Is this a great year for movies or what? I haven't seen a truly great movie year since 1999, but this really seems like one, judging from reviews and the early awards shows. There are more movies in theatres right now that I badly want to see than I can count on both hands, not to mention all of the really good ones from earlier in the year.
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Honestly, I can't name any good ones. Eternal Sunshine was great, I heard Sideways is great too...otherwise, I can't really name any stood out.
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Auggiestyle wrote:
Is this a great year for movies or what? I haven't seen a truly great movie year since 1999, but this really seems like one, judging from reviews and the early awards shows. There are more movies in theatres right now that I badly want to see than I can count on both hands, not to mention all of the really good ones from earlier in the year.
Such as?
I'm not thinking of any standouts.
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I can name on one hand movies that got more than 8 out of 10 for me this year-
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
2046
House of Flying Daggers
A Very Long Engagement
Somersault
So there's 2 Chinese films, 1 French film, 1 Aussie film and just the one US release. I'll be watching a fair few more before the year ends, but the American output this year has been quite disappointing.
Like I said, most of them are in theatres now and I haven't seen them, but from the reviews I've read, they all look very, very promising. I can't remember the last time I was so excited about this many movies at one time. I don't even know what to see first:
Closer
Sideways
Spanglish
Ocean's 12
Million Dollar Baby
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Beyond the Sea
The earlier ones being:
Eternal Sunshine
Collateral
The Terminal
Ray
Birth
Spider-Man 2
The Bourne Supremacy
The Incredibles
They're not all Oscar winners, obviously, but a good mix of really good films, along with some great popcorn movies and just plain entertainment.
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I have yet to see Collateral and Bourne Supremacy - still not a good year for movies though
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Hinny wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Spider-Man 2 drags the entire year down to being very, very bad.
Still can't believe I paid good money to see that.
Come on. What did you expect? Spider-Man 2 is a good movie for what it is. It's certainly much better than the other genre-comparable movies of late (e.g., Hellboy, X-Men 2). Further, it is better than Spider-Man.
To go in to a comic book movie expecting something of Oscar proportions (not neccesarily assuming that that is the case here) is laughable...
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Iago wrote:
Hinny wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Spider-Man 2 drags the entire year down to being very, very bad.
Still can't believe I paid good money to see that.
Spider-Man 2 is a good movie for what it is. It's certainly much better than the other genre-comparable movies of late (e.g., Hellboy, X-Men 2). Further, it is better than Spider-Man.
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Iago wrote:
Hinny wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Spider-Man 2 drags the entire year down to being very, very bad.
Still can't believe I paid good money to see that.
Come on. What did you expect? Spider-Man 2 is a good movie for what it is. It's certainly much better than the other genre-comparable movies of late (e.g., Hellboy, X-Men 2). Further, it is better than Spider-Man.
Well...personally i thought that X-Men 2 was waaaaay waaaaay better than Spiderman 2. I actually found some excitement and was pleasantly surprised by the former, whilst being very disappointed even after having low expectations by the latter.
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Iago wrote:
Hinny wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Spider-Man 2 drags the entire year down to being very, very bad.
Still can't believe I paid good money to see that.
Spider-Man 2 is a good movie for what it is. It's certainly much better than the other genre-comparable movies of late (e.g., Hellboy, X-Men 2). Further, it is better than Spider-Man.
No.
After seeing Spiderman, it ended so well that I wished to God that they wouldnt make a sequel. I knew full well that they would though. And I knew it would suck. So I never saw it.
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