HughGRection on 3/1/2011 at 16:31
Play the ball(sack), not the player.
Next!
Queue on 3/1/2011 at 16:37
....put me in my place.
fuck
bukary on 3/1/2011 at 17:23
The most interesting ones from 2010:
(
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0947798/) Black Swan. After incredible The Fountain and average (IMHO) The Wrestler Aronofsky made a movie that is both interesting and intelligent. I really liked this story of a girl exploring her unconsciousness and breaking free from white swan's innocent mentality and toxic mother control by becoming a black swan on the stage. Natalie Portman, Barbara Hershey and Winona Ryder were brillant here. If you like Roman Polanski's films, this one is also for you. By the way, another great score by Clint Mansell (and Tchaikovsky). 10/10
(I've just found out that Aronofsky is directing (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430132/) The Wolverine) :wot:
(
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139328/) The Ghost Writer and (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/) Shutter Island. The best thrillers of 2010. I really loved the mood, set decorations, photography, acting, direction of these films.
The Great Game. The third episode in (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1475582/) Sherlock TV series. It's not a movie per se (although its running time is 90 minutes), but it could be considered as one. The most astonishing criminal story from year 2010. Brillant in every aspect. Just like the whole show. 10/10
In 2010 I also saw two great films from 2009: (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149362/) The White Ribbon and (
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1485698/) The Dark House. Both were extraoridinary and terryfing. The study of evil. 10/10.
Toy Story 3. My daughter loves it.
Oh, Inception was ok and could be so much better. ;)
My prize for The Most Uninteresting And Uninspiring Movie That Many People Liked goes to:
(
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477080/) Unstoppable.
And what's with this Hot Tub Time Machine? I've started watching this but gave up after 20 minutes. Stupid and not funny at all. Should I give it a second try?
Queue on 3/1/2011 at 19:19
I don't know how I forgot this one, which wasn't released here until February, 2010: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
While some critics will say it's not up to par this is Gilliam in his element, allowing his imagination to strip naked and see just what gets fucked, and was truly one of my most favorite films of this past year. I really liked the metaphor for his own life that made its way into the film, of an aging "practitioner of the art of storytelling" who is discovering that no one wants to hear his stories anymore.
henke on 3/1/2011 at 22:24
Ah yeah, Doctor Parnassus, I liked that one. But not enough to include it on my top10.
Yeah I was just browsing IMDb and I noticed that too. I had a look at the forums and it seems that the big question no everyone's mind is: what the fuck.
SubJeff on 4/1/2011 at 01:07
Damn right what the fuck. He's supposed to be doing the Robocop reboot :mad:
Fafhrd on 4/1/2011 at 02:23
That died, like, two years ago, dude.
Scots Taffer on 4/1/2011 at 11:21
Well hey it must be Oscar season because I've got the ripe pick of all the screeners that I won't be able to see in the cinemas.
Tonight is The Fighter. Tomorrow Black Swan. Night after Animal Kingdom. Wheee! :D
edit: That was a solid flick, elevated beyond predictable tripe by good acting (even by manchild Wahlberg) and a well-paced story. Bale's physical commitment is always something to behold but the veritable rogue's gallery that makes up the sisters of the principle characters was the more terrifying of the two.
june gloom on 4/1/2011 at 17:43
One of my humourless friends gave me (
http://likeawhisper.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/scott-pilgrim-vs-my-sanity-spoilers/) this humourless review of Scott Pilgrim. We'd gotten into a fight over the movie because she found it racist, sexist hipster tripe (sexist and hipster, yes, and not without good reason, racist and without value what.) I asked her where the fuck the racism came in and she just linked me to that review because she didn't feel like explaining it in her own words. I lost the plot around the bit where the author took the Todd punching Knives scene completely at face value and viewed it as a celebration of male-on-female violence because nobody really says or does anything (until Scott flips his shit a few minutes later, anyway.) Also the whole "OMG THIS IS INSULTING TO VEGANS" was so spectacularly missing the point I don't even know where to begin.
I need new friends.
SubJeff on 4/1/2011 at 22:38
You certainly do. There a lot of things wrong with Scott Pilgrim but none of them are in that review.
