Comments on: Midway gut check on the movies of 2007

By: Odd Ogg

Odd Ogg — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:40:17 +0000

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.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:10:28 +0000

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.)

By: Ken Edelstein

Ken Edelstein — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:41:24 +0000

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.

By: Odd Ogg

Odd Ogg — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:48:40 +0000

I like “The Host” the most.

Why don’t more movie reviews rhyme?

But don’t be hurt, Curt!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:29:43 +0000

“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.

By: Curt Holman

Curt Holman — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:07:53 +0000

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’