theweatherman wrote:Well it had a much grander scale, but in comparison to LA Confidential the screenplay sucked.

+1

Life is Beautiful was better than both though.

you forgot about the best blockbuster of the year. I haven't seen it though.

theweatherman wrote:

allstarr55js wrote:Early review- the movie is brilliant.

Yeah I'm hearing tons of great buzz. I was already excited for it, but now I'm convinced this will be the blockbuster of the year.

If that's true then what a great summer for blockbuster movies. We never had this much good blockbusters in a year altogether.

Flying Rodent wrote:Kate Hepburn (Aviator)
Roy Batty (Blade Runner)

1. Casino (1995) -- 8.7/10
2. Star Trek (2009) -- 8.6/10
3. Talented Mr. Ripley -- 8.6/10

mastervirgo wrote:The Orson Welles shot (low angle shot) in which The Joker is looking at fallen from Batpod Batman with Gotham buildings as background is my favorite shot from all the movies in 2008.

This is it. I found it. Probably my favorite shot from all of Nolan's movies.

I dunno, just little things here or there I felt were really contrived. Like when he'd do his laugh then go back to smiling really big. Oh, great to hear you really enjoyed Cowboys btw. -Vader There were more moments which I didn't like in his performance in Stuart than his performance in Bronson. ...

http://www.kveller.com/images/Article_images/ten-commandments.jpg Gonna watch this right now. 4 hours of awesomeness. Need to buy some chips and popcorn. 8-) BTW: I will be brainwashed. This is a movie with triangles, pyramids, all-seeing eyes and shit... :? I always preferred Ben-Hur to it, and I ...

prince0gotham wrote:well he's always been more tolerant than siskel

They both put Shakespeare in Love as one of their top ten movies of the year. I never understand why they loved it so much. I think their older top ten lists were far better than their newer ones.

I mostly like Ebert's old reviews for old movies. His ratings for new movies are sometimes hugely different than what they should be.