tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post3222753348995156001..comments2024-03-24T13:26:57.317-07:00Comments on Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule: THE MOVIES OF 2009: PERSONAL BESTDennis Cozzaliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-10298626012010813052011-01-07T04:02:11.500-08:002011-01-07T04:02:11.500-08:00Amazing piece Dennis. More then worth the wait.
I...Amazing piece Dennis. More then worth the wait.<br /><br />I'm glad I'm not the only one who was disappointed that Observe And Report wasn't dark enough. Most people look at me like I'm completely mental when I say that. But when SPOILER (The flasher survived the gunshot) the movie lost me.<br /><br />And what happened with Tarantino and the New Bev? How the hell did I miss that?wierdwalkerhttp://www.mirchi.wierdwalker.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-10392177413665104432010-09-15T06:04:12.658-07:002010-09-15T06:04:12.658-07:00Always love watching any film suggested by you. I ...Always love watching any film suggested by you. I have found that the reviews given by you are 99% right and it saves my lot of time from watching any bad film.watch movieshttp://moviesplanet.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-52274884588707472332010-02-25T22:16:50.709-08:002010-02-25T22:16:50.709-08:00In 1968, I brought "The Movie Orgy" to o...In 1968, I brought "The Movie Orgy" to our campus and have never forgotten it. Do you know any way to find out future screenings?JHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17212654968803499062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-74415816411856313912010-02-18T15:00:46.718-08:002010-02-18T15:00:46.718-08:00MG, first of all, let me just say...
Don't yo...MG, first of all, let me just say...<br /><br />Don't you ever... <i><b>ever</b></i> disagree with me, either in these comments or if we should ever meet! It's just not done! Don't you know who I am??!!<br /><br />Kidding! I was momentarily possessed by the spirit of Jeffrey Wells! All better now!<br /><br />The funny thing is, we really only disagree about <i>Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans</i> (Whew! Those of us who have complained about <i>Precious</i>'s full title oughta have to say <i>that</i> one 20 times in a row) and <i>Adventureland</i> by a matter of degrees. I actually gave both movies three stars out of four and included both in my "Best of the Rest" category, which was a complete list of all the rest of the movies of the year which I liked but not well enough to put on the top 10 or the honorable mention. So to mention both of them as candidates for the Academy of the Overrated doesn't mean that I don't value them myself, only that I feel some critics have <i>overvalued</i> them, at least in relation to how I do. I think they are both good movies; I just don't have the level of enthusiasm that some (like yourself) have given over to them. <br /><br />I saw <i>BL:POCNO</i> on double feature with Herzog's bad David Lynch knockoff <i>My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done</i>, which by comparison cast every strange excessof the Nic Cage movie in a completely different light to me. Frankly, Cage didn't spin off his axis to the degree I thought he would (hoped he would); he seemed almost sedated, at least in comparison to my expectations-- and truly, his performance was self-conscious in a way that <i>Vampire's Kiss</i>, the apex of Cage's loony art, never was. On the other hand, Herzog's excesses as a director (the iguana cam was a spine-tingling favorite) seemed far more organic and trackable as genuine Herzogian when set up against the faux Lynchian posing of the other movie. (Michael Shannon was in both too-- he seemed an empty shell in <i>My Son</i> but was far more alive and memorable in his two minutes in <i>BL:POCNO</i>.) Herzog's Lynch movie was a waxworks, but while <i>BL:POCNO</i> has lots of moments of posing of its own, it also has lots of interesting things in it, including Eva Mendes, consistently underrated and here featured in a thankless and underwritten role, and a director who knows exactly how to make his environment in upheaval express the crisis life of his main character. In the end, it just didn't resonate the way a great Herzog picture does. It seemed like a stunt, one that the director survives, but a litte too thin in the end to support a lot of the praise that has been heaped upon it.<br /><br />Whoops, gotta go. Pt. 2 coming soon!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-59094942673063330432010-02-18T09:13:46.630-08:002010-02-18T09:13:46.630-08:00Hey Dennis --
