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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 3/11/2009 11:55:25 PM   
Deviation


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ORIGINAL: Harry Lime
 
As for Ai no corrida, it still has the power to shock even today. It is explicit, twisted and more than once strays beyond the, ahem, realm of intellectual provocation and into gratuitous pornography. There were moments that I sat there and thought "I am hating this" but then the film ends and, much like Salσ o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, you've realised that you've watched something operating on a deeply fascinating level. Salσ is far more challenging though. And far more horrifying!
 
Which brings me to the Pasolini films. Hmmm. It's hard to love Pasolini. I admire him immensely, but I find it hard to love him. His visual sense is beautiful. His humour somehow suceeds in being both broad and subtle at the same time. His satircal barbs cut to the bone. Yet there is a sense that he revels just a little bit too much in the "enfant terrible" tag that he acquired through his writing and his films. This is apparent in both Il Decameron and I racconti di Canterbury. As much as I appreciate the bawdy nature of the source material, for long periods both films tend to descend into little more than a series of vignettes that involve increasingly elaborate ploys to cuckold fat husbands or shrewish wives. Of course, there is always an admirable sense of satirical mischief-making underlying these sequences but whilst some work, others do not.
 
Il Decameron is the far more balanced work, with its knockabout opening sequence (involving a sabotaged privvy and tomb-robbing) as well as the story of gardener and the nunnery both hitting the mark. However, the highlight has to be the strangely sweet tale of the young lovers who steal a night under the stars. It's a beautiful moment. I racconti di Canterbury doesn't hang quite so well but it does have several fine moments and is topped off by a spectacularly debauched closing vision of hell.
 
Both films are flawed, but both demand to be watched. And they, along with Salσ, have made me want to seek out more Pasolini works. None of those I have seen are masterpieces, but there is enough in all of them to convince me that Pasolini has one within his body of work. Il vangelo secondo Matteo is often cited as his greatest film and that's what I'll be seeking out next... And, on this evidence, I'm expecting great great things.

 
Can't say I liked Ai no Corrida on first watch. Found it simply unpleasent. Opinion on it has grown on it though, and there is something strangely femministic about it. Same with Salo actually (except replace femminism with anti-fascism), only for some unknown reason I watched Salo twice. Still propably think Ai No Corrida is a finer film that Salo though, Salo can drown all its themes and ideas under its violence and degradation, Ai no Corrida feels more balanced.
 
I liked Il Decameron, I didn't like the first half much when all it seemed to be was a bunch of vignettes (some good ones mind you) but the second half with the coming of Giotto worked better. I asked on The Cantembury tales since I haven't seen it yet. And I personally thought Arabian Nights was the strongest of the Trilogy of Life. His 60s films are far better though, and Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (possibly the best film on this subject matter you'll ever see) and short film La Ricotta (can be his best) are very close to perfection. His Mamma Roma is a bit weaker to this too, its still a great film. Theorem is very ambigous in its intent but it's also a very interesting film in itself. Basically I prefer his 60s stuff before he lost some restraint in the 70s.
 
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9 (Acker, 2009) (For Dev)

9 is a feature developed from the short of the same name by Shane Acker. The problem the film has is that the short was already overlong for what it was. Visually it is very impressive – storywise, there is nothing there. Monster House continues to surprise me – I really like that film but none of the writers seem to have been capable of that fluke of a script – this is no exception. The most cliched action dialogue has been cut/pasted into the poor excuse for the script that also tries its hand at some very heavy handed allegory – the various parts of the soul are split between baseless religion and knowledge, and they only succeed when the church falls and the deluded come to realise their error, crafted onto a blunt revisiting of Nazi ideology. That kind of thing. Only more obvious  with the hideouts being the actual church and the library. While the backgrounds are often very impressive, the story itself is plain silly and deluded (of all things to be inspired by, the Tranformers all spark thing seems a kind of dumb way to go). Many of the designs are derivative and somewhat cliched steam punk stuff as well. And rather cloyingly we seem to be left with a nice little nuclear family – the dolls looking rather like mum, dad and the twins.




