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eatsshootsleaves
12/19/09

In reply to There Will Be Blood Wins the Decade
Also, yeah -- Catch Me if You Can only received ONE vote -- not six.
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yourfriendandneighbor
12/19/09

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Eternal Sunshine in second place? God people are such sheep. And fair play to Almost Famous. I'm surprised it did so well, but I loved that movie.
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DennyCrane
12/18/09

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WHO THE HELL VOTED FOR TRANSFORMERS?????????????
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LoveHandles
12/19/09

@DennyCrane: seriuosly. we need to track that person down and embarrass them on th
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MaelstromInTheMiddle
12/18/09

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Ugh, seriously?! That whole movie needed a bath in GoJo. Also, Into The Wild was much more than just a movie. It was an experience.
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RollsRoyceRevenge
12/18/09

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"No Country for Old Men" was a pile of cack. Book, film, whatever. Well-acted as a movie, to be sure--but essentially dishonest misanthropic twaddle featuring...The Unstoppable Killer (tm)!!! Yes, when your killing needs are piling up and you just don't have time to dispatch major, minor and completely background characters, try Unstoppable Killer! Shoot him! Club him! Knife him! Subject him to a shit 1970s haircut! Nothing stops Unstoppable Killer! Satisfaction guaranteed or he'll kill you too!

Now in boot-black and utter bullshit flavors.

I mean, please. Jason Voorhees was a more convincing moral catalyst.
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Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan
12/18/09

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How the fuck did Slumdog get even one vote? That was, next to Battlefield Earth, the worst movie I have ever seen.
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fatmonalisa
12/18/09

@JacquesPaysan: Thank you! I walked out of the theatre when I saw it. So bad!
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Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan
12/18/09

@fatmonalisa: I would have, too, but we were trapped between two groups of people.
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downlow
12/19/09

@JacquesPaysan: I haven't seen it but I just felt is was over-hyped. Bollywood, Schmollywood.
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yourfriendandneighbor
12/19/09

@fatmonalisa: i turned it off on video about seven minutes in. terrible.
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gawkimo
12/19/09

@JacquesPaysan: Thank you! Dennis Miller called it "Slumdog Squarepants" being that it was a heavily saturized cartoon.
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Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan
12/19/09

@downlow: Don't bother, it's the worst possible mashup of Hallmark Movie of the Week and bad 90's over-saturated-color music video.
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unclevanya
12/18/09

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Loving Brokeback's revenge over Crash here.

Poor Michael Moore: Bowling for Columbine deserves much more recognition, but his antics may have overshadowed the film's impact.

Absolutely no love for The Hours? I'll just sit over here in the corner and enjoy it by myself then...
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TingoMonkey
12/18/09

@unclevanya: You're right that's a glaring omission. Loved it.
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unclevanya
12/18/09

@TingoMonkey: I knew there was one more out there. *exhale*
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LoveHandles
12/19/09

@unclevanya: totally with you. I had that on the other night when some friends came over. They noted that I was sitting alone in the dark, drinking, watching the hours. It was a Friday night.
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eatsshootsleaves
12/18/09

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Hey, so I went to all those websites and totaled up what was there. You are indeed missing some.

6 Votes: Children of Men
5 Votes: Finding Nemo
3 Votes: The Bourne Series
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TheUptightMidwesterner
12/18/09

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I have pretty much decided that Brokeback Mountain and 40 Year Old Virgin are my tops for the decade. Traffic coming in third.
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Spirit Fingers
12/18/09

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As long as that contrived piece of dog-shit Crash didn't get top honors. I never wanted to hurl a bloody stump at a movie screen so much ever before in my life. And the fact that it's on Showtime, or whatever cable channel that is, as some sort of limping, destitute, bereft, series makes my eyeballs roll convulsively of their own accord. What a shallow waste of brain-flatulence.
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badasscat
12/18/09

@Spirit Fingers: What, you mean this movie?
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BicycleShed
12/18/09

@Spirit Fingers: Someday you should read this: www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2006/02/anything-but-this.html - It really helped me deal with my intense, utter LOATHING of Crash.
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Spirit Fingers
12/18/09

@BicycleShed: I'll have to check into that. I'd never imagine needing some sort of support group after seeing that trifle, but I can see where it may have been warranted at the time. Sheesh. What an overblown suck-fest that thing was.
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contradicto
12/18/09

