***
Famke Jensen and Jon Favreau were lovable characters

9. Made (2001) - ***
Swingers reunite! Vince Vaughn was funny as hell. Favreau played his part almost the same Swingers dynamic is played out here. Bonus Famke Jensen as a stripper in this movie! Though I liked her when she was a emotionally deep nympho in the other movie.

1. The Dark Knight
2. The Wrestler
3. Gran Torino
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. The Bank Job
6. The Counterfeiters
7. Pineapple Express
8. Doomsday
9. Hellboy II
10. Burn After Reading
11 Rambo
12. Step Brothers
13. Wanted
14. Appaloosa
15. The Incredible Hulk
16. Tropic Thunder
17. Quantam of Solace
18. Cloverfield
19. Iron Man
20. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
21. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
22. Be Kind Rewind
23. Rogue
24. Transporter 3
25. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
26. Hancock
27. Futurama: Bender' Game
28. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
29. Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
30. Resident Evil: Degeneration
31. Vantage Point
32. An American Crime
33. Diary of the Dead
34. Day of the Dead
35. Batman: Gotham Night
36. The Ruins UNRATED
37. 88 Minutes
38. The Watch
39. The Happening
40. Monster

1. The Dark Knight
2. Reprise
3. The Fall
4. Edge of Heaven
5. Mongol
6. Midnight Meat Train
7. Summer Palace
8. The Year My Parents went on Vacation
9. Caramel
10. Pathology
11. Bank job
12. Rambo
13. Cloverfield
14. The Strangers
15. The Band's Visit
16. Ruins
17. In Bruges
18. Diary of the Dead
19. City of Men
20. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
21. Street Kings
22. Be Kind Rewind
23. Shutter
24. The Eye
25. Re-Cycle
26. Invisible Target
27. One Missed Call
28. 27 Dresses
29. Lost in Beijing
30. Strange Wilderness