Ouch, that's a shame, there really seemed to be a great concept in there.


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 1:40:53 AM   
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23. Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972, Fuest) 9/10
With the possible exception of Evil Dead 2, the second Dr Phibes movies is the most gleefully inventive and demented horror sequel I can think of. Surfacing from his underground tomb after 3 years, a reborn Phibes is travelling to Egypt to get a potion to grant his wife eternal life. Vincent Price has a whale of a time as Phibes, while the film features enough elaborate deaths (thrill as John Thaw is pecked to death by an eagle) and ludicrous plot points (the continued existence of Phibes' mechanical band the Clockwork Wizards) to retain attention throughout. Any film which features Price singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow is onto a winner.

70. The French Connection (1971, Friedkin) 8/10
The kind of film that improves with each viewing, Gene Hackman is perfectly cast as maverick detective Popeye Doyle, believably tough and intelligent as a barely-fictionalized version of a real-life New York policeman. The film features some outstanding scenes, with Hackman's car chase against a runaway train being the highlight.

127. Welcome To The Jungle (2003, Berg) 7/10
Highly enjoyable action vehicle for Dwayne Johnson, still very much known as the Rock at this point in his career. Already Johnson shows the kind of charisma and presence that has led to him becoming a perfectly fine lead actor and a supporting cast of Sean William-Scott, Rosario Dawson and an enjoyably-hammy Christopher Walken all bring in good work. A bit Midnight Run-light in places, it's still solid entertainment.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 9:26:10 AM   
MOTH

 

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 Public Enemies (Mann, 2009)
A desperately disappointing affair. Bale and Depp are both wasted in an uninspired, superficial account of cops and robbers, which lacks any character depth or sense of gravitas, a real crime, given the weight of history upon the subject matter. there's a couple of okay shootouts and Crudup shines in his small role (making him and the fledging FBI might have made a much more interesting film), but otherwise this bored me immensely. (4/10)

Drag Me to Hell (Raimi, 2009)
Nothign here we haven't seen before, but good fun and good scares, put together with confident ease (7/10)

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 5:07:29 PM   
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 092) Monsters vs Aliens  (Rob Letterman & Conrad Vernon, USA, 2009) - 6.0
Before it's release, I had strangely high hopes for this, but reviews dragged my expectations down a little. And rightly so - whilst a fair and entertaining animation, it wasn't on a par with those I've seen recently (Up, Coraline, Kung Fu Panda), and it suffered a little with pacing issues and a couple of characters that weren't particularly well written (The Missing Link and Galaxharr).
On the up side, it was all good fun, and I'm pretty sure any film could be improved by the presence of (pre-transformation) Insectosarus!

And thus ends a rather strange period of watching horrors and kids films, and precious little else....

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 5:33:59 PM   
Miles Messervy 007


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ORIGINAL: MOTH

Public Enemies (Mann, 2009)
A desperately disappointing affair. Bale and Depp are both wasted in an uninspired, superficial account of cops and robbers, which lacks any character depth or sense of gravitas, a real crime, given the weight of history upon the subject matter. there's a couple of okay shootouts and Crudup shines in his small role (making him and the fledging FBI might have made a much more interesting film), but otherwise this bored me immensely. (4/10)

Quoted for ultimate truth. I also love the Bergman "dull as dishwater" comment a few reviews back


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 5:58:57 PM   
Miles Messervy 007


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ORIGINAL: MOTH

So it begins....


