Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen movies you've seen that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes.
My List:
My Fair Lady,
Almost Famous,
Pleasantville,
Election,
Kill Bill,
Ferris Bueller,
North by Northwest,
Before Sunset,
The Witches,
Bowling for Columbine,
Independence Day,
Dr. Strangelove,
Cool Runnings,
Run Lola Run,
High Noon
And runner up: Gattaca
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
500 Days Of Summer and Funny People
After the heat from the summer blockbusters has worn off, we reach the contemplative midseason replacements. Best paired with an afternoon at your hamptons produce stand of choice. Before we get to Julie/Julia and time travelers wife...we have these two interesting flicks which will be lost on their way to years best lists in spite of their many merits:
500 days of summer has a lot of charm in its refreshing downtown yuppie style, discovering parts of LA with the lens not before exposed in such a whimsical light. Loved the concept of the jumbled relationship told in disorganized snapshots, excellent charismatic actors, cool music video camera work. Wished there had been more from summer, more of a two-sided Before Sunset feel than "she's just not that into you.". Hard to watch cluelessness from JGL for two hours without deciding he's kind of a moron for pursuing someone with no interest in him beyond careless amusement. This is not a love-story the film makes very clear from the get-go but it certainly makes one question every failed relationship you've had. Was I living in a music video of one?
Funny People was, well, brilliant. Such honesty and such an excellent ensemble piece filled with humor and autheticity. There is no question in my mind that this is based in reality--Sandlers empire based on personal insecurities and unprovoked meanness, rogen's goofy everymanness, mann's failed melrose babe career. There are so many excellent moments in this film--from the funny--the standup, the rapor between the comedians to the sincere--watching the daughter sing Memory with George Simmons checking his phone...perfect. I one-hundred percent believed this movie and was invested in the characters' lives. People never change and to expect otherwise is a symptom of insanity. Definitely a top ten not to be lost in bathing suit season.
500 days of summer has a lot of charm in its refreshing downtown yuppie style, discovering parts of LA with the lens not before exposed in such a whimsical light. Loved the concept of the jumbled relationship told in disorganized snapshots, excellent charismatic actors, cool music video camera work. Wished there had been more from summer, more of a two-sided Before Sunset feel than "she's just not that into you.". Hard to watch cluelessness from JGL for two hours without deciding he's kind of a moron for pursuing someone with no interest in him beyond careless amusement. This is not a love-story the film makes very clear from the get-go but it certainly makes one question every failed relationship you've had. Was I living in a music video of one?
Funny People was, well, brilliant. Such honesty and such an excellent ensemble piece filled with humor and autheticity. There is no question in my mind that this is based in reality--Sandlers empire based on personal insecurities and unprovoked meanness, rogen's goofy everymanness, mann's failed melrose babe career. There are so many excellent moments in this film--from the funny--the standup, the rapor between the comedians to the sincere--watching the daughter sing Memory with George Simmons checking his phone...perfect. I one-hundred percent believed this movie and was invested in the characters' lives. People never change and to expect otherwise is a symptom of insanity. Definitely a top ten not to be lost in bathing suit season.
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