Manifest:
1. Movies bring Meaning to Our Lives (even if Channing Tatum is in it)
2. Sitting in a big dark room with trailers about to begin is a great moment
3. Yes, there are bad movies out there, that's why rely on our friends to tell us (except no, Manders, I refuse to see Stupid, Crazy Love)
4. Everything with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Nolan, Christoph Waltz is an immediate Yes (Manders do you have any to add? I'd do Tilda Swinton but I think that only goes for me)
5. Laughing is Good
6. Rarely go to AM movies but July 20th when Batman comes out may be in the running for a morning movie (I did see Star Trek at 11am during finals of my senior year of college which was very worth it)
7. Be accepting of others who feel Wes Anderson makes the same movie over and over again because he does and he doesn't
8. Even if we feel like our lives are pointless and we are unsuccessful as human beings there will always be: Woody Allen, Toy Story, Reality Bites My Sherona Dance, Radiohead documentaries, Mad Men's Peggy Olson, Air Force One, Independence Day, Bill Pullman, Dennis Hooper's PRB Rant in Blue Velvet, Apocalypse Now (THE HORROR), Fred Astaire dancing in Singing in the Rain, The River Wild, Footloose (the original), The Fifth Element, J.J. Abrams, Air Force One, and "YOU SHALL NOT PASS"
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Pick for Best Picture
Nominated for Best Short in Animation
I deserve garners One of the Best of the Best for this year.
Period.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Attempt 1
P.S. Manders can we talk about how many psuedo-movie blogs there are? How do we make our THE BEST. Honestly I tell you. Pure, thoughts to finger psychotic typing that we learned at MAVIS BEACON.
Drive did not pique my fancy. Ryan Gosling is hard taught body as ever (Remember when he was fired because he was too fat? I seemed to recall that throughout this movie, despite his most recent breakout as hot hot hot politician hot boy breakthrough actor). I felt I was waiting for the action to start the whole time. Slow start mostly, despite a great opening scene and the part where Christina Hendricks gets her brains blown out (why we go to the movies right?) but otherwise I was mostly unimpressed.
Cary Mulligan gives us no reason to think she's cute or charming or even ironic.
Cary Mulligan gives us no reason to think she's cute or charming or even ironic.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Horror
Makes me think of good (better) contemporary horror (psychological thriller?) movies that I can recall like
and
Both have a great shot and set-up of a stoic New England house.
However nothing compares:
Best Forgotten Movie of the Year
The Debt
About three Israeli Mossad agents operating behind the iron curtain to capture a Nazi, and how their mission affected their adult lives as well. Acted with perfection by Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas, and Helen Mirren, Ciaran Hinds, and Tom Wilkinson.
Easily one of my favorite films of the year. If this came out in November I don't think it would've been overlooked.
About three Israeli Mossad agents operating behind the iron curtain to capture a Nazi, and how their mission affected their adult lives as well. Acted with perfection by Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Marton Csokas, and Helen Mirren, Ciaran Hinds, and Tom Wilkinson.
Easily one of my favorite films of the year. If this came out in November I don't think it would've been overlooked.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Best Trailer of 2011: Pina
What dreams may come.
The Oscar's According to Shosh
Best Picture Enabling One to Sit at a Park for Hours and See the Trees Blow in the Wind:The Tree of Life
Best Picture After Smoking a Large Amount of Marijuana :
The Tree of Life
Best Picture of Tits Under Different Fabrics:
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Best Upcoming Trailer of 2012:
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Pump Up Trailer:
Hanna
Most Underrated:
Tie: Hesher and Super 8
Most Fabulous and Unexpected and Lonely and Sad and Adorable:
Bill Cunningham New York
Most Annoying that it is up for Foreign Language Oscar:
The Land of Blood and Honey
Most I Really Don't Care About You Anymore:
Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia and Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn
The Why is She at the Golden Globes Award? Award. Is she in anything these days?
Jessica Alba
Most Unhappy to be at the Golden Globes yet Awesome to See How Pouty he was:
Ashton Kutcher
Best Name Dropping of Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe:
Limitless "I read it in 30 minutes and understood all of it!"
