The Month in Movies - August 2008

[A.J. Hakari]

Another month, another laundry list of movies to discuss. Here's my Month in Movies round-up for August '08, as always on a **** scale...

Number of First-Time Viewings (this month): 34
Number of First-Time Viewings (this year, so far): 270

THE BRILLIANT

(none)

THE GREAT

M. Hulot’s Holiday - *** 1/2
Smart People - *** 1/2
In the Shadow of the Moon - *** 1/2

THE PURTY GOOD

The Counterfeiters - ***
Tai Chi Master - ***
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - ***
The Bodyguard (2004) - ***
Redbelt - ***
The Other Side of the Bed - ***
The Wizard of Gore (2008) - ***
Swing Vote - ***
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? - ***

THE O.K.

CJ7 - ** 1/2
The X-Files: I Want to Believe - ** 1/2
Rogue - ** 1/2
My Sassy Girl (2008) - ** 1/2
Assassins - ** 1/2
Gojira - ** 1/2

THE SO-SO

The Rocker - **
Tropic Thunder - **
Step Brothers - **
Hancock - **
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - **
Pulp - **
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - **
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 - **

THE SUCKY

Mirrors - * 1/2
Watching the Detectives - * 1/2
Space Chimps - * 1/2
Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert - * 1/2
Mamma Mia! - * 1/2

THE REALLY SUCKY

Postal - *
Sick Nurses - *
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder - *

No rating:

(none)

THE BEST:

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THE WORST:

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First Movie I Saw This Month: THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR
Last Movie I Saw This Month: TROPIC THUNDER

Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor, REDBELT
Best Actress: Frances McDormand, MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church, SMART PEOPLE
Best Supporting Actress: Ellen Page, SMART PEOPLE
Best Director: Jacques Tati, M. HULOT’S HOLIDAY
Best Original Screenplay: Mark Poirier, SMART PEOPLE
Best Adapted Screenplay: Stefan Ruzowitzky, THE COUNTERFEITERS
Biggest Surprise: SMART PEOPLE
Biggest Disappointment: TROPIC THUNDER
Most Fucked-Up Movie: POSTAL
“I’m Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This”: SICK NURSES
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: The crocodile, ROGUE
“Why Is He/She Still in Movies?”: Casper Van Dien, STARSHIP TROOPERS 3: MARAUDER
Ultimate WTF? Moment: Uwe Boll’s cameo, POSTAL
Best Scene: Painting the boat, M. HULOT’S HOLIDAY
Best Line: “I guess I can sort of admit it now, I've admitted it a little bit to a few friends, I've always had a guilt complex, to some degree. That was my war, good or bad, whether it was a good war or a bad war, we're not discussing it, but that was my war, to fight for my country, and my buddies were getting shot at and shot down and in some cases captured, and I was getting my picture on the front page of the paper. And I've always felt that they fought my war for me. They look at it totally different. They said, ‘You were doing something that this country needed more than anything else at the time. You were part of a program, the only thing we had to hold our head high and be proud of.’” - Eugene Cernan, IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin’ See: M. HULOT’S HOLIDAY
Coolest Title: IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
Hottest Lady: Amy Adams, MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY

[Le_Big_Mac]

Really mediocre month.

Best Adapted Screenplay
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Satyajit Ray, The Music Room (1958)

2. Alexander Jacobs, David Newhouse and Rafe Newhouse, Point Blank (1967)
3. Leigh Brackett, The Long Goodbye (1973)
4. Jean Renoir, Day in the Country (1936)
5. Paul Mayersberg, The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)


Best Original Screenplay
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Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous (2000)

2. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Pineapple Express (2008)
3. Ladislav Grosman, The Shop on Main Street (1965)
4. Preston Sturges, Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
5. Samuel Fuller, Pickup on South Street (1953)


Best Supporting Actress
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Thelma Ritter, Pickup on South Street (1953)

2. Kate Hudson, Almost Famous (2000)
3. Frances McDormand, Almost Famous (2000)
4. Goya Toledo, Amores Perros (2000)
5. Ella Raines, Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)


