2008: The Cinescape

Posted on Thursday, January 1st, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

You might remember /Film reader Matt Shapiro’s video “2007: A Year for Drama”, which went viral last year. Well Matt has returned with a retrospective music video for 2008, titled 2008: The Cinescape. I could go on about how incredible this video is, or how many great films we’ve seen over the last year, but I just want you to watch it. I’ve already watched it 3 times now. Enjoy.

List of Movies (in order of appearance):
-The Dark Knight
-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
-Wall-E
-Quantum of Solace
-Iron Man
-Defiance
-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
-Australia
-Forgetting Sarah Marshall
-Wall-E
-The Curious Case of Benjamin
-The Dark Knight
-Frost/Nixon
-Wall-E
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Slumdog Millionaire
-Milk
-Seven Pounds
-Revolutionary Road
-Pineapple Express
-Speed Racer
-Burn After Reading
-Ghost Town
-Revolutionary Road
-Quantum of Solace
-Rachel Getting Married
-Australia
-Role Models
-Choke
-The Tale of Despereaux
-Cloverfield
-Zack and Miri Make a Porno
-The Visitor
-Milk
-Be Kind Rewind
-Synecdoche, New York
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Doubt
-Wall-E
-W.
-Get Smart
-Iron Man
-Tropic Thunder
-Iron Man
-Tropic Thunder
-Doubt
-The Reader
-Happy-Go-Lucky
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-Valkyrie
-Frost/Nixon
-Yes Man
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Wrestler
-Revolutionary Road
-Snow Angels
-In Bruges
-Waltz with Bashir
-Wendy and Lucy
-Rachel Getting Married
-Get Smart
-Hamlet 2
-Hancock
-The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
-Cloverfield
-Wall-E
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
-The Day the Earth Stood Still
-The Dark Knight
-FADE OUT

-FADE IN
-The Dark Knight
-The Incredible Hulk
-Wall-E
-Seven Pounds
-Wendy and Lucy
-The Wrestler
-Australia
-The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
-The Dark Knight
-Wall-E
-Cloverfield
-Australia
-Miracle at St. Anna
-Waltz with Bashir
-Valkyrie
-Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
-Rachel Getting Married
-Pineapple Express
-The Dark Knight
-Defiance
-Che
-Valkyrie
-Australia
-Defiance
-Quantum of Solace
-Slumdog Millionaire
-The Wrestler
-Revolutionary Road
-The Dark Knight
-Defiance
-Australia
-Iron Man
-Cloverfield
-The Strangers
-Defiance
-Wall-E
-Slumdog Millionaire
-Revolutionary Road
-Synecdoche, New York
-Defiance
-Iron Man
-The Day the Earth Stood Still
-Waltz with Bashir
-The Dark Knight
-Australia
-The Wrestler
-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
-Cloverfield
-The Dark Knight
-Pineapple Express
-Defiance
-Rachel Getting Married
-Milk
-Quantum of Solace
-Defiance
-Kung Fu Panda
-Pineapple Express
-Seven Pounds
-The Wrestler
-Iron Man
-Eagle Eye
-Frost/Nixon
-Revolutionary Road
-The Reader
-Milk
-Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
-Gran Torino
-Che
-The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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  • Peter did you find this yourself or did somebody send it to you?
  • A /film reader named Matt Shapiro made the video
  • kapitan
    its been a damn good year!
  • Andrew
    Great work...like sideshowRaheem said I want to go back and watch all these movies.
  • Andrew
    Pretty sure this is everything. Although I still can't identity the shots at 2:30 and 2:40.

