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Post by e0 on Jan 18, 2012 18:51:17 GMT -5
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Post by bwwyyyy on Jan 18, 2012 20:06:14 GMT -5
2011 is the best year for movies since I started reviewing movies professionally back in 1998.
1999?
Being John Malkovich The Matrix American Beauty Office Space
+Fight Club if you're Mikey +The Green Mile if you take your reading suggestions from TCF +The Sixth Sense if you like shitty twist movies +Eyes Wide Shut if you give an appropriate amount of damn about Kubrick +The Mummy +Toy Story 2 if you're NFG +Never Been Kissed +She's All That +8MM +Entrapment if you like pre-Douglas-Zeta-Jones-butt +Wild Wild West +Analyze This +Southpark Movie +Varsity Blues
IOW--no f'ing way
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Post by e0 on Jan 18, 2012 20:36:36 GMT -5
During an online poll run by a hoops site I fully backed She's all that as the ultimate 90s movie. I lost to the things I hate about you.
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Post by e0 on Jan 18, 2012 21:15:14 GMT -5
Also worth noting, A Serious Man may end up my favorite film of 2010. It's certainly become my most re-watched at three x now.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Jan 18, 2012 21:17:26 GMT -5
I never ended up watching that...or anything else from 2010 besides the Oscar winner to keep Mrs. bow's Oscar Winner Watching streak alive.
I like the Coen Brothers, so I may have to watch this now. Then be irritated with you when you waste a DVD's worth of my money on a meh movie.
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Post by flats on Jan 19, 2012 2:07:43 GMT -5
I'm excited for that new movie about Liam Neason punching wolves.
Pretty sure it's called "WolfPuncher!"
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Post by e0 on Jan 19, 2012 12:22:41 GMT -5
<-- punches cats and dogs just to annoy bow
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Post by flats on Jan 21, 2012 0:11:07 GMT -5
The Artist is a Meg Ryan rom com that's gonna win best picture for being silent.
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Post by bobharris on Jan 21, 2012 11:03:22 GMT -5
Also worth noting, Avatar may end up my favorite film of 2010. It's certainly become my most re-watched at three x now. Fixed for NFG.
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Post by e0 on Jan 21, 2012 12:39:34 GMT -5
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Post by ned on Jan 21, 2012 14:53:02 GMT -5
^ Looks hysterical
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Post by vecseysbeard on Jan 24, 2012 13:15:07 GMT -5
Soooo.....the Oscar Noms....it's gotta be Descendants (snobs like it) or maybe Moneyball?
What an awful list.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Jan 24, 2012 14:30:44 GMT -5
Awarding Hugo seems like the lame Oscary thing to do, so I say they'll do that. And how can any self-respecting snob take a George Clooney movie seriously? Ocean's 11 = maximized Clootential.
On an unrelated note, I like that THE NEBULOUS THEY made an entire movie out of the final battle scene in Superman II:
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Post by Bot on Jan 24, 2012 15:06:47 GMT -5
Chronicle looks interesting in the sci-fi popcorn movie sense. Not going to win any Oscars, but it could be a good time.
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Post by e0 on Jan 26, 2012 23:42:44 GMT -5
Vince from Friday Night Lights is in Chronicle = it wins
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Post by flats on Feb 12, 2012 15:53:48 GMT -5
Finally got around to seeing Blue Valentine.
I liked it.
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Post by koesters on Feb 14, 2012 16:59:49 GMT -5
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Post by e0 on Feb 15, 2012 15:08:40 GMT -5
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Post by vecseysbeard on Feb 16, 2012 16:32:47 GMT -5
The Grey: not as bad/cheeseball/cliche/boring as you think.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Feb 17, 2012 22:32:00 GMT -5
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Post by e0 on Feb 18, 2012 12:37:08 GMT -5
I'm impressed you stumbled into that.
HIGH HOPES
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Post by bwwyyyy on Feb 18, 2012 14:05:21 GMT -5
Finally watched The Ghost Writer off of my DVR last night (need to clear more room for college hoops!), and I was trying to figure out where I might have recognized Brosnan Movie Wife from. She's in that POS.
^Nothing to be impressed by.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Feb 18, 2012 14:15:07 GMT -5
Speaking of watching The Ghost Writer, I'd recorded it during a free Showtime month, and something was very strange about it.
There were plenty of swear words, but several times an obvious swear word/phrase was dubbed over. WTF? Does Showtime have its own standards of acceptable language? If so, that's weird.
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Post by Orenthal on Feb 18, 2012 22:17:33 GMT -5
Speaking of watching Ghost Rider...
