Comments on: First Blush Review: Zero Dark Thirty http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/ Hollywood's Homepage Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:26:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Milano http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888194 Milano Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:28:26 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888194 More importantly, how rough is the shaky camerawork in "Zero Dark Thirty"? More importantly, how rough is the shaky camerawork in “Zero Dark Thirty”?

]]> By: jesse http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888097 jesse Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:14:58 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888097 Cadavra, to be fair, they did put out an epic long-ish trailer for Cloud Atlas that sold it as a big-scope movie with a lot of stars. It might've even made it look like more of a sci-fi movie than it really was. And that movie is tough to sell. But I do agree that someone should've been able to market it to $50 million or so. Cadavra, to be fair, they did put out an epic long-ish trailer for Cloud Atlas that sold it as a big-scope movie with a lot of stars. It might’ve even made it look like more of a sci-fi movie than it really was. And that movie is tough to sell.

But I do agree that someone should’ve been able to market it to $50 million or so.

]]> By: jesse http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888094 jesse Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:13:25 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888094 Yancy, A.I. should've been on my 2001 favorites list -- that would be number 5, after those other four, and I do love that movie (it's less absolutely perfect than the others I mentioned, but a great one nonetheless). I also really like Wet Hot American Summer and Monsters Inc. and the Man Who Wasn't There. But I don't have a great bounty of 2001 movies I love. I'm not big on Mulholland Drive or Gosford Park or Spirited Away. And anyway, a great movie year for me is more of a bulk/volume game. There are lots of years where I can find five or six movies I really liked. I mean, really, if a movie year isn't yielding that much, it's pretty lousy. But the years when I can name 20 or 30, that's something a bit more special (and how could I forget Jesse James in 2007? LOVE that one, too). Double D, I'm with you on UP as the kind of 2009, and Hurt Locker and Avatar being more good than great, but 2009 also offered: Inglourious Basterds, The Brothers Bloom, A Serious Man, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Adventureland, Where the Wild Things Are, Observe and Report, Star Trek, Funny People, The Girlfriend Experience AND The Informant, Away We Go, Moon... a volume game! 2003 is the one that sticks out for me as pretty middling. Favorites that year: Kill Bill Volume 1, Once Upon a Time in Mexico (really), Big Fish, American Splendor, Lost in Translation... some others in '03 that I like, but dries up pretty quickly after that top five (and that top five isn't as strong as some other years). Yancy, A.I. should’ve been on my 2001 favorites list — that would be number 5, after those other four, and I do love that movie (it’s less absolutely perfect than the others I mentioned, but a great one nonetheless). I also really like Wet Hot American Summer and Monsters Inc. and the Man Who Wasn’t There. But I don’t have a great bounty of 2001 movies I love. I’m not big on Mulholland Drive or Gosford Park or Spirited Away.

And anyway, a great movie year for me is more of a bulk/volume game. There are lots of years where I can find five or six movies I really liked. I mean, really, if a movie year isn’t yielding that much, it’s pretty lousy. But the years when I can name 20 or 30, that’s something a bit more special (and how could I forget Jesse James in 2007? LOVE that one, too).

Double D, I’m with you on UP as the kind of 2009, and Hurt Locker and Avatar being more good than great, but 2009 also offered: Inglourious Basterds, The Brothers Bloom, A Serious Man, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Adventureland, Where the Wild Things Are, Observe and Report, Star Trek, Funny People, The Girlfriend Experience AND The Informant, Away We Go, Moon… a volume game!

2003 is the one that sticks out for me as pretty middling. Favorites that year: Kill Bill Volume 1, Once Upon a Time in Mexico (really), Big Fish, American Splendor, Lost in Translation… some others in ’03 that I like, but dries up pretty quickly after that top five (and that top five isn’t as strong as some other years).

]]> By: Double D http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888067 Double D Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:04:56 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888067 2007 is the best movie year of the decade, no questions. 2002 and 2003 close behind. 2010 maybe with social network, Inception and True Grit. 2007 - No Country, Blood, Diving Bell, Michael Clayton, Jesse James, Rataouille, Bourne Ulti, Into the Wild, The Host, No End in Sight. Plus some solid three stars: American Gangster, 310 to Yuma, Atonement, sweeny todd, charlie wilson's war, Zodiac (though many think that's a classic). 2005 likely being the worst. Brokeback is still a good movie, but not nearly as a big deal as people made it at the time. Capote's fine, good night and good luck is an afternoon school special. Crash sucks. Munich's a great 90 minute movie stretched 2.5 hours. 2009 might be worst runner-up. The only ageless movie that year is UP. Hurt Locker and Avatar I think are good, but don't hold a candle to UP. District 9 also really solid. 2007 is the best movie year of the decade, no questions. 2002 and 2003 close behind. 2010 maybe with social network, Inception and True Grit.

2007 – No Country, Blood, Diving Bell, Michael Clayton, Jesse James, Rataouille, Bourne Ulti, Into the Wild, The Host, No End in Sight. Plus some solid three stars: American Gangster, 310 to Yuma, Atonement, sweeny todd, charlie wilson’s war, Zodiac (though many think that’s a classic).

