Top 10 Movies of '07

Top 10 Movies of 2007 (Trailers can be seen by clicking on the title)

Honorable Mention…

Sunshine
Pretty good Sci-Fi flick. Yeah, the premise of flying to the dying sun to give it a jumpstart with a nuclear bomb is a bit of a stretch, but I loved this movie from the start to the finish I hoped wouldn’t come.

Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Interesting. A movie that focuses on the sense of smell. They don’t make scratch & sniff movies as far as I know, but this would’ve been a good one to start with. A VERY over the top, where-the-hell-did-that-come-from type of ending, but the movie was as good as Ebert promised it would be. Hey, I’m a sucker for his 4-star reviews.

10. The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters
When I told people about this movie, I described it as a docudramedy. It’s a movie about a down on his luck kinda guy, who buys a Donkey Kong machine and starts gunning for the all-time high score. Little does he know that tons of BS stand in his way. And yes, video game referees DO exist.

9. Control
A movie about Joy Division. Duh. This had to be on here. Luckily, it was REALLY good. Anton Corbijn did an excellent job with the black and white, and the music scenes (performed by the actors) were unbelievably good. Happy ending too.

8. The Kite Runner
It seems as if EVERYONE I told about this movie had already read the book. You think that you’re with it for checking out a movie that was pretty tough to find, only to find out that everyone you know is already way ahead of you. I gotta read more. Someone that read the book asked me if this scene and that scene were in the movie and everything seemed to match up, so I guess that’s good. What jumped out at me the most was seeing Kabul before the Soviets, the Taliban, and maybe, um, we messed it up. If it’s as depressing as they made it look in the movie, I can’t believe that people still live there, or haven’t risen up against the Taliban. Easy for me to say as I go to the freezer to pull out my PB Twix.

7. Into The Wild
Chris McCandless should’ve watched “Alone In The Wilderness” or maybe some episodes of “Survivorman” before he went to Alaska. Dude, some basic survival skills would’ve been good to have. I applaud his drive and priciples, but DUDE! Learn how to get by before you cut yourself off from our sick and twisted society. Again, another book I haven’t read. Damn, I suck.

6. This Is England
Watch this movie and try to comprehend how cool Shaun must’ve felt when the older “skinheads” took him in. A movie that shows how lame out of control nationalism can be. The soundtrack could’ve been better, but whatever.

5. After The Wedding
A brilliant movie. Since I suck at writing, I’m not even gonna try to explain why I liked this one so much. To be honest, I don’t really know why I liked this movie so much. I just did. Lame description, huh?

4. Juno
There’s been a bit of a Juno backlash lately but I saw this movie pretty early on, so I wasn’t affected by it. Yeah, no 16 year old girl is gonna talk like this, but there’s a ton of funny stuff AND Michael Cera is in it, playing none other than, well, the character he always plays.

3. No Country For Old Men
Uh, Coen brothers? Yeah, you guessed it, it was awesome. Javier Bardem killing people with a goddamn cattle gun? A cattle gun?!? The pitbull scene with Josh Brolin was amazing. Woody Harrelson sure doesn’t last long either. Another movie taken from a book. I NEED TO READ MORE.

2. Once
It’s a musical, but not like a jumping in the streets, English musical from the ‘50s. The movie focuses on music and the songwriting process, and it’s so simple, so bare bones, the movie is so good with such a simple storyline. I was being really annoying for a few days after, telling everyone I knew to see this movie. This thing would’ve been huge if it got a bigger release.

1. Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
I told everyone I thought would give a crap to see this movie and everyone came back at me asking if I liked SidneyLumet’s other stuff. Uh, who? OK, I know who he is now, but at the time I didn’t. Again, I’m new to this whole seeing a lot of good movies thing. Philip Seymour Hoffman is awesome as usual, Ethan Hawke is good, and Marissa Tomei plays an awful c***. A HOT, awful c***, but still an awful c***. A depressing movie that really makes you feel something. You watch the characters get deeper and deeper into their messes, you walk out of the theater so thankful you’re not in a situation that resembles the ones you just saw. Saw it twice.