Films Seen 2007
Submitted by darktremor on Wed, 01/24/2007 - 11:49
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- Pan's Labyrinth (*****)
- Audition (**** 1/2)
- The Science of Sleep (*** 1/2)
- The Night Listener (***)
- Dark Water [Japanese] (**)
- Spider Forest (**)
- Children of Men (****)
- Night at the Museum (**)
- Spirited Away (re-watch) (*****)
- Little Miss Sunshine (*** 1/2)
- Material Girls (0/5)
- I watched this babysitting my sister. It's the worst movie I've ever seen. Even she hated it.
- Tetsuo: The Iron Man (*** 1/2)
- Pi (*****)
- Apocalypse Now (re-watch) (*****)
- Brick (*** 1/2)
- 13 Tzameti (****)
- Ghost Rider (* 1/2)
- Bridge to Terabithia (**)
- Run Lola Run (*** 1/2)
- Requiem For a Dream (re-watch) (*****)
- Grindhouse (**** 1/2)
- The most fun you'll ever have in a movie theatre (except maybe seeing Rocky Horror). I mean it. The audience clapped 11 times, booed the bad guys and threw popcorn at the screen, and laughed for a whole minute after the end of the hilarious "Don't" trailer (I still laugh now thinking about that trailer). You couldn't help but join in. It was like seeing a cult film - and all this before it was out of its first theatric run.
- Babel (*** 1/2)
- House, M.D., Season 1 [TV series] (**** 1/2)
- House, M.D., Season 2 [TV series] (**** 1/2)
- Taxi Driver (****)
- The Pursuit of Happyness (***)
- Borat [re-watch] (*****)
- United 93 (****)
- Slither (*** 1/2)
- Superbad (*****)
- Knocked Up (**** 1/2)
- Hairspray (****)
- Encino Man (**)
- Monsters Inc. (*****)
- City of God (*****)
- Halloween (2007) (**)
- 28 Weeks Later (****)
- Hot Fuzz (****)
- Zodiac (****)
- The Simpsons Movie (***)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (****)
- I Now Pronounce your Chuck and Larry (* 1/2)
- Evan Almighty (0/5)
- Ratatouille (**** 1/2)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (**)
- Silent Hill (0/5)
- Bowling For Columbine (*** 1/2)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (*** 1/2)
- Ghost in a Shell (*** 1/2)
- The Silence of the Lambs (****)
- Young Frankenstein (**) - I just didn't get what the big deal about it was.
- Groundhog Day (**** 1/2)
- Ichi The Killer (** 1/2)
- Akira (*** 1/2)
- Primer (****)
- Eraserhead (****)
- High School Musical (**)
- House: Season 3 (so far) (*****)
- Toy Story 2 (****)
- Dogville (****)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (re-watched) (*****)
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age (* 1/2)
- Eastern Promises (*** 1/2)
- Beowulf (**)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (**)
- The Golden Compass (**)
- Sicko (****)
- No Country for Old Men (*****)
- I never startle watching movies (I have only once in a movie in the last 10 years), but this one made me jump 10 times. Incredible, beautiful cinematography and very striking sound editing. Did anyone else feel like the movie was about existentialism? I think Llewellyn finding the money represented birth: the involuntary thrusting into a chaotic whirlwind. We don't ask to be born, we just start existing. He didn't ask to find the money, he just ended up under that tree, ended up tangled in the web. The tense, complex events of the mid-section were life: they were an absolutely perfect representation of "throwness": the unpredictable chaos that we are hit by day to day - especially in that Anton wouldn't kill you if you guessed right on his coin toss, and the way that scenes of extreme violence would suddenly erupt as if from no where (as in the chaos of life).
- The money itself was the pointless meanings we attach to an ultimately pointless life. The money didn't end up meaning anything to anyone in the end, despite their unending pursuit of it - in the end, everyone died, except Anton and the Sheriff. Anton himself was the ultimate fate of all people: death. This is why everyone in the film died: everyone in life dies. All of the deaths were random, fast, and essentially meaningless. Anton killed entirely impersonally, just like time itself kills all of us; not out of spite, but just because that's what time does. And death is annihilation.
- The bleak settings were perfect for the theme of existentialism: life itself is a pointless wasteland (in this philosophy).
- Even Anton himself dealt with the throwness - especially in his random accident; but all this meant is that while we may be able to evade our ultimate fates for some time, it is impossible to actually defeat it
- Of course, this probably isn't surprising in a Coen Brothers film; they always seem to imbue their movies with philosophical and mythological themes (remember "The Furies" in Raising Arizona?). That doesn't make it any less fascinating. This was a fantastic movie.
- Top 10 2007 Movies:
- 1.Pan's Labyrinth
- 2.No Country for Old Men
- 3.Ratatouille
- 4.Superbad
- 5.Grindhouse
- 6.Children of Men
- 7.Knocked Up
- 8.Zodiac
- 9.Sicko
- 10.Hairspray
I saw Pi, and absolutely loved it, I completely agree with your five star rating. Also, what a soundtrack!!
It's actually now one of my favorite movies of all time.