The '07 Movie Hierarchy
Submitted by Cosgrove on Wed, 02/21/2007 - 02:02
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- A
- Ratatouille
- Gone Baby Gone
- My Kid Could Paint That
- A-
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Day Night Day Night (2)
- 28 Weeks Later (2)
- Joshua
- The Lives of Others
- No Country for Old Men
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- Fido
- Superbad (2)
- Offside
- B+
- The Wayward Cloud
- Brand Upon the Brain!
- Deep Water
- Paprika
- This Is England
- You, the Living
- Grindhouse
- Rescue Dawn
- [REC]
- The TV Set
- Hot Fuzz
- Exiled
- Time
- Helvetica
- Bug
- Into the Wild
- The Host
- Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
- Michael Clayton
- B
- At Sea
- Lake of Fire
- There Will Be Blood
- Syndromes and a Century
- No End in Sight
- The Italian
- I Am Legend
- The Boss of it All
- Black Snake Moan
- The Mist
- Knocked Up
- Zodiac
- Sicko
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Le Deuxième Souffle
- Seraphim Falls
- Red Road
- Away from Her
- Once
- Spider-Man 3
- Black Book
- Juno
- Comedy of Power
- Regular Lovers
- I Think I Love My Wife
- Vacancy
- Air Guitar Nation
- Them
- The Savages
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
- B-
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2)
- Maxed Out
- Eat, for This Is My Body
- Breach
- Nightwatching
- Hostel: Part II
- L'Iceberg
- Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs)
- Wind Chill
- Inside
- The Lookout
- The Valet
- Hannah Takes the Stairs
- Ten Canoes
- Private Property
- C+
- Smokin' Aces
- Halloween
- The Simpsons Movie
- Flanders
- Eastern Promises
- Chalk
- Persepolis
- Honeydripper
- Blades of Glory
- The Girl in the Park
- I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
- 3:10 to Yuma
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- Mr. Brooks
- Sacco and Vanzetti
- C
- Ocean's Thirteen
- Glory to the Filmmaker!
- Drama/Mex
- Antibodies
- The Orphanage
- Bender's Big Score
- Dr. Plonk
- Fay Grim
- 12:08 East of Bucharest
- Reno 911!: Miami
- Epic Movie
- They Wait
- I Know Who Killed Me
- Smiley Face
- Black Sheep
- Election
- Help Me Eros
- The Reaping
- Redacted
- Hatchet
- Alone with Her
- C-
- Highlander: The Source
- It's My Party and I'll Die if I Want To
- Atonement
- Interview
- American Cannibal
- Barcelona (A Map)
- D+
- Stardust
- Sad Vacation
- The Messengers
- Thr3e
- The Abandoned
- The Condemned
- The Hitcher
- D
- Bloodrayne 2: Deliverance
- Resident Evil: Extinction
- Trigger Man
- Southland Tales
- Dead Silence
- 30 Days of Night
- Scrap Heaven
- Severance
- 300
- Exodus
- The Hills Have Eyes II
- D-
- Captivity
- The Wizard of Gore
- Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
- F
- Seed
- Silent Resident
- The Blood Shed
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Ooh, I still want to see The Wayward Cloud.
It's definitely worth your time. I suspect, from the way it's lodged itself in my mind, that it'll only get better on a repeat viewing. That there Tsai, he knows what he's doing. (No idea what the NY critics were talking about.)
Agreed. I knew, going into it, that Grindhouse would have quotes around the entire thing. Hell, I even knew Tarantino would bait-and-switch by attempting to make a "real" movie.
Well, yeah. That's the whole of Tarantino's ethos -- refining trash into art. That's probably one of the reasons I like his work so much.
A-
The Lives of Others
C
Redacted
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
Man, 2007 sucks.
You have. NO IDEA. How crushed I was upon viewing Diary of the Dead. I don't understand the mostly positive notices it got in Toronto -- it's lazy, poorly thought out and obvious even by Romero's non-subtle standards. Just knowing it exists breaks my heart a little.
Lake of fire just a B?, i'm really looking forward to it, gotta wait for the dvd tho, is it way too graphic?
It's pretty ugly at times, but that doesn't factor into my reservations -- I think Kaye uses too much footage of easy-target pro-life zealots long after he's made any point that could be gleaned from said footage. (The Lamb of God minister, in particular, is an egregious inclusion.) That said, it's still potent shit.
Another question, do you prefer Citizen Ruth?
Gone baby gone? really? i heard it was horribly edited.
Affleck's directing skills won't blow anybody away, but they're not distracting. Plus he's smart enough to stay out of the way of the material, which is wicked awesome, as they say up there. The thematic richness of Gone Baby Gone really clinched the film for me, turning a solid crime drama into one of the year's most pleasant surprises.
Like Paul said, Affleck's best skill is his unobtrusiveness. He lets the material do its work without mucking it up with flashy technique. As for the editing, there's some two-shots early on that felt a bit off, but otherwise I didn't notice anything egregious.
I have to say, your "C" category cuts down some sacred cows admirably. Lotti would be (is) proud.
He's That Tough on music too (read: why the diss on Torture Garden dude, that album is mega-awesome). Still, the thing to remember is that most of the time he's also right (i.e. Boxer, which is in no way near the level of Aliigator, sorry indie-rock dudes).
See, and I've been told I'm too lenient on music (too easily lured by obvious hooks, too fascinated by what people consider mediocre bands, like Coldplay and The Killers). Hmm.
But there's so much better Zorn stuff out there BTW....
I'm sure there's better Zorn stuff out there (I really should explore his catalog some day), but I doubt there's anything that's as fun. I think it's Eye's gibbering vocals that make it for me -- the other Naked City album I own isn't nearly as cool.
And there's nothing wrong with being lured by obvious hooks. Fuck it -- on this year's music-poll ballot, I'm casting a vote for 'Umbrella' in the singles department.
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If only one of the songs in "Sweeney Todd" were half as memorable as that Rihanna joint, I'd probably be about as high on it as you, Cos.
I think that's a bit unfair, since just about nothing is as memorable as Rihanna's big summer jam.
Haha. Touché.
ahi have to ask, The simpsons movie above futurama? i only ask because personally i was laghing a lot harder and a lot more while watching futurama. The jokes seemed to be aimed at an older audience, where as to me, the simpsons movie felt below par and the jokes fairly stale, the only 2 i can remember laughing at loud were
"finally , the rich white man is in control"
"i like men now"
whereas with futurama there were too many to mention, but i'll mention one
Nibbler : i've manage to save the universe and 40% of your rectum
Bubblegum Tate : that's all you need!
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There Will Be Blood[/i]
I hate to say it, but this is about right for this one. Why o why will I never embrace a PTA film? :(
... but I draw the line at Rescue Dawn being called better. :)
The way I see it, take Davies outta Rescue Dawn and you've got one of the best things Herzog's done in the last five to ten years. I don't know why I respond so strongly to seeing his man-vs.-surroundings aesthetic applied to fictional frameworks, but I do. Though I'm still skeptical about Invincible.
As for Blood... I dunno. I think the film lurches too much to be a genuine masterpiece, and I say that as someone who believes that PTA already has two if not three masterpieces on his resume.
Listology is stocked to the teet with Herzog fanboys. I am more and more convinced that docs are his preferable medium. ;)