What are your top 5?

[serenity]

In keeping with today's TRS theme, what are your top 5 in movies, games and t.v. this year?

Movies;

There are a LOT I haven't even seen yet, I'm way behind so just keep that in mind.

1. Children of Men
2. Pan's Labyrinth (released nationwide Jan '07 so it counts!)
3. Sweeney Todd
4. Transformers (for pure fun and the fact that I got to see Optimus Prime and that choked me up)
5. Sicko

Games;
Forgive me, I have no new systems and since leaving WoW I haven't played any!


T.V.

1. Pushing Dasies
2. Dexter
3. Lost
4. House
5. Heroes

Podcasts;

1. THE TOTALLY RAD SHOW!

Those are mine, what are yours?

[zaphod81]

Movies

1. Children of Men
2. No country for old men
3. Ratatouille
4. Transformers
5. Stardust

Games

1. Bioshock
2. The Orange Box
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Mass Effect
5. Puzzle Quest

T.V. Shows

Sorry I dont watch much T.V.

[siraim]

Movies;
1. Children of Men
2. Pan's Labyrinth (released nationwide Jan '07 so it counts!)
3. Sweeney Todd
4. Transformers (for pure fun and the fact that I got to see Optimus Prime and that choked me up)
5. Sicko


T.V.
1. Pushing Dasies
2. Dexter
3. Lost
4. House
5. Heroes


Movies:
1) Charlie Wilsons War (saw it last night.. was an amazing movie)
2) Stardust
3) Transformers (was such a fun ride)
4)..5).. didn't see a ton of movies this year..

TV:
1) Pushing Daisies
2) The MacGyver minimyths the Mythbusters did for a few episodes to promote the full MacGyver episode coming up..
3) Chuck
4) Jekyll (It wasn't produced in 07, but was released on US TVs in 07
5) ....

Games:
1) Call of Duty 4
2) Orange Box
3) Mass Effect
4) (not sure if it was released in 07) but Raymans Ravin Rabbids for the Wii
5) Super Mario Galaxy..

[toasterstrudull]

Movies:

1. Transformers
2. Superbad
3. 300
4. The Kingdom
5. Ratatouille

Games:

1. Call of Duty 4 (I'm not loving the server problems with PC 1.4)
2. Portal
3. Team Fortress 2
4. World of Warcraft
5. Halo 3 ?

TV:

1. Heroes
2. House, M.D.
3. Scrubs
4. Pushing Daises
5. Reaper (I liked it!)

[meccaed]

I've been slacking with gaming/T.V. so:

1. Charlie Wilsons War - Phillip Seymour Hoffman completely stole the spotlight

2. 3:10 to Yuma

3. Darjeeling Limited

4. No Country For Old Men

5. Michael Clayton

[truebullfan]

top 5 movies (Ive seen 31 films this year so far)

1.Zodiac
2. Superbad
3. Michael Clayton
4. 3:10 to Yuma
5. American Gangster

Still need to see: Bourne Ultimatum, Ratatouille

Games... COD4 just got a ps3

TV shows

1. The Wire (Best show ever!)
2. The Office
3. Its always sunny in philadelphia
4. Man VS Wild

[bsg]

Movies (Released in 2007)
1. Children of Men
2. American Gangster
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Stardust
5. The Mist
Honorable Mention: 300

Videogames
1. Bioshock
2. Puzzle Quest
3. Portal
4. Team Fortress 2
5. Call of Duty 4

TV Shows (New Episodes Aired in 2007)
1. Avitar: The Last Airbender
2. The Boondocks
3. Scrubs
4. The Big Bang Theory
5. South Park

[cashoutcurse]

2007:

Movies:
10) 3:10 to Yuma
09) Beowulf (in 3d)
08) Zodiac
07) Ratatouille
06) I Am Legend
05) The Lookout
04) Bourne Ultimatum
03) Knocked Up
02) Gone Baby Gone
01) King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Children of Men was number 2 on my list of top films of 2006. The Departed was number one.
As for 2007, there are two movies I have not seen yet that I obviously need to and they are No Country For Old Men and Michael Clayton.

Video Games
5) Rainbow Six Vegas
4) Ratchet and Clank
3) Super Mario Galaxy
2) Call of Duty 4
1) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Next on my list to get is The Orange Box.