The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925) - 9/10
Another Thin Man (WS Van Dyke, 1939) – 9/10
Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987) – 9/10
Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008) - 9/10
Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950) – 9/10

Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982) – 8/10
Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, 2007) – 8/10
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932) – 8/10
Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008) – 8/10
Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008) - 8/10
Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen, 1994) – 8/10
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) - 8/10
Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) - 8/10
The Parallax View (Alan J Pakula, 1974) – 8/10
The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962) – 8/10

The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) – 7/10
Love And Death (Woody Allen, 1975) – 7/10
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) - 7/10
Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher, 1956) – 7/10
The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt, 2008) - 7/10
D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate, 1950) – 7/10
Godzilla (Ishiro Honda, 1954) - 7/10
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2009) - 7/10
Changeling (Clint Eastwood, 2008) – 7/10
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954) – 7/10
 
The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman, 2008) - 6/10
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2008) - 6/10
Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2008) – 6/10
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) – 6/10
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (Michael James Rowland, 2008) - 6/10
Kings (Tom Collins, 2007) – 6/10
Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971) – 6/10
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm, 1993) – 6/10
 
Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962) - 5/10
 
The Host (Bong Joon-Ho, 2006) – 4/10
 Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) – 2/10
You haven't updated this since April


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 7:03:45 PM   
TRM


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 My list for October 

2. Whisper of the heart (Yoshifumi Kondo, 1995, Japan) -
10. The general (Clyde Bruckman & Buster Keaton, 1926, USA) -
30. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1928, Germany) -
40. Sunrise: A song of 2 humans (F. W. Murnau, 1927, USA) -
77. UP (Pete Doctor & Bob Peterson, 2009, USA) -
86. Life is beautiful (Roberto Benigni, 1997, Italy) -
116. The great dictator (Charlie Chaplin, 1940, USA) -
121. The fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993, USA) -
144. The squid and the whale (Noah Baumbach, 2005, USA) -
154. Down by law (Jim Jarmusch, USA/West Germany, 1986) -
156. Iron monkey (Woo-Ping Yuen, 1993, Hong Kong) -
163. Lone wolf and cub 1: Sword of vengeance (Kenji Misumi, 1872, Japan) -
180. The boy in the striped pyjamas (Mark Herman, 2008, UK/USA) -
188. Thirst (Park Chan-Wook, 2009, South Korea) -
189. The way of the dragon (Bruce Lee, 1972, Hong Kong) -
191. Steamboat Bill jr. (Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner, 1928, USA) -
198. A generation (Andrzej Wajda, 1955, Poland) -
203. Blade runner (Ridley Scott, 1982, USA/Hong Kong) -
204. Manufactured landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, Canada, 2006) -
253. Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009, USA/UK) -
255. French connection 2 (John Frankenheimer, 1975, USA) -
260. Creation (John Amiel, 2009, UK) -
275. A wednesday (Neeraj Pandey, 2008, India) -
289. The navigator (Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton, 1924, USA) -
299. Small time crooks (Woody Allen, 2000, USA) -
301. Flash Gordon (Mike Hodges, 1980, USA/UK) -
303. Crash (Paul Haggis, 2004, USA/Germany) -
306. White men cant jump  (Ron Shelton, USA, 1992) -
309. Star wars episode 2: Attack of the clones (George Lucas, USA, 2002) -
324. Intolerable cruelty (Joel & Ethan Coen, USA, 2003) -
353. Cashback (Sean Ellis, UK, 2006) -
355. Pandorum (Christian Alvart, 2009, USA/Germany) -

Shorts

17. Neighbors (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton, 1920, 17mins) -
19. Artheme swallows his claranet (Unknown director, 1912) -
36. Counterfeit cat (Tex Avery, 1949, 7mins) -
78. Partly cloudy (Peter Sohn, 2009, 6mins) -
84. The haunted house (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton, 1921, USA) -
133. Good night, nurse (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1918, 26mins) -

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TV series viewed 2009

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My top 300 films

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 8:53:43 PM   
MOTH

 

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 Apologies Miles, the last few months I've just been listing the new entries. But you've shamed me into presenting the updated and complete list below - still on target for 100 films, just about.
I take it you weren't a fan of Public Enemies either?

