HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2008?

YellowSnow

YellowSnow

Gran Torino

It might not be Clint's greatest movie ever (it's certainly up there) but no movie has better Eastwood jifs than GT.

GrundleStiltzkin

The Dark Knight

Skronger year than I'd expected. Dark Knight is teh tehts, best comic book ever, because it isn't really a comic book movie. Iron Man is maybe the best of the Marvel punch-press assembly line. The Wrestler is a great piece of hard-to-watch filmmaking, tremendous performance by Rourke. Gran Torino good. I like Slumdog too.

Wall-E belongs on the pick list, imo. And what's been funnier than Tropic Thunder since? I'm sure there's been some, but I can't think of them.

Swaye

Gran Torino

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Skronger year than I'd expected. Dark Knight is teh tehts, best comic book ever, because it isn't really a comic book movie. Iron Man is maybe the best of the Marvel punch-press assembly line. The Wrestler is a great piece of hard-to-watch filmmaking, tremendous performance by Rourke. Gran Torino good. I like Slumdog too.

Wall-E belongs on the pick list, imo. And what's been funnier than Tropic Thunder since? I'm sure there's been some, but I can't think of them.

Good pull on Tropic Thunder!

GrundleStiltzkin

The Dark Knight

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Skronger year than I'd expected. Dark Knight is teh tehts, best comic book ever, because it isn't really a comic book movie. Iron Man is maybe the best of the Marvel punch-press assembly line. The Wrestler is a great piece of hard-to-watch filmmaking, tremendous performance by Rourke. Gran Torino good. I like Slumdog too.

Wall-E belongs on the pick list, imo. And what's been funnier than Tropic Thunder since? I'm sure there's been some, but I can't think of them.

Good pull on Tropic Thunder!

This got me thinking. Here's one list, of I'm sure many.
https://filmschoolrejects.com/best-comedy-movies-2010s/

Some really good movies chincluded that aren't comedies. Irregardless, what's better on that list than Tropic Thunder as a comedy?

Kudos to them for shouting out Death of Stalin though. Completely different comedy than Tropic Thunder, but it is great.

BennyBeaver

Slumdog Millionare

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Skronger year than I'd expected. Dark Knight is teh tehts, best comic book ever, because it isn't really a comic book movie. Iron Man is maybe the best of the Marvel punch-press assembly line. The Wrestler is a great piece of hard-to-watch filmmaking, tremendous performance by Rourke. Gran Torino good. I like Slumdog too.

Wall-E belongs on the pick list, imo. And what's been funnier than Tropic Thunder since? I'm sure there's been some, but I can't think of them.

Good pull on Tropic Thunder!

Kudos to them for shouting out Death of Stalin though.

Careful.

YellowSnow

Gran Torino

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Skronger year than I'd expected. Dark Knight is teh tehts, best comic book ever, because it isn't really a comic book movie. Iron Man is maybe the best of the Marvel punch-press assembly line. The Wrestler is a great piece of hard-to-watch filmmaking, tremendous performance by Rourke. Gran Torino good. I like Slumdog too.

Wall-E belongs on the pick list, imo. And what's been funnier than Tropic Thunder since? I'm sure there's been some, but I can't think of them.

Good pull on Tropic Thunder!

This got me thinking. Here's one list, of I'm sure many.
https://filmschoolrejects.com/best-comedy-movies-2010s/

Some really good movies chincluded that aren't comedies. Irregardless, what's better on that list than Tropic Thunder as a comedy?

Kudos to them for shouting out Death of Stalin though. Completely different comedy than Tropic Thunder, but it is great.

I loved Death of Stalin.

greenblood

Step Brothers

I personally think Gran Torino is the best, but I need to give some props to one of the most underrated comedies. This movie doesn't get enough credit.

YellowSnow

Gran Torino

greenblood said:

I personally think Gran Torino is the best, but I need to give some props to one of the most underrated comedies. This movie doesn't get enough credit.

The Nina, The Pinta, the Santa Maria. I’ll do you in the bottom while we’re drinking sangria.

chuck

Gran Torino

I never wanted Christian Bale and Clint to have to battle it out. Clint wins this one. It was close though.

AtomicDawg

Step Brothers

Gran Torino and the wrestler are better movies. But step brothers value of watching it over again and again and it never gets old is truly amazing in its own genre.

Neighbor2972

The Dark Knight

Good year for comedies, genre, and superhero movies, pretty bad year for dramas

1to392831weretaken

No hill worth dying on this year.

huskyhooligan

The Dark Knight

Almost went Iron Man. It basically ushered in the most successful movie franchise of the last 13 years with all of the Avengers and spin offs.

