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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 6:13:55 PM   
SadFace


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Just checked Twitter and Amy McDonald said Holy Motors is great, so that's me sold.

She's now my go to girl for what's hot and what's not in popular culture.


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 6:59:28 PM   
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Yeah, looking back at your review

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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Jack Clayton, 1987) – A great performance in search of a great film, as meek, lonely, religious Irish spinster Maggie Smith loses her faith and her mind after being spurned by selfish would-be entrepreneur Bob Hoskins. Smith is absolutely extraordinary – fully immersed in a characterisation so real and true that the film feels almost intrusive – and her flashback sequences, reflecting on a her life spent caring for her addled aunt driven mad by a stroke, provide at least one truly great scene for the mighty Wendy Hiller. But the story is all over the shop, sometimes boring, often laughably overwrought, with supporting characters who’d seem more at home in either gothic melodrama or ‘70s sitcoms – especially ludicrous, slimy, be-moobed poet Ian McNeice – while Hopkins is oddly poor (and cursed with a lousy American accent), and the film expects us to be more disgusted by his character wanting Hearne for her money than the fact he’s a rapist. When Smith’s pitiful, self-pitying character is on screen it works and there are some incredibly powerful passages towards the end, particularly her drunken confrontation with parish priest Alan Devlin and subsequent explosion of emotion at the altar, railing furiously at God, before scratching desperately at the tabernacle and pleading to join him. It’s just a shame that such a remarkable performance, such a stunning study of mental illness, religious doubt and abject loneliness, isn’t housed in a more credible, coherent film, though it’s still worth it to see Smith at the peak of her considerable powers. (2.5)


I definitely liked it more. I thought Hoskins was very good, and I liked McNeice too. Something about him sitting around near naked, despite being very overweight, with that long hair, he reminded me of a Roman Emperor who'd fallen on incredibly hard times but was trying to keep up appearances.

Maybe I was too harsh on Hoskins. Perhaps "poor" is overstating it. I don't think he's anywhere near his best, though. I'm quite a fan of him in general. I think you're probably more predisposed to like McNeice than I am. I thought his character was pretty stupid, but perhaps I was also put off by how unsettling it is. You seem to like movies and performances which make you feel uncomfortable; I don't really. Neither of us are right (except me, definitely), your response is probably more correct, but I can't really help it.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 7:05:47 PM   
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 The weird thing about McNeice is I spent a long time really disliking him as an actor. He'd done a few things I saw in a short time-span and he played really annoying characters in all of them. But yeah, it's impossible to be right about something subjective. There's no such thing as a wrong opinion unless we're talking about something that are actually related to facts. And I'm definitely a fan of being unsettled with cinema/literature/music/sex/art.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 9:47:50 PM   
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5-Argo (Affleck, 2012) 9/10 SPOILERS FOR A WELL KNOWN EVENT OF MODERN HISTORY

Going into this it was hard not to think "Okay, Oscar front-runner, impress me." But it turned out to be an impressive, well-directed thriller with some of the tensest sequences of any film last year. The opening animation briefly telling the history of Iran works incredibly well, and the following storming of the American Embassy is tense, chaotic and brilliantly staged. Once it gets down to telling the actual story, it's still fun to watch, especially once Arkin and Goodman show up. Affleck has a harder job since he's not got a particularly showy role, but he comes out of this brilliantly and I'm amazed he missed out on a Best Actor nom. Once the action moves to Iran, things get even tenser and the bazaar scene was horribly nail-biting. The only real complaint I have is that once they do escape the film goes unashamedly Hollywood, complete with people punching the air and a bunch of nice plaudits said. It's kind of a shame, and if the film wants to end with a scene between Affleck and his family, they should have been included a little more early on. On a pettier note, was anyone else annoyed when they panned over the action figures at the end and got Jawas and Sand People the wrong way round? Eh, it's still a damn fine film, and my favourite Best Picture nom so far in what has been a cracking year.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 10:01:40 PM   
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 My January


This month I have mostly been watching… Oscar contenders and 2012 films.
I discovered that… The Hobbit isn’t as good as the source material, it’s overlong and I didn’t like the interpretation of Radagast at all… Michael Haneke has a heart… and Tarantino may well be back on form.
I didn’t like…the Tarantino style conversations in Killing Them Softly… Naomie Harris’ acting in Skyfall… the array of well known actors distracting me in Lincoln… Steve Carrell’s character in Crazy, Stupid, Love getting cheated on and yet having to leave the family home and then being chastised for sleeping with a few women after having his heartbroken. Bullshit!… everyone at work saying they cried rivers at Les Miserables and then thinking I was cold hearted for not even coming close.
But I did like… the excellent acting in several films such as Margaret, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Zero Dark Tirty, Silver Linings Playbook and Amour… Christoph Waltz stealing the show in Django Unchained… the terrifying tsunami scenes in The Impossible… leaving work early when it snowed and then sitting with friends in a warm lounge underneath a duvet whilst eating chocolate, drinking tea, getting an Indian and watching the silly action flick Safe House and then Crazy, Stupid, Love… Ryan Gosling in Crazy, Stupid, Love (Emma Stone and Steve Carrell were good too).
Film of the Month… The Gunfighter
Turkey of the Month… Killing Them Softly
And the Oscar goes to… Argo!