1.             Play it Again, Sam (Herbert Ross, 1972)  - 9/10
2.             The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin, 1925) - 9/10
3.             After the Thin Man (WS Van Dyke, 1936) – 9/10
4.             Radio Days (Woody Allen, 1987) – 9/10
5.             Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008) - 9/10
6.             Wagon Master (John Ford, 1950) – 9/10
7.             Stardust Memories (Woody Allen, 1980) – 9/10
8.             Finding Nemo (Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrick, 2002) – 9/10

9.             Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada, 2002) – 8/10
10.          Orphee (Jean Cocteau, 1949) – 8/10
11.          Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982) – 8/10
12.          Persepolis (Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, 2007) – 8/10
13.          Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Berman, 1978) – 8/10
14.          Sleeping Beauty (Clyde Geronomi, 1959) – 8/10
15.          Doctor Zhivago (David Lean, 1965) – 8/10
16.          Steamboat Bill Jr (Charles Resiner, 1928) – 8/10
17.          Sansho Dayu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) – 8/10
18.          Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932) – 8/10
19.          Che Part I (Steven Soderbergh, 2008) – 8/10
20.          Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008) – 8/10
21.          In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009) – 8/10
22.          Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) – 8/10
23.          Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle, 2008) - 8/10
24.          Ryan's Daughter (David Lean, 1970) -8/10
25.          Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen, 1994) – 8/10
26.          Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) - 8/10
27.          Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) - 8/10
28.          The Parallax View (Alan J Pakula, 1974) – 8/10
29.          The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, 1962) – 8/10
30.          Man of the West (Anthony Mann, 1958) - 8/10
31.          The Searchers (John Ford, 1956) – 8/10
32.          Timecrimes (Nacho Vigalondo, 2007) – 8/10
33.          Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987) – 8/10
34.          The Quiet American (Phillip Noyce, 2002) -8/10

35.          District 9 (Neil Blomkampf, 2009) – 7/10
36.          Drag Me to Hell (Sam Raimi, 2009) – 7/10
37.          State of Play (Kevin Macdonald, 2009) - 7/10
38.          River’s Edge (Tim Hunter, 1986) – 7/10
39.          Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen, 1984) – 7/10
40.          Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson, 2008) – 7/10
41.          Gomorrah (Garrone, 2008) -7/10
42.          The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) – 7/10
43.          Love And Death (Woody Allen, 1975) – 7/10
44.          8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963) - 7/10
45.          The Circus (Charlie Chaplin, 1928) – 7/10
46.          Seven Men From Now (Budd Boetticher, 1956) – 7/10
47.          Deconstructing Harry (Woody Allen, 1997) – 7/10
48.          Swing Time (George Stevens, 1936) – 7/10
49.          The Escapist (Rupert Wyatt, 2008) - 7/10
50.          D.O.A. (Rudolph Mate, 1950) – 7/10
51.          Godzilla (Ishiro Honda, 1954) - 7/10
52.          Port of Shadows (Marcel Carne, 1938) – 7/10
53.          The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008) – 7/10
54.          Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2009) - 7/10
55.          Changeling (Clint Eastwood, 2008) – 7/10
56.          Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, 2008) – 7/10
57.          Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold, 1954) – 7/10
58.          Milk (Gus van Sant, 2008) – 7/10
59.          Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch, 1943) – 7/10
60.          Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002) – 7/10
61.          I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks, 1949) – 7/10

62.          Seraphim Falls (David von Anken, 2006) – 6/10
63.          The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julien, 1925) – 6/10
64.          The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas (Mark Herman, 2008) - 6/10
65.          Othello (Oliver Parker, 1995) – 6/10
66.          Destry Rides Again (George Marshall, 1939) – 6/10
67.          Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2008) - 6/10
68.          Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2008) – 6/10
69.          The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960) – 6/10
70.          The Libertine (Laurence Dunmore, 2004) – 6/10
71.          The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (Michael James Rowland, 2008) - 6/10
72.          Kings (Tom Collins, 2007) – 6/10
73.          Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971) – 6/10
74.          Vicky Christina Barcelona (Woody Allen, 2008) – 6/10
75.          Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky, 1948) – 6/10
76.          Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm, 1993) – 6/10

