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With a little more than a week left in 2008, I have finished* Grant & Darin's 2007 movie lists! For those of you that know either of them, this is a list that they agonize over (ok, maybe that's too strong of a word). Darin gives his star rankings, Grant just lists them. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and decided to combine the lists and watch all of them. *The following appeared on at least one of the lists and I I did not watch for the following reasons:
The Kite Runner (I'm going to read the book first)
No End in Sight (one of my best friends is in Iraq finishing his 3rd tour, I didn't think I could emotionally handle the movie while continuing to be encouraging to him)
This is England (Grant told me it was too violent for me to watch...he knows me well)
Killer of Sheep (this was on Grant's "want to see" list...and he decided it was boring)

Here is the combined list - the + means I liked it, the - means I didn't (I'm pretty simple like that.
No Country For Old Men +
Gone Baby Gone +
Juno +
August Rush +
The Bourne Ultimatum +
Michael Clayton +/-
American Gangster +
Atonement +
Once +
The Lookout +
Rescue Dawn +
Hot Fuzz +
Sicko -
1408 +
Live Free or Die Hard +
Sweeney Todd -
Dan in Real Life -
You Kill Me -
Zodiac +
There Will Be Blood +
The Great Debaters +
Charlie Wilson's War +
Ratatouille +
Into the Wild – (beautiful scenery though)
I'm Not There -
3:10 to Yuma +
Persepolis +
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly +
In The Shadow Of the Moon +
Elizabeth: The Golden Age +
The King of Kong +
Offside +
Death at a Funeral +
Away From Her +
Breach +
The Savages -
Triad Election +
Enchanted +

Movies that I saw that I thought should have been on their lists:
Under the Same Moon
PS I Love You
Lars and the Real Girl
Nanny Diaries
Mr. Brooks
Charlie Bartlett
A Mighty Heart
The Counterfeiters (Darin did add this on 12/16, 3 days after I watched it!)
Son of Rambow

Now I await the 2008 lists!

Comments

darin said…
very nice...and impressive work on your part. The word "agonize" is actually quite appropriate.

Very surprised you liked PS I Love you. The only other one of yours that I have seen is Charlie Bartlett.

Son of Rambow is 2008...I've got that sitting in the 11th spot currently.
December 22, 2008 at 3:30 PM
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