Maybe you should watch the green lanturn review again?Duffeknol said:
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The Big Picture: MovieBob's 2011 Top Ten
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Agreed on everything except Captain America and Hanna, for the same reason for both: lifeless, by-the-numbers action scenes. Particularly unforgivable in an ostensible action-thriller like Hanna, but writing off the crux of the action in Captain America as a musical montage was also extremely disappointing. Still, the performances and the beginning were decent enough that I'd still recommend the Captain to a friend, just not put it in the top ten.
Hanna, however, I just thought was too poorly-paced and chock full of tired tropes to recommend to anybody. Sorry dude replacing the lead with a little girl but keeping every other goddamn trope in the Escaped Super-Soldier Sought by the US Government who Just Wants to ~~~Feel~~~ handbook intact was not compelling.
Hanna, however, I just thought was too poorly-paced and chock full of tired tropes to recommend to anybody. Sorry dude replacing the lead with a little girl but keeping every other goddamn trope in the Escaped Super-Soldier Sought by the US Government who Just Wants to ~~~Feel~~~ handbook intact was not compelling.
My top 5 movies for the year in no particular order (because I like to pretend people care)
Cars 2, Winnie the Pooh, Captain America, Real Steel and The Muppets.
Opinions are opinions for a reason. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with this list. If I gave my top 5 games of 2011, people would probably try to tear me a new one just because Skyrim isn't on it.
Earlier someone basically said that any Top X of the Year basically boils down to professional flamebait...and they're correct.
Cars 2, Winnie the Pooh, Captain America, Real Steel and The Muppets.
Opinions are opinions for a reason. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree with this list. If I gave my top 5 games of 2011, people would probably try to tear me a new one just because Skyrim isn't on it.
Earlier someone basically said that any Top X of the Year basically boils down to professional flamebait...and they're correct.
"Super"?!!? REAALLY!?!?!? >_<
Anyhoo, I digress. Films you're most looking forward to? Hrmmm, Immagunna hazard a guess...."John Carter" mayhaps?
I mean, aside from the fact that "Avengers" is obviously on that list. Carter looks like it's got the potential to be pretty top-notch. Or so I think.
Anyhoo, I digress. Films you're most looking forward to? Hrmmm, Immagunna hazard a guess...."John Carter" mayhaps?
I mean, aside from the fact that "Avengers" is obviously on that list. Carter looks like it's got the potential to be pretty top-notch. Or so I think.
I'm not going to actually rate all of the movies I saw this year because I missed some that I really wanted to see but I enjoyed:
=X-Men: First Class
-Captain America
-Thor
-HARRY POTTER
-Sucker Punch (yeah whatever I got what I expected out of it)
The one's I want to see:
-Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
=Drive
-Hanna
=X-Men: First Class
-Captain America
-Thor
-HARRY POTTER
-Sucker Punch (yeah whatever I got what I expected out of it)
The one's I want to see:
-Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
=Drive
-Hanna
Eh, I gave The Tree of Life a shot, but it was way too slow of a burn and my family I just stopped watching it in the first 30 minutes. I have nothing against those art house kind of films or whatever, but I'm not too much of a fan of them either. If they want to go on about the meaning of life and whatnot, there are much less esoteric and effective ways to do so than random visuals and jump cuts (seriously, I just couldn't get over those jump cuts). Any sort of movie that tries to do what The Tree of Life does will always come off as trying too hard for many people, and to me just felt like Oscar-bait/critic-bait. What I'd like to see is something as (supposedly) deep and philosophical as The Tree of Life but done in a much more approachable way and less artsy-fartsy. So far, I have yet to see any movie that even comes close. It always seems to be on one end or another, either just action or pretentious pretentiousness.
Very interesting list and I enjoyed Bob's viewpoints.
I wasn't a fan of Tree of Life - but it really is a "love it or hate it" movie. I just felt it was heavy-handed thematically when I watched it.
Three films that I would have included were it my list;
Tintin
Melancholia
Senna
But its always good to see what others recommend (I haven't seen Hanna and have been trying to decide if its worth a look or not).
