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Posted: Sat 7/Jan/06 6:11am Post subject: Dazzle's Top Movie Experiences Of 05 (with 06 Stuff)
Right, a lot of pretentious knawers put out pretentious lists and knaw on about the top 10 whatevers for 2005 in their ever so important opinion, like, for instance, me last year.
Far be it from me to go against the trend. Without further ego fluffing, here is my top 10 Movie Experiences of 2005. These are movies I saw in calender year 2005, its my list and I make up the rules okay sunshine? Yay team me (again)!
*Horror Festival - well it was organised by the Horror Festival people, with a whole bunch of UK, Euro and World premieres:
Sin City(2005) - kcuf YEAH (UK paying audience premiere)
Devils Rejects(2005) (World paying audience premiere, this print was supposed to be going to Cannes)- best 70's stalk, terrorise and slash horror movie not made in the 70's. A big step up from Rob Zombies film career.
League of Gentlemens Apocolpyse(2005) -Pre release screening with writers/stars in attendance. A bit of a freaky movie to see, as many of the scenes were shot around the corner from the theatre I was watching it in..
Shallow Ground(2005)- it had done the festival circuit in rough cut, this was the world prem of the final cut - horror movie that cant' make up its mind WHAT kind of horror it wants to be. Good but not great.
Also seen the same day:
R-point - A low budget Asian cross between X-files and Platoon. Had a few moments, otherwise blah.
*The Goodies - dvd launch for their second dvd collection. The Goodies themselves were in attendance, and after screening two episodes gave a very funny hour long Q&A session. For more details (like how close they came to making a movie with Speilberg) http://www.vorb.org.nz/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=5562&pblahblahblah
*'Revenge of the Sith' - digitaly projected, midnight opening night screening, Liecster Square London. I literaly rocked up at midnight and got a standby ticket (best seat in the house). I was burned by ep1 and ep2, emperor Lucas has no clothes, but Star Wars was such a part of my childhood it was awesome seeing it on the same screen it had premiered on, with a very loud and appreciative audience.
*Ong Bak(2003) The most kick esra awesome kungfu movie I had seen in a decade. Unpulled punches, flaming kicks, dives over moving vehicles and all manner of action candy floss. I paid to see this on the big screen twice in the same year, and again on dvd. Last movies I can think of doing this for are the other two other all time great martial arts movies on my personal list, Jackie Chans 'Police Story' and 'Drunken Master II (aka Legend of the Drunken Master).
*'Serenity' (2005) My original comments still stand:
Quote:
Best gnikcuf sci-fi film in god knows how long. This is the true 'Han Solo - the early years' prequel that a thousand George Lucas hacks at a thousand keyboards for a thousand years could never produce. You know, the REAL Han Solo, fires first on unfriendly green guys, leader of the pack on a barely functional space ship and sticking it to the Evil Empire and not yet pussed out and sappy for Lukes coked up sister.
An interesting setting, interesting characters telling its story well, just that damn good.
*'Mission Accomplished' - Director/Star Sean Langan giving a Q & A at the end. One man documentarian goes into Iraq after Bush declares hostilies are over. Intending to stay 4 weeks, he stays 4 months and captures the slide into occupation and iraqi gurrellia warfare resistance and eventualy non Iraqi Jihad. Absolutely amazing coverage, as American censorship had not kicked in, and the people on the street were (initialy) still happy to be liberated. He secures interviews of injured GI's being evacuated, as well as the Iraqi resistance fighters and eventual outside Jihadists, by coincidence interviewing a shot patrolling sergent and latter the resistance fighter that shot him! The Q & A afterward realy put this into perspective, as the time captured foreshadowed the situation as it now stands, as Langan still has contacts back in Iraq. Iraqi resistance members hate the outside Jihadists that attempt to make it a holy war, while correctly pointing out atleast Sadam got the power and water working again quicker than the Americans.
James Bond - Dr No, free screening from 35mm on the Thames waterfront. An actual James Bond movie, based on an actual James Bond book, a million miles closer to reality than any recent Bond film. An appreciative audience and a great setting made this one memorable.
Old Boy - Sick, Twisted, Brilliant. It defies catorgorization and surprises at every turn. Shows Asian cinema still kicks esra and will go places Hollywood simply would not.
