Ko0K on 13/12/2007 at 06:26
Quote Posted by Shug
Also David Wenham is great but dear god don't give him a narration role with that voice you IDIOTS.
That is so true...
Morte on 13/12/2007 at 17:34
I'm sure I'm forgetting something, but here goes. Not in order of quality, except for when they are.
Top three. The Bourne Ultimatum - It's got the weakest story so far in the series, but when I sat in the theatre I didn't give a shit, nor did the handheld camera bother me in the slightest. Gripping and tense from start to finish. I almost jumped out of my seat and punched the air when Extreme Ways started playing in the end.
Michael Clayton - Excellent character based slow-burn thriller, with just superb acting throughout. Clooney's great as usual, but Wilkinson and especially Swinton as the villain outdo him.
Hot Fuzz - Like most action movies, it's too long for its own good, but it's endlessly quotable and the last act is just
insane.And for the rest:
The goodShoot 'Em Up - To steal someone else's perfect description: this isn't a good movie, it's a bad movie with absolutely no restraint or sense of shame. There's more than the occasional cringe-worthy bit in the script, but since the movie is 90% visual gags, and nearly all of those work, it doesn't matter.
Planet Terror - Gooey zombies, Rose McGowan rocket-jumping with her machine-gun/grenade launcher leg, and Michael Biehn dies. Everything you could ever wish for from a z-grade flick.
Sunshine - Yeah, it gets all muddled and confused in the third act. Boyle and Garland are clearly not on the same page when it comes to this God business. And you can pick endless nits with the physics and science, but I still really liked it. It's just too good to be on a proper, dangerous trip through space after all that Star Wars crapola, and I'll forgive endless amounts of missteps for that shot of Michell Yeoh against the burning oxygen garden.
The blandThe Kingdom - The gunfight at the end was pretty cool, but didn't gel very well with what came before. I suppose it's thoughtful given (
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/09/npr-dana-perino-dont-know-much-about-history/) how little people know about history to give a short lesson at the start, but it's pretty superfluous for the movie, and patronizing if you do know anything about the region already.
Die Hard 4.0 - Not really a Die Hard movie at all, it's True Lies 2, except given off to hack Len Wiseman instead of James Cameron. At least it wasn't actively bad like Underworld, but it's not much good either.
300 - Naked, oily men beating on each other in slow motion for an hour and a half. I probably missed out by not seing it on the big screen, since there's nothing to it except naked, oily men thrusting phallic objects into each other.
Knocked Up - Sadly, given how much I liked the 40-Year Old Virgin. I just didn't buy the characters, and is mom to overgrown children the new appalling cliche for female love interests? Please, bring back the prostitute with a heart of gold.
Transformers - I feel like there's something wrong with me for not hating this, especially given the burning hatred I felt for Bad Boys 2, but I didn't. It could be because I went in with really low expectations, or because I really couldn't give a flying fuck about the Transformers, or Shia LaBeouf being too charming a bastard by half, or residual goodwill because (
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/) John Rogers wrote the first draft, but I just shrugged and went on without feeling much any which way about it.
Shrek The Third - It's run its course, let it die now please. Except there's a Shrek 4 coming in a couple of years. *sigh*
The uglyPirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Interminal shitfest that makes no sense whatsoever. I just hope the franchise dies after this wretched nosedive.
Death Proof - Oh god, shut up Quentin. Yeah, I suppose the chase in the end was sort of amusing, but I really don't care, I hate everyone on the screen because they won't shut up with their boring inane speeches about ditches.
SHUT UP QUENTIN.DOA - Charisma deficient actresses fight to save the world from Eric Robert's evil sunglasses. Enormously stupid and inept on almost every level. It's porn for adolescents who can't get their hands on the proper stuff. How that target demographic exists in the age of the internet, I have no clue. At least it wasn't as long as World's End.
Lucky You - God, what happened to you Curtis Hanson? How can you go from LA Confidential to
this? Boring, predictable, tepid. Everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves.
Stuff I haven't gotten around to seeing yet, but want to: No Country For Old Men, Zodiac, American Gangster, Breach, The Lookout, Stardust
Hier on 13/12/2007 at 19:28
Quote Posted by Morte
The uglyPirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Interminal shitfest that makes no sense whatsoever. I just hope the franchise dies after this wretched nosedive.
Fuck yes. I thought about it for a while, and I honestly think POTC3 was the worst movie I've <i>ever</i> paid money to see in a theatre. And I saw Battlefield Earth in the theatre.
Such a disappointment too. The first Pirates was fantastic, the second good but it lacked an ending, setting itself up for what could (should) have been a good finale. But Lord, no.
I thought the same of the Matrix trilogy--contrary to many other peoples' opinions, I thought the second was excellent, but they butchered the series with the third.
Shug on 13/12/2007 at 23:59
If 300 was "too gay" for you, you were probably craving cock in the first place.
Seriously, the trailer made it pretty damn obvious what you were going to see. All I can conjure is a mental image of you patting yourself on the chest muttering about how you really shouldn't, but you do deserve one guilty pleasure this year! (cut to quinch giggling and entering the cinema)
edit: or was this one of those "i didn't see it, but it's for FAGS" movie reviews that we all typically enjoy reading
hopper on 14/12/2007 at 11:24
"what say you, wanna go see '300'?"
"no, it's too gay"
"omgwtf how can you possibly say a movie you haven't seen is gay?"
"can i go see it and then say it's gay?"
"sure."
"but i don't want to see it."
"why not?"
"it's too gay."
"i already told you. you cannot say that if you haven't seen it."
"but it's the reason i don't wanna see it."
"irrelevant. if you haven't seen it, you can't have an opinion."
"so i better just shut my trap, then?"
"yep."
"did you see it?"
"yep."
"how is it?"
"gay."
Fingernail on 14/12/2007 at 11:31
Quote Posted by quinch
The Lives of Others
Why isn't there a voyeur porno-spoof of this called "The Wives of Others"?
Literally the hottest idea ever.
SubJeff on 14/12/2007 at 11:50
Give it time. It's too obvious to not be done. Perhaps it already has!
quinch on 14/12/2007 at 11:59
Actually "The Wives of Others" would be a fairly accurate description of the film as it stands ;)
snowcap21 on 14/12/2007 at 18:17
One film I'll remember of 2007 is (
http://german.imdb.com/title/tt0762110/) Irina Palm, a small and quiet film, that impressed me a lot with it's love for people. Marianne Faithful is great in the way she let's her face tell and reflect stories.
Scots Taffer on 5/1/2008 at 14:12
No Country For Old Men was utterly fucking amazing. The Coen Brothers have made up for their past couple of slips with the best film they've ever made. I can only hope that they eventually get around to their opus, To The Sea.
Up next are: American Gangster, 3:10 To Yuma and Mr Brooks, though American Gangster opened with a scene so bloody cliched that it appears to be an A-B-C criminal versus cop opus like Heat but with Godfather operatic stylings as opposed to procedural/realism.
