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Posts Tagged ‘Movies’
2008: 15 Favorite Movies
January 2, 2009I’m not going to bother trying to list them in order of best to least best but I will say that Wall-E, The Dark Knight and The Wrestler were my three favorite movies of the year (in that order).
In alphabetical order:
2008: 10 Favorite Movies Via Netflix
January 1, 2009I have to split the list up to reduce the torture of just trying to pick 10 movies for the year.
- Across The Universe
- American Teen
- Charlie Wilson’s War
- In Bruges
- Into The Wild
- The King of Kong
- Kung Fu Panda
- La Vie En Rose
- Redbelt
- The Orphanage
Friday the 13th Trailer
December 6, 2008
I’m actually looking forward to this. I just hope that I won’t be going alone
100 Movies I’m Embarrassed To Admit I Haven’t Seen Yet
November 10, 2008Now, I’ve been highly judgmental about movies I think everyone should see. But sadly, there are a lot of bonafide classics (Oscar winners, AFI’s Top 100, IMDB Top 250) that I haven’t seen at all.
This list would have been much longer if it wasn’t for Netflix.
- 12 Angry Men
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 4 Little Girls
- The Accidental Tourist
- An Affair to Remember
- The Age of Innocence
- Alien
- All The President’s Men
- American Graffiti
- Angels in America
- The Apartment
- Apocalypse Now*
- Babe
- Back To The Future III
- The Battle of Algiers
- A Beautiful Mind
- Ben-Hur
- The Big Chill
- Blazing Saddles
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Born on the Fourth of July
- Brazil
- Citizen Kane
- A Clockwork Orange
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- The Crying Game
- Dances with Wolves
- The Deer Hunter
- Doctor Zhivago
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Ed Wood
- Fargo
- Field of Dreams
- A Fistful of Dollars
- The Five Heartbeats
- Fletch
- Four Weddings and a Funeral
- The French Connection
- Funny Girl
- The Godfather Part III
- Gone With The Wind
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Green Mile**
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- Hamlet (1948)
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Harold and Maude
- An Inconvenient Truth
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- JFK
- The King of Comedy
- King of New York
- L.A. Story
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Life Is Beautiful
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Manhattan
- Marathon Man
- MASH
- Midnight Cowboy
- Mississippi Burning
- Moonstruck
- Moulin Rouge!*
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- My Left Foot
- Network
- The Neverending Story
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- North by Northwest
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Ordinary People
- Rashomon
- A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- Rear Window
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Saving Private Ryan**
- Scent of a Woman
- Schindler’s List
- Sense and Sensibility
- The Seven Samurai
- Sid & Nancy
- Singin’ in the Rain
- Slacker
- Some Like It Hot
- The Sound of Music
- The Sting
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Taxi Driver
- Terms of Endearment
- The Thin Red Line
- Tootsie
- Waking Life***
- The Way We Were**
- West Side Story
- Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Feel free to judge me
* I tried to watch it but fell asleep
** The ending was ruined for me so I wasn’t in a rush to see it
*** I actually own this but I keep falling asleep when I try to watch it.
What I Want From A Superman Movie
October 31, 2008
After reading what Mark Millar and other noteworthy comic book writers would do if they were writing DC purported re-relaunch of the Superman film franchise, here’s what I would like to see:
Lex Luthor: Genius Businessman Obsessed With Superman. While I enjoyed Gene Hackman and, for the most part, Kevin Spacey’s stabs at Superman’s greatest villain, I think he is played too much for laughs. I would like to see a Lex Luthor who is more like the one in Grant Morrison’s All-Star Superman or Brian Azzarello’s Lex Luthor: Man of Steel where he is a super-genius and ruthless businessman who is jealous of the attention Superman gets. This Lex Luthor could cure cancer or AIDS but he focuses all his energy and resources on defeating Superman and he blames Superman from keeping his distracted from using his genius for good.
Brainiac. One of the biggest problems with Superman is he is so powerful that he can’t be beat unless Kryptonite comes into play (it’s supposed be rare but someone always finds some). He needs a villain who can go punch for punch with him. Superman II was great because Superman was facing THREE villains with his strength level (but not his experience so it made sense they couldn’t whip him outright). I would say Doomsday but they need to firmly reestablish him cinematically before the can focus on the death and return.
No Superkid. What a horrible fucking idea. Especially considering the kid was conceived in a sexual escapade that Lois doesn’t remember because if the Kryptonian roofie Superman slipped at the end of Superman II (making it interstellar date rape). You can veer from comic books but not that much.
It Sucks To Be Superman. Spend some time showing how hard it is for an all-powerful being who can hear every incident that he knows he can’t make it to in time. No matter how fast Superman is, the fact of the matter is he can’t be everywhere at once and that tears him up more than anything. Spider-Man and Batman don’t make it to every purse snatcher but they don’t hear about it until it’s in or on the news. Superman had to make decisions about what crimes to prevent.
It’s Truth, Justice and The American Way, Damnit!. It annoyed me that in Superman Returns, Perry White purposely didn’t say it. The values Superman was raised is very important to the character. It’s the reason this God-like alien just didn’t decide to Ryle over us.
I’m no movie producer or screenwriter but I don’t think I’m asking for much.
Movie of the Week: W.
October 24, 2008
First off, Josh Brolin was great as Dubya. He was able to humanize him but show how his flaws led to some tragic decisions. I really hope he gets some award love this season.
It wasn’t much of a movie as a series of sketches of some famous scenes during Bush’s presidency. Some were compelling (like the discussion to go to war with Iraq) and some were just well cast Saturday Night Live sketches.
It was also kind of distracting that the actors had different levels of commitments to their roles. Brolin, Richard Dreyfuss (Cheney), Banks (Laura Bush) and Toby Jones (Karl Rove) deeply embraced their characters while James Cromwell (Bush Sr.) and Jeffery Wright (Colin Powell) just played themselves. Speaking of SNL, Thandie Newton as Condi was just a caricature. You couldn’t take her seriously and I don’t think we were supposed to.
This would have been a great movie to make three years from now.
Movie of the Week: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
October 7, 2008
It was cute. Really, that’s the only way to describe it.
I haven’t gotten tired of Michael Cera’s one mode of acting but it is probably smart that he does as many roles as possible until people do START getting tired of it (hopefully before Scott Pilgrim vs. The World).
Kat Dennings took awhile to start to enjoy.
This movie will mean more to you is you a) live in New York and/or b) have been to a some of the indie rock venues around the city. I’ve done both so I’ve enjoyed it more than most.
I kinda get tired of high schoolers getting into places like the Mercury Lounge at 1 AM in the morning and not getting carded but after watching Gossip Girl for a season and a quarter, I’ve come to accept it.