TV
New Shows
05) Chuck
04) Big Bang Theory
03) Tell Me You Love Me
02) Flight of the Conchords
01) Mad Men

Returning
05) Entourage
04) Extras
03) Curb Your Enthusiasm
02) The Sopranos
01) Lost

Music
10) Hvarf-Heim - Sigur Ros
09) Graduation - Kanye West
08) Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
07) In Rainbows - Radiohead
06) Cease to Begin - Band of Horses
05) Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
04) Yours to Keep - Albert Hammond, Jr.
03) Planet of Ice - Minus the Bear
02) Boxer - The National
01) Easy Tiger - Ryan Adams

[bayareaking510]

Games
1. Halo 3
2. Call of Duty 4
3. Ratchet and Clank Future
4. Mario Galaxy
5. Skate

TV shows:
1. Burn Notice
2. Journey Man
3. Kyle XY
4. The Office
5. How I met your Mother

(Haven't watched enough movies that came out this year to have a top 5)

[wideawakewesley]

Movies
1. The Man From Earth
2. Beowulf
3. Superbad
4. The Departed
5. This Is England

Videogames
1. PuzzleQuest
2. Metroid Prime 3
3. Half Life 2
4. Resident Evil 4
5. Zelda Phantom Hourglass

TV
1. Lost
2. Heroes
3. The Shield
4. Torchwood
4. Dexter

[yourestillmycaesar]

Movies:
1. Across the Universe
2. August Rush
3. Superbad
4. Transformers (if not just for childhood)
5. Stardust

Video Games:
I'm not a gamer, I've never even owned a system younger than an SNES. So, this year, my housemates introduced me to the wonderful world of:
1. Super Smash Brothers :D
2. Warioware Smooth Moves (so fun)
3. Mario Party (for the Wii... shush, I liked it)

TV Shows:
1. Pushing Daisies
2. Heroes
3. Scrubs
4. House

Music (had to)
1. Kanye West - Graduation
2. Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between
3. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
(I have pretty much the same answers as the other person who did music :D)

[silentsignals]

Movies
1. No Country For Old Men
2. Children of Men
3. Stardust
4. 300
5. The Lookout

TV
1. Lost
2. Pushing Daisies
3. The Office
4. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Games
1. Orange Box
2. Mass Effect
3. Bioshock
4. Puzzle Quest
5. Lord of the Rings Online

[heyseuss]

Haven't seen any movies this year. Haven't played any games that came out this year. Don't watch any tv, although I do rent dvd's when they come out. I suck huh.

[wideawakewesley]

Haven't seen any movies this year. Haven't played any games that came out this year. Don't watch any tv, although I do rent dvd's when they come out. I suck huh.

Dude, what are you doing hanging out here?

[taswizard]

It's tougher to choose than I thought, TV has really been slacking this year:

Movies:
1. Children of Men
2. Beowulf
3. Transformers
4. 300
5. Juno

Games:
1. Mass Effect
2. Assassin's Creed
3. Call of Duty 4
4. Orange Box
5. Bioshock

TV:
1. Heroes
2. Dexter
3. Pushing Daisies
4. Scrubs
5. Tin Man

[goliath553]

Happy New Year.....


Games: (In Order)
1) Halo 3 (1200 online games = too much time not to be my #1)
2) Portal (would be my number 1 but only got about 10 hours of play out of it)
3) Call of Duty 4
4) Command and Conquer 3 (have always loved these games)
5) Forza 2 (really enjoy this style of racing game)

Movies: (No Particular order) & (haven't seen no country yet)
- 300 (brought a graphic novel to life)
- Alpha Dog (blew me away)
- 30 Days of night (good vamp movie)
- Superbad (I'm 23 and still found this hilarious)
- Transformers (was not expecting much but loved it, plot faded near the end however, stupid cube)


TV: (don't watch that much t.v.) & (In Order)
1) The Ultimate Fighter (watched every episode since season one)
2) Avatar (WOW this is awesome)
3) NHL Hockey (yah, i'm canadian)
4) The office (hated this for awhile, till i started to understand the characters)
5) Survivor (i know i know, this was the first season i watched in about 4 years and I really enjoyed it)

[heyseuss]

Dude, what are you doing hanging out here?

You ppl are my only friends !!!
What should I be doing? Going to the movies ? I've worked in movies and tv and something feels weird buying a ticket to see something I made. Manns Chinese theater is down the street from me but I've never been. I watch about 4 dvds a day. I haven't had tv in my house in 7 years and yet, I own 7 tv's. I only buy 1 or 2 games a year and I only buy them if the appeal enough to me to replay over the years. Last night I was playing a 4 yr old game.

[lstone]

1. Mass Effect
Rock Band
Portal
Mario Galaxy
Halo 3

1. Transformers
3:10 to Yuma
Simpsons Movie
Bourne Ultimatum
I Am Legend

1. The Office
Heroes
Lost
The Amazing Race
Journeyman

[joedubbs]

Movies:
300
I Am Legend
Bourne Ultimatum
Superbad
Transformers

TV:
Office
Heroes
Lost
Pushing Daisies
Life

Games:
Rock Band
Call of Duty 4
Rainbow Six Las Vegas
Portal

Music:
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
Kanye West - Graduation
Common - Finding Forever
Jay-Z - Kingdom Come

[thelastknowngod]

tv:
1. weeds (cant believe no one has said that yet)
2. chuck
3. heroes
4. avatar
5. dexter

Movies:
1. Once (limited release in US may 07 so it counts)
2. Michael Clayton
3. Death at a Funeral
4. Stardust
5. Eastern Promises

Games:
1. Puzzle Quest
2. Phantom Hourglass
thats about it.. dont play a lot of games.

