January 10, 2003

WEEKEND RENTALS:

My Top Ten of 2002 (James Bowmam, January 3, 2003, The New York Sun)
The paucity of Hollywood studio products in this list will be readily apparent, but alas it is no news that the focus-group tested McEntertainment produced by big money cannot stand comparison with the work of individual artists who have something to say.

I've seen and definitely recommend: Nine Queens; Last Orders; Black Hawk Down; and, especially, Dark Blue World. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 10, 2003 7:37 PM
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I stopped reading Bowman's reviews when he gave Signs and Memento poor ratings while venerating Black Hawk Down, which while technically impressive was about as shallow a movie as I've ever seen.



My top 10



1. Star Wars: Attack of the Clones



You wonder what David Lean would have done with digital filmmaking. The only movie I've seen three times in the cinema.



2 The Two Towers



3 Signs



4 Road To Perdition



5 Triple X



6 Austin Powers 3



7 Minority Report



8 Insomnia



9 Dog Soldiers



10 Blade 2

Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at January 10, 2003 9:21 PM

Hopefully that's at least the original version of Insomnia?

Posted by: oj at January 10, 2003 10:16 PM

No Adaptation
?

Posted by: Brian (Minnesota) at January 10, 2003 10:29 PM

He hasn't reviewed it yet.

Posted by: oj at January 11, 2003 4:45 AM

Ah, wot have wee here?



A man, too Kool-teered for de simplisme Hollywood, we we?



Wot intellect e must have, like an Einstein! Wot taste, like a fine red from de homeland! Wot grace, like a swan!



Wot ego, like a hollywood celebrety!



De truth... it hurts, non?

Posted by: Ryan Waxx at January 11, 2003 8:47 AM

Ryan:



You seen any of the movies?

Posted by: oj at January 11, 2003 9:08 AM

Some, not all. My culture must be sadly lacking :P



Please forgive me, I am an unwashed, dirty Mcamerican who LIKES McFood and some McMovies.



I fully realize that I and my fellow Mcmoviegoers are starved for Culture(tm), something only filmmakers from Upper Volta may bestow on my unworthy Mcsoul.



And what is a movie without a message? Yes! For the reason we all go to movies is to be told how to think, that is the reason!



Truly, I do not understand how so many millions pay to see these horrible Mcfilms, they must be unaware of the Enlightenment there for the taking!



Forgive me, I must now go drown my sorrows in a unending existentialist nightmare.

Posted by: Ryan Waxx at January 11, 2003 9:17 AM

But none of them are existential. You're fighting French fiolms of the 60s not any of the films on this list. You needn't be snooty to say that Dark Blue World is a better movie than Pearl Harbor, despite having a fraction of the viewership.

Posted by: oj at January 11, 2003 9:44 AM

Well, if the guy y'all quoted had confined himself to that, I'd have to agree that some people could believe that.



I, and a great many other people, happened to LIKE pearl harbor, dimwits though we most assuredly are.

Posted by: Ryan Waxx at January 11, 2003 9:48 AM
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