With the Summer 08 movie season drawing to a close, which do you think was the best film?

Without Batman, the box office would've been stagnant compared to last year, when sequels dominated the box office led by Spiderman's third and weakest outing. Batman easily outgrossed Iron Man by nearly $200 million, and I was there on opening day. I plan on seeing it again either on Bluray or with some friends or relatives that haven't seen the movie already. As of right now, it's still playing in theaters, while the only other summer movie that's playing is the second-to-last one I saw, Tropic Thunder. One omission is Pineapple Express, which is a great stoner comedy.

While "The Dark Knight" fits the bill of a great summer movie, I was exceptionaly surprised at the enjoyment I had watching "Henry Poole Is Here."

Why isn't Wall-E on this list? It was the best film of the decade!

Without a doubt, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona".

I found "The Dark Knight" to be just another loud, fake, overlong, choppy edited series of digital images resulting in an action movie without a soul. I cannot understand all the hype. If this can make half a billion dollars, we can certainly expect more dumb noise makers to come.

I agree. There are way too many movies based on other forms of media...that is why some of the better movies of the year usually come out during the fall, like Burn After Reading, which I can't wait to see.

The Hulk? Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Narnia? Get Smart? Wanted? Yikes! What awful films to put up for a vote for best picture of the summer. I know, I know.......If I don't like the selection, I should have submitted my own poll with intelligent choices. :-)

Nonetheless, I voted for Sex and the City. I thought it was an incredibly well made film that was funny and poingnant at the same time. It was also great to see people (almost exclusively women and gay men) go in big groups to see a film while all dressed up for a night on the town afterwards. It was great fun.

I'm going to see Tropic Thunder tonight.

"Roman de Gare." What a travesty that that one wasn't among the choices. I also was intrigued by "Trumbo" (about the writer Dalton Trumbo).

Other favorite Summer films: The Dark Knight, Hellboy II, Mongol, Roman de Gare.

I did not like Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Probably one of Allen's worst films, it being nothing more than Allen's masturbatory reel to Johansson with really bad narration. Can't believe it was a hit and his last two (in which he actually attempted something different) weren't.

But then you also called "Wall-E" "The best film of the decade"

...sigh!

Wall-E is something different. How many other films are romantic comedies about robots in a post-apocalyptic future who fall in love and have the title character go across the galaxy to prove it?

If you want to know me even further, The Godfather Part II is my all-time favorite film and Memento is my second favorite film of the decade.

I saw "Wall E" as an anti-globalization propaganda film aimed at kids and starring the robot from "Short Circuit". Robot love never seems to end well due to programming differences.

By the way, "The Dark Knight" is ahead of "The Godfather Part II" on IMDB.COM. Can you believe it?

No Wall-E?

While my alltime favorite film is still "West Side Story", I believe that "The Dark Knight" is the best film made this year, although I saw "Frozen River", which was good, too. So was "Constantine's Sword".

While I've basically given up on summer blockbusters as a rule, I ended up breaking that rule more times than I thought I would this summer. I saw IRON MAN because it was the first time this story was brought to the screen and I figures it had as good a chance as the first SPIDERMAN or X-MEN. IT SUCKED! I saw INDIANA JONES because I love Steven Spielberg and I'm willing to give anything he makes a fair chance. IT REALLY SUCKED. Finally, I did see THE DARK KNIGHT almost under protest because the the positive reaction from audiences and critics were almost impossible to ignore. Well, strike me down for saying it, but I have to admit that I loved it, despite being the 6th Batman film since 1989! Excellent script and very well-acted. So it got my vote for best summer film of 2008.

On the independent side, I have to give very, very strong points for THE VISITOR; a wonderful and simple tale about cross-cultures in NYC as seen through the eyes of a college professor and his desire to learn to play African drums. Excellent film!

Indiana Jones was a bit over the top, especially the scene where he hides in a fridge during an atomic test, but I like over the top. You Don't Mess with the Zohan was quite funny as was Get Smart which didn't make Maxwell Smart look like an idiot. Wanted and Sex in the City were surprisngly good but Wall-E and Narnia were disappointments.

The worst film I saw this summer were "The Strangers" which was plain trash and "College" an abysmal comedy that luckily bombed. These would be followed by Mamma Mia (so bad even camp couldn't save it), Death Race (how could Joan Allen fall so low)and Love Guru (outside the musical sequences and a few gags just too much potty humor and too many repeats of earlier gags Mike Myers has done).

Am glad I'm in such fairly large (for now) company in 'none of the above' category, how I voted. That tells me the smaller indie or limited releases won many over enough to make 'em go out to see them. I saw the listed titles except WANTED and HULK. B:TDK and I-M were pretty good rides but didn't floor me. TofT gets some marks for its outrageousness, and GS seemed to blow a lot of its good gags in the trailer. IJ4 I'm somewhat embarrassed to say was, despite a good opening reel, just silly business. And I'm sure glad (as apparently are others) MammaMia didn't rate a votelist position. So my pick was the now playing FROZEN RIVER. A depressing story I can hear you saying, but containing 10 tons of naturalistic emotion that you will have you in its grip. It was the winner from 7 titles I was able to squeeze in the Labor Day wknd.

AlA above I see went w/ V-C-B, and despite a poor review it's doing much better Woody Allen film business here in Chi-town I'm noticing. Good.

Lastly I'll mention another limited - ELEGY, also starring Penelope Cruz. To sum it up, it makes a guy like me melt in his theatre seat. Don't be shy, see it, it's still playing.

Wow, something actually paid to see College? That looked like straight-to-video trash even back in February when I saw the trailer (back when Lionsgate was to have distributed it over MGM).

I should also add The Wackness under my favorite Summer films. That and Charlie Bartlett are beat American Pie (Porky's clone) and Mean Girls (Heathers clone) any day.

Err, that should say someone.

You didn't ask which was a really great movie, or I fear all would have come short. You asked what was the best of the summer. For me it was "something else"...something way, way else! The most enjoyable times I've had at the movies in quite some time was at the B-Movie Festival at the Cinema 14 de lux in Milford. Sure, the visual standards could have been better, but this series proved that the movies of summers in years back can always beat todaay's movies. Laugh if you will, but watching "Teenagers From Outer Space" or "Robot Monster" what an audience that truly had a great time with these flicks was a very entertaining experience. When they did not have millions to shell out for overblown talent and the only special effects available were a lobster (Teenagers) or the Billion-Bubble Machine (RM) somehow the product had a value of amusement and entertainment that money cannot buy. Not to mention the low admission price and the posters I won...

FROZEN RIVER

I really was let down by THE DARK KNIGHT. THE INCREDIBLE HULK was just plain awful. WANTED, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS and HANCOCK started off promising and were so-so after all was said and done. FROZEN RIVER was the best film of the Summer along with WALL-E, I also enjoyed SEX & THE CITY.

I'm with Vicky Cristina Barcelona. It signifies the return of Woody Allen as a director. It was just solid throughout and Penelope Cruz actually showed me that she really can act!!

The other movie that I truly liked was a gumchew Kit Kittredge:An American Girl.

I didn't care for Batman at all. The subtitle of that movie should have been: Thieving, Lying, Superhero Acts Part Of Wayward Law Official Disregards the Law and Protects Friend While Grieving Families Suffer Needlessly Thinking It Was Him That Killed Five People..