2005: Movies I've Seen
Submitted by AJDaGreat on Sat, 04/09/2005 - 03:06
Tags:
A
- Brokeback Mountain
- L'Enfant
- Me and You and Everyone We Know
A-
- The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- A History of Violence
- Match Point
- Sin City
- V for Vendetta
B+
- Batman Begins
- Brick
- Grizzly Man
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Munich
- Pride and Prejudice
- Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- The Wayward Cloud
B
- Capote
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Everything Is Illuminated
- King Kong
- Murderball
- The New World
- Syriana
- Thank You for Smoking
- Transamerica
B-
- Corpse Bride
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- The Proposition
C+
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- March of the Penguins
- Red Eye
C
- The Aristocrats
- The Constant Gardener
- Mr. and Mrs. Smith
- Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
- Serenity
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
- Walk the Line
C-
- Broken Flowers
- Caché
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
D+
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
D
- Wedding Crashers
D-
F
Should See
- The Squid and the Whale
Author Comments:
C+ or higher = all movies I liked to some degree and would probably recommend
C = average
C- or lower = all movies I disliked to some degree and would probably not recommend
Cloned From:
AJ, I'm glad to see you liked Sin City!
Thanks! I'm assuming you liked it too, which makes me glad as well!
I Have to ask why is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy getting such low marks everywhere?? i saw it myself today and loved it, gave it an A on my list. i was a fan of the TV series and felt though missing alot of moments, it still kept very true to it's original ideas. Sam Rockwell was fantastic as Zaphod Beeblebrox and so was Mos Def As ford. i felt that it did a great job of keeping with the sarcastic tone of comedy and use of visuals from the book. i really can't figure out why people see it as bad or poor. though in defense of that, i do usaully like most movies i see and find it very hard not to like a movie so it might just be me. maybe it was flawed in a technical sense, i don't know but i have to say i really really enjoyed it. Zooey was great also as trillian. What were the aspects then that you didn't like?
Well, my review is here so maybe that'll enlighten you on my viewpoint. I don't really disagree with some of the things you said; I liked Mos Def and Zooey, and though Rockwell disappointed me a little, it was probably because of the way Zaphod was written more so than his actual performance. I've never seen the TV series, but I did read the book and loved it, and though I thought that sarcastic tone was occasionally achieved, too often the humor was a lot dumber than that of the book. For example, that scene when they're running across the desert and the snakes (or whatever the hell they are) keep slapping them in the face, I didn't think that was very funny, and though it's been a while since I read the book and my memory may be deceiving me, I'm pretty sure that scene wasn't in it. In the end, what good is a talented cast if you can't give them anything interesting to do?
Oh, and I definitely don't think it was flawed in a technical sense. The special effects were gorgeous. I do think it was flawed in a writing and directing sense, though.
hhhmmm good points. yes thinking about it maybe it was slightly dumbed down, and the snake scene was a prime example of that. fair enough about zaphod, but i think maybe because i never read the book, i only saw the tv series and as far as the original tv series performance goes it was spot on, but maybe the tv series changed the original character in the book. i think what happened is that when they did reference the stuff from the original series of books, it was very good, i liked the graphics of the books. it kept the retro feel, but there was alot still to be said. i think there were alot of key scenes and moments missed but hey they only have 2 hours! :) it was as if they didn't want to put people who hadn't read the book off, so they didn't go overboard. but again what they did do was great and done very well. i lolved the dolphin scene!
so all i can say is.."so long and thanks for all the fish"
:) That opening song was delightful.
So let me ask you something - that whole plotline with John Malkovich and the gun wasn't in the book. Was it in the TV series?
no, i heard that the director made that bit up, so that John Malkovich could have a part in the film.
Ah, ah, look at that. He liked Revenge of the Sith.
Yes, it wasn't the total piece of Sith I was expecting. But I'm still baffled by those romance scenes. No one can actually be that bad at writing dialogue, can they? You have to actually try to write dialogue that terrible. You could hire a bum off the street to write those scenes, and they would be better.
Hmm, I think only two people on planet Earth are (were) able to write such memorable lines: George Lucas and Ed Wood Jr.
Do you know that F.F. Coppola proposed sb. to Lucas to write the dialogues for Revenge of the Sith (the ones in E1 and E2 were certainly crappy enough in Coppola's opinion), but Lucas refused this?
That's a pity. The IMDB trivia section says Tom Stoppard helped Lucas write some dialogue for Sith. I guess he overlooked the Padme / Anakin scenes.
Hey, since we discussed it, where's Crash?
Johnny Waco
I tend to go by the IMDB year.
Just saw Batman Begins and really liked it. But I think the film's happenings do not fit very well together with Burton's first Batman (if my memories are trustful enough). I hope Gordon doesn't suffer from memory decrease, but... If I remember well, Gordon in the first Batman doesn't trust Batman at all, and thinks that he is one of the bad guys. Or am I completely on the wrong track? Also, the idea of introducing the Joker in Batman Begins is nice, but doesn't seem very accurate.
Yeah, I think this was meant to be a fresh start to the franchise that Joel Schumacher made crash and burn. Batman wants you to forget everything that happened before, we're trying again. I think that's a pretty good move, actually, rather than reviving a franchise that hasn't been active for so many years (we know the crap that can lead to...).
Hehe... oh well, than that was a fabulous idea. Actually the more I think about Batman Begins the more I like it...
Yep, those are definitely my two picks for that top slot so far as well...
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Fantastic films, although I get the impression that in most other years I have seen more than 8 films by August. Still, I can't think of too many potential masterpieces that I feel like I've missed out on, although I do want to catch Murderball and Broken Flowers when they come around town.