Comments on: TFT 104 – THE FILMS OF THE DECADE

By: daveed

daveed — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:54:02 +0000

I can't tell you how pleased that neither of you listed a single Lars Von Trier movie as best of the decade.

Thanks for the tip regarding Australia, since I totally passed on it when it was in theaters. Probably because it has one of the dullest titles of any "epic love story" ever made.

I'll give it a look-see. Same with Quantum of Solace. Casino Royale was so unbelievably terrible (despite the presence of the luminous Eva Green), I had washed my hands of the entire Bond franchise forever. But maybe QoS is worth a rental...

Permit me to mention a few that I was surprised didn't make the list: Munich, The Aviator, Letter from Iwo Jima.

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By: garethhiggins75

garethhiggins75 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:41:19 +0000

Hi Kiley - I think Jonathan Rosenbaum puts it nicely in his article about AI:

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=6306

By: garethhiggins75

garethhiggins75 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:41:19 +0000

Hi Kiley - I think Jonathan Rosenbaum puts it nicely in his article about AI:

http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=6306

By: kiley

kiley — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:58:18 +0000

what am i missing about A.I.?? There's gotta be a theme or a viewpoint or something that has slipped past me! i'm open to any suggestions! i watched it again and i'm just left with the most disturbing, unsatisfied and almost completely angry feeling i've ever felt in regards to a movie – passionately angry, you could say! I really would like to change this view and see what everyone else is seeing, honestly! :D

(BTW, LUVIN' Belfast right now! it's cold tho – and i think that more foods should come baked in pastry! ;) )

By: Jett Loe

Jett Loe — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:51:11 +0000

The thing is I love Hugh Jackman, (re: Australia being the most underrated film of the decade); i'm always happy to give it another chance – i feel bad though criticizing a film that Gareth so obviously cherishes – but… we get different things out of cinema, and see different things – in the title sequence of TFT he professes his love for FIELD OF DREAMS – i'd never seen it so i netflixed it last month – i couldn't make it through 15minutes.

By: John Muth

John Muth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:43:29 +0000

Hmm…I don't know if trying to see it in black and white will do anything – especially with the lush and beautiful photography on display (c'mon, you can't hate that too, can you?). I do think that maybe trying it in another language with subtitles might help though. It's strange the disconnect – or maybe it's a deeper connection – you get from having to watch the film and read the words.

And I'll concede that I can see how if this movie just doesn't engross you, then you're probably just going to see the silliness of Hugh Jackman blubbering to himself, and the crazy clouds/snow/stars repeating itself is hokey. Along with Gareth – and really, he's just about the only person I “know” that seems to like it as much as I do. My roommate, falls asleep every time we've tried to watch it. Literally, 10 minutes in, she'll be sleeping…Because of the score. Something about Clint Mansell, I guess. (I'm afraid to show her Moon, when it comes out.) :)

By: Jett Loe

Jett Loe — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:43:16 +0000

Yeah i hear ya re: RIGHTEOUS KILL being s**t if it came out in the 70's – but if it came out in the 50's – in black and white and with ralph meeker and robert ryan – man i'd love that!

By: John Muth

John Muth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:36:59 +0000

I actually felt similarly to Aronofsky's two first movies (Pi and Requiem for a Dream), and it was the visuals that first drew me in to wanting to see The Fountain. But, the story is completely opposite of his previous movies – at least in tone; if not, possibly in pretentiousness – so, it really turned me around. I'm still not completely in love with his first two movies, but I feel like after having seen the heart that was also placed in The Fountain, it let me in to another way of seeing those first two. (Not that they're still not trying films.)

By: peter

peter — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:03:18 +0000

While I haven't seen The Fountain, just on the basis of sitting through Pi all the way through, I'll pre-emptively say Jett is right. I think I've made a pact with myself that I'll never see another Aranofsky film. Its got every elitist, pretentious, look-at-how-smart-my-movie-is technique imaginable rolled into one 90 minute piece of trash.

As for RIGHTEOUS KILL, I'll have to completely disagree with you Jett, that movie is shit today, and it would still be shit if it came out in the 70's. Its possibly the clumsiest and most badly put-together movie I've seen this year, almost like a student film.

I do appreciate a lot of the picks though. Miami Vice is very solid, although Collateral is probably a better Mann movie to pick for "best of the decade". Quantum of Solace is a lot better than critics give it credit for, but I think overall Casino Royale is still the better movie. The problem with Solace is it never breathes, you don't get any down-time with the characters outside of the action, which is what made Casino Royale work so well. I prefer to just think of them as one long, great bond movie.