Top movies and TV series of 2008!

[SPS]

All right a bit early as there are still about 3 or 4 major releases coming out this year (the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the Day the Earth Stood Still, the Spirit, and some comedies) but it's close enough to say what you guys think was the best of the best this year so here we go:

TV:

Best show: Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles
This show is consistently good every single week. I sit glued to my television and sit in amazement that they made a show that should be horrible absolutely great. Sure it has its weak points (Ellison, and the T-1000) but overall they don't matter. There is so much to like about this show I can't formulate the words.

Runner up: Doctor Who- Who usually has an uneven quality to the seasons, this was like none other despite having a companion that I loved.

Best actress: Summer Glau- One of the reasons T:SCC succedes is because of the character Summer plays and how she nails it.

Best actor: Alec Baldwin- His deadpan delivery of everything on 30 Rock makes the show so much funnier. Great actor on a great show.

Best Hero: Sarah Connor- I love me some Sarah Connor.

Best Villain: Arthur Petrelli- He has totally messed up almost everything he touched, from making Sylar believe that he is Sylar's father to taking away Hiro and Peter's powers, to killing the main villains of season 2. Arthur is the definition of evil. I just wish he had better dialogue.

runner up: Angela Petrelli- Even though she's technically a "good guy" right now Angela is still rotten to the core and not above manipulating people to her own means.

Best moment (tie): The Death of Cromartie, Cromartie vs. the FBI- Both are excellent moments that use music to great effect. The latter I was just like "cool", but the former I was completely blown away. I was literally cheering it on when Ellison led Cromartie into the church, and then all heck broke loose as Sarah, Cameron, Derek and John ambushed Cromartie in a wonderful strategy that made Cromartie scrap metal.

DVD:

Best DVD release: Heroes season 2- The season may have sucked but seeing what may have been had there been no writer strike was wonderful.

Runner up: Into the Wild

Best Blu-Ray: Don't know since I don't own one but included for sake of completeness.

Movies (all right since I have not seen movies in every genre I'm just going to do a top ten here):

1. Wall-E: Best Sci-Fi film of the year, and possibly one of the greatest of all time. Pixar created a great character in Wall-E, and did it with no spoken dialogue throughout half the film. I saw it for free but I felt guilty for doing so.

2. Speed Racer- Fast cars, lots of color and a great cast make this the second best family film of the year. Worth seeing just for the fact that its a live action cartoon.

3. Cloverfield- I loved this film. Blair Witch meets Godzilla.

4. Mama Mia!- Catchy tunes by ABBA make this one a guilty pleasure but a good one at that.

5. The Dark Knight- I like it a little more every time I see it but I'm frankly getting burned out on superhero films

6. Iron Man- This is Downey Jr.'s film

7. Quatum of Solace- In a year full of great movies this one sorta fell through the cracks because it wasn't as good as it's predecessor.

8. Zack and Miri Make a Porno- This is one of the trinity that are here to round out the list, really interchangeable with the next two.

9. Get Smart- See above.

10. Mongol- See above.

Worst movie of the year (tie): Wanted and Pineapple Express. Wanted was a shameless rip off of the Matrix and not as deep. Pineapple Express was just horrendous. I wanted to gouge out my eyes after seeing it.

[Elliot Kane]

Nearly time for all these, yeah ;D

TV:

Best show: Little Mosque On The Prairie. Amazingly funny, warm hearted and well acted sitcom about a small Muslim community in small town Canada.

Runner up: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. SPS covered this one already, I think

Best actress: I'll go with Summer Glau, too. Anyone who can be so utterly unhuman while still being a sympathetic character is an awesome actress.

Best actor: David Tennant as The Doctor. Easy answer I know, but he IS good.

Best Hero: The Doctor, from Doctor Who (Obviously). I might have missed a lot of the series due to 'Companion Annoyance Syndrome' ;D but I still think The Doctor is awesome.

Best Villain: Davros. Nuff said.

runner up: Don't have one.

Best moment: Tie for me, too: Cromartie vrs the FBI (Almost balletic combat that truly showed the futility of the SWAT team) and the first appearance of the T1001 AS a Terminator, where it/she changes from urinal to Terminator. A truly stunning moment.

Best New Character: Jenny, The Doctor's Daughter. Poor ep, but a great character. Hopefully Steven Moffat will do a lot more with her. (Yeah, I added this category ;D).

DVD: Too hard for me to work out. Nothing stands out clearly as THE best. That and my almost total lack of attention to silly things like extras make this too hard for me.

Best Blu-Ray: Don't have it.

Movies

1. The Dark Knight. Deserved the plaudits it got. Ledger was utterly awesome and genuinely creepy and the guy playing Harvey Dent was nearly as good. First time I ever felt I was genuinely watching both characters as they should be.

2. The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Not flawless, but it has Reepicheep the psycho-mouse, who was always my favourite Narnia character as a kid. And he's perfect

3. the Forbidden Kingdom. Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the same film. No more need be said. OK, one thing. Now they need to do a film with Zhang Ziyi, too! ;D

Pretty sure that's it for me, this year. No way I'm gonna hit ten.

[Flix]

My favs:

Top Movies of 2008 (in no particular order, sorry):

Iron Man - Downey Jr. carried the movie above and beyond what it would otherwise have been

The Dark Knight - What hasn't been said, Nolan's screenwriting, Bale's dark hero, Ledger's maniacal persona (you wanna know how I got these scars?)

The Incredible Hulk - can you tell I like comic book movies?

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Easily the best comedy of the year, manages to juggle Judd Apatow's typical sex humor with emotional moments and likeable characters. Rises above I think due to Jason Segel's screenwriting.

