2010 Movies Thread

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:47 am

Rick Derris Wrote:

Things I've seen lately:

Crazy Heart- There will be inevitable comparisons to "The Wrestler" on this. The broken down central character, the mixed up love interest, the failed parenthood, and the abuse of substances. Still, I thought this was great; especially as a music geek. There are enough great faux-outlaw country tunes here to make Kris Kristofferson blush. Bridges may not beat out Colin Firth in actuality this year but he 100% deserves the Oscar this year for sheer perseverence. "I Don't Know" and "Fallin and Flyin" are better than the songs up for Oscar. Props to Ryan Bingham. A career making move.

An Education - Who the fuck are these people?? Peter Sarsgaard is a pedo??? Still, even thoughts like that aren't enough to suppress Carey Mulligans performance. I have no idea how old she is but she is certainly NOT old enough to pull off this kind of mature/innocent role. So brutal yet so timeless. We all have to grow up sometime. Although I couldn't help but keep thinking what fucking horndog shitheads these guys were preying on this young girl (and jealous). Greatness.

Children Of Men- Been a few weeks since I've seen this but it still resonates. Such a great movie. Part warning, part action flick, and part philosophy lesson. A friend had told me this sucked so my expectations were low but it exceeded them in every way. An important piece of cinema.

A Serious Man To quote Variety magazine "this is the kind of movie you get to make after you win an Oscar". I mean, seriously??? This was the most boring, un-entertaining movie I've ever sat through by an Oscar winner (director/actor/writer/whatever). I read up on it afterwards and it became much more interesting to me. In fact, I watched it again with this knowledge and it was actually more interesting but I still couldn't escape the idea that this was a movie to be discussed rather than be enjoyed. This movie may be cited in senior thesis papers in the future but it will never get back it's chance to entertain me again.

The Lives Of Others- Easily the best movie I've seen since I sat through "Slumdog Millionaire". It never goes for cheap thrills or cheap action. Just a slow burn that wraps it's web around you until you are fucking paralyzed watching it. I wish I spoke German. Incredible.

Twilight - WTF???? I mean...............WTF???? I really tried and I really liked Kristen Stewart in "Adventureland" but WHAT.........THE.............FUCK?????? Awful. Pattinson should be anally raped immediately.

Carey Mulligan is twenty-four. You'll see her, again -- & I know you will, since you & the GARS are Oliver Stone completist -- in Wall Street: Greed Never Sleeps; she's Shia Le Boeuf's love-interest & Michael Douglas's daughter.

& totally agree on A Serious Man. Any thought to the Academy nominating that by mistake, when they meant A Single Man? I mean, three words can be so confusing.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

MAX TARDCORE Wrote:

& totally agree on A Serious Man. Any thought to the Academy nominating that by mistake, when they meant A Single Man? I mean, three words can be so confusing.

i think they tackled the "movie that looks great without actually being great" best picture nomination with avatar. though, colin firth did own that role.

two guns holla · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:38 pm

Z Wrote:

MAX TARDCORE Wrote:

& totally agree on A Serious Man. Any thought to the Academy nominating that by mistake, when they meant A Single Man? I mean, three words can be so confusing.

i think they tackled the "movie that looks great without actually being great" best picture nomination with avatar. though, colin firth did own that role.

I agree with your "movie that looks great without actually being great" analysis and thought the same while watching A Single Man.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Roman Holiday. i figured at some point i should probably watch a movie with audrey hepburn. she's good, but i wasn't blown away. i really liked how this was shot, making a rome a character of its own. i did like the romantic comedy switch here - whereas usually they revolve around why two characters can't be together for 90 minutes before getting together at the end, where this is why they can't be together aside from one day. more enjoyable than i thought it'd be, at least.

paper · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:42 pm

Hurt Locker - Thought it was very good...of the choices for best picture, I think this would get my vote. It could have been 10 minutes shorter maybe...but I liked it a lot. Didn't knock my socks off, but I'd take this over Avatar.

