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List: Movies, Best of 2006
This year sucked in movies. Or I have become more cynical when watching the shite in the theaters. Honestly, it is a combination of the two.
Hollywood has become more conservative in their approach to making movies. They need to make an impact with the “boffo b.o.” of the opening week. They mistakenly believe that this is where they can make their money, therefore they’re producing more movies that attempt to do that. They pay their actors exorbitant fee. They splash flashy CG on the screen. They plumb the depths of the lowest common denominator. Yet, they forget to tell their stories well. I believe the old adage that says there are only four typical story plotlines, therefore it’s imperative that the film-makers be judicious in how they unfold their story onscreen. I think Hollywood forgets that too often.
Indy films are not any better. They have mimicked their more prosperous competitor and lost their.
When will the magic return to cinema?
These are the films I believe to be the best I saw this year.
4 stars
That’s it. The others were mediocre — some fun and a pleasure to watch while others were not bad, but not good as well. Then I saw plenty of other junk. That is for another post…
List: Netflix Queue, Best of
Not only is it the season for gift lists, but it is also the time of year that people break out there “best of” lists. Here at BrowserMetrics, we aim to be like the rest of the sheep. So without further ado, here’s the first of what should be many lists (I do have to fill 31 days of posts).
According to my Netflix queue, as of today, these are my top rated DVDs this year. Of course I only started renting from them this year. Most of the good DVDs will have inspired a post on this site, so you could read my review. I hope you place some of these on your Netflix queue to enjoy.
5 stars
4 stars
- North By Northwest
- Gilda
- Triumph of the Nerds
- Royal Tanenbaums
- Show Me Love
- Lagaan
- Shaolin Soccer
- Gunslinger Girl
- Hell On Tour
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Scary Mary
This is even better than the one for the shining.
Earn your pay
The slug line for this link is, “Culture Shock on Capitol Hill: House to Work 5 Days a Week.”For this let me quote John McClane, “Welcome to the party, pal.”WTF?! is up with the whining here. Can’t manage a five day a week schedule. Poor babies. You know you could get another job. Of course this article only talks about the first month. Little is said about the other weeks of the year that they take off. They’re playing us for suckers.
My car is pissing me off
It’s at 118K. It’s making creaking noises. I had the exhaust adjusted to avoid those creaking noises, but they’re still coming. The front struts are worn. Thy make noise when going over a pebble in the road. They need to be changed.
But is it worth it? Should I get a new car? Or a used one?
I would think fixing her up would be around $1500. Is this better than getting a new car.
Descisions. Descisions. What a sink hole the things we own are! Or does it own me?
Adventures From My Netflix Queue: Hell on Wheels
Hell On Wheels documents the 100th vesion of le Tour de France by following Team Telekom as they compete in that edition. It was funny to watch a tour from another countries side. If this was an American film it would’ve been about Lance Armstrong notching his fifth straight tour victory. Or even about the herculean effor put in by Tyler Hamilton to go the distance and finish fourth with a broken collarbone. Yet, this was a German film and being such, it focused on Team Telekom, a German team.
Funny that. This was the most exciting race of the seven that Lance Armstrong won, and this film barely mentions him. Hamilton got more coverage and even then it was bare.
The film follows several team members on this tour: Rolf Aldag, the consummate gunny-sargent, Erik Zarbel, the sprinter on his last legs, Andreas Kloden, wiped out and abandoned with a broken cocyx. It also shows some behind the scenes of Aldag and Zarbel with their massuese. These scenes were very reminiscent of the end of an era. Showing the humanity in the racers and their desire to finish. Zarbel especially comes off as being on the verge of losing his legs with his buddy, Aldag and his massuese by his side as his chances of being a force in the cycling world dim.
Anywhoo, I want to go out and ride right now, but it’s late. When’s summer coming?
4 of 5 stars.
The Next Post
Because The Seed is asking where the next post is today in my month long blogging oddessy, does this count?
Posts should come about naturally. Yet, I undertook this task for at least a post a day with the understanding that there will be some days when I’ve got nothing. Today, could’ve been one of those, but there are a lot of posts that can be made today.
“I’ve got a lot of outs.”
First, as the many long time readers noticed I have updated my blogroll. One link from something I’ve made a comment already. Another programming one for the geeks. And one from a friend whose just jumped into the blogging pool. Check her site out. She promises to do Friday Cat Blogging but not just on Fridays!
Another out, is describing the dinners I had this past weekend. Except that’s not my thing. I find my palate as too simple to understand the intracicies of delicacies. I like food, but can’t rightly say why one place is good versus another. Also, for restaraunt reviews you should read Captiol Swell. He’s got the dish on the dishes we ate this past weekend.
I could also wish Happy Belated Birthday to my cousin whose 30th birthday we celebrated.
I could tell you that I am delinquent in starting my final paper. Once again that damn procrastination is rearing its ugly head.
So that’s my next post. What’s yours?
Movie Reviewing
I figure that lots of my posts here are movie reivews. I made a commitment a while ago to watch as many films in theatres as possible. Lately, I don’t feel like it, because movies are sucking. Looking over my reviews of the last year I would say that most are 2 stars or less. The summer of 2005 was bad, but no where as sucky as the summer of 2006. Wha’ happened?
Anyway, all this is a lead up to posting about The House Next Door. A movie blog that does some excellent reviews. This is how I wish I could make my reviews zing. Or failing that, this is how I wish my movie reviews could be. Check them out.