Most Seen Films of 2008

[Sycophant]

This, I think, will prove an interesting supplement to our Match Cut Film Awards (I will continue to lobby for them to be called "The Cutties"). In this thread, I want everyone who is going to vote or contribute a ballot to the awards to list every 2008 film they've seen. Make one post and then edit it as you see/remember more films from 2008. This thread will be finished at the same time as voting for the Cutties closes, and the results announced shortly thereafter.

[Melville]

This will probably seem like a stupid question, but how do people determine all the movies they've seen with a 2008 US release date? I rate every movie I see on imdb, but their release dates bear no resemblance to US ones.

I think this list covers everything I've seen, but I might be wrong:

Synecdoche, NY
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Burn After Reading
Still Life
My Winnipeg
The Dark Knight
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire
Happy Go Lucky
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Slumdog Millionaire
Iron Man
The X-Files: I Want To Believe
Quantum of Solace
Paranoid Park
I've Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Gran Torino
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Flight of the Red Balloon
A Christmas Tale
Dear Zachary
In Bruges
Waltz with Bashir

[Dukefrukem]

The Dark Knight
Step Brothers
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Burn After Reading
Quantum of Solace
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Cloverfield
Doomsday
Hancock
Wanted
Gone Baby Gone
Jumper
10,000 BC
X-files: I Want to Believe
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
[Rec]
Hellboy 2
Be Kind Rewind
I am Legend
Teeth
Eden Lake
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

[Spinal]

This will probably seem like a stupid question, but how do people determine all the movies they've seen with a 2008 US release date? I rate every movie I see on imdb, but their release dates bear no resemblance to US ones.

If you click 'release dates' on the page for any film, it will show you when it was released in the US. Typically, film festivals are not counted.

[Spinal]

Baby Mama
Be Kind Rewind
Boarding Gate
Bolt
Burn After Reading
California Dreamin’
City of Ember
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Diary of the Dead
The Duchess
The Edge of Heaven
Encounters at the End of the World
The Fall
Funny Games
Get Smart
The Gits
Hamlet 2
Horton Hears a Who!
The House Bunny
Igor
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Kung Fu Panda
The Last Mistress
Let the Right One In
Mamma Mia!
Man on Wire
Man’s Job
Mister Lonely
Mongol
Nightwatching
Paranoid Park
Religulous
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Slumdog Millionaire
Speed Racer
Standard Operating Procedure
Stop-Loss
The Strangers
Stuck
The Tale of Despereaux
Tell No One
The Tracey Fragments
The Trap
Tropic Thunder
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
W.
Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death
Wall-E
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
You Don’t Mess With the Zohan

[Melville]

If you click 'release dates' on the page for any film, it will show you when it was released in the US. Typically, film festivals are not counted.
Oh. That's what I've always done, but I assumed other people must have a more convenient method. Sometimes there's a few years lag between imdb's date and the US release date, so it seems like a hassle to guess and check with every movie. I guess I'm just lazy.

[Spinal]

Oh. That's what I've always done, but I assumed other people must have a more convenient method. Sometimes there's a few years lag between imdb's date and the US release date, so it seems like a hassle to guess and check with every movie. I guess I'm just lazy.

Usually I just remember. I don't really look all of them up.

[ledfloyd]

US release dates

Cassandra's Dream
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
In Bruges
Charlie Bartlett
Be Kind Rewind
Paranoid Park
Snow Angels
Drillbit Taylor
Flight of the Red Balloon
Leatherheads
My Blueberry Nights
Shine a Light
The Visitor
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Iron Man
Son of Rambow
The Fall
The Edge of Heaven
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Happening
My Winnipeg
The Last Mistress
Wall-E
Gonzo
The Dark Knight
Transsiberian
Man on Wire
Step Brothers
Frozen River
Pineapple Express
Elegy
Tropic Thunder
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Burn After Reading
Christmas on Mars
The Duchess
Happy-Go-Lucky
Let the Right One In
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Slumdog Millionaire
A Christmas Tale
Milk
Frost/Nixon
Wendy and Lucy
Gran Torino
The Wrestler
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Revolutionary Road
The Reader
Waltz With Bashir
Doubt
W

[ledfloyd]

Oh. That's what I've always done, but I assumed other people must have a more convenient method. Sometimes there's a few years lag between imdb's date and the US release date, so it seems like a hassle to guess and check with every movie. I guess I'm just lazy.
www.film-releases.com/film-release-schedule-2008.php

[Melville]

www.film-releases.com/film-release-schedule-2008.php
Awesome. Thanks.