Best Supporting Actor
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Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder (2008)

2. James Franco, Pineapple Express (2008)
3. Gary Sinise, Forrest Gump (1994)
4. Hari Rhodes, Shock Corridor (1963)
5. Ricardo Montalban, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)


Best Actress
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Maria Falconetti, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

2. Ida Kaminska, The Shop on Main Street (1965)
3. Candy Clark, The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
4. Susan Hayward, Rawhide (1951)
5. Katharine Hepburn, Alice Adams (1935)


Best Actor
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Richard Widmark, Pickup on South Street (1953)

2. Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump (1994)
3. Eddie Bracken, Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
4. Malcolm McDowell, If.... (1968)
5. Billy Crudup, Almost Famous (2000)


Best Director
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Carl Theoder Dreyer, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

2. Satyajit Ray, The Music Room (1958)
3. Robert Altman, The Long Goodbye (1973)
4. Nicolas Roeg, The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
5. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amores Perros (2000)


Best Picture
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

2. Almost Famous (2000)
3. Pineapple Express (2008)
4. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
5. The Shop on Main Street (1965)
6. Pickup on South Street (1953)
7. The Music Room (1958)
8. Pickpocket (1959)
9. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
10. Rawhide (1951)





Biggest Surprise: RAWHIDE (1951)
Biggest Disappointment: TROPIC THUNDER
Most Fucked-Up Movie: THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
“I’m Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This”: RAWHIDE (1951)
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: Jacinto (Eduardo Noriega), THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE
“Why Is He/She Still in Movies?”: Ben Stiller, TROPIC THUNDER
Ultimate WTF? Moment: The Gun-Firing Scene, THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
Best Scene: The Execution, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC
Best Line: *After smashing a Coke bottle on his mistress's face* “Now that's someone I love. You I don't even like.” - Marty Augustine (Mark Rydell), THE LONG GOODBYE
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin’ See: FORREST GUMP
Coolest Title: IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG
Hottest Lady: Fairuza Balk, ALMOST FAMOUS

[Terror Australis]

My Month In Movies - August

Number of Movies Seen This Month: 54
Number of Movies Seen This Year (so far): 471

5/5 - Excellent
Giant
Thelma & Louise
Dark City (1998)

4.5/5 - Really Great
East Of Eden (1955)
Downfall
The U.S. Vs. John Lennon
Marvin’s Room
Tropic Thunder

4/5 - Great
Chariots Of Fire
My Kid Could Paint That
From Russia With Love
Lethal Weapon
Uncle Buck
An Evening With Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder

3.5/5 - Really Good
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Pineapple Express
Little Voice
Tea With Mussolini
Mermaids (1990)
Be Kind Rewind
Eye Of The Beholder (1999)
Stuck
The Ten
Eraser
District B13

3/5 - Good
Dr. No
We Own The Night
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Vantage Point
I Could Never Be Your Woman
Mystic Pizza
I Think I Love My Wife
Otis
Fortress
Deaden

2.5/5 - Okay
My Own Private Idaho
Reservation Road
History Of The World: Part 1
Murder At 1600
The Lawnmower Man
Alvin Purple

2/5 - So-So
Deception (2008)
Semi-Pro
Unaccompanied Minors
The Darwin Awards
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night 2
Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
5ive Girls
Final Draft

1.5/5 - Bad
Postal (2008)
Prom Night (2008)
Lake Placid 2

1/5 - Terrible
Firehouse Dog
Dead Mary
Deck Dogs
Never Back Down

First Movie I Saw This Month: O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
Last Movie I Saw This Month: FIREHOUSE DOG

