Before You Go, Part 3: Ten Questions About My Top Ten Movies of 2007

Blood Fire
single 700-word column
list
1.
There Will Be Blood
2.
No Country for Old Men
3.
Superbad
Knocked Up
4.
I'm Not There
5.
Margot at the Wedding
6.
Offside
7.
The Host
8.
King Corn
9.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
10.
Breach
1. Why should we trust your opinion?
Under my previous employ,
Squid and the Whale
Walk the Line
King Kong
2. Isn't There Will Be Blood actually the best movie of 2008?
The Far From Hollywood Film Society
Children of Men
There Will Be Blood
3. Is There Will Be Blood that much better than No Country for Old Men?
Blood
No Country
No Country
Blood
Scott Foundas
Blood
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
4. Isn't Knocked Up, like, sexist?
Knocked Up
5. Isn't Superbad, like, stupid?
McLovin
6. I'm Not There isn't the best movie of the year? But it's Todd Haynes! It's Bob Dylan! It's Portland!
I'm Not There
Margot at the Wedding
7. What about Once?
Once
8. What other movies made your Honorable Mentions list?
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Darjeeling Limited
Hotel Chevalier
Deep Water, Eastern Promises, Hot Fuzz, I Like Killing Flies, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, No End in Sight, Outsourced, Zodiac,
Charlie Wilson's War
Juno
Outsourced
I Like Killing Flies
Outsourced
9. What were the worst movies of the year?
Sicko
Cave of the Yellow Dog
Inland Empire
Norbit
Rendition
King Corn
10. Why does your paper hate Philip Seymour Hoffman so much?
Chris Eigeman.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
AP Kryza
N. P. Thompson.

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