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Post by mayor on Jul 29, 2009 20:17:33 GMT -6
Almost Famous is a fucking great movie.
That's all.
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 29, 2009 20:35:58 GMT -6
I was going to post this last night, but forgot: His columns where he does the movie quotes (he's done several of them over the years) are some of the greatest writing of the last ten years. Seriously, I know I'm a homer, but those are just some quality writing. Because I'm horribly uncreative and inartistic, maybe I'm putting more value on them than they deserve. Maybe it's easy for talented writers to do those type of columns. I don't know. But I know every time I read them, I'm just astounded.
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Post by gk on Jul 29, 2009 22:58:58 GMT -6
Love Almost Famous. That said, making it the "Movie of the Decade" is ridiculous. Not as ridiculous as Dark Knight, but still pretty asinine.
My first three votes would go to The Royal Tenenbaums. It's eminently re-watchable, has a great ensemble cast, and for better or worse, spawned an entire style that epitomizes the trends of moviemaking of this decade.
My fourth vote would be "Spellbound." Satisfies all the criteria, and like The RTs, spawned a style of documentary that has been parrotted for the past 10 years.
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 30, 2009 0:44:33 GMT -6
I don't know what the movie of the decade is, but I know the Royal Tenenbaums is not in the top 500.
How come every time we have a different opinion, you're always on the wrong side?
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Post by mayor on Jul 30, 2009 7:47:23 GMT -6
I agree that Almost Famous is not the movie of the decade, but I give him props for choosing it. It's one of my top 10 of the decade. I imagine it wasn't a popular choice among his many admirers, and that's kinda why I like it (I'm not a huge BS fan).
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Post by mayor on Jul 30, 2009 7:53:24 GMT -6
My two favorite movies of the decade: Children of Men and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
No special criteria - just my favorites.
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Post by gk on Jul 30, 2009 8:54:41 GMT -6
Like it or not, Wes Anderson is probably the most influential director of the past 20 years. I mean, "Little Miss Sunshine", "Juno", "Napolean Dynamite" and even the show "Flight of the Conchords" are all leaves on the deadpan-indie tree, which it probably the overwhelming movie trend of the decade. And Royal Tenenbaums is the movie that took deadpan-indie and made it mainstream (and marginally profitable).
You don't have to like it. The chances of two people coming up with the same Movie of the Decade are slim, no matter the criteria. But at the risk of overstatement, The Royal Tenenbaums is the influential and ultimately longest lasting movie of the decade.
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Post by finkle on Jul 30, 2009 11:25:14 GMT -6
i think the only movie mentioned in this whole thread that i've seen is dark knight.....wait, no, i saw napoleon dynamite.
i enjoy reading BS...but couldn't finish this one. the first 4-5 quotes were all about the ariza/artest thing. i lost interest.
that said, his next piece should be a fun read, now that big papi has been linked to roids.
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Post by mayor on Jul 30, 2009 12:08:58 GMT -6
Any article he writes about basketball is boring to me. I just liked his choice of movie.
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Post by gk on Jul 30, 2009 12:21:21 GMT -6
Any article he writes about basketball is boring to me. I just liked his choice of movie. Which is ironic, because it's probably the only sport that he knows well and in-depth. |
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Post by mayor on Jul 30, 2009 13:13:09 GMT -6
And that's probably why I'm not much of a fan. I just don't get in to basketball anymore. If I had a team I cared about, I'm sure it would be different.
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 30, 2009 15:32:58 GMT -6
His next podcast with Jacko is going to be indescribable.
No, I understand what Anderson has brought to the table, but as a movie by itself, I don't like RT. Juno and Sunshine I thought were great.
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Post by gk on Jul 30, 2009 15:51:55 GMT -6
Fair enough. Lot of people didn't like the RTs. It's probably my favorite movie. And I'm a Wes Anderson apologist to the extreme.
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Post by fatmenace on Jul 30, 2009 16:09:19 GMT -6
I did like Life Aquatic. It took a few viewings, but it really grew on me.
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Post by finkle on Jul 31, 2009 7:34:06 GMT -6
seriously, these are all real movies?
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