AFI TOP TEN OF 2004- Page 2
AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
#25re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/13/04 at 9:52pm
Harry Potter and te Prisoner of Azcaban in the Newsweek's Top Ten??
I absolutely adore the book.
But the movie was awful.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#27re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/13/04 at 9:51pmThe Azkaban film was the closest any of the films have gotten to the feel of the books. I found it pretty thrilling. The next film is the one I'm really hoping they do well.
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#28re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/13/04 at 9:55pmCompared to the other two, 'The Lion King: 1 and 1/2' is a masterpiece.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
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#29re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/13/04 at 9:53pmSo true Priest. God, I hope we're not going to say the same thing about the Rent movie by that hack Columbus.
"I've got to get me out of here
This place is full of dirty old men
And the navigators and their mappy maps
And moldy heads and pissing on sugar cubes
While you stare at your books."
#30re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/14/04 at 9:06amI can't believe that joy of a TV movie "10.5" wasn't on the list!
#31re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/14/04 at 2:06pm
I thought that Spiderman 2 easily had the best screenplay of any big budget superhero popcorn movie in decades
I actually think The Incredibles has by far the best screenplay for a superhero movie in recent memory.
Maybe I need to watch it again (I caught it on a plane), but I thought Spiderman 2 was inferior to the first installment. Besides my annoyance that they turned NYC into a Generic American City (what track on the MTA passes skyscrapers like that?), the character development and plot twists seemed very arbitrary and artificial - as if they were obligated to do something with these characters to fill in the time. I also think that Kirsten Dunst's MJ has become the most irritating superhero's damsel ever committed to celluloid.
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#32re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/14/04 at 2:15pmMaybe I should bring up my Spider-Man rant from the summer, but I also have issues with the character development in the movie. The main couple is supposed to be maturing here, but they act like babies. The fact that they have character development isn't enough when that development seems to have very little logic behind it.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#33re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/14/04 at 3:51pmWhy didn't they include that "A Christmas Carol Musical" movie with Kelsey Grammer and Jason Alexander and the utterly brilliant Jennifer Love Hewitt? Cuz, like, that was, like THE GREATEST musical of the CENTURY!
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#34re: AFI TOP TEN OF 2004
Posted: 12/14/04 at 5:36pmThank you for that, Margo. Don't let it go.
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