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le nubian - Dec 29, 2009 9:16:24 pm PST #5853 of 30000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

"Taken" is such a bad movie. I mean damn. It's a shame that's at the top. It was as bad or worse than "Righteous Kill."

I have seen 5 of those movies. I do not understand why "The Proposal" made so much $$. Can someone explain this to me (it was one of the top movies of the summer!?!).

billytea - Dec 29, 2009 9:50:22 pm PST #5854 of 30000

You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

"Taken" is such a bad movie. I mean damn. It's a shame that's at the top. It was as bad or worse than "Righteous Kill."

Indeed. Unlike the cinematic revelation that is "Paul Blart: Mall Cop".

P.M. Marc - Dec 29, 2009 10:31:08 pm PST #5855 of 30000

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I'm not sure what I missed about that movie that everyone else got. Might have been my heart. Or my sense of magic. I totally didn't get it. I thought it was twee, and I didn't feel for either of the protagonists or care if they ever got together.

I found them unsympathetic to the point of disgust. It's one of my least favorite movies of all time.

Tom Scola - Dec 30, 2009 2:33:46 am PST #5856 of 30000

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Mulholland Drive tops both the Village Voice and Film Comment's best-of-the-decade lists:

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-t - Dec 30, 2009 6:35:39 am PST #5857 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It's kind of funny how little I remember Eternal Sunshine, considering the subject. However, I think I liked the movie while not wanting the characters to be together.

le nubian - Dec 30, 2009 6:39:27 am PST #5858 of 30000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

billytea,

ha! I can't speak to the Mall Cop movie because I haven't seen it. :-)

Scrappy - Dec 30, 2009 7:03:56 am PST #5859 of 30000

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Now, I HATED Mulholland drive and thought it was just lynchian self-indulgence.

Sophia Brooks - Dec 30, 2009 7:05:32 am PST #5860 of 30000

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I couldn't even stay awake for Mulholland Drive. I tried several times.

§ ita § - Dec 30, 2009 7:06:29 am PST #5861 of 30000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I stayed awake. I didn't see the point.

DavidS - Dec 30, 2009 7:24:16 am PST #5862 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I love Mulholland Drive! Love the look, love the story, love the performances. It's one of my favorite anti-Hollywood movies - up there with Sunset Boulevard, Barton Fink, In a Lonely Place and The Bad and the Beautiful. The story [spoiler] which is mostly a fantasy by a suicidal woman who got dumped by her female lover evokes the danger and appeal of Hollywood's illusion-making.

I even love all the stuff with the director (the actor who played him went on to write Tropical Thunder), especially the creepy Cowboy.

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