Best IMAX 3D:
Tie: Born to Be Wild vs. Under the Sea vs. Hubble 3D
Best Supporting Actress:
Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids
Best Credits:
Bridesmaids, esp. Maya Rudolph's fist pump
Best Picture After Smoking a Large Amount of Marijuana :
The Tree of Life
Best Picture of Tits Under Different Fabrics:
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Best Upcoming Trailer of 2012:
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Pump Up Trailer:
Hanna
Most Underrated:
Tie: Hesher and Super 8
Most Fabulous and Unexpected and Lonely and Sad and Adorable:
Bill Cunningham New York
Most Annoying that it is up for Foreign Language Oscar:
The Land of Blood and Honey
Most I Really Don't Care About You Anymore:
Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia and Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn
The Why is She at the Golden Globes Award? Award. Is she in anything these days?
Jessica Alba
Most Unhappy to be at the Golden Globes yet Awesome to See How Pouty he was:
Ashton Kutcher
Best Name Dropping of Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe:
Limitless "I read it in 30 minutes and understood all of it!"
Best IMAX 3D:
Tie: Born to Be Wild vs. Under the Sea vs. Hubble 3D
Best Supporting Actress:
Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids
Best Credits:
Bridesmaids, esp. Maya Rudolph's fist pump
Paul Newman IS Hud
The man with the barbed wire soul. Manders have you seen this?
It is slow but once you get through it you will love me because it is just a great moral movie and raises a lot of questions about progress and what that exactly means.
NOT to be confused with Steve Mcqueen
Who is brings his Blonde American Bad Assness as THE COOLER KING in The Great Escape:
Butch Cassidy and the Kid Hiding in the Trees from the Bolivian Police with their Lady Friend
All access pass.
Who would you rather be? Butch or the Sundance Kid?
Friendly Loyal Cutey King of the Gang or Smooth Rifling Hot Stoic Sundance?
Poster + Detail
I think a lot about posters and trailers and will be brainstorming continually about them until the end of time.
A Forgotten but Excellent Marketing Campaign
.JPG)
Sunday, January 29, 2012
And The Nominees Are...
Amanda's Predictions are in Green
BEST PICTURE
The ArTisT
Thomas Langmann, Producer
The DescenDAnTs
Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
exTremely louD & increDibly close
Scott Rudin, Producer
The help
Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
hugo
Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
miDnighT in pAris
Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
moneybAll
Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
The Tree of life
Nominees to be determined
WAr horse
Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Demián bichir
A BeTTeR Life
george clooney
THe DeSCeNDANTS
Jean Dujardin
THe ARTiST
gary oldman
TiNKeR TAiLoR SoLDieR SPy
brad pitt
MoNeyBALL
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Kenneth branagh
My WeeK WiTH MARiLyN
Jonah hill
MoNeyBALL
nick nolte
WARRioR
christopher plummer
BeGiNNeRS
max von sydow
exTReMeLy LouD & iNCReDiBLy CLoSe
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
glenn close
ALBeRT NoBBS
Viola Davis
THe HeLP
rooney mara
THe GiRL WiTH THe DRAGoN TATToo
meryl streep
THe iRoN LADy
michelle Williams
My WeeK WiTH MARiLyN
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
bérénice bejo
THe ARTiST
Jessica chastain
THe HeLP
melissa mccarthy
BRiDeSMAiDS
Janet mcTeer
ALBeRT NoBBS
octavia spencer
THe HeLP
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
A cAT in pAris
Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup felicioli
chico & riTA
fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
Kung fu pAnDA 2
Jennifer yuh Nelson
puss in booTs
Chris Miller
rAngo
Gore Verbinski
ART DIRECTION
The ArTisT
Production Design: Laurence Bennett Set Decoration: Robert Gould
hArry poTTer AnD The DeAThly hAlloWs pArT 2 Production Design: Stuart Craig Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
hugo
Production Design: Dante ferretti Set Decoration: francesca Lo Schiavo
miDnighT in pAris
Production Design: Anne Seibel Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
WAr horse
Production Design: Rick Carter Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The ArTisT
Guillaume Schiffman
The girl WiTh The DrAgon TATToo
Jeff Cronenweth
hugo
Robert Richardson
The Tree of life
emmanuel Lubezki
WAr horse
Janusz Kaminski
COSTUME DESIGN
Anonymous
Lisy Christl
The ArTisT
Mark Bridges
hugo
Sandy Powell
JAne eyre
Michael o’Connor
W.e.
