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Sal[Au]pian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 01/27/2007 : 02:38:17
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Salopian's Cine File 2006
I told Bafta in December that I was going to rank my full-length cinema viewings from the year, and I have eventually got around to it, in case anyone is interested. Of course, it is rather rough as it is difficult to really put one film above another in every case.
6/5
Brokeback Mountain
Little Miss Sunshine
The History Boys
5/5
A Scanner Darkly
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Volver
Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
Brick
London To Brighton
The Page Turner
The Magician
Echo Park L.A.
Children Of Men
Innocent Voices
Right At Your Door
Stranger Than Fiction
Thank You For Smoking
The Prestige
The Host
The Queen
Look Both Ways
Pan's Labyrinth
Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Good Night, And Good Luck
Eight Below
Kabul Express
Dhoom 2
Happy Feet
Snow Cake
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Miss Potter
Little Children
Time To Leave
Syriana
Shortbus
Tsotsi
Junebug
Sixty Six
You, Me And Dupree
The Departed
4/5
Night At The Museum
The Devil Wears Prada
Casino Royale
Harsh Times
Nacho Libre
Starter For Ten
Romanzo Criminale
Red Road
Hidden
Hoodwinked
Quo Vadis, Baby?
Hollywoodland
Scenes Of A Sexual Nature
American Dreamz
Antibodies
Flags Of Our Fathers
Bhagam Bhag
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Deep Water
Breaking And Entering
Severance
Snakes On A Plane
Deja Vu
Miami Vice
Adrift
Lady In The Water
Gabrielle
Take The Lead
An Inconvenient Truth
3/5
The Holiday
Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny
The Guardian
Big Nothing
Cars
The Last Kiss
World Trade Center
Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby
She's The Man
Step Up
Saw III
I See You
Eragon
The Da Vinci Code
Clerks II
16 Blocks
Confetti
Click
A Good Year
The Wicker Man
Flushed Away
Baabul
Marie Antoinette
Jackass: Number Two
The Break-Up
Mission: Impossible III
Black Christmas
2/5
Failure To Launch
It's A Boy Girl Thing
Scary Movie 4
Prime
The Covenant
Open Season
Grounded
The Grudge 2
The Nativity Story
1/5
Barnyard
Deck The Halls
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Montgomery
"F**k!"
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Posted - 01/27/2007 : 04:19:53
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Wow! You have seen a ton of movies this past year.
I think you were a little too kind to The Wicker Man. Ack!
EM :) |
Edited by - Montgomery on 01/27/2007 06:07:04 |
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Conan The Westy
"Father, Faithful Friend, Fwiffer"
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Posted - 01/27/2007 : 05:43:31
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Christmas movies didn't rate too highly.  |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/27/2007 : 06:11:00
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Originally posted by Conan The Westy
Christmas movies didn't rate too highly.
The Holiday was O.K. and Happy Feet = snow = Christmas.  I would given The Santa Clause 3 0/5, but that means morally offensive in my system. Before I regauged, it was the only thing with 1/5. It is irredeemable. |
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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
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Posted - 01/27/2007 : 06:55:39
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| I haven't seen many of those, although plenty are on my netflix list, so will have seen them within 6 months or so. I saw about 200 movies during the year, but most are much older than 2006. |
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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 01/27/2007 : 09:33:48
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I'm so glad you rated London to Brighton. I got to it rather late [for the awards], but was totally blown away. Both the hooker and the girl were simply astounding! Casting unknowns definitely worked in favor of the film's credibility ... another triumph for indedpendent filmmaking. I urge everyone to hunt it down as an example of the unpretentious power of storytelling with light. Okay, it's got some narrative flaws. Okay, it's not the first film to counterpoint a flower of innocence in a world of corruption, and not the first to imply that this world turns and turns and has gone on and will continue to go on. In that it touches something Dickensian.
I'm guessing [don't you think] that when the girl runs toward the Brighton sea it's an evocation of that last shot of Jean-Pierre Leaud in Truffaut's Four Hundred Blows.
Terrific film!
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Cheese_Ed 
"The Provolone Ranger"
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Posted - 01/27/2007 : 17:18:54
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Originally posted by Se�n
I haven't seen many of those, although plenty are on my netflix list, so will have seen them within 6 months or so. I saw about 200 movies during the year, but most are much older than 2006.
Ditto to that, I saw 203 in 2006, but I only saw 45 movies from 2006.
Of the ones I did see, you had a much kinder eye than I on these, Sal:
5/5
A Scanner Darkly - I like Linklater, but this was a yawner for me.
Brick - nice try but, left me a little bored, too.
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - hated it from minute one until, God help us, minute 150. I liked the first one OK, but this was a pale shadow compared to it.
Syriana - over my head, maybe?
Tsotsi - for me, feh, a 3
4/5
Lady In The Water - I think it's M. Night's worst, probably a 2
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/29/2007 : 09:53:30
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
I'm so glad you rated London to Brighton. I got to it rather late [for the awards], but was totally blown away. Both the hooker and the girl were simply astounding!
Yep, it was really gripping, and I especially like films which start in the middle of a scenario which is then slowly explained. Spoiler: I assumed, presumably intentionally, that the girl was the prostitute's daughter for quite a while. As I mentioned elsewhere, there was a Q&A after my showing and when the lights came on the pimp (quite good-looking in real life) was to my left, the hooker to my right and the girl and her mum in front of me. It was slightly uncomfortable to think that she had watched all that, but since she was present for many of the worst bits, I suppose it made little difference. |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/29/2007 : 10:04:46
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
5/5
A Scanner Darkly - I like Linklater, but this was a yawner for me.
It has its flaws, but I found it aesthetically very appealing and it has Robert Downey, jr. in it. 
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Brick - nice try but, left me a little bored, too.
I thought it was good in general, but I really enjoyed the invented youth dialect - films which are linguistically interesting will always do well for me.
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - hated it from minute one until, God help us, minute 150. I liked the first one OK, but this was a pale shadow compared to it.
I loved the first one and thought this was a bit weaker, but still good.
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Syriana - over my head, maybe?
It's definitely quite confused, but it gained credit in my book (like Gore's film) for having good motivation.
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Tsotsi - for me, feh, a 3
I agree that this was overrated, and I considered giving it 4/5. However, it captured the feel of the township and the desperation of the character very well, I thought.
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4/5
Lady In The Water - I think it's M. Night's worst, probably a 2
I agree that it's a bit weak, though I prefer it to Signs, but I think it did capture a storytelling charm and a sudden camaraderie of a bunch of neighbours.
Before my recent downgrading, you would have disagreed with a lot more scores! |
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w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
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Posted - 01/29/2007 : 18:34:39
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Originally posted by Salopian
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - hated it from minute one until, God help us, minute 150. I liked the first one OK, but this was a pale shadow compared to it.
I was a little disappointed myself, but I'm hopeful. I chose to look at it as the middle point of a trilogy, in the spirit of The Matrix Reloaded or the middle LotR. Hopefully, it arcs well into the 3rd one and redeems itself. |
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