Time Magazine's Interesting Top 10 of 2008
I guarantee you won't guess this top ten
TIME has posted their top ten films of 2008 along with a variety of other "Tops of 2008" lists which you can find here. However, I think many will be shocked by a few of the picks especially the inclusion of Speed Racer and the absense of Oscar chasing works such as Revolutionary Road and Rachel Getting Married. I say you will be shocked primarily because these lists are relatively rote and easy to figure out, but this one shows they actually delivered the films they liked as opposed to the ones they should like.
Here's the list, which appears to be compiled by Richard Corliss:
- WALL•E
- Synecdoche, New York
- My Winnipeg
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- Milk
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Iron Man
- Speed Racer
- Encounters at the End of the World
I haven't seen Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog, but it is already available on DVD and Blu-ray and I have been told a review copy is heading my way so I am anxious to check it out. It documents a group of individuals who work, play and struggle to survive in Antarctica. You can get it at Amazon here.
One notable film on the list if 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a brilliant film that is almost a nightmare to watch. A friend of mine watched it over the weekend and was reporting back as they watched several Oscar worthy films, but went mysteriously mum after watching this one. Did he like it? Did he kill himself? Hmmmmm.
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Wtf ?! How can speed racer be in there and The Dark Knight left out !?
What is the world coming to??
What a terrible Top 10 List. Looks like Richard Corliss probably didn't even see a ton of movies that came out this year. This is the best TIME magazine has to offer? What a joke.
Speed Racer on that list is ridiculous.
Richard Corliss is a terrible critic. I stopped trusting him quite a while ago.
Probably killed himself…
In Speed Racer's defense, I'd put it in my top ten. And I was Time magazine's person of the year in 2006.
@GregM: lol, I thought I was the only one that went around saying that I'm Time magazine’s 2006 person of the year.
Absoluterly ridiculous, I just can't agree with anyone who leaves Dark Knight out of 2008's top 10, and includes the extremely poor Speed Racer.
In Speed Racers defense it was an awesome movie and I thank Time for adding my all time favorite movie to it top ten of 2008 list. Most people who seen Speed could not get past its vibrant colors. When i saw that movie I was rather disappointed that real life wasn't as colorful.
@Micheal Russell: To be honest, I was actually more turned off by the constant cliffhangers and changes of direction. I felt the movie could have ended after the first big race, but no, there was more. It wasn't needed at all. Perhaps if they picked just one.
The vibrant colors was actually what turned me on to the film.
The Dark Knight was like every other action movie every other summer. (Better, perhaps, but not different.)
Speed Racer is insane and unpopular, but I think it's brilliant.
Very interesting list, although a few glaring omissions—and I was under the impression that 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was actually a 2007 release. Sometimes I suspect these lists are compiled simply to sell magazines. Goodness knows print media publishers can use all the help they can get. Also, why don't they just give Sean Penn the Oscar for his role in 'Milk' now? It's almost as bad as last year with Javier Bardem and Daniel Day Lewis. It takes all the fun and speculation away when the pundits practically choose the winners even before the nominations are announced.