Shad asked what I thought. He regretted it immediately.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Shadrach wrote:
Morgan,
Its spring break and I am planning on catching up on movies that I have missed out on. I was curious what your top-ten are, or ones you think very important.
here is a list:
Action/Comedy:
1. MacGruber
2. Love Guru
3. A-Team
About the above: All three were panned by the critics and held as examples of lazy, schlocky, remakey, uber-crap. I found them to be layered, magical, and most of all hilarious!
Chinese:
4. Up The Yangtze
5. Not One Less
The first is a doc that came out a couple of years ago. I didn't see it till recently, it was really beautiful.
Not One Less is a dramatization of a story that uses the real people as the actors. It may be the most tear-jerking movie evar.
More Docs:
6. Zeitgeist 3: Moving Forward
7. Slavov Zizek: Pervert's guide to cinema
The Zeitgeist movies continue to push the new age envelope.
Zizek deconstructs a bunch of classic films to find Lacanian undertones.
Horror:
8. Cursed
9. Drag Me To Hell
Wes Craven and Sam Raimi use the genre movies to demon-strate their mastery of the art of film-making.
10. Taken
Liam Neeson will find you. This is the best action since Bourne.
Bonus:
11. The Big Chill - 80's style mid-life crisis. I found it really funny and relevant.
12. Brooklyn's Finest - Don Cheadle is excellent in this top cop drama.
13. Machete - Jessica Alba takes a shower and solves a crime. Topical.
14. Crank 1&2 - Jason Statham is the ultimate bad ass. This movie is paced so well/fast ou may actually think you are on PCP mixed with angel dust, rolled in a cigarette, and dipped in formaldehyde.
As far as I can tell, these were my favorites over the last year or so. Hope you have the guts to forgo the critics picks and watch some movies that are awesome.
Enjoy.