Just caught up with this now, but t...Hey Dennis --<br /><br />Just caught up with this now, but thanks for the "random brilliance" love on the "Basterds" DVD thang.<br /><br />Always interesting to see your take on things and it usually makes a lot of sense (even if don't see things quite the same way). Except for "The Hangover." I'm now convinced that you saw the cut intended for Spike TV and I saw the one for PBS and TCM (in ten years), or something.Bob Westalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17515868620255715845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-58209777775772157452010-02-16T08:56:49.431-08:002010-02-16T08:56:49.431-08:00MG: Bless you for your passion! I'm at work ri...MG: Bless you for your passion! I'm at work right now and won't be able to comment right away, but I did want to let you know that I'll be back!<br /><br />And you are not the first one to suggest to me that <i>Crank 2: High Voltage</i> is worth seeing, so maybe I'll expose my more leisurely-paced brain to it soon. (I loved <i>Domino</i>, which, being no proponent of Tony Scott and his kind of A.D.D. cinema, I thought was the most improbable development of 2009!)<br /><br />Talk to you soon! Stay tuned!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-32439128068525312152010-02-15T04:32:01.825-08:002010-02-15T04:32:01.825-08:00Dennis, I greatly enjoyed this epic posting, but M...Dennis, I greatly enjoyed this epic posting, but MY GOD SIR have you no decency!<br /><br />Public Enemies, Bad LT, Adventureland overrated????<br /><br />Jennifer's Body on the worst????<br /><br />Let's say we strenuously disagree...<br /><br />Maybe I was just the exact right age for it and it depicted my awkward formative years to a *T*, but how could you not have been positively BAWLING with self-recognition during "Adventureland," maybe the best mid-80s nostalgia movie ever made and heartbreakingly real, beautiful, sensitive and passionately performed? I know there's maybe a handful or so of years between us, so, yeah, I probably wouldn't feel a protective zeal of overwhelming emotion about a "coming of age" story set in, say, 1997, but as someone who grew up in the Ohio/PA/WV area and was the EXACT age of Eisenberg's character AND is STILL waiting for his Kristen Stewart-esque dreamgirl well into his 30s, dismissing "Adventureland" as "underrated" borders on the blasphemous. It's like watching HOME MOVIES OF MY LIFE!<br /><br />Enemies I feel less passionate about, but weren't you a fellow big MIAMI VICE fan? It's yet another extention of Mann's post-ALI stylistic device of half-overheard arcana, throwing the viewer off by focusing at length on certain events then rushing the "meat" that would BE most other movies... I don't know for sure that that approach works for everyone, but I think it's interesting.<br /><br />And Bad Lieutenant? Again, with all due respect... perplexed at how a repulsive Oliver Platt MINCING and urging Michael Cera to oil him up could be deemed a more worthwhile expenditure of two hours than Herzog's hilariously amoral inversion of Ferrara's Catholic guiltfest. Unlike its predecessor, Herzog's take on the theme is without judgment, letting Cage get away scot-free with all his endlessly entertaining transgressions... it's practically revolutionary; Plus, again... fundamental difference, I guess. COP MOVIE versus COMEDY? Absolutely ANYTHING with cops, guns, drugs, hookers, hip-hop or gangsters gets an AUTOMATIC three stars and works from there.<br /><br />And Jennifer's Body you're seriously undervaluing. It's better than Heathers, better than 90% of the movies last year, softening the overbearing Cody dialogue with a genuine sense of teen longing and a brilliant visual style by an underrated director. One of the most fun experiences of 2009 at the movies... even if you despised the other 99% of the movie, Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox's witty, self-aware (AND HOT) performances carried the day.<br /><br />Other than those few quibbles, enjoyed the rest!<br /><br />Though will also add that you made no mention of CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE, *THE* most accurate depiction of modern Los Angeles ever committed to celluloid and a cavalierly, kaleidoscopically insane/brilliant representation of the post-internet, post-post-postmodern XBox short-attention-span-age, AND the most ass-kicking action movie of recent years.MGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-72566163895066534042010-02-13T18:26:12.941-08:002010-02-13T18:26:12.941-08:00As always, a great read and thorough post, Dennis....As always, a great read and thorough post, Dennis. We'll have to agree to disagree on "Public Enemies" though.<br /><br />Also... a curious thing- I use Google Reader to browse through my blog roll daily and this post never showed up! I only found it when I linked back to it from another one of your posts. Weird.Joe Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10160822944514723178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-19080042397804731822010-02-13T09:56:46.991-08:002010-02-13T09:56:46.991-08:00Remarkable post Dennis...Way too much to comment o...Remarkable post Dennis...Way too much to comment on, so I'm going to throw out some random thoughts that occurred to me as I read through it a second time.