2007 Film List - Page 3

Adam_S · 05-27-2007, 12:06 AM

Pirates - 9 of 10

Arr! This was great, a fitting end to the story of Will and Elizabeth. Tremendously entertaining and wonderful scenes. Loved the spine tingling opening and the whole tone of the movie was more in the vein of the first film. And I think this movie makes the second movie better in many ways. The marraige ceremony was perhaps my favorite thing about the film. superb. Keira Knightly was unbelievably smoking hot in the entire film. Damn. I like Orlando Bloom a lot more in this film, and Jack as well.

If there was one thing I didn't like it was:

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Greg Layton · 05-27-2007, 11:25 AM

I saw Waitress yesterday. It was only the second movie I've seen this year to get 4 stars. Saw it with a packed house and everyone was really into it...

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Andy Griffith was great too.

Holadem · 05-28-2007, 07:21 PM

Added Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. Flawed but enjoyable conclusion to the series. Some amazing action in the last hour.

/4.

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Holadem · 05-31-2007, 07:46 AM

Added the utterly charming Waitress. Very short 07 list yet, but this is one of the highlights

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/4

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Joe Kamsan · 05-31-2007, 01:46 PM

Added Spider-Man 3, 28 Weeks Later and Zodiac. None will make my year end Top 10, though Zodiac is the best out of that bunch.

Adam Lenhardt · 06-02-2007, 01:07 AM

Added Knocked Up (and linked to my review), which deserves to be the sleeper hit of the summer. Once again, Apatow has created great characters in a film full to the brim with laughs big and small. The end credits are particularly meaningful, too.

Greg Layton · 06-02-2007, 10:52 PM

Saw two movies at the local theater this weekend:

Knocked Up

I enjoyed this more than the other big comedy of the year, Hot Fuzz. It was consistently funny throughout, and you got a realistic and touching drama to boot. Good stuff.

Mr. Brooks

This film started off strong and ran out of steam pretty quick. That being said, it would have garnered a higher rating with a more imaginative...

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Nick C. · 06-03-2007, 05:11 PM

Caught three brilliant films this weekend, Once was a charming musical, Knocked Up surprised me in fulfilling months of critical praise, and Away From Her makes me want to have a 45 year old marriage

Adam_S · 06-04-2007, 04:56 AM

Knocked up - 9 of 10

Excellent comedy/drama from Judd Apatow. personally I think universal should committ themselves now to a concerted push for Katherine Heigl for a leading actress nomination. She won't win, but she's definitely good enough, with a strong enough role, to deserve a nomination. It'd be a better than Blanchett sleepwalking through Golden Age doing the same old same old that she did in Elizabeth. But Blanchett will probably get the Universal push, and nobody will think of Heigl (because it's a comedy and therefore not 'awardworthy'), which is a fucking shame.

Wonderful movie that was outstanding from start to finish. It's not perfect but it's a damn brilliant piece of storytelling and I would even say it's the rare comedy that matters because it uses comedy to its full potential in the tradition of Wilder and Sturges rather than just eliciting sitcom puns and slapstick grossouts.

Seth Paxton · 06-12-2007, 12:15 PM

I'm trying to get to Knocked Up but I have to wait on the wife for that one. That's about 1 word away from a joke right there.

Meanwhile I'm just trying to get back up to speed with things here. Since I was away from this thread:

Oceans 13 - 8.5
Wonderfully artful, plot still silly but Soderbergh and the cast make more of it

Spider-Man 3 - 8
At times this soars to 10 status, but creaky scenes and moments that just go on too long (sand in shoe joke great example of missing the beat) pull it back down. This needed to be 2 films and it needed tons of editing.

Pirates - 7.5
Visually great, characters still fun, but to me it's just not as tight as the first film still. It was better about not over doing the earlier actions scenes like the 2nd film did, but like #2 it did feature yet another odd "on the fly" opening and some pretty convoluted plotting. Fun, but not great.

Shrek 3 - 7.5
Sort of the same issues as Pirates. It's fun, I enjoy being with the characters again, but ultimately it feels a bit worn. Like Pirates, I'd go seen a 4th one but only at a matinee.

And from way back
300 - 7.5
At times I love the sleek and stylish over-the-top approach. At other times it just feels like a huge violence-fetish film (along with other fetishes to be honest). It looks better than it actually is, and while some dialog is enganging it's far more likely to induce groans at times.