Carryng on from where I left off yesterday, here are my further musings on the films I have seen on the combined 'best of/definitive' films of the last decade from The Times and The Telegraph.
The Last King of Scotland: Great film, great acting and James McAvoy
Little Miss Sunshine: Made me laugh and cry out loud: very embarrassing and very surprising!
The Lives of Others: Quite simply outstanding
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / The Return of the King: The first one was the best, I was bored by the end – just get on with it for God’s sake! There's a reason neither listed the middle of the trilogy - it was mind-numbingly dull. The projector broke down four times while I watched this film; I thought I would never get out of there alive. NZ went into orgiastic self-congratulatory mode.
Memento: I love Guy Pearce – I loved this film
Michael Clayton: Guess what; good actors and a good script can make a great film. It's a suspense, but not a thriller.
Milk: Not bad for an ‘issues’ film, but I love Sean Penn – the man can do no wrong. I prefer Mystic River as his better performance of the decade, however.
Minority Report: I like future-world-gone-wrong films, and they go very wrong here indeed
Moulin Rouge: Who thought it would be a good idea to take two actors who patently can't sing and put them in a musical? It seemed to work - Parisian slums never looked so glamorous and sales of absinthe rocketed
Mulholland Drive: I never got David Lynch, so I watched this to see if it would help – it didn’t
No Country for Old Men: Would have been a great film with one of the most excellent scenes – flipping the coin at the gas store – but ruined by the rambling pseudo psychoanalysis at the end
The Pianist: Adrien Brody shone, America continued it's love/hate relationship with Roman Polanski. Whatever you think of the man, he makes a damn fine film
The Piano Teacher: Ouch! Painfully uncomfortable to watch, deeply disturbing and typically European
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Is it weird when you and your mum fancy the same bloke? Johnny Depp desperately deserves an Oscar for making pirates sexy again.
The Last King of Scotland: Great film, great acting and James McAvoyLittle Miss Sunshine: Made me laugh and cry out loud: very embarrassing and very surprising!
The Lives of Others: Quite simply outstanding
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring / The Return of the King: The first one was the best, I was bored by the end – just get on with it for God’s sake! There's a reason neither listed the middle of the trilogy - it was mind-numbingly dull. The projector broke down four times while I watched this film; I thought I would never get out of there alive. NZ went into orgiastic self-congratulatory mode.
Memento: I love Guy Pearce – I loved this film
Michael Clayton: Guess what; good actors and a good script can make a great film. It's a suspense, but not a thriller.
Milk: Not bad for an ‘issues’ film, but I love Sean Penn – the man can do no wrong. I prefer Mystic River as his better performance of the decade, however.
Minority Report: I like future-world-gone-wrong films, and they go very wrong here indeed
Moulin Rouge: Who thought it would be a good idea to take two actors who patently can't sing and put them in a musical? It seemed to work - Parisian slums never looked so glamorous and sales of absinthe rocketed
Mulholland Drive: I never got David Lynch, so I watched this to see if it would help – it didn’t
No Country for Old Men: Would have been a great film with one of the most excellent scenes – flipping the coin at the gas store – but ruined by the rambling pseudo psychoanalysis at the end
The Pianist: Adrien Brody shone, America continued it's love/hate relationship with Roman Polanski. Whatever you think of the man, he makes a damn fine film
The Piano Teacher: Ouch! Painfully uncomfortable to watch, deeply disturbing and typically European
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Is it weird when you and your mum fancy the same bloke? Johnny Depp desperately deserves an Oscar for making pirates sexy again.
The Queen: I love Helen Mirren and I love The Queen
The Royal Tenenbaums: So much hype; so many good actors; so ultimately disappointing
School of Rock: Strangely appealing – grown men acting like geeky teenagers is occasionally funny – as long as it’s not real life
Shrek: I'm not a big fan of animation or kid's films, but I'll make an exception for the grumpy green ogre and the funky soundtrack
Sideways: Great understated film although merlot gets a shockingly bad rap
Slumdog Millionaire: How could anyone not like this film?Spiderman: Not a patch on Batman but Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst are cute together
Syriana: Everything's political - I love stuff like this
There Will Be Blood: Will there ever! Often compared with No Country For Old Men, I preferred this, but then I studied the book at university
This is England: Margaret Thatcher has so much to answer for; this film is part of her legacy – brilliant (the film, not the legacy)Traffic: Ho hum; too worthy for it's own good
United 93: Why did I watch it when I knew it would all end so badly? Depressingly realistic
The Wind That Shakes the Barley: I never expected Ken Loach to sympathise with the IRA – nearly walked out of the cinema in disgust
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