I went to a Q&A session with director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil, Monty Python etc etc) and he could only mention one movie in recent years that realy had impressed him, and I concur:
Kungfu Hustle - comedy, drama, action, slapstic kungfu spectacular, When Stephen Chow is good the results are great, here they are fantastic. It was the best summation of all the best themes and ideas and talents from his previous movies. Long may he continue to write/direct/star in movies such as this.
Dig: Saw just about every rock-u-mentary out there during the year (may do a write up at some stage), but this was the pick of the bunch. An amazing Spinal Tap worthy telling of everything that can and will go right and wrong for two rock bands out to change the world. Shot over 8 years with something like 1600 hours of footage, just absolutely brilliant.
Lots of good movies came out during the year, special mentions go to:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Left me with plenty to think about
40 Year Old Virgin: Better than American Pie, same crew as Ron Jeremy, and damn funny.
The Sea Inside: True life story of euthenasia campaigner. Magnificant.
Batman Begins: Best of the Batman movies ever. Well, if you dont count the Dini animated or the camp Adam West ones....
The Machinest: Same star as Batman Begins, but ENTIRELY different movie, like Momento, but not.
The Woodsman: A small movie from Kevin Bacon, giving a harrowing and stunning performance as a pedophile struggling with recovery. Possibly too contriversial to win the awards I thought it deserved.
King Kong: Fantastic, but just a hair (or fifteen minutes too long) away from Brilliant. Marries the blockbuster with a heartfelt character driven story. In that regards, just like LOTR, accept this also marks a return of 'Brain Dead' Peter Jackson, with scary natives, people getting torn limb from limb and some very sadistic insects.... I suspect many a child will be traumatized by the middle section of this movie. I also hope we see a return to Jacksons Zombie roots, cause he still seems to have the horror chops.
Descent: Amazing tension in the first half, plenty of groaning moments in the second. Fantastic horror movie on the big screen.
Rock and Roll Highschool: How come it took me nearly 20 years to see this!?!? Cult movie staring the Ramones, with many of the talents from the cult 'Deathrace 2000'.
Terror of the Opera: Considered by some to be first bad or the the last great Argento movie, I was finding it to be the former then WHAM knife to the throat rock music blaring gloved maniac Argento kicks in. Hurrah for DVD. I suspect this never made it to NZ in the 80's, so wide screen dvd is the next best way to catch a cult italian horror like this.
All and all a very good year for film. Lots more documentaries and quirky stuff creeping out into the mainstream. Many more I did not mention, but enjoyed during the year.
Right, now, get off your butts and check out what is in the corners of the video shop, or on TV during strange hours or slinking around in film festivals. There is a lot of very good yet very different stuff out there just waiting for you to discover it.
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I am about to rave about "Good Night and Good Luck".
and on that note, i will go see this next week.
(hey HDC, have you see confessions of a dangerous mind? the first movie directed by Mr George, and it's AMAZING. Sam Rockwell is the shiz.)
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Posted: Sun 29/Jan/06 10:55am Post subject:
lubie wrote:
(hey HDC, have you see confessions of a dangerous mind? the first movie directed by Mr George, and it's AMAZING. Sam Rockwell is the shiz.)
Actually, no I havent. it was "on the list" but never got to it. Next time in Alices I'll pick it up.
Here's a quote from Murrow on television, but he could be talking about the interwebby:
Edward R Murrow said rather than wrote:
This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire, but it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box
George is such a dreamboat. Even pretty average stuff like 3 Kings is watchable with him in. And Oceans 11 and 12 (11 muuuuch better) but they should remove that carrot from up Julia Roberts bum.
I think we are going to see Kong today.
Has anyone seen "Yes" ? its got Joan Allen, so it should be worth seeing just for that, but the script device (its all in iambic pentameter) might be a bit naff.
We also saw "The Constant Gardener" last week. MrsAlmaG didnt like it as much as I did, but she doesnt read a lot of that sort of book either. A LOT of the book made it into the movie, and considering its about multinational pharmaceutical firms and their nasty exploitation of the natives and such, getting it across (and entertaining me at the same time)was well done.
the locations are fabulous too. Ralph Fienes rules in it.
Oh yeah, and Serenity was the only movie I paid to go see on the big screen last year. I d it. though there were some holes and stuff in the plot, but whatever.
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I suspect many a child will be traumatized by the middle section of this movie. I also hope we see a return to Jacksons Zombie roots, cause he still seems to have the horror chops.
d it. though there were some holes and stuff in the plot, but whatever.