2005 likely being the worst. Brokeback is still a good movie, but not nearly as a big deal as people made it at the time. Capote’s fine, good night and good luck is an afternoon school special. Crash sucks. Munich’s a great 90 minute movie stretched 2.5 hours.

2009 might be worst runner-up. The only ageless movie that year is UP. Hurt Locker and Avatar I think are good, but don’t hold a candle to UP. District 9 also really solid.

]]> By: cadavra http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888064 cadavra Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:50:25 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888064 CLOUD ATLAS is another example of Warners' inability to sell anything whose star doesn't wear a cape or wave a wand. Instead of marketing it as an epic adventure with an all-star cast (including at least four Oscar winners), they sold it as a vegetable movie: "You'll need to see it several times, 'cause you won't understand it." Not saying it woulda been a blockbuster, but it shoulda done 50, 60 just on the cast and directors. Instead it's done about $8 million less than THINK LIKE A MAN's <i>opening weekend.</i> CLOUD ATLAS is another example of Warners’ inability to sell anything whose star doesn’t wear a cape or wave a wand. Instead of marketing it as an epic adventure with an all-star cast (including at least four Oscar winners), they sold it as a vegetable movie: “You’ll need to see it several times, ’cause you won’t understand it.” Not saying it woulda been a blockbuster, but it shoulda done 50, 60 just on the cast and directors. Instead it’s done about $8 million less than THINK LIKE A MAN’s opening weekend.

]]> By: YancySkancy http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888062 YancySkancy Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:47:31 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888062 I dunno, 2001 also had these titles, which ain't chopped liver, IMO: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence Mulholland Drive Spirited Away Last Orders Amelie Gosford Park The Others The Man Who Wasn't There I dunno, 2001 also had these titles, which ain’t chopped liver, IMO:

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Mulholland Drive
Spirited Away
Last Orders
Amelie
Gosford Park
The Others
The Man Who Wasn’t There

]]> By: jesse http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888054 jesse Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:17:54 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888054 I also really like The Fountain! (I wondered if Cloud Atlas might be in trouble box-office wise when I realized one of the demos among my friends where it seemed to do well in terms of wanting to see it was "people who really liked The Fountain"). That is a good '06er, although I admit it might not have made my ten-best list in another year. I also really like The Fountain! (I wondered if Cloud Atlas might be in trouble box-office wise when I realized one of the demos among my friends where it seemed to do well in terms of wanting to see it was “people who really liked The Fountain”). That is a good ’06er, although I admit it might not have made my ten-best list in another year.

]]> By: sanj http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888050 sanj Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:46:19 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888050 nobody is talking about playing for keeps 2012 - look at all this talent that seems wasted on a family film ... Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Judy Greer.... Gabriele Muccino - director has done- The Pursuit of Happyness - chances are most people on here aren't going to see it and no dp/30's ... the end of the year brings action and drama ... everything else seems to not get noticed - family / indie films ... those have to work way harder to get peoples attention... that's why we need film critics . also Jessica Chastain is on the cover of the new UK GQ magazine... nobody is talking about playing for keeps 2012 –

look at all this talent that seems wasted on a family film …

Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Judy Greer….

Gabriele Muccino – director has done- The Pursuit of Happyness –

chances are most people on here aren’t going to see it and no dp/30′s …

the end of the year brings action and drama … everything else seems to not get noticed – family / indie films … those have to work way harder to get peoples
attention… that’s why we need film critics .

also Jessica Chastain is on the cover of the new UK GQ
magazine…

]]> By: Jack Cerf http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888043 Jack Cerf Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:56:08 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888043 I've seen Jason Clarke's "I'm here to break you" speech in the trailer. I've also seen that speech in many other movies, but the guy giving it always had twin lightning bolts on his collar or a red star on his hat. I have faith that Bigelow and Boal have told a terrific story, and I can't wait for the political debate that it will provoke once the pundits get to watch it. I’ve seen Jason Clarke’s “I’m here to break you” speech in the trailer. I’ve also seen that speech in many other movies, but the guy giving it always had twin lightning bolts on his collar or a red star on his hat. I have faith that Bigelow and Boal have told a terrific story, and I can’t wait for the political debate that it will provoke once the pundits get to watch it.

]]> By: etguild2 http://moviecitynews.com/2012/11/first-blush-review-zero-dark-thirty/#comment-888040 etguild2 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:38:58 +0000 http://moviecitynews.com/?p=162624#comment-888040 I think I have the same problem with last year as you have with 2006...aside from Tree of Life, Hugo, Drive and Another Earth, nothing really reached me. But then again, I have a great love of The Fountain in 2006, which leaves most people totally detached... Completely agree on 2001. I think I have the same problem with last year as you have with 2006…aside from Tree of Life, Hugo, Drive and Another Earth, nothing really reached me. But then again, I have a great love of The Fountain in 2006, which leaves most people totally detached…

Completely agree on 2001.

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