War Horse, a good film. I will rate it eight out of ten. Yes, I enjoyed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo more. Maybe I am more of a Dragon lover than a Horse lover.
War Horse, a good film. I will rate it eight out of ten. Yes, I enjoyed The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo more. Maybe I am more of a Dragon lover than a Horse lover.
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts
War Horse is next on my list. I watched The Soloist last night and loved it. I'll give it a 9 out of 10Originally Posted by sadparadise
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. It's no Yogi Bear! I'll give it a 7.45/10 just because it had that one song in it.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Stupid, Crazy Love- 6.5/10 . Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell are great, the plot is a little different but the climactic graduation scene just does not work.
Also Captain America-7/10 Good comic book movie.
Lawnmower Man. 4/10. I gave it a low rating, but I really enjoyed the whole thing. It was hilarious and weird and more imaginative than movies made lately. I'm told there are different versions and I saw the worst cut, so I'll have to see about seeing what I missed.
Lol; Was it better than the Squeakquel?
"Like Water for Elephants" Not bad, really. I"ll give it a 7.5/10 just because it had Robert Patinson in it, whom, by the way, I like better as
Edward. He makes a dreamy Edward. I guess some blogger is making the proposition that the movie would have been better with Ryan Gosling. I think I agree.
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Midnight in Paris. i give it a 7 out of 10, pretty good Woody Allen film.
Sharktopus, and I would give it 6/10It is what it is. Go in with low expectations and a healthy dose of humor. More comedy than anything.
Burlesque. 2/10. It only gets more than one point because it was shot on digital video rather than non-digital video. I laughed a whole lot. I frowned. It was unpleasant. It wanted to be Moulin Rouge. It had a lot of drag queens. I like drag queens, but these weren't good drag queens. One was Christina Aguilera(sc).
It was stupid and sexless. High School Musical III meets G-rated Showgirls meets the Sex & the City movie plus All That Jazz. I'm sure it's perfect if you're the kind of woman who likes this sort of thing.
^Haha!
I caught The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (original Swedish version) last night which I thought to be good and bad in equal measure. There was a guessing element to the whodunnit plot and I kept guessing wrong (which is apparently how these things operate), though the denouement I found obvious and weak (and expected it from the beginning - maybe you'll be taken in by the words used to throw the reader/watcher, but alas, not me).
There were slow ponderous parts that might have been better suited to a slow ponderous avante garde experience - these seemed to fumble for a foothold, and gave me the feeling the author hadn't really thought it through (only afterward did I discover it was based on an entire trilogy of novels, so perhaps this was the reason for its length, but sections could have been cut considerably. Also I'm not a native Swedish speaker, so to an extent I forced myself to the screen and subtitles (I'm trying not to subtract points for that).
Was it gripping? Sort of - just not rivetting. There needed to be more concern for the characters, and they largely played as marionettes in a puppet show. The locale, which I must hasten is Sweden and probably the setting, were without exception bleak - though I wasn't expecting a happy comedy - but it's a film, and there could have easily been license for climatic variation: Summer always took place in memory/the past, Winter in the here and now.
There is something to be said about the actual 'physical appearance' of the actors - it was Andy Warhol who said that real people just don't look like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. When something happens in real life it happens to people of little consequence, and a well-chosen cast should reflect this.
I think they got that right - they were believable even though not likeable.
There were novelistic aspects left in which was a good touch, and at moments made me wish I had the book next to me to compare how that bit was written, or this bit. And overall it seemed to succeed as a translation from page to screen, though I haven't read the page.
All up it gets 7/10 (even though one point is out of sympathy/disregarding the subtitle hassle, it is definitely better than a 6)
Well it's 2012 now so I'm just going to list and rank my 10 favourite films of 2011.
10. War Horse - 6.5/10 The movie is very well made, but the corny plot makes it a bit too cloying at times.
9. 13 Assassins 7/10, Takashi Miike is a guilty pleasure of mine.
8. Super 8 - 7/10, a good children's film that captures much of the wonder of an E.T. or the Goonies, but falls apart at the end when it becomes a formulaic action film for the last 30 minutes.
7. Midnight in Paris - 7/10, a middle of the pack Woody Allen film.
6. The Artist - 7.5/10, a good film that is endearing because of its concept. Strong ending and good performances throughout, but has moments where it was a bit dull for me.
5. 50/50 - 8/10, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is my celebrity crush.
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - 8/10, Gary Oldman is great in this movie.
3. Drive, 8/10 has a real Cronenberg vibe to it.
2. Tree of Life, 8.5/10 I have mixed feelings about this, but some parts of it are transcendent.
1. Hugo, 9/10 an ambitious children's movie about cinema itself essentially. It's just great.
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
I agree Hugo was fantastic!!
I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan Watts
Jsut saw Elvis and Anabelle on TV. 7/10.Loved Elvis !!
Her heart is played like well worn strings; in her eyes the sadness sings; of one who was destined for better things.
8 1/2 by Fellini 7 out of 10. I have to really watch it again to determine why it's on the top of every critical list.
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton). 6/10. I love the Alice characters. I give this movie a 6 for the art, mainly. I did like the art, but the whole movie is kind of washed in a bleak gray/blue/black. I don't think it was necessary. Rather than making it a darker tale, it made it somewhat monotonous. The Hatter and the dog characters were endearing. The actress for Alice was quite good. I found the rabbits a bit difficult to look at. I thought the Cheshire cat was cute, but missing his somewhat sinister charm.
The story is simple. It had so much potential but it left me imagining how they could have improved it. It fell apart in the second half. The jabberwocky was decidedly unscary, in some really bad CGI. The ending was a dud.
I'll still rewatch this movie for the lovely first 45 minutes.
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