We're bored, we're broke, and we're back. Like every other Tom, Dick, and Harry, we're celebrating the impending new year with our look back at 2007's best. Without further ado, here are G:TB's Top 10 movies of 2007*, in no particular order:(* - Important note: we did not actually see any movies that were released in 2007, owing to a combination of laziness, preference for dining and/or drinking out over the cinema, and the rising cost of babysitters. This list is compiled from television advertisements and online trailers.)
I Am Legend. We're suckers for end of times fables. Also, we'd like to be able to hit a golf ball off a building into Manhattan traffic.
No Country for Old Men. This was a terrific book, so we assume that it was an equally compelling film. Anton Chigurh is a bad mother shutyourmouth.
Ratatouille. We went to college with Patton Oswalt. Didn't know him, but have friends that did. Additionally, we're huge cartoon rat fans.
Smokin' Aces. Lots of stuff blowing up and bullets flying everywhere as allegory for the uncertainty of modern living. A neoclassical gem. Has Piven in it, too.
Black Snake Moan. Sam Jackson ties a scantily clad Christina Ricci to a radiator? Sign me up. Um, rather, a deeply felt meditation on the interplay between class, sex and race in the American South. Sign me up.
300. Part videogame, part war porn, all shiny and pretty.
Knocked Up. Seth Rogen, Everyman Hero.
Ocean's Thirteen. G:TB loves a good caper. And Clooney and Pitt together again? Mmwah.
The Jane Austen Book Club. Just kidding.
I Think I Love My Wife. Don't we all. Also, just kidding. Again.
The Kingdom. Boom! Bang! Pow!
Next up, G:TB's slighly more serious and better researched look at the 2007's best music.
No Country for Old Men. This was a terrific book, so we assume that it was an equally compelling film. Anton Chigurh is a bad mother shutyourmouth.
Ratatouille. We went to college with Patton Oswalt. Didn't know him, but have friends that did. Additionally, we're huge cartoon rat fans.
Smokin' Aces. Lots of stuff blowing up and bullets flying everywhere as allegory for the uncertainty of modern living. A neoclassical gem. Has Piven in it, too.
Black Snake Moan. Sam Jackson ties a scantily clad Christina Ricci to a radiator? Sign me up. Um, rather, a deeply felt meditation on the interplay between class, sex and race in the American South. Sign me up.
300. Part videogame, part war porn, all shiny and pretty.
Knocked Up. Seth Rogen, Everyman Hero.
Ocean's Thirteen. G:TB loves a good caper. And Clooney and Pitt together again? Mmwah.
The Jane Austen Book Club. Just kidding.
I Think I Love My Wife. Don't we all. Also, just kidding. Again.
The Kingdom. Boom! Bang! Pow!
Next up, G:TB's slighly more serious and better researched look at the 2007's best music.
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ReplyDeleteI actually did see Knocked Up (TiVo PPV, of course, not in the theater), so I'm 1 for 10.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was awesome.
i saw it, too, but that defeats the premise. and, agreed, it was awesome.
ReplyDeleteShoot 'Em Up looked kind of cool. Anyone see it?
ReplyDeleteI was told by someone who's opinion I trust that Smokin' Aces was one of the 5 worst movies made since we went to "talkies."
ReplyDeleteyes, but the advertisements were top notch.
ReplyDeletePoint taken. I saw Chas Wilson's War on Boxing Day and it was superb. 3.5 stars.
ReplyDeletethe best film of 2007 was a short documentary style piece shot with a cheap digital camera. i think it was was called "dave has sex with whitney's mom."
ReplyDeletethat was so derivative, though, don't you think? been done to death.
ReplyDeletefor the record, in doing the "research" for this post, i realized that i had also seen breach, michael clayton, and ocean's thirteen. so sue me. again.
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