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He Said – He Said … Top Films of the Decade
28 December 2009 4:18 PM, PST
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He Said – He Said … The Top 7 Films of the Decade
Our lists are done. We’ve checked them twice (and then some). Now there is only one thing left to do, complain, rant and argue. It’s time for the He Said – He Said … Top 7 Films of the Decade.
It’s He (Jeff Bayer) and his list …
7. Inglourious Basterds
6. Moulin Rouge!
5. Michael Clayton
4. Memento
3. Wall-e
2. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
1. Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Versus
He (Nick Allen) and his list …
7. The Band’s Visit
6. Superbad
5. The Lives of Others
4. Adaptation
3. The Dark Knight
2. Talk to Her
1. There Will Be Blood
Complete Coverage of Top 7 Films of the Decade
Top 7 Films of the Decade by Jeff Bayer
Top 7 Movies of the Decade by Nick Allen
He Said – He Said … Top 7 Films of the Decade
Amazing. Not one movie in common. I’ve decided to let
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- Jeff Bayer
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Utah man fired from job for calling ‘Avatar’ fan an “Avatard”
28 December 2009 9:44 AM, PST
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While director James Cameron’s latest big-budget film, Avatar, astonishes audiences with a torrid of stunning visual effects, the movie has also grown a surprisingly large and rabid fan-base. Just ask Anthony Hansen, a Salt Lake City-based customer service representative who works for Stencil Tech, or at least he used to until he was fired from the company for expressing his “anti-Avatar” views of the movie.
One of the most highly anticipated films of the second half of the decade, Avatar has been touted as the special effects event that would change cinema forever. The movie centers on Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic Marine who takes a job on the alien world of Pandora in order to operate his dead brother’s avatar, a lab-grown “native” fused with his brother’s DNA to that of a Na’vi, the indigenous humanoid population on Pandora. Hired by a non-governmental mining operation on the planet,
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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
27 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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The Top Ten ‘Top Ten of the Decade Lists’ of the Decade… List
18 December 2009 8:51 AM, PST
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There are two things that upset me about the ‘09’ year of each decade. Firstly, I am confused by the global conviction that this constitutes the end of a decade. As far as I am concerned, a decade begins in year ‘1’, not year ‘0’. Of course, either option is equally viable; but surely this impenetrable ambiguity should completely remove the need to celebrate the death of one decade and the birth of another?
My second annoyance is a direct result of the first… the abhorrent and feverish proliferation of ‘top ten films of the decade’ lists. Top ten lists are nothing more than arbitrary attempts to recall and compress our favourite memories in order to free up more space for the next decade. Quantifying the mystical and romantic beauty of the cinema is a disastrous exercise; and it saddens me to see so many otherwise respectable film critics doing just this.
Even The Times,
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- Nicholas Deigman
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Films Of The Decade – Martyn’s List
14 December 2009 5:30 PM, PST
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The first decade of the new millennium would see an abundance of cinematic treasures, disasters and all things in between. It was the decade in which the Webbed-Wonder swung through the streets of New York and battled the Green Goblin, Doc-Ock, Sandman and Venom. It would be the decade of torture porn. It would be the decade in which The Matrix sequels thoroughly disappointed. It would be the decade Michael Bay came into his own as the purveyor of crash-bang action flicks and discovered the photogenic quality of Megan Fox’s ass. It would be the decade that many screen icons left us, whilst others were made. It would be the decade that belonged to high school musicals, vampires, wizards, hobbits and superheroes. It would be the decade that saw the return of Indiana Jones and would see the last screen performance of Clint Eastwood. So many films, so many hours.
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- Martyn Conterio
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Clip joint: the best film clips featuring montages
10 December 2009 7:35 AM, PST
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This week Pinkos wants your help to assemble a sequence of clips featuring Eisenstein's much-copied creation
Sergei Eisenstein presented his theory of montage to an august group of cineastes in the 1920s. It was, he said, "the nerve of cinema", and that "to determine the nature of montage is to solve the specific problem of cinema". Eighty odd years later, his theory finally came to the attention of the wider world, as the subject of a song in Team America: World Police.
The word can be taken in several different ways. Deriving from the French word for "assembly", in Gallic film practice it simply refers to the editing process. For Eisenstein's Soviet colleagues, it was a means to derive an abstract meaning from a combination of shots in sequence. Nowadays, thanks to Rocky et al, a montage is a cliched sequence where a song (usually a pounding rock anthem) or
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Team America: World Police and Avatar Trailer Remix
9 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST
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There’s no escape from the constant mockery of Avatar before its release date (December 18th) as CollegeHumor has a put forward a trailer which uses the audio from the Avatar trailer and combines it with Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Team America: World Police. There are moments where it works far too well. Not perfectly of course as they have two different plots but better than you would expect. Check it out after the jump and wonder if Avatar will be subjected to more mockery before its release or after. I want to place my money on “after” simply because there has to be at least some comedic fodder in its 160-minute runtime.
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
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- Matt Goldberg
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Amazing 'Avatar' Mashup Trailer
9 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST
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Are you excited about "Avatar," hitting AMC Theatres on December 18th? Just wait until you see it with puppets.
