This one goes to 11

If you polled some popcorn-chomping multiplex rats (the ones who don't read reviews, or newspapers for that matter, and think that "Hitman" rocked -- oh, kids today) and mixed that with a slightly more discriminating crowd (Pinot-sipping, subtitle-reading poseurs) you'd come up with a list of favorite films from 2007 that looks a lot like ours. That's because it is ours. Trotting out our split personality for all to ridicule, here are the mostest-good movies, in no particular order:

"No Country for Old Men"
"Lars and the Real Girl"
"3:10 to Yuma"
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
"300"
"Michael Clayton"
"Live Free or Die Hard"
"Sweeney Todd"
"I Am Legend"
"The Host"
"Waitress"

We'll cop out further with some honorable mentions: "Once," "The Simpsons Movie," "Knocked Up," "Grindhouse," "The Bourne Ultimatum," "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" and "Eastern Promises."

There's plenty of quality left out (remember "The Hoax?" How about "Starting out in the Evening," which should be this year's "Venus" at Oscar time but probably won't be). It's somewhat devoid of Important Films, because we, like the rank and file movie-goer, sometimes just want to escape and be entertained. Is that so wrong?

We've included a few movies that will never win awards from any critics' groups. Ever.

There are a number of Oscar front-runners missing -- "Atonement," "The Kite Runner, "Juno" -- but we're not noting them because we just weren't that blown away and we'd rather tip our hat to daring, charming, ripped abs and Bruce Willis' over-50 action stud. Plus, we think people take this stuff (and themselves, for that matter) way way WAY too seriously.

So, call us crazy, schizophrenic or any other debilitating clinical or non-clinical label you want. But these are our picks and we're sticking to them. We'll now brace ourselves for the inevitable barrage of nitpicking, sniping and outright needling. Go ahead -- we're kind of a wide-open target here.

Trying to be bigger people, we'll refrain from telling you how harshly we're judging all your lame choices. Well, not really, so check in later for what we hope will be some completely subjective and below-the-belt punches traded with various "critics." What are you waiting for?