[Boner M]

Woman on the Beach
Cassandra's Dream
Cloverfield
Teeth
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The Band's Visit
In Bruges
Be Kind Rewind
The Counterfeiters
Married Life
Paranoid Park
Snow Angels
Funny Games
Flight of the Red Balloon
My Blueberry Nights
Shine a Light
The Visitor
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Iron Man
Mister Lonely
The Fall
Speed Racer
Reprise
The Edge of Heaven
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Strangers
Stuck
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Encounters at the End of the World
Baghead
The Happening
My Winnipeg
The Last Mistress
Wall-E
Wanted
The Wackness
The Dark Knight
Mad Detective
Man on Wire
Step Brothers
Pineapple Express
Tropic Thunder
A Girl Cut in Two
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Burn After Reading
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mary
Fear(s) of the Dark
Let the Right One In
Slumdog Millionaire
The Black Balloon
Frost/Nixon
Hunger
Wendy and Lucy
Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
The Wrestler
The Class
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Waltz with Bashir
Secret of the Grain
The Tracey Fragments
Silent Light
Ballast
In the City of Sylvia

[NickGlass]

Tropic Thunder
The Secret of the Grain
Gran Torino
Revolutionary Road
Waltz With Bashir
Frost/Nixon
Theater of War
The Class
The Wrestler
Doubt
Scott Walker: 30th Century Man
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Trouble the Water
The Punisher: War Zone
The Reader
Milk
Hunger
Slumdog Millionaire
I Can't Think Straight
How About You
Let the Right One In
Synecdoche, New York
W.
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Universe of Keith Haring
Rachel Getting Married
Religulous
Frontrunners
Ballast
Elegy
Choke
Burn After Reading
Trumbo
Man on Wire
Wendy and Lucy
A Christmas Tale
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
A Girl Cut in Two
Momma's Man
The Edge of Heaven
Definitely, Maybe
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Mister Foe
Pineapple Express
Frozen River
Iron Man
The Happening
Chris & Don: A Love Story
Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired
Encounters at the End of the World
The Wackness
Baghead
The Go-Getter
Love Songs
Stuck
Savage Grace
My Winnipeg
Mister Lonely
American Teen
Step Up 2 the Streets
Paranoid Park
Blindsight
Roman de Gare
The Last Mistress
Jellyfish
Teeth
Flight of the Red Balloon
The Visitor
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Reprise
In Bruges
The Tracey Fragments
The Band's Visit
My Blueberry Nights
Woman on the Beach
In the City of Sylvia
Funny Games U.S.A.
Be Kind Rewind
Charlie Bartlett
Cassandra's Dream
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Woman on the Beach

Only saw half:
Brideshead Revisited
Sex and the City
21
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantalones Dos

And, after next week, I will have seen Silent Light and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as well.

[soitgoes...]

10,000 BC
At the Death House Door
Australia
Baby Mama
Be Kind Rewind
Blindness
Bolt
Burn After Reading
Changeling
Che: Part One
Che: Part Two
A Christmas Tale
City of Ember
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Eagle Eye
The Edge of Heaven
Encounters at the End of the World
The Fall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Funny Games
Get Smart
Gomorrah
Hancock
The Happening
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Horton Hears a Who!
Hunger
In Bruges
In the City of Sylvia
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Inside
Iron Man
Kung Fu Panda
Lakeview Terrace
The Last Mistress
Leatherheads
Let the Right One In
Mad Detective
Man on Wire
Milk
My Blueberry Nights
My Winnipeg
Paranoid Park
Pineapple Express
Quarantine
Redbelt
Religulous
Reprise
The Ruins
Shine a Light
Snow Angels
Speed Racer
Standard Operating Procedure
The Strangers
Stuck
Sukiyaki Western Django
Teeth
Tropic Thunder
Up the Yangtze
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
W.
WALL-E
Waltz with Bashir
Wendy and Lucy
The Wrestler

[Ivan Drago]

1. The Dark Knight 9.5
2. Tropic Thunder 9
3. Cloverfield 8.5
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 8.5
5. W. 8.5
6. Burn After Reading 8.5
7. Doubt 8
8. Valkyrie 8
9. Hellboy II: The Golden Army 8
10. Slumdog Millionaire 8

