Trying to stay on top of this tide

[trinityvixen]

Instead of doing a year-end dump, I thought I might review the oodles of movies I manage to watch on a month-to-month basis. Of course, I'm half a month late already, but, still, I'm going to try. I'll try to keep it short, too.

Only You: I've got to stop watching young Robert Downey Jr. movies because his schtick has only become tolerable as he's aged.

Thirst: I've said it before, I'll say it again: Korean movies seem to be UNIVERSALLY fucked up.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies: This movie was awful, but it takes a special kind of loathsome terribleness to make both myself and darkling1 cry out in horror, wincing and making the sign of the cross against what we were seeing.

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: I think I could have learned more about him if they'd done more clips of him talking; from other documentaries I've seen with him in it, he speaks for and about himself better than others do.

Sunshine Cleaning: Meh.

The Hangover: Dear God, I did not want to like or laugh at this movie, especially not as I watched it with my Dad in the room, but I surely did. ("Holy shit, there's a tiger in the bathroom!")

Beautiful Creatures: I actually thought I'd taped Heavenly Creatures, so I was confused but not entirely bored when this movie happened instead.

Beowulf: This movie is why I cut Avatar so much slack on all its weaknesses as a film--because at least Avatar made its fake characters look like they could possibly be alive. ::shudders::

For Your Consideration: Really weak outing by the normally fantastic Guest faux-documentary crew. Disappointing.

Out of Africa: Very good but far too long and far too...highbrow for me to SWOON over it. (I acknowledge and recognize it as a good film, but I'll never love it.)

G.I. Joe: Resolute: Some nerd website promised that this would be better than that horrible live-action movie. They fucking lied.

The Thing: Awesome. I'll not hear a bad word about this film. It's a perfect storm of gross-out, paranoia, and humor. Loved it.

Daybreakers: Interesting concept, but this vampire movie was much more notable for something unrelated to vampirism: it did not feature, at any time, a romance subplot. For that alone, I liked it.

Ed Wood: I simultaneously wanted this movie to be zanier and less.

Absolute Garbage: Would have been nice if there was actually a documentary in there instead of news clips about the band.

Sherlock Holmes: Like Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, this movie should not have been able to make the hodge-podge of disparate images from the trailer work but it managed, admirably.

High Tension: Aside from the cop-out ending, it was a nearly perfect way to have a horror movie in which neither the killer nor the victim were idiots. Shame about that ending.

Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder: The bad parts were easily the worst parts of any Futurama movie to date (worse, they were also lazy and overused sexist "jokes"), but overall it's probably the easiest to watch and filled its time the best.

Comments

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Re: Futurama - Into the Wild Green Yonder may be the only movie that is watchable despite going straight downhill from the first instant, i.e., dQuality/dt < 0 for all t. The title song is outstanding, the gambling scenes are great, then we move into meh mini-golf, and then into the terrible sex/environment sections. Maybe if we stop it right after they dig up Bender--that's a pretty clear break point.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

That pretty much describes all the Futurama movies to me. I think it's clear that their situations last only so long before they collapse under the weight of their own ridiculousness. Here's hoping for a return to form with the new series.