My choice for best picture? Pride and Prejudice: magnificent, beautiful on every level, soothing, happy ending, no giant gorillas, no violence, no CGI special effects.
1. The Rocky Horror Picture Show; 2. Aliens; 3. Minority Report; 4. Man on Fire; 5. Training Day.
I thank you for keeping these people under watch. These films, just from the titles, look very unpleasant at best and likely subversive and corrupting at worst.
But this is no surprise when seen to come from someone at Slate. The concept of 'wholesome' has been stricken from their style books (they don't have 'morals' in the conventional sense, being above all that).
/only slightly relenting the sarcasm mode.
My favorite was "March of the Penguins". Nothing else came close.
We should do a Free Republic movie awards selection. We can call it the "Jammies" (after the pajamahadeen), or, for that matter, the "Jimmies" (after our Dear Leader). I'd nominate Chronicles of Narnia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Cinderella Man for Best Picture. I would hope that "Glory Road" is nominable.
We could have some extra categories: "Best Presentation of Conservative Values," (so people wouldn't vote based on ideology for Best Pucture), and "Best Guilty Pleasure" so I could vote for "Mean Girls" for something. :^D... or was that out last year?
Didn't see any of that crap.
Our family really enjoyed March of the Penguins.
Shaolin Soccer. Chinese movie with subtitles, yet it still had a 5-year-old, a 9-year-old, a 10-year-old and a 33-year-old engrossed.
The Aristocrats. Number 6????? Do people know what this movie is???
Batman Begins was very good. I wish this had been the first one and all those others had never been made.
Only movie I saw this year was 'Batman Begins'. I'm not familiar with most of the films on this list, but that is probably because we don't have an 'art theatre' in my town.
Oh no, not another thread about domestic surveillance...
Absolute shite with a plot line stolen from a few dozen old TV programs.
I went to see Sideways, no wait, that may have been last year
Anyone else noticing the little vignette being
played out about this years moves and HolltPukes
Left, in general, in regards to the upcoming Oscars?
>Bo)
Seems like *nobody* wants to get tarred by hosting them!
This may not only be a vrecord low viewership year, but
also the worst attended one as well.
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Well, the Aristocrats (NC-17) is about everyone in Hollywood describing the most perverse acts they can think up, in the context of telling a joke.
"So this family shows up at a Vaudeville audition. The talent agent asks, 'So what do you do.' [insert perversions] 'Well what do you call your act," the shocked talent agent says. 'the Aristocrats' the family answers."
That's it; countless starts desrcibing the most perverse and disgusting things they can think of. Period.
Grizzly Man (R) is a biography about that idiot who thought bears were necessarily harmless, disregarded warnings that the bears were acting edgy, and got himself and his girlfriend eaten by bears. It made $4M.
Mysterious Skin (NC-17) made under $1M.
Junebug (R) made under $3M.
Munich (R) made about $5M; It cost over $70M to produce, but it just came out last weekend.
Me, You and Everyone We Knew (R) made $4M.
The Three Burials of Migiades Estrada (The guy from CHIPs? :^D) (U) made a whopping $30,000.
Ballet Russes (U) made $300,000.
Nobody Knows (PG-13) made $680,000. (This is the one from the-Numbers which anybody liked.)
The-Numbers.com never even heard of The Best of Youth.
Sara Silverman: Jesus is Magic (U) made under $1M. It's not even a movie; it's a stand-up hate screed!
Funny Ha Ha (U) made $77,000 in 2 theaters.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (R) would seem like a blockbuster: $4M. Too bad it cost $15M to make, and $13M to market.
Darwin's Nightmare (U) made $0.1 M.
Nine Lives made (R) $0.35M. With a cast of Dakota Fanning, Glenn Close, Aidan Quinn, Holly Hunter, Sissy Spacek, and Robin Wright Penn.
Apparently, by "best movies," the critic means, "films only I've seen."