THE BEST
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THE WORST
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Best Actor: Bruno Ganz, DOWNFALL
Best Actress: Diane Keaton, MARVIN'S ROOM
Best Supporting Actor: (tie) Robert Downey Jr., TROPIC THUNDER and James Franco, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
Best Supporting Actress: Winona Ryder, MERMAIDS (1990)
Best Director: George Stevens, GIANT
Best Original Screenplay: Alex Proyas and Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, DARK CITY (1998)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat, GIANT
Biggest Surprise: THE U.S. VS. JOHN LENNON
Biggest Disappointment: MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO
Most Fucked-Up Movie: POSTAL (2008)
"I’m Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This”: (five-way tie) 5IVE GIRLS, ALVIN PURPLE, DEAD MARY, DECK DOGS and FINAL DRAFT
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: Any of the gang members, DEADEN
Why Is He/She Still in Movies?: Wilmer Valderrama, THE DARWIN AWARDS and UNACCOMPANIED MINORS
Recurring Genre: Action films
Ultimate WTF? Moment: Winona Ryder having sex with a ventriloquist dummy, THE TEN
Best Line: "If you're a dick your whole life, you're going to come back as something bad like a slug or a fuckin' anal bead. But if you do something heroic, then you'll come back as like an eagle or a dragon, or Jude Law. Now which would you rather be, an anal bead or a dragon?" - Dale Denton (Seth Rogen), PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
Best Scene: The ending, THELMA & LOUISE
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin’ See: (three-way tie) DR. NO, FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE and LETHAL WEAPON
Coolest Title: CHARIOTS OF FIRE
Hottest Lady: Amber Heard, NEVER BACK DOWN and PINEAPPLE EXPRESS

[Natty]

Full List

The Mission - 8/10
2001: A Space Odyssey - 8/10
On the Waterfront - 9/10
It Happened One Night - 8/10
Chaplin - 8/10
The Killing Fields - 8/10
The Seventh Seal - 8/10
Get Over It - 6/10
Bullitt - 6/10
Napolean Dynamite - 6/10
Six Degrees of Separation - 7/10
Yojimbo - 7/10
Zodiac - 8/10
Dracula - 7/10
Vertigo - 7/10
The Vagabond - 7/10
Bonnie and Clyde - 8/10
The Killing - 7/10
American Pie 2 - 7/10
Independence Day - 7/10
Wild Strawberries - 7/10
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 8/10
The Gold Rush - 7/10
Easy Street - 7/10
Bram Stoker's Dracula - 7/10


Best Actor: Marlon Brando, ON THE WATERFRONT
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway, BONNIE AND CLYDE
Best Supporting Actor: Gene Hackman, BONNIE AND CLYDE
Best Supporting Actress: Estelle Parsons, BONNIE AND CLYDE
Best Director: Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Best Original Screenplay: Budd Schulberg, ON THE WATERFRONT
Best Adapted Screenplay: David Newman and Robert Brenton, BONNIE AND CLYDE
Biggest Surprise: THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Biggest Disappointment: BULLITT
Most Fucked-Up Movie: (tie) THE SEVENTH SEAL/2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
"I’m Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This”: THE VAGABOND if anything
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: Count Dracula, DRACULA
Why Is He/She Still in Movies?: N/A
Recurring Genre: N/A
Ultimate WTF? (tie) The final scene, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY/The 'death people' entering the party, THE SEVENTH SEAL
Best Line: "You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley." Terry Malloy, ON THE WATERFRONT
Best Scene: The Ending, THE MISSION
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin’ See: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Coolest Title: NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE
Hottest Lady: (tie) Faye Dunaway, BONNIE AND CLYDE, Susan Sarandon, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

Movie of the Month - On the Waterfront:)
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Runners Up: Bonnie and Clyde, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Mission, 2001: A Space Odyssey

[SAI]

I can't believe it's already this time of the month again, here's the list, first viewings in red.

