Oscar Shmoscar
Excellent work, dudes. Nothing heats up the blogosphere like talkin' vans. (And greenhouse gas emissions.) I might depart momentarily from said Company Line to offer up and invite forward --
redundant phrase?
-- the top films of last year. I'm no longer the aggressive cinephile that I was in my youth, but I still do enjoy a good flickticle. And both the tasteful and the tasteless, the credibility-building and the shamefully guilty find a place in my heart. I must issue this list with an apostrophic (say it, it's tasty to say, notice how you put the emphasis on sexier syllables) caveat because, as yet, I haven't seen the following, which may or may not compete for elbow room in this space:
* Sideways, Million Dollar Baby, Motorcycle Diaries, Hotel Rwanda, Friday Night Lights, House of Flying Daggers, Passion of the Christ
(P.P.S. If any of the above suck a major D, let me know so I don't waste my time.)
Best Pictures
Napoleon Dynamite - I am currently obsessed with this movie, but I think that might dissipate with time. Freaking ridiculously hilarious. Or maybe not. Is "I caught you a delicious bass" all THAT funny? Right now, um, yeah.
The Bourne Supremacy - Pretty obvious why; it's like the first one only better. If I don't get into grad school this film (plus Spy Game) is why I'm going to try to join the CIA.
Collateral - I want Michael Mann to buy my clothes and music for me and then design my home along with its interior lighting. Like Heat, only less the epic but with even more style.
Eternal Sunshine - Kaufman's a sly one. I was confused and happy and sad. It would be my number one, but I'm not sure how much I'd want to see again and again rather than just stand back and respect what I think I caught the first time. His movies are like that.
Honorable Mentions
I Heart Huckabees - All over the map and often indulgent and boorish but good enough to be great. Marky Mark kicks ass.
The Day After Tomorrow - Cool effects that's all, but that's plenty.
Crappiest Films
The Life Aquatic - Laaaaaaaame.
Oceans Twelve - Smug fuckers. Watching this was like get pillow talk -- but no action -- from the hot cheerleading chick in high school.
Spiderman 2 - I can't remember exactly why this sucked, all I know is I will never have these two hours of my life back.
The Aviator - I was checking my watch every fifteen minutes like ten minutes before it even started.
El Glocko
redundant phrase?
-- the top films of last year. I'm no longer the aggressive cinephile that I was in my youth, but I still do enjoy a good flickticle. And both the tasteful and the tasteless, the credibility-building and the shamefully guilty find a place in my heart. I must issue this list with an apostrophic (say it, it's tasty to say, notice how you put the emphasis on sexier syllables) caveat because, as yet, I haven't seen the following, which may or may not compete for elbow room in this space:
* Sideways, Million Dollar Baby, Motorcycle Diaries, Hotel Rwanda, Friday Night Lights, House of Flying Daggers, Passion of the Christ
(P.P.S. If any of the above suck a major D, let me know so I don't waste my time.)
Best Pictures
Napoleon Dynamite - I am currently obsessed with this movie, but I think that might dissipate with time. Freaking ridiculously hilarious. Or maybe not. Is "I caught you a delicious bass" all THAT funny? Right now, um, yeah.
The Bourne Supremacy - Pretty obvious why; it's like the first one only better. If I don't get into grad school this film (plus Spy Game) is why I'm going to try to join the CIA.
Collateral - I want Michael Mann to buy my clothes and music for me and then design my home along with its interior lighting. Like Heat, only less the epic but with even more style.
Eternal Sunshine - Kaufman's a sly one. I was confused and happy and sad. It would be my number one, but I'm not sure how much I'd want to see again and again rather than just stand back and respect what I think I caught the first time. His movies are like that.
Honorable Mentions
I Heart Huckabees - All over the map and often indulgent and boorish but good enough to be great. Marky Mark kicks ass.
The Day After Tomorrow - Cool effects that's all, but that's plenty.
Crappiest Films
The Life Aquatic - Laaaaaaaame.
Oceans Twelve - Smug fuckers. Watching this was like get pillow talk -- but no action -- from the hot cheerleading chick in high school.
Spiderman 2 - I can't remember exactly why this sucked, all I know is I will never have these two hours of my life back.
The Aviator - I was checking my watch every fifteen minutes like ten minutes before it even started.
El Glocko
posted by Aden at 1:04 PM
1 Comments:
Mikey. You and I are in a fist fight right now. The Life Aquatic is a top ten movie on the year. You obviously didn't get the humor if you thought it was lame. i will fight you to the death Sparticus style on this. Fucking brilliant movie. I repeat. BRILLIANT.
I am drunk right now, but I stand by this. It was a golden movie.
Of course, it is obvious that you and I have completely differnt perspectives on what a "best picture" is. Bourne Supremacy? For best picture? Are you fucking punching me in the nuts on this one? Who are you? It's like I don't even know you anymore. Seriously. What the fuck. This movie is good if in the "Commando" sense. You know. The Swartzanegger flick where everybody dies but the good guy. Yeah. Really makes you think. It's a brain teaser.
Seriously. Your opinion just sucks. And please take this personally. You have no fucking idea what you are talking about here. I mean, the only worse than what you are saying is if you were to say that fucking Ridley Scott directed Cliffhanger or something like that. Good god. Life Aquatic lame? What fucked up sense of movie making do you have? You are a horrible person, with a horrible sense of...anything. Horrible.
By the way, you didn't mention Shaun Of the Dead, which is funny. That's all it is, and that's all it tries to be. Um...Life Aquatic is one of the funnier movies of the year, Meet the Fockers is funny if you like predictable humor, Eternal Sunshine is usual Kaufman brilliance.
I think we had this same conversation last year. The "Acadamy Awards" mean exactly nothing in terms of a movie being good or not. All it means is that they are able to put the tag "Winner of an Acadamy Award" on the movie. It has no real significance outside of that. It's fucking Hollywood.
Anyways. I'd like to Nominate "Big Trouble In Little China" for best movie of the year. I don't care that it was made in the 80's, and I'm not gonna take the time to figure out exactly what year it was made. It's still much better than Bourne Supremacy.
I'd also like to point out, rather gratuitously, that Mikey is a big fat homo.
Love (to everybody but Mikey)
J
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