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i am a huge film dork so every year i pick my five favorites and do my best to recommend them to others. what is interesting is that sometimes i dont end up seeing one till early the next year. like in 07 my favorite was There Will Be Blood but i didnt see it until january 2008.
anyway my fav five are:
1. Let the Right One In (...just saw it today actually) 2. Slumdog Millionaire 3. In Bruges 4. The Dark Knight 5. Burn After Reading
Post by crazykittensmile on Jan 24, 2009 13:16:58 GMT -5
in no particular order: the wrestler milk the dark knight iron man burn after reading
*haven't seen slumdog millionaire, frost/nixon, revolutionary road, benjamin button, in bruges, let the right one in, gran torino, the reader, W, happy go lucky...yet
i am a huge film dork so every year i pick my five favorites and do my best to recommend them to others. what is interesting is that sometimes i dont end up seeing one till early the next year. like in 07 my favorite was There Will Be Blood but i didnt see it until january 2008.
anyway my fav five are:
1. Let the Right One In (...just saw it today actually) 2. Slumdog Millionaire 3. In Bruges 4. The Dark Knight 5. Burn After Reading
really??!! there will be blood. I just watched that movie like 2 days ago and thought it was the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen. I mean I was actually pissed that I wasted over 2 hrs of my life on that garbage. Now I am a big film fan, an intelligent person and have a very open mind but this movie just sucked. I can deal with slow paced movies if they are intelligent and have some great story or moral point this was just booring. I mean it had nothing going on in it I kept waiting for something to actually happen or at least for some message to be portrayed and was left empty. Finally like an hour into the movie his 'son' becomes blind which could have (and I guess if you want to give it some merit was...) been a real focal point in the movie. But it really just fell flat and remained undeveloped with no scene really able to captivate me in any way. None of the characters were well developed ,either, leaving you not really giving a poop about any of them. Plus there were so many things that just made no sense or were just forced to try (unsuccessfully) to give the film depth. and the score was atrocious. that all said I do see what the movie was about and what the director was trying to show us. Greed and how it corrupts even the holiest of men ( i use holy very lightly here {{holy bullshit more like}} for the Eli character) the story just did not 'do it' for me. But to each his own. Way overrated IMO
I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right---P.T. Barnum "As I was walking up the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish to God he'd go away."
i am a huge film dork so every year i pick my five favorites and do my best to recommend them to others. what is interesting is that sometimes i dont end up seeing one till early the next year. like in 07 my favorite was There Will Be Blood but i didnt see it until january 2008.
anyway my fav five are:
1. Let the Right One In (...just saw it today actually) 2. Slumdog Millionaire 3. In Bruges 4. The Dark Knight 5. Burn After Reading
really??!! there will be blood. I just watched that movie like 2 days ago and thought it was the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen. I mean I was actually pissed that I wasted over 2 hrs of my life on that garbage. Now I am a big film fan, an intelligent person and have a very open mind but this movie just sucked. I can deal with slow paced movies if they are intelligent and have some great story or moral point this was just booring. I mean it had nothing going on in it I kept waiting for something to actually happen or at least for some message to be portrayed and was left empty. Finally like an hour into the movie his 'son' becomes blind which could have (and I guess if you want to give it some merit was...) been a real focal point in the movie. But it really just fell flat and remained undeveloped with no scene really able to captivate me in any way. None of the characters were well developed ,either, leaving you not really giving a poop about any of them. Plus there were so many things that just made no sense or were just forced to try (unsuccessfully) to give the film depth. and the score was atrocious
The son was deaf not blind. And the way you write makes me think you're probably not an intelligent film fan, just an intelligent person who didn't get a particular movie.