77.          The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2009) – 5/10
78.          Che Part II (Steven Soderbergh, 2008) – 5/10
79.          Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980) – 5/10
80.          Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman, 1962) - 5/10
81.          She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (John Ford, 1949) – 5/10
82.          Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009) – 5/10
83.          Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978) -5/10

84.          Public Enemies (Michael Mann, 2009) – 4/10
85.          The Host (Bong Joon-Ho, 2006) – 4/10
86.          Flightplan (Robert Schwentke, 2005) – 4/10
87.          Razorback (Russell Mulcahy, 1984) – 4/10

88.          Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (JF Lawton, 1989) – 3/10

89.          Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975) – 2/10


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 9:45:51 PM   
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You're right. Actually only film I disliked at cinema this year.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 11:19:39 PM   
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 Mirror's position is still baffling.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 4/11/2009 11:48:33 PM   
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 And The Host's. I mean, worse than Public Enemies? 

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 2:08:17 AM   
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 030) Full Alert  (Ringo Lam, Hong Kong, 1997) - 7.5

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 9:12:00 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Pigeon Army

And The Host's. I mean, worse than Public Enemies? 


severely disappointed with both, and with films that far down the list, their order could be switched around and it would make no difference - wouldn't recommend either.

But watching either again wouldn't fill me with absolute dread. Mirror, on the other hand.... *shudder*

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 10:23:11 AM   
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ORIGINAL: MOTH

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ORIGINAL: Pigeon Army

And The Host's. I mean, worse than Public Enemies? 


severely disappointed with both, and with films that far down the list, their order could be switched around and it would make no difference - wouldn't recommend either.


You're not allowed to say such things about The Host in PA's presence!

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 10:31:10 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Gimli The Dwarf


quote:

ORIGINAL: MOTH

quote:

ORIGINAL: Pigeon Army

And The Host's. I mean, worse than Public Enemies? 


severely disappointed with both, and with films that far down the list, their order could be switched around and it would make no difference - wouldn't recommend either.


You're not allowed to say such things about The Host in PA's presence!


MOTH's dislike is tolerable, if only barely so. You have The Da Vinci Code above The Host, which is completely and utterly unforgivable.


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 10:34:25 AM   
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 I also have The Visitor above The Host. Is that good or bad?


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 10:49:31 AM   
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I also have The Visitor above The Host. Is that good or bad?



Are you suggesting that The Visitor is equal in quality to The Da Vinci Code?


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 10:53:18 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Gimli The Dwarf

49. The Visitor (1st view, 2008, Thomas McCarthy) - 4/5*
Wonderful drama with a fantastic central performance from Richard Jenkins. I'm not sure if it's depressingly uplifting or heartwarmingly bleak, but I never knew that watching someone learn to play the bongos could be so charming. Note to PA. This is higher than The Da Vinci Code



I think PA might have missed this

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 11:58:14 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Pigeon Army

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ORIGINAL: Gimli The Dwarf


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ORIGINAL: Pigeon Army

And The Host's. I mean, worse than Public Enemies? 


severely disappointed with both, and with films that far down the list, their order could be switched around and it would make no difference - wouldn't recommend either.


You're not allowed to say such things about The Host in PA's presence!


MOTH's dislike is tolerable, if only barely so. You have The Da Vinci Code above The Host, which is completely and utterly unforgivable.



But Moth has Dirty Dancing above The Host, and that's just as bad as The Da Vinci Code. I know I shouldn't speak ill of the dead but Swayze was a Godawful actor.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:00:40 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Gimli The Dwarf

49. The Visitor (1st view, 2008, Thomas McCarthy) - 4/5*
Wonderful drama with a fantastic central performance from Richard Jenkins. I'm not sure if it's depressingly uplifting or heartwarmingly bleak, but I never knew that watching someone learn to play the bongos could be so charming. Note to PA. This is higher than The Da Vinci Code



I think PA might have missed this


I very much saw that, but you never know with Gimli. He could've been saying that to placate me without actually liking it more; he's a slippery bugger like that.