Burn After Reading - a nice, light breather from the Cohen brothers after the bleak and oppressive No County for Old Men. Almost verges on being annoying how clueless the characters are, but the CIA agents acting as a Greek Chorus let the audience vent through them. "What a cluster**** " -CIA director, referring to the tangled events of the entire movie.

Pineapple Express - stoner comedy that morphs into drama/action movie. The two main actors play well off of each other.

The Onion Movie (straight to DVD release) - Hilarious all around.

Tropic Thunder - Amazing combo with Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr., though I wish Jack Black's character would have had a better chance to shine, something beyond, "Ah, I'm addicted to drugs and I'm craaazy!"

That's pretty much all the new movies I've seen this year (that were worth anything, that is)

TV Shows:
Flight of the Conchords Season 1
Daily Show
South Park
Errr....Iron Chef America?

Dang, I never have time to watch TV anymore! Or if I do, it's all reruns.

Well, that's my pitiful contribution!

[Gray Lensman]

TV:

Best show: I'll go with Doctor Who, even if I found much of it uneven this year. The bright spots made up for the bad moments, though, fortunately.

Best actor: David Tennant. One of the all-time greatest Doctors ever, and he showed it again this year.

Best Hero: Hiro Nakamura. ;D I'll go with the Doctor as a runner-up, though this wasn't really his best year.

Best Villain: Davros. Always a great villain, he had a memorable comeback this year.

Best Moment: Probably the cliffhanger at the end of "The Stolen Earth", which ended with the Doctor regenerating. One of the best fake-outs I've seen in some time.

Movies:

Best Film: The Dark Knight. It's a rare film that exceeds the original, and this one set such a high bar that it's difficult to top. And probably the best version of the Joker I can recall.

I'll go with Iron Man as a runner-up, mainly by virtue of the filmmakers actually admitting that Tony Stark isn't a hero and running with it. I'll also give a nod to Prince Caspian, which is so far the best of the Narnia films for my money.

Best DVD: Justice League: The New Frontier. A fun adaptation of a great story, and it includes a ton of commentary and extras, including several documentaries and three episodes of the Justice League Unlimited cartoon.

Best Webfilm: Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Granted, it's really the only contender, but still. ;D

[Konrad Flameheart]

TV:

Best show: Fringe

Runner up: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Best Actress: Summer Glau (Cameron, Termintor)

Best Actor: John Noble (Dr Walter Bishop, Fringe)

Best Hero: Jack Bauer (24 Redemption)

Best Villain: Davros. Nuff said.

Best moment: To many to count

Best New Character: John Noble (Dr Walter Bishop, Fringe)

DVD/FILM

Best DVD/FILM: Dark Knight

Runner up: Terminator: Iron Man

Best Actress: Dame Judy Dench (M, Quantum of Solice)

Best Actor: Kevin Spacey (Prof. Miky Rosa, 21)

Best Hero: Hellboy

Best Villain: The Joker

[Lews]

Good things of 2008:

Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder
24 Redemption

House
South Park
Some other stuff I guess. Too lazy to think what came out this year.

Pineapple Express was better then Step Brothers, but both were pretty stupid.

Hancock was enjoyable.

Mummy 3 was good.


Other movies I bought that came out this year (so they're okay)

21
The Bank Job

Quantum of Solace was a let down imo. I got bored. Might have been my anxiety medicine making me zone out though i dont know.

Looking forward to Valkyrie! Nazi's, Explosions, Tom Cruise. Should be good. Too bad I already know how it ends: SPOILER ALERT: THEY DON'T KILL HITLER.

[killerzzz]

My viewing range and memory are limited this year, so I'm going to be naming out some odd/repetitive choices.

Hmmm, I like Konrad's layout. *quoties*

TV:

Best show: Heroes (I only watched 1 TV show )

Runner up: Uh... My Own Worst Enemy (I saw 2 episodes ). It was not bad, looked like it had potential.

Best Actress: n/a

Best Actor: I'm gonna say Rufus Sewell. I saw an episode of "Eleventh Hour" and he seemed to be doing a good job.

Best Hero: (I wonder if he's gonna pick something from Heroes) Well, I'm not! Most of the heroes were unsatisfactory this year. I'm gonna put in Jack Bauer. He was again the hero who did what he had to, at his great inconveniance, to save others.

Best Villain: Sylar. He made a great evil comeback near the end of the season. "Cake? >: D"

Best moment: *SPOILER* "You're nothing" says Noah Bennet as he slits the throat of Sylar. *SPOILER*

Best New Character: n/a

DVD/FILM

Best DVD/FILM: Dark Knight

Runner up: Quantum of Solace

Best Actress: Laura Ramsey. I think her performance in The Ruins was great. Her progress from happiness, to fear, to insanity, and her reactions to the things that were happening, were handled very well. Deserves kudos imo.

Best Actor: Heth Ledger (we know why ).

Best Hero: Wesley Gibson, from Wanted. When you first think about it, he's a HORRIBLE hero. But his "heroics", I think, can be seen in a different way. Yes, they are self-serving, but they do something that the average person can appreciate. He beats his own limitations, and takes control of his once mundane life, shedding his hassles and problems, becoming free from daily tyranny and habit. This we can envy, even look up to, and consider heroic, and an off way.

Best Villain: The Joker. "I am an agent of Chaos."

Killerzzz

[Flix]

Valkyrie turned out to be really good. I thought I had no interest in it and went to see it unwillingly, but was swept up in it and ended up teary-eyed by the end. I wanted the plot to work out so bad, even though I knew it was bound to fail. I never even knew there was such substantial resistance to Hitler's regime within Germany's own political and military forces. Definitely gets added to my list.