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I've said it before, but I hated this movie so god damn much.
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Freddie DeBoer
12/18/09

@contradicto: While I'm certainly one to put it firmly on the "good" side, its plaudits definitely wrankle me, in part because it seems so perfectly calculated to earn critical praise. People used to say all the time that costume dramas where all the characters have British accents are Oscar-bait, but to me it seems like now you have "artistic" violence, a remorseless sociopath, and a minimalist soundtrack, and people declare you a genius.
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hamburgerhotdog
12/18/09

@contradicto: Daniel Day Lewis was...well, he was John Houston and it was just so over the top that it became near comical. All the rest of the acting was horrible and the soundtrack was jarring and awful. HATED THIS MOVIE.
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Balsa Wood
12/18/09

@contradicto: You're wrong. Next...
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contradicto
12/18/09

@Balsa Wood: I'm wrong in saying that I hated the movie? Because I really fucking hated that movie. Seems correct to me.
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keverdene
12/19/09

@contradicto: i think the point is that you SHOULD hate There Will Be Blood, because it is ABOUT YOU. Americans are awful people, and the film is an extended metaphor about how much you suck.
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contradicto
12/19/09

@keverdene: When did this place get so weird.
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johnny_carsick
12/18/09

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Where's Armond White's vote for "Norbit"? I demand a recount!
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
12/18/09

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Botswana Meat Commission FC's top 5:

1. There Will Be Blood
2. The Lives of Others
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. The Departed
5. The 40 Year Old Virgin
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BullfightsOnAcid
12/18/09

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: 'The Lives of Others' really isn't spoken about enough. It deserves so much more recognition than it gets.
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snugbug
12/18/09

@BullfightsOnAcid: Really? I know I'm in the minority, but I found it schmaltzy and sentimental to the max. Then again, I've been living in Germany so I guess I'm more attuned to the discourse of "dealing with the past" and bristle at this cinematic attempt to reduce it to a neat villains-vs-heroes narrative ready-packaged for overseas consumption. It's the equivalent of drunk Germans hooking up arms and singing out of tune in a beer garden. Oh, look: a reductive crash course into the problem of a divided Germany + nice catharsis at the end! Everyone leaves the theater feeling content and more educated! I welcome the idea of attacking this topic, especially if it draws attention from non-Germans, but this film was.. blech.
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mfnher
12/18/09

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Apparently I need to rent TWBB over the holiday. I read Oil! a couple of years ago, but haven't seen the flick. I think that's partly because I was so disappointed in the book, that the idea of seeing the movie doesn't sound all that appealing.
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BullfightsOnAcid
12/18/09

@snugbug: It was sentimental... but it worked. What's wrong with showing some feeling? It may have been a neatly-packaged crash-course as you described it, but it is a 2 hour drama and not a 10 hour documentary. The actors and the story moved me and I'm not one for sentimentality. You seem to infer that exploring this topic with feelings and emotions is somehow insulting. Do you have a movie "dealing with the past" that you would recommend over this one? Maybe one with less feeling?
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ThatsNotPudding
12/18/09

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More to the point, Daniel Day-Lewis is Actor of the Decade for chillingly portraying Steve Jobs - I mean Daniel Plainview.
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Freddie DeBoer
12/18/09

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There Will Be Blood is both excellent and overrated. Day-Lewis is always going to get accolades because most people interpret overacting and scenery chewing to be acting well, but there isn't a moment when I didn't think, "This is a guy determined to win another Oscar." I'm afraid quiet, naturalistic performances like Ryan Gosling's in Half-Nelson are always going to suffer in comparison to bombast and spectacle.

Personally, I wish all of TWBB was like the first half-hour. The movie is so gorgeously shot and the visual storytelling so brutal, it's a shame to have to balance that against a frankly confused set of themes and an ending seemingly designed to win accolades for being daring.
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keverdene
12/19/09

@Freddie DeBoer: Interesting. I found "Half Nelson" to be a total pandering mess, and I thought Gosling's character was just a Hipster lookin' for main stream cred.
There Will Be Blood actually SAID something, and said it in a way that most people can't understand.
I draw a firm, wide line between scenery chewing and a Jungian fist punch to America's face.
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Freddie DeBoer
12/19/09

@keverdene: Yes, that's the problem. It's from the school of thought that thinks that movies have to SAY SOMETHING to be worthwhile. And of course, it was wildly rewarded for being so sure of its own importance.
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