Bucky's Movie List 2007

All the movies I saw in 2007, in the order I liked them.  Enjoy!

1. Once (Maybe because I'm a musician, but this little movie moved me.  Music, struggle, love, hurt, joy, hope… I love this movie!  Watch the second scene in which the street musician is all alone, at night, with no audience, and see the passion he puts into his song.  In another scene, the guy and girl sit at a piano in a music store and learn a song together.  The song is "Falling Slowly" and it deserves to win the Oscar for best song.)
2. The Bucket List (Nicholson and Freeman were great.)
3. Juno (Quirky, fun, touching)
4. No Country For Old Men (Tommy Lee Jones and Javier Bardem rock!  Jones could have been nominated for this role instead of "In the Valley of Elah."… or both.)
5. 3:10 to Yuma (Russell Crowe deserved a Supporting Actor nomination)
6. There Will Be Blood (Daniel Day Lewis can act!  Stronger plot would have moved it way up)
7. Across the Universe (The Beatles music brought to life. What else could you ask for?)
8. Talk to Me (Don Cheadle was robbed!  Deserved a Best Actor nomination.)
9. Amazing Grace (Albert Finney deserved a Supporting Actor nomination)
10. The Great Debaters (Great story and ensemble)
11. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Kate Blanchett rocks!)
12. Michael Clayton
13. Atonement
14. Grindhouse (The chick had a gun for a leg for crying out loud!  And how'd that other chick stay on the hood during the entire car chase?  And why couldn't I have been at the Texas Chili Parlor during filming?)
15. Hairspray (Very fun movie!)
16. Black Snake Moan (Not sure why this one didn't do better.  Sam Jackson rules.)
17. Hot Fuzz (Lots of fun)
18. I Am Legend
19. Charlie Wilson's War
20. August Rush (corny, but touching with good music)
21. Zodiac
22. The Kingdom
23. American Gangster
24. In the Valley of Elah (Again Tommy Lee Jones is awesome.)
25. No Reservations
26. Knocked Up
27. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (I thought Phillip Seymore Hoffman was even better in this role than in "Charlie Wilson's War", but great in both.)
28. 1408
29. Resurrecting the Champ (Again Samuel L. Jackson shows what a great actor he is, playing a much older man.)
30. We Own the Night
31. 30 Days of Night
32. Sweeney Todd (Would not have nominated Johnny Depp for Best Actor, even though he's one of my favorite actors, and one of the best working.)
33. The Darjeeling Limited
34. The Savages
35. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ("It doesn't say Cox unless I say it tastes like Cox."  Best line of the film, and it doesn't even appear in the film, just the trailer.  Silly fun.)
36. P.S. I Love You
37. 28 Weeks Later
38. 300 (very interesting visual effect)
39. Wild Hogs
40. The Last Legion
41. La Vie En Rose (Marion Cotillard was great)
42. Live Free or Die Hard
43. The Brave One
44. Gone Baby Gone (Ed Harris was great)
45. Bella
46. The Water Horse
47. 2 Days in Paris
48. The Shooter
49. Fracture
50. Waitress
51. Breach
52. Rendition
53. Halloween
54. Blades of Glory (Will Farrell cracks me up!)
55. Dan in Real Life
56. Eastern Promises (would not have nominated Viggo)
57. Stardust
58. Music and Lyrics
59. Superbad
60. Mr. Brooks
61. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
62. Catch and Release
63. Perfect Stranger
64. Premonition
65. Awake
66. Becoming Jane (not a bad movie, I just think I've seen it several times before)
67. License to Wed
68. The Messengers
69. The Wendell Baker Story
70. Pathfinder
71. Hostel 2
72. The Hills Have Eyes 2

    And the only 2 films I didn't like…

73. I'm Not There (Only 2 things kept this from taking the bottom spot on the list: Kate Blanchett and
74. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (And I really wanted to like this movie.  Oh well.)