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:48 pm

Man, a lot of haters of A Serious Man. I really liked it, and felt it has a nice niche with their other "in-between" films like Barton Fink and The Man Who Wasn't There. Least it wasn't like Ladykillers or Intolerable Cruelty. Dang. I think if you like films where you can dig around and see a lot of in-between the lines type of stuff, you'd like A Serious Man.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Crazy Heart. i agree with everyone comparing this to tender mercies and the wrestler. (it didn't hurt that duvall shows up for a few scenes.) in the end, i just didn't feel a whole lot here. yeah, there are some great scenes, but overall it didn't live up to the hype, even though nearly all of it was on jeff bridges, who was pretty good. (i agree with the above that colin firth was better.) although, i did like the opening scene where he looks around and says, "another fuckin' bowling alley." i almost expected to see walter and donny in the background.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Hot Tub Time Machine. my regular +1 scoffed at attending this screening. luckily, i didn't have to look far for a replacement as just about everyone else i know was interested. i didn't go in expecting it to trump holy grail or a night at the opera as the best comedies of all-time, or something. i expected it to be ridiculous and it was most certainly ridiculous. it was also hilarious. rob corddry owns this movie. it's been a while since i've laughed so hard in a theater. there are some sly references to better off dead and back to the future. and the end credits were amazing. very enjoyable and highly recommended for those who know what they're getting into here.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Alice in Wonderland. i saw this on the imax in 3d last night. visually excellent, but the story was a mess. some decent potential never delivered. i liked the "is this the correct alice?" angle, but then they veered from that with a quick "yeah, it's her." at least the costumes and effects were great.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:51 pm

Z Wrote:

Alice in Wonderland. visually excellent, but the story was a mess. some decent potential never delivered.

I feel this way about almost all Burton movies.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 12:42 am

Kingfish Wrote:

Z Wrote:

Alice in Wonderland. visually excellent, but the story was a mess. some decent potential never delivered.

I feel this way about almost all Burton movies.

I'd go a little further and say they all suck

shiv · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:22 am

Senator GAR in 2010! Wrote:

Kingfish Wrote:

Z Wrote:

Alice in Wonderland. visually excellent, but the story was a mess. some decent potential never delivered.

I feel this way about almost all Burton movies.

I'd go a little further and say they all suck

yeah but you don't like anything.

posthumus · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:17 am **Posts:** 589

Alice In Wonderland. the way I see it Alice is a representation of the original, focusing on the poem of the jabberwocky. A "much muchness" was made to take away from the subversive aspects of the original instead of adding drug references or underlying pedo influences that would of garnered cult and maybe critical acclaim. Not a critical statement, just the truth. Burton softens every wicked jest and leaves Wonderland a harmless variation confused of who the audience is.

I do wish the characters were more morally ambiguous. The biggest problem is that the original wasn't about good vs evil, it was about challenging the status quo. Making Wonderland good with an evil ruler detracts from everything Carrol wrote.

BTW, I'm sure a large portion of Tim Burton's haters would have loved it to be made by the Japanese.

TheTheory · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:02 am

Senator GAR in 2010! Wrote:

Kingfish Wrote:

Z Wrote:

Alice in Wonderland. visually excellent, but the story was a mess. some decent potential never delivered.

I feel this way about almost all Burton movies.

I'd go a little further and say they all suck

I'd go not quite as far and say that they all suck except Sweeney Todd--but I'm a sucker for musicals and cannibalism.

MontyTheMongoose · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:22 am

So, LooGAR, the Man who Knows Everything, & whose thoughts we reject out of hand at our peril, said The Blind Side would win the whole damn thing at the Academy Awards.

Instead, some librul hogwash anti-western anti-Christian Muslin-appeasement tripe takes it. How'd you go so wrong, LooGs? How'd you go so wrong?

PopTodd · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:20 am

posthumus Wrote:

Alice In Wonderland. the way I see it Alice is a representation of the original, focusing on the poem of the jabberwocky. A "much muchness" was made to take away from the subversive aspects of the original instead of adding drug references or underlying pedo influences that would of garnered cult and maybe critical acclaim. Not a critical statement, just the truth. Burton softens every wicked jest and leaves Wonderland a harmless variation confused of who the audience is.

I do wish the characters were more morally ambiguous. The biggest problem is that the original wasn't about good vs evil, it was about challenging the status quo. Making Wonderland good with an evil ruler detracts from everything Carrol wrote.

BTW, I'm sure a large portion of Tim Burton's haters would have loved it to be made by the Japanese.

I enjoyed it, but that's about it. A solid 3/5.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:14 pm

MAX TARDCORE Wrote:

So, LooGAR, the Man who Knows Everything, & whose thoughts we reject out of hand at our peril, said The Blind Side would win the whole damn thing at the Academy Awards.