    The Dark Knight
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Wall-E
    Quantum of Solace
    Iron Man
    Defiance
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Australia
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    The Dark Knight
    Frost/Nixon
    Wall-E
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Milk
    Seven Pounds
    Revolutionary Road
    Pineapple Express
    Speed Racer
    Burn After Reading
    Ghost Town
    Revolutionary Road
    Quantum of Solace
    Rachel Getting Married
    Australia
    Role Models
    Choke
    The Tale of Despereaux
    Cloverfield
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    The Visitor
    Milk
    Be Kind Rewind
    Synecdoche, New York
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    Doubt
    Wall-E
    W.
    Get Smart
    Iron Man
    Tropic Thunder
    Doubt
    The Reader
    Happy Go Lucky
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    Valkyrie
    Frost/Nixon
    Yes Man
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Wrestler
    Revolutionary Road
    Snow Angels
    In Bruges
    Waltz with Bashir
    Wendy and Lucy
    Rachel Getting Married
    Get Smart
    Hamlet 2
    Hancock
    The Chronicles of Natnia: Prince Caspian
    Cloverfield
    Wall-E
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    The Dark Knight
    The Incredible Hulk
    Wall-E
    Seven Pounds
    Wendy and Lucy
    The Wrestler
    Australia
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    The Dark Knight
    Wall-E
    Cloverfield
    Australia
    ? - 2:30
    Waltz with Bashir
    Valkyrie
    Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantamano Bay
    Rachel Getting Married
    Pineapple Express
    The Dark Knight
    Defiance
    Che
    Valkyrie
    ? - 2:40
    Defiance
    Quantum of Solace
    Slumdog Millionaire
    The Wrestler
    Revolutionary Road
    The Dark Knight
    Defiance
    Australia
    Iron Man
    Cloverfield
    The Strangers
    Defiance
    Wall-E
    Slumdog Millionaire
    Revolutionary Road
    Synecdoche, New York
    Defiance
    Iron Man
    The Day the Earth Stood Still
    Waltz with Bashir
    The Dark Knight
    Australia
    The Wrestler
    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
    Cloverfield
    The Dark Knight
    Pineapple Express
    Defiance
    Rachel Getting Marred
    Milk
    Quantum of Solace
    Defiance
    King Fu Panda
    Pineapple Express
    Seven Pounds
    The Wrestler
    Iron Man
    Eagle Eye
    Frost/Nixon
    Revolutionary Road
    The Reader
    Milk
    Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
    Grand Torino
    Che
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  • Raj
    2:30 = 'Tropic Thunder'
    2:40 = 'Valkyrie'
  • Andrew
    I see both Peter and kacedude beat me to it. Oh, well...
  • rodkeys
    This should be the opening for the Academy Awards! Amazing song and editing.
  • Stranger
    Agreed!!!!
  • awesome.
  • Shame more soundtracks don't feature Sigur Ros, their music is amazing.
  • Justin
    With the exception of Defiance, Wendy and Lucy, Seven Pounds, and Revolutionary Road, I've seen everything in that video. It WAS a good year for film, I hope this is year I start to work in the industry.
  • The song makes the clip great. Easily. Sigur Ros is awesome at producing epic yet transcendental music...
  • No Transporter 3?
  • The Joker Argento
    Excellent montage! Congratulations to the maker of this video. From Argentina. L
  • optimusprime
    Movies that i saw this year:
    1. Cloverfield
    2. Rambo
    3. Strange Wilderness
    4. Jumper
    5. Vantage Point
    6. 10,000 B.C
    7. Doomsday
    8. Stop-Loss
    9. The Ruins
    10. Street Kings
    11. The Forbidden Kingdom
    12. Iron Man (twice)
    13. Harold and Kumar 2
    14. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
    15. Indiana Jones 4
    16. The Strangers
    17. The Incredible Hulk
    18. Wanted
    19. Kung Fu Panda
    20. Hancock
    21. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
    22. Journey to the Center of the Earth
    23. The Dark Knight (twice)
    24. The Mummy 3
    25. Pineapple Express
    26. Tropic Thunder
    27. Death Race
    28. Bangkok Dangerous
    29. Eagle Eye
    30. Quarantine
    31. Max Payne
    32. Sex Drive
    33. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
    34. Zack and Miri
    35. Quantum of Solace
    36. Transporter 3
    37. The Day the Earth Stood Still
    38. Valkyrie
  • Great! I was quite pleased with myself seeing the majority of those films. I watched the 2007 one...not to good lol
  • *tear...I love movies
  • NO HELLBOY?!?!?!?!

    Oh well, It's awesome =D

    (oh, and they also forgot The Spirit, even though it wasn't that good)
  • Great video. Now I have a constant reminder of films that I missed and absolutely NEED to see. Nice Work!
  • Starfox
    Bonus points for Sigur Ros. Perfect compliment to the clips.

