Best Film(s) of 2007

[Nathander]

I'm just wondering what everyone here considers to have been the best film (or films) of this year.

Personally, I would have to go with No Country For Old Men, an adaptation of the novel by Cormac McCarthy and adapted by the Coen Brothers. Intense, visceral, and horrifying, it's one of those rare adaptations of a book that had to take some liberties with the story yet manages to capture the feeling of the original work to a tee. On top of an incredibly atmospheric soundtrack, amazing acting (especially noting Tommy Lee Jones as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell and Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurgh), and one of the most horrifyingly human villains put on film in years (again, Anton) made for an utterly incredible film. It is an experience that is nearly impossible to forget or not dwell on.

Other than that, I would actually say that I adored The Simpsons Movie. Realize that, in my youth, I had been a gigantic fan of the Simpsons, though in recent years this had begun to wane. The movie, however, simply recaptured the love I had of the series, and recaptured it masterfully.

Before closing, I also want to address the current state of horror films as scene this year. Despite a fairly good amount of them, there's really only one title that I felt stuck out among them. As a whole, the majority were either downright terrible (the remake of Halloween) blandly mediocore though slightly entertaining (30 Days of Night, Resident Evil: Extinction), or well-made but ultimately forgettable (The Mist). Ultimately, the only horror film that truly delivered for me this year was, actually, two films: Grindhouse, separated into Planet Terror and Death Proof, with Death Proof in my opinion being the better of the two. While the two films were, in themselves, more entertaining and enjoyable watches then actual quality films (though I would argue Death Proof, at least, in fact is such), it wasn't the quality of the films that so much made the experience as much as the presentation, with how vividly and well-done Tarantino and Rodriguez captured the feel of grindhouse cinema. It's unfortunate that experience won't really carry over to the DVD editions, though, as it being a double feature really made it.

So what'd you all think of this years' films.