Your personal top movies picks of 2008

[Fairweather Pure]

You can have 2 for each category!


Action - Dark Knight / Iron Man
Drama - The Wrestler / Slumdog Millionaire
Animation - Wall*E / Kung Fu Panda
Comedy - Forgetting Sarah Marshall / Pineapple Express
Documentary - Man On A Wire / Religulous
Foreign - Once (this is the only foregin film that I have seen that I can think of off hand)


I thought it was a really good year for movies. The Golden Globes had some nice surprises and made me think to get some lists going!

[Keverian FireCry]

Only difference I have from your list is in Comedy, though I enjoyed both of your picks.

Comedy: In Bruges / Happy Go Lucky


Tropic Thunder was pretty damned entertaining as well, but the last third was a bit much.

[Keverian FireCry]

I'd also add a category to this list.."Foreign"

Foreign: Let the Right One In

And con-fucking-gratulations to Mickey Rourke. What a great comeback. Nearly brought tears to my eyes seeing his win.

[miir]

2008 was a fantastic year for movies.
I saw so many good films it would be too hard to pick a favorite.. or favorites!

[Chidoro]

Don't see too many movies these days but I did pick up Iron Man and that definitely was a great movie. Saw Kung Fu Panda on demand and I couldn't imagine Wall-e being better. Just an insane looking movie w/ good voice talent. FOrgetting Sarah Marshall definitely made me laugh but I havn't seen the Kevin Smith movie yet and I thought Tropic Thunder was better.

[Canelek]

Comedy - Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Documentary - Religulous

[Ashur]

I saw both Iron Man and Dark Knight and enjoyed both. That's my two movies for the year. I'm hoping to see at least two in 2009 as well!

[laneela]

I don't want to put them into categories because for the most part, I don't like Action and I can't narrow it down to 2 comedies, but some of last years standouts for me were:

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
The Changeling
Kung Fu Panda
PS I Love You
In Bruges
Tropa de Elite
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Man on a Wire
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Tropic Thunder
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Run Fatboy Run

Major disappointments: Sex in the City
Movie everyone else in the world seems to like but I didn't: Once

[Spang]

I haven't seen enough movies of 2008, yet. I'm usually the last person to see most movies.

[Winnow]

Scrolled through the movies on VV for the last year. Nothing stood out except Slumdog Millionaire.

Of note in 2008:

RIP Michael Crichton. Thanks for some great novels made into great (and some not so great) movies. Jurassic Park/Andromeda Strain I even enjoyed Rising Sun! Bad moveis would be Congo/Sphere/that time travel one (my thread was closed instead of merged)