Ok, now that it’s almost February and The Playlist team has had a chance to catch-up on all or most of the movies of the year (sort of), we belatedly present you with the overall Playlist group’s top 10. Note: this only includes pals and contributors from 2008, sorry to our valued very new gang, you’ll have your say soon enough.
Some picks have been listed individually. Mine, Mickey Pagels, and Nick Plowman of Fataculture, but now that the math is done, our group Playlist Top 10 goes like this. I’ll post the simple method of tabulating in the comments section. Again, this isn’t a collective consensus of what was “the best” per se. It’s just adding up the number of times a film was mentioned in the lists.
1. “Slumdog Millionaire”
2. “Wall-E”
3. “4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days”
4. “Man on Wire”
5. “The Dark Knight”
6. “The Wrestler”
7. “Revolutionary Road”
8. “Reprise”
9. “Che”
10. three-way tie: “Wendy & Lucy,” “Happy Go Lucky,” and “I’ve Loved You So Long”
So there it is. The individual group picks not yet posted are thus:
Astrud Sands
1. “Revolutionary Road”
2. “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”
3. “Wall-E” –
4. “The Dark Knight”
5. “In Search of a Midnight Kiss”
6. “Slumdog Millionaire”
7. “Let the Right One In”
8. “The Wackness”
9. “Tropic Thunder”
10. “Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day”
David Benjamin
1. “The Wrestler”
2. “Slumdog Millionaire”
3. “Che”
4. “Doubt”
5. “Wall E”
6. “Tokyo Sonata”
7. “I’ve Loved You So Long”
8. “The Class”
9. “Man on Wire”
10. “Voy a Explotar”
Spencer Martin
1. “Reprise”
2. “The Wrestler”
3. “Slumdog Millionaire”
4. “Man on Wire”
5. “The Visitor”
6. “4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days”
7. “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”
8. “Step Brothers”
9. “Burn After Reading”
10. “The Dark Knight”
Alex
1. “Man On Wire”
2. “Wall-E”
3. “Secret of the Grain”
4. “Encounters at the End of the World”
5. “The Dark Knight”
6. “Tell No One”
7. “Revolutionary Road”
8. “The Wrestler”
9. “Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired”
10. “Pineapple Express”
Seth Valentine
1. “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”
2. “Slumdog Millionaire”
3. “A Christmas Tale”
4. “Let the Right One In”
5. “Wendy and Lucy”
6. “JCVD”
7. “The Counterfeiters”
8. “Let Them Chirp Awhile”
9. “Wall-E”
10. “The Dark Knight”
Grace Brodie Cruz
1. “Che”
2. “Wendy & Lucy”
3. “Happy-Go-Lucky”
4. “Man on Wire”
5. “4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days”
6. “I’ve Loved You So Long”
7. “In Bruges”
8. “Revolutionary Road”
9. “Wall-E”
10. “Hallem Foe”
Already Posted: RP, Mickey Pagels, and Nick Plowman
Really happy to see Man On Wire on so many people’s lists! I’ve watched so many movies waiting to be blown away, only to be let down. That film was just the opposite–such a great surprise for me.
basically i added up the votes and in the instance of atie (which was many instances), i added up their positions on the top 10 (say, slots 1, 5, 6 for a three way tie). The one with the smallest number won the tie favoring its higher position on someones list. that’s it.
1.Slumdog 7 votes
2. Wall-e 6 votes
3. 4 months 5 votes (20)
4. man on wire 5 votes (24)
5. dark knight 5 votes (32)
6. The Wrestler 4 votes (13)
7. Rev Road 4 votes (21)
8. Reprise 3 votes (6, but two no.1 slots
9. Che 3 votes (6)
10. Happy Go Lucky, Loved You So Long, Wendy and Lucy, (all over 15)
Is “Slumdog Millionaire” the first movie you guys ever saw or do you have some other reason for hyping that complete pile of shit?.
yeah, it’s the first movie we’ve ever seen, thanks. Great observation.
and it’s not like we voted it number one by consensus. if we all sat and a room and hashed it out, i’m sure i’d be very different. this is just adding up the basic number of times a film showed up on someone’s list.
it wasn’t a weighted poll like the oscars.
I think it’s sad that wall e made it that far up on the list but aside from that it looks alright.
i personally think it’s sad too, but hey, people have to have their say for better or worse. some of our new contributors hate slumdog too, whaddyagonna do?
Meanwhile, i’m sure some people think my picks are shit too, oh well. such is life when you gather a bunch of opinionated film snobs in one room. you’re not all going to agree.
Goddamnit, Wall-E shoold’ve won!
I was not impressed by “Revolutionary Road.”
Slumdog Millionaire? BULLSHIT.
It’s an empty, vapid movie celebrating TV culture and crime, with a decidedly anti-American tone. Granted, you’d lose a lot of the “flavor” of the setting, but if that movie was about a black American kid, would critics look twice?
Coulda been worse. Dark Knight or Wall-E woulda been no.1 and then i woulda really regretted opening up the floor. 😉
and gabe, what’s your top 10?
My top ten:
1. Synecdoche
2. Dark Knight
3. Happy-Go-Lucky
4. Che
5. The Fall
6. Miracle At St. Anna
7. Boarding Gate
8. The Wrestler
9. Wall-E
10. Elite Squad
I have very particular tastes.
i like the love for Boarding Gate, i belatedly put that in my Most Overlooked piece.