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Post by e0 on Feb 23, 2012 22:10:50 GMT -5
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Post by bwwyyyy on Feb 27, 2012 11:42:56 GMT -5
So, between Tom Hanks & Meryl Streep, who do you think does a better job of convincing lots of people that they're super awesome, while consistently appearing in movies that are thoroughly forgettable?
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Post by Orenthal on Feb 27, 2012 14:10:25 GMT -5
Tome Hanks and that seat filler guy. Oh Tom Hanks by far! He was in Cleveland once.
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Post by bobharris on Mar 18, 2012 23:43:15 GMT -5
Way, way behind here.
Mission Impossible 4 : meh
This got some critical love and I'm not sure why.
The Good: There's a few cool spy-tricks that take place. Simon Pegg is good, NFG was right in that it would be a better movie with him as the lead. And that's actually Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (<-- his real name) jumping around on the world's tallest building (<-- not looking that name up). Impressive, he could totally farm that out to stuntmen at this point. TCM4 must not worry about death. He's got space heaven to look forward to. Or whatever it is that Scientologists believe happens to you when you die.
The Bad: Renner is underused. The lead chick is not hot enough/good actressing enough. And how many times exactly are we going to be treated to the whole," After the fall of the CCCP, there was a rogue ultra-nationalist general/colonel/adviser who still really, really, really wanted WW3 to happen" crap? Rocky IV was 27 years ago.
Chronicle: meh
The Good: You get the impression that this is probably what would happen if teenagers actually got superpowers. The actors do a good job of conveying this. The special effects also work to this end.
The Bad: This operates as one of those "found footage" films.
In full disclosure, I should admit that I got really wrapped up in the Blair Witch thing until about two weeks before the premier. It was a great marketing technique, then. Now, when I still have to tell people from work the "The Fourth Kind" isn't real, it is really irritating. That's not really here nor there with this one. It's also thankfully not too herky-jerky with the camera. What is does struggle with, however, is finding a reason why something would be recorded. "Here I am, doing nothing but the plot-concerned hating of others, better use my super-powers to keep a camera aloft!"
Not to mention the preposterous foreshadowing/plotting: three dudes get this power. One of which is horrendously bullied in school and has a cookie-cutter alcoholic abusive dad. Man, I wonder what he will use this other-worldly power for?
Warrior: heh
The Good: One of those films that you know from the get go isn't going to stumble over stupid shit. Good actors, good direction and etc. The only chance here for the suck is a terrible plot.
Also, Tom Hardy may be on actual roids. He may be that method/stupid or both. Either way, at certain points in the film, he seems like the last dude on earth that you'd want to fuck with.
The Bad: In something like this, it depends on how you feel about the way it ends. Everything else is top-notch, but who knows how you'll like the conclusion?
SPOILER I thought it could be better.
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Post by bobharris on Mar 30, 2012 23:04:58 GMT -5
The Hunger Games: meh+ Wasn't real excited to see this. When I saw the preview a few months back, it was the first time I had ever heard of it. One of my friends is a teacher and his students had been telling him for months that he HAD to see it. So I agreed to. A bit of preliminary research led me to believe that it was basically The Running Man (a favorite of mine from the 80's) for the Harry Potter/Twilight (not so favorite of mine) set. Not exactly encouraging. The Good: There's a little bit of Brazil thrown in there too, at least when it comes to set/costume design. That helps. A solid cast and some pretty good action. And the rules of the game differ from The Running Man in that long term survival plays a part. Being able to fend for yourself in the woods is important because we're told that the games can take weeks/months to conclude. I thought that was interesting.
The Bad: That interesting tweak that I mentioned after the spoiler? Yeah, they pretty much eliminate all of that, possibly for plot-expediency/transference from a long novel reasons. There are also some characters that seem to be underdeveloped, probably for the latter reason above.
Also the PG-13 rating. The child-on-child violence would be a lot more resonant without it. Of course, I'm not exactly the target audience, to be sure.
The target audience. I had grossly underestimated the popularity of this thing. I figured a midnight show would mitigate me have to deal with annoying kids, much to my chagrin. They had it on five screens, four of which were sold out. Thankfully we were in the half-full fifth one. But I still had to get in and out of the theater complex. When we left the theater at 3AM, there were frigging parents pulled up to the curb to pick up their kids like freshman fucking homecoming (which I did not attend).
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Post by bwwyyyy on Mar 30, 2012 23:27:04 GMT -5
You should have stood out front, repeatedly screaming into your cellphone: "Mommmm! Where the F ARE YOU!??!?!"
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