<br /><br />I liked Big Man Japan, but couldn't help wanting more of the actual Big Man himself. There was an odd flow to that film...However, wait until you see director Matsumoto's follow-up "Symbol". Bat-shit crazy, frustrating, fun, philosophical, occasionally slow, goofy, etc. And you'll never look at a cherub the same way afterwards.<br /><br />Orphan was a lot better than I thought it would be (yay Vera!), but it lost me towards the end with yet another instance of a useless father figure and a mother who is the only one that can help her child (similar to The Orphanage, Silent Hill, etc.). Bill actually pointed out to me that when the kids become teenagers, it reverses itself and it seems like only the fathers can rescue them from kidnappers, etc. I'm not keen on those films either...<br /><br />I thought Thirst played even better the second time around on a small screen. Some of the CGI wasn't quite as noticeable and the beginning section of the film worked better. And what a fierce performance from Ok-bin Kim.<br /><br />Not Quite Hollywood was a blast. As you mention, though, don't expect the films it covers to be quite as entertaining - I've tracked down several of them and though they each have moments, there's a lot of slooooow in them too. The Howling III is a lot of fun though. It really embraces its own stupidity.<br /><br />I can't help but really want to know what you think of some of the films you haven't seen yet, in particular some of my faves from that list: Soul Power, Anvil!, Silent Light, The Headless Woman, Days Of Summer and my favourite theatrical experience of last year Black Dynamite. Though I'm eager for more people to catch up with it now that it is out on DVD (this Tuesday!), I'm wondering if you really need to see it with a whole audience to really get into its spirit.<br /><br />I just finished watching a couple of other Georges Franju films (Judex and Nuits Rouges) after finally getting a Region free DVD player. Judex is great fun as it plays on the old serials of the silent age (considering it is a remake of Feuillade's own Judex - which I haven't seen). Nuits Rouges doesn't fare quite as well as it tries the same thing, but it does have some great sets (secret passages galore) and looks great in bright colours.<br /><br />Teri Garr! Complete agreement.<br /><br />Boy, Jennifer's Body could've been so much better...I entered it somewhat hopeful as a few female blogger friends gave pretty passionate defences for it. I saw some of what they said in it, but it kept failing over and over in delivering horror, humour or even a female's perspective on horror.<br /><br />I do have to say that I kinda enjoyed Shorts. It's amateurish in many ways, but it felt that way on purpose - like Rodriguez was making a movie with his kids for his kids. Not perfect, but my 9 year old chuckled in many spots and I could see him living through that adventure with those boys.<br /><br />The Hangover - I don't get it either. The premise and setups are pretty good actually, but the dialogue fails at every turn. No one ever says anything funny.<br /><br />Loved that Entertainment Tonight look at video, but even better was the extra stuff that followed - the Landers sisters!Bob Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02243657105760780425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-87289241964401857282010-02-11T09:06:49.470-08:002010-02-11T09:06:49.470-08:00A truly FANTASTIC post. It's also amazing how ...A truly FANTASTIC post. It's also amazing how much of the same taste we have in terms of movies. Great to see Extract get some love. I don't really get why it didn't pan out at the box office but it's sure to become a cult classic some time from now. Also glad to see State of Play on your best of the best list.<br /><br />Again, great post!Castorhttp://www.anomalousmaterial.com/moviesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-16400044296638400442010-02-09T01:47:34.591-08:002010-02-09T01:47:34.591-08:00That's an awesome story Dennis thanks for shar...That's an awesome story Dennis thanks for sharing. <br /><br />I new The New Bev was the greatest film was the greatest in the world when I drove down from the valley for a midnight show, forgot my wallet. Told them the situation and offered to pay for my ticket when I came the next night for The Keep. And they let me in!