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bugshaw at 10:42am on 09/01/2010
bugshaw at 10:42am on 09/01/2010I like the movies! 61 films this year, 20 (plain text) were watched in the cinema (3 rewatches), the other (italics) were on video/DVD/tv (17 rewatches, largely due to efforts to sort through the VHS mountain and discard/replace).
( A Chronological List )
I have a top few of 2009. I've talked about them a lot, but I'm blowed if I can find where now!
The Wrestler: ( No real spoilers in these, just flavour )
Moon: ( Read more... )
Frost/Nixon: ( Read more... )
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus: ( Read more... )
There are a few I hugely enjoyed at the time, and thought would become favourites, but their impact has diminished away from the gosh-wowness of the big screen. Star Trek, The Dark Knight and Watchmen (both IMAX rewatches). Avatar was a lovely exploration of a fantastical new world, but I'm too uncomfortable with the Earth cultural dominance bits (the pantomime genocidally-inclined colonel and the American who becomes the Best Na'vi Ever Better Than Any Actual Na'vi) to become fond of it. There is an account of an early version, with more subtlety and backstory, that I think is stronger, but probably too long to film? (from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
surliminal)
Old favourites, good old favourites, I liked you as much this time as the first or possibly more and can see myself enjoying you again in the future. Pan's Labyrinth, Cabaret, The Man With Two Brains, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Dr Strangelove, Delicatessen, Brazil. Silly creepy funny quirky. And many more, which I haven't rewatched this year.
I must have watched Secrets and Lies before, but I didn't remember much of it, and it was a lovely, funny, affectionate yet unblinkered piece of people being bloody complicated and emotionally tangled and keeping a British face on things.
I had watched The Unbelievable Truth, not remembered it, watched it again, and still not remembered it and had to refresh my memory via IMDB. Actually, it has some similarities with Secrets and Lies - suburban lives, complications, a new person enters with a secret that affects the dynamic.
I'm glad I saw Trainspotting at last but found it terribly depressing in the main. Wild At Heart is an old favourite that seems to have passed its Best Before date - or maybe I have? Young people doing foolish things in an environment where the 80s colours and Wizard of Oz imagery serve to distance us from reality.
( A Chronological List )
I have a top few of 2009. I've talked about them a lot, but I'm blowed if I can find where now!
The Wrestler: ( No real spoilers in these, just flavour )
Moon: ( Read more... )
Frost/Nixon: ( Read more... )
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus: ( Read more... )
There are a few I hugely enjoyed at the time, and thought would become favourites, but their impact has diminished away from the gosh-wowness of the big screen. Star Trek, The Dark Knight and Watchmen (both IMAX rewatches). Avatar was a lovely exploration of a fantastical new world, but I'm too uncomfortable with the Earth cultural dominance bits (the pantomime genocidally-inclined colonel and the American who becomes the Best Na'vi Ever Better Than Any Actual Na'vi) to become fond of it. There is an account of an early version, with more subtlety and backstory, that I think is stronger, but probably too long to film? (from
surliminal)Old favourites, good old favourites, I liked you as much this time as the first or possibly more and can see myself enjoying you again in the future. Pan's Labyrinth, Cabaret, The Man With Two Brains, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Dr Strangelove, Delicatessen, Brazil. Silly creepy funny quirky. And many more, which I haven't rewatched this year.
I must have watched Secrets and Lies before, but I didn't remember much of it, and it was a lovely, funny, affectionate yet unblinkered piece of people being bloody complicated and emotionally tangled and keeping a British face on things.
I had watched The Unbelievable Truth, not remembered it, watched it again, and still not remembered it and had to refresh my memory via IMDB. Actually, it has some similarities with Secrets and Lies - suburban lives, complications, a new person enters with a secret that affects the dynamic.
I'm glad I saw Trainspotting at last but found it terribly depressing in the main. Wild At Heart is an old favourite that seems to have passed its Best Before date - or maybe I have? Young people doing foolish things in an environment where the 80s colours and Wizard of Oz imagery serve to distance us from reality.
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