1st
Bandit Queen: DVD 4/5
The Man With Two Brains: DVD 5/5
The Jerk: VHS 4/5

2nd
Hot Shots: Part Deux: TV 4/5

3rd
Arachnophobia: VHS 2/5

4th
The Faculty: DVD 3/5
Sleepwalking: ONLINE 3/5
A Mighty Wind: DVD 3/5

5th
Hellboy II: The Golden Army: CINE 4/5
The X Files: I Want To Believe: CINE 1/5

7th
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: CINE 2/5

8th
Cold Prey: DVD 4/5
Predator 2: DVD 2/5

9th
Blade 2: DVD 4/5

10th
Elegy: CINE 3/5
Easy Riders Raging Bulls: DVD 3/5

11th
The 4400: Season 2: DVD 3/5

12th
Midnight Run: VHS 4/5
Black Narcissus: DVD 5/5

13th
Premiers Desirs: DVD 2/5
Ravenous: DVD 3/5

14th
The Chaser: ONLINE 3/5

16th
Stephanie Daley: ONLINE 2/5
The 40 Year Old Virgin: DVD 3/5
Tango and Cash: VHS 3/5

17th
MST3K: Last Clear Chance: ONLINE 4/5 (Short)
MST3K: MST3K: Are You Ready For Marriage?: ONLINE 4/5 (Short)
MST3K: The Pumaman: ONLINE 3/5
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead: DVD 4/5

18th
INLAND EMPIRE: DVD 4/5
Perfect Blue: DVD 4/5

19th
Four Minutes: DVD 5/5
Police Story: DVD 4/5
The Prodigal Son: DVD 5/5

20th
Hellboy II: The Golden Army: CINE 4/5
Get Smart: CINE 2/5
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day: CINE 3/5
Last Exit to Brooklyn: DVD 4/5
The Hudsucker Proxy: DVD 4/5

21st
Suzhou River: DVD 2/5
The Red Shoes: DVD 5/5
Suspiria: DVD 4/5

22nd
See The Sea (Short): DVD 5/5
5 X 2: DVD 5/5
Cut (Short): DVD 4/5
Lady Vengeance: DVD 5/5

23rd
The Dreamlife of Angels: DVD 4/5
The Last Picture Show: DVD 5/5

24th
The Nameless: DVD 3/5
Police Story 3: Supercop: VHS 3/5

25th
Mr Nice Guy: VHS 1/5
The Naked Gun: DVD 5/5

26th
Miracles: VHS 2/5
Drunken Master: VHS 4/5
Naked Gun 2 1/2: DVD 4/5

27th
The Plea: ONLINE 3/5
Unlawful Entry: VHS 3/5
Blink: VHS 3/5
Naked Gun 33 1/3: DVD 3/5

29th
The Go-Getter: ONLINE 3/5
Murderball: DVD 3/5
Flight of the Phoenix (2004): DVD 3/5

30th
Death Defying Acts: CINE 4/5
Badlands: CINE 5/5
Tin Cup: VHS 3/5

31st
The Big White: DVD 3/5
Running Scared: DVD 3/5
A Dream Within A Dream: The Making of Picnic at Hanging Rock: DVD 4/5
The Day of Saint Valentine: (Short) DVD 3/5

Best Film: Cinema
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (4/5)
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Worst Film: Cinema
The X Files: I Want To Believe (1/5)
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Best Film: Home
Black Narcissus (5/5)
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Worst Film: Home
Mr Nice Guy (1/5)
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Best Actor: Ben Kingsley: Elegy
Best Actress: Deborah Kerr: Black Narcissus / Hannah Herzsprung: Four Minutes
Best Supporting Actor: Ciaran Hinds: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day / Peter Sarsgaard: Elegy
Best Supporting Actress: Kathleen Byron: Black Narcissus / Saoirse Ronan: Death Defying Acts
Best Director: Michael Powell: Black Narcissus / Guillermo Del Toro: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Best Original Screenplay: Chris Kraus: Four Minutes
Best Adapted Screenplay: Guillermo Del Toro: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Biggest Surprise: Cold Prey
Biggest Disappointment: The X Files: I Want To Believe
Most Fucked-Up Movie: Ravenous / The Chaser
“I’m Pretty Damn Sure No One Else Has Seen This”: The Chaser
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: Young-min (Ha Jung-woo): The Chaser
“Why Is He/She Still in Movies?”: Chris Carter (co-writer/director): The X Files: I Want To Believe
Ultimate WTF? Moment: Michelle Yeoh jumping a motorbike on to a moving train: Police Story 3: Supercop
Best Scene: Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) confronting Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) before leaving the convent: Black Narcissus
Best Line: [Donald Pleaseance impression] Wheeee: MST3K: Pumaman / I'm not a baby, I'm a tumour: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin’ See: Black Narcissus / Bandit Queen
Coolest Title: Murderball
Hottest Ladies:
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Deborah Kerr: Black Narcissus

