Track the Films You Watch (2006) - Page 52

george kaplan · 10-02-2006, 08:42 PM

Anyway, moving on, a film I think we can all agree doesn't belong in the S&S:

Mr. Mom

A major disappointment. John Hughes has written many comedies I love (Vacation, Planes Trains Automobiles, Ferris Beuller, etc.), so I was hoping this would be one of them.

But man, this thing was cliched back in 83 when it was made. A typical Brady Bunch episode has more laughs and more depth. I knew John Hughes had gone downhill after the early nineties, but didn't think he'd made crap like this at the same time in his career that he was making Vacation.

Brian.L · 10-02-2006, 09:29 PM

August/September Recap

Movies seen: 16 & 17 (First timers: all of them!)
Average rating = 3.19/5 & 2.32/5

Either vacation or social life kept me from watching movies these months, and it certainly kept me from watching many good movies in September. United 93 was the best thing I've seen all year, though, and Mission: Impossible III was a pleasant surprise.

ALL RATINGS OUT OF

(FIVE) STARS

First time viewings in bold.

8/01- Lilya 4-Ever (Lilja 4-Ever) (2002)

8/06- The Beat That My Heart Skipped (De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté) (2005)

8/06- Brick (2006)

8/07- Cemetery Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) (1996)

8/08- Out of the Past (1947)

8/14- Tootsie (1982)

8/14- Silent Hill (2006)

8/16- The Apartment (1960)

8/22- Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

8/23- United 93 (2006)

8/25- Find Me Guilty (2006)

8/26- Sunset Blvd. (1950)

8/26- Scary Movie 4 (2006)

8/26- The Doors (1991)

8/27- Tsotsi (2006)

8/30- Down in the Valley (2006)

9/02- Over the Hedge (2006)

9/02- Just My Luck (2006)

9/02- An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

9/16- The Da Vinci Code (2006)

9/16- Nacho Libre (2006)

9/16- The Wild (2006)

9/16- Keeping Up With the Steins (2006)

9/18- The Sentinel (2006)

9/19- Hard Candy (2006)

9/20- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

9/23- Bullitt (1968)

9/23- Poseidon (2006)

9/24- Mission: Impossible III (2006)

9/26- Safe Men (1998)

9/28- Art School Confidential (2006)

9/31- The Conqueror (1956)

9/31- The Lake House (2006)

Favorites (first timers): United 93, Mission: Impossible III, Tsotsi, The Apartment

Holadem · 10-03-2006, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by george kaplan

We agree it'll be on S&S, but we strongly disagree about how deserving it will be. To me there are two S&S lists, which get mixed in together. The great films that deserve to be there, and the crap that certain critics love and put on there at the expense of better films. Under truth serum, most of those voters would admit that their list is NOT the best films they could have listed by a long shot. So, this will be more of the same.

You know, you don't have to like any movie, but to assert that those who claim to, do so because of anything other than genuine appreciation is quite preposterous and arrogant, really.

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H

Ted Lee · 10-03-2006, 12:05 PM

title: the world's fastest indian
rating: b
comments: liked it more then i thought i would. hopkin's is almost over-the-top, but he just manages to make me like (and root for) the character. i also appreciated how the story was as much about the journey, as the actual event at bonneville.

Joe Karlosi · 10-04-2006, 08:01 AM

A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)

For starters, I've never seen this Laurel and Hardy film before and the reason I got it on this month was to use it as part of the Annual Halloween Challenge. First things first - this is not even a "horror-comedy" as I presumed it would be (jeez, even the opening title card has the name of the film in ghoulish letters with a drawing of a ghost pursuing L&H!)

But getting past that -- I thought it started out well enough and I did get a few minor chuckles out of the gags provided by the comedy duo. It's got some cute slapstick moments, but we later get too much time wasted with "Dante the Magician" (who gets equal billing with Stan and Ollie!). The plot of crooks (one of them played by a very young Elisha Cook Jr.) is all over the place, and in the end this is a somewhat underwhelming later L&H offering. But it's still not as "heinous" as most critics make it out to be, and I've actually been enjoying these hated post-Roach Fox comedies for the most part.

george kaplan · 10-04-2006, 08:05 AM

Actually Holadem, there's quite a bit of evidence, based on what the critics themselves say about how they selected their lists, that what I say is perfectly accurate. If anyone is being arrogant, it's the voters who do that, not me, and if anyone is being pretentious, it's many of the directors on the list, not me.

Joe Karlosi · 10-04-2006, 08:06 AM

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Haggai · 10-04-2006, 10:41 AM

George's trademark subtlety and tact aside, I think the voting for lists like that clearly does lead to situations where some voters think "everyone else is going to pick Citizen Kane (or some other universally praised movie), so I'll go with something more obscure that I think deserves more attention." Certainly nobody is going to support a movie that they don't think highly of, but the simple criteria of "pick the best movies ever" is not universally applied by everyone who votes.

george kaplan · 10-04-2006, 11:38 AM

My copyright lawyers will be contacting you, since you used subtlety and tact, which as you yourself have admitted, I have trademarked.

I stand by my assertion that voters have blatantly said as Haggai pointed out, that since they figured others would vote for the better films, they felt free to vote for others (which they no doubt felt were great, but would admit weren't as great as the ones they let others vote for). They just wanted to make sure that poor old Kirostami gets on the list, cause they know someone else will get Hitchcock, Bergman and Welles on it.