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According to me. And eagerly awaited I'm sure.
1) Amores Perros 2) Black Hawk Down 3) Monster's Ball 4) Gosford Park 5) Memento 6) In The Bedroom 7) The Man Who Wasn't There 8) A Beatiful Mind 9) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings 10) The Deep End
11) A.I. Artificial Intelligence
There's still one or two I've yet to see, but that won't change the list too much if at all.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
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A.I. are you serious, that was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. While leaving this bomb it was heard in the audiance " jeeze I could have seen Tomb Raider again instead of that crap". It had about 10 minutes of good footage but the story sucked, that kid was terrible, the whole last hour was one series of unbeleivable, stupid, unscientific scenes after another. This should have been on the worst movie list.
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I hate top 10 lists. I have a friend who rates his yearly movie-going by how many of the EMPIRE movie magazine's annual top 10 films he's seen. . . He never watches any old films yet considers himself a film buff, he only watched the Godfather films because the mag talked them up so much - and then he bought them on box set video, sight unseen, so convinced he would like them because the magazine people like them.
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I did the same thing with the Godfather movies...
The first two were indeed quite good, but the third left something to be desired...
My only problem with them was that they had those goddamned "making of" featurettes at the beginning of every tape. Coppola and the rest of them completely ruined the ending of part 2 for me. Why do they put that crap at the beginning of movies? Why not at the end? I could have broken their teeth with a knotted stick.
The new Star Wars Boxed set had the same fucking thing, billionaire Lucas gaping his pie hole and ruining the movies for those who haven't seen them by pontificating on how great his stories are at the beginning of the tape...
As far as the Top Ten Movies of 2001...
I only went to the theatre a few times last year, and of those, I only enjoyed one movie enough to mention: Lord of the Rings.
Now, if you want to talk top ten Books, i'm all over that topic.
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What? No Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back? The list is flawed!
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Sadly, I don't think I watched 10 new movies in 2001. I also agree with Vogon on this one...top 10's are bad unless someone has actually seen everything that was released.
But I'll play along.
I liked Monsters Inc. I liked Ocean's 11 (except right at the end). Sadly most of the other 2001 releases I saw were kind of pathetic.... A Knight's Tale springs ever so vividly to mind...
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Grocka: Yes, yes, we know A.I. was a bomb because Americans do not like to think when they go to movies. If a movie usually has a theme that would make people think and say "I got something out of that" then they will say it is crap. Movies like "The Fast and the Furious" and "The Mummy Returns" were popular becuase you didn't have to think about anything while watching big fights and car crashes.
Haley Joel Osment's performance was wonderful as the kid and the story was as original as any other one. Certainly more original than Tomb-Raider. And since when do we base the quality of a movie soley on the special effects and box-office success? We live in a time where CGI is more important than the plot, writing, or the theme of a movie. (Not that I don't like SFX...)
Anyway, I haven't seen a lot of the movies like Gosford Park or In the Bedroom, so I can't judge them. But I do like Lord of the Rings the best of the movies I have seen, and Harry Potter, Monsters Inc., and A.I. come in behind it.
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Actually Veers, I am Canadian for one and it was precisly the plot of the movie which I found so stupid. It had the ideas of a good movie but they fell short of any resolution to the questions. The story line was so unbelievable that you couldn't get anything out of the movie. They touched on such topics as the relationship between Man and robots but fell short of actually saying anything relevant about it. As for the kid, his acting was bad, so he learned not to blink, so what. Here is a list of the questions that made the movie so bad for me.
1. This robot was given to a family that was obviously screwed up, didn't they do any psych testing before they gave an experimental robot away? 2. She drops him off in the middle of the bush right between the company she is trying to hide him from and this circus where they detroy robots for fun, futher proving this woman was mental disturbed and didn't deserve the robot. 3. The robot eats the spinach and it goes down his throat into his circuitry. Why would you design a robot with an open oriface to the outside that would allow this to happen? Also later the robot swims with it's mouth open and this does not short it out. Strange? 4. Why would you not have a sufficient tracking device on an experimental robot? 5. When the kid finally goes through his pinochio stuff and finds the company, the guys talks to him for a bit then leaves him in a room with a copy of himself, what was with that? Then the kid destroys the copy in this guys office and nobody does anything about it. In fact they let this kid roam around in the packing/manufacturing area of the plant? Don't they have any survalence in this place? And lastly why would you have the manufacturing plant in such a remote place? 6. When the kid does decide to commit suicide or roboticide he actually ends up finding the Blue fairy, a glass structure open to the ocean that is perfectly intact, no alge or broken parts, very weird. 7. That's not weird enough this fairy thing manages to survive an iceage, and then is cut out of the ice and then is broken by a meer touch? 8. The whole end was just stupid, they can clone the mother for only one day? What they grow her to adulthood, give her most of her memories, but not the ones that would cause her to panic because all of her family is gone and all she has is the robot that she left out in the bush to die.
You accuse me of not thinking during this movie, beleive me I thought a lot during it. Most of what I thought was this is the most stupid movie I have ever seen, why did I spend the money. And by the way I don't go to see the mindless action flicks you assume I see. I was hoping that this movie was a thought provoking look at the relationships between robots and humans, but it didn't turn out to be that.
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I agree with Grocka. A.I. was just a poor attempt by Spielberg to make 2001: A Space Odyssey. Spielberg was trying to tell the world, "Look! Look! I can be as meaningful as Kubrick!" But of course, Spielberg fell into his usual vices and the whole movie ended up getting caught in No Man's Land between actually exploring anything relevant and being a feel good movie for the whole family to enjoy. Spielberg is not Kubrick, and he never will be.
The writing to Ocean's Eleven was excellent. Lord of the Rings was quite good. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back was fucking awesome!
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I was on the fence going into Ocean's 11 but the banter between Pitt and Cloony was just great. The little twists at the end were nice. And all of the supporting actors really did a nice job.
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They should have ended A.I. when the oceans froze. Then, at least, it would have been recognizable as a tragedy. (I like a good tragedy, which is why I'm one of the few people who got/liked VOY's "Course: Oblivion.")
After that point, with the superrobots and the cloning and what... I don't know WHAT A.I. was supposed to be, but it was ridiculous.
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"Spielberg is not Kubrick, and he never will be."
To be fair, Kubrick could never have made Schindler's List.
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Veers I resent the fact that you feel that Americans only like movies that are mindless and don't force us to think. That is an insanely stereotypical view of us. Sure some people don't want to think about a movie, others do. We are not perfect but then again nobody is and frankly I think the world expects to damn much from us.
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Hey! Hold on! I'm American too, so don't accuse me of stereotyping! OK, maybe I was a bit harsh. I like a good mindless action movie (just watched True Lies), but I think that a large portion of America would rather see Fast and the Furious then, say, Black Hawk Down, a movie which causes you to think. It's that I personally feel that people would think a movie like "Schindler's List" is boring and someone should pop in a Steven Seagal movie instead. Also, I know many Americans do like a well-written, meaningful story like A.I. Don't get me wrong on that.
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