[zombierin]

There are still a lot of 2007 movies on my "to watch" list
Movies:
1 Hot Fuzz
2 The Good Night
3 Grindhouse
4 Fido
5 Superbad

TV
1 Doctor Who
2 Jekyll
3 Flight of the Conchords
4 Man Stroke Woman
5 The Big Bang Theory

[heyseuss]

tv:
1. weeds (cant believe no one has said that yet)


I may not know much about current tv, but I know that show. F'n LOVE that show. I have first 2 seasons on dvd.

[spartacvs]

Movies
1. Children of Men
2. 28 Weeks Later
3. Transformers
4. Sunshine
5. 300
Special mention to a movie I haven't seen but I think I will like- I Am Legend

TV Shows
1. LOST
2. House
3. Pushing Daisies
4. The Office
5. Hockey Night in Canada :D

Video Games
1. Bioshock
2. Halo 3
3. Half Life 2: Episode Two / Portal
4. Mass Effect
5. Call of Duty 4
Uber Flirting- The Darkness
Mega Flirting- Medal of Honor Airborne
Flirting- Crackdown
Flirting- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Honorable Mention- Assassin's Creed minus the repetitive side missions, incessant unskippable blabbering, and final boss battle

I think the real reason why Halo 3 wasn't on any of the Rad dude's lists wasn't because it was a letdown, or even because it's been such a great year so it's hard to stand out. It's really because they just don't like Halo series anymore for whatever reason. It immerses me in a complex universe more than any other game and makes me believe this could be the future, like I'm really there. I find the gameplay fun and that's all there is to it. Each encounter is exact in it's setup, the scope and scale of the levels and number of enemies is incredible ,the weapons all have a purpose and are fun to use, and on higher difficulties it has the best AI in gaming. When, as a massive Halo fan and someone who was extremely let down with Halo 2 the biggest complaint I can conjure up about Halo 3 is that it doesn't render in native 720p, that tells me Bungie did an outstanding job taking the best of the two previous games and combining it with so much new stuff that I'm excited to get to the next mission. In fact, the only reason Bioshock is anywhere near Halo 3 for me, let alone above it on my list is because of "Would you kindly?", period (Ken Levine is a genius).

[-xcl-]

Movies:
1)Children of Men
2)Superbad
3)300
4)Ratatouille
5)Transformers

Games:
1)Odin Sphere
2)Puzzle Quest
3)Orange Box (Portal)
4)God of War II
5)Guitar Hero III

TV:
1)Avatar
2)30 Rock
3)Always Sunny in Philidelphia
4)Nip\Tuck
5)The Office

[lnknpk04]

Movies

1. Sunshine
2. Zodiac
3. Pans Labrynth
4. Juno
5. Children of Men

Hon. Mention: Stardust, Hot Fuzz

Video Games

1. Bioshock (360)
2. Rune Factory: A Harvest Moon Fantasy (DS)
3. Twilight Princess (Wii)
4. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (DS) - Dont hate folks
5. Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

TV Shows

1. Avatar
2. Supernatural - Started watching about 5 months ago. Thanks Netflix!
3. Reaper
4. The Office
5. Chuck

Hon. Mention: Jekyll, Heroes (C'mon, its not that bad!)

[skin87]

My criteria is what I enjoyed the most, not what I think is necessarily the best

Movies

1 Juno
2 300
3 Knocked Up
4 Hot Fuzz
5 Simpsons Movie



Video Games

1 Rock Band
2 Team Fortress 2
3 Mass Effect
4 Portal (Which has unfortunately become the Napoleon Dynamite of video games)
5 COD 4



TV (based on which shows I look most forward to new episodes, I'm gonna get shit for this)

1 Chuck
2 Scrubs
3 The OC (season 4 was redeemed the series)
4 Ultimate Fighter 5
5 Big Brother 8

[yssman]

I may have prematurely posted some of this in the episode thread, but I'll redo some of it... None of this really in any major order, although my personal favorites will be underlined, and the honorable mentions will be bold/italic.

