Movie Log 2009
Submitted by CaptMal on Thu, 01/01/2009 - 10:45
Tags:
- --Italics indicate rewatches--
- 1/1: Adaptation. (2002, Spike Jonze) - A+
- 1/2: Chung Hing sam lam / Chungking Express (1994, Kar Wai Wong) - B-
- 1/3: Doubt (2008, John Patrick Shanley) - B+
- 1/3: Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan) - C+
- 1/4: The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky) - A+
- 1/5: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008, Joss Whedon) - A+
- 1/5: Hannibal Rising (2007, Peter Webber) - D
- 1/6: Ace in the Hole (1951, Billy Wilder) - A+
- 1/8: Spider-Man (2002, Sam Raimi) - A+
- 1/9: The Deal (2008, Steven Schachter) - D+
- 1/11: Frozen River (2008, Courtney Hunt) - C+
- 1/11: Defiance (2008, Edward Zwick) - B
- 1/11: The Visitor (2007, Thomas McCarthy) - A-
- 1/14: All Together Now (2008, Adrian Wills) - B
- 1/15: Man on Wire (2008, James Marsh) - B+
- 1/18: Vérités et mensonges / F for Fake (1974, Orson Welles) - A-
- 1/22: Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006, Goran Dukic) - C+
- 1/22: The Reader (2008, Stephen Daldry) - B-
- 1/22: John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band: Sweet Toronto (1988, D.A. Pennebaker) - A+
- 1/23: Vals Im Bashir / Waltz with Bashir (2008, Ari Folman) - C
- 1/24: Sideways (2004, Alexander Payne) - A+
- 1/25: Scener ur ett äktenskap / Scenes from a Marriage (1973, Ingmar Bergman) - A+
- 1/26: Saraband (2003, Ingmar Bergman) - B
- 1/26: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008, Woody Allen) - B
- 1/28: Night and the City (1992, Irwin Winkler) - C
- 1/31: Rails & Ties (2007, Alison Eastwood) - D
- 1/31: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007, Jake Kasdan) - B
- 2/1: Quiz Show (1994, Robert Redford) - A+
- 2/2: The Butcher Boy (1997, Neil Jordan) - A-
- 2/4: Roger & Me (1989, Michael Moore) - A+
- 2/5: Reservation Road (2007, Terry George) - B
- 2/6: The Savages (2007, Tamara Jenkins) - B
- 2/9: Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (2007, Jason Kohn) - B+
- 2/12: Braindead / Dead Alive (1992, Peter Jackson) - A-
- 2/12: Three Kings (1999, David O. Russell) - A-
- 2/13: A League of Their Own (1992, Penny Marshall) - A-
- 2/14: Inherit the Wind (1960, Stanley Kramer) - B+
- 2/15: The Room (2003, Tommy Wiseau) - F
- 2/15: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008, Nicholas Stoller) - A-
- 2/16: Coraline (2009, Henry Selick) - A-
- 2/17: Shine a Light (2008, Martin Scorsese) - C+
- 2/17: California Suite (1978, Herbert Ross) - B
- 2/20: Sharkwater (2006, Rob Stewart) - B
- 2/21: La Haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz) - A-
- 2/22: Cabaret (1972, Bob Fosse) - C+
- 2/22: Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008, Kevin Smith) - B+
- 2/23: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008, Nicholas Stoller) - A-
- 2/25: The Kids Are Alright (1979, Jeff Stein) - A+
- 2/25: The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky) - A+
- 2/26: Transsiberian (2008, Brad Anderson) - C+
- 2/27: Concert for George (2003, David Leland) - B
- 2/27: The Last Shot (2004, Jeff Nathanson) - B-
- 2/28: Ghost Busters (1984, Ivan Reitman) - A+
- 3/3: Camelot (1967, Joshua Logan) - B-
- 3/4: Lions for Lambs (2007, Robert Redford) - C-
- 3/6: Watchmen (2009, Zack Snyder) - A-
- 3/7: Camille (1936, George Cukor) - B
- 3/7: Charlie Wilson's War (2007, Mike Nichols) - B
- 3/7: This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006, Kirby Dick) - A-
- 3/8: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008, Joss Whedon) - A+
- 3/9: A Hard Day's Night (1964, Richard Lester) - A+
- 3/10: Watchmen (2009, Zack Snyder) - A-
- 3/12: Captains Courageous (1937, Victor Fleming) - A-
- 3/13: Carmen Jones (1954, Otto Preminger) - C-
- 3/14: Lars and the Real Girl (2007, Craig Gillespie) - B