Arianne Phillips
DIRECTING
The ArTisT
Michel Hazanavicius
The DescenDAnTs
Alexander Payne
hugo
Martin Scorsese
miDnighT in pAris
Woody Allen
The Tree of life
Terrence Malick
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
hell AnD bAcK AgAin
Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
if A Tree fAlls: A sTory of The eArTh liberATion fronT Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
pArADise losT 3: purgATory
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
pinA
Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
unDefeATeD
TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
The bArber of birminghAm: fooT solDier of The ciVil righTs moVemenT Robin fryday and Gail Dolgin
goD is The bigger elVis
Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
inciDenT in neW bAghDAD
James Spione
sAVing fAce
Daniel Junge and Sharmeen obaid-Chinoy
The TsunAmi AnD The cherry blossom
Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
FILM EDITING
The ArTisT
Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
The DescenDAnTs
Kevin Tent
The girl WiTh The DrAgon TATToo
Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
hugo
Thelma Schoonmaker
moneybAll
Christopher Tellefsen
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
bullheAD
Belgium
fooTnoTe
israel
in DArKness
Poland
monsieur lAzhAr
Canada
A sepArATion
iran
MAKEUP
AlberT nobbs
Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
hArry poTTer AnD The DeAThly hAlloWs pArT 2 Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Lisa Tomblin
The iron lADy
Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
The ADVenTures of TinTin
John Williams
The ArTisT
Ludovic Bource
hugo
Howard Shore
TinKer TAilor solDier spy
Alberto iglesias
WAr horse
John Williams
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
man or muppet
THe MuPPeTS Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
real in rio
Rio Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
DimAnche/sunDAy
Patrick Doyon
The fAnTAsTic flying booKs of mr. morris lessmore William Joyce and Brandon oldenburg
lA lunA
enrico Casarosa
A morning sTroll
Grant orchard and Sue Goffe
WilD life
Amanda forbis and Wendy Tilby
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
penTecosT
Peter McDonald and eimear o’Kane
rAJu
Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
The shore
Terry George and oorlagh George
Time freAK
Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
TubA ATlAnTic
Hallvar Witzø
SOUND EDITING
DriVe
Lon Bender and Victor Ray ennis
The girl WiTh The DrAgon TATToo
Ren Klyce
hugo
Philip Stockton and eugene Gearty
TrAnsformers: DArK of The moon
ethan Van der Ryn and erik Aadahl
WAr horse
Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
SOUND MIXING
The girl WiTh The DrAgon TATToo
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
hugo
Tom fleischman and John Midgley
moneybAll
Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and ed Novick
TrAnsformers: DArK of The moon
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
WAr horse
Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
VISUAL EFFECTS
hArry poTTer AnD The DeAThly hAlloWs pArT 2 Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
hugo
Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
reAl sTeel
erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
rise of The plAneT of The Apes
Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
TrAnsformers: DArK of The moon
Scott farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John frazier
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
The DescenDAnTs
Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat faxon & Jim Rash
hugo
Screenplay by John Logan
The iDes of mArch
Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
moneybAll
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story by Stan Chervin
TinKer TAilor solDier spy
Screenplay by Bridget o’Connor & Peter Straughan
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
The ArTisT
Written by Michel Hazanavicius
briDesmAiDs
Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig (I WISH!)
mArgin cAll
Written by J.C. Chandor
miDnighT in pAris
Written by Woody Allen
A sepArATion
Written by Asghar farhadi
Sorry for the weird font, that's just how it copied, and I really didn't want to retype it.
I'm A Little Embarassed...
But I REALLY want to see this movie:
Watch the trailer here:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi236559897/
Watch the trailer here:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi236559897/
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