Instead, some librul hogwash anti-western anti-Christian Muslin-appeasement tripe takes it. How'd you go so wrong, LooGs? How'd you go so wrong?

Avatar and Blind Side siphoned the facile vote and Hurt Locker was left standing?

I didn't see any of these movies, btw - just a reader of the zeitgeist.

paper · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:17 pm

Excellent.

The Dreaded Marco · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:32 pm

Flying Rabbit Wrote:

Man, a lot of haters of A Serious Man. I really liked it, and felt it has a nice niche with their other "in-between" films like Barton Fink and The Man Who Wasn't There. Least it wasn't like Ladykillers or Intolerable Cruelty. Dang. I think if you like films where you can dig around and see a lot of in-between the lines type of stuff, you'd like A Serious Man.

Completely agree. Loved it. This may have been my favorite from '09.

A Single Man might have topped it if not for the terrible ending. I thought Firth's performance was better than Bridges'---both were deserving, though.

Stone · **Joined:** Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:27 am **Posts:** 1562

I don't watch many movies, but when I see something that looks out of the ordinary and entertaining, I try to see it. Last night I took my son to see A Town Called Panic. The movie is stop motion animation and is 75 minutes of constant action. I have to say I was thoroughly entertained and my son liked it too. We both walked out of the movie saying that the movie is nearly indescribable. Good fun, and it was kind of like watching Celebrity Deathmatch on speed, without all of the blood.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 5:56 pm

X-men Origins:Wolverine

Not sure why I do this to myself. I go into this knowing it's going to be terrible, but I watch it anyway. And can Hollywood stop trying to turn Van Wilder into an action star. I'm kind of surprised that he still has a career.

discostu · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:50 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

Things I've seen lately:

Children Of Men- Been a few weeks since I've seen this but it still resonates. Such a great movie. Part warning, part action flick, and part philosophy lesson. A friend had told me this sucked so my expectations were low but it exceeded them in every way. An important piece of cinema.

The Lives Of Others- Easily the best movie I've seen since I sat through "Slumdog Millionaire". It never goes for cheap thrills or cheap action. Just a slow burn that wraps it's web around you until you are fucking paralyzed watching it. I wish I spoke German. Incredible.

Both obviously not 2010, but 2 of my favorite movies of the last 5 years. Whoever told you Children of Men sucked, just stop listening to anything they tell you. I saw it in the theatre. Fucking great "future action/drama".

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:56 pm

discostu Wrote:

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Both obviously not 2010, but 2 of my favorite movies of the last 5 years. Whoever told you Children of Men sucked, just stop listening to anything they tell you. I saw it in the theatre. Fucking great "future action/drama".

It might have been me? I don't think it sucked, but didn't think it was anywhere near great.

I watched Transsiberian the other night. Woody Harrelson does a good job of playing a straight/normal character, and Ben Kingsley is a pretty good, menacing character, but overall it was just missing something. The lead actress, Emily Mortimer, was kind of annoying. But the film couldn't decide if it was a thriller, if it was about the characters or if the train and Siberia itself were going to be characters....and the end was highly unlikely and predictable.

discostu · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:00 pm

Senator GAR in 2010! Wrote:

discostu Wrote:

Both obviously not 2010, but 2 of my favorite movies of the last 5 years. Whoever told you Children of Men sucked, just stop listening to anything they tell you. I saw it in the theatre. Fucking great "future action/drama".

It might have been me?

Point proven

Flying Rabbit · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:30 pm

paper Wrote:

Excellent.

Agreed. I think I posted a review of it somewhere once upon a time.

Just watched:

Thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately, it didn't really get a full theatrical open, so most of the country doesn't even know this exists. I always thought Napoleon Dynamite was simply ok, but then Nacho Libre came out, and I really thought the Hess Bros. had come into a nice simple comedic formula. They aren't overly crude, and if they are, its simply suggested. Its hard to make a comedy that appeals to both adults and kids that isn't under the Pixar flag. This one is a little more flagrant--it got a PG-13--but retains its mostly ok for kids ideals. Jermaine Clement was great, though I wish they would've really let him explore more of the character. The character naming scene is great. This also brings up the question of why a bare-bones DVD? The website for the movie is pretty extensive, and is a lot of fun. I'm sure there was a ton of extra stuff. Hector Jimenez is back. He's always fun, even if he's essentially just playing the same character. Also, Mike White and Sam Rockwell are in it which adds even more intrigue as to why this didn't get a wider release.

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