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 10:01:58 PM   
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 Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki, 2005) – This typically superb polemic from liberal documentarian Jarecki takes its name from Frank Capra’s World War Two propaganda films and its cue from Eisenhower’s farewell speech of 1961, in which the departing president warned of the dangers of the “military-industrial complex”. What he feared, what he warned of, was the possibility of the country's foreign policy being dictated by its swelling, corporate-sponsored defence sector. Speaking to DC insiders, war veterans, Iraqis and left-leaning theorists, while peppering his film with apposite archive footage (Eisenhower’s statistics about the cost of weaponry compared to schools and hospitals feel particularly resonant), Jarecki presents a bleak, often brilliant portrait of a nation that claims to fight for freedom, but is locked into a self-perpetuating cycle of war-mongering, habitually lying to its citizens and engaging in conflicts out of avarice, political expediency and self-interest – both national and personal. It’s unlikely to sway anyone not already attuned to Jarecki’s viewpoint, but it’s extremely well done, and far more focused, articulate and well-argued than Michael Moore’s similarly-themed Fahrenheit 9/11. (3.5)

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 10:32:26 PM   
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I discovered that…
Michael Haneke has a heart…


You a fan of his Twitter too?

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 10:40:18 PM   
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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 10:54:28 PM   
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Source Code

Not entirely convinced the ending works (although this is science fiction), but Source Code is a brilliantly original Sci-Fi thriller and impressively stretches out what could be a repetitive premise - the same 8 minutes replayed over and over - by making the threat a highly modern and familiar one, with Jake Gyllenhaal's Coulter Stevens sent in to work out who the terrorist behind the bombing of a commuter train is, in a desperately small window of time. Gyllenhaal is as watchable as ever, Jeffrey Wright's enjoyable as the mastermind behind the Source Code project, and as a follow up to Moon Duncan Jones demonstrates why he's one of the most inventive working directors.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 11:11:56 PM   
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I don't follow him! I shall do from now.


Homer's a huge fan and he loves to be asked about how much he enjoys it.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 11:27:33 PM   
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 Life Of Pi (2012, Lee, 1st viewing)



Life Of Pi is a visually gorgeous film, even the trailer for the film could confirm that. In fact, it was so damn pretty it was essentially the only GREAT thing about the film. There were some nice performances from Suraj Sharma and Irrfan Khan as 16 year old Pi and adult Pi respectively, but little else about the film got me enthused. I did like the CGI of the animals, but that might attribute more to my love of tigers then anything else. In fact, at times I sympathised more with Richard Parker the lion, then Pi himself. I don't know whether this makes me an awful person or whether Lee had this in mind but either way, I can see why this would be nominated for Best Picture, but it's certainly the weakest out of the nominees I've seen so far.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 11:30:07 PM   
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I don't follow him! I shall do from now.


Homer's a huge fan and he loves to be asked about how much he enjoys it.


And retweet everything he says. Homer and Elab love it when people do that.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 11:31:19 PM   
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I don't follow him! I shall do from now.


Homer's a huge fan and he loves to be asked about how much he enjoys it.


You dick.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 3/2/2013 11:32:14 PM   
rawlinson


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I don't follow him! I shall do from now.


Homer's a huge fan and he loves to be asked about how much he enjoys it.


You dick.


Pretty much.


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 12:58:23 AM   
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 Alien (Ridley Scott; 1979)

There's a special place reserved in hell for you if you don't unconditionally love Alien.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 1:09:08 AM   
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 I quite enjoy it these days. Do I have to go to hell if I think Aliens is shit?

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 1:16:04 AM   
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I quite enjoy it these days. Do I have to go to hell if I think Aliens is shit?


You might be alright with that one.

I really like Aliens, though. It's just not as disturbing and tightly structured as Alien.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 1:40:38 AM   
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 I think we should create a fictional critic and set up a website to archive his/her reviews. We stick to a style, but only review things we hate. See how much of the internet we can troll.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 1:49:59 AM   
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 I think you and Elab are both suitably bitter enough to carry that off.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 1:53:50 AM   
rawlinson


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 Elab, yeah, but I love cinema.

But wouldn't it be great? I could review Aliens and do an Armond White style ludicrous comparison to a film I like, say Scott Pilgrim .Then you could take over and destroy Pilgrim while comparing it negatively to Aliens. Pimp the site around a few places and watch people get more and more outraged in the comments. Then once we have a big audience, we could all sit back and let Gimli and Elab take over the reviewing.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 1:56:56 AM   
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 19. The Beaver (1st vew, 2011, Jodie Foster) - 3/5*
Not sure of it wants to be a puppet comedy or depression drama. The romance between Jennifer Lawrence and Anton Yelchin felt like an afterthought. Gibson was probably the best he's been in decades - 3/5.

February

1. Lincoln (1st view, 2012, Steven Spielberg) - 5/5*
2. Les Miserables (1st view, 2012, Tom Hooper) - 5/5*
3. Wreck-It Ralph (1st view, 2012, Rich Moore, 3D) - 5/5*
4. Die Hard (10th+ view, 1988, John McTiernan - 4/5
5. Skyfall (2nd view, 20120, Sam Mendes) - 4/5
6. Die Hard With A Vengeance (8th view, 1995, John McTiernan) - 4/5
7. Class of Nuke 'Em High (1st view, 1986, Richard W. Haines, Lloyd Kaufman) - 4/5*
8. Fear(s) of the Dark (1st view, 2007, Various) - 4/5*
9. Man On A Ledge (2nd view, 2012, Asger Leth) - 4/5
10. Die Hard 4.0 (3rd view, 2007, Len Wiseman) - 4/5

11. Die Hard 2 (4th view, 1990, Renny Harlin) - 4/5
12. Zero Dark Thirty (1st view, 2012, Kathryn Bigelow) - 4/5*
13. A Good Day To Die Hard (1st view, 2013, John Moore) - 4/5*
14. The Beaver (1st vew, 2011, Jodie Foster) - 3/5*
15. OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (1st view, 2006, Michel Hazanavicius) - 3/5*
16. Meteor Storm (1st view, 2010, Tibor Takács) - 3/5*
17. Perrier's Bounty (1st view, 2009, Ian Fitzgibbon) - 3/5*
18. Damage (1st view, 2009, Jeff King) - 3/5*
19. It's Complicated (1st view, 2009, Nancy Meyers) - 3/5*
20. Black Gold (1st view, 2011, Jean-Jacques Annaud) - 3/5*

21. House At The End Of The Street (1st view, 2012, Mark Tonderai) - 2/5*
22. Fear Of The Dark (1st view, 2003, K.C. Bascombe) - 2/5*



Shorts


Paperman (2012, John Kahrs)

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 1:58:16 AM   
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19. The Beaver (1st vew, 2011, Jodie Foster) - 3/5*
Not sure of it wants to be a puppet comedy or depression drama.


The sad thing is it doesn't really succeed at either. How can someone take a film with a premise like The Beaver and make it so unexceptional?


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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 1:59:38 AM   
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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 2:01:15 AM   
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Elab, yeah, but I love cinema.

But wouldn't it be great? I could review Aliens and do an Armond White style ludicrous comparison to a film I like, say Scott Pilgrim .Then you could take over and destroy Pilgrim while comparing it negatively to Aliens. Pimp the site around a few places and watch people get more and more outraged in the comments. Then once we have a big audience, we could all sit back and let Gimli and Elab take over the reviewing.


Hmm. Well, Scott Pilgrim VS the World is really, really boring and insufferably smug...

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 2:02:55 AM   
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 I didn't. I'm not going to. I'd fight with so many people. I'm barely restraining myself on forums at the moment.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 2:05:10 AM   
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Elab, yeah, but I love cinema.

But wouldn't it be great? I could review Aliens and do an Armond White style ludicrous comparison to a film I like, say Scott Pilgrim .Then you could take over and destroy Pilgrim while comparing it negatively to Aliens. Pimp the site around a few places and watch people get more and more outraged in the comments. Then once we have a big audience, we could all sit back and let Gimli and Elab take over the reviewing.


Hmm. Well, Scott Pilgrim VS the World is really, really boring and insufferably smug...


It'd be fun. I'd be convinced that Armond White was the creation of about five different people if he hadn't been seen in public.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 2:32:48 AM   
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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 2:35:32 AM   
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 Be quiet and join my grand critic plan.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 4:43:30 AM   
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 The Last Movie (1971, Hopper, 1st viewing)

According to legend, the great Dennis Hopper originally had a more linear and structured edit of The Last Movie. After persuasion from Alejandro Jodorowsky (who made The Holy Mountain, which I was reminded of whilst watching this film), he decided to re-edit and instead created a fractured, bizarre and really really great film. It has gone down as an infamous film, due to the studio's full belief Hopper could have delivered them a really solid follow-up to the inferior Easy Rider, they gave him full creative control and he instead made a film about film-making with a film inside a film, fuelled by drugs with a non-linear narrative and editing tricks. This resulted in Hopper essentially being exiled from Hollywood for a decade. Whether you view his vision as a success or failure is completely arbitrary, but if you need proof that Dennis Hopper was a maverick/loon/genius, track down The Last Movie.

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RE: Top 100 Films I've Watched This Year: 2013 - Discus... - 4/2/2013 5:57:45 AM   
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I quite enjoy it these days. Do I have to go to hell if I think Aliens is shit?


I'd be toasting there with you.

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