MOVIE RATING THREAD 2010

[Wolfe]

Everything about the second half of that trailer very deliberately screams "horror". The shots, the cuts, the music, the critic quotes. It's super misleading. When the ending finally reveals itself, it's interesting enough, but that doesn't excuse selling the whole thing as BLAIR WITCH 3.

[Hayner]

I'd never heard of this movie.  I want to see it now, but yeah it really sells itself as a horror flick. 

[DerickA]

I don't think it looked horror. I think too many years with Mulder and Scully have programmed your brains in a certain way.

[Wolfe]

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi769787417/

You don't think this looks like the trailer for a horror movie?

[ExpendablesFan]

Lets move this to the catfish thread.

[Hayner]

Wisconsin should get this movie tomorrow so I can be properly informed and take part in the thread.

[Wolfe]

TOY STORY 3
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
INCEPTION
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
YOUTH IN REVOLT
IRON MAN 2
KNIGHT AND DAY
MACHETE
SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE
THE LAST EXORCISM
THE OTHER GUYS
GET HIM TO THE GREEK
SHUTTER ISLAND
REPO MEN
KICK-ASS
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD
SALT
MACGRUBER
CATFISH NEW
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE
WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS NEW
THE AMERICAN
CYRUS
DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS
GET LOW
GREENBERG
VALENTINE'S DAY
THE BOOK OF ELI
FROM PARIS WITH LOVE
THE EXPENDABLES
PREDATORS
THE A-TEAM
THE LOSERS
DEATH AT A FUNERAL
DATE NIGHT
EDGE OF DARKNESS
GREEN ZONE
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
COP OUT
JONAH HEX
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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Like I said earlier, CATFISH completely misrepresented itself in its trailer. It winds up being a pretty interesting and [spoiler]very sad portrait of a broken person[/spoiler], but it's not at all the movie it was sold to be, and I think the decision to market it as THE TEXAS FACEBOOK MASSACRE is going to backfire on them. That said, I'd be very intrigued to learn how much of it was real. I hope it comes out at some point.

WALL STREET RELOADED has the same problem the original had, where it's only interesting at all when Douglas is onscreen. Problem is he isn't onscreen nearly enough to significantly benefit the movie. It's weird, it's like they made a completely unrelated movie about the financial crisis and then decided after the fact to make it a WALL STREET sequel by splicing Douglas into it. That's how removed he feels from most of it. But he really is great as this character. I wish they could incorporate Gekko into a movie that didn't numb my brain with so much CNBC gobbledygook. Money may not sleep, but I almost did.

The high point of the movie is easily [spoiler]Charlie Sheen's cameo, even though it comes off more like a Charlie Sheen joke than a Bud Fox reprisal[/spoiler].

[chrisb]

I don't think it looked horror. I think too many years with Mulder and Scully have programmed your brains in a certain way.

The trailer culminates with the protagonists backing their vehicle down a driveway so that they can make a quick getaway if need be, the driveway might as well be leading up to the Blair Witch cabin, and we're told it's "The best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never Directed."  What idiot would think horror/thriller with that buildup?  Clearly, the last 40 minutes of the film is a giant dance number with singing kitties.

[sean]

I hadn't actually watched the trailer before -- the first half makes it seem even more clearly staged than people seem to think it is, and the second half makes it look like the Cloverfield version of 'Deliverance' or 'Chainsaw', where the city folk go out to the country in order to get killed.

[Amusing Pseudonym]

I haven't seen I'M STILL HERE, but if it was real then wouldn't that also make Casey Affleck a really terrible friend?  It sounds like an interesting film from either perspective though.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/movies/17affleck.html


' [spoiler]Virtually none of[/spoiler] it was real...'

[Randy]

TOY STORY 3
KICK-ASS
SPLICE
THE TOWN - New new new!!!
INCEPTION
GET HIM TO THE GREEK
MACGRUBER
IRON MAN 2
PREDATORS
SHUTTER ISLAND
CYRUS
THE WOLFMAN
BROOKLYN'S FINEST
EXPENDABLES
COP OUT
NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

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Hamm makes a great badguy.  It's also kind of a bizarro version Good Will Hunting (but with less monologues).