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:09:14 PM   
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I know I shouldn't speak ill of the dead but Swayze was a Godawful actor.


In fairness though, it is honesty rather than malice. That said - he did not disgrace himself in Donnie Darko, I though. That always surprised me.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:10:56 PM   
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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:11:34 PM   
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I know I shouldn't speak ill of the dead but Swayze was a Godawful actor.


In fairness though, it is honesty rather than malice. That said - he did not disgrace himself in Donnie Darko, I though. That always surprised me.


That is true, he coped with it quite well and it was very much an against type role.  Maybe he should have been doing more of that kind of thing. I just never understand the raving over Point Break/Dirty Dancing/Road House etc.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:34:34 PM   
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Point Break is a terrible and quite astonishingly pretentious film - I really don't get the adulation for it. I'd use some of those words to describe Jennifer's Body too - in fact, I probably will be doing  

A side step maybe - but we were talking about bad acting.



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Apr 09 Of Time and the City (2008)
May 09 Invisible Man (1933)
Jun 09 You, The Living (2007)
Jul 09 Watchmaker of St Paul (1974)
Aug 09 An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Sep 09 A Canterbury Tale (1944)
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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:36:38 PM   
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MY COLLEGE ARE SHOWING THE ROOM TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!


You lucky bastard.


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:45:40 PM   
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Point Break is a terrible and quite astonishingly pretentious film - I really don't get the adulation for it. I'd use some of those words to describe Jennifer's Body too - in fact, I probably will be doing  



That bad? Am I right in thinking you liked Juno?

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:51:48 PM   
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Juno isn't taking so well to repeat viewings, but yes, I'm certainly not in the haters category.

And Body is that bad.

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Apr 09 Of Time and the City (2008)
May 09 Invisible Man (1933)
Jun 09 You, The Living (2007)
Jul 09 Watchmaker of St Paul (1974)
Aug 09 An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Sep 09 A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Oct 09 Up (2009)

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 12:56:15 PM   
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Juno isn't taking so well to repeat viewings, but yes, I'm certainly not in the haters category.

And Body is that bad.


I'm not sure if you'll be able to answer this, but is it as similar to Prom Night 2 as it sounds?

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 1:01:32 PM   
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I haven't seen it but I read the precis on Wiki - it doesn't sound at all similar. For one thing, the Prom is barely in or relevant to the film. The motive, the reason, the lot - all very different.

One plus - Adam Brody is pretty good. One  suggestion or 2 for the beauteous Ms Fox (and she is very pretty here - you don't get anything like that repulsive jutting hip bone shot) - a) you look about a decade too old to play a high school student and b) (bitchiness alert, but I was getting annoyed) those high definition cameras are too much for the makeup trying to hide what looks like really bad skin. And too much makeup will just make it worse. 

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Apr 09 Of Time and the City (2008)
May 09 Invisible Man (1933)
Jun 09 You, The Living (2007)
Jul 09 Watchmaker of St Paul (1974)
Aug 09 An Actor's Revenge (1963)
Sep 09 A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Oct 09 Up (2009)

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2009 - 5/11/2009 1:05:02 PM   
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I haven't seen it but I read the precis on Wiki - it doesn't sound at all similar. For one thing, the Prom is barely in or relevant to the film. The motive, the reason, the lot - all very different.


There's just something about it that sounds so Prom Night 2, but less entertaining. Maybe it's the high-school girl possessed by a psychopathic spirit side of things.

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One  suggestion or 2 for the beauteous Ms Fox (and she is very pretty here - you don't get anything like that repulsive jutting hip bone shot) - a) you look about a decade too old to play a high school student and b) (bitchiness alert, but I was getting annoyed) those high definition cameras are too much for the makeup trying to hide what looks like really bad skin. And too much makeup will just make it worse. 




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