    But why so many repeats? Certainly many many films were left out in favor of repeated clips of the big ones.
  • The video was pretty good. I enjoyed every second of it.
  • Leisl
    Amazing video, feeling very emotional now!
  • That was very very cool...and the music was epic...
  • J. P.
    Bloody Brilliant!
  • peter, have you made a top movies of 08 list? i would like to see it. you, chensky, and hunter should all do it
  • Good clip. Maybe a bit too much Dark Knight (but who's against that?)
  • Olly
    this was movie made some of the movies in it look better than they actually were. this guy should be doing the montages for the Academy Awards (if he isn't already, who knows?)
  • awesome
  • I just watched Snow Angels last night. Fantastic movie...but wasn't that from 2007? Not 2008?

    That was still a kick ass video though. Loved it.
  • Loved it. Really Cool. I didn't see all those films and this dissapoints me. But one question, where's The Changeling ? Where's one of the greatest film of 2008 ? Where's Angelina Jolie's great performance ? Maybe he forgot it but I think, it's sad ... Though that, what a wonderful year with a lot of great productions like The Dark Knight ! I hope 2009 will be the same, or better !
    Happy New Year 2009 to everyone !
  • The ones I saw:


    The Dark Knight (seven times in theatres, three times on dvd so far)
    Wall-E
    Iron Man (three times in theatres, once on dvd)
    Forgetting Sarah Marshall
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    Frost/Nixon
    Milk
    Seven Pounds (hated it)
    Pineapple Express
    Burn After Reading
    Role Models
    Choke
    Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    Be Kind Rewind
    Get Smart (hated it)
    Tropic Thunder
    The Wrestler
    Snow Angels
    In Bruges
    Hamlet 2
    The Incredible Hulk
    Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (hated it)
    The Strangers
    Kung Fu Panda
    Gran Torino
    Hellboy 2
    Sex Drive
    Baby Mama (hated it...but I still love Tina Fey)
    The Bank Job
    How To Lose Friends and Alienate People
    Leatherheads (hated it)
    Man on Wire
    Midnight Meat Train (hated the ending)
    Splinter
    Step Brothers
    Stop Loss
    Street Kings
    Wanted (hated it's absurdity)
    and half of Twilight (it was all that I could stand)
  • great! WHAT SOFTWARE DID YOU USE TO MAKE THIS? CAN YOU MAKE IT WITH DVD'S TOO? THANKS!
  • jason B
    very, very cool...but shoulda ended with the Gran Torino shot - eastwood shooting at the camera is so profound/beautiful/epic/symbolic and all out badass.
  • TylerJ
    Fuck yes, Sigur ros. Are they becoming popular now or is this guy just that cool?
  • mcgruff
    i wish. more like this song has been popular in trailers for a couple of years. and it works smashingly here as well.
  • I'd rather here this than the Requim music. Every time I see a trailer (or anything else) with that music, it immediately turns me off.
  • I'd rather hear this than the Requim music. Every time I see a trailer (or anything else) with that music, it immediately turns me off.
  • ianvanwoods
    Where's JCVD? C'mon everyone, go see this movie. haha
  • That was great it makes me wanna re-watch every film I've seen this year even the bad ones.
  • this video is amazing!!!!
  • aaaaaaaaa
    speed racer?
  • That was bloody awful. Trite, dull, pointless, semi-slick in places but... well, just witless. Where's the imagination? I'm sorry Matt, but unless you're looking to build a CV specifically to get a job cutting the most insipid, anodyne trailers ever made then you'd be better doing something else with your abilities.
  • Joe
    Despite only seeing about 18 films from '08 at this point, I recognized all of those movies. I'd have appreciated it a lot more if all the shots weren't from trailers. Still, I'm a sucker for Hoppipolla.
  • cmarius
    Anyone know which movie the cell-shaded scenes were taken from? Also, yay for sigur ros.
  • Pavelz
    It's Waltz with Bashir indeed. Israeli movie.
    Oh yes, and this video totally rocks! Great year it was
  • If I had to recommend one 'foreign' film from last year it would be 'Waltz With Bashir'. It's a beautifully horrific animated-documentary, yet unlike Palmer I was lucky as it was only shown in my cinema (Sheffield, England) for three days and I managed to stumble upon it as I stumbled in one cold wintery afternoon. Hopefully it'll get a wider release, or even better that the DVD/Blu-Ray will be released very soon.
  • Palmer
    Waltz with Bashir. I really want to see but alas, it's not playing in any theater close by.
  • I'm highly amused that where the music gets triumphant, he just showcases explosions. But it's still a very good video.
  • George Kaplan
    That opening shot of the Joker flicking the knife open as he lurches down the street reminds me how much I wish that shot made it into the film.
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