List by NickScholer
Thumbs In The Middle
My wonderful collection of two and a half star rated movies.
There's more than this. Give me time to put it all up there.
My wonderful collection of two and a half star rated movies.
There's more than this. Give me time to put it all up there.
Vincent Vega will be happy to know that I watched Nolan's Insomnia the other day and enjoyed it. So it's off the list.
Yes for many of these but I have to disagree on Life Aquatic, Contagion, Bad Santa, Kick-Ass, and Scott Pilgrim.
Life Aquatic's story of a son and his estranged father really spoke to me (even though my father and I are not estranged).
Contagion was the best of it's genre, IMHO, and a masterpiece in terms of humanizing those who actually spend their lives protecting civilians from these plagues. They are not just "big brother," their motives are as pure as most anyone else.
Bad Santa might be a guilty pleasure for me, but I find it's type of humor refreshingly vulgar in the midst of a very sanitized world of comedy we're living in right now.
Kick-Ass was truly kick ass.
Scott Pilgrim was not as good at the graphic novels, but it got the characters mostly right, and understood at the heart of it that Scott's girl of his dreams was really just a normal girl, and he had to respect himself enough to make a clear decision about his future. Also the editing is outstanding and the music is superb.
But that's just my opinion. Great list, imho :)
Oh, also A Scanner Darkly. Great flick, in my opinion.
I'd be upset if there were four pages of movies and no one disagreed with me...
Great idea for a list. It seems like a good thing, to be able to see how many average movies you've seen:-) There are lot's of these I haven't seen, but of the ones I've seen I agree with a few, disagree with a few, and can see what you mean with the rest.
These, however, I don't understand. How can they get such a low rating;
Con Air?!!
Where The Wild Things Are?!!
Precious
The Soloist
Lords of Dogtown
Kick Ass?
I know I'm not the only person that thinks Kick-Ass has tone problems.
My wife found the nihilistic world of the graphic novel a bit too much and refuses to watch the flick.
Miss T... I'm with Nick on most of those, Where The Wild Things Are even more. I found it incredibly disappointing, lacking a very true heart. I could sense what it was intending to do, but for me it never got there.
Nothing I've seen had really reached that kind of honest place of childhood until I saw Beasts of the Southern Wild last week. I found that was everything Where The Wild Things Are wanted itself to be.
But again, that's just me.
Nick, I may steal this idea for my own list. I like it!
Feel free.
It takes fortitude, but not as much as my Wasteland list.
Crazy list man, there are a shit ton of movies i love up there!!
a.k.a. The Super Okay List