2010 New Release Database

[EyesWideOpen]

This, too, will close tomorrow evening.

Before this is closed can you please change what you put as my rating for 127 Hours. I've put nay on it twice in this thread.

[Ezee E]

Before this is closed can you please change what you put as my rating for 127 Hours. I've put nay on it twice in this thread.

Done.

[Mysterious Dude]

While we're at it, I seem to have been counted twice for The Social Network.

[Bosco B Thug]

Oh yeah, and I'm down as a NAY for 127 Hours when, against all odds, I want to YAY it.


And...

Greenberg - Yay
Buried - Yay
True Grit - Yay

[MadMan]

I guess put me down as a "Nay" in the end for Karate Kid. Not that it really matters, though.

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE - 2 out of 2
yay - philosphe_rouge, MadMan

Huh I didn't know that rouge had seen it. I'm curious to hear thoughts on it from a female perspective, especially her's.

Also once again kudos to Ezee E for doing this thread.

[soitgoes...]

Hereafter - nay

[lovejuice]

rabbit hole - yay

[Rowland]

Let Me In - minor yay

I had high hopes here, so this was a little disappointing, but it's a relatively fine work, even if most of its tonal and textual deviations from the original are to its detriment.

[EyesWideOpen]

Fish Tank - yay

[baby doll]

Is it too late for me to yay Somewhere?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Are we not updating this anymore? If we still are, Megamind gets a yay from me.

[eternity]

Chloe - nay
The Tillman Story - yay
Let Me In - yay

[Ezee E]

Yeah, no longer updating it myself.

[EyesWideOpen]

Yeah, no longer updating it myself.

I'd be willing to do it but I have no idea how that would work.

[transmogrifier]

Dogtooth - nay

Stunningly predictable for this type of movie - as soon as the dogtooth thing was mentioned, it was inevitable that the film was going to end with DIY dentistry, and within seconds of meeting the security guard, it was clear that she was going to be a spanner in the rigidly controlled works. It was basically 90 minutes of waiting for the inevitable to happen. Works as a simple-minded isolationist parable, I guess, but one without much meat on its bones.

Some lovely mise-en-scene work let down by a dull, dull, dull story.

[Boner M]

Dogtooth - nay

Stunningly predictable

I'll say!

[transmogrifier]

I'll say!

I'd say I'm usually more on the side of the consensus than not, wouldn't you? You can go count if you like, but it won't change my opinion.

I think I gave it a 56 or something like that, so I didn't hate it. But...it was such a drag to go into a film you had such high hopes for and see it plod out exactly the story beats predicated by its premise and first five minutes. I don't know. I'm glad these types of films get exposure, but I just wish this one was better.

*shrug*

[transmogrifier]

Also:

Tangled - yay
Megamind - nay
Unstoppable - nay
Enter the Void - nay

[Boner M]

I thought it was predictable to a degree, but only in the sense that I was nervous to see some things play out, and that's how the film generates suspense. As for the security guard being a spanner; well, that's why she's introduced first, right? The film's about the seams of this hermetically sealed world coming undone; I don't think these things are supposed to be surprises. That Rocky, Jaws and Flashdance (among other things) are part of the reason for the system's collapse, however, is; and I think Lanthimos keeps a good balance between the unexpected/inexplicable and the inevitable as the narrative progresses.

[Boner M]

Enter the Void - nay

Good man.

[transmogrifier]

I thought it was predictable to a degree, but only in the sense that I was nervous to see some things play out, and that's how the film generates suspense. As for the security guard being a spanner; well, that's why she's introduced first, right? The film's about the seams of this hermetically sealed world coming undone; I don't think these things are supposed to be surprises. That Rocky, Jaws and Flashdance (among other things) are part of the reason for the system's collapse, however, is; and I think Lanthimos keeps a good balance between the unexpected/inexplicable and the inevitable as the narrative progresses.

I think it weakens the film to have the father introduce the spanner in the works when it is so obvious that she will act as a spanner in the works, if you know what I mean. If it is obvious to the audience, it should be more than obvious to the father. That's why it's kind of "meh" to see it all go down as you would expect.

And if it was such a hermetically sealed world, I'm surprised that there wasn't some thought given to how the parents may have manipulated the very idea of sex itself, perhaps inventing a "use" for the sexual organs (and urges) in a way that would make an outsider unneeded (and then it would have been interesting to see whether the incest developed regardless, with biological urges trumping brainwashing - an idea made impossible as soon as the son learns what sex is via the outsider). In other words, while the use of language as a controlling measure is interesting, there is really nothing much else nearly as interesting at work - just scare stories about the outside world like in The Village.

[Raiders]

And if it was such a hermetically sealed world, I'm surprised that there wasn't some thought given to how the parents may have manipulated the very idea of sex itself, perhaps inventing a "use" for the sexual organs (and urges) in a way that would make an outsider unneeded (and then it would have been interesting to see whether the incest developed regardless, with biological urges trumping brainwashing - an idea made impossible as soon as the son learns what sex is via the outsider). In other words, while the use of language as a controlling measure is interesting, there is really nothing much else nearly as interesting at work - just scare stories about the outside world like in The Village.

You can control and alter one's perception of language; you can't just magically remove male hormonal desires and needs.

[transmogrifier]

You can control and alter one's perception of language; you can't just magically remove male hormonal desires and needs.

But that's my point; I would have liked to have seen the film address this - it would have been a lot more interesting. There are a multitude of directions it could have gone in, but it went in the most routine one imaginable given the premise (plus I don't even see why the father brought the security guard in if his broken moral compass was so willing to allow incest in the end anyway to protect his secret). Truly disappointing.

[Raiders]

But that's my point; I would have liked to have seen the film address this - it would have been a lot more interesting. There are a multitude of directions it could have gone in, but it went in the most routine one imaginable given the premise (plus I don't even see why the father brought the security guard in if his broken moral compass was so willing to allow incest in the end anyway to protect his secret). Truly disappointing.

Pretty sure he really didn't want to go the route of incest but after the incident with the guard, he was left with no choice. Seems fairly sensical to me. There are a lot of medical issues with incest that I'm sure he wanted to avoid, but in the end he cared more about maintaining his rigid social structure.

[Derek]

But that's my point; I would have liked to have seen the film address this - it would have been a lot more interesting. There are a multitude of directions it could have gone in, but it went in the most routine one imaginable given the premise (plus I don't even see why the father brought the security guard in if his broken moral compass was so willing to allow incest in the end anyway to protect his secret). Truly disappointing.

Oy.