Sunday, January 2, 2011
100 in 2010! Holiday Inn (1942)
This was a re-watch but a watch nonetheless. Sweet holiday song and dance movie with incredibly racist moments (a black face number celebrating Lincoln's birthday).
Quick 2010 Catch Up!
I haven't posted since October! It's not like I haven't seen any films in those two months--just busy busy with life and the other movie blog. So, here's a quick rundown of the last films I watched in 2010 before I start my first film of 2011:
Dance Girl Dance (1940): Interesting enough but, eh. Lucille Ball is super though.
Legion (2010): Ugh. Stay away. I love Paul Bettany but this film just isn't worth it.
Christine (1983): Maybe if I'd seen it years ago, I'd be creeped out.
Frailty (2001): Er. Yeah. Little transparent.
When in Rome (2010): Why does everyone hate romcoms all of a sudden? This one is perfectly cute and enjoyable.
Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008): Who greenlighted this project? And why did I watch it?
Drag Me to Hell (2009): Ah! Yick! Good but YICK!
The Warriors (1979): Just a TAD dated.
Tangled (2010): Brilliant.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010): I just wanted this to be a complete movie in and of itself and it's not.
Santa Claus (1959): Oh. My. God. Import from Mexico complete with racism, the Devil (and devils), and creepiness unlike anything in any other supposedly Christian-leaning Christmas movie I've seen.
Valhalla Rising (2009): Gorgeous. But, what?
The Proposal (2009): Seriously, why do people hate this movie? Singing? Dancing? Betty White? I laughed out loud at it.
The Bounty Hunter (2010): Ok people. THIS is a bad romcom.
The Snow Creature (1959): A pair of American botanists go to Himalayas (Japan) and are guided by Sherpas (Japanese people who speak Japanese), find a Yeti, bring it back to LA, and loose it on the city accidentally. Not as fun as it sounds.
True Grit (2010): Brilliant. But I want the girl to get higher billing rightnow.
The King's Speech (2010): Genius. I adore Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Helena Bonham Carter is lovely and restrained. And there's a whole scene of yelling obscenities.
Black Swan (2010): So, yeah. Not what I expected. Good but a tad misguided in it's metaphorical thread perhaps. Gorgeous in a lot of places. Hideous and cringe-worthy in others.
I also watched these (since Sept but I forget which I mentioned here) but talked about them on the other blog: Umberto D (1952), In the Year of the Pig (1952), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), La Strada (1954), The Battle of San Pietro (1945), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), An American in Paris (1951), Last Year in Marienbad (1961), Gandhi (1982), and White Heat (1949).
That makes for 99 films in 2010. (A few might have slipped through the cracks in the past two months because I wasn't keeping a good list but I was also busy so I doubt many slipped through if any.)
Starting off 2011: The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Dance Girl Dance (1940): Interesting enough but, eh. Lucille Ball is super though.
Legion (2010): Ugh. Stay away. I love Paul Bettany but this film just isn't worth it.
Christine (1983): Maybe if I'd seen it years ago, I'd be creeped out.
Frailty (2001): Er. Yeah. Little transparent.
When in Rome (2010): Why does everyone hate romcoms all of a sudden? This one is perfectly cute and enjoyable.
Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008): Who greenlighted this project? And why did I watch it?
Drag Me to Hell (2009): Ah! Yick! Good but YICK!
The Warriors (1979): Just a TAD dated.
Tangled (2010): Brilliant.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010): I just wanted this to be a complete movie in and of itself and it's not.
Santa Claus (1959): Oh. My. God. Import from Mexico complete with racism, the Devil (and devils), and creepiness unlike anything in any other supposedly Christian-leaning Christmas movie I've seen.
Valhalla Rising (2009): Gorgeous. But, what?
The Proposal (2009): Seriously, why do people hate this movie? Singing? Dancing? Betty White? I laughed out loud at it.
The Bounty Hunter (2010): Ok people. THIS is a bad romcom.
The Snow Creature (1959): A pair of American botanists go to Himalayas (Japan) and are guided by Sherpas (Japanese people who speak Japanese), find a Yeti, bring it back to LA, and loose it on the city accidentally. Not as fun as it sounds.
True Grit (2010): Brilliant. But I want the girl to get higher billing rightnow.
The King's Speech (2010): Genius. I adore Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Helena Bonham Carter is lovely and restrained. And there's a whole scene of yelling obscenities.
Black Swan (2010): So, yeah. Not what I expected. Good but a tad misguided in it's metaphorical thread perhaps. Gorgeous in a lot of places. Hideous and cringe-worthy in others.
I also watched these (since Sept but I forget which I mentioned here) but talked about them on the other blog: Umberto D (1952), In the Year of the Pig (1952), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), La Strada (1954), The Battle of San Pietro (1945), Trouble in Paradise (1932), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), An American in Paris (1951), Last Year in Marienbad (1961), Gandhi (1982), and White Heat (1949).
That makes for 99 films in 2010. (A few might have slipped through the cracks in the past two months because I wasn't keeping a good list but I was also busy so I doubt many slipped through if any.)
Starting off 2011: The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
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