Having since broken in to the comfort machine of netflix, i haven't invested much of my time and dollar bill signs into new-fangled luxury movies. But of the ones I have seen, I shall rate them in order according to their netflix queue worthiness.
Fellow blogger, I will call them French Revolution, pointed out this website link as an aid to derive this list but honestly its only making it harder and aiding in me feel like a real culture slack. This has been built of my own mind, with no regard to actual release dates.
ooh a numbering feature in blogger, how exciting and accomodating:
- that movie by almodovar. The story about the mom being dead but she really wasn't dead, but was she? You be the judge. oh warning, spoiler alert! And she was hiding under the bed and passing gas. that moment actually brought me to tears with its realness. I love Almodovar films for his great ability to capture a really believable source of feminity and female relationships.
- Hot Fuzz. maybe its because I watched this on the back of a headrest on a plane home from London. Taking a lot of pride in laughing out loud under my headphones. I loved the idea that this story was an entire metaphor for The Kinks: Village Green Preservation Society, and even used the song too! Totally ricoculous goodness.
- Sicko. I thought it would be impressive to include a documentary in my top 3 to impress you. This movie did a good job making me jealous (not hard to do) of European moms. It was manipulative Moore at its finest. Lol moment: talking to Canadians about Celine Dion. oh dear.
- Knocked Up. Getting back to funny business, this movie was a walk through a field of all my obnoxious immature male friends. So long as you can suspend the disbelief that a hot girl would even hook up with Seth Rogans laugh, and then potentially replicate it with a baby, and perpetrate a relationship with him... then you can enjoy some of the stuff that I forget happens in it.
- Atonement. You will see alot of the selections here have a soft spot for me due to my coincidental introduction to Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" (Joe Wright movie version) and my summer holiday in London. You might be impressed that I read a short story by Ian McEwan once simply because the lead singer from Shudder to Think scored a movie based upon it. The movie was moving, the short story was mediocre itself but I digress. My good friend, I will call Angrea, introduced me to Joe Wrights ability to capture and replicate the excitement of romance and crushes in film. So when I discovered he took on the lauded authors tale of a dirty letter that ruins some lives, opting to put my up and coming crush as the lead role, it was a nobrainer for me. I also like to look at Kiera Kn1ghtly's skin at 900%. This movie reminded me of the Almodovar flick in the sense that he really nails the p.o.v. of a young female very successfully. This may be attributed to the authors credit, however, I am not going to bother to find out.
- Pans Labyrnth. A true movie critic can parse out the wannabe "black snake moans", "Rescue Dawns" and "September Dawns" from the authentic fantasy and drama that Guillermo Del Toro might be known for. This movie touched my soul. I have used this movie for a year now to demonstrate the importance of plotting out your concepts on paper (see website). Bearing this in mind it occurs to me that this movie was made last year, but since I didn't write anything about movies last year, you'll let this one slide. The only problem I had with this movie is that once, in sixth grade, I was a final contestant in a spelling bee and I lost on the word rhythm. It always causes me to have to look up the spelling on words like it with an h and y and t.
- Black Snake Moan. you may be surprised by the fact that I saw this at all, let alone include it among my top 10. I had the privelage of watching this movie in the back of a 2007 Chrysler Pacifica with a family of four. (get your mind out of the gutter!) We all laughed when the donkey got sassy with the ogre!
- Freedom Writers. I saw this movie because I went on a date and we wanted something that we could talk intellectually about. Inadvertantly it led to me becoming a teacher and he and I broke up due to my commitment to the movie. woops! Spolier! this review was based on atrue story.
- Becoming Jane. See 2 and 4. again with the James McEv0y and
Kiera Kn1ghtly(editors note: I was confused by the pristine complexions. this movie features the lovely almost animation-like exagerated beauty of Anne Hathaway). I was let down when there were no thrilling hand touches like in Joe Wright films and the story of pride and prejudice was just thrown all up on the back of the headrest on my flight to London. A scene from the film, in which some woman (maybe Jane Austen) travelled on her lonesome (circa what 1800?) ironically unfolded very similarly for me with a Napoleanic Customs official upon arriving. Stupid bitch. I almost started a best selling series because of it. - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. This one came in the form of Netflix and also features Kiera. Starting to yawn yet. No! cuz she is snarky in these. And this is adventure at its best. and I can almost follow all the plotlines on these pirates, except for this one. there are like 3 bad guys and someone who looks like calamari. It was good to televiserphonerkittynet to nonetheless.
