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Considering it's PTA, I want to go with the latter. However, Gangs of New York was long and Daniel Day Lewis made the time fly by. I really need to see this. The trailer was perfect. It just throws up "There Will Be Blood" at the end. Didn't seem like other trailers, somehow.
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NOOOOOOOOOO! I didn't even realize that it was PTA! FUCK! The man doesn't produce total garbage, but when his movies are bad, they are soooo fucking bad. Punch Drunk Love and Magnolia were some of the most frustrating pieces of shit I've seen in a long time. If it wasn't for Boogie Nights, I would have wrote the man off entirely.
300 should at least be respected for its artistic value and the choreography. The issue of respect fo rall the hard work that went into it. I suppose that's valid. However, I'm more infatuated with the fight scenes and camera work. Yes, it was trite and over the top. That's not all there is, however. Juno was fantastic, but the whole intro scene was... stupid.
And the Bourne series was cool. But not much else. Not really stand out as an action movie... It's like admiring Halo for Master Chief alone.
What? Knocked Up was hilarious, much more so than Superbad. See it with your girlfriend, you'll enjoy it more.
Anyways, I have to 2007 was such a shitty year for films. There have been some greats but overall still shitty.
I wholly disagree. 2007 is seeing some great releases.
Smokin' Aces
Black Snake Moan
300 (I don't care what you say.)
I Think I Love My Wife
Grindhouse
ATHF
Next
28 Weeks Later
Shrek the 3rd
Pirate's of the Caribbean 3 (Sorry... I liked it.)
Knocked Up
Die Hard
Ratatouille
Transformers
Sunshine
The Bourne Ultimatum
Stardust (Yes... shoot me if you want.)
Superbad
3:10 to Yuma
Across the Universe
Michael Clayton
Lars and The Real Girl
Gone, Baby Gone
Dan in Real Life
No Country for Old Men
Beowulf (As a comedy)
Juno
Atonement
I Am Legend
All fantastic movies, and they all came out this year. And, it gets better, because I've yet to see Sweeney Todd, Charlie Wilson's War, AvP: Requiem or There Will Be Blood.
It might not be the biggest list from a year, but it's certainly sizable, and it's not counting a bunch of other crap that some people might really like.
Like Hairspray.
Smokin' Aces was... frustrating. But that didn't make it not worth a mention.
Yeah, Smokin' Aces... total Hollywood shit trying to pass itself off as a QT wannabe film. Anyways, James's list just proves how bad 2007 was. There was some fun films but nothing truly truly outstanding IMHO.
You can make a damn decent argument that it's movie of the year.
American Gangster and Hot Fuzz are pretty much tied for it, in my opinion.
I'll be wearing a bra soon, but I'm not ashamed.
The fact that you mentioned all those movies (PotC3? What a miserable pile of fuck) and not Zodiac is a travesty.
I don't blame you; Aaron Eckhart is dreamy <3
No Simpson's Movie? Damn it James... we can't be friends anymore...
I liked Bourne, but the story, or complete lack there of with a lack luster ending kind of soured me to it. Compared to the previous 2 Bournes, the third was the weakest link, not a bad movie just didn't appeal.
Viggo Mortensen was definately my favorite actor, his role in Eastern Promises was fantastic, and I don't think many leading males of his age would be willing to do the bath house scene, shit I'd say no one would be willing to do that kind of exposure.
Comedy was Hot Fuzz by far, that movie cracked me up, and it had a more depth to its jokes on top of the obvious ones, so that helped keep me at least smiling throughout.
Best movie of the year? For me it would be Die Hard 4 because I am a massive Willis fan, but if I had to pick a good oscar contendor type film, Eastern Promises would be that film.
Well, what's outstanding? If your standard for "good year" only counts as "Must have within released one of the top ten films ever" then maybe it was a bad year.
2006 saw Pan's Labyrinth, Thank you for Smoking, Little Miss Sunshine, Children of Men, The Fountain... Maybe Man of the Year and V for Vendetta if you liked those, too.
2007 doesn't seem really that bad at all. Maybe if you laboriously reviewed every movie of the past 50 years, perhaps 2007 would be lower on the list, but it doesn't seem outstandingly weak.
I mentioned Pirates because I saw it and liked it. I didn't see Zodiac. I will if you tell me it was good, but only maybe. It really didn't look good. It looked cheesy. And shitty. And Pirates 3 could have been so much, so much a lot fucking better, probably if it weren't tied to Disney, but it was still all right.
I, uh... I wasn't really in love with The Simpson's Movie. It was just... it... It was like a nude scene from an actor that had only been pretty a long time ago. In fact, it was very much like that. There even was nudity.
Agreed. Superbad was great, one of the few comedies that the hype really lived up to. And for Death Proof, a lot of people were put off by all the talking for the first 3/4 of the movie, but I thought everything building up to that final chase was time well-spent.
The talking in Death Proof was okay the first time around, but for the second group of women it was just overly long and forced. It was especially tedious after watching the non-stop action of Planet Terror.
How did it look cheesy and shitty exactly? It's an excellent, low-key, very sleek and unique police procedural/newspaper drama. It's not a typical killer movie, it's all about what the people surrounding the case (and not just police) go through. Which is interesting because it's set in the 70's (and looks perfect, it's a hell of a period piece) and there's no computers around obviously. It's a nice comment on how far things have come. I mean, you can't go wrong with David Fincher, either. My film of the year without question.
At World's End on the other hand was just a miserable movie going experience. It was almost unwatchable it was so terrible, I'm amazed at how bad they screwed up a movie with such a cool premise.
It just looked... campy. But bad. Like Firewall or something.
I'm probably giving it more credit just because of the premise, honestly...
Just curious...you do know the story of the Zodiac killer is true, right? And in should no way be likened to a Harrison Ford vehicle?
Zodiac was phenomenal.
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We pulled into Toulon, actually. I transfered planes in Paris on the way home.
the assasination of jesse james
and ratatouille
300 being fascist propaganda in the guise of a mindless action movie gets my vote for worst movie of 07. It was pretty though.
what
Just watch it, you'll be impressed.
It had little people and naked Wash!
Hot Fuzz was the only decent British comedy movie for a long while
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I can't say I agree. I loved the movie, just like the other two.
Also, I thought Hot fuzz was okay, but hardly as good as some go out of their way to make it look like
Why didn't you just delete those posts?
There's a delete post feature, you know