2007: movies

[kerpingtack]

****, or Personal Top 10 (no particular order)
1. An Inconvenient Truth
2. His Girl Friday
3. Stranger Than Fiction
4. Juno
5. Ratatouille
6. Yi Yi
7. Music & Lyrics
8. Vitus
9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10. Akeelah and the Bee

***, or Also Very Good (no particular order)
1. Shaun of the Dead
2. Layer Cake
3. The History Boys
4. Shut Up and Sing
5. Blades of Glory
6. Bowling for Columbine

**, or Good to Middling Without Invoking Any Real Feeling in Me (no particular order)
1. Casino Royale
2. The Siege
3. I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay
4. The Big Green
5. Bride and Prejudice
6. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
7. One True Thing
8. Superman Returns
9. The Quick and the Dead
10. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
11. X2

*, or DO NOT WANT (no particular order)
1. Knocked Up
2. Crash
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. My Sassy Girl
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. On the Town

~special~ Stupid and/or Badly Executed But Pretty, or I Am Willing To Overlook A Lot If I Find Someone Attractive
1. The Boondock Saints
2. A Series of Unfortunate Events
3. Rocket Science

Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
Most Pleasant Surprise: Stranger Than Fiction
Best Romantic Comedy: Music & Lyrics
Best Screwball Comedy Except For the Ending Which I Still Dislike A Lot: His Girl Friday
Best Foreign In Spite of Its "... Wait, What?" Ending: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Foreign In Spite of Making Me Nervous wrt Highly Improbable Stock Market Device: Vitus
Best Multi-Player Action Sequence: X2
Best Movie I Don't Think I Understood At All But Was Really Grateful to Be Able to See: Yi Yi
Best Smart Stylish Comedy That Turns Alarmingly!!! Gory Near the End: Shaun of the Dead
Most LOL WHAT credits: Casino Royale
Best Movie That I May or May Not Unironically Enjoy: The Quick and the Dead
Best Use of Wills on Ice Skates: Blades of Glory
Best Movie That Completely Lost My Goddamn Interest for the Whole Second Half: I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay
Best Movie With Tiny Redheaded Bug Hall Spilling a Wagonfull of Crap and Wailing in Adorable Voice, "Oh, My Beautiful Stuff!": The Big Green
Best Use of Aishwarya Rai Looking Ridiculously, Unbelievably Pretty: Bride and Prejudice

Most Awesome, Perfect, Impeccablest Performance: Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday
Best Young Really New Actor: Teo Gheorghiu, Vitus
Most Surprisingly Endearing: Brandon Routh, Superman Returns
Best Acting in an Indie Flick That Romanticizes Stuff in an Annoying Off-Putting Way: cast, Rocket Science
Most Hot Even Though I Don't Really Know Why: Daniel Craig, Layer Cake and Casino Royale
Most Unexpectedly Cute: Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead
Most Pitch Perfect Ensemble: cast, Juno
    Most Talented: Ellen Page / Prettiest!: Ellen Page
    Most Good BFF: Olivia Thirlby
    Most Lovable George Michael Redux: Michael Cera
    Most Unexpectedly Heartbreaking: Jennifer Garner
    Most Awesome Parents: Allison Janney and J.K. Simmons
Best Quiet Perfomance of a Good Man: Nien-Jen Wu, Yi Yi
Most Underappreciated and Underutilized: James Marsden, Everything He Does

Comments

[relivingstars.livejournal.com]

I have not seen a lot of these. Except most of those under the "DO NOT WANT" category. HEH.

[counttheplanes.livejournal.com]

Half of these shouldn't really count since I remember nothing about them and/or I was watching so very very mindlessly.