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MOVIES:

- Transformers
- Bourne Ultimatum
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Knocked Up
- 300

GAMES:

- Project Gotham Racing 4
- Forza Motorsport 2
- Halo 3
- The Orange Box (PC)
- Call of Duty 4

TELEVISION:

- Torchwood
- Top Gear (UK version)
- House
- Nip/Tuck
- Metalocalypse

[mormonrage]

Movies
1. King of Kong
2. Atonement
3. Ratatouille
4. Sicko
5. Hot Fuzz

Games
1. Uncharted
2. Orange Box
3. Call of Duty 4
4. God of War 2
5. Crackdown

TV
1. Extras
2. Friday Night Lights
3. The Office
4. Mad Men
5. The IT Crowd

Music
1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer
2. The National - Boxer
3. The New Pornographers - Challengers
4. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
5. Radiohead - In_Rainbows

[applie]

I'll do games first, since I bought next to none after my Wii got stolen (:mad:) in July:
1. Wario Ware: Smooth Duties
2. Mario Strikers
....And that's it: no doubt Metroid and Super Mario Galaxy would have made the list, had I been able to afford/find a new console.

TV (I live in the UK, so I'm about a season behind on most American shows):

1. Doctor Who (if you haven't got into it yet, watch the season 3 episode "Blink": one the best episodes of tv-drama ever made)
2. Battlestar Galactica (Season 2)
3. Veronica Mars (Season 2)
4. Heroes (Season 1)
5. Kid Nation

Special mention also has to go to Extras Christmas Special for being awesome (and bringing a tear to my eye).

Film

1. Once
2. Breach
3. Bridge to Teribithia
4. Science of Sleep
5. Assassination of Jesse James

Different to a lot of lists out there: I realise Science of Sleep was probably a 2006 film in the US. Incidentally, we got Children of Men in 2006 in the UK, which is why it doesn't make my list.

[ryudo]

not seen or played alot this year.


Games
Metroid Prime 3 Corruption
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney 3
Zelda Twighlight Princess (cube)
Hotel Dusk


Movies
Sicko
Children of Men
Sin City(I know it's oldler than 2007 but I just saw it this year and loved it)
POTC3(it had flaws but I still enjoyed it)
Transformers(never watched the cartoon as a kid but the movie was fun)

TV
don't watch much but anything Mythbusters
I like Stargate Atlantis(sorta cheesy but it's fun and it has Jewel Straight:D)


Podcasts
Twit
Indigital
Tekzilla
diggnation

[neverendingwhitelights]

I'm gonna do my own little mini-thingamajigs on each one just like the guys did.

Movies:

First of all, in my opinion this was a bad year for movies. Though for the record I haven't seen a lot of movies that are supposedly so great, like No Country for Old Men, mostly because I don't expect to like them. The blockbusters were lackluster, there weren't any out-of-nowhere surprise favorites. Nothing. I still have a lot to see from this (last) year, though and I'll get around to it later. For example, I really want to see Once, but haven't yet, but I expect I'll like it. So none of the "blah pack" are represented here, the "blah pack" being movies I'm not interested in like: No Country For Old Men, Michael Clayton, Eastern Promises, American Gangster and such.

5.) The Ten - Flew under the radar, from some of the guys from the State. It's a bunch of skits that are just the right length, that vaguely connect, about the 10 deadly sins. The humor is great, the cast is excellent, only thing it lacks is a realy story, but that's forgiven because it is what it is, and it's frickin' hilarious.

4.) 300 - Again, lacks story, (even though they tried to tack some on with the wife) but doesn't need it. It's just eye candy, but oh my what eye candy it is.

3.) Planet Terror - Exactly what I was hoping for from Grindhouse, and I'm glad this was first, because if it was 2nd I think I would have been too disappointed going into it to like it as much.

2.) Children of Men - Love the way this was shot, love the setting, the plot is kinda thin, ending is kinda a letdown, but it's really great visually if nothing else.

1.) Pan's Labyrinth - This is a movie that got a completely different reaction from me, I suspect because I saw no trailers, read nothing into the plot, and just let myself absorb the movie as it went. I'll tell you what I went in expecting, Chronicles of Narnia, I expected to not enjoy it, but that it would be mildly entertaining which is what I needed then. I was wrong on all 3 accounts. This movie is friggin' mind-blowing, visually, the story just keeps moving, it's great. All the fantasy stuff is just right, and the real world stuff with the guy, just had me going "Are you kidding me? WTF!" constantly. I was in love with this movie from damn start to damn finish.

"Just Missed the Boat" Award: Smokin' Aces
Special "OMG I Liked That?" Award: Music & Lyrics
Special "Thinky" Award: 1408

TV:
5.) Supernatural - I hated the 2nd season, but so far the 3rd season has been the absolute best. It's back to what made the 1st season good, but has kept it going. Where the 1st season had down episodes, this one hasn't had any at ALL. They have all been abso-bloody-friggin-lutely great.

4.) How I Met Your Mother - Ever since it came back the episodes have been friggin' great. Best show that I never hear anyone talking about. Me and my 2 best friends watch and love this show to death. When all 3 of us can agree on something, that's kinda spectacular, and usually means that whatever it is really is something great. Watch this show!