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Vera Farmiga: Running Scared

[ilovemovies]

1. Falling Down - 9/10*
2. Elegy - 8/10
3. The French Connection - 8/10
4. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - 8/10*
5. Traitor - 7/10
6. Taken - 7/10
7. Transsiberian - 7/10
8. Henry Poole is Here - 7/10
9. Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 - 7/10
10. Bewitched - 7/10*
11. Death Race - 7/10
12. Talladega Nights: The Bobby of Ricky Bobby - 7/10*
13. xXx: State of the Union - 7/10*
14. xXx - 7/10*
15. Swing Vote - 7/10
16. Jaws 2 - 7/10*
17. Collateral - 7/10*
18. Jaws 3 - 7/10*
19. Nowhere to Run - 7/10*
20. Last Man Standing - 7/10*
21. Pineapple Express - 6/10
22. Family in Hiding - 6/10
23. Mirrors - 6/10
24. Strays - 6/10
25. Space Chimps - 5/10
26. Young People Fucking - 5/10
27. Babylon A.D. - 5/10
28. Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 5/10
29. Tropic Thunder - 3/10
30. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - 3/10
31. From Justin to Kelly - 2/10



BEST DIRECTOR: William Friedken, The French Connection
BEST ACTOR: Ben Kingsley, Elegy
BEST ACTRESS: Emily Mortimer, Transsiberian
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Saïd Taghmaoui, Traitor
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Radha Mitchell, Henry Poole is Here
BIGGEST SUPRISE: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Tropic Thunder
COOLEST TITLE: Young People Fucking

HOTTEST WOMEN:

1. Scarlett Johansson - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2. Maria Bello - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
3. Natalie Martinez - Death Race
4. Blake Lively - Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
5. Radha Mitchell - Henry Poole is Here
6. Paula Patton - Swing Vote/Mirrors
7. Rebecca Hall - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
8. Rachel Nichols - Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
9. Amber Heard - Pineapple Express
10. Famke Janssen/Maggie Smith - Taken

Special mention to the cast of Young People Fucking for the hottest overall ensemble.

[Hannibal21]

The Producers (1968) - 9/10
This Man Must Die (1969) - 9/10
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) - 9/10
The Man From Laramie (1955) - 9/10
Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966) - 9/10
Macbeth (1948) - 9/10
Ace in the Hole (1951) - 9/10

Belle de Jour (1967) - 8.5/10
Les Biches (1968) - 8.5/10
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) - 8.5/10
Tropic Thunder (2008) - 8.5/10

I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) - 8/10
Tell No One (2006) - 8/10
Lars and the Real Girl (2007) - 8/10

Gypsy (1962) - 7/10
Transsiberian (2008) - 7/10
A Canterbury Tale (1944) - 7/10

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) - 6/10

The Mirror Crack'd (1980) - 5/10
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) - 5/10
The Swimming Pool (1969) - 5/10
El Topo (1971) - 5/10
Mirrors (2008) - 5/10

The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972) - 4/10

BEST FILM:

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WORST FILM:

