Only films from 2003 onwards are eliigible. Pick one. Supply a reason.
My choice will be posted in a bit.
Only films from 2003 onwards are eliigible. Pick one. Supply a reason.
My choice will be posted in a bit.
I don't think The Dark Knight requires the viewer to pay all that much attention. I was pretty drunk the first time I watched it, and I followed along just fine. My mother was playing her Tiger Electronics solitaire game (between the hours of six and nine, post meridiem, she only removes her hands from that damned thing to take a drag from her cigarette or answer the phone) when she watched it for the first time while I was visiting this Christmas, and she never asked me to explain any of it to her. And, believe me, if she gets lost, she will *not* allow someone else to enjoy the movie until she is caught up. It doesn't matter if you've never even seen the movie, or if you just walked into the living room two minutes prior, and the movie's already two hours in.
An example, taken from a likely faulty memory from my teen-aged years:
"Who killed that guy?"
"I've never seen this movie before."
"Well, they haven't shown us who killed the guy, yet."
"Have you been paying attention? You weren't playing solitaire, were you?"
"No. I even paused it when I went to the bathroom."
"How far into the movie is it?"
"I don't know. About an hour and a half, maybe?"
"Well, every time they cut to that one detective, he's glaring with the evil eye and they're adding some choppy violin to the score. Obviously, then, they at least want you to suspect him."
"But he's one of the good guys!"
"Well, could be a red herring."
"Wait, no! He just shot his partner! What the Hell?! He's supposed to be one of the good guys!"
She even caught that Gordon was "the mysterious masked driver." It still boggles my mind how folks are surprised by that one. He's a character who's hugely important to the Batman mythology, he's still not commissioner, his "death" comes in the middle of the movie and is dealt with fairly unceremoniously (despite seemingly have occurred at a ceremony/funeral [I made a funny!]), and this silent, masked driver shows up, forcing us to hang out with some wise-crackin' Ric Olie-like douche, since the movie doesn't seem to want us to forget that there is a silent, masked driver driving. I understand that Prick Olie has to keep talking since Gordon can't, but he gets more annoying with each line.
So, anyway, the fact that my mother, of all people, was able to follow along indicates to me that the movie didn't require that much attention.
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I'm not sure if I have a favorite movie from the last five years. I enjoyed the first half of Wall-E, most of Man on Wire and No Country for Old Men, about three quarters of There Will Be Blood. I liked Dave Chapelle's Block Party, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Children of Men, and Good Night, and Good Luck. Hot Fuzz was pretty funny. Nothing from 2003 really stands out for me, anymore. I remember thinking School of Rock was cute, Spellbound was tense, and Lost in Translation was depressing but likable. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Aviator were from 2004, right? They had their moments.
I really enjoyed Herbie Rides Again, though, so what do I know?
Here's where Quasar calls me a liar and tells me to own up to my supposed love for Little Man.
Has it been five years since Eternal Sunshine came out? Or Memento? Those two are up there for me. I also really, really liked Taken.
"Hairspray"
And I aint even joking.
I came out of that film grinning like a bitch who'd just been done on her birfday.
The film was pure and simple, plain flat out E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T and I LOVED it.
Baelzar wrote:
Sooooooooo.... yeah. The Dark Knight.
Some day, if you're nice, I'll let you read my amazingly awesome mixed review of it.
You don't have to be nice, truth be told. You just have to promise to love me despite my having problems with it.
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Hairspray was a lot more fun than I expected it to be. That James Marsden sure knows when to turn on the charm (id est, when he isn't wearing ruby-quartz glasses and being pouty around Australians pretending to be Canadian).
Return of the King? Awesome in scope and scale, and not that far removed from the novel.
Actually I like Two Towers even better, but technically it doesn't make the list since it came out at the end of 2002.
Damn - it's been THAT long now, I forgot about RoTK(plus life was VERY different for me back then and I was in a very different head space), so I will ammend it to RoTK.
Damn - it's been THAT long now, I forgot about RoTK(plus life was VERY different for me back then and I was in a very different head space), so I will ammend it to RoTK.
DAMMIT - funny thing is, I went back into mod mode and for second, thought I could delete my double post.
If we're really looking at the last 5 years, this list should be January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008.
You know who speaks the truth? HaywoodJablomy speaks the truth.
When it suits him.
When it doesn't suit him, he leaves it in the closet, where R. Kelly is given the option of wearing it or not wearing it until HaywoodJablomy elects to retrieve it.
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I preferred Kill Bill's second volume to its first. This may only be because the second volume did not force me to look at Uma Thurman's feet for five minutes.
Uma Thurman has sexy feet.
plus part two doesnt have any animated chapters, so naturally I like part one the best.
Kill Bill 1 has a better soundtrack too.
Baelzar wrote:
Hm. Hmmmmm.....hm.The Dark Knight.I like movies that require you to pay attention.
dont those statements contradict each other, Baelzar? :)
Little Man. Just based on Goiter's glowing praises.
[i]Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind[/i] was great. I'm sure there should be others jostling for position in my brain, but my mind tends to go blank when asked "What's the best ___ of all time/the last five years/whatever?" questions.
I have enjoyed far too many movies and all for very different reasons. I can't compare, for instance, Slumdog Millionaire to Iron Man but for different reasons and at different times I thought they were both amazing. Then I loved Dark Knight. I am a Bond whore so going to see Quantum of Solace was a great day. Too many movies, so little time!
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Electroma. Because it's fucking beautiful.