3.) Pushing Daisies - I love almost everything about this show, the storytelling, the narrator, the style, the idea. The plots though are kinda lacking if you asked me, they need to kinda amp up their story arcs. After watching the pilot I said to myself, "Well, there's not many places this can go from here, I can pretty much stop now." and that's not a good sign when I get done with the PILOT (Pie-lette) thinking that.

2.) Avatar: The Last Airbender - After hearing about this show from TRS I decided to start watching it. Got caught up within a week, and haven't looked back. I'm now rabidly waiting for the next episodes along with everyone else. Seems like there's a lot of drag in the show though at times, especially season 2 at one point, I thought, "OK when is this going to get back on track?" but that's the only negative thing I can say about it.

1.) Burn Notice - BEST. NEW. SHOW. No one is watching this either, but I love this thing so much. Bruce Campbell! Ex-spy! Reason alone to watch. I love how during the show it gives you actual spy tips that you might be able to use one day in some situation or another. The season arc is such a slow burn with the main character gaining just a bit of info every episode, ending is a bit too big of a cliffhanger, but it's a good one. Only thing I can say about it is, I'm not wild about the main actor, he's good but not great, and the girl? Could not be much more unattractive to me.

"My favorite British show" Award: TIE - Hustle / Robin Hood
"Well that season kinda sucked" Award: Dexter - Next season will be back to good though I think.

Games:
5.) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - This game was SO MUCH FUN... I can not believe how much fun I had... MAN, that was a great day.

4.) Warhawk - Fun online play, but gets very repetitive. Almost everyone is better than me, so I just kinda defend my teams bases. Flying sucks because I always get knocked out of the sky in like 10 seconds before I can do anything. Can't get in a turret 'cause someone will inevitably destroy me within 10 seconds. So, like I said I'm pretty much stuck defending. Stopped playing this as of late.

3.) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - I played a bit of the single-player and it was great, not remarkable, not my bag. First level was great, felt like an action movie, the execution thing was interesting, cool, after that it was just OK, and I quit. Then I was asked if I wanted to try the multiplayer, I didn't, but I did. It was fricking great. Everything I hate about games online, NOT IN THIS ONE! There's no one gun hidden in some remote corner of the map that everyone's fighting for so they can just own the map for like a minute and a half, people aren't sniping from some place they got by glitching and you can't tell where they are. People aren't hogging health packs. NONE OF IT! Everyone's on even ground, and I love it! Level 43 and I've not even had it a week.

2.) Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction - Expected to hate hate hate this, but I ended up love love loving it. I now want to check out the rest of the R&C series thanks to this. Played it through all the way 3 times I had so much fun, even just leveling up the weapons was fun.

1.) Guitar Hero 3 - Sucked for a while because I couldn't get the lag setting right and I was messing things up left & right, but with the new patch I think it's fixed now. Of course now the online is broken, which is what I like the most. Still, I have to give it to this simply because, well, I do. Ask anyone, what is that guy about on videogames, they will say Guitar Hero. Why no Rock Band? Sounded like fun until I got it and realized no one can play it competently enough for it to be fun.

My "Wish I'd Had Time To Play Them" Awards:
Odin Sphere
Okami
GrimGrimoire
Dawn of Mana
Folklore
Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
Shadow Hearts
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
Trapt

Damn that was a long post. Sheesh.

[jerichobp]

Movies

1. No Country for Old Men
2. The King of Kong
3. 3:10 to Yuma
4. Planet Terror
5. American Gangster

TV

1. Dexter (by far)
2. House
3. Prison Break
4. South Park
5. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Games (I only have PC)

1. Bioshock
2. Orange Box
3. COD4
4. Unreal Tournament 3
5. Gears of War (for PC)
Honorable Mention: Crysis


and thats my list

[mr-glass]

I haven't played enough games to make a list, so I'll just give my #1 to portal. If you haven't played it, stop reading and buy it now. Nuff said.

For movies, nothing wowed me. Probably cause i haven't had much time to get down to a theater lately. Honorable mention to transformers for A: being a good film and B: not ruining my childhood like every other remake/franchise movie.

On to TV, my main addiction:
1. How I met your mother
2. Robin Hood
3. Studio 60 on the sunset strip
4. Chuck
5. Pushing Daisies

[raythegeek]

This is my first post here on the rev3 forums but I felt compelled to share my top 5 list after watching the latest TRS.

Movies:
1. Juno
2. 300
3. Bourne Ultimatum
4. American Gangster
5. The Darjeeling Limited

Video Games:
1. World of Warcraft
2. Bioshock
3. Orange Box
4. Assasians Creed
5. No #5 didn't play that many video games.


