It starts off with Transformers. I started to think this was going to be a waste of my time, especially when Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead and A Mighty Heart popped up after The Simpsons Movie but clicking through the list of Moviefone’s Top 50 of 2007, I noticed some great titles making the cut including Enchanted in at 38, The Lookout at 35, Zodiac at 29, The Orphanage at 28, Rescue Dawn at 26, The King of Kong at a surprising 16 (woohoo!), and the fantastic The Lives of Others in at 14. I’m not impressed by the order of some of these films but I’m happy to see them get some love.
Here’s their top 10:
10. Walk Hard
9. Eastern Promises
8. Michael Clayton
7. Ratatouille
6. Once
5. The Bourne Ultimatum
4. 3:10 to Yuma
3. Juno
2. Atonement
1. No Country for Old Men
No major complains about the final ten. Happy to see Eastern Promises and Once make the cut and I wouldn’t have Michael Clayton so far up the list but otherwise, not too bad.
One massive omission: I clicked through the list three times and I didn’t see The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on the list. Can anyone really believe that movie is less deserving than Transformers, The Bridge to Terabithia or Hairspray? No, I didn’t think so either.
Welcome to the absolure crock of shit that is Moviephone’s top ten. While it’s great to see “Once” so high on the list, apparently 300, Transformers, Breach and The Simpsons Movie are all better than “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” That is incorrect and invalidates the rest of the list.
Yeah, 50 movies this year… and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford not making it is just laughable. With all due respect to their site, I’ve never really put a whole lot of weight on what they say anyway. Because it’s AOL.
Well, I probably would have ranked Zodiac way higher than #29. The fact is I probably would have ranked it in the top ten.
The contemptuous Jesse James omission aside, the inclusion of 3:10 To Yuma in the top ten is the real slight. Put that film’s trailer in the top ten and give its marketing dept. an award, but leave Mangold out of the proverbial top ten where he’s belonged his entire career.
But let us just note No Country takes another. I don’t think there’s been this strong a lock to run the gamut in a long while. ‘Tis the season of Joel and Ethan Coen’s manifest destiny.