[Ian Larsen]

Toy Story 3
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
[The Princess and the Frog]
[The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans]
Greenberg
Certified Copy New
Step Up 3
I Am Love
Four Lions
Blur: No Distance Left to Run
My Son My Son What Have Ye Done
The Karate Kid
Still Walking
The Illusionist
A Single Man
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Home
The Expendables
[Ponyo]
Un Prophet
Shutter Island
The Secret In Their Eyes
Life During Wartime
White Material
[The Road]
City of Life and Death
The Human Centipede - First Sequence
[The Brothers Bloom]

Raavan
The Killer Inside Me
[Extract]
My Name is Khan

Alice in Wonderland


[Movies in brackets came out this year in the UK]

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CERTIFIED COPY is a strange, straaange middle-aged take on a BEFORE SUNSET-like situation, but it's not so oblique that I couldn't get a handle on it.  It's hard to know what's really going on in the film, and a second viewing could either help to clear it up or just make it more confusing.  But that probably doesn't matter, because it's more the discussions that I think are the important thing, plus it's lovely and picturesque.  Definitely the most accessible Kiarostami film I've seen. I've only seen his last decade of stuff, and this is the most fun of them.

[Brandon]

Toy Story 3
The Town - New
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Inception
Louis C.K: Hilarious
Iron Man 2
How to Train Your Dragon 3-D
The Other Guys
Get Him to the Greek
Machete - New
When You're Strange (Doors Documentary)
Alice in Wonderland 3-D
Cop Out

Phish 3-D

The Town - Awesome. Really well put together, tense, exciting, and weirdly funny. Everybody in it was great, too. Jon Hamm was awesome in an incredibly thankless, and very expository, part. Affleck was great, too, though sometimes his Boston accent bordered on the ridiculous. I'm not doubting the validity of it, but there were a few lines where I was thought to myself, "Tone it down, Ben. We know you're from Boston! We get it!" All the big action beats are incredibly solid and exciting, too. One of the better thrillers I've seen in a while.

Also: Regardless of the film/TV show, I just don't buy Jon Hamm in a flannel shirt. Something just seems wrong about that.

Machete - It's exactly what I wanted it to be. I wasn't sure whether to put this really high or really low on the list. I mean, fuck, he [spoiler]swings out a window with a guy's intestines[/spoiler] for godsakes! Crazy fun. DeNiro was hilarious, too. [spoiler]Hopefully we'll get to see Machete Kills and Machete Kills Again![/spoiler] I mean, Rodriguez seems to have carved himself a cheap, infinitely renewing little niche that allows him to make pretty much whatever he wants. Granted, I'd rather see Sin City 2 or something new before another Machete film, but still.



Edit: Wow, I reaaaaally fucked up the code on that one.

[Dalton]

SCOTT PILGRIM
THE AMERICAN
INCEPTION
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
SHUTTER ISLAND
KICK ASS
JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK
WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE
CATFISH
IRON MAN 2

[ExpendablesFan]

Toy Story 3
Inception
The Expendables
The Virginity Hit
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
How to Train Your Dragon
Iron Man 2
Due Date
MacGruber
The Town
The Other Guys
Catfish
Despicable Me
Youth In Revolt
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Greenberg
Get Him To The Greek
Karate Kid
The Switch
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Dinner for Schmucks
Machete
The Last Exorcism
The American
Ramona & Beezus
Flipped
Step Up 3D
Lottery Ticket
A-Team
Knight and Day
Easy A
She's Out of My League
Date Night
The Kids Are Alright
Shutter Island
Charlie St. Cloud
Devil
Takers
Middle Men
Brooklyn's Finest
The Crazies
Letters to Juliet
Grown Ups
Valentine's Day
Book of Eli
Hot Tub Time Machine
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too?
Prince of Persia
Clash of the Titans
Death at a Funeral
Legion
Extraordinary Measures
Edge of Darkness
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Theif
Dear John
Salt
Splice
The Losers
Remember Me
Leap Year
When in Rome
Predators
Jonah Hex
Daybreakers
Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore
Killers
The Last Song
The Wolfman
Alice in Wonderland
The Last Airbender
A Nightmare on Elmstreet
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The Town was great.

Resident Evil: Afterlife was my favorite of the Evils. Can't wait for 5.