TV:
1. 30 Rock
2. South Park
3. The Shield
4. Reaper
5. Family Guy

[skin87]

1.) Guitar Hero 3 - Sucked for a while because I couldn't get the lag setting right and I was messing things up left & right, but with the new patch I think it's fixed now. Of course now the online is broken, which is what I like the most. Still, I have to give it to this simply because, well, I do. Ask anyone, what is that guy about on videogames, they will say Guitar Hero. Why no Rock Band? Sounded like fun until I got it and realized no one can play it competently enough for it to be fun.

There is apparently a patch coming that will allow band world tour play online. Probably won't be as fun as everyone in the same room, but at least you'll have people to play with.

[guagloves]

Top 5 Games:

5. God Of War 2
4. Portal
3. Call Of Duty 4
2. Bioshock
1. Super Mario Galaxy

[johnnysix]

Where's the love for Battlstar Galactica? Sheesh. For me it's the best show still on television (I will miss you Sopranos).

In no order

Movies

- The Assasination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford (Beautiful, Poetic)
- Gone Baby Gone (Casey Afleck owned this year)
- Charlie Wilson's War (I <3 Sorkin)
- No Country for Old Men (Cohen brothers gold)
- Death Proof (Why don't people use great actors like Kurt Russell anymore?)

TV

- Battlestar Galactica (Always big issues, great character development, bold storyline twists)
- Lost (you people who stopped watching, should be watching)
- Flight of the Conchords (rofl)
- The Mighty Boosh (rofl, wtf?, rofl)
- The Unit (your always playing catch up, but it's worth it)

Video Games

- Call of Duty 4 (Epic, Fast and Furious)
- Super Mario Galaxy (Pure gameplay)
- God of War II (Epic, awesome, somebody make this movie)
- Bioshock (artful)
- Orange Box (You get how many brilliant, gameplay redefining games?)

[jasonb]

Top 5 Games and the reasons behind them

5: Call of Duty 4: This 3A Title didnt grab me and personaly im sorta regretting getting it for christmas. Now the reason i say that is all im really understand of the game so far (and im hoping im FAR from done with it) I cant get use to being part of the special forces team and then that sargent without a real reason) but as a game its own OMG its amazing because of the realism and intelegence and patience you have to have to make it through a mission. I can see why the game gets the praise it does.

4: Gear of War (PC): Everything you love about Gears of War plus extra level and the amazing boss fight from the monster you see in Level 4. Nothing made me happier than sniping that things legs and just wailing on more enemies as i got the back story behind exactly how the team got to the train station.

3: Super Mario Galaxies: What can i say that hasnt already been said about this game. It redefines and reinvents the Mario franchise. The classical music redone; the levels smartly designed.

2: The Orange Box: This game is amazing for 2 reasons. 1) its 60 bucks for 5 games. 2) one word: Portal. I LOVED that game. The design, the challenge levels, and of course gladis. Not to mention (if you search for them) the Black Mesa jokes hidden around the later levels in the game.

1: BioShock: Epic storytelling at its finest. If they ever choose to option this game into a film they better take a minimum of 2 films to truely let you grasp the story and scope of it. It grabes you at the begging with a plane crash and light house and doesnt let go even after youve beaten the game. Honeslty there are levels in games where you go "I LOVED that level" and play through just for that one level. Bioshock will make you play the whole game over again....if for nothing else than to see the 2 seperate endings. Its amazing game design from begging to end and was greatly, and sadly, eclipsed by falling under the same year as Halo 3 (which story wise was a HUGE dissappointment and most likely wouldnt even make my top 10 games for the year even with the multiplayer aspect)

Movies:
(Honestly i havent seen many movies this year so ill have to go through the motions and just say the names and not really be able to back them up)

5: Fist full of Quarters
4: Transformers
3: Planet Terror
2: Ratatoulle
1: No Country for Old Men

TV: (New TV)

5: Heroes
4: Supernatural
3: Dr. Who Series 3
2: Avatar
1: Pushing Dasies

[autodas]

Films:
No Country for Old Men
I Am Legend, if only the second act wasn't so god-damn stupid
Sweeney Todd
300 would've have been a good movie if American actors were used and if I had not seen the trailer

Shows:
Diggnation and The Totally Rad Show
The Dog Whisperer
MythBusters
Human Weapon and Last One Standing, I'll have to check out The Ultimate Fighter

Based on reviews and from what I've seen, BioShock deserves to be game of the year.

[kristen_]

Ones that I would add that were not mentioned in the podcast.


Movies

-300

TV

-Scrubs
-South Park
-Eureka (which I absolutely love but no one has mentioned yet)

[iggystar]

Movies (in no order just my favorites):

Lars and the Real Girl
Hairspray
Grindhouse
300 (I almost set my movie seat on fire all those Spartans in skirts and thighs...)
The Great Debaters

Television (there were only a few series that kept my interest):

Flight of the Conchords (so much love for this show)
Dexter
Big Love
Pushing Daisies
30 Rock

Games (since I don't game much there's only one)
Rock Band!

