So after seeing Juno and Sweeny Todd this holiday season, had to update my list a bit, plus possibly one more change since I was shut out of seeing There Will Be Blood until this weekend:

1. No Country for Old Men
1.a There Will Be Blood
2. Juno
3. Knocked Up
4. Grind House
5. Bourne Ultimatum
6. Hot Fuzz
7. Ratatouille
8. Live Free or Die Hard
9. Transformers
10. Sweeny Todd

I didn't see a whole lot of bad movies this year, so this list will be very hard...

Top 10:
10. This is England
9. Day Night Day Night
8. Lars and the Real Girl
7. Darjeeling Limited
6. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
4. Rescue Dawn
3. Paris, Je T'aime
2. Pan's Labyrinth
1. Into the Wild

Top 10 that I DIDN'T see, but wish I had"
10. The Music Within
9. Vitus
8. There Will Be Blood
7. Youth Without Youth
6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. Wristcutters
4. Across the Universe
3. Slipstream
2. No Country for Old Men
1. Kite Runner

10. American Gangster (dir. Ridley Scott; Universal Pictures)
9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (dir. Julian Schnabel; Miramax Films)
8. Zodiac (dir. David Fincher; Paramount Pictures/Warner Bros.)
7. I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes; The Weinstein Company)
6. Atonement (dir. Joe Wright; Focus Features)
5. Lust, Caution (dir. Ang Lee; Focus Features)
4. No Country for Old Men (dirs. Joel & Ethan Coen; Miramax Films/Paramount Vintage)
3. GRINDHOUSE (dirs. Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino; Dimension Films)
2. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (dir. Tim Burton; DreamWorks SKG/Warner Bros.)

And the #1 movie of 2007, in my personal opinion, is...










There Will Be Blood (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson; Paramount Vantage/Miramax Films)

2007

You had to be There to See It:
Brand Upon the Brain! (Live Performance)
It is fine! Everything is Fine.

Absolute Stunners:
Killer of Sheep (1977) (2007 Commercial Debut)
Colossal Youth

Shorts:
His New Job (1917)
Everything Will Be Okay (animated short)
Sleeping Betty (animated short)
Vali & Mimi (The Ladies) (doc short)

Documentaries & Essays
The Great Communist Bank Robbery
The Cats of Mirikitani
A Walk into the Sea
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Helvetica

Fine Non- and Fiction:
The Lives of Others
Rescue Dawn
Once
Exiled
The Man from London

Poetry, Mood, and Experience:
Flight of the Red Balloon
Silent Light
Inland Empire
Ten Canoes

Restorations, Recuts:
Blade Runner
Becky Sharp (1935)
My Brother's Wedding

A Gorgeous Mess:
Southland Tales

Breathing Characters:
Starting Out in the Evening

As at 31/12/07:

1. Ratatouille
2. No Country For Old Men
3. Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
4. Eastern Promises
5. Knocked Up
6. Into The Wild
7. I'm Not There
8. Atonement
9. The Bourne Ultimatum
10. Death Proof

Will do a "proper" Top 10 list of 2007 January 31st, once limited '07 releases have a chance to go wide and make the cut. But for now, this is mine.

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Into the Wild
3. Bourne Ultimatum
4. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
5. Zodiac
6. Gone Baby Gone
7. Fracture
8. Shooter
9. Alpha Dog
10. Atonement

I unfortunately missed out on a lot of good movies. Hopefully I'll see Juno in the next few days, which I'm sure will be top 7.

Bottom:

1. Ghost Rider
2. 300
3. The Number 23
4. Pirates 3
5. I Am Legend
6. National Treasure BoS

01. Into the Wild
02. No Country for Old Men
03. Juno
04. 3:10 to Yuma
05. Sweeny Todd
06. The Darjeeling Limited
07. Away from Her
08. I'm Not There
09. Lars and the Real Girl
10. Zodiac

11. Môme, La (La Vie en rose)


Still, there are quite a bit of "great" movies that I have yet to see.

1. Transformers
2. Superbad
3. Live Free or Die Hard
4. Planet Terror
5. Juno
6. The King of Kong
7. Knocked Up
8. 30 Days of Night
9. No Country for Old Men
10. Hatchet

If no one else wants to, and I have time tomorrow, I'll tally the votes.

1. Superbad
2. Knocked up
3. Halloween
4. Mr. Brooks
5. The Simpsons movie
6. Reign Over Me
7. 1408
8. Reno 911 the movie
9. Hot Rod
10. Meet the Robinsons

Here is a tally of the "votes" so far. I counted the first ten for people that listed more than ten, counted PT and/or DP as Grindhouse, and am only listing titles that received more than one vote (a ton of films received only one vote).

