The '07 Movie Hierarchy (sorta)
Submitted by opalfilms on Sun, 11/04/2007 - 01:50
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- 10
- No Country for Old Men
- There Will Be Blood
- Zodiac
- 9
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- The Host
- Gone Baby Gone
- Joshua
- Lake of Fire
- Offside
- 8
- Black Book
- Day Night Day Night
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
- Hot Fuzz
- The Hunting Party
- I'm Not There
- Lady Chatterley
- Michael Clayton
- Once
- Private Fears in Public Places
- Ratatouille
- Sweeney Todd
- Syndromes and a Century
- Time
- We Own the Night
- 7
- 28 Weeks Later
- Bamako
- Beowulf: The IMAX Experience
- The Boss of It All
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Breaking and Entering
- Bug
- Chronicle of an Escape
- Golden Door
- Hairspray
- In the Valley of Elah
- Into the Wild
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
- Knocked Up
- Lars and the Real Girl
- The Lives of Others
- Margot at the Wedding
- My Kid Could Paint That
- No End in Sight
- Redacted
- Regular Lovers
- Rocket Science
- Romance and Cigarettes
- Seraphim Falls
- Sicko
- Strange Culture
- Superbad
- Talk to Me
- This! Is! ENGLAND!!!!
- The Wayward Cloud
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- 6
- 2 Days in Paris
- 3:10 to Yuma
- After the Wedding
- American Gangster
- The Astronaut Farmer
- Atonement
- Brand Upon the Brain!
- Comedy of Power
- Control
- Deep Water
- The Devil Came on Horseback
- Eastern Promises
- Election 2
- Exiled
- Flanders
- Fido
- Grindhouse
- Halloween
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Helvetica
- I Am Legend
- L'iceberg
- In the Pit
- In the Shadow of the Moon
- The Italian
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
- Jindabyne
- Juno
- Lights in the Dusk
- Live Free or Die Hard
- The Lookout
- Manufactured Landscapes
- The Mist
- The Namesake
- Ocean's 13
- The Orphanage
- The Page Turner
- Protagonist
- The Rape of Europa
- Reign Over Me
- Rescue Dawn
- Russian Dolls
- Saawariya
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- The Savages
- Shoot 'Em Up
- The Simpsons Movie
- Stephanie Daley
- Sunshine
- Surf's Up
- Ten Canoes
- The TV Set
- Vacancy
- Wristcutters: A Love Story
- 5
- 1408
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres
- Away From Her
- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
- Black Snake Moan
- Breach
- Dan in Real Life
- Drama/Mex
- The Golden Compass
- Half Moon
- I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
- In Between Days
- I Think I Love My Wife
- Lust, Caution
- Moliere
- Music and Lyrics
- My Best Friend
- National Treasure: Book of Secrets
- Paprika
- Persepolis
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- Red Road
- Starting Out in the Evening
- Things We Lost in the Fire
- Waitress
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
- A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory
- 4
- 300
- Across the Universe
- Avenue Montaigne
- Charlie Wilson's War
- The Darjeeling Limited
- Election
- Enchanted
- Exterminating Angels
- Falling
- Fay Grim
- The Heartbreak Kid
- The Hoax
- Hostel, Part II
- The Kingdom
- The Kite Runner
- Lonely Hearts
- A Mighty Heart
- Paris, Je T'aime
- Pride
- Smiley Face
- Spider-Man 3
- Them (Ils)
- La Vie en Rose
- Zoo
- 3
- Angel-A
- Black Sheep
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- Sleuth
- Transformers
- The Valet
- Year of the Dog
- 2
- Southland Tales
- 1
- 0
Cloned From:
I've only listed movies that have gotten an official commercial release in '07, or are currently scheduled for one. See you next year, Rivette.
It's too late in the year to try to rank these, so I'm just listing them by rating. The scale explained, with a corresponding John Carpenter movie to illustrate each rating:
10- Masterpiece, one of the year's very best (Assault on Precinct 13)
9- Near-masterpiece (The Thing)
8- Pretty doggone awesome (They Live)
7- Highly recommended (Big Trouble in Little China)
6- Above average, "a mild thumbs up™" (Christine)
5- Mediocre, passable but ininspiring (Vampires)
4- Below average, has redeeming facet (In the Mouth of Madness)
3- Bad but not offensively so (Ghosts of Mars)
2- Terrible (Memoirs of An Invisible Man)
1- Worthless (Village of the Damned)
0- Unspeakable (the pornos he made with the dude from Hogan's Heroes- wait, wrong Carpenter)