Highlights of the Past Decade

One of the films during which you can hear either the red or white fella on your shoulder murmur "This is great, nothing's foul here, you'll love it." I cannot remember what I loved the most about Mr. Brooks, but I do remember that the acting was good, it was executed in class, and you just gotta love killers.

Different from others alike, visually great. I need to watch this again if you absolutely want me to elaborate. Good thing is I remember Collateral after seeing it seven years ago, and everything I saw that day on the big screen appealed to me, so it can't be all that bad. Chose this on my list out of a spontaneous itch.

For no reason, I'm usually not a fan of innocent stories about a boy who discovers life and battles the bad world. Honestly those movies just bore me most of the time, but City of God had edge. It did not dwell, which is often the way that people do these sorta films.

I'm a huge fan of horror and I've watched a remarkable amount of horror movies in the past couple of years, and even since the dawn of my birth. I'm usually most attracted to slasher and least attracted to pretentiously witty psychological studies into the human mind. Along these words Guillermo whatever Toro can go drown in a drain. Let the Right One In was however not slasher nor pretentiously clever, it was simply put original. Very nice work.

The underlining tone of Inside Man is like drug for me. I've seen this film about three or four times and could easily watch it a five times more. The performances, the storyline, the screenplay, the music, they'll never exit my train of thought. "My throat is parched"

I knew I was in for something special pretty early, but Jesus fucking Christ. The final scenes of There Will Be Blood.. if you're not impressed, if you don't feel amazement, I guess then you've watched too many films in your lifetime or suffer from a disease so eloquently called YOU HEARTLESS, TASTELESS MORON OFF YOURSELF IN FAVOR OF CINEMATOGRAPHY AND WHATEVER GOES ALONG WITH IT SYNDROME.

Mulholland Drive has a lot of quality on it. The exiting underlining tone that I said was like drug in Inside Man, perfomances to go berserk over, just something special. It's like sex but only with two women and David Lynch, so why wouldn't it be amongst my favorites?

Maybe not perfect all the way around, but still very good. I personally thought this movie was like the exact, barbaric spearish pick the lady has on the cover of the DVD; it's simple enough, straight forward, does not talk shit, does not negotiate, does not let bad actors get in the way by carrying out too long sentences and actually revealing that they don't have the skill for real drama. Shortly stated it boils down to this: whatever lines the actors have, they're not too long, the actors stay in the boundaries of credibility, and the action and gore is much like a Glock pointed in your eye.

Reminded me of older giallos and whatever old horror movies you can write quality on. Nice, simple tricks to induce horror, gore was nicely done, and the atmosphere actually gets distressing toward the end. I've yet to watch Martyrs which is supposedly a thousand times more horrifying, so we'll see how that turns out.

The story combines drama (action & love affair) but doesn't get messy or too, sort of, huge with the subjects (much like in the Spider-Man movies with all the possible love and whatever nonsense you'd make up combined into blender). Jeremy Renner is great, I mean he shows some real talent. Blake Lively is great as well, I loved her in this one. It has nothing to do with me following Gossip Girl like a 14-year-old, Lively was honestly good. Ben Affleck has definitely got something to say and something to show as a director, as he put out some very good ideas and generally executed his part in making of The Town very well. Not as memorable as, say, Inside Man, not yet at least, but still a highlight in the last ten years of film.

Rude, raw, nasty, ugly and memorable. Not necessarily a fan of Bana, but this is definitely is best work I've seen to date. No nonsense, no tricks, Chopper has been one of my favorites for the past 10 years.