'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
I see all the merely human depravity I need to in real life.
Don't you watch House? That crosses the real people==asshole line for me in a way Profit never did. Profit is high theatre for me. Melodrama. I could suddenly tell what Greenwalt smelt like, and why he worked with Angel.
Is this a good place to mention that Kristin Chenoweth will be in a Lifetime movie this Saturday. it looks silly but... Kristin Chenoweth!
Don't you watch House?
Not much anymore.
The Onion, which has been doing a whole bunch of Best of the 00's lists, is focusing on films this week:
The best film performances of the ’00s
Our favorite film scenes of the ’00s
The best bad movies of the ’00s
Almost the best films of the '00s: orphans and personal favorites
The best scenes list is very fun.
Their best movie list is well considered though they love Morvern Caller and The Man Who Wasn't There way more than I do, and I prefer Fellowship of the LoTR movies.
The AV Club freezes my browser. I wonder if they hate IE 6.
Yeah, they do. I've learned not to even try to look at the AV club at work.
Well, their top seven was:
1. Eternal Sunshine
2. 25th Hour
3. There Will Be Blood
4. No Country For Old Men (still paired with Blood)
5. Memento
6. Spirited Away
7. Kill Bill (1)
Old Boy makes their top 50. Four Pixar movies.
If I leave the page alone for a long time it loads. I'm not sure it's worth it.
I did not really like Eternal Sunshine. The characters didn't resonate for me, one way or another. I enjoyed Memento and Spirited Away. Did not like either Kill Bill as much as I was supposed to. I feel QT is usually overly self indulgent, although they were better than Pulp Fiction. Always nice to see an OldBoy mention. The movie just won't leave me alone.
I got as far as reading the performances page, and I'm impressed to note that Denzel Washington's Training Day turn was mentioned. I loved him in that. I think he's immensely well suited as a villain. His charisma borders on the illegal at the best of times. And they picked Ennis over the Joker. Sentimentally I'm very glad to see Heath Ledger so close to the top.
25th Hour? Huh. I found that movie immensely forgettable and pointless.