<br /><br />It still blows my mind. I asked them to trust me, and they did. Without making a big deal about it. In freaking LA. <br /><br />Needless to say I was there the next night, and since then you might as well have set up a cot for me there.Bryce Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17040954580033470664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-21364879280126406842010-02-08T19:01:49.942-08:002010-02-08T19:01:49.942-08:00Robert: The only reason (I swear on a stack of Vin...Robert: The only reason (I swear on a stack of Vince Vaughan's soiled boxer shorts) that I saw <i>Couples Retreat</i> was because I was paid to, and believe me that did not even come close to redeeming the experience! Also, I'm so glad you got to see <i>The Movie Orgy</i>. That was probably my number-one viewing experience of 2008. I was all fired up to see it again this year, but I recall being awfully tired that weekend, and I thought, there wouldn't be anything wrong, since I've already seen it, with me not attending, thus freeing up a seat for someone else who may not have been able to make it out or who couldn't get in last year. So I'm glad I did that, because maybe it meant that you got the seat my flabby ass would have taken instead! It was a singularly great experience, whatever year, and Joe ended up taking the version you saw, which was slightly longer than 2008's version, to the Venice Film Festival, where it was a sensation. Of course it's a black hole of rights troubles, so it'll never see the light of a regular release, but it is my eternal hope that it'll get out there somehow, somewhere, maybe in the way you suggest.<br /><br />Christian-- Thanks for the props to De Palma's movie, an absolutely great picture and a high-water mark start for the decade that he couldn't maintain with pictures like <i>Redacted </i> and <i>The Black Dahlia</i>. When he's great, he's unmatchable, and I just hope that the new decade brings renewed vigor to a director who, with those last two films, just seemed tired to me. And thanks too for mentioning Bill's piece, which I'm glad to see others appreciate as much as I do.<br /><br />Peet: Speak up! :)<br /><br />Larry: The tenor of your comment reminded me of Pauline Kael, in a piece written on <i>The Cowboys</i> (1972), in which she said the most ambiguous bumper sticker she'd ever seen was one she'd seen recently which said "God Bless John Wayne!" <br />It's the "thanks for that" in your comment which reverberates with a similar ambiguity for me! Ron could really work that white man's 'Fro, though, couldn't he? And he always seemed slightly disdainful of the stuff on which he was reporting, although I'm unaware of what other interests he had outside his pioneering work on <i>ET</i>-- art collecting, rare literature, perhaps-- that would have justified his perpetual sneer. All that, and he's still preferable to Billy Bush!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-21320165113571202972010-02-08T18:58:27.107-08:002010-02-08T18:58:27.107-08:00Stephen, Tony, JAFB: It's even more satisfying...Stephen, Tony, JAFB: It's even more satisfying to me to hear from people who don't agree with my picks (it's that old idiosyncratic bug flapping his wings again) yet still feel that the post is worth reading. Thanks for taking the time to muddle through. This may sound silly, but I wish I could have spent MORE time talking about some of those movies, like <i>Public Enemies</i> and <i>The Limits of Control</i>, which I never got to formally write about and which deserve more than just a mention here.<br /><br />Blaaagh: You do the spirit of the skinny crankpot proud!<br /><br />Chuck: I'm sure you'd agree that Vera Framiga is nominated for the WRONG movie! (I'm gonna get killed for saying that because I haven't seen <i>Up in the Air</i> yet, but...)<br /><br />EDJ: A couple of years ago, after the New Bev's original owner Sherman Torgan died (Sherman had programmed the theater as a revival house since 1978), his son Michael took over operations and was very worried about what the future might hold for his dad's legacy. In fact, the theater property came very close to being sold out from underneath Michael to be used as retail space along Beverly Boulevard-- just what the neighborhood needs, right? I don't know any of the nitty-gritty details, but what's important is that Tarantino, sensing that the New Beverly was in danger, stepped in and essentially put his money where his mouth, and his abiding love of movies, is and bought the theater, becoming the benign landlord/overseer that would allow Michael to fret less about the future and concentrate on continuing to honor his dad and the many film fans in Los Angeles who know what a treasure the New Beverly really is. It's the only continuing old-style revival cinema with rotating proramming (three different programs a week, at least) still in operation in Los Angeles, and the fact that the theater is going great guns-- new seats were installed this past summer, and an overhaul of the marquee and outer facade is in progress right now-- is due to all the hard work Michael, Julia, et a. put in there every day, but also because of Tarantino's stewardship, a walking cinephiliac insurance policy whose fine print ensures that the New Beverly's best days may still be ahead.