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Favourite Movies of 2007

(Note: this post was made pre-blog days on Facebook.)

It was tricky picking my favourite movies this year. I compiled a list before the holidays, and then during the holidays I saw a buncha good stuff. I couldn't leave off the ones that were originally on the list so this is a Top 14 list. The top 5 were hard to sort, they kept shifting around.

1. No Country for Old Men
2. Into the Wild
3. Juno
4. Sunshine
5. 3:10 Yuma
6. Atonement
7. Grindhouse
8. Ratatouille
9. Eastern Promises
10. The Bourne Ultimatum
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(11) Zodiac
(12) Stardust
(13) Knocked Up
(14) The Orphanage


If you have any favourites that I missed that you could recommend, please share. The following is the pool of theatrical releases I saw this year:

1408, 28 Weeks Later, 300, 30 Days of Night, 3:10 to Yuma, American Gangster, Atonement, Beowulf, The Black Book, The Bourne Ultimatum, Breach, Bridge to Terabithia, Captivity, Dead Silence, Disturbia, Eastern Promises, Fantastic 4: ROTSS, Fido, Ghost Rider, Grindhouse, Halloween, Hannibal Rising, Hatchet, The Hills Have Eyes 2, The Hitcher, Hostel: Part II, Hot Fuzz, Hot Rod, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, I'm Not There, I am Legend, Into the Wild, Juno, The Kingdom, Knocked Up, Live Free or Die Hard, The Lookout, The Messengers, The Mist, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Woodcock, No Country for Old Men, The Number 23, Ocean's 13, The Orphanage, P2, Persepolis, POTC 3: At World's End, Primeval, Ratatouille, Reno 911!: Miami, Resident Evil: Extinction, Rush Hour 3, Saw 4, Sharkwater, Shooter, Shoot 'Em Up, Shrek 3, Sicko, The Simpsons Movie, Spider-Man 3, Stardust, Sunshine, Superbad, Surf's Up, TMNT, Transformers, Vacancy, Zodiac


The goods that I missed:
There Will Be Blood, Darjeeling Limited, Lust Caution


Next Year's Anticipations:
Fanboys, Cloverfield, Funny Games, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Iron Man, Batman: The Dark Knight, Speed Racer, The Incredible Hulk, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Wall-E

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