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BEST ACTOR: Kirk Douglas - Ace in the Hole
BEST ACTRESS: Wendy Hiller - I Know Where I'm Going!
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Arthur Kennedy - The Man From Laramie
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
BEST DIRECTOR: Claude Chabrol - This Man Must Die
BEST SCREENPLAY: Mel Brooks - The Producers
BIGGEST SURPRISE: Tropic Thunder
BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT: Who Can Kill a Child?
MOST FUCKED-UP MOVIE: El Topo
PERSON/CHARACTER I NEVER WANT TO MEET: John Mark Byers, the stepfather of one of the murdered boys in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
"WHY IS HE/SHE STILL IN MOVIES?": Brendan Fraser - Journey to the Center of the Earth
ULTIMATE WTF? MOMENT: The entirety of El Topo
BEST SCENE: "Springtime for Hitler in Germany" - The Producers
BEST LINE: "I'm hysterical! I'm having hysterics! I'm hysterical! I can't stop when I get like this. I can't stop! I'm hysterical! Oh my god! Ah-la-la-la! (Bialystock throws water on him) ... I'm wet! I'm wet! I'm hysterical and I'm wet! (Bialystock slaps him) ... I'm in pain! I'm in pan, and I'm wet!... and I'm still hysterical!" - Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) - The Producers
HOTTEST LADY: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

[Hannibal21]

Black Narcissus: DVD 5/5
The Red Shoes: DVD 5/5

Best Film: Home
Black Narcissus (5/5)
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Best Actress: Deborah Kerr: Black Narcissus
Best Supporting Actress: Kathleen Byron: Black Narcissus
Best Director: Michael Powell: Black Narcissus
Best Scene: Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) confronting Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) before leaving the convent: Black Narcissus

God I love Michael Powell (& Emeric Pressburger). Despite being somewhat underwhelmed by the two films I previously saw from him (A Canterbury Tale and I Know Where I'm Going!), it still goes without saying that the man, more than any other director, makes the most beautiful color movies that ever graced the celluloid. Especially evident are the ballet sequence in The Red Shoes and the final confrontation in Black Narcissus (easily his best film). Glad you love both of them, SAI (as well as Peeping Tom, which I recall you gave a 5/5). I really, really want to see A Matter of Life and Death, but it's going to be a miracle getting a copy of that one anywhere. Eagerly anticipating its criterion release.

[Lazy Boy]

First time viewings are in bold:

1st: Rory O'Shea Was Here - 5/10
The Trouble With Harry - 7/10
2nd: Shoot 'em Up - 7/10
3rd: Jumper - 3/10
6th: Trafic - 5/10
7th: Doomsday - 4/10
8th: Pineapple Express - 5/10
10th: Transsiberian - 7/10
13th: Tropic Thunder - 8/10
Raw Meat - 5/10
Starter for 10 - 7/10
14th: Sleepwalking - 4/10
Sabotage - 4/10
Monte Walsh - 8/10
The TV Set - 6/10
15th: Fear X - 4/10
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - 4/10
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep - 7/10
16th: Equus - 7/10
18th: Gardens of Stone - 3/10
Proof - 6/10
19th: The Life Before Her Eyes - 6/10
Prom Night ('08) - 2/10
20th: The Sugarland Express - 5/10
21st: Kung Fu Panda - 7/10
23rd: In Search of a Midnight Kiss - 8/10
25th: Smiley Face - 5/10
26th: The Counterfeiters - 7/10
27th: Bella - 5/10
29th: John and Mary - 5/10
The Tiger and the Snow - 3/10
31st: The House Bunny - 4/10

Best:
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Worst:
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Best Actor: Lee Marvin - Monte Walsh
Best Actress: Emily Mortimer - Transsiberian
Best Supporting Actor: Peter Firth - Equus
Best Supporting Actress: Sigourney Weaver - The TV Set
Best Director: Ben Stiller - Tropic Thunder
Best Original Screenplay: In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Counterfeiters
Biggest Surprise: Shoot 'em Up
Biggest Disappointment: Trafic
Person/Character I Never Want to Meet: Sol (Craig Conway) - Doomsday
“Why Is He/She Still in Movies?”: Hayden Christensen - Jumper
Best Scene: The five minute long single take of the killer's lair - Raw Meat
Best Line: "Same thing happened to me when I played Neil Armstrong in Moonshot. They found me in an alley in Burbank trying to re-enter the earth's atmosphere in an old refrigerator box." - Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.), Tropic Thunder
Movie I Finally Got to Friggin’ See: Monte Walsh
Coolest Title: Pineapple Express
Hottest Lady: Scarlett Johansson, Vicky Cristina Barcelona