Looking at the wide releases, I'm inclined to agree. There were some really great movies out that year. Or at least to me anyway.
Walk Hard, Bourne Again, The Lookout, Grindhouse, Zodiac, Sunshine, Gone Baby Gone, Razorblade Bathhouse, No Country, Daniel Day Lewis vs. Smug Twat in a Bowling Pin Match, Norbit. It hardly seems like it was nearly five years ago.
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I'm weird I guess. I know There Will Be Blood is a great movie, but it never grabbed me whatsoever. I like No Country For Old Men better, but then a gain, both movies, which I know are masterpieces, aren't synching in with my brain.
I'm weird I guess. I know There Will Be Blood is a great movie, but it never grabbed me whatsoever. I like No Country For Old Men better, but then a gain, both movies, which I know are masterpieces, aren't synching in with my brain.
*BROFIST*
I feel the exact same way. I barely made it through "TWBB".
"Looking like Nic Cage dressed in Kurt Cobain's closet. I mean that as a compliment" - BillyG
"Too cunty for wine bars, too dainty for real bars." - Anderson
Same here. I knew it was a great movie, and damn is Daniel Day-Lewis a great actor, and his performance there is awesome, but the pacing was killing me... Christ...
Maybe it was an off night for me, but I know myself well-enough to know it ain't gonna change. Some ofthose classic I just can't get into.
I forget who said it over at DERP (may have even been you, Troy), but I remember someone there calling 2007 "a cinematic blow job" (in a good way - not that it blew, but that it was amazing), which I loved that term, and it was totally spot on.
2012 Avatar Theme - LADIES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD. January: Ava Gardner.
Same here. I knew it was a great movie, and damn is Daniel Day-Lewis a great actor, and his performance there is awesome, but the pacing was killing me... Christ...
Maybe it was an off night for me, but I know myself well-enough to know it ain't gonna change. Some ofthose classic I just can't get into.
Adored NCfOM right away. TWBB is a movie that I respected more than liked or enjoyed. I need to see it again under different circumstances, I think.
Originally posted by Martin
Who the fuck is Kellan Lutz?
Originally posted by gravedigger
Basically what I'm saying is that, based on what I've watched so far, we should all listen to Matt more often.
Originally posted by Martin
And who the FUCK is Peaches Geldof?
Kellan Lutz's girlfriend?
Glorious. Yes, the plot is classic, but holy shit is that the standard Blu-Ray to compare all the others. I really don't get why they've cut Sully's opening sequence. It really grounds him way more as a character.
Odd, almost everyone I know is very cool on No Country, especially compared to Blood. I personally adore both of them, but Blood, to me, is transcendent.
Glorious. Yes, the plot is classic, but hily shit is that the standard Blu-Ray to compare all the others. I really don't get why they've cut Sully's opening sequence. It really grounds him way more as a character.
THIS. THIS SO MUCH.
I fucking love that cut.
"Looking like Nic Cage dressed in Kurt Cobain's closet. I mean that as a compliment" - BillyG
"Too cunty for wine bars, too dainty for real bars." - Anderson
Also, Bourne Ultimatum? Not that hot. Was not crazy about how it ended, but I love that the same actress (who was the logistics co-ordinator for Treadstone in the first one) makes it all the way through the series.
Julia Stiles, would that you were near me looking all concerned n' shit...
They spend too little time in Ultimatum on how Bourne was created and far too much time on shoving CIA agents that apparently are Treadstone trained but are not actually part of Treadstone. It also got kind of laughable how often they used the "Hey you should get some sleep, YOU LOOK TIRED!"-Jason-Bourne-is-watching-you-OMG gag.
There was lots to like in the final film, but the second one felt like a better conclusion that the third one IMHO.
Still had some great moments in it (that Tangier rooftop chase is amazing), but I agree, Blackbriar and Albert Finney OUT OF FUCKIN' NOWHERE was nowhere near as good as Chris Cooper flashbacks and the confessional with Neski's daughter.
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