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Top 5 “Best Of” Lists For 2007
By Matt Margolis | December 18, 2007
Since it’s the end of the year, I thought I’d just recap my favorite books read and movies watched (but not necessarily published or released) this year.
Top Five Books Read in 2007:
- Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen [My Review]
- Planet of the Apes, by Pierre Boulle [My Review]
- Paycheck: Collected Short Stories Vol. 1, by Philip K. Dick [My Review]
- Slam, by Nick Hornby [My Review]
- Speaking With The Angel, by Nick Hornby (editor)
All that I can really say about these books you can see by clicking on them to read my respective reviews on them (with the exception of Speaking With The Angel, a collection of short stories by various writers, including Nick Hornby, who edited the anthology).
Top Five Movies Seen in 2007:
- The Departed*
- Knocked Up
- I am Legend [My Review]
- Live Free or Die Hard [My Review]
- Transformers
Beowulf [My Review]
Most of these I never ended up writing a review for. There were quite a few movies that could have made the list, including The Simpsons Movie, which could have taken the #5 slot instead of Beowulf. Knocked Up was easily the funniest movie I saw in 2007. I did see Superbad, which did provide a lot of laughs, but was not nearly as good a movie as Knocked Up.
UPDATE: I forgot that I saw The Departed on DVD in March of this year (though it was released in theaters in 2006) and that has to be the best movie I saw in 2007. So Beowulf has to be bumped off the Top 5 and joins The Simpsons Movie in Honorable Mention.
Top Five Four Movies I’m Planning To See In 2008:
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- The Dark Knight
- Atlas Shrugged
- Revolutionary Road
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
This list is subject to change when I see more previews for movies to be released in 2008. But of the movies I am aware of to be released in 2008, these ones I am sure to go to see while they are still in the theaters. I will admit that my desire to see Atlas Shrugged is more out of curiosity, as the book is over 1,000 pages and the movie couldn’t possibly capture all the important details that make the story as good as it is. Still, I’ll see it, knowing very well that Hollywood could only butcher it. I am similarly skeptical of the new Indiana Jones movie. To be totally honest, I don’t expect much of it, but since I’ve seen the other three Indiana Jones movies, I have to see the new one. I plan to see the movie Revolutionary Road because I read the book not too long ago.
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December 29th, 2007 at 6:36 am
What do you say to that group of people who think that the only book worth reading in the last two years is Cormac McCarthy’s The Road because it is the only one that genuinely forces us to come face to face with what it means to be a (finite) human being?
Needless to say, movies are not even mentioned by this group of people.