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-13549292101271315282010-02-08T18:54:20.669-08:002010-02-08T18:54:20.669-08:00Bill: I'm actually heard people complain that ...Bill: I'm actually heard people complain that Von Trier went slumming with <i>Antichrist</i>, having essentially just made a horror movie. Aside from the usual condescension of such a remark, it's amazing to me that these people then don't follow through and investigate just what it is that constitutes horror in this particular universe, and that somehow because Von Trier is flirting with imagery that is in some ways (almost subliminally) familiar, therefore the film is somehow less worthy than the anti-image tactics of his Dogme entries which I've never been able to appreciate and which I find pretty much horrible. As for the Fox scene, it didn't really occur to me until I watched the clip here again that part of what I think makes that moment work for me is not only just the unexpectedness of it, and its simultaneous inexplicable quality and its mysterious rightness, but maybe even that the effect is, as you suggest, in its way crude and not quite successful. Had it been a full-on CGI fox with all the top-drawer bells and whistles to make it look ultra-realistic, I <i>might</i> have had occasion to step back from it a little bit. (I say "might" because I can't imagine <i>not</i> being unnerved by that moment.)<br /><br />Finally, I love what you say about the Coens and their meticulous casting. Just the way that Columbia House guy says "Santana Abraxas," he's undoubtedly some stuffed shirt who has no personal knowledge of the records he's talking about, yet he is determined, in his very personable way, to get what he wants. And it does seem like the Coens, particularly with this movie, have had to endure an awful lot of surface-skimming by the people who have written about this movie, and even those who have seen it. How many reviews did I read that blithely summed up the movie with some variation on "modern-day Job" with the Coens cackling their way through "their most autobiographical movie yet." Zzzzzzzzzzz... This is stuff taken straight from the press kit, digested (as it were) and urped up so you might feel even less need to think about what you're seeing.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-58110312926824828472010-02-08T09:33:21.150-08:002010-02-08T09:33:21.150-08:00I'd COMPLETELY forgotten about Ron Hendren. Th...I'd COMPLETELY forgotten about Ron Hendren. Thanks for that.larry aydlettehttp://tlrhbjukebox.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-13708288499924129162010-02-08T04:54:51.689-08:002010-02-08T04:54:51.689-08:00And I thought year end lists can never capture the...And I thought year end lists can never capture the feel of the whole year! Man, was this exhaustive? Brilliant work Dennis, absolutely. Although I'm not with you on The Limits of Control, I'm all for Basterds, Tetro and many more.<br /><br />Rest assured that I'll keep visiting this gargantuan article now and then. Thanks and Kudos!Just Another Film Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880550053788464732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-73548785534706536372010-02-08T04:53:29.138-08:002010-02-08T04:53:29.138-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Just Another Film Buffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880550053788464732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-29562983404154862182010-02-07T15:39:55.313-08:002010-02-07T15:39:55.313-08:00Speechless...Speechless...Peet Gelderblomhttp://www.directorama.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-1487897345501571462010-02-07T06:43:43.250-08:002010-02-07T06:43:43.250-08:00I watched "Two Lovers" just last night a...I watched "Two Lovers" just last night and was, frankly, a little stunned by how good the film is. I've not seen Gray's other films -- had heard they were overheated duds -- but will now track them down. It's Phoenix's movie, his performance, that kept me watching. Am I wrong to think he should've been nominated for an Oscar?<br /><br />As for your Best of Decade list, I've posted here about my love of De Palma before but had never gotten around to seeing "Femme Fatale" until a couple months ago. Armond White had seen a note from me about "White Dog" on Doug Cummings' Filmjourney site a few years ago and had dropped me a line. In our subsequent correspondence, I mentioned that I respected him a great deal, primarily because he was unapologetic in his De Palma admiration. I mentioned I hadn't seen "Femme Fatale" at that point, and he told me I really ought to. <br /><br />Finally, I did. And it was spectacular! Easily one of the best of the decade, although the only critic, other that you, who I saw had put it on their best-of-decade list is Keith Uhlich. Kudos to both of you.<br /><br />Bill's essay on "A Serious Man" is the best thing I've read on that film, and I've read several reviews/essays about it.<br /><br />Thanks for the thorough wrap-up.