2004’s Picks and an Apology for one Omission!
Jan 16, 2010 Cool Stuff
First thing everybody is going to say is “No MILLION DOLLAR BABY?” Well, unfortunately for me, the ending was revealed to me before I had a chance to see the film, it certainly is a haunting tragedy beautifully executed by the man who may be America’s greatest living actor/director with a brilliant cast, but what can you do? Didn’t see it in theaters and have been dejected about it ever since.
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FAHRENHEIT 911: Once again, no matter what you have to say about Michael Moore and his agenda, this stuff had to be said!
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BOURNE SUPREMACY:Once again, the only things that this film has in common with the novel on which it is based is the title character and that they are both great!
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DAWN OF THE DEAD: Okay, not a big fan of fast zombies, but then this film did something that Romero failed to do in his last outing, bringing some new ideas to a progressively overdone genre. The opening sequence is riveting and the part where Sarah Polley does a header in to the tub still makes me cringe.
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A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN: Even more frightening to the citizens of California is the premise set forth in this wonderful satire about what would happen if the immigrant labor force simply disappeared.
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KILL BILL vol 1: Sonny Chiba. Nuff said.
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KILL BILL vol 2: David Carradine. Nuff said.
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SHAUN OF THE DEAD: The moment in which Shaun’s girlfriend tells him that the flowers are addressed to his “mum” may be the most uncomfortable moment in Horror film ever!
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THE INCREDIBLES: This movie really fired on all cylinders and the second half was the best Bond film since GOLDENEYE.
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HELLBOY: Who could do this role better than Ron Perlman? Mike Mignola’s world’s greatest paranormal investigator is brought to spectacular life by the best monster-movie maker in the biz, Guillermo del Toro. As a comic-book fan and a fan of the comic-book, it was nice to see a film in which things were changed from the source material with good reason, not just arbitrarily. Though I do still have to admit that the relationship betweenHB and Liz Sherman seemed a bit icky for me, I mean they are pretty much adopted brother and sister, but everything else about the film was stupendous! How bad-ass was Karl Ruprecht Kronen? Rumor has it that if GdT does a third film it will feature more of Mignola’s Occult Nazi villains and the claw of justice, himself, LOBSTER JOHNSON! Which means we might get evil Nazi head-in-a-jar Hermann VonKlempt and his army of cyborg primates! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
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SPIDER-MAN 2: “Best Super-Hero Movie EVER!” EXCELSIOR!
There is a 3-way tie for my guilty pleasure this year and they are all deserving!
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ANCHORMAN:Not really much of a story here but watching this cast chew the scenery is like watching comic gold being smelted!
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CLUB DREAD: “You mean PINA COLADA-BURG.”
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HAROLD AND KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE: Maybe the best Stoner comedy ever. I mean that, maybe even better than UP IN SMOKE! LAW & ORDER: SVU’s Chris Meloni is unrecognizable as tow truck driver Freakshow and Neil Patrick Harris is unrecognizable as himself! The scene in which Kumar has a dream about marrying a giant bag of weed makes me crack up just thinking about it and Anthony Andrews monologue about sliders is nothing short of brilliant!
Tags: ANCHORMAN, BOURNE SUPREMACY, CLUB DREAD, DAWN OF THE DEAD, FAHRENHEIT 911, HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, HELLBOY, KILL BILL, SHAUN OF THE DEAD, SPIDER-MAN 2, THE INCREDIBLES