- 3/16: Saibogujiman kwenchana / I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006, Chan-wook Park) - B+
- 3/18: Carnal Knowledge (1971, Mike Nichols) - A+
- 3/19: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958, Richard Brooks) - B-
- 3/20: Z (1969, Costa-Gavras) - A+
- 3/21: Kris / Crisis (1946, Ingmar Bergman) - B-
- 3/23: Sophie's Choice (1982, Alan J. Pakula) - A
- 3/24: I Love You, Man (2009, John Hamburg) - B
- 3/25: Milk (2008, Gus Van Sant) - A+
- 3/25: Horton Hears a Who! (2008, Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino) - B-
- 3/26: Hamnstad / Port of Call (1948, Ingmar Bergman) - B-
- 3/28: Törst / Thirst (1949, Ingmar Bergman) - B
- 3/30: Till glädje / To Joy (1950, Ingmar Bergman) - B-
- 3/30: An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002, J.M. Kenny) - A+
- 3/31: Winchester '73 (1950, Anthony Mann) - A-
- 4/1: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948, H.C. Potter) - A
- 4/2: All the King's Men (1949, Robert Rossen) - A+
- 4/2: Catch-22 (1970, Mike Nichols) - B-
- 4/5: Se7en (1995, David Fincher) - A+
- 4/5: Monsters, Inc. (2001, Pete Docter, David Silverman, and Lee Unkrich) - A+
- 4/5: Religulous (2008, Larry Charles) - A-
- 4/8: Il y a longtemps que je t'aime / I've Loved You So Long (2008, Philippe Claudel) - B
- 4/8: Adventureland (2009, Greg Mottola) - A-
- 4/11: Duplicity (2009, Tony Gilroy) - B
- 4/12: Starting Out in the Evening (2007, Andrew Wagner) - B
- 4/13: La cérémonie (1995, Claude Chabrol) - A-
- 4/14: High School Musical (2006, Kenny Ortega) - D+
- 4/14: High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008, Kenny Ortega) - F
- 4/14: Little Shop of Horrors (1986, Frank Oz) - B+
- 4/15: Hotel Rwanda (2004, Terry George) - A+
- 4/16: Naked (1993, Mike Leigh) - C+
- 4/17: Chan Is Missing (1982, Wayne Wang) - A-
- 4/18: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001, Wes Anderson) - A+
- 4/18: Observe and Report (2009, Jody Hill) - C+
- 4/20: Onibaba (1964, Kaneto Shindô) - A-
- 4/20: Drugstore Cowboy (1989, Gus Van Sant) - B-
- 4/21: Meeting People Is Easy (1998, Grant Gee) - C
- 4/23: Chariots of Fire (1981, Hugh Hudson) - C
- 4/28: Nora inu / Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa) - A+
- 4/28: El orfanato / The Orphanage (2007, Juan Antonio Bayona) - C
- 4/29: Body of Lies (2008, Ridley Scott) - B-
- 5/1: The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, Anthony Minghella) - A
- 5/1: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Gavin Hood) - C
- 5/2: Baby Mama (2008, Michael McCullers) - B-
- 5/2: Ghost Busters (1984, Ivan Reitman) - A+
- 5/3: Trouble the Water (2008, Carl Deal and Tia Lessin) - B+
- 5/7: Charley Varrick (1973, Don Siegel) - C-
- 5/8: Festival Express (2003, Bob Smeaton and Frank Cvitanovich) - B+
- 5/9: Star Trek (2009, J.J. Abrams) - C+
- 5/10: Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, James Cameron) - A+
- 5/11: Chocolat (1988, Claire Denis) - A-
- 5/12: In the Bedroom (2001, Todd Field) - A
- 5/13: Taken (2008, Pierre Morel) - C-
- 5/14: Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007, Joe Swanberg) - C+
- 5/14: WALL·E (2008, Andrew Stanton) - A+
- 5/15: Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! (1994, Kevin Kerslake) - A-
- 5/16: State of Play (2009, Kevin Macdonald) - B+
- 5/17: Le genou de Claire / Claire's Knee (1970, Eric Rohmer) - A-
- 5/18: Wonder Woman (2009, Lauren Montgomery) - C-
- 5/21: The Terminator (1984, James Cameron) - A-
- 5/21: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003, Jonathan Mostow) - C
- 5/22: Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) - D+
- 5/27: Le scaphandre et le papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007, Julian Schnabel) - A+
- 5/27: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) - A+
