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the night watchman
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 Posted: 02.05.2005 6:46 am Post subject: Re: 10 of '04 |
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Watched Anderson's Life Aquatic and updated my 10:
Collateral
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Five Obstructions
Garden State
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Machinist
Open Water
The Saddest Music in the World
Shaun of the Dead
Spider-Man 2
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Chain Smoker
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| Posted: 02.06.2005 8:46 am Post subject: |
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In alphabetical order:
The Aviator
The Bourne Supremacy
Collateral
Hotel Rwanda
The Incredibles
Kill Bill Volume 2
Maria Full of Grace
The Motorcycle Diaries
Sideways
Spider-Man 2
I consider Hero to be 2002, but if I didn't, you can bet it'd be on this list. Which place it would take I have no idea. |
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beltmann
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| Posted: 02.06.2005 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Mark Dujsik wrote: | | Danny Baldwin wrote: | | See, Beltmann! Somebody else digs THE GIRL NEXT DOOR enough to put it on their list! |
Yeah, I cry a little inside when I see it on people's worst of the year list. |
And I cringe a little every time I think about the movie.  At least it's better than Eurotrip. A little.
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Mark Dujsik
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Danny Baldwin
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I will post my list tonight! I have been sporadically working on it all day.
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Danny Baldwin
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| Posted: 02.13.2005 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I am DONE!
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Michael Scrutchin
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| Posted: 02.13.2005 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Danny Baldwin wrote: | | I am DONE! |
Oh, my. Don't look, Beltmann! Danny calls The Girl Next Door a (gasp!) "masterpiece."
(Yeah, I liked it too, but come on.) 
Good stuff, Danny. I agree with you on a lot, but disagree on just as much (I'll never understand your hate for Harold & Kumar... although I, too, could have done without the "BattleShits" scene).
I think I might catch Hotel Rwanda instead of The Aviator this week.
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matt header
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I haven't seen Hotel Rwanda, but The Aviator is outstanding: an unexpectedly daring biography and one of Scorsese's finest films, in my opinion.
Your response to Medved's criticism of MDB is dead-on, Night Watchman; it's practically pointless to turn the last act into a political debate, since the movie never attempts to present one side or the other. It simply observes it from an emotional standpoint.
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beltmann
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| Posted: 02.20.2005 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| Michael B. Scrutchin wrote: | | Danny Baldwin wrote: | | I am DONE! |
Oh, my. Don't look, Beltmann! Danny calls The Girl Next Door a (gasp!) "masterpiece."
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I'll just cut-and-paste from last year's Screening Log:
"Terrific, funny performances by Hirsch and Olyphant, but Cuthbert is a blank canvas onto which teen boys can project their fantasies?even the movie seems to look past her in the final third. (Once she stops functioning as a sultry object, the screenplay loses interest in her.) The jokes are exasperatingly juvenile, especially those voiced by Hirsch?s two dorky buds. Yet the worst offense is the blatant hypocrisy at its core. Even though Hirsch tells Cuthbert that she?s ?better? than a life in porn, the movie gets nearly all of its comic mileage out of how cool, daring, and enterprising the porn industry appears to teenage boys. (Greenfield is like DeMille, utterly reveling in debauchery while simultaneously wagging a finger at it, except with DeMille you sensed that just maybe he believed it.) The seemingly ?sweet? tone only deepens the hypocrisy. This is a movie that sells execrable lies?about what?s cool and not cool, about the mainstreaming of porn, about the sordid hazards of the skin trade, about what qualifies as 'moral fiber'?to an audience of unsuspecting kids who think recognizing Ron Jeremy makes them studlier."
At least Mean Girls had the decency to use its raunch as satire, targeted at precisely the lascivious conditioning that GND revels in. That said, at least Danny watched GND in widescreen.
Eric
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Chain Smoker
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| Posted: 02.20.2005 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| I agree with that word-for-word, Beltmann. |
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Danny Baldwin
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| beltmann wrote: |
At least Mean Girls had the decency to use its raunch as satire, targeted at precisely the lascivious conditioning that GND revels in. That said, at least Danny watched GND in widescreen. |
I'm going to take a photo for you to show you that only three of my 123 DVDs are in fullscreen. Of course, then you'll accuse me of doctoring it.
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beltmann
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| Danny Baldwin wrote: |
I'm going to take a photo for you to show you that only three of my 123 DVDs are in fullscreen. Of course, then you'll accuse me of doctoring it. |
No, I'll accuse you of cropping it.
Eric
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Monkeypox
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| beltmann wrote: | | Danny Baldwin wrote: |
going to take a photo for you to show you that only three of DVDs are in fullscreen. Of course, then
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ll accuse you of croppi
Eric |
fixed.
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| I am just passing through and enjoyed reading your lists. My favorite movie of the year, by a huge margin, was Life Aquatic. Im so sad its not a favorite of more people. |
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the night watchman
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| Racer wrote: | | I am just passing through and enjoyed reading your lists. My favorite movie of the year, by a huge margin, was Life Aquatic. Im so sad its not a favorite of more people. |
It's disappointing that it's not a bigger hit, but I understand why it would miss with a large number of people. The humor depends on the viewer really paying attention to both the dialogue and how it's delivered, the plot is unweildy, and the subtle tonal changes at the end probably threw many off.
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