What are your top ten films of the 2008? Performances?- Page 2

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 2:29am

Check out SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK.

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 2:43am

It's very similar to the BROKEBACK year

Except Brokeback was a terrible boring, overrated and dangerously bloated film and everyone that praised it as OMGAMAHZINGBESTMOVIEEVER were wrong.

[Q]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 2:46am

Nextto - way to potstir . . . a day late and a dollar short.

[nexttoelectric]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:02am

I potstirred plenty on time and with that extra dollar.


But i honestly thought it wasn't that great of a movie. Except when heath ledger spit on his dick. that was pretty hot.

[Q]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:06am

"i honestly thought it wasn't that great of a movie. Except when heath ledger spit on his dick."

I missed that in DARK KNIGHT. Must have been when I nodded off.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 3:12am

How could he have anal-led Batman? Wouldn't the steel Batsuit have crushed his dick?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 10:36am

THE DARK KNIGHT was a pretty crappy movie, except for Ledger Eckhart and Oldman. Seeing it on DVD only makes the film worse, and Bale's Batman costume only looks more ridiculous with successive viewings.

Opinions will differ. An otherwise intelligent woman I know claims THE DARK KNIGHT as the most perfect film she's ever seen, which claim just staggers me.

[Jonny boy]

Posted: 12/15/08 at 12:56pm

Just saw Slumdog Millionaire and it was the best movie I have seen in a few years!!!! Go see it if you haven't!!

[Q]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 1:11am

"Check out SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK."

Well, I tried to watch the preview.

Is Charlie the most narcissistic 'creator' we have actually getting paid today?

I couldn't possibly have less interest in this.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 1:36am

It's not for everyone but it's really cool. It's pretty much all about human life.

[Q]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 1:40am

Cruel - if you are still in school for film, you REALLY need to recognize life outside that cloistered environment!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:00am

Written by Charlie Kaufman -- not promising.

Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman -- not likely that I'll see it.

Written and directed by Charlie Kaufman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman -- no f*cking way, root canal would be more fun.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 10:05am

The Love Guru

Brilliant movie. Look for Oscar nods in all the major categories.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 12:21pm

What is with the huge Philip Seymour Hoffman backlash lately? I remember pre-Oscar, everyone loved him completely.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 1:18pm

Not me. Pre-Oscar, Hoffman was even more heavily saturated in the film industry than he is now. About a year or two before Capote, he was in every other film. He was quickly becoming the new Tom Hanks. Love the guy in some stuff, but I don't need to see him in everything and I don't think he is as versatile as the film industry apparently wants me to believe.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 2:26pm

Never liked Hoffman, never seen what the big deal is, entirely mostly adequate in everything but nothing at all special or even interesting. He does pretty much what any capable actor would do, no less and certainly no more. The ongoing delusion that he's some kind of major actor is right up there with Clint Eastwood's status as Major Director as Cultural Mysteries Of Our Time.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:02pm

I agree with you Roscoe. He's good, but not better than so many others.
And while I find Eastwood to be a efficient and slick director, I don't see the brilliance he supposedly imbues in his films.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:15pm

I agree with Eastwood but I heartily disagree with Hoffman. He has been one of the few actors to consistently pick interesting films (MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 notwithstanding) and always is fearless to go places other actors wouldn't dare. I mean, in SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK, there are several scenes of him performing a bowel movement. Or check out his sweaty sex scene in BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD. I feel that his backlash is completely undeserved.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:17pm

It's not backlash, I never liked him.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:19pm

But he poops! On film!

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 3:53pm

I wouldn't go so far as to call his performances poop, but they're pretty lame and uninteresting.

As taz said, there is no backlash. I've never liked any of his performances.

[otis33]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 4:56pm

I'm a little biased, but LURIE POSTON gives a kick ass performance in READY? OK!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/16/08 at 5:36pm

No, I was referring to the scenes in SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK during which he is performing bowel movements and you see a close-up of one of his turds as he digs through it with a spoon.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/17/08 at 11:32pm

[The Bearded Lady]

Posted: 12/18/08 at 3:53pm

Wall-E
Milk
SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK.