Posts tagged with “film”
Movies from 2000-2009 that I consider piles of shit
I’m sure this list will grow as I think of more, although if it remains at one movie then this is definitely the right movie.
- Gladiator
Movies from 2000-2009 that I liked
In no particular order and definitely forgetting some:
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Stranger than Fiction
- Donnie Darko
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- The Darjeeling Limited
- There Will Be Blood
- No Country For Old Men
- Casino Royale
- Almost Famous
- In The Mood For Love
- High Fidelity
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain
- Lost in Translation
- Hot Rod
- Zoolander
- Monsoon Wedding
- Stardust
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Eastern Promises
- Mulholland Drive
- Memento
- Requiem for a Dream
- Adaptation
- Kill Bill V1
- Enchanted
- Michael Clayton
- Team America: World Police
- Zodiac
- Punch-Drunk Love
- Junebug
- The Constant Gardener
- Seabiscuit
- Dancer In The Dark
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Solaris
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Aviator
- I Heart Huckabees
- The entire Bourne series
- Somersault
- Look Both Ways
- Lantana
- About a boy
- 8 femmes
- Once
- Master and Commander
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- (500) Days of Summer
- The Hurt Locker
- Zombieland
- In The Loop
- Avatar
- Inglorious Basterds
- Up
- Unbreakable
He’s taken off his shoes and one of his socks… Actually, I think he’s crying.
14 November 2009 - 09:45 | Tags: film, theroyaltenenbaums, wesandersonCouples Retreat
There’s a comma and an exclamation point missing from that title.
— The Onion AV Club’s description in their review of the movie.
Oscar nominations
Current box office takings for the five films nominated for best picture:
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - $104.3M
- Slumdog Millionaire - $44.7M
- Milk - $20.6M
- Frost/Nixon - $8.9M
- The Reader - $8M
That’s a combined total of $186M. In comparison, The Dark Knight passed that mark soon after its first 4 days.
The Oscars live in a strange world where they don’t represent popular movies (other than maybe Titanic) and they often don’t represent the types of intellectual movies that I find appealing (eg. Crash and Gladiator both won best picture, yet I hated them).
25 January 2009 - 05:58 | Tags: film, oscarsThe fights and chases were as unintelligible as most such sequences are nowadays, and the usual roaming-camera formulas were applied without much variety. Shoot lots of singles, track slowly in on everybody who’s speaking, spin a circle around characters now and then, and transition to a new scene with a quick airborne shot of a cityscape.
— David Bordwell on The Dark Knight. I really liked the movie, but I did notice a lot of spinning and cityscapes.
My best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who’s going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it’s pretty serious.
— Simone, from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Director Tony Kaye talks about how he was influenced by Stanley Kubrick.
8 August 2008 - 23:30 | Tags: kubrick, film, tonykayeWhen life gives you lemons, just say ‘Fuck the lemons,’ and bail.
— Surfing instructor in Forgetting Sarah Marshall