really??!! there will be blood. I just watched that movie like 2 days ago and thought it was the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen. I mean I was actually pissed that I wasted over 2 hrs of my life on that garbage. Now I am a big film fan, an intelligent person and have a very open mind but this movie just sucked. I can deal with slow paced movies if they are intelligent and have some great story or moral point this was just booring. I mean it had nothing going on in it I kept waiting for something to actually happen or at least for some message to be portrayed and was left empty. Finally like an hour into the movie his 'son' becomes blind which could have (and I guess if you want to give it some merit was...) been a real focal point in the movie. But it really just fell flat and remained undeveloped with no scene really able to captivate me in any way. None of the characters were well developed ,either, leaving you not really giving a poop about any of them. Plus there were so many things that just made no sense or were just forced to try (unsuccessfully) to give the film depth. and the score was atrocious
The son was deaf not blind. And the way you write makes me think you're probably not an intelligent film fan, just an intelligent person who didn't get a particular movie.
My bad right deaf sorry about that. I just edited my original post (before I read your comment ) because after re-reading it I figured I would get the exact comment you gave here. I think you'll see that I did 'get' what the movie was trying to portray it just was not moving for me and I thought it was poorly depicted and overlong but like I said to each his own. hey what a booring world this would be if we all liked the same things
I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right---P.T. Barnum "As I was walking up the stairs I met a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today I wish to God he'd go away."
^^Very true on the variety of tastes making things interesting. And without strong opinions, life would be rather dull, right? Glad we don't live in a world where vanilla is the only flavor of ice cream.
Has anyone else seen Revolutionary Road? I've not spoken to anyone else who's seen it, but I think it was amazing.
I liked it. I kind of think it was slightly misread. The book is more a satire about the folly of people who buy into their own superiority, and I think the movie sort of made it more about the suburbs being a trap and turned it into a tragedy. That said, I don't think I've ever seen DiCaprio turn in a better performance, and actually thought if anyone was snubbed at the oscar nominations, it was him not Eastwood. The ending was pretty fantastic too.
But yeah, I just had a problem with Winslet in the main role. I think she misread it, and I think her husband probably didn't do a great job of reeling her in. Her strength is finding great sympathy for her characters but in doing so, I think she completely misread this one. I tend to think someone like Amy Adams would have been a better choice. Maybe not her, but someone like her.
Last Edit: Jan 24, 2009 15:04:30 GMT -5 by dudezer47 - Back to Top
The movie's still good though. Definitely didn't get the recognition it should have. It lingers with you awhile which is a great quality for a movie. Have you seen Little Children?
Last Edit: Jan 24, 2009 15:08:31 GMT -5 by dudezer47 - Back to Top
Yes. I liked it a bit, as well... not as much as Revolutionary Road, but still a very good movie. Those "suburban dramas" are films that I particularly like.
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maybe not, but it was my least favorite flick i saw in theatres in 08, maybe the rest were just really good, so it didn't fare well against the competition
if i saw it on tv/video i probably wouldn't have given it a second thought
maybe not, but it was my least favorite flick i saw in theatres in 08, maybe the rest were just really good, so it didn't fare well against the competition
if i saw it on tv/video i probably wouldn't have given it a second thought
I downloaded it two days before it came out in theaters and there was way too much "secret plot" hype about the film. It was a good (not great) film.
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to There Will Be Blood: it was my favorite movie of 07 because:
a) great great acting. Daniel Day Lewis gave an amazing performance (not that thats out of the ordinary) and Paul Dano was exceptional as well.
b) the theme of greed and corruption ever present in industry and religion. the parallel was great.
c) timeliness of the film with the oil crisis of 07 and 08.
d) Paul Thomas Anderson is my favorite director.
e) I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
Pretty much why it was my favorite movie of 07 as well... No Country For Old Men was a might overrated, if you ask me, and very undeserving of all Best Picture... PT Anderson and Co. were robbed at the Oscars.
^ i agree. i <3 the coens they have brought us so many classics. Raising Arizona, Fargo, Lebowski, O Brother, and No Country is an amazing film. i'm not surprised it won best picture, but personally i just absolutely love PT Anderson's films. Boogie Nights and Punch Drunk Love are just crazy crazy movies, not to mention the mentally exhausting Magnolia.