2007-2008 Top Ten Movies

#10 In Bruges
Where did this come from? Collin Farrell? Reminiscent of Lock Stock or Snatch. A fun, dramatic plot twister set in Bruges ("It's in Belgium"). That I liked this movie so much was a surprise.

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#9 The Killing of John Lennon
A look inside the mind of Mark Chapman, the man who plotted and executed John Lennon. No lines were written for the actor who played Chapman. Every line came directly from quotes or from his journal. I'm a fan of John Lennon and it was interesting to see the influence his life and death had on people acrossed generations.

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#8 28 Weeks Later
The originial is possibly my favorite movie so it was a given for this movie to make the list. Although with the change of director, much of the flavor of the movie was lost. But it was still scary as crap! And the story did not dissapoint.

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#7 Burn After Reading
I don't want to spoil this movie too much for everyone who hasn't seen it, but suffice it to say that the biggest surprise in the movie is what won me over in my skepticism. This was such a different direction than "No Country", but Coen brothers none the less. I love movies that don't really have much point...

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#6 There Will Be Blood
Whoa! This movie was so not what I was expecting. It completely altered my mood and my emotions and that's what I love about movies. Soundtrack was also very original, but what I love most about this movie was the concept.

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#5 Into The Wild
What an experience. I really feel like this movie came out of nowhere. This was one movie that I will hold on to. Wild sways of emotion and excitement and beautifully shot and scored.

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#4 The Dark Knight
I loved this movie despite Christian Baal's "weird" performance (what's with the voice man? Enough already!), over-shadowed though it was by Ledger's masterpiece of character play. Though I will see every Batman movie that will ever come out, this is one of the greats, rivaled only by Burton's Batman Returns in my opinion.

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#3 No Country For Old Men
Still want to read the book. I've heard great things about it and can't wait to read it one day. No soundtrack? Who does that? The Dang Coen brothers.. This was also my first look at Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem on the big screen and I look forward to many more from them both. It didn't hurt that Tommy Lee Jones rocked as well. A casting choice no doubt inspired by The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005 starring, and directed by Mr. Jones) which I HIGHLY recommend.
Looking forward to 2009 for The Road from the same author, Cormac McCarthy.

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#2 Slumdog Millionare
Unbelievable. If you didn't already know about it, I could give you the synopsis, but that probably wouldn't encourage you to see it any more. But hey, this is Danny Boyle. Boyle has a certain special something about his movies that make you taste desperation and TRULY appreciate what comes on the other side. In Slumdog, poverty and love are two words that linger in your mind as you leave the theater.

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#1 Sunshine
My number 1. Danny Boyle does it again for me. This was a long awaited movie for me though it never played in the states.
With his direction, Boyle moves from beyond the Film medium to straight-up art. This has everything that I love about movies and art. An absolute thrill from start to finish. Again Boyle teams up with John Murphy to paint the most beautiful harmony between sight and sound. The small "screw it, I'm putting this in there because I like it, and I don't care who gets it" is what absolutely did it for me. I found myself saying, I can't believe he did that part that way and I don't think anyone is going to get that! Cillian Murphy won me over again too.

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That's it for the past two years. Looking forward to so many in the years to come! Thanks for reading!