The Christmas holiday has a knack for doing two things. One, about 100 major theatrical releases all vying for a spot at the Oscars. Two, it keeps the movie nerds (us) home with family, friends and food rather than out at the multip-plex to see said films. That said, we managed to catch up with a few different currently released titles this week. Kurt indulged in the Spielbergian version of mo-cap while Andrew took Matt Gamble’s advice and caught up with Detective Holmes on his second go-around. But starting things off this week is some talk on the much buzzed about, silent picture, The Artist. Much buzzed and now much loved as well. A very very quick watch list then off to bed to rest up for what should be a lengthy week of playing catch-up in anticipation of year-end wrap-ups, lists and such.
As always, please join the conversation by leaving your own thoughts in the comment section below and again, thanks for listening!
http://rowthree.com/audio/cinecast_11/episode_239.mp3
Full show notes are under the seats…
IN-HOUSE BUSINESS:
– Kurt on Director’s Club Podcast (part ii – breaking down Breaking Bad)
MAIN REVIEWS:
– The Artist (Kurt’s video review)
OTHER REVIEW:
– Tin Tin
– Sherlock Holmes 2
THE WATCH LIST:
Andrew
– How to Train Your Dragon
– Sunset
DVDs/NETFLIX INSTANT NOW AVAILABLE:
Jandy’s DVD Triage
OTHER STUFF MENTIONED:
Best Movie Dogs of 2011
NEXT WEEK:
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
A Dangerous Method
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Congratulation on the 5 year partnership; it has lasted more than most marriages.
hahahaha. Well said, Antho!
Will you guys being doing a top ten episode this year. I
Hey Chris, Yeah either next episode or the one after that. I’m pretty much ready I think. Too bad I won’t see Polanski’s Carnage before the list.
Tin Tin. I’m with Goon on this one. It was incredibly boring. There are certainly some visual treats, but the two main characters are so one-note and the adventure takes place in starts and fits (mostly fits) that I just didn’t give a shit about anything other than some technical merits. I felt the pacing was terrible and I didn’t care a lick about the Captain – I wish he died early on. Way goofier than I thought it would be – bordering on Looney Toons in several places. I dozed off at least twice.
Speaking of best of list. I’m really surprised of the lack of love Rango is getting from the online film community lists.
Rest assured, there is a TONNE of love for RANGO in these parts!
Gomez, probably two reasons for that.
1) It was an early March film and I feel like a lot of people forget about films that far back.
2) People realized that other than visual prowess and one exciting action sequence, it’s a snooze-fest with mediocre dialogue and characters that could be interesting but are totally glossed over and have zero depth or character-arc whatsoever. In other words it’s extremely overrated (see also Wall-e).
I’ve seen 4 RowThree top tens thus far and no Rango to be seen.
I’d have to give Rango a second watch. I enjoyed watching it in theater quite a bit, but I’d have to see it again to see if it holds up.
Speaking of trends to me this was the year of movies that are very nostalgic/indicative of a time and place of cinema and it feels like it was moreso this year than most
The Artist
Drive(action movies/tone of a time past)
Contagion (star studded pandemic movies)
Super 8 & Attack the Block tried for the same period
I feel like there are more but I am blanking.
Curt thanks again for continually mentioning the lightbox, got to 2001 and it was amazing on the big screen.
Andrew, Rango is in my Top Twenty, just not my Top Ten. I really liked the film, and it’s moved up and down in my list a lot. It was in my top five of the first half of the year. I do think its early release has hurt it a bit – I try to balance the rush of recency, but sometimes it’s hard.
@Kurt – double check if DANGEROUS METHOD is actually playing with Canada’s Top Ten. The Vancouver editions doesn’t include the film due to its theatrical release.
It is listed in their Jan schedule (Jan 11th?)