1. No Country for Old Men - 31
2. Zodiac - 30
3. Grindhouse - 22
4. Hot Fuzz - 16
5. Knocked Up - 16
6. The Bourne Ultimatum - 15
7. Eastern Promises - 14
8. Into the Wild - 13
9. Ratatouille - 13
10. American Gangster - 12
11. Superbad - 12
12. 3:10 to Yuma - 10
13. Gone Baby Gone - 9
14. Once - 9
15. I'm Not There - 8
16. The Darjeeling Limited - 7
17. Juno - 7
18. Live Free or Die Hard - 7
19. 300 - 7
20. Stardust - 6
21. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 6
22. Stardust - 6
23. Michael Clayton - 6
24. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - 5
25. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 5
26. Rescue Dawn - 5
27. Black Snake Moan - 5
28. Transformers - 5
29. Atonement - 5
30. Sunshine - 4
31. King of Kong - 4
32. Lars and the Real Girl - 4
33. The Simpsons Movie - 4
34. Death at a Funeral - 3
35. The Lookout - 3
36. Shoot 'Em Up - 3
37. Breach - 3
38. 1408 - 3
39. Bug - 3
40. Lives of Others - 3
41. Waitress - 3
42. Sicko - 3
43. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 3
44. There will Be Blood - 2
45. Breach - 2
46. Meet the Robinsons - 2
47. The Mist - 2
48. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - 2
49. Hatchet - 2
50. 28 Weeks Later - 2
51. Hot Rod - 2
52. Killer of Sheep - 2
53. Reign Over Me - 2
54. Across the Universe - 2
55. Southland Tales - 2

I was surprised that no one besides me mentioned Disturbia or Talk to Me. And I imagine that There Will be Blood would have garnered many more votes if it had been released earlier.

Didn't see a lot of movies in 2007, but my top ten is:

1- Juno
2- The Lives of Others
3- Hot Fuzz
4- Children of Men
5- Zodiac
6- Superbad
7- Ratatouille
8- The Simpsons Movie
9- Breach
10-300

Here are my top 10 choices for 2007:

1. Live Free or Die Hard
2. Transformers
3. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. 300
5. 3:10 to Yuma
6. Stardust
7. Spider-Man 3
8. Smokin' Aces
9. National Treasure - Book of Secrets
10. 28 Weeks Later

1. Sunshine
2. 28 Weeks Later
3. There Will Be Blood
4. 3:10 to Yuma
5. No Country for Old Men

6. Kite Runner
7. Grindhouse
8. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
9. Ratatouille
10. Eastern Promises

01.Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
02.Superbad
03.Knocked Up
04.Juno
05.Reign Over Me
06.28 Weeks Later
07.The Fountain
08.Once
09.Ratatouille
10.Blades Of Glory

Thanks for the tally.

I must update, however, I watched Sweeny Todd last night. Knocks La Vie en rose out of my 10. :p

I haven't seen anything other than I Am Legend this December, so there's going to be plenty missing:

1. Children of Men
2. Bourne Ultimatum
3. Ratatouille
4. King of Kong
5. Sunshine
6. Simpsons Movie

I'm anxious to see ST also.

I'll update the tally if the thread gets up to 90 or so lists. Maybe I shouldn't promise that actually.......

I saw The Savages tonight. Knocks Atonement out of my top 10. Great, great movie.

I completely agree about Disturbia, I think it was a very underrated film of '07.

Here's my top ten:

Edit: Now that I've seen more 07 movies, here's the revised list:

1) The Bourne Ultimatum
2) Transformers
3) 300
4) Live Free or Die Hard
5) Knocked Up
6) Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street
7) Disturbia
8) Reign Over Me*
9) Sunshine*
10) Stardust*

*Newcomers

And here are the top movies from '07 that I haven't seen but want to:

1) No Country for Old Men
2) 3:10 to Yuma
3) American Gangster

8) Hitman

10) I Am Legend

I Really liked Disturbia too , I also Liked I am Legend and would probably add that to my list of favorite movies this year.

Jim Emerson's Top 10 of 2007, I like the way he did it (Writers Strike Edition/In tribute to "The Eclipse" (Antonioni)) especially Superbad popping up in it.

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10. Helvetica
9. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
8. The Orphanage
7. Superbad
6. Breach
5. Persepolis
4. 12:08 East of Bucharest
3. Zodiac
2. I'm Not There
1. No Country for Old Men

So far:

five *****
1. No Country for Old Men

4-1/2 ****
2. Waitress
3. The Darjeeling Limited
4. Juno

four ****
5. The Bourne Ultimatum
6. King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
7. Stardust
8. 1408
9. Live Free or Die Hard
10. Breach

also four **** but slightly lower
Ratatouille
Knocked Up
Gone Baby Gone
Michael Clayton

but there are still some I have to see (There Will be Blood, the Savages)

Sicko
No Country For Old Men
Bug
Eastern Promises
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
Zodiac

1 Knocked Up
2 Night at the Museum
3 Transformers
4 Pirates 3
5 Driving Lessons
6 Volver
7 Blades of Glory
8 Shooter
9 Ratitioule
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