December 2009
11 posts
Favorite films of '09
Eh, guess I should do this before the end of the year.
1.District 9
The biggest surprise of the year. A very well marketed sci-fi epic on a third of the budget. A civil rights allegory on apartheid told better than more focused tales and gave us an alien adventure that is on the level of the best. As said in the movie. “There are a lot of secrets in District 9.” But what’s no...
Favorite films of '09
Eh, guess I should do this before the end of the year.
1.District 9
The biggest surprise of the year. A very well marketed sci-fi epic on a third of the budget. A civil rights allegory on apartheid told better than more focused tales and gave us an alien adventure that is on the level of the best. As said in the movie. “There are a lot of secrets in District 9.” But what’s no...
Most Anticipated Films '10
Kick-Ass-Based off of the comics created by Mark Millar, this film had to be independently financed because no studio would do it because of the content. Ultraviolence and tons of profanity, much of which is all coming from Hit-Girl. Who is 11 years old.
Releases on April 16th.
Scott Pilgrim vs The World-Based off of the manga by Bryan Lee O’Malley, it stars Michael Cera and Mary...
Movies You May Have Missed
A lot of movies were released this year and you may have missed some great ones due to either poor marketing or it just not being released in your market.
Here are some suggestions, most of which are already on DVD/Bluray or are coming soon. I might have missed a few but oh well.
500 Days of Summer-I’m not really a fan of rom-coms but this had an interesting story to it and some great...
Avatar
The thing I’ve come to realize in my 10 or so years of hardcore movie nerding is that no matter how good or bad a James Cameron film is, everybody will know about it. How many people do you know who have never seen or heard of Aliens, Terminator 1/2 or Titanic? Probably not very many. Whether or not Cameron’s films are any good they are almost automatically cemented into pop-culture...
Best Films Of The Decade
Note:I had written out why each film was great but I lost all of that and I’m not redoing it. So I’ll just be putting together a list without the reasons.
1.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2.The Hurt Locker
3.No Country For Old Men
4.There Will Be Blood
5.Children of Men
6.City of God
7.Borat
8.Pan’s Labyrinth
9.The Wrestler
10.Memento
11.The...
daily links
Redbox testing game rental kiosks [Reuters]
The first ten minutes of “Misfits.” Which is basically a British version of Heroes, except not shitty. [Topless Robot]
Those new Facebook suggestions are getting out of hand [College Humor]
Top 10 Star Wars quotes to describe someones sex life [Asylum]
Tarantino and a talking dog in a Japanese commercial [FilmDrunk]
Homemade Bomb...
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