- 5/28: Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson) - A+
- 5/31: Shurayukihime / Lady Snowblood (1973, Toshiya Fujita) - A+
- 6/1: Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino) - A+
- 6/3: The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Frank Darabont) - A-
- 6/7: Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) - A+
- 6/8: The Color of Money (1986, Martin Scorsese) - C+
- 6/8: Come Back, Little Sheba (1952, Daniel Mann) - B+
- 6/10: Coming Home (1978, Hal Ashby) - C
- 6/11: Apocalypse Now (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) - A+
- 6/15: Drag Me to Hell (2009, Sam Raimi) - B
- 6/15: Dr. Horrible's Song-Along Blog (2008, Joss Whedon) - A+
- 6/17: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) - A-
- 6/17: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992, Kaz Kuzui) - D-
- 6/18: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009, Tony Scott) - C
- 6/19: Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh) - A+
- 6/21: The Last Waltz (1978, Martin Scorsese) - A
- 6/21: Up (2009, Pete Docter and Bob Peterson) - A-
- 6/22: Adaptation. (2002, Spike Jonze) - A+
- 6/24: Nanking (2007, Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman) - C+
- 6/25: Le mépris / Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) - C
- 6/26: Year One (2009, Harold Ramis) - D
- 6/27: The Hangover (2009, Todd Phillips) - B
- 6/28: Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater) - A-
- 6/29: Command Decision (1948, Sam Wood) - C
- 7/1: Il conformista / The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci) - D+
- 7/1: Public Enemies (2009, Michael Mann) - A-
- 7/3: The Country Girl (1954, George Seaton) - A-
- 7/4: Viskningar och rop / Cries and Whispers (1972, Ingmar Bergman) - A+
- 7/6: Bella (2006, Alejandro Gomez Monteverde) - D+
- 7/7: Last Chance Harvey (2008, Joel Hopkins) - B-
- 7/8: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Woody Allen) - A
- 7/11: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006, Larry Charles) - A-
- 7/11: Brüno (2009, Larry Charles) - A-
- 7/12: The Hurt Locker (2008, Kathryn Bigelow) - A+
- 7/13: Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga / Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974, Toshiya Fujita) - B
- 7/15: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, David Yates) - B
- 7/15: Nanook of the North (1922, Robert J. Flaherty) - C
- 7/16: Moulin Rouge! (2001, Baz Luhrmann) - A-
- 7/17: Teeth (2007, Mitchell Lichtenstein) - D+
- 7/21: Crossfire (1947, Edward Dmytryk) - A-
- 7/22: The Crucible (1996, Nicholas Hytner) - D
- 7/24: Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff) - A+
- 7/26: The Cruel Sea (1953, Charles Frend) - C+
- 7/26: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006, Dito Monteil) - A-
- 7/29: Moon (2009, Duncan Jones) - B+
- 7/30: The Crying Game (1992, Neil Jordan) - C+
- 8/2: The Business of Being Born (2008, Abby Epstein) - B-
- 8/2: In the Loop (2009, Armando Iannucci) - A
- 8/5: Daisy Miller (1974, Peter Bogdanovich) - C+
- 8/7: A Hard Day's Night (1964, Richard Lester) - A+
- 8/8: Damn Yankees! (1958, George Abbott and Stanley Donen) - C
- 8/9: Deconstructing Harry (1997, Woody Allen) - A-
- 8/9: (500) Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb) - A+
- 8/10: After Innocence (2005, Jessica Sanders) - B+
- 8/12: Funny People (2009, Judd Apatow) - B+
- 8/15: Nothing Is Private / Towelhead (2007, Alan Ball) - C
- 8/15: Shattered Glass (2003, Billy Ray) - B-
- 8/17: Gake no ue no Ponyo / Ponyo (2008, Hayao Miyazaki) - A-
- 8/20: Jackie Brown (1997, Quentin Tarantino) - A+
- 8/20: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino) - A+
- 8/21: Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004, Quentin Tarantino) - A+
- 8/21: Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) - A+
