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Sparky015
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The A-team. Yes I said it. THe only part that sucked was the cargo ship scene at the end which was clearly fake and unrealisitc, but the rest of the movie was great! Best action movie I saw all year.
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ChrisWiggles
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Best films that I saw in 2010, all but one were documentaries:
#1: Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
Absolutely fascinating, and even if you followed the news closely: YOU HAVE NO IDEA. This film reminded me of 'All The President's Men.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WldZazpFy7I
This is a MUST-SEE film. Available on BD as well.
#2: Last Train Home
Another brilliant documentary that works like a crushing suspense film. Stunningly photographed, feels more like a studio drama than a true story. Highly recommended!
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/lasttrainhome/
#3 Night Catches Us
Fantastic little film with a great cast, a lot of recognizable faces from The Wire, Tariq from The Roots, and The Roots did the score. This got a very limited release at the end of the year, I think it just came out on BD. It was shot with the Red One, should look and sound amazing on BD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgtAhGOLC-Y&feature=relmfu
#4 Restrepo
Follows a platoon at a combat outpost in Afghanistan's Korangal Valley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjqR6OucBc
#5 Until The Light Takes Us
In the early nineties, black metal emerged in Norway and a wave of church bombings, terrorism, suicide, and murder swept the country and left Norwegians terrified of what they saw as a massive Satanic movement to spread evil through the land. This is the story of that time directly from their perspective. Fascinating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr_RaCM-1ug
This one was technically 2009 I guess, but I never even heard of it until it came out on video a few months ago.
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ChrisWiggles
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, and some others I forgot:
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Banksy film. Absolutely AMAZING. Probably unreal. Maybe real. Hard to say. Either way, brilliant. Hilarious. Must-see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTlm6dU2xHk
Let Me In
This is an American re-make of the best vampire film I have ever seen, and one of the best horror films ever: Let The Right One In (Swedish). I was aghast when I read that this was being re-made as an American film, but this is a nearly shot-for-shot re-make, and it is excellent. The original is still better, but this is a great film on its own.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reRRAEVHq8E
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
For the younger crowd, or those young-at-heart. From the 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' director. Thoroughly enjoyable and adorable silly movie. Most fun I've had watching a movie in some time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1qaLmfzW3I
Most Over-rated movie of the year: Inception
As far as I could tell, the actual real plot of this film was that some people got onto an airplane and took a nap. Then they woke up and got off the plane. Roll credits. Was it a sequel to Snakes on a Plane... 'Naps on a Plane...? 
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WanMan
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Chris, re: Let Me In ... did you see the original film? I'm planning on buying it. I could not understand the demand to remake it, but then again that is the show biz.
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ChrisWiggles
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| WanMan wrote: | | Chris, re: Let Me In ... did you see the original film? I'm planning on buying it. I could not understand the demand to remake it, but then again that is the show biz. |
Oh yes, the original is fantastic. I've watched it several times on regular DVD. I haven't seen the BD of the original, there were some long AVS threads about poor subtitles on one of the BD versions I think, not really sure what the deal was with that.
I also was totally horrified that they were going to remake it, particularly because it was the director of Cloverfield, which I thought was a stupid movie. I was expecting nothing more than a trashy adaptation. But I kept reading so many glowing reviews of people who had seen the original and found the American version excellent, I finally decided to rent it a couple weeks ago when I saw the BD in the store.
I mean, really the only thing I can find serious fault with in the re-make is that the use of "tension-music" was in a few instances heavy-handed and felt lazy/stupid to me.
I actually need to re-watch the original, because the American version has a very different perspective that comes out re: the actual relationship between little girl and her 'father,' which either isn't in the Swedish film, or I just totally missed it (or it was obscured by the subtitling).
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WanMan
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Well, if is anything like The Black Book then it can be annoying. In the BB the subtitles being half in frame and half out of frame. For those of us running 2.4:1 CIH this was a PITA. But then again, reading appears it is offered in DTS-HD Master Audio for English and Swedish, but there are some apparent subtitle 'meanings' that different from the native language intent.
The BD of Let the Right One In is under $15 at Amazon today.
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ChrisWiggles
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| WanMan wrote: | Well, if is anything like The Black Book then it can be annoying. In the BB the subtitles being half in frame and half out of frame. For those of us running 2.4:1 CIH this was a PITA. But then again, reading appears it is offered in DTS-HD Master Audio for English and Swedish, but there are some apparent subtitle 'meanings' that different from the native language intent.
The BD of Let the Right One In is under $15 at Amazon today. |
Yeah, I think it was purely a translation issue, as I recall from the AVS thread and screencaps. Though I don't remember if it was CIH-okay. (I don't run CIH, so I never pay attention to that.)
I never really bothered to figure that out because I have the DVD, and whatever DVD version it is the subtitles seemed to be great to me, and captured some of the nuance brilliantly like the "would you still like me if I wasn't a girl?" line (paraphrased).
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joshe
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I really think Inception was a good movie, not great. They have really lured people that there are mind boggling incidents at work there concerning the different levels of the dream. I think that would classify to be a good movie because it got the audience thinking and talking about it even after the movie. People were not convinced with watching it once so they had to do it some more times.
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