Brook K

Emperor's New Clothes - See Seth's post and add the film is glacially paced. After about the first 20-30m there isn't a single compelling thing that happens. About the only real positive thing is the excellent score. Too bad it was wasted on this movie. C

Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze. The day needs my saving expertise! - Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool

2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 314 Last Watched: An Autumn Afternoon

Last 10 Films Watched:
Mon Oncle Antoine - B / Late Autumn - A-
Paranoid Park - B / An Autumn Afternoon - A
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - B / Run, Fatboy, Run - B
Get Smart - C- / Rendition - B-
Springtime in a Small Town - B+ / Evan Almighty - C

DVD BEAVER My Collection

Scott Weinberg

Updated with a handful of titles:

Frida
Morvern Callar
Possession

and a German flick entitled What To Do in Case of Fire.

Jason Seaver

Updated with Below. While not David Twohy's best movie, it's certainly good enough that I wish I'd had a chance to see it in a theater.

Jay's Movie Blog - A movie-viewing diary.
Transplanted Life: Sci-fi soap opera about a man placed in a new body, updated two or three times a week.
Trading Post Inn - Another gender-bending soap, with different collaborators writing different points of view.


"What? Since when was this an energy ball movie?" - Overheard during a screening of Takashi Miike's Dead Or Alive
"What the hell religion are you people?" - Overheard during the Captain Marvel serial at SF/29
"If I feel even one bullet hit me, I will rip your lungs out through your nostrils!" - Ron Silver as himself, "Heat Vision And Jack"

Edwin Pereyra

Time to get caught up on some updates after a self-imposed 5-week long posting hiatus in this thread and elsewhere. Besides, the human interest stories coming out of another part of the world lately is far more interesting than just about anything else these days.

Having said that though Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone is a film that is definitely worth a look. It chronicles the only real-life prisoner uprising in 1944 at Auschwitz. Still, I found The Pianist to be the better Holocaust film overall in 2002.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country - -


= Standouts
= Recommended
- - = Indifferent


Quality matters more than quantity.

Film Lists: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 • Best Films of 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 • Foreign & Independent Films: 2005, 2004, 2003

Edwin Pereyra

Updated with Phillip Noyce's The Quiet American.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country - -


= Standouts
= Recommended
- - = Indifferent


Quality matters more than quantity.

Film Lists: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 • Best Films of 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 • Foreign & Independent Films: 2005, 2004, 2003

Brook K

I mostly liked The Man From Elysian Fields with its interesting characters, tragic emotional story, and humor but I wish the director and/or writer had resisted various cinematic cliches like going handheld for emotional fireworks or the good 'ol "trash the room to show I'm frustrated and pissed". The last 20m or so is also a letdown where the viewers and main character are let off the hook to a certain extent. B-

Yes, Captain Hammer's here, hair blowing in the breeze. The day needs my saving expertise! - Captain Hammer, Corporate Tool

2002 Sight & Sound Challenge: 314 Last Watched: An Autumn Afternoon

Last 10 Films Watched:
Mon Oncle Antoine - B / Late Autumn - A-
Paranoid Park - B / An Autumn Afternoon - A
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - B / Run, Fatboy, Run - B
Get Smart - C- / Rendition - B-
Springtime in a Small Town - B+ / Evan Almighty - C

DVD BEAVER My Collection

Edwin Pereyra

Betty Thomas' I Spy - a spoof of the more successful spy films of recent years comes up short, very short on creativity, originality, humor, and just about everything else. Neither Eddie Murphy nor Owen Wilson can save this one from the get go.

Betty Thomas' track record as a feature film director has not been very good. Maybe, it's time for a self re-evaluation, if she hasn't already done so.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country - -


= Standouts
= Recommended
- - = Indifferent


Quality matters more than quantity.

Film Lists: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 • Best Films of 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 • Foreign & Independent Films: 2005, 2004, 2003

Edwin Pereyra

Mike Leigh, who usually champions the British working middle class, is back with another family drama in All Or Nothing.

It is a well-acted film but, unfortunately, quickly slides into the “been there, done that” category. The story is fairly routine as the conditions are quite predominant among the working class. In addition, the themes here have been tackled before by other directors with much better results.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country - -


= Standouts
= Recommended
- - = Indifferent


Quality matters more than quantity.

Film Lists: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 • Best Films of 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 • Foreign & Independent Films: 2005, 2004, 2003

Lowell_B

Updated my list with:

8 Mile (*** / ****)

One Hour Photo (*** / ****)

Roger Dodger (*** / ****)

Three solid films with one (Roger Dodger) rising above the rest. I finally get to see Spirited Away this Tuesday too.

Lowell