Is it that time of year already? In the following days I'll be posting up everybody's favorite lists and recaps of year that was. Tonight, movies! Instead of copping out last year and just saying Hurt Locker was the only movie worth being on my Top 5 list, I'm just going to do a recap of movies in 2010 this time because I honestly didn't go out to the theatre much. Now I haven't seen all of these movies and by no means are these the best films of the year.If you want that watch the Oscars. (That was a joke) But truthfully the movies I view are far too obscure and cool for the nearly too obscure and cool as me crowd that this blog caters too.
The term "long awaited Scorcese film" gets thrown around quite often these days in the film industry. That's why I'll just introduce this movie as simply, Shutter Island. I popped this in one day during lunch and sat through it even though it had been spoiled for me a few weeks beforehand. The movie centers around a Leonardo DiCaprio on an island filled with crazy people. Through the film, he cries a lot and sees creepy people and even a lady covered in blood! It was a decent movie in the same vein of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, did I just ruin it for you? Sorry. I gave this movie 87 iPod Touches.
More after the jump.
There is something about racial-ambiguity that always strikes a chord in my heart. Watching Michael Caine act with such class and distinction, while ignoring the fact that if I were English, I would probably see right through his accent, just gives me tingles up my ignorant spine.
Enter Sandman. I mean Prince of Persia. Despite Papyrus type being the first thing I see in the movie, a white Jake Gyllenhaal and an English Gemma Arterton are able to prance around on the silver screen literally making me forget that they are supposed to be prancing in Persia. But this isn't the first time Hollywood pulled a fast one over our heads. The Mexican starring Brad Pitt. The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. Even that Dragonball movie where all the fan boys were complaining that Piccolo was yellow and not green! Not to mention a white Goku.
But the Persian Prince and Princess with a British accent followed the Hollywood formula of how to make decent movie well enough to keep my attention. I give it three Gemma Artertons out of five.
(Yes, I realize that there would be no chance of these characters speaking English come on? A dagger that could reverse time? You can't tell me that is believable. Plus, Gyllenhaal's chest was just hairy enough to make suspend my disbelief.)
Okay so this movie came out in the middle of 2009 but give me a break. I didn't get to see it until it became free on Netflix Instant View! Anyways, I thought Thirst was pretty good and definitely a lot darker, believe it or not, then Park's other movies. The movie is basically like the opposite of Twilight series in America. The main character is a middle aged man instead of a prepubescent girl. It's in Korea instead of a town named after a pointy eating utensil. It's also a good movie. It's the kind that gives you a fuzzy feeling inside after you walk out the theatre, I'm not talking about all the butter you put on your popcorn either. I give this movie 25 nipples and one male full frontal!
I walked into the free college movie theatre, popcorn in hand, ready to spend the next few hours watching Michael Cera play Michael Cera as he beats up a couple dudes and a girl. As the cheap projector displayed the VHS bootleg colleges always seem to have I felt something was wrong. My girlfriend and I looked around as we noticed the majority of the audience were women. Was this movie about what I thought it was? Then I heard some voice speak out to me. It was Julia Roberts. This was not Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. This was Eat Pray Love.
I actually did want to see this movie. If someone told me Mary Elizabeth Winstead successfully and romantically starred opposite Michael Cera I would have laughed in your face. But since I never got the chance to see it, haha!
Stay tuned for two more parts of 2010 in Film.
thirst was very dope.
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