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A place without gurus monarchs leaders cops tax collectors
jails matriarchs patriarchs and all the other galoots who in
cahoots have made the earth a pile of human bones under
the feet of wolves. - Jake the Barker

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Movies.

My annual movie review is very lame this year. How many movies did I see that were released this year?

5. Yup. Only 5. I'm not even going to bother to rank them.

Watchmen.
Bad. Pretentious. Gave the comic book a good screwing. A few sequences looked appealing, but for the most part it was all style and no substance. Or all style and dumb, lame, shitty substance.

Sunshine Cleaning.
Saw this on DVD, mainly b/c K netflixed it. It was o.k. Way too much like Little Miss Sunshine. Alan Arkin played the exact same character. Too precious for my taste.

I Love You, Man.
Pretty good. Funny for the most part. Favorite sequences: The Rush songs. The variations on "bro" at the end. Tycho Brohe!

Up.
Probably the best this year that I saw. Sad, but good. Certainly not my favorite Pixar, but not bad. Let's face it, The Incredibles will probably always be the best Pixar.

Fantastic Mr. Fox.
I posted about this earlier. Enjoyable. Quirky. Way better than his last movie.

3 comments:

GHJ said...

Watchmen: Watch me commit feces to celluloid!

Taryn said...

Dan in Real Life: I watched it for the exact same reason. At least there were outtakes and somehow whatshisname wasn't a total douchebag! But Juliet Binoche? WTF? Did she owe someone a favor?

GHJ said...

I think you'd enjoy Sherlock Holmes. Or the porno version, Surecock Holes.

(Sorry.)