Midway gut check on the movies of 2007
August 7, 2007 at 3:33 pm by David Lee Simmons in Randomly NotedSwear ta God, I could just spend my entire day surfing around Rotten Tomatoes (wait, don’t I do that already), but a recent link really has me transfixed. It’s a simple item, really, and indicative of the site’s latest trend toward All Things List.
But considering we’re past the midway point of 2007, it’s a gas to check out the film review site’s “Mid-Year Report,†counting down the 25 best reviewed movies, as well as the 10 worst.
Some interesting tidbits:
• 14 out of the 25 are American-made films
• All but two (The Italian, Starter for 10) have screened in Atlanta. Starter for 10 just came out on DVD last week.
• The worst-reviewed film, Because I Said So, clocked in at a lowly 5 percent on the Tomatometer.
• The No. 1 pick, Ratatouille, rocks so hard it’s ridiculous.
Well done, critics — including our own film critics, Felicia Feaster and Curt Holman. Click on these movie titles to see their reviews.
What’s your favorite movie this year?
25) Paris Je T’aime
24) Live Free or Die Hard
23) Into Great Silence
22) Starter for 10
21) God Grew Tired of Us
20) An Unreasonable Man
19) Grindhouse
18) After the Wedding
17) The Namesake
16) Bridge to Terabithia
15) Breach
14) Red Road
13) The Hoax
12) The Italian
11) The Wind That Shakes the Barley
10) The Lookout
9) Waitress
8) Zodiac
7) The Host
6) Sicko
5) Hot Fuzz
4) Knocked Up
3) Once
2) Away From Her
1) Ratatouille
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August 8th, 2007 at 9:07 am
Films almost certainly to be on my Top 10 list: ‘Ratatouille’ (the year’s best), ‘Hot Fuzz,’ ‘Zodiac.’ (If ‘Indigenes (Days of Glory)’ counted as a 2007 film, that would be one, too.)
Films released before July 4 that may or may not crack my Top 10, but I still really enjoyed: ‘Knocked Up,’ ‘Sicko, ‘ ‘ The Host, ‘The TV Set’ and ‘Black Book’ — the omission of which from the above list is pretty strange.
And ‘Live Free or Die Hard?’ Really? Why not ‘Ocean’s 13′, if the bar is set that low?
Favorite films since July 4: ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,’ ‘Superbad,’ ‘Stardust’
August 8th, 2007 at 10:29 am
“Black Book,” “The Simpsons Movie,” “The Lives of Others” (saw it in theaters in 2007, though I don’t know if you’d call it a 2007 flick), and all but the last 30 minutes of “Sunshine.”
Worst movie of all year, and the movie that made me feel like I needed a science lab safety shower dousing afterward: “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” or whatever bunch of words they tagged to that turd. Looking back on why I went to go see it it feels like I had some psychotic breakdown, that I was out of my gourd. Please forgive me.
August 8th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
I like “The Host” the most.
Why don’t more movie reviews rhyme?
But don’t be hurt, Curt!
August 8th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
A cut above was Dr. Strangelove,
But that I fear was from an earlier year.
Still, each time this question is asked,
it’s this movie that I must allow to bask.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
I must declare,
I was not aware,
We could pick movies from days of yore.
From that I cull,
Not a Raging Bull,
But a Metal Jacket that was Full.
(I entered the wrong damn verification code and had to regurgitate this masterpiece. Short-term memory still works, but the poetic skills remain ho-hum.)
August 8th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Thomas, you the bomb!
You wrote that poem with aplomb
Meanwhile, Mr. Ken
Nominates a movie from way back when.
It says right there in the very first post
That it’s the 2007 movies that you like the most
Now wonder the newspaper game’s in the toilet
If the editor-in-chief gets on the web to spoil it.