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chiv
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 Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 08:31 Post subject: Whats your top and bottom 5 films of last year |
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first up, shameless plug for the movie '9' - http://www.nfohump.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51909 its had bugger all views given that its going to be one of the top 5 movies of 2009 goddammit, go check it out if you love animation, postapocalyptic/fantasy/surreal/action/adventure type movies... i just cant believe theres so little notice of the film here (judging by view count) - come on, give it a look!!
** and now our feature presentation ** . cue the music.
Given that its almost march, it seems the perfect time to see what everyones fav and most hated films of last year were - try to just list films that were recent and you FIRST saw last year (so 2007 films are fine as well) - you dont have to list them in order unless you want too.
in order:
1. wall.e
2. the sword of the stranger
3. mutant chronicles
4. speed racer
5. iron man
5. meet the spartans
4. starship troopers 3: marauder
3. alone in the dark 2
2. seed
1. tripping the rift: the movie
yes i listed mutant chronicles, bite me, but i loved the old-timey low budget retro sci-fi feel of it. acting was shoddy, effects were.. actually kinda pleasing to me, they werent realistic but combined with the overall effect of the design, they worked wonderfully... i guess to me, atmosphere, attitude and the 'feel' of it, go a long way: loved that movie. 
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 09:00 Post subject: |
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i prefer not review across genres, so in no particular order..
best:
the onion movie
the dark knight
chocolate
wall.e
time crimes
documentary bonus: standard operating procedure
worse:
the forbidden kingdom
indy4
otto; or up with the dead people
wargames 2
death race
"documentary" bonus: expelled
good ones really made me happy and the other end just got me really angry and scream out loud "dude, what the fuck?"
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dr-nix
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 10:03 Post subject: |
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In no particular order (other than best and worst)
Best
Dark Knight
Iron Man
Wall-E
Hellboy 2
Rambo
Worst
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
The Hottie and the Nottie
Meet the Spartans
Eagle Eye
Max Payne
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_SiN_
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 10:31 Post subject: |
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I actually didn't see many movies last year, really..
My favorites:
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Cloverfield
Felon
[REC]
Worst:
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Doomsday
Get Smart
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deelix
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 12:41 Post subject: |
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The best:
Max Manus
Defiance
Wall-e
Slumdog millionare
Iron Man
(BTW: iv not seen Curious Case of Benjamin Button and TDK)
The worst:
Xfiles the movie: I want to believe
Superhero Movie
Disaster Movie
Can't remember any other REALLY bad movies that I saw in 2k8.
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 12:47 Post subject: |
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best:
Wall-E
Taken
Slumdog Millionare
The Dark Knight
Madagascar 2
worst:
My bloody valentine 3d
X-files the movie
Disaster movie
The Hottie and the Nottie
Meet the spartans
The order isn't important...
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zipfero
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 13:33 Post subject: |
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Best:
Gran Torino
In Bruges
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Tropic Thunder
I haven't seen RR, reader, slumdog or the wrestler yet.
Worst:
Mutant Chronicles
The Happening
The Forbidden Kingdom
Max Payne
Death Race
8 out of 10 dentists prefer zipfero to competing brands(fraich3 and Mutantius)!
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 16:54 Post subject: |
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Best (in no particular order)
Hellboy 2
Red
Che
Wanted
Gran Torino
Worst
Doomsday
Screamers - The Hunting
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Eagle Eye
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 17:05 Post subject: |
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My 8/10+ List (can't really pick a top 5)
The Wrestler
Gran Torino
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
In Bruges
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Hellboy 2
Tropic Thunder
JCVD
Pineapple Express
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
My 1/10 List
Meet the Spartans
The Happening
... looking at everyone else's list, I guess I didn't bother watching most of the crap from 2008. There is nothing I can think of nearly as bad as these two pieces of shit.
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Cohen
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 17:13 Post subject: |
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top:
Seven pounds
Benjy button
Wall-e
Thick as thieves
Body of lies
Bottom:
Dark knight (sorry, hated it)
Valkyrie (fuck off)
Let the right one in
that stupid Russian movie with the guy who plays James bond in it in the woods.
the escapist (zzzzz)
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deelix
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 17:31 Post subject: |
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Oh I almost forgot, saw 10 min of "Another gay sequel". Not funny at all, just very gay and gross. Hope the director get some gay STD and dies.
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 17:59 Post subject: |
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In no particular order.
Top:
Dark Knight
Gran Torino
Burn After Reading
The Wrestler
Let the right one in
Bottom:
Meet the Spartans
Disaster Movie
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 18:33 Post subject: |
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Cloverfield
In Bruges
TDK
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Wall-e
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lhzr
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zipfero
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 19:25 Post subject: |
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Saw it and loved it, yeah. Tho it got a lot of extra points from me because of its sheer attitude & gore. Plus First Blood is one of my all-time favorite action movies since I first saw it as a kid - was great how Stallone used the same theme music in both movies.
