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billyweeds
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:52 am Reply with quote
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gromit--Suffice it to say that I Heart Huckabees would be on my top ten worst list for any century. Memento I find incredibly overrated. Love Juno, adore 4..3..2..., admire Little Children, and haven't seen the others. Interesting list, though. Someday someone may be able to explain what anyone sees in Huckabees. IMO it is simply unwatchable.
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marantzo
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:59 am Reply with quote
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I disagree with Billy about Momento. I actually think it is underrated. Couldn't agree more with his thoughts on Huckabees though. There were a number of times while watching it that I thought, "I've had enough of this," but, I don't know, maybe I hadn't finished my popcorn, because I stayed for the whole movie.
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whiskeypriest
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:19 pm Reply with quote
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whiskeypriest wrote:
gromit wrote:
A rough Top Ten list for this century:
    1. I Heart Huckabees
    2. Memento
    3. Triplets of Belleville
    4. Brand Upon the Brain!
    5. Little Children
    6. The Believer
    7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
    8. The Paper Will Be Blue
    9. The Lives of Others
    10. Juno

Subject to revision and in need of much more research and remembrance.
Excellent! We will have a null set!
Actually, I hope to watch 4... 3... 2... one day soon, so that could change.

We should give thought to a sort of end of the decade Blanche-type thing.

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gromit
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:38 pm Reply with quote
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WeedyBill, you definitely need to see The Believer for Ryan Gosling's fierce, amazing performance. I think you'd also enjoy Triplettes of Belleville.

I actually went into Huckabees expecting to hate it. I thought the title was dumb and the constant internet ads irritating. I only gave it a whirl because I enjoyed Three Kings so much, where I first noticed Clooney and found Wahlberg interesting. Slowly I found myself charmed and intrigued by Huck. I even like some of its clunky rough edges.

Wahlberg was the highlight, while I also enjoyed the Dustin and Lily combo. Even Schwartzman's annoyingness and questionable acting were put to good use.

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billyweeds
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:44 pm Reply with quote
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I would agree that Wahlberg was the best thing--and in fact the only remotely decent thing--about Huckabees. The cast is loaded with favorites of mine--Watts, Tomlin, Hoffman--all of whom fall flat on their faces IMO, and non-favorites (to put it mildly) like Law, who fall as flat as usual for me.
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Ghulam
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 1:26 pm Reply with quote
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'4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days' will surely make it in my decade's ten best.
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Marc
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:55 pm Reply with quote
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Quote:
1. I Heart Huckabees
2. Memento
3. Triplets of Belleville
4. Brand Upon the Brain!
5. Little Children
6. The Believer
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
8. The Paper Will Be Blue
9. The Lives of Others
10. Juno


not a single one of these would make my top ten anything.
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Joe Vitus
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:59 pm Reply with quote
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I hugely heart I Heart Huckabees.

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Marc
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:15 pm Reply with quote
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Top movies of the decade so far, off the top of my brain. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few films.

THE HURT LOCKER
MAN ON WIRE
MOULIN ROUGE
LOST IN TRANSLATION
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
CHILDREN OF MEN
BORAT
ADVENTURELAND
MYSTERIOUS SKIN
OLDBOY
HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
HERO
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
AMORES PERROS
DANCER IN THE DARK
ALMOST FAMOUS
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
PAN'S LABYRINTH
DONNIE DARKO (director's cut)
SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER AND SPRING
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN
OM SHANTI OM
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE
EXILED
SILENT LIGHT
BABEL
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billyweeds
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 3:53 pm Reply with quote
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Marc wrote:

THE HURT LOCKER
MYSTERIOUS SKIN
AMORES PERROS
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN


Agreed on these.

DANCER IN THE DARK is one of my least favorite films of the last ten years, right behind I HEART HUCKABEES. I dislike Von Trier even more than I dislike Bjork.

Very surprisingly to me, I've seen almost every one of your top films. Missed The Edge of Heaven, Let the Right One In, and OM SHANTI OM
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE
EXILED
SILENT LIGHT.

Seen all the rest. Liked--or was at least okay with--all of them except DITD. And loved the five listed above. Pretty good overlap.
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gromit
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:09 pm Reply with quote
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Well, our taste in recent cinema is seriously divergent.

I'd counter your list (and add to mine):

    American Splendor
    The Saddest Music in the World
    The Machinist
    Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
    Kontroll
    Blind Shaft
    Shadow Kill
    Persepolis
    The Tracey Fragments
    Good Bye Lenin!
    Sicko
    Fast Food Nation
    Thank You for Smoking
    The Royal Tenenbaums
    Spellbound

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Ghulam
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:13 pm Reply with quote
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Top 25 of the Decade;

The Class
The Squid and the Whale
Before Night Falls
Head-on
You Can Count On Me
Hero
Junebug
Talk to Her
Hotel Rwanda
Amores Perros
Moolaade
Fog of War
The Pianist
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Saraband
The Station Agent
United 93
Y tu mama tambien
4 months 3 Weeks 2 Days
Katyn
The Edge of Heaven
Distant
Cache
Yi Yi
Summer Hours

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Marc
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:29 pm Reply with quote
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oops forgot a major one:

ZODIAC
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Marc
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:30 pm Reply with quote
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Ghulam,

thanks for reminding me of the stunning HEAD ON and RABBIT PROOF FENCE.
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Marc
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:02 pm Reply with quote
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I HEART HUCKABEES is a screwball comedy with a Buddhist perspective. A great idea poorly executed. The movie is repetitive and wearisome.
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