The Good:

11. Quantum of Solace 8
12. Hamlet 2 8
13. The Incredible Hulk 8
14. Iron Man 8
15. Get Smart 8
16. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 8
17. Zach and Miri Make A Porno 7.5
18. Bolt 7.5
19. Pineapple Express 7.5
20. WALL-E 7.5
21. Be Kind Rewind 7
22. Kung Fu Panda 7
23. Rambo 7

The Meh:

24. Step Brothers 6.5
25. Hancock 6.5
26. Speed Racer 6.5
27. Wanted 6.5
28. Yes Man 6
29. Righteous Kill 6
30. Semi-Pro 5.5

The Crap:

31. 21 3.5
32. Four Christmases 2.5
33. Eagle Eye 2.5
34. The Spirit 2.5

Nothing changed in the list, I just thought I'd post it listed and rated like others did.

[thefourthwall]

This will probably seem like a stupid question, but how do people determine all the movies they've seen with a 2008 US release date? I rate every movie I see on imdb, but their release dates bear no resemblance to US ones.


So we're supposed to go by US release date? Does that apply to most things here? I left London to Brighton off my top ten list because it has a 2006 date on imdb, but that's UK--US is 2008. Or does that just work in this thread?

[thefourthwall]

21
27 Dresses
Australia
Charlie Bartlett
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Duchess
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Funny Games
Get Smart
Happy-Go-Lucky
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
The House Bunny
Iron Man
Jumper (well…mostly, I was on a plane and turned it off part way through, but I made someone explain the ending to make sure I wasn’t missing anything—I wasn’t)
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Kung Fu Panda
London to Brighton
Mama Mia!
Max Payne
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
My Blueberry Nights
Pineapple Express
The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything—A Veggietales Movie
Rachel Getting Married
Sex and the City
Shutter
Slumdog Millionaire
Smart People
Speed Racer
Step Brothers
Step Up 2: The Streets
Twilight
Wall-E
You Don't Mess with the Zohan

[Melville]

So we're supposed to go by US release date? Does that apply to most things here?
This thread, the top 10 of 2008 thread, and the 2008 match-cut awards thread all go by US release date. Threads that go further back in time (e.g. the yearly consensus threads) go by the imdb date.

[B-side]

Wall-E (Stanton)
The Dark Knight (Nolan)
Milk (Van Sant)
Religulous (Charles)
The Wrestler (Aronofsky)
Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt)
Cloverfield (Reeves)
Funny Games (Haneke)
Hellboy II (Del Toro)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh)
Frost/Nixon (Howard)
Redbelt (Mamet)
Iron Man (Favreau)
Spanky: To the Pier and Back (Maddin) [Short]
Pineapple Express (Green)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Stoller)
Speed Racer (Wachowski)
Revolutionary Road (Mendes)
Tropic Thunder (Stiller)
Gran Torino (Eastwood)
Step Brothers (McKay)
The Happening (Shyamalan)

[Ezee E]

****(9)
1. The Dark Knight
2. Rachel Getting Married
3. The Fall
4. Flame & Citron
5. Blindness
6. Let the Right One In
7. Redbelt
8. Iron Man
9. My Blueberry Nights
10. The Good, The Bad, and the Weird
11. Standard Operating Procedure
12. Cloverfield
13. The Strangers
14. W.
15. Snow Angels

*** 1/2 (8)
16. Slumdog Millionaire
17. City of Men
18. Step Brothers
19. Funny Games
20. Burn After Reading
21. Miracle at St. Anna
22. Shotgun Stories
23. Be Kind Rewind
24. With A Little Help From Myself
25. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
26. Gomorrah
27. Wall-E
28. In Bruges
29. Changeling

*** (7)
30. CJ7
31. Adam Resurrected
32. Happy Go Lucky
33. I’ve Loved You So Long
34. Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist
35. Waltz with Bashir
36. Eagle Eye
37. DOOMSDAY
38. Speed Racer
39. The Ruins
40. The Class
41. Gran Torino
42. Man on Wire
43. Wanted
44. Paranoid Park
45. Encounters at the End of the World
46. Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
47. Cassandra’s Dream
48. Tropic Thunder
49. Body of Lies
50. Doubt
51. The Visitor
52. War Child

** 1/2 (6)
53. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
54. Hamlet 2
55. Vantage Point
56. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
57. Rambo
58. Get Smart
59. O’Horten
60. Boarding Gate
61. Pineapple Express

