True Best Picture of the Year.
 

I enjoyed the discussions we were having around Best Picture each year and what we thought should have been Best Picture. Either from the nominations or just what our personal Best Picture was that year. So I feel like we should continue working through the years. Since we starting in the mid 00s. We will continue that and after we are done with this year then we will go back in time start from like the 60s or 70s depending on what the thread participants want to do.

2007's Best Picture Nominations.(bolded was the best picture winner that year)

Juno
No Country for Old Men
Antonement
Micheal Clayton
There Will Be Blood

What do you guys think? Was the winner will deserved or do you think something else should have won. What was your personal favorite film that year?

I think they got it right this year and No Country deserved it. There Will Be Blood is a really close second but I enjoyed No Country more.


Years already discussed:
2007
2003

2007 was a real close call for me....but i think There Will be Blood was the better film

tough one though

There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men are both perfect 10/10 films for me, and picking between the two is incredibly difficult. I guess I'd say they got the decision right, but if it had went to TWBB I would probably say the same thing.

Wait, so we're not actually discussing movies? We're just discussing whether they deserved to win or not?

That's up to you.

There Will Be Blood is my favourite film. No Country for Old Men is only one of my favourite films so TWBB takes the edge.

Are we keeping score?

Yeah pretty much this.

Yeah like Frown said, I left it completely open. You can discuss the movies themselves or discuss whether they deserved to win or not. Also you can include what your favorite film was that year especially if it wasn't nominated.

Do you feel like we need to keep score? Idk that seems a bit extra. If you want to personally keep score go ahead or maybe I might think of something to put into the OP to keep track.

I don't want to keep score. Who the f*ck cares about score. This isn't a JGuy thread and doesn't have to be.

Yeah, we don't want dj leaving the site for no other reason but for getting butthurt and being a furry.

Wait a minute...

Me and you both know that this thread needs some rules or it's going to be ****ing anarchy.

Well let's just keep it to a couple days discussion and then moving on. I just don't feel we need to keep a tally or score as if a winner is going to interest any of us. I could be wrong here but frankly my dear I just don't give a damn...about scores.

Let it ride. Anarchy is good! Plus I prefer it to be fluid discussion. It doesn't need scoring imo either.

so i own both....and i think i've watched No Country For Old Men once...maybe twice....but I've watched There Will Be Blood several times

both were amazing and by far the highlight of that year....and even better came out right around the same time so there was a block of just great theater action....but There Will Be Blood....in my opinion is just a better film....PT Anderson will almost always win.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was a beautiful film that came out in 2007, I feel like that should have been nominated.

Also Into the Wild and American Gangster were great movies that year. I just recently picked up a copy of American Gangster to re-watch.

I haven't watched There Will Be Blood in years but No Country gets regular replay value from me.

Planet Terror and Death Proof came out this year also. I loved being able to watch them back to back with an intermission like in the old days. It was a wonderful theater experience. I'm not old enough to have gone to the theater when they would regularly have intermissions but I guess intermissions are still a think for plays.

I'm going through this list on wikipedia and I feel like so many good films came out in 2007. Not like Oscar Worthy but good like guilty pleasure films that I have watched numerous times. Perfect Stranger is one of them with Halle Berry, I think I love my wife with Chris Rock. I can't tell you how many times I've watched that silly rom com.

The stunning visuals in Sunshine! Gorgeous film.

seeing The Grind House films in the theater was a treat...especially with all the great trailers....i also got to go to a special screening of King of Kong that year and meet the King himself in a post screening reception....Ratatouille is still my favorite Pixar film

Really? I've never seen it.

Up is my favorite Pixar film ever.

yeah Ratatouille and probably The Incredibles....i loved Up as well...really all Pixar films are if anything fun

I love the Pixar theory.

i think it's a little hard to swallow...but credit to the people who came up with it

I don't think it's true at all. But I think it makes the movies just that much more enjoyable to watch.

What's the Pixar theory?

That's... a stretch.

Yes. But it just makes the movies a bit more fun.

If we're talking about other movies from 2007, I'm going to list mine, because I feel 2007 might be the strongest year for cinema in the 21st century. All these films are wonderful to me. Bold being personal favorites. I'm going to omit No Country and There Will Be Blood because we're aware of their 2007 status...

Ratatouille
Taxi To the Dark Side
Once
Persepolis
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Gone Baby Gone
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Away From Her
The Host
Hot Fuzz
Encounters at the End of the World -- Obligatory Herzog
ZODIAC--Seriously one of the greatest films ever
Rescue Dawn -- Obligatory Herzog
This is England
Eastern Promises
Superbad
The Simpsons Movie
The Orphanage
The Lookout -- Underrated thriller with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Jeff Daniels
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead -- The last film from the legendary Sydney Lumet
Red Road
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Sunshine
Grindhouse
Lars and the Real Girl
1408
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Mist
28 Weeks Later
Lust, Caution
The Darjeeling Limited

I mean, that's just insane.

The Simpsons Movie though?

I forgot This Is England was 2007, excellent film and should've gotten at least a best foreign picture nomination.

What's wrong with The Simpsons Movie? I thought it was great.

I still don't quite understand this thread.

It's not great (not saying it's not good either btw).

I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Sunshine is a phenomenal film. I liked Zodiac, but not as much as everyone else apparently, since I keep hearing how amazing it is.

Same here, I thought it was a really well made film, but nothing exceptional. Maybe if you didn't know much about the Zodiac killer going into it, it'd be a different kind of viewing, but I don't really see the level of hype for it either.

This forum is so helpful.

What's your favourite film from each year, specifically out of what was nominated for best picture that year?

Oh. I thought it was only for one year.

It is for that one year 2007 then in like a day or two. I will switch to another year.

I'm thinking about putting up the next year tomorrow though.

So right now you can choose from either the options in the OP but if you don't like those or you thought there was another film from the same year that was outstanding that feel free to talk about it.

Yeah there isn't much structure to the thread but I like it to be open and fluid for us to just have discussions. I know it's hard when you aren't used to bantering.

^so just chose any movie or what's the rule there? And is this a survivor type deal?

It's a free for all (aka CHAOS).

Alright. Weird.

It's not a survivor type deal because I'm not keeping score or tally of anything.

Yes, use that wiki link I posted in one of my posts that shows all the films from 2007 if you don't remember.

Choose any movie you......**** you're probably trolling me. Nevermind.