2008 Movie Roundup (with spoilers!)

Here's list of all movies released in 2008, objectively ranked from best to worst. If your movie didn't make the list, either I didn't see it or something went terribly wrong.
  • Milk (Spoiler alert: Use by March 4th. lolz!)
  • Rachel Getting Married (Spoiler alert: The bride is having an affair with Don Draper! wtf‽)
  • WALL-E (Spoiler alert: The portrayal of 22nd Century Earth's decay is probably overly optimistic. lolz!)
  • Synecdoche, New York (Spoiler alert: Everyone dies eventually. lolz!)
  • Religulous (Spoiler alert: Most religious claims are without a sound basis in reality. wtf‽)
  • Tell No One (Spolier alert:                                                                                lolz!)
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Spoiler alert: Woody Allen is going to keep putting Scarlett Johansson in movies until he can get her to take her top off. lolz!)
  • Doubt (Spoiler alert: Life contains ambiguity. wtf‽)
  • The Dark Knight (Spoiler alert: There's going to be another sequel. lolz!)
  • Slumdog Millionaire (Spoiler alert: At the end, the brother is killed by symbolism. wtf‽)
  • Vantage Point (Spoiler alert: Matthew Fox is the Vantage Point. wtf‽)
Movies that aren't on the previous list but I'm willing to concede do exist. I'm hoping to see them unspoiled.
  • The Wrestler
  • Frost / Nixon
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Burn After Reading
Movies that I'm afraid do exist, but undoubtedly shouldn't, based on the trailers, along with what I assume is an accurate spoiler:
  • Gran Torino (Spoiler alert: Clint Eastwood hates Asians? wtf‽)
Also, I saw Good Will Hunting for the first time in 2008. I'm glad I managed to stay unspoiled all these years.

Comments

  1. FormJanuary 05, 2009

    I might see Gran Torino. My thought is that Clint Eastwood saw "The Bucket List" and thought it was a senior movie for pansies and decided to make a KATN senior movie.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 05, 2009

    Gran Torino was supposed to be set in Minneapolis, where every time I flew through the airport there was a story in the newspaper about the struggling Hmong community. Instead they moved it to Detroit, which is more depressing but has no appreciable Hmong community. So there you go.

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  3. KatyJanuary 09, 2009

    Benjamin Button was the longest, most boring movie I've seen in a while. Jordana and I did not like it at all. For what it's worth.

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