Nothing inspires more disdain or remorse or bad feelings than a top ten list. My favorite thing in a world is to see someone else’s list and just shower it with scorn and hatred and WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING?
So of course, I would just have to do one. Here it is, a scant 11 days still remaining in this, the year of your lord 2007, and there are far too many movies to mention that are still coming out. This would be better relegated to after the new year, when so much isn’t out yet, but goddamn, if I’m not anything but quick on the draw.
There are still a number of movies to see: I’m Not There, August Rush, Youth Without Youth, Charlie Wilson’s War, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Persepolis, oh Lord, so many coming out. And my plan is to see most of these before the new year. So yeah, they’ll be another bigass Pasadena run coupled with DGA viewings. To clear most of this off the list. And no doubt, at least two of these will end up on my list of the best of the year.
This list is up for argument’s sake, to inspire scorn, and for people to throw out “HOW COULD YOU FORGET…”? But so far, in my humble estimation, here are my top ten movies of the year, in suspenseful reverse listing, without my inevitable justification blathering that will make the final list of the year.
Honorable Mention: Live Free or Die Hard
10. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
9. Eastern Promises
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
7. Enchanted
6. Waitress
5. Lars and the Real Girl
4. No Country for Old Men
3. Once
2. Ratatouille
1. Juno
Much like the violent, 14 year old girl I appear to be with my movie choices, this list is subject to fits of inexplicable change at a mere whim. Some of the movies will move up the list, some will move down, some will disappear entirely. I gotta say, it was actually a pretty fucking good year for movies.
Now, fight!
