The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 2:52pm
I'd probably go with I'M NOT THERE. It was a very small indie production from Todd Haynes that was mindblowingly brilliant. 'Tis a shame it didn't really open in too many theaters because I wish more people would have seen it.
#2re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 3:10pmWaitress
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
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#2re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 3:11pmDefinitely agree on "Waitress".
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#3re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 3:13pm
WAITRESS was the biggest indie hit of the year!
I'd vote PROTAGONIST and THE LAST WINTER.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#4re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 3:13pm
The Lookout was a superb movie.
Borstal, no Black Book?
....but the world goes 'round
#6re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 3:15pmHated I'm Not There.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#7re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 3:19pmI'm Not There is the only movie from this year that I could probably watch on an endless loop and never tire of. There's so much to that movie.
#8re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 3:33pm
If you're a Dylan fan and look forward to learning more about him, and perhaps see him perform, don't see I'm Not There.
Of all the six actors who are supposed to be portraying him, only one comes close and that's Cate Blanchett. Some of the others were downright awful.
I'm a lover of surrealism in film, Fellini's being my favorites. I loved Bunuel's Le Chien Andalou. But this didn't work for me.
It's a bunch of montages of society. I lived it. I want more about the man who is Dylan.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#9re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:22pmI found it to be more about the myth-making and the mystique he has about himself. How he affected other people and himself.
#10re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:39pmThe Wind That Shakes the Barley: won the Palme d'Or in 2006, came and went when it was released in March, no awards buzz. Such a shame.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#11re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:43pm
Well, I'm glad you did get that much from the film.
I came out of it knowing nothing more about him personally than I did before. I guess because he was before your time, this was informative.
For those who were around then, and already know how his genius affected society, this film might be an extreme disappointment.
Dylan was a mysterious guy. Sure, we knew from his lyrics how astute he was, but in interviews he was usually angry, rebellious, sarcastic, and prone to one word answers. Something like Warhol was. I wanted to know more. I thought this film would give me a little more, but it didn't.
I'd rather watch the footage of his concerts which has been airing on tv.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#12re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:50pm
Micheal Clayton
Mr. Bean's Holiday
And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before...
After the Sky.
-Into the Woods (Jack)
#13re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:50pm
Hairspray and Sweeney Todd
If only they had a fan base or something perhaps more people would have known about these two movies!
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#14re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:52pmThe Wind That Shakes The Barley was excellent! Good call AC.
....but the world goes 'round
#15re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:54pm
I agree about Waitress.
Also... Ratatouille was one of the best, if not THE best, reviewed movie of the year. (Entertainment Weekly in their mass pool of critics all around has it as THE best.)
And yet it's not showing up on the Top Ten critics lists anywhere. And it hasn't gotten much awards love either.
How can that be? And what happened? Short-term memory loss?
I just watched it again recently, and it's a brilliant film.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#16re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 4:57pm
There was nifty little film that amusingly deconstructed the slasher subgenre of horror movies called Behind The Mask:The Rise Of Lesllie Vernon.
Did anyone else see that? It made my personal top 10 this year.
....but the world goes 'round
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#17re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 5:04pm
Waitress
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Mr. Bean's Holiday
#18re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 5:12pmHow is Michael Clayton overlooked? It's made $70 million to date, received across the board raves, and is a frontrunner for several Oscar nominations.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#19re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 5:50pm
Year of the Dog with Molly Shannon.
Besty, I have seen Ratatouille getting a lot of year end praise. Maybe not top 10 but certainly not overlooked.
As a matter of fact one of the dudes who took over for Siskel and Ebert DID have it in the top ten, I believe.
PEACE.
#20re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 5:58pm
I agree with Year of The Dog and The Wind That Shakes The Barley. I hope they're both finding some success on the rental scene.
And I'll add Lust, Caution, Zodiac, and Reservation Road to the list. Zodiac totally should've been released later in the year, and I have no idea what happened with Reservation Road. It was a really good movie with great performances from Joaquin Pheonix and Muffalo and it was a big hit at the film festival I saw it in, but it just completely disappeared and I never heard anything about it, not even when it was released.
Updated On: 1/2/08 at 05:58 PM
#21re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 6:35pm
Once. Brilliant, and even better if you know a little Czech.
But then, I haven't seen all that many films this year...
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#22re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 6:49pmI wouldn't call Once overlooked, either. It is showing up on a lot of year end lists.
PEACE.
#23re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 7:44pmBoth Sweeney and Hairspray had enough advertising.
He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.
#24re: The Most Overlooked Movie of 2007?
Posted: 1/2/08 at 7:58pm
"WAITRESS was the biggest indie hit of the year!"
Actually, that would be JUNO.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
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