Yes, we said puppets. Matt Shapiro has created what might just be the best trailer mashup we've ever seen. Taking the audio from the "Avatar" trailer and combining it with clips from Matt Stone and Trey Parker's "Team America: World Police," Shapiro wound up with something extremely cool.
Check it out:
MovieWatchers, what film would you rather see -- "Avatar" as "Avatar" or "Avatar" with marionette puppets?
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- Christina Warren
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Pandora, F*ck Yeah!
8 December 2009 11:30 AM, PST
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From the moment James Cameron unveiled the first tantalizing glimpses of his game changing™ cinematic effort, Avatar, you could say Movieline had developed a perplexing case of déjà vu, seeing in Pandora's lush, computer-generated landscapes and lemur-like wildlife everything from the biggest animated flop of all time, to one of Cameron's earlier, deadlier, fishier efforts. But we didn't see the parallels to that enduring, all-marionette homage to dick-swinging U.S. foreign policy, Team America: World Police. Luckily, YouTube user oyguvaltshappy did, and proceeded to craft what can only be described as a flawlessly edited mash-up, using Team footage set entirely to the soundtrack of the second, better-received Avatar trailer. Let's hope the actual Avatar is half as good as this is, though I doubt there will be any Na'vi sex scenes to match the exquisiteness of Team's acrobatic puppet filthiness.
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Aubrey Plaza Is One of the Funny People
23 November 2009 1:15 PM, PST
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The rising comedic star talks about this new DVD, Parks and Recreation, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and more.
Around this time last year, I was reading up on Judd Apatow's new directorial effort, Funny People, since I was going to be visiting the set of the film. Among the huge names in the film was a newcomer named Aubrey Plaza, and, if the newcomers in Apatow's previous two films were any indication (See: Jonah Hill and Charlene Yi), I figured this young comedienne was surely on a pretty damn good path. Of course, that was before we knew her as the hilariously deadpan April Ludgate on the wonderful NBC comedy Parks and Recreation and the actress also has the highly-anticipated Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World coming up as well. I recently had the chance to speak with Aubrey Plaza for the new Funny People DVD and Blu-ray release
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Holiday Preview: A Repertory Calendar
3 November 2009 1:01 PM, PST
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Tim Burton invades New York, New Italian Cinema hits Los Angeles, Harold and Kumar spread holiday cheer in Austin and everywhere you look, they're celebrating All Tomorrow's Parties -- just some of the holiday film fun you can have this winter at your local repertory theater.
More Holiday Preview: [Theatrical Calendar]
[Repertory Calendar] [Anywhere But a Movie Theater]
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In November, the 92YTribeca Screening Room will have some special guests in the house when it hosts the already sold out "A Conversation with Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman" on November 10th, with the two longtime collaborators discussing their latest film "Fantastic Mr. Fox." But tickets are still available for the night before (Nov. 9th), when actor Ben Foster and director Oren Moverman will screen their acclaimed new post-war drama "The Messenger". Much of the rest of the month is devoted to Cinema Tropical's Ten Years of New Argentine Cinema series with screenings of Adrián Caetano's immigration
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- Stephen Saito
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Rehearsal Montage from 'Nine' Steps On Stage
20 October 2009 2:44 AM, PDT
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Taking a cue from Team America: World Police, the Weinstein Co. has debuted a new rehearsal montage from Rob Marshall's upcoming musical Nine, which is due in New York and L.A. on December 18 and expanding nationwide on Christmas Day.
I am extraordinarily excited to see this film and while I did watch the trailer, I am done watching footage and saving it all for the theater so I didn't watch the footage below, but be my guest, it runs just over two minutes and just below it I have included a special bonus feature.
You can watch it in high definition at Yahoo.
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- Brad Brevet
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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #13
18 October 2009 2:24 AM, PDT
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I watched a lot this week, but most of it was in theaters and not all at home. On Monday I saw The Road and Where the Wild Things Are (review); Tuesday was Astro Boy; Wednesday was Law Abiding Citizen (review); and Thursday was Good Hair (review) and my second time seeing An Education (review). On top of that I already mentioned how I watched the unrated version of Drag Me to Hell a second time on Blu-ray, which actually is quite bloodier than the PG-13 version that was in theaters, but I would say it detracts from the film's quality compared to the original. Beyond those flicks there are a few more, and as always a few quick words on each follows.
As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. I now have 50 friends on the movie rental site and would love to
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- Brad Brevet
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Balloon Boy Spewage Gets Us Thinking About Classic Hollywood Barf Scenes
16 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
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Concerned civilians the world over watched in horror yesterday as a runaway helium balloon with six year-old Falcon Heene allegedly trapped inside sailed over the Colorado countryside, only to arrive on the ground safely without child. Falcon, now widely known as Balloon Boy, was napping in the attic the entire time.
