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Senator LooGAR
 Post subject: Gar actually liked some movies this decade
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:02 pm 
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LOVED:

Goodbye Lenin
Pan’s Labrynth
Almost Famous
25th Hour
Last King of Scotland
No Country
City of God
Blood Diamond

LIKED:
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Blow
Motorcycle Diaries
28 Days Later
Hustle and Flow
Ray
The Departed
Napolean Dynamite

ENJOYED:
Memento
Bourne Identity
Wedding Crashers
Old School
The Hangover
Public Enemies

I may be omitting some I have seen and/or liked but didn't feel they held up to critical analysis

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Hegel
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City of God liked and loved intentionally?
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Grape Ripple
 Post subject: Re: Gar actually liked some movies this decade
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You deride Eternal Sunshine yet Almost Famous is on your list? I really like both movies but I think they could both be easily criticized.

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Senator LooGAR
 Post subject: Re: Gar actually liked some movies this decade
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:22 pm 
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Grape Ripple Wrote:
You deride Eternal Sunshine yet Almost Famous is on your list? I really like both movies but I think they could both be easily criticized.


My specific criticism with Eternal Sunshine is that it is a movie/story that has been done 100 times before, just gussied up with some pseudo intellectual-meta-BS, and Kirsten Dunst in her underwear. My hatred for the movie is definitely outsized for how bad it actually is, it is just the twee/indie ethos taken to illogical new heights.

EDIT: I added Ray to LIKED.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Grape Ripple
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I understand your hatred for the twee/indie pathos. Nothing drives me more crazy. I just don't see it with Eternal Sunshine. To each his own though. I like all the movies on your list.

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Dick Meatwood
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:55 pm 
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I thought you really liked Mystic River.

3 of your favorites are in my top 10.
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rogneeb
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Senator Ba HumGAR Wrote:
LOVED:

Goodbye Lenin
LIKED:

Blow
Hustle and Flow

ENJOYED:
Public Enemies

I may be omitting some I have seen and/or liked but didn't feel they held up to critical analysis


still need to see these

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Senator LooGAR
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Drinky Wrote:
I thought you really liked Mystic River.

3 of your favorites are in my top 10.


I hope this was with sarcastic intent. If not, re-commit yourself to reading comprehension and/or memory testing.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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Senator LooGAR
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I haven't sat through There Will Be Blood or Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford yet.

I liked what I saw of Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, but I didn't finish it.

There are some others I have in my Netflix queue such as Gomorrah that I think I will end up liking.

But for the most part, these are the ones that stuck with me.

If I had to pick a #1, it would be Goodbye Lenin.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

FT Wrote:
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Dick Meatwood
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Senator Ba HumGAR Wrote:
Drinky Wrote:
I thought you really liked Mystic River.

3 of your favorites are in my top 10.


I hope this was with sarcastic intent. If not, re-commit yourself to reading comprehension and/or memory testing.


It wasn't sarcastic, more of a memory issue.
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Senator LooGAR
 Post subject: Re: Gar actually liked some movies this decade
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 2:28 pm 
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Drinky Wrote:
Senator Ba HumGAR Wrote:
Drinky Wrote:
I thought you really liked Mystic River.

3 of your favorites are in my top 10.


I hope this was with sarcastic intent. If not, re-commit yourself to reading comprehension and/or memory testing.


It wasn't sarcastic, more of a memory issue.


Might be my least favorite movie of the decade...an epic piece of dog shit.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

FT Wrote:
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Dick Meatwood
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Well, we agree on that.
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Dalen
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Goodbye Lenin would be in my Top 5 for sure.

Good list dude, and I'd say 60% would be in mine.
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Public Enemies was an ugly, unstructured steam engine to snoozeville, and Wedding Crashers was a remarkably shitty romantic comedy tacked onto the end of a mildly entertaining 20-minute comedy. Otherwise I have no beef with this list.
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Hegel
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The story of Assassination of Jesse James... was okay. But holy hot fuck it was one of the best shot movies of the decade. No question. It was so beautifully done.
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Beautifully done, but sooooo soooo looooong and deliberately paced
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Senator Ba HumGAR Wrote:
If I had to pick a #1, it would be Goodbye Lenin.


That movie blew me away.
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damn, these lists are really showing me how out of touch i've been with movies -- especially in the last 3+ years. i guess i really need to see goodbye lenin.

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Senator LooGAR
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HaqDiesel Wrote:
Public Enemies was an ugly, unstructured steam engine to snoozeville, and Wedding Crashers was a remarkably shitty romantic comedy tacked onto the end of a mildly entertaining 20-minute comedy. Otherwise I have no beef with this list.



They both fucked up by bringing the romantic piece to the forefront, but Public Enemies is beautifully shot, and the costume/period design, etc was good enough that it ended up making my list.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

FT Wrote:
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Hegel Wrote:
The story of Assassination of Jesse James... was okay. But holy hot fuck it was one of the best shot movies of the decade. No question. It was so beautifully done.


Shot in my backyard, it was.

I have some overlap on this list, I'm sure, but of the one's you've "loved", the majority I haven't seen.

Also, I don't understand the twee-meta thing either re: Eternal Sunshine. I guess it's the crazy broad with purple hair. I'm a sucker for films about episodic memory. I'm less a romantic and more of nazi though.

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i really liked Jesse James. very well done imo.

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IMO, the reason Public Enemies looks so god-awful is because it was shot on digital. It seemed anachronistic to me.

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Grape Ripple Wrote:
IMO, the reason Public Enemies looks so god-awful is because it was shot on digital. It seemed anachronistic to me.


Is your problem with digital in general or the choice to use digital for that particular movie?
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Senator LooGAR
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Edit: added "Last King of Scotland" to LOVED.

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harry Wrote:
I understand that you, of all people, know this crisis and, in your own way, are working to address it. You, the madras-pantsed julip-sipping Southern cracker and me, the oldman hippie California fruit cake are brothers in the struggle to save our country.

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