movies

[thrill]

Saw Unknown and King's Speech.

Unknown - meh. The twist was dumb, although I like Frank Langella in anything. By the way, January Jones has a face that was born to play unlikeable, waspy women, but beyond that, she may be the worst actress currently getting paid to act.

King's Speech - The acting between Rush and Firth was crazy good. The English tend to romanticize their WWII mythology and their Royals and this was no exception. Nevertheless a really, really good movie that is definitely worth seeing and a true story that was definitely worth telling. If you're the betting sort, Colin Firth and Natalie Portman are the two biggest Oscar locks I can remember and even though Black Swan was a better movie, this will win the Best Picture Oscar.

[Jocephus]

Unknown - meh. The twist was dumb, although I like Frank Langella in anything. By the way, January Jones has a face that was born to play unlikeable, waspy women, but beyond that, she may be the worst actress currently getting paid to act.

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[jim]

True Grit Sunday ... yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Two great movies this year, True Grit and The FIghter, a decent movie (Black Swan), a passable movie (Kings Speech - agree about the great acting which saved it but the fact is the story was just boring) and a couple of duds (Inception).

[Freed Roger]

True Grit Sunday ... yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Two great movies this year, True Grit and The FIghter, a decent movie (Black Swan), a passable movie (Kings Speech - agree about the great acting which saved it but the fact is the story was just boring) and a couple of duds (Inception).

I haven't seen all those yet, but so far am in complete agreement.

Inception - I even gave it the benefit of the doubt and skipped back to the opening sequence, in case I was too dumb and missed something. The movie tries to be complex, but in essence is flimsy. Weak acting. Stupid characters. And the most annoying music background that I can recall. It extracted 2+ hours of my evening.

[ghostrunner]

Got around to watching Fantastic Mr. Fox - I think I give up on Wes Anderson movies. Almost all of them, there's parts I think are brilliant, parts where the quirkiness feels too deliberate and cliched (Wes Anderson = 70's clothing, title cards, khaki), and other parts where I'm just bored.

I'm sure part of my problem is that I knew the book beforehand, and he basically kicked that to the curb in order to lengthen the story out.

I was completely psyched for Life Aquatic a few years ago - Bill Murray, interesting plot, great sets - then sat down to watch it and had to stop the DVD about halfway through for something. Then I decided I didn't care enough to finish it.

Royal Tenenbaums is probably the only one of his movies I've truly enjoyed start to finish.

[G. Keenan]

Rushmore and Tenenbaums were brilliant and will always be two of my favorite films, but I agree that he's had a hard time recapturing the magic of those two films since.

[cpebbles]

Got around to watching Fantastic Mr. Fox - I think I give up on Wes Anderson movies. Almost all of them, there's parts I think are brilliant, parts where the quirkiness feels too deliberate and cliched (Wes Anderson = 70's clothing, title cards, khaki), and other parts where I'm just bored.

I'm sure part of my problem is that I knew the book beforehand, and he basically kicked that to the curb in order to lengthen the story out.

I was completely psyched for Life Aquatic a few years ago - Bill Murray, interesting plot, great sets - then sat down to watch it and had to stop the DVD about halfway through for something. Then I decided I didn't care enough to finish it.

Royal Tenenbaums is probably the only one of his movies I've truly enjoyed start to finish.

If you don't like Rushmore, I don't like you.

[Maclowery]

Pretty much all of my friends love anything that even mentions Wes Anderson. I never got on that train. I did enjoy parts of Life Aquatic, and I dig the soundtrack. Other than that, it's like Scrubs. I watch, and think, "Am I supposed to be laughing? Or waxing philosophic? This sandwich is delicious, though."

Last night I watched Vicky Christina Barcelona, which immediately shot to the top of my "Romantic-ish movies I actually enjoy" list. Too much narration, but whatever. Javier Bardem's character was transcendent. Scarlet and Penelope made out. That tall brunette (basically the only women I date) was incredibly attractive every moment on screen.

[TimeForGuinness]

I saw Inception, and I very much enjoyed it.

[JL21]

Other than some very good fight scenes and good performances by Marky Mark and Christian Bale, The Fighter is a bad movie. Five and ten years from now, people are going to be looking at the Oscar nomination and wondering how the [expletive] that happened. The mom and the sisters are over the top cartoon characters and the plot could not possibly be more clichéd or obvious or hackneyed, even if it was a mostly true story.

As for Wes Anderson movies, I tend to agree with the consensus. He's reached a point where he makes Wes Anderson movies. It'd be nice if he'd do something different for once. I still like his movies (with the exception of Zissou, which I thought was pretty average or worse). But the man is becoming a cliché of himself.