Some solid comedy with Semi Pro, and Step Brothers.

Wall-E is great.

PurpleThrobber

Gran Torino

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Skronger year than I'd expected. Dark Knight is teh tehts, best comic book ever, because it isn't really a comic book movie. Iron Man is maybe the best of the Marvel punch-press assembly line. The Wrestler is a great piece of hard-to-watch filmmaking, tremendous performance by Rourke. Gran Torino good. I like Slumdog too.

Wall-E belongs on the pick list, imo. And what's been funnier than Tropic Thunder since? I'm sure there's been some, but I can't think of them.

Good pull on Tropic Thunder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srH94OR1TbU

Not a Tom Cruise fan because he’s a nutcase Scientologist.

But I laugh like a hyena every time I watch the Les Grossman dance. Gonna bust that out at one of my daughter's wedding receptions.

1to392831weretaken

PurpleThrobber said:

Swaye said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Skronger year than I'd expected. Dark Knight is teh tehts, best comic book ever, because it isn't really a comic book movie. Iron Man is maybe the best of the Marvel punch-press assembly line. The Wrestler is a great piece of hard-to-watch filmmaking, tremendous performance by Rourke. Gran Torino good. I like Slumdog too.

Wall-E belongs on the pick list, imo. And what's been funnier than Tropic Thunder since? I'm sure there's been some, but I can't think of them.

Good pull on Tropic Thunder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srH94OR1TbU

Not a Tom Cruise fan because he’s a nutcase Scientologist.

But I laugh like a hyena every time I watch the Les Grossman dance. Gonna bust that out at one of my daughter's wedding receptions.

Tom Cruise is a mindfuck for me. The guy's a Scientologist, nutjob, and by all accounts a massive douche. Buttfuck if he isn't amazing at his job and picks a boatload of awesome projects to work on. He's simply in too many of the movies I love (and good in them) to boycott. Just can't do it.

NEsnake12

The Dark Knight

Gran Torino is terrific. Step Brothers is one of the most re-watchable and quotable comedies ever.

But Dark Knight is takes it for me just because of how good Heath Ledger is in it. He’s able to portray Anton Chigurh’s level of commanding menace while at the same time nodding to the Joker character’s quirky psychotic tendencies. The interrogation room scene is one of my favorite of all time

DerekJohnson

The Wrastler

Three great choices from that year

DerekJohnson

The Wrastler

IP Man was also awesome, though I remember few details

dnc

The Dark Knight

Can't believe no one has tagged @LesGrossman yet.

Tropic Thunder definitely belongs and I think I'd take it by a cunthair over Step Brothers for the year's comedy title. Hell of a pair.

But The Dark Knight was essentially* flawless. From the opening scene to the interrogation room to the car chase to Harvey Dent to Joker in a nursing uniform, there's just brilliance from start to finish.

Incredibly quotable for a comic book film as well. "Why so serious?" "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." "What doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger." "Some men just want to watch the world burn." "The hero we deserve but not the hero we need." Comic book movies aren't particularly quotable but this one crushed it with a collection of great quotes, and from essentially all the key characters too.






*Only complaint was Gillenhall is a wholly unconvincing love interest for an egotistical billionaire. Katie Holmes was far superior. But the movie is so good and the love interest angle so insignificant that it didn't matter.

chuck

Gran Torino

dnc said:

Can't believe no one has tagged @LesGrossman yet.

Tropic Thunder definitely belongs and I think I'd take it by a cunthair over Step Brothers for the year's comedy title. Hell of a pair.

But The Dark Knight was essentially* flawless. From the opening scene to the interrogation room to the car chase to Harvey Dent to Joker in a nursing uniform, there's just brilliance from start to finish.

Incredibly quotable for a comic book film as well. "Why so serious?" "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." "What doesn't kill you simply makes you stranger." "Some men just want to watch the world burn." "The hero we deserve but not the hero we need." Comic book movies aren't particularly quotable but this one crushed it with a collection of great quotes, and from essentially all the key characters too.






*Only complaint was Gillenhall is a wholly unconvincing love interest for an egotistical billionaire. Katie Holmes was far superior. But the movie is so good and the love interest angle so insignificant that it didn't matter.

Agree on the Gillenhall-Holmes matter. I barwly noticed when Rachel died because I had stopped caring.

Truth is that I think Holmes is a shit actress but fits the part, while Gillenhall is a good one who doesn't.