So from a purely objective standpoint, maybe as a movie it wasn't all that great, but it worked for me.
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lhzr
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 19:27 Post subject: |
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rambo was great. i alternated between laughing and trying not to cheer in the cinema throughout the whole movie. stallone was as cool as ever, the killings were satisfying and there was a max of 5 minutes of talking. what else do you want? i loved it.
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zipfero
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 19:48 Post subject: |
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| lhzr wrote: | | rambo was great. i alternated between laughing and trying not to cheer in the cinema throughout the whole movie. stallone was as cool as ever, the killings were satisfying and there was a max of 5 minutes of talking. what else do you want? i loved it. |
Well saying you watch bad movies should always be taken with a pinch of salt. Rambo was terrible, imo.
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 20:49 Post subject: |
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Didn't include movies from 2007, or this list would be a lot longer...
In no particular order...
Best:
The Dark Knight
Gomorra
In Bruges
Man on Wire
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days
- Didn't make the list, but also great: Happy-Go-Lucky, Tropa de Elite
- Haven't yet seen (among others, so they might have made the list): Disgrace, I've Loved You So Long, Baader Meinhof Complex, The Class, The Wrestler, Waltz With Bashir, Synecdoche New York
- Seen so many movies this year, I probably forgot a bunch of movies. 2008 was a great year in movies.
Worst:
Blindness
Doomsday
Appalloosa
The Happening
Wanted
Equally crappy: 21, Garden Party, The Strangers
I guess I skipped a lot of crap, looking at the lists above there are movies you couldn't even pay me to watch.
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 21:14 Post subject: |
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| zipfero wrote: | | lhzr wrote: | | rambo was great. i alternated between laughing and trying not to cheer in the cinema throughout the whole movie. stallone was as cool as ever, the killings were satisfying and there was a max of 5 minutes of talking. what else do you want? i loved it. |
Well saying you watch bad movies should always be taken with a pinch of salt. Rambo was terrible, imo. |
If Rambo was a bad action movie, what is a good action movie in your opinion?
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zipfero
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 21:25 Post subject: |
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| me7 wrote: | | zipfero wrote: | | lhzr wrote: | | rambo was great. i alternated between laughing and trying not to cheer in the cinema throughout the whole movie. stallone was as cool as ever, the killings were satisfying and there was a max of 5 minutes of talking. what else do you want? i loved it. |
Well saying you watch bad movies should always be taken with a pinch of salt. Rambo was terrible, imo. |
If Rambo was a bad action movie, what is a good action movie in your opinion? |
First Blood was good, Die hard I, Iron Man and so on.
I like that you bring in the word action to the discussion, which isn't really relevant. It's about whether movie was good or not, which, imo, it's not. Just saying that the statement "i dont watch bad movies" is like saying "I only eat tasty food".
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LeoNatan
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First Blood was not an action movie, it was a war drama. Saying it was an action movie shows why the series went to such shit after the first. But the last one was fantastic, it was very effective at showing how awful war is, and how cynical and hypocritical people can be.
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| Posted: Thu, 26th Feb 2009 21:59 Post subject: |
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| zipfero wrote: | | I like that you bring in the word action to the discussion, which isn't really relevant. |
It is relevant because you should keep in mind what a movie tries to achieve when you discuss it. Saying that a movie is bad because you don't value the director's/writer's intentions is not fair.
Rambo did not try to win any academy awards, it was an war-action movie stripped to it's core without anything to distract from the brutality of it. It did not try to please everybody like for example Die Hard 4 (Bruce Willis for the old-school action fans, hacker plot for the younger generation, PG-13 rating for kids,...) but was targeted at a specific audience and it did bloody well.
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nouseforaname
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Fri, 27th Feb 2009 09:13 Post subject: |
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| nouseforaname wrote: | | Tropa de Elite technically came out in 2007 |
Yeah I know, but that was only limited to film festivals and a few odd cinemas in Brazil. It didn't get distributed for cinemas worldwide until 2008. Which is why I listed it 
I go to the cinemas whenever I can, especially to film festivals. But it costs money and time, it's a hazzle to travel to the cinema when all you want to really do is chill out after work |
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nouseforaname
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Parallax_
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| Posted: Fri, 27th Feb 2009 09:28 Post subject: |
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| nouseforaname wrote: | | even "limited" stuff comes out here in regular theatres |
Of course, it does here too. But not Tropa De Elite afaik, only Brazil in 2007  |
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nouseforaname
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You guys forgot french masterpieces :
mesrine : l'instinct de mort and second part:
mesrine l' ennemi pulic numero
not just gangster movies , but great portraits of 70-s !
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