HCH Academy Awards - Best Picture 2008?
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The Dark KnightGood year for comedies, genre, and superhero movies, pretty bad year for dramas
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No hill worth dying on this year.
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The Dark KnightAlmost 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.
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Gran TorinoSwaye said:
Good pull on Tropic Thunder!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.
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.
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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.PurpleThrobber said:Swaye said:
Good pull on Tropic Thunder!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.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. -
The Dark KnightGran 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 -
The WrastlerThree great choices from that year
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The WrastlerIP Man was also awesome, though I remember few details
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The Dark KnightCan'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. -
Gran Torino
Agree on the Gillenhall-Holmes matter. I barwly noticed when Rachel died because I had stopped caring.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.
Truth is that I think Holmes is a shit actress but fits the part, while Gillenhall is a good one who doesn't.
