With screeners of some of the final films I need to see in order to complete my movie watching of 2008 on their way it looks like by Tuesday of next week I will have seen it all (or enough to determine my top films of 2008), but that’s in the future. For now, the next big name to release a list of top flicks is Richard Roeper who has unveiled his top 25 of 2008 in which he also doles out a couple of extra kudos. Here’s a recap:
Performance of the year:
- Kristin Scott Thomas, I’ve Loved You So Long
Good sequels of the year (Note: Roeper doesn’t mention The Dark Knight here but he dedicates his opening four paragraphs to it and made it his #2 best movie of the year)
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
Just OK sequels this year
- Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
- Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
- High School Musical 3: Senior Year
- Transporter 3
Worst sequels of the year
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Step Up 2 the Streets
- Saw V
- Rambo
- Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
- Star Wars: the Clone Wars
Best villain of the year
- Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight
Worst villain of the year
- Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane in Iron Man
and now for the finale…
RICHARD ROEPER’S BEST FILMS OF 2008
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Dark Knight
- The Wrestler
- In Bruges
- I’ve Loved You So Long
- Gran Torino
- Milk
- The Visitor
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Frozen River
- Doubt
- Snow Angels
- Frost/Nixon
- The Reader
- Seven Pounds
- Iron Man
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- W.
- Henry Poole Is Here
- Burn After Reading
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- WALL-E
- The Bank Job
- Tropic Thunder
- Che
WORST MOVIES OF 2008 (NO. 1 BEING THE WORST)
- The Love Guru
- What Happens in Vegas
- The Women
- 10,000 B.C.
- 88 Minutes
- Funny Games
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Over Her Dead Body
- Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
- You Don’t Mess With the Zohan
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