Printer's Devil on 6/1/2007 at 20:00
Yep, TDADJ is another keeper, but it might be a bit long for people who haven't heard his music. I watched it during a small film festival held by the Center For Addiction And Mental Health (which stands on the site of the original Toronto Lunatic Asylum). A friend of mine introduced me to his stuff years ago, so I was curious to see the whole (sad) story.
Navyhacker006 on 7/1/2007 at 01:46
Located and watched A Scanner Darkly. Using rotoscoping was a stroke of a genius - really helped the surrealistic feel.
Not sure I bought it, towards the end when Arctor starts acting crazy about 2 minutes after they tell him he is. Seemed sort of forced.
Overall, pretty good. Ending was fair.
And I've tried to post this three times now, not sure what's going on.
TheGreatGodPan on 7/1/2007 at 02:59
Speaking of mental health, I recently uploaded Bryan Caplan's paper on the Economics of Szasz (Thomas Szasz being the psychologist who argued there's no such thing as insanity) because people I was arguing with on the internet complained they couldn't access it. (
http://putstuff.putfile.com/33505/2381838) Get it now before it gets taken down for violation of whatever rules kept people from accessing it.
I recently saw the Good Shepherd. Not especially bad, not especially good. I like (
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/21/AR2006122101828.html) Stephen Hunter's review of it (I'll have to buy his "American Gunfight" someday). The best line is ""The Good Shepherd" makes a good case for the secrecy of the organization: It has to stay secret, because if we knew how stupid it all was, we'd laugh it out of existence."
Scots Taffer on 7/1/2007 at 06:35
Quote Posted by Jackablade
I had a sneaking suspicion that Munich and Syriana were released in 2005, and a quick check on IMDB proves it correct. Sorry Scots.
Hrrrr. Well, I saw them this year... that has to count for something.
Quote Posted by Renegen
Hey Scots you watch Rome? That's my favourite movie for 2006 right there.
Um, I watched Rome this year, however it's a TV show? It was amazing, don't get me wrong, cinema-like production but still.
The few that people have mentioned as their tops are among my must sees of the year that I sadly missed, but I will be catching
Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, A Scanner Darkly, The Prestige, The Illusionist, The Departed as soon as I can. However I did recall one other that I did see:
Clerks 2Brilliantly funny, it pushes the boundaries of taste further and beyond but not in the highschool-gross-out type comedy, just genuinely funny weird shit that happens in life and makes sense in this movie. It's a warm and fuzzy sequel that still isn't afraid to point out the giant gaping holes in the character's personalities. I loved this flick and will watch it again many many times. Jay's homage to the Buffalo Bill kills me everytime.
And
Brick was this year? Odd. It was a solid flick, I felt it lacked one or two elements but overall, excellent acting and atmosphere. I also caught
MI3 on DVD and thought it was a solid successor to
MI (ignoring the John Woo wankfest), but both are deeply flawed and focus too much on Hunt.
Navyhacker006 on 7/1/2007 at 13:34
Quote Posted by Scots_Taffer
Clerks 2Aw, how did I forget that one? Excellent movie.
Fafhrd on 8/1/2007 at 06:03
Finally saw Children of Men just a few minutes ago, and it beats everything else on my list for Best Film of the Year. The climax (coming back down the stairs) destroyed me in a way that no film before ever has. Others have come close, but they pull fairly blatant emotional tricks with the score, or slo-mo, or whatever. This was just a simple (technically quite complex, but conceptually simple), incredible tracking shot and I was practically bawling in the theatre. See this film. Then see it again. Then take your family to see it. Then see it entirely by yourself.
I was planning on going to see Pan's Labyrinth again immediately after, but I don't think I could've handled it.
Scots Taffer on 8/1/2007 at 06:26
Children of Men is tonight, I've heard and seen nothing to lead me to think that it'll be anything other than superb. Even when I saw the trailer I was immediately hooked.
Shakey-Lo on 8/1/2007 at 06:42
I completely agree Fafhrd, the scene you mentioned had me choking up with emotions I didn't even know I had. Something about it just transcends the movie itself and (for lack of a better cliché) touches the soul.
Renegen on 8/1/2007 at 13:27
Well I heard there's no character that you really pull for in Children of Men... the lovefest over it is crazy, still I have to see it.
Abysmal on 8/1/2007 at 16:54
Children of Men (along with The Fountain) was a bit of a disappointment for me. Technically a great film, but that's about it. Watch the trailer and you've basically seen the whole movie (actually the trailer is better than the movie;Hoppipolla). There's no expansion, or writing, beyond its premise.