- 8/22: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008, Joss Whedon) - A+
- 8/22: The Brothers Bloom (2008, Rian Johnson) - B-
- 8/23: World's Greatest Dad (2009, Bobcat Goldthwait) - A-
- 8/24: Inglourious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino) - A+
- 8/28: The Boat That Rocked / Pirate Radio (2009, Richard Curtis) - B-
- 8/29: Antichrist (2009, Lars von Trier) - A-
- 9/2: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, Robert Benton) - A-
- 9/3: The Women (1939, George Cukor) - B-
- 9/6: Tropic Thunder (2008, Ben Stiller) - A-
- 9/8: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981, Karel Reisz) - C-
- 9/9: The Beatles Anthology (1995, Bob Smeaton, Geoff Wonfor, and Kevin Godley) - A+
- 9/12: Sweeney Todd (2006, Dave Moore) - C-
I'm glad you liked The Savages!
I think he hated it, he gives a lot of A+ so a B its like a C-.
You would be wrong, sir. ;-)
my thoughts on watchmen
Very good in terms of taking complete pannels from the book and putting them on screen. performances were all top notch. i was also never thinking "oh they missed that bit" they included everything that made it flow as a piece of movie entertainment. i felt it was missing the impact and messages of the book (even simple themes such as why they where masks or the impact of Dr Man on people's perception of rrealirt) and also thought the fight scenes were over the top (and what was up with that sex scene with dan and laurie with that music, bit over dramatic)
I liked how the fight scenes were hyper-stylized, though both my mom and one of my friends came away asking, "Why were they so strong if Dr. Manhattan was the only one with superpowers?" I thought the sex scene was kind of beautiful--I'm a huge fan of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," though I'm far more familiar with the Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley versions--though I will admit that at the end it got a bit too much with the flames and whatnot.
And yeah, it definitely does not have the impact of the book, but then again, I was expecting it to suck really hard, so I never thought that it would. The first time I saw it, my biggest complaint (aside from Carla Gugino, who just is not very good as Sally Jupiter) was that it was too long and adapted individual issues too closely. Like, what worked in episodic form in the book didn't flow seamlessly in the movie. I'm referring specifically to the lengthy Comedian funeral and Dr. Manhattan bio sequences. Like, they were structurally perfect in the book, but felt half-baked stuck in the middle of a movie.
However, I think that was just because of the level of familiarity I have with the book, because the second time, it all seemed to hang together a lot better, and not for a second I was like, "Jeez, this is going on forever, where's my watch?" The reason I thought that the first time was probably because I went to a midnight showing and it wasn't over until 3 A.M....
But overall, I thought it was an excellent movie, and the first Zack Snyder movie I've liked.
Accurate Body of Lies rating.
oh only B- for shattered glass, my second fave movie of all time, oh well at least more people are seeing it
Sorry. :-(
I just thought Hayden Christensen crumbled under the weight of the material, and was vastly outperformed by Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Hank Azaria, etc.
though i agree Peter Sarsgaard was better than Hayden, i did enjoy Hayden's performance. my fave scenes include when Chuck took Glass to the place his story was meant to of taken place, the conference call scene and the arguement between chuck and Caitlin. Hank Azaria was great in his role, shame it was fairly small role. oh well can't win them all, glad you enjoyed the film, if not Hayden's performance.