My top 10 for 2007, so far:
1. There Will Be Blood
2. No Country for Old Men
3. 3:10 to Yuma
4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5. Atonement
6. Rescue Dawn
7. Juno
8. Into the Wild
9. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
10. I’m Not There
The top four films loosely fit into the western genre, and part of I’m Not There, which I have in the tenth spot, is also a western.
And beyond:
11. I Am Legend
12. American Gangster
13. Grindhouse
14. Beowulf
15. Gone Baby Gone
16. The Man from London
17. Michael Clayton
18. The Darjeeling Limited
19. Zodiac
20. The King of Kong
21. 300
22. Charlie Wilson’s War
23. Eastern Promises
24. Superbad
25. Sicko
There are still some majors that I need to see, but this is the list as of this moment. Agree? Disagree? Comments? (I’ll actually check for them this time)
January 8th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
2, 7, 13, 15, 18, and 24 I’ve seen. No others. Decent list. Dying to see KING OF KONG but it was here for like 2 weeks (they had a DONKEY KONG machine in the lobby for people to play while it was here, Kevin Stroup set the high score for awhile, hah). A little ambivalent about THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Would probably put NO COUNTRY on top of my own current list. I’ve seen (and will probably remain having seen, indefinitely) fewer 2007 movies than you, but I’d put DARJEELING up higher on my own list, I fell in love with it. Still a handful from ‘07 I wanna rock.