*shrug* He's saying these 26 films are worth checking out in comparison to everything else that came out this year. Using your example (Miss Worlds), critics are cheating by even listing a top ten. They should all just stick to one film! (There can only be one winner, after all.)

Richard Corliss (Time):

1. Wall-E
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. My Winnipeg
4. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days
5. Milk
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. Iron Man
9. Speed Racer
10.Encounters at the World End

And the French's favorite 2008 films (By France release date):

1 There Will Be Blood
2 Wall-E
3 No Country for Old Men
4 Lorna's Silence
5 Waltz with Bashir
6 The Class
7 Gomorrah
8 Four Night with Anna
9 Two Lovers
10 A Christmas Tale
11 Country Profiles: Modern Life
12 Hunger
13 Her Name is Sabine
14 Woman on the Beach
15 Khamsa
16 A Swedish Love Story
17 God's Offices
18 Cloud 9
19 In Bruges
20 With a Little Help from Myself

http://www.allocine.fr/film/meilleurs_g ... =2008.html

I'm impressed (And peeved) that the critics seem to have FINALLY decided to rally for a Pixar film. What took them so long?

GO WALL-E, GO!!!

Speed Racer?
Hmm... there have been a couple mention of IM and not TDK. That's kind of odd.

Hmm, maybe Wall-E actually will be a contender for NYFCC.

Nice to see some Hunger love from the French

Does it matter? Lists like this are largely arbitrary anyway.

Anyways, glad to see My Winnipeg picking up some mentions.

Iron Man > TDK ?
Seems weird. I mean, you'd think at least both would get in.

Are we gonna do our own top tens, like last year? Loyal?

For sure.

I won't be around unless there are travel issues, so someone else will have to do the workload.

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=37900&hilit=wokj+top+10

Time Magazine Top 10:

01. WALL-E
02. Synecdoche, New York
03. My Winnipeg
04. 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
05. Milk
06. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
07. Slumdog Millionaire
08. Iron Man
09. Speed Racer
10. Encounters at the End of the World

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/ ... 26,00.html

This damn world is getting my hopes up.

I better not be let down. I won't be able to handle it

I think this list is kind of wonderful, even if I didn't love all the films on it.

Can we outlaw everyone not named trxister, kypade, yoshue, Shack, snack, Jon, Gulli, roo, loyal, and makeshift from voting?

^ Something against the others?
Well, it doesn't really matter for me since I won't manage to see all the Oscar contenders by year's end to have a proper list.

Damn, so close.

I like good movies too!

Most Anticipated Films
Milk (December)
Frost/Nixon (December)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (December 12)
Doubt (December 19)
Seven Pounds (December 19)
Yes Man (December 19)

Just because I enjoy certain mainstream (there goes that word again!) films doesn't mean I should be barred from voting for a top 10 or looked down upon. It's not like I'm going to put The Day the Earth Stood Still in my top 10 (my 'A' grades of the year so far are Slumdog, TDK and WALL-E).

Makeshift was probably kidding but I still thought that comment was kind of messed up.

He's a jerk. I like your film taste. Um hello, AS GOOD AS IT GETS.

I watched it again last week

That's certainly debatable.

Ah jeez.

You don't have trouble riffing on me or Bradley or whoever when we don't like films you do (or vice versa), but you take offense at makeshift's clear form of sarcasm (which didn't even reference you, directly or not!)?

You need to learn to take as much as you give.

You're right. I do.

Although, I must say, I don't think makeshift had "clear form of sarcasm." It read to me more as a "joke" with an undercurrent of truth behind it.

I think it was more alcohol-fueled anger passing itself off as truth with a glossy sheen of sarcasm.

Anyways, not meant to be taken seriously.

I think we all need to learn to take as much as we give, myself included. There's far too much negativity floating around the board these days. We need to lighten up!