2008 Movie Ranking

Here's a purely personal ranking of the 2008 Movies I saw - best to worst:

Slumdog Millionaire
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
Get Smart
Cadillac Records
The Bank Job
Wanted
Religulous
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Tropic Thunder
Gran Torino
Iron Man
Changeling
Eagle Eye
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Definitely Maybe
Trouble the Water
Swing Vote
Mama Mia
Marley and Me
Burn After Reading
The Dark Knight
W
Synedoche, New York
Baby Mama
Untraceable
Quantum of Solace
The Incredible Hulk
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The X Files/I want to Believe
21
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull
Last Chance Harvey
Vantage Point
27 Dresses
Pineapple Express

Other comments:
The best movie I saw all year was The Orphanage, but that was a 2007 release.
Rent it, turn out the lights, and prepare to be scared by a good old fashioned ghost story.

There were some I missed, like "Doubt" and "Frost/Nixon" which I'll catch sometime this year.

Movies I've seen at the last minute:

Gran Torino - 8 - unexpectedly hilarious, a worthy swan song for Clint on celluloid, if this is in fact his last on-screen appearance.
Last Chance Harvey - 6 - Tepid chick flick with Dustin Hoffman playing the same character, presumably himself, that he's been playing for years. Emma Thompson brings the film to life, but only when she's speaking. Some nice scenes, but not enough to equal a full movie.

Favorite 2008 performances:
Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Walters in Cadillac Records
Anne Hathaway in Get Smart
Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder
Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino

Best Direction - Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire