Incomplete masterpiece waxes a little too philosophical, albeit beautifully. 8/10 [IAN]
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Appreciate the effort, but hated it. Still haunts me. 3/10 [Lucy Glib]
So delightful and accessible, you won’t miss the talking. 9/10 [Lucy Glib]
I had a few different nine words or less reviews bouncing around in my head so I thought I’d share them with you as well.
Like watching the neighbors Grandmother’s slideshow for five hours.
Like going back to a lecture for 6th graders.
Failed in 138 at what Up did in 10.
For that last one to work you have to count 138 as one word though.
Man, the 80s might have been the most fun decade, but good lord the 70s were chock full of awesomeness! A fair number of my favorite movies of all time came out of this wacky decade. And a good amount of the movies I feel the worst about not having yet seen are from the 70s, the original Solaris, F for Fake, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, House… to name a few. 1974, for example, Chinatown, The Conversation, Blazing Saddles, AND Young Frankenstein!? That’s out of control.
So here are my favorite 9 movies from the 1970s:
9. Jaws
8. Don’t Look Now
7. Young Frankenstein
6. Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope (1977 Version)
5. Straw Dogs
4. Alien
3. Apocalypse Now
2. The Conversation
1. Chinatown
There you have it. 9 Awesome films! My other favorite 70s flicks include (but aren’t limited to): A Clockwork Orange, Klute, THX 1138, Walkabout, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure, The Sting, The Holy Mountain, Jesus Christ Super Star, Blazing Saddles, The Towering Inferno, A Boy and His Dog, Dog Day Afternoon, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Carrie, Eraserhead, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Suspiria, Wizards, The Deer Hunter, The Jerk, Mad Max, and Phantasm.
Thanks to Derek for suggesting a movie, I wasn’t super crazy about that one though, so it didn’t make the list. I’ll just let you all guess which movie it was.
I want to hear your comments on this! Give me your favorite movies from the 70s, or any decade!
Worst 9
9. Love and other drugs ( Hathaway is fantastic but the film is overwrought garbage) 5/10
8. Nightmare on Elm Street ( They cut my scenes so they can kiss my) 5/ 10
7. Wall Street 2: Money never sleeps ( The money may not have but I did. Seriously.) 4/10
6. Salt ( Finally a cold, emotionless dull Angelina film) 4/10
5. After.Life (Turd dressed in a tuxedo is still a _) 4/10
4.Grown Ups ( Excuse for Sandler and Co. to make fart jokes) 3/10
3. Wolf Man (Love Hugo Weaving’s sideburns but loathe the film) 3/10
2. Repo Men (Further proof that Jude Law isn’t a leading man) 2/10
1. Saw 3-D ( Amateur torture trash, worst of the series) 1/10
Top 9
9. Never Let Me Go – Mark Romanek ( Emotive, restrained and one spoiler away from ruining it) 7/10
8. Black Swan – Darren Aronofsky (Red Shoes, Suspiria cocktail brought to life by Portman) 7/10
7. Scott Pilgrim .vs. the World – Edgar Wright (Video Game aesthetic done right. Loved the Culkin kid.) 7/10
6. Social Network – David Fincher (Pitch: “ David, heres a really boring idea for a film..” 8/10
5.Carlos – Olivier Assayas – ( Five hours of global terror good times) 8/10
4. Winter’s Bone- Debra Granik (Best backwoods film since deliverance had me squealing) 8/10
3. Animal Kingdom – David Michôd (Sprawling family crime drama reminiscent of American 70’s cinema) 8/10
2. Enter the Void – Gaspar Noé – (Pure cinematic masturbation. Big screen only. More please!) 8/10
1. Certified Copy – Abbas Kiarostami ( Slow, ambiguous relationship drama, Binoche shines) 10/10
Honarable Mention:
Greenberg, Piranha 3-D, Let Me In, Dogtooth, American Grindhouse.