** (4& 5)
62. Semi-Pro
63. Surveillance
64. Hancock
65. Chapter 27
66. Indiana Jones IV
67. Zack and Miri Make A Porno
68. American Violet
69. Teeth
70. Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot

* 1/2 (3)
71. Tokyo!
72. The House Bunny
73. Choke
74. Religiulous
75. Synecdoche, NY
76. Valkyrie
77. Rightous Kill
78. Untraceable
79. The Bank Job

* (2)
80. Step up 2 The Streets
81. Diary of the Dead
82. Smart People
83. Recount
84. You Don’t Mess With The Zohan

1/2 * (1)
85. The Tracey Fragments

0 Stars (0)
86. The Happening
87. Towelhead

[Raiders]

1. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)
2. Man on Wire (James Marsh)
3. Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
4. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)
5. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
6. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
7. Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
8. My Blueberry Nights (Wong Kar-Wai)
9. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
10.Up the Yangtze (Chang Yung)
11. Elegy (Isabel Coixot)
12. Milk (Gus Van Sant)
13. Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death (Nick Park)
14. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan)
15. Redbelt (David Mamet)
16. Tropic Thunder (Ben Stiller)
17. Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry)
18. Iron Man (Jon Favreau)
19. City of Ember (Gil Kenan)
20. Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard)
21. The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Chris Carter)
22. The Tale of Despereaux (Fell & Stevenhagen)
23. Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
24. Transsiberian (Brad Anderson)
25. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg)
26. Definitely, Maybe (Adam Brooks)
27. Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov)
28. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
29. W. (Oliver Stone)
30. Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)
31. Doomsday (Neil Marshall)
32. Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
33. Baby Mama (Michael McCullers)
34. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher)
35. The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson)
36. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
37. Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris)
38. Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
39. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
40. Speed Racer (Wachowski Brothers)
41. Hancock (Peter Berg)
42. Appaloosa (Ed Harris)
43. Leatherheads (George Clooney)
44. Blindness (Fernando Meirelles)
45. The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan)

[dreamdead]

Woman on the Beach
Rachel Getting Married
Summer Palace
Still Life
Wall-E
Up the Yangtze
Flight of the Red Balloon
My Blueberry Nights
Kung Fu Panda
The Visitor
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Speed Racer
Tropic Thunder
Reprise
Burn After Reading
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Edge of Heaven
Jellyfish
London to Brighton
Australia
The Incredible Hulk
Run, Fat Boy, Run
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Happening

Possibly 2008: Help Me Eros

[Yxklyx]

WALL-E
Cloverfield
Man on Wire
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Iron Man
Wallace & Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death
The Dark Knight
A Christmas Tale
Presto
Mamma Mia!

[Stay Puft]

****
Flight of the Red Balloon
Encounters at the End of the World
Ashes of Time Redux
My Blueberry Nights
Reprise
The Edge of Heaven

***
Burn After Reading
Mad Detective
The Fall
The Last Mistress
The Wrestler
Speed Racer
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Chop Shop
Man on Wire
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

**
Quantum of Solace
The Transporter 3
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Flash Point
Iron Man
City of Ember
Diary of the Dead
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Blindness
Be Kind Rewind
Slumdog Millionaire
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
The Happening
Cloverfield
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
The Incredible Hulk
Pineapple Express
Wanted

*
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Breakfast With Scot
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Transsiberian
Vantage Point
Son of Rambow
Death Race
Rambo

[soitgoes...]

Possibly 2008: Reprise, Help Me Eros
Reprise - yes
Help Me Eros - no

[Dukefrukem]

we all can probably agree that Dark Knight will win.

[NickGlass]

we all can probably agree that Dark Knight will win.

I don't know if "win" is the word I'd apply to the film that ends up on top. If anything, it slightly decreases the validity of any award it picks up at the Match-Cut awards.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Charlie Bartlett
Cloverfield
The Dark Knight
Day of the Dead
Diary of the Dead
Doomsday
The Fall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Get Smart
The Happening
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
In Bruges
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Pineapple Express
The Ruins
Step Brothers
The Strangers
Tropic Thunder
Wallace & Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death
Wall-E
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Zack and Miri Make a Porno

[Ezee E]

I don't know if "win" is the word I'd apply to the film that ends up on top. If anything, it slightly decreases the validity of any award it picks up at the Match-Cut awards.
Pretty much.