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.
switch #8 to Red Eye. It's another Wes Craven movie but he controls the tension and release even better.
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