MOVIE RATING THREAD 2010

[Steve B]

CITY ISLAND (New!)

I just watched CITY ISLAND tonight.  On Netflix it said 2009

[Taitdog]

I just watched CITY ISLAND tonight.  On Netflix it said 2009

It played theaters last summer.  Maybe it did the festival circuit in 2009 before hitting the art houses (and the odd multiplex)?

[Strang]

I just watched CITY ISLAND tonight.  On Netflix it said 2009

Yeah, they seem to go by copyright date. They can't be trusted.

[Tom K.]

It may be that RED STATE has put me in a forgiving mood, but I finally caught up with COP OUT on Blu Ray and, man, this movie got a raw deal.

Perhaps my expectations were calibrated at the right low level, but I thought this was a lot of fun and and, ya know, better than not bad.  Hell, it's a lot better at times.

Dave Klein is getting a lot of props (rightly so) for the work he did on RED STATE, but COP OUT is a pretty good looking movie itself.  It also has what may be my favorite soundtrack of any Kevin Smith movie.  The song selection is generally excellent, but Harold Faltermeyer score keeps things bouncing right along.

I feel in danger of overstating this movie's quality, but I honestly have no idea why it was so roundly disliked.

Plus, the "Maximum Movie Comedy Mode" (which I've only sampled) is outstanding and probably one of Kevin Smith's best home video supplements in years.  Watching that, it seems even stranger that this is the red-headed stepchild of his oeuvre.

[Amusing Pseudonym]

It also has what may be my favorite soundtrack of any Kevin Smith movie.  The song selection is generally excellent, but Harold Faltermeyer score keeps things bouncing right along.

I found the Faltermeyer distracting, especially one recurring theme that was almost identical to one from the first Fletch movie.  (Seriously, it was like HF dusted off the original melody and changed two notes to make them sound out of key.)

[CrashlanderLOL]

I just watched CITY ISLAND tonight.  On Netflix it said 2009

Listen to yourself, man!

[Wolfe]

TOY STORY 3 THE SOCIAL NETWORK INCEPTION BLACK SWAN I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS TRUE GRIT THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT LET ME IN YOUTH IN REVOLT PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 127 HOURS NEVER LET ME GO NEW KNIGHT AND DAY THE TOWN MACHETE THE LAST EXORCISM TRON: LEGACY SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE IRON MAN 2 THE OTHER GUYS DUE DATE GET HIM TO THE GREEK SHUTTER ISLAND REPO MEN THE KING'S SPEECH NEW LITTLE FOCKERS KICK-ASS SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS SALT THE TOURIST MACGRUBER HOT TUB TIME MACHINE CYRUS DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS UNSTOPPABLE NEW

THE NEXT THREE DAYS WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS THE AMERICAN CATFISH THE VIRGINITY HIT GREENBERG VALENTINE'S DAY THE BOOK OF ELI RED GET LOW FROM PARIS WITH LOVE THE EXPENDABLES PREDATORS THE A-TEAM THE LOSERS DEATH AT A FUNERAL DATE NIGHT GOING THE DISTANCE EDGE OF DARKNESS GREEN ZONE DEVIL SPLICE ALICE IN WONDERLAND EASY A COP OUT JONAH HEX SKYLINE DAYBREAKERS THE WOLFMAN LOVE RANCH SAINT JOHN OF LAS VEGAS A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET GROWN UPS CLASH OF THE TITANS ROBIN HOOD LEGION

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Rounding up the stragglers.

[sean]

I caught 'Grown Ups' on cable recently and meant to talk to you about it, and this just reminded me.

Do you think that Sandler actually took something away from 'Funny People' and *tried* to make a personal movie (albeit, as lazy as usual)?  The stuff about him not relating to his Fart-with-a-beard children, the way they ripped on Spade for still being unmarried, the weirdly serious moments from Rob Schneider...  It felt like he actually wanted to talk about himself and his friends in this movie.  It made it a bit more watchable, even though it was terrible.  [The scene between Rock and Tim Meadows was great, though.]

[Wolfe]

I caught 'Grown Ups' on cable recently and meant to talk to you about it, and this just reminded me.

Do you think that Sandler actually took something away from 'Funny People' and *tried* to make a personal movie (albeit, as lazy as usual)?  The stuff about him not relating to his Fart-with-a-beard children, the way they ripped on Spade for still being unmarried, the weirdly serious moments from Rob Schneider...  It felt like he actually wanted to talk about himself and his friends in this movie.  It made it a bit more watchable, even though it was terrible.  [The scene between Rock and Tim Meadows was great, though.]

I figured that was just part of the movie's next-level laziness. Like why come up with a character when they could have Spade be the same guy he is in real life and then make the same sorts of jokes in the movie that they actually make about him? I'm sure the stuff about his kids was the same thing. I guess it's technically personal, but I don't think it was out of a desire to be candid so much as a desire to cut corners.

[DerickA]

JUST GO WITH IT is so much worse, Wolfe.

[sean]

I guess I just picture it as the result of some horrible writing exercise where Judd Apatow challenged him to write something that actually related to his life.  But I see your flipside point.  It also makes me wonder, if Chris Farley would've lived, if he would've wound up in strange-but-cool auteur projects sometimes, the way Sandler has.  Imagine him in every Philip Seymour Hoffman role in every PTA movie.

I'm sure I'll watch 'Just Go With It' once it gets on cable too.

[Wolfe]

They're his two worst movies. It's dumb to argue over which one is the worstest.

[Hawkboy]

They're his two worst movies. It's dumb to argue over which one is the worstest.

Little Nicky was miles and miles worse than Just Go With It.

[Wolfe]

Little Nicky was miles and miles worse than Just Go With It.

Not even. I'm not a big fan of LITTLE NICKY, but there's some alright stuff in it. It's really the only Sandler movie (other than maybe ZOHAN) that even tries for the oddness of BILLY MADISON and HAPPY GILMORE, which I appreciated. JUST GO WITH IT is pretty solidly terrible.

[DerickA]

LITTLE NICKY is watchable. The "if Farley was alive" argument is still creepy.