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Alex C:
No Country for Old Men was pretty good, but I liked 3:10 better and I can grudgingly admit that Juno was probably a better film than either of them once I manage to put my old west fetish aside for a moment. I have some sort of instinctive knee jerk reaction that keeps me from really enjoying Atonement and Into the Wild, apparently, since I didn't like either of them and I'm at a complete loss to defend that opinion or even begin to explain why. Maybe I just can't get into movies that focus on such relatively simple emotional responses, but that's kind of a depressing thought in and of itself. I really want to see Sweeney Todd but haven't gotten to it yet.

Liz:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 11 Jan 2008, 12:52 ---Atonement is based on an excellent novel of the same name by Ian McEwan. I have a friend who raves about the novel and is incredibly excited to see the movie.

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I have read the novel and see the movie, and I can confidently say that it is the best book to film adaptation I have ever seen. Technically speaking they did not leave out any important elements of the story and they only cut corners once by putting two different scenes together into one, but the bit between in the book that was cut wasn't entirely important. But most of all everyone involved (screenwriters, director, actors, etc.) did an absolutely amazing job capturing the spirit of the book and translating it onto film. There were certain scenes I wasn't sure how they would handle on screen, but all of those turned out spectacularily and I was not disappointed.

The only downside I can think of is that maybe it won't be as good to someone that hasn't read the book. Maybe I was so pleased about the fantastic adaptation that I couldn't look at it solely as a film, but I still believe I would have loved it even if I hadn't read the novel already.

Jackie Blue:
No Country For Old Men was good but the movie I enjoyed the most by a wide margin was Control.

Inlander:
The best movie I saw this year in a proper cinema (as opposed to at a film festival) was Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. But I don't think that's got a general release in most places, even in Australia (they just had it screening at my local cinema for some reason for a couple of weeks).

The funniest film I saw this year was 2 Days in Paris. And speaking of French films, Hunting and Gathering was one of my favourites, too.

I'm going to have to go and gather my thoughts on this now. I see a lot of films in a year.

Lines:

--- Quote from: yelley on 11 Jan 2008, 11:09 ---i was going to say pan's labyrinth... but that was 2006, wasn't it?

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Yes. And I do believe it won an Oscar for best foreign film. (That was my favorite movie that year.)

I don't know about this year. I have several favorite movies this year (Stardust, for instance) and there were several good movies (such as 3:10 to Yuma), but I haven't seen all the ones I want to see yet (like No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood).

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