Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[cirquelover]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

While I'm glad Daft Punkwas used for the score, I'm just glad we got to see them perform live 5 or so years ago.

The boy has been into Daft Punk for the last few months. I actually just put Interstella 555 at the top of the Netflix que, after much fuss from said boy. sadly the only time I'd heard the name before was on here, so at least he's being swanky I figure

[Alex]

I know Daft Punk must be good music because whenever I see them mentioned all anybody talks about is a) Tron, and b) what they wear.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

I know Daft Punk must be good music because whenever I see them mentioned all anybody talks about is a) Tron, and b) what they wear.

Pssh. You've been ignoring our Coachella reports.

[Alex]

Was that the show where they wore helments?

[€uroMeinke]

Yes

[Stan4dSteph]

I saw Black Swan yesterday. I thought it was good, and I enjoyed the psychological thriller aspect. I also seem to have a thing for ballet fashion, so I enjoyed that and all of the beautiful dance, which was in contrast to the unbalanced internal struggle of the main character.

[Ghoulish Delight]

For the first time I manged to keep an accurate list of my movie watching for a year. Kinda interesting looking back. I noted the movie, whether it was the firs time seeing it, the release year, whether we saw it the theater, wrote some quick thoughts, and gave each a rating. I tried as best I could to make the ratings simply "how did I feel at the time about the movie" and not necessarily a comparator between movies, so it's pretty fascinating to see those in hindsight and compare them to each other. Like the fact that I rated Observe and Report below Smiley Face, a truly awful, amateurish attempt at stoner comedy. Man did I not like O&R.

Movies watched: 39
First Time: 36 (wow, I don't rewatch movies as much as I used to)
2010 releases: 11
In Theater: 4 (all after June)
Highest Rated: Tie - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and ODDSAC (experimental music video/movie from Animal Collective)
Lowest Rated: The aforementioned Observer and Report

In hindsight, I think the only real change I'd make is to have rated Imaginarium of Dr. Parnasus a little higher, making a 3-way tie for first. Scanning the list, that one jumps out as being as enjoyable to watch as the others.

Meanwhile, we watched the original Tron this weekend. Sigh, not quite what I remembered (not childhood memories, really only saw it for the first time 5 or so years ago). It was not as technically detailed (in terms of depth of analogy between program "characters" and actual programming concepts) as my memory was giving credit for. I guess I was handicapping it for having the audacity to allude to ANY sort of technical computer concepts in an era where they were completely foreign to most. Alas, they really didn't do much more than throw some jargon in to sound impressive.

[Alex]

My stats

Movies Watched in 2010: 146
2010 Releases: 61 (includes 3 2010 movies seen since the beginning of the year)
Had already seen: 5
Movies Seen at the theater: 56

I only use a five point scale for my personal notes so not a lot of differentiation

Highest rated at time seen (both 5 of 5): Toy Story 3 and 127 Hours (I'd pick neither of them as my favorite movie of the year but they invoked strong feelings while walking out of the theater. I saw 31 movies I gave 4s to so it wasn't a bad year.

Lowest rated at time seen (lots of competition): Deep in the Valley (2009), Legion, When in Rome, The Cannonball Run II (1984), Repo Men, High Kick Girl! (2009, Japan), Jonah Hex, Species, Crank 2: High Voltage

Movies in the list of things seen in 2010 where just looking at the title on the list I have no idea what it is (some of these I rated highly):

People Will Talk (1951) - 4 of 5 - Ah, a Cary Grant movie, I still don't remember it even after looking it up.
My Name is Bruce (2009) - 2 of 5 - Ah, a spoof on Bruce Campbell's cult fame.
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006) - 3 of 5 - Ah, a comedy about what happens when a woman reveals to her boyfriend that she once had sex with her dog.
The Boys Are Back (2009) - 2 of 5 - Ah, a cookie-cutter grief drama of Clive Owen having to figure out how to raise his sons after the death of their mother.
Cop Out (2010) - 2 of 5 - Ah, that bad cop buddy movie with Tracy Morgan (thus almost by default bad) and Bruce Willis.
The Stranger (1946) - 4 of 5 - Ah, finding secret Nazis. Actually was very interesting for shedding light on an aspect of the post-war mood. Not such a great movie just as a movie.
Paper Heart (2009) - 3 of 5 - Ah, that Michael Cera/Charlyne Yi relationship mockumentary.

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

For the first time I manged to keep an accurate list of my movie watching for a year.

What did you use to keep track?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

Movies Seen at the theater: 56

If I ever need advice on movie-going, I'm going to ask you.

Steph - GD used an Excel spreadsheet.