Comments on: Best Of The Decade: The Playlist’s Best Films Of 2008

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:33:05 +0000

I'm afraid if you thought In Bruges was a comedy you misread the movie. It was badly marketed and you seem to have bought it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:53:23 +0000

Great list. Also, Let The Right One In is one of the most overrated films of the decade. If it wouldn't have been about vampires, no one would have give a shit.

By: john wall

john wall — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:47:40 +0000

The Wrestler was a really good movie, and I was impressed with Mickey Rourke's acting in the movie.

By: rich

rich — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:29:49 +0000

To be sure, I wish I could travel back in time to check out your criteria for a movie's release year before making my initial comment. Fair enough. However, no need to shoot a fellow movie-lover down over such small details.

Having seen them in 2008, I put these films on my best-of list for that year, so I was surprised when I didn't see them on your list, as I've generally agreed with them so far. Bottom line, these movies were terrific, no matter when or where you saw them.

I'll be sure to read your fine print before talking movies here again.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:06:44 +0000

Rich, if you read our rules when this thing first started, respectfully, you would see we went by U.S. release dates of their first actual run in the U.S, as in the beginning of their release, limited or otherwise.

So, yes, you may have seen Summer hours on 1 October 2008 (New York Film Festival). The rest of the world (or the U.S) didn't and (a run at a film festival hardly counts as a U.S. release). 15 May 2009 was its actually, official U.S. release date.

Likewise, you may have seen Revanche early, it did not officially come out in the U.S. until May 1, 2009.

True story.

By: rich

rich — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:59:34 +0000

I say this respectfully and only in my defense, but please take a trip with me in my time machine:

Summer Hours:
http://www.filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/2008/program.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0836700/

Revanche:
http://www.criterion.com/films/85
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1173745/

I saw both of these films in 2008 here in New York. While I wish I did, I do not have sufficient VIP status (or time-traveling abilities) to see movies before the rest of the world does.

By: Psyco

Psyco — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:35:03 +0000

My best top films of 2008

-the visitor
-Rachel getting married
-happy-go-luckly
-the wrestler
-Revolu. Road
-Frost Nixon

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:15:51 +0000

Uhh you basically jus said, " 'Reprise' was good but the main story sucked."

Why not just say you didn't like the movie and be done with it?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:57:59 +0000

reprise was good overall, but the aspects of the film involving the one friend with the buzzed head (forgot his name) and his black haired girlfriend were way too fucking melodramatic and annoying. it really took away from the rest of the movie for me.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:59:29 +0000

What about Voy a Explotar? It was released in 2008 and it was incredible. Thanks to your glowing review, I spent most of this year trying to hunt it down and was not disappointed in the least.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:24:26 +0000

Fair enough.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:51:05 +0000

Right, but the novel stuff is treated lightly and quickly on purpose. It's basically a McGuffin to get into other things. It's not about authors now is it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:49:09 +0000

Reprise was terrific and I hope the director is discovered in America more widely, but it also made writing a nationally acclaimed novel look way easier than it probably is.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:31:03 +0000

Man, these films were all at Cannes. If you're any kind of cinephile, you should have at least heard of them, sheesh.

By: mel

mel — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:14:20 +0000

what!! no slumdog in the top 10 now.ur original best of 08 list was better.the only thing right here is che being #1
also me being a huge wrestling fan for over a decade,i can tell the wrestler doesnt deserve so much praise.the business is not as shown in it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:28:59 +0000

Your list of the "10 movies nobody has ever heard about" includes 3 entries I'm aware of. So I think you guys are too mainstream.

By: bonzob@earthlink.net

bonzob@earthlink.net — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:46:40 +0000

Steering people almost entirely towards the most obscure yet critically acclaimed indies of a given year seems more like saying "focus your horizons in this one direction," rather than "broaden" them, no?

Some films I enjoyed that weren't mentioned: Brad Anderson's wonderful travelogue/thriller Transsiberian, Courtney Hunt's stark and honest Frozen River, Bahrani's moving and human Chop Shop, Stuart Gordon's dark satire Stuck, and the best Apatow film Apatow had nothing to do with, Role Models.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:49:28 +0000

Gabe, I'm not sure what that means exactly, but En Rah Ha, indeed! He's genius.

Rich, can i borrow your time machine because Summer Hours and Revanche are unquestionably 2009.

PPl, if you haven't seen half these films, you need to stop watching Cinemax, broaden your horizons and get out more.

By: rich

rich — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:12:50 +0000

I'm stunned that nobody has mentioned "Revanche", Gotz Spielmann's astonishingly tense genre-bender, or Olivier Assayas' gorgeous "Summer Hours". Both of these would easily make their way to the top of my best-of-the-decade list.

Are we saving these for 2009?

By: gabetoro

gabetoro — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:19:05 +0000

Sally Hawkins is so fucking wifeable in "Happy Go Lucky," I totally don't get what you guys are saying there.

En ra ha.

By: notanotherblog

notanotherblog — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:22:36 +0000

Rachel Getting Married
In Bruges
Ballast
The Wrestler
The Dark Knight (sorry)
Slumdog Millionaire
Synecdoche, New York
Vicky Christina Barcelona

Hunger and Hurt Locker are 2009 because my life sucks.

By: Lock

Lock — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:18:09 +0000

If it wasn't for the cheesiness at the end (the surveillance spiel and the boat scenario), the Dark Knight would have been much better. Anyhoo, I'm just a little disappointed Let the Right One In didn't get more love.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:42:43 +0000

thank christ someone finally made a Top 10 of 2008 list without "The Dark Knight" on it.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:45:12 +0000

Waltz with Bashir is my personal number one.

The Dark Knight and Milk are tied for most overrated film of the year, and the latter is justly not on the list (by-the-book-as-by-the-book-gets biopics don't deserve accolades, nor do turgid, overwrought action films with one good performance). Turns out what a film studio markets as edgy probably is not edgy.

By: your mom

your mom — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:15:20 +0000

|"Let The Right One in" is not only the best film of 2008, but the best film of the decade!

Che????? puh - lease!!