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
