Year in Film - 2008

What strange year for movies. Many things are quite Watchable - I had a very difficult situation for the reduction of my Top 10 for the first time in many years - but not for those who is a genius. The Dark Knight, although the legacy of that film in 2008, is a classic, in regular rotation on TNT in 2018? Even the famous Wall-E has not been successful on a scale most of the early films Pixar (In Incredibles, Cars and Toy Story 2, more money). Strange days, people. Strange days.

Without further ado ... a herd of ten lists.

Christopher Null

1. El luchador - I was so skeptical about the fighters that I can hardly my opinion. I am glad that they are simply the best film of the year and the child from the terrible evidence that director Darren Aronofsky is the soul. After a wildly overwrought and sentimental "Requiem for a dream and absurd goofball source, I was ready to write unavailable Aronofsky as a writer with a slight fever. With the fighters, and suddenly everything is clear, with Aronofsky to return to their roots and 16mm brilliant casting Mickey Rourke - another lost soul - in the role of his life as a professional wrestler who is trying, rather than several times of their lives. Unlike many Downers 2008 "- perhaps the most depressing movie in history - there is one glimmer of hope for the militants. Although it ends on a strong note - our hero Randy thought about suicide might go back on the map - we are confident that the left, although his latest body blow, at least he tried.

2. Milk - Gus Van Sant has a lot of criticism is not a lot of ships around the life history of Harvey Milk, and this is a very fair criticism: the film reads like a "Greatest Hits, and the saddest moments of life of Harvey Milk." Nevertheless, the high rates of Sean Penn to redeem all that we transplanted Castro district of San Francisco during the period of incredible turmoil. I lived in San Francisco for more than ten years, and only after drinking milk you need to appreciate the truly important - and more, too - Harvey Milk was. I am here to hire you.

3. Iron Man - better than The Dark Knight. Yes, I said it. Can not wait for sequel.

4. Man on wire

5. Meetings at the end of World - If you have lunch with the directors, who are likely to Werner Herzog. Duke was on the tear lately, and his documentation of the South Pole - as he himself said - certainly not "yet another film about penguins, but the fascinating people in most parts of Antarctica, to explain - who can best Rioja is best - why Earth, all those who live in a place like this. It is fear, underwater photography of frozen ice cream in this cake.

6. Promotion - wildly underestimated this little movie forgotten immediately after his release, but did not find an audience on DVD. Tragic. This is hysterical, hysterical offers fantastic (still locked), John C. Reilly as Gunning Canadian imports for the same work as the manager of the supermarket Seann William Scott, who proved that an incredible talent from drugs and sex comedies. If you love wildlife, and is sold in the office, you want to improve in the post. We call it "crude cracks. Cracking it." (See the movie and, you know.)

7. 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days

8. Time Crimes - I'm a fool for time travel movie, and this little Spanish (only with the four performers), an incredibly fun and challenge. While not as cerebral as the first indie-like mangling this film, which is impossible to get out of his head, to implement recursion, which, despite its complexity, you may want to immediately after the credits roll.

9. Frost / Nixon

10. Wall-E

Better to use the term "Crazy Penguin": Werner Herzog clashes end of the Second World
The worst way to the beginning of the film: the scene in three minutes shows the map of Cuba (CHE)
More strange code: Base Aldrin at the end of Fly Me to the Moon in a broad sense, and all children in the audience that I saw the movie "scientifically impossible".
Outstanding achievements in the hair: Alison Pill, milk
Underestimated: Cloverfield
Good, but overrated: Slumdog Millionaire
Worst movies of the year: "Speed Racer"

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