Naturally, the Heene family is making the press rounds following the kinda-sorta disaster, and there's already compelling evidence that the whole incident could be a hoax. What's not a hoax, of course, is poor Falcon's on-air vomiting during a recording of the Today Show. Ill timing, really. While I could sit here and think of a variety of different lists — best balloon chases caught on film, the greatest cinema hoaxes of all time — I just can't get my head around the Today Show throw-up. The result of that mental block is this list of the five greatest vomit scenes in movie history.
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- Josh Wigler
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Is Michael Bay the Death of Cinema?
28 September 2009 11:01 AM, PDT
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Michael Bay's influence on films is undeniable, but in most cases his influence has inspired others toward comedy. "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone delivered Team America: World Police, which was just as much a visual slam on Jerry Bruckheimer films as it was Bay, and they did it again in an episode of "South Park" (watch here). "Robot Chicken" took their own spin on Bay with "Baysplosions" seen to the right and Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg used the director's flashy editing and often used action choreography to bring us Hot Fuzz. Everyone gets the joke, and it's funny, but what has it done for his public image and people's opinions/expectations of his films?
I ask this based on a comment left on my posting of the teaser trailer for the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake where someone wrote, "Michael Bay will be the death of cinema.
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- Brad Brevet
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We got your Titan Maximum right here
12 September 2009 8:14 AM, PDT
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It was mentioned a few months ago that some of the folks behind Robot Chicken (including Seth Green) are making a new Adult Swim series called Titan Maximum, which is basically a Voltron parody. I didn't realize when I first heard of this project that there was also a little Thunderbirds in the mix as well. And quite probably some Team America: World Police.
It's too early to tell, but based on the preview, the show certainly looks funny. Unlike Robot Chicken, this show will likely have things like plots and regular characters (the nerd kid from Robot Chicken doesn't count). In that sense, it's more a parody in the vein of The Venture Brothers.Continue reading We got your Titan Maximum right here
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Review: GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
9 September 2009 1:04 AM, PDT
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Better late than never, here is our man Adam Mast's review of GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra.
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra marks the second film based on a Hasbro
toy line this summer, and I'm happy to report that this one is better
than the other one. Why? Well, for two reasons. Firstly, G.I. Joe is
forty minutes shorter and secondly, its more family friendly. Still,
saying G.I. Joe is better than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is
faint praise at best.
Directed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy, Van
Helsing), this take on G.I. Joe is a cartoon come to life-literally. It
features Channing Tatum and Marlon Wayons as a couple of soldiers who
join an elite military super force in an effort to put a stop to an
evil organization hell bent on destroying entire cities with new weapon
technology.
I think that's about the gist of it.
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Tarantino’s 20 in 17.
18 August 2009 11:02 AM, PDT
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This past weekend, in order to help promote his new film Inglourious Basterds, famed director Quentin Tarantino recorder a short video for online film-news website Sky Movies (movies.sky.com [1]). The video shows Tarantino naming out his favorite top 20 films of the past 17 years.
17 marks a lucky number for Tarantino, as it was 17 years ago when he directed his first feature length film Reservoir Dogs (‘92). Starting out with a budget of only $30,000, Reservoir Dogs went on to become a cult phenomenon for younger generation filmmakers, grabbing the Grand Jury Prize nomination at Sundance and initially paving the road for Tarantino’s future projects. Why not celebrate with commemorating the best of favorites?
Named Tarantino’s favorite, from all films released in the last 17 years, is Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale (2000). “If there has been any movie that has been made since I’ve been making movies that I wish I had made,
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Quentin Tarantino’s Top 20 Films of the Past 17 Years
17 August 2009 9:35 AM, PDT
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Regardless of whether or not you think Quentin Tarantino is an egomaniac and regardless of whether or not you're a fan of his films, one of the things you have to love about him is the fact that he's kind of a fanboy in his own right. Let's face it: the guy simply loves film, and he's probably watched more movies (both obscure and mainstream) than just about anyone else on the planet. It's always interesting to hear him talk passionately about the movies that he loves, as witnessed in the recent Oz-ploitation documentary Not Quite Hollywood, for example.
Recently, as part of the promotion for his upcoming film Inglourious Basterds (which hits theatres this weekend), he recorded a short video for Sky Movies [1] talking about his Top 20 films of the past 17 years -- that is, his favourite movies that have been released since he first started directing his own flicks.
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- Sean
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Memories of ‘G.I. Joe’ are great; this movie isn’t
17 August 2009 6:50 AM, PDT
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The only hot thing about 'GI Joe'
In a last-second ditching of critics by Paramount Studios, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, was instead screened on U.S. military bases and areas with a high-concentration of military families. You know, “regular folk” who live between the liberal spheres of the East and Left coast. A brilliant tactic by the studio, it aimed to bypass the haughty blowhards to let “real Americans” ultimately judge the film along with offering screenings to a select group of “fanboy journalists.” The outcome was a temporarily elevated score on Rotten Tomatoes which quickly deflated during the film’s opening weekend.
It’s easy to see why.
The latest entry in the burgeoning toy trash genre, G.I. Joe is a classic case of futility. From tragic performances to an equally dreadful script, the movie is not a movie at all: it’s a giant bloated
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- Erik Buckman
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