[aerodash84]

Movies
1) The Bourne Ultimatum
2) 300
3) Knocked Up
4) Transformers
5) 3:10 to Yuma(/Gone, Baby Gone for how it made me think at the end)

Games
1) BioShock
2) God of War 2? (saw it on Steve's so I'll assume came out this year)
3) Super Mario Sunshine
4) Halo 3 (didn't play many new games this year)
5) Puzzle Quest

TV
1) The Office/The Totally Rad Show(not kidding I look forward to every release)
2) Chuck
3) 30 Rock
4) Scrubs
5) Heroes (had it's ups and downs, but still loved it)
TV they're all kind of tied, because they're all my favorites from 2007.

[0garrett0]

1) Leben der Anderen, Das (Lives of Others, The)- Pretty sure the US release date was in February so I'm counting it.

2) Children of Men

3) No Country for Old Men

4) Michael Clayton

5) Eastern Promises

[esophagus]

Podcasts
1. iFanboy (Video)
2. Radio Lab
3. NPR: All Songs Considered
4. This American Life
5. The Merlin Show

Albums (I made a Top 20 with no order... Don't feel like doing any narrowing)
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Liars - Liars
Jamie T - Panic Prevention
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
MIA - Kala
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Blonde Redhead - 23
Daft Punk - Alive
Okervill River - The Stage Names
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
John Vanderslice - Emerald City
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once Soundtrack
Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This
Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

TV Shows
1. The Office
2. Life
3. 30 Rock
4. Chuck
5. Pushing Daisies

Movies (A lot of the really good movies just came out, and I've yet to see them, so this is tentative)
1. Once
2. Charlie Wilson's War
3. Darjeeling Limited

[jessmatic]

Here are my top lists in no particular order

Movies (It was actually hard to pick 5 movies since I do believe this has been the BEST year for movies)
- Hot Fuzz
- Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
- Once
- Ratatouille
- The Darjeeling Limited

Special mention: Bender's Big Score - It's so refreshing to see new Futurama :)

Television show
- Pushing Daisies
- The Riches
- Mad Men
- Flight of the Conchords
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

[jessmatic]

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver


Album of the year imo

[lapierre520]

Movies
1. Children of Men
2. Sunshine
3. No Country For Old Men
4. 28 Weeks Later
5. Death Proof
Honorable Mention - INLAND EMPIRE

Games
1. Bioshock
2. Super Mario Galaxy
3. Orange Box
4. Halo 3
5. Metroid Prime 3

TV
1. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (I was first introduced, on Adult Swim this year)
2. Flight of the Conchords
3. Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
4. The Office
5. LOST

And Most Anticipated for the new year is Cloverfield.

[tokenuser]

Movies:
Pan's Labrinth Children of Men Stardust Bourne Ultimatum Transformers / PotC3 / Spiderman3 ... all pulp movies that are just a lot of fun despite their flaws.

TV: Heroes Journeyman Torchwood Jekyll TopGear

Holy crap - thats 3 BBC productions ... about time they aired in the US. I'd also add in Doctor Who, as well as Jericho (yay! its coming back), and Daylight (RIP). Notable mentions to Drive (corny, but shaping up to be fun before it was cancelled), Moonlight, and the Dresden files.

Damn I watch too much TV.

[cirdan]

top 5 movies
1.300
2.Transformers
3.the mist
4.I am Legend
5.Day Watch

top 5 Video Games
1.COD4
2.Assassins Creed
3.Orange Box
4.Bioshock
5.Halo 3

Top tv show
1.DOCTOR WHO!
2.Torchwood
3.Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
4.Heroes
5.Avatar

[ngower]

Movies

1. Children of Men - I'd have completely forgotten about it had Jeff not said it. My favorite film of all time, watch it religiously.

2. Juno - Feel good movie of the year, smiled the whole way through, loved every second of it....well, minus the intro with Dwight.

3. Control - Massive Joy Division fan, waited for this for so long, bit of a let down, but still a fantastic movie.

4. Sunshine - My "nerd" film of the year, I love sci-fi and this was a great genre film.

5. Gone Baby Gone - I live in New England, they hit it dead on with everything in this flick.

Honorable mention to Stardust, the film that surprised me the most this year (in a good way).

Television

1. Heroes - Season One was ****ing ridiculous! No denying that.

2. The Hills - I'm sorry, I can't get enough of this show, the producers do an amazing job.

3. Battlestar Galactica - Again, ****ing insane!

4. Pushing Daisies - I haven't watched the last....4 or 5 episodes, but from what I had seen I loved this show, charming as all hell.

