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Well with 2008 looming around the corner
What were some of your Favorite movies of the past year

Mine were: in no particular order

La Vie en Rose - Marion Cotillard was astounding in the lead role
300 - Pure porn for gay guys
Across the Universe - if you like pissin' people off because you're singing along with the movie
The Mist - the rare movie where the monsters outside aren't as bad as those inside
No Country for Old Men - Great Coen bros at the edge of your seat movie
Atonement - Great cinema in the realm of the old film classics

Agree with you on 300, had a hard-on from end to finish

Here's my fav:

Two surprises, both that brought me to tears, were

DAN IN REAL LIFE (a really sweet, and funny, romantic comedy)

AUGUST RUSH (bring a box of kleenex)

Didn't hear of it Trusley
But I have to say that foreign horror and suspense films are usually much better
The Americans rely way too much on the old boring formula
Movies like
The Japanese originals of the Ring and Dark Water
and Britain's the Shallow Grave were all good

It's sad; i think i've only seen two actual movies this year, so my favorite movie of this year is Grind House by Quentin Tarantino.

300 ---for the obvious reasons!!

August Rush--- it played on your heart strings but Keri Russell and the kid who played August were great!


Atonement--very well acted and some surprises---like what was actually typed in the note

Waitress--- another Keri Russell movie. Nathan Fillon was good too.

Juno---well written, phenomenal acting performances from Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Alison Janney.

I am sure I am forgeting some or thinking they came out in 2006 instead of 2007, but these made a lasting impression on me.

I'm waiting to see Juno
... It's gotten good buzz

I loved transformers.
The mist was the biggest waste of time.. the movie scarred me for life.

Transformers was ok. I thought it needed more robot, less Shia. Just saw the 2nd National Treasure movie, it was pretty good, too. And American Gangster was really good.

Hitman and 300 stand out to me. In the Land Of Women and Georgia rule i also enjoyed... A LOT! I also liked Stardust!

I absolutely loved Transformers! Been a fan ever since I was a youngin'. The sequel is gonna be awesome !

300
Paris Je T'aime
Sweeney Todd
Superbad
Death at a Funeral

Some of my favorites from this year

Especially Paris Je T'aime though, Margot Martindale's performance was impacting.

My fave movies of year were old ones I saw late. Takashi Miike "s Visitor Q .Odishon gets better and beter.
Half Nelson and Spun reverberated in my house everytime a friend came by .
Javier Bardem is a sexy man .He picks the best scripts. " Before Night Falls " is one of my fave films but he was awesome in this year's " No country for Old Men" . Chilling!
I 'm an artist so i tend to watch many of the same films over and over Welles,Bresson,Godard,Oshima,Bunuel etc.
Discovered 2 Senegalese films this year old ones by Ousmane Sembene Black Girl and XALA .I had read Xala more than a decade ago in anAfrican Lit class .the film works well by its author too .

pretty varied list:

Across the Universe
Into the Wild
Hairspray
Superbad
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story-TOO FUNNY!
No Country for Old Men

Hairspray and Waitress and the only two 2007 movies I'd see again.

ATONEMENT!!! Wow- this movie is so beautiful and haunting. the score is so ravishing, it almost breaks your heart - this tale of unexpected romance thwarted by juvenile imagination just lingers...

I have enjoy several movies this year, but La Vie en Rose was the one that blew me away

Transformers

300

Super Bad

Smoke'n Aces

Knocked Up

Bourne Ultimatum

Resident Evil 3 of course

American Gangster

National Treasure 2

Yeah, hope noone who knows me read this

but - i vote for:

Superbad and Pledge This!
(in Russia the last came out on St.Valentine )

.. ok, and Blades of Glory

Five words: No Country for Old Men. The Coens brought their A game. It was quite a bit better than The Ladykillers.

I loved the whole Grindhouse experience, but it's amazing how much those films lose when they are split up on DVD. Death Proof is clearly the better film. The highlight of the whole enterprise was Eli Roth's Thanksgiving trailer: spot on and hilarious.

Ratatouille was great, it had the best payoff of any movie this year. And it also had something to say about the creative process and the role of the critic.

I also liked Zodiac, American Gangster, Once, Hairspray, Bourne, Beowulf in IMAX 3D, Die Hard.

Films I am embarrassed to say I haven't seen yet: Atonement, Michael Clayton, Jesse James, Into the Wild.

Guilty pleasure: Silver Surfer.

Bourne.

Charlie Wilson's War - I didn't think I would like it, but I was pleasantly surprised, even if the ending was abrupt.

I think that was actually the only movie I saw in theaters this year...

The Kite Runner

Hated it !

Once (released earlier in the year, a real jem)

Juno

No Country For Old Men