[BlackDove]

Final Fantasy aside of course.

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Crash.

Such a simple yet intricate plot. To the average joe the story will seem about race/ethnicity, but down the line it turns out to be something else, making this film so much better for it.

Fantastic execution, amazing actors and amazing performance, in fact I think this is the first time I saw a hip-hop/rapper artist make such an amazing notable performance in a cinematic feature (Ludacris).

Amazing cast really, such as Don Cheadle, Ryan Phillipe, Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, etc. though it doesn't really matter. The less famous actors do an equally impressive job.

If you haven't seen it yet, just want to let you know, it's worth it.

Fan-tastic.

[Ford Prefect]

I fully agree. The first thing that struck me about that film, from the first few moments, was the beautiful use of light. It gave me a sense of seeing the whole thing as a kind of dream. Superb film.

[Night Hammer]

I agree, very good movie:yes:

[Mefustae]

Pffft, I challenge you to go see Wallace & Gromit and still say that ...

[mikhael]

Meh. Its a little screen movie.

I rather preferred Mr and Mrs Smith.

[Liberator]

Sin City

[mikhael]

Sin City was beautiful. Best use of light ever in a film.

At first I was all fanboyishly thrilled they were making it. Then I just knew they were going to totally mess it up. And then I saw it.

Bloody perfect.

[Ace]

Sin City was... weird... the whole Frodo as a creepy hopping cannibal thing was... weird.

Same with Mr. Goblin sex offender.

Seemed like if I attempted to make an Art Noir film after playing Max Payne and watching Silence of the Lambs at the same time while on acid. ...while staring at an Ork figurine painted yellow...

[Night Hammer]

Originally posted by Ace
Seemed like if I attempted to make an Art Noir film after playing Max Payne and watching Silence of the Lambs at the same time while on acid. ...while staring at an Ork figurine painted yellow...

Damn man you must have been trippin pretty bad huh:p

[Grey Wolf]

The movies I've seen this year haven't been bad, but none really worthy of being called the "best".

[Liberator]

The thing about Sin City is that it's not a movie based on the comic, it's the comic brought to life.  If it doesn't win Best something, the Academy itself is suspect.

[BlackDove]

I've seen Sin City. It was great. This is better.

And Mr. and Mrs. Smith was abysmal

[mikhael]

Mr. and Mrs. Smith was excellent. Perhaps its better when you're married.

Crash just looks like another short-story-mashup flick, set in a post-9/11 urban center. WHEEEEEE! Who wants to watch a film about every day life?

[BlackDove]

People with intelligence, as opposed to the Mr. and Mrs. Smith movie.

I'm sorry, but that movie was as thought provoking as a piece of rock. Maybe there is some redeeming factor in it if you're married, but come on. A good movie?

-_-

[Rictor]

Toronto International Film Festival pwns everything.

I saw four films this year, ranging from good to excellent, including Polanski's Oliver Twist and some crazy French action movie Banlieue 13 which made me feel good about mindless action again.

[Sandwich]

S'ok, mik... I loved Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and I ain't married. Both times I saw it, it was with people who either had been married, or were married.

[Ford Prefect]

Originally posted by mikhael
WHEEEEEE! Who wants to watch a film about every day life?

Some of the most beautiful works of literary and cinematic art have been deep examinations of everyday life. One of the goals of art is to cause you to see more in the apparently mundane, and I think that Crash most certainly accomplishes this. It's following a pattern set by some of the greatest minds in literature. James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, among many others, all created powerful works simply by peeling away the normality of the normal.

[aldo_14]

Worth noting some of the most meaningful works of art are not necessarily the most entertaining, though.

[Ford Prefect]

Well, I enjoy mindless entertainment as much as anyone else, but if a movie is highly entertaining but lacking in complex thought, I'm not going to refer to it as a good movie. I look at film as a form of literature, and if I can see that a movie is attempting to take itself seriously, I'm going to judge its intellectual content as selectively as I would judge a work of poetry or fiction.

[mikhael]

Originally posted by BlackDove
People with intelligence, as opposed to the Mr. and Mrs. Smith movie.

I'm sorry, but that movie was as thought provoking as a piece of rock. Maybe there is some redeeming factor in it if you're married, but come on. A good movie?

Ah, naturally, if one doesn't like what you do, the can't be intelligent. Or maybe that was if they like something you don't they must not be intelligent. Thank you Mr. President.

If I want something moving and intellectually satisfying, I'm not going to a MOVIE. Not a one made yet is as moving and intellectually satisfying as a good poem, a good novel, or better yet, a good stroll through the Smithsonian (take your pick which branch, they all rock) or the National Gallery.

Movies? Movies are bread and circuses.