I wasn't a fan of Tree of Life - but it really is a "love it or hate it" movie. I just felt it was heavy-handed thematically when I watched it.
Three films that I would have included were it my list;
Tintin
Melancholia
Senna
But its always good to see what others recommend (I haven't seen Hanna and have been trying to decide if its worth a look or not).
Rango? really? watched it 3 days ago; the plot was incredibly obvious if you've watched any other movies like it. It was still a good movie though. ^^necromanzer52 said:
Drive was awesome, haven't really watched all the movies of 2011 that are worth watching yet so my top 10 list isn't really done (for instance a dangerous method, which might be good to me since i'm pretty interested in psychology)Other than that i've watched moviebobs top 10 list and well, did not care to much for the superhero movies, i guess bob is a tad biassed. : p
Also looking forward to see what the americans did with the "the girl with the dragon tattoo" movie.
Would definitely put episode 1 of the season 2 of sherlock at my top 10 movies if it was released a day earlier. (it's a series, but the episodes are long enough to be movies. : p)
I'd also like to add this to everyone who yells at Bob or Yahtzee when they don't like something they like:
o·pin·ion   [uh-pin-yuhn
noun
1.a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
2. a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
o·pin·ion   [uh-pin-yuhn
noun
1.a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
2. a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
Im sorry but comments like yours bug me a lot. He had a different opinion then you. He is no more biased then anyone else towards a genre they like. The tone of your comment reads more of "You are usually good because you agree with me, but i don't agree with you about this so stop having wrong opinions and start thinking like me again." I mean I hated Avatar so much that it hurts but I don't call him biased towards sci fi or that he was wrong. Then that last statement about "I know there's opinion but...." makes it even more frustrating. I can't stand tree of life. I see it as pretentious bull but it honestly is just my opinion. Im not going to say that no one should put it in their top ten. Now once again im sorry for ranting at you but there are like 100 comments on all of the escape to the movies calling his opinion wrong and yours is probably the least frustrating of all of them and i just had to get that off my chest.Duffeknol said:
"abysmal acting" is a horrible criticism as it usually said by people who just don't like the character or actor (eg. Robert Pattinson). Elaboarate on your acting point, did they fail to convince you that they were inner city kids battling aliens in some way?SteelStallion said:
I will admit I found the film less comedic than was advertised, most of the jokes I found funny related to my own experiences as a teenager (their phones running out of credit is a particular highlight). There were more obvious jokes like the bit with toy gun that were funny and are more about your own lack of humour.
Now regarding your complaint about the accents, I think your problem with it less to do with their accents and more to do with their use of slang. It's too bad you find it annoying, but that is how many London teenagers speak and the film would be poorer and less realistic without it. It would also make the language of the film bland if they all spoke like white middle class teens, because like Bob said, we have enough of them in films as it is.
Lastly, you clearly don't watch many movies because then you would know that this film is far from it. Transformers, Green Lantern, Shark Night 3D and many others far surpass Attack the Block in terms of bad script, acting and overall quality.
One final question: whereabouts in the world do you live?
I've been ignoring Captain America ever since the decidedly mediocre Thor put me off any more Avengers prequels (lets be honest here), but I keep hearing really good things about Captain America. Maybe I should check it out.
THANK YOU. I thought that Avatar was bleh too and so many people told me I was flat out wrong. I'm sorry? Sometimes a movie just isn't your thing and there is nothing wrong with that. I also hate the Twilight series and I will argue that they are absolute shit but I'm not going to tell someone to change their opinion.ImSkeletor said:
All of those movies I'm going to give a look at some point apart from the attack the block because it is full of chavs. The way chavs speak bothers me to the extent that watching it for any length of time past a few minutes always seems to give me a headache so I have no desire to watch a movie where the main characters are chavs with their vocal chords intact.
I have to agree with Captain America. Hands down the most fun I've had at the theaters in a long time. I love retro pop culture, and the film just oozes that old school style of the wartime films and the pulp magazines of the era.