5. Internet TV - Ok...this is a kind of stupid pick, but all the stuff like Revision 3 popping up has blown me away, amazing free content available out there.

Games

1. Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 - This is definitely a "my pick" type of thing, this is my crack.

2. Football Manager 2008 - Again, can't get enough of this stuff.

3. Halo 3 - I don't even own the game anymore, but it was such an amazing experience from waiting in line, to online play with my friends from my old town etc.

4. Mass Effect - Only play a small bit of the game but I love it.

5. Metroid Prime 3 - Great game and the Wii controls made it sooooo good.

[gojira]

Movies- I'm mostly taking an Alex stance on this category (i.e. movies I enjoyed the most)
1. Transformers
2. Hot Fuzz
3. Superbad
4. Children of Men
5. Pan's Labyrinth

I'd also like to mention a very enjoyable return of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Videogames
1. Super Mario Galaxy
2. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
3. Picross DS
4. Contra 4
5. TMNT (GBA)

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is not on my list because I totally expected to get it for Xmas, but did not. :(

T.V.
1. Supernatural (end of second season is the highlight)
2. Reaper
3. The Office (mostly 3rd season)
4. My Name is Earl (mostly 2nd season)
5. Bones

A note for some reality TV that I enjoy, but don't really rank - So You Think You Can Dance, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

Podcasts
tie for #1 (I'm not being diplomatic, I seriously have trouble deciding which of these to watch first when they come out at the same time)
1. Geekscape/The Totally Rad Show
3. IGN's Wii-k in Review (because I'm a Nintendo fanboy)
4. 1upyours
5. Smodcast

One podcast which I with there were more episodes - 1up's Retronauts.

[potatohead]

I actually wrote a blog post on my personal blog site that outlined my "Best of the Year" awards. It's not exactly the same formating as theirs.

http://www.ajpapa.net/2007/12/22/ajs-otys-like-john-gotti/

[redbluejam]

Comics:
1. Walking Dead
2. Y the last man
3. One Last Day
4. Messiah Complex (so far)
5. Civil War (cant wait for cap to come back)

Movies
1. Transformers
2. 300
3. Reign over me
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Sicko
** Have not seen many movies since school started in sept.

Games
1. WoW

TV
1. Avatar
2. Studio 60 (why was it cancelled!!)
3. Battlestar
4. Lost
5. The Office

Music
1. All pearl jam

[tectec]

movies:

1. Juno
2. No Country For Old Men
3. Stardust
4. Into The Wild
5. The Orphanage

Honorable Mention: The Host, Superbad, Ratatouille, Michael Clayton, The King of Kong, The Bourne Ultimatum

I saw Pan's Labyrinth the night it opened in 06 or else that would be on the top of my list for 07.

Sooooo many great movies in 2007. I can't remember a year where I went to or enjoyed more movies than I did in 07.


tele:

1. Dexter
2. South Park
3. Weeds
4. Avatar: The Last Airbender
5. Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job

[jibbs02]

Since I haven't seen much TV or played many games this year I will give my top 10 movies of 2007.

1. Once
2. The Bourne Ultimatum
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Knocked Up
5. Rescue Dawn
6. Zodiac
7. 3:10 to Yuma
8. 28 Weeks Later
9. Black Snake Moan
10. The Simpsons Movie

I think it was a great year for movies but I can't remember a film in 07 that I enjoyed more then Once. The first scene in the music shop where Marketa and Glen perform "Falling Slowly" was spellbinding. Absolutely brilliant. I bought the soundtrack on iTunes before the Movie was over.

[digitalfirefly]

Movies
1. King of Kong
2. Transformers
3. Knocked Up
4. Zodiac
5. I Am Legend

Games
1. Portal
2. Rock Band
3. Mass Effect
4. Call of Duty 4
5. Super Mario Galaxy/Bioshock (tie)

TV
1. Lost
2. 30 Rock
3. How I Met Your Mother
4. Heroes
5. The Office

[wolfnotes]

My five favorite flicks:

1. Zodiac
2. Tekkonkinkreet (see IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831888/))
3. Grindhouse
4. Darjeeling Limited
5. This Is England

Best movies I haven't seen:
The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
and of course, There Will Be Blood

[stubadub]

Movies:
5) The Orphanage
4) Bourne Ultimatum
3) The Assasination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
2) Ratatouille
1) No Country For Old Men

TV Shows:
5) Curb Your Enthusiasm
4) The Office
3) Flight of the Conchords
2) 30 Rock
1) Lost

Games:
5) The Orange Box
4) Rock Band
3) Super Mario Galaxies
2) Bioshock
1) Call of Duty 4

Albums:
5) Daft Punk - Alive 2007
4) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2) Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
1) Radiohead - In Rainbows