<br /><br />--Christian, who used to be able to register his comments through his Typepad account, but no longer seems able to do thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-88788390641227498262010-02-07T00:59:10.238-08:002010-02-07T00:59:10.238-08:00My view of "A Serious Man" is that it...My view of "A Serious Man" is that it's not an attack on faith but an indictment of religious institutions and their failure to meet the spiritual needs of their congregations. Gopnik is a man who is suffering in a society that's not equipped to deal with suffering for the same reason the city of Los Angeles isn't equipped to deal with a blizzard – because it doesn't think it has to be. He goes from rabbi to rabbi trying to find the kind of spiritual sustenance he hears in the record he plays over and over again and gets a series of variations on "keep your chin up." It's a portrait of a society where there's more spiritual sustenance to be found in pop records than in the church or temple, as the case may be. The theme is underlined in the final scene, where the Hebrew School is supposed to protect its students from the coming tornado by sheltering them in the basement, but as the twister closes in the teacher can't get the door unlocked. And am I the only one who thought that the meaning of the prologue was that Gopnik was bedeviled because his ancestors either gave aid and comfort to a dybbuk or attacked someone they ought to have given aid and comfort to as a dybbuk? (Suggestion for further reading: "A Crown of Feathers" by I.B. Singer.)<br /><br />Dennis, you actually saw "Couples Retreat"? I took that trailer as a warning – "Whatever you do, for God's sake don't go to this movie!"<br /><br />My number one movie experience bar none was seeing the Movie Orgy, which thank God and Joe Dante they brought back to the New Beverly after I missed it last year. It brought back the feeling of being a smartassed kid in the 70s who thought he had the world by the balls so powerfully it was like a lump in my chest. I wonder if it could possibly be posted on a torrent site so all the world could see it, like "Los Angeles Plays Itself" was.Robert Fiorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357467040644448167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-18452536942768348352010-02-06T15:38:22.538-08:002010-02-06T15:38:22.538-08:00Amazing piece Dennis. More then worth the wait.
...Amazing piece Dennis. More then worth the wait. <br /><br />I'm glad I'm not the only one who was disappointed that Observe And Report wasn't dark enough. Most people look at me like I'm completely mental when I say that. But when SPOILER (The flasher survived the gunshot) the movie lost me. <br /><br />And what happened with Tarantino and the New Bev? How the hell did I miss that?Bryce Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17040954580033470664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-67926691605993648612010-02-06T15:22:51.341-08:002010-02-06T15:22:51.341-08:00So much to admire here: my personal favorite is th...So much to admire here: my personal favorite is that you recognized the value of the ridiculously underrated Orphan.Chuckhttp://www.bowens-cinematic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-86560285924572103362010-02-06T14:58:32.030-08:002010-02-06T14:58:32.030-08:00This is the record. Your longest post. It takes me...This is the record. Your longest post. It takes me longer simply to scroll through it than to read other blogs' posts!! Congrats on the most comprehensive 2009 round-up ever. I promise to attempt to have read this entire article by the end of 2010! <br /><br />Thanks for helping out by having your kids in the movie! I think it will be a 2010 film now, if I get into a festival and can get IMDB to update it. Then we can revisit again for 2010 round-up, haha...The Mysterious Ad[ri.an B)e;ta]m.a.x.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14584835204677201232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-34755590579505747122010-02-06T12:41:45.008-08:002010-02-06T12:41:45.008-08:00This is such a treasure chest that I think I'l...This is such a treasure chest that I think I'll have to take a week off work and shut myself up somewhere to read it all, but it sure has been fun reading the parts I have so far. As usual, I've seen far too few of the films you discuss, but it's still fun to read about them...and thanks for the spotlight on my TV spot, even though I feel sheepish about being in such lofty company.blaaaghnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-40556547204536609872010-02-06T04:13:23.109-08:002010-02-06T04:13:23.109-08:00A sure hallmark of a good writer is that you can l...A sure hallmark of a good writer is that you can love reading their opinions even when you disagree. And though I disagree with some of yours, particularly on BAD LIEUTENANT: POCNO, THE LIMITS OF CONTROL, and PUBLIC ENEMIES, we'll always have INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and A SERIOUS MAN.<br /><br />Let me add to the chorus here by complimenting you on the post and picking my jaw off the floor after realizing how much of your time this must have taken (with two kids even... as I said elsewhere on your blog, I can certainly relate to that). Although I would understand if you need a break, here's hoping it isn't for too long.Tony Dayoubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04632329277519635858noreply@blogger.com