A third for Toy Story. When I first saw it I was just amazed by everything in the movie. Most especially I’d like to point out how amazingly well-done the characters are; in a regular Disney movie they’d all be flat caricatures, but Toy Story’s characters have genuine personalities.
I’m gonna throw out Star Wars as well (the original trilogy, but in particular The Empire Strikes Back). For what it was, it was executed perfectly in my opinion. Those three movies are some of the only ones I’ve watched time and time again and haven’t gotten bored of.
I have a problem with Holes, though. I didn’t think it was a bad movie, but I thought it was somewhat…off-kilter. It seemed like it couldn’t decide whether to be a typical family movie or a strange, almost surreal film (there were some weird things in that movie. It actually disturbed me a little, though I’m not really sure why). That’s probably just me, though.
I’ll slightly disagree. From memory, Sadesky, the Soviet ambassador, reveals the whole crucial business of the “domesday machine” while most of the US bomber fleet is still en route. Assuming MAD, this automated Soviet response in the face of an all-out assault isn’t so absurd. Revealing it later, when there’s only the lone bomber on course to an essentially irrelevant target, and thus making clear that the actual stakes are the future of most of humanity balanced against a pinprick, would be much more appropriately cruel.
*For some reason when Uma’s character is saying “That’s when you know you can be really comfortable around someone. When you can just sit down, and shut the fuck up.” it always strikes me that that is just one curse word too many. At no other part of the movie do I think that. The use of the F word in that sentence just seems so uneccesary. I don’t understand myself either.
O Brother is is first one that occured to me. The Coen brothers truly made a masterpiece there. Not one thing is ill considered in that movie. I could watch it all day long.
I may be a tad biased since it is my favorite film, but I just bought the new special edition DVD last night and watched it again. I must have seen it at least 100 times by now. There are usually one or two things even in my most favorite movies that I don’t like, but in this case I can’t find anything that strikes me as wrong: the casting and performances seem perfect to me, the music, the pacing–some of James Ivory’s other films tend to drag at points–and of course it’s all beautifully photographed. Plus, it’s a wonderful adaption of the novel.
Terence Malik’s Badlands which I have watched over and over again. When it came on cable TV and I got my teenage son to watch it, he was slack jawed in amazement. You have to watch every frame and listen to every word and nuance to get the whole experience.
