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But there are rules to critiquing art, man. For example, none of the good movies are ever made for people who speak English. That's like rules #1-5.
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I checked our annual top 20 for the past 9 years: A little more than 13 english language movies in average (it's even around 10 for me who has the most eclectic taste of the bunch) and 6 out of the 9 winners (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - which made us change our voting system! - The New World, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, There Will Be Blood, Two Lovers and the very surprising The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans!).
the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford was amazing. but how you can consider yourself a devotee of the film industry and not have the king's speech in your top 20 movies of the past 9 years makes me think again that you're a lousy professor, or you just have lousy taste, or probably both.
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Well... I am not a professor and I have never seen The King's Speech. To add insult to injury only one of us put it in his top 20 for the year (at 18th) and that's the guy who sees 25 eligible movies a year! To add blasphemy to insult and injury, Immortals and The Beaver were in my top 20 that year! (Also a very sad year for me because I really did not like the movie that won: french art house movie L'Appolonide, my top pick for that year was another french movie L'Exercice de l'Etat aka The Minister)
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I am still not sure if this movie is brilliantly awful or awfully brilliant but there is nothing quite like it! Cage's character hurt his back at the beginning of the movie and he takes an increasing amount of drugs and alcohol to try and dull the pain and as he does the movie becomes crazier and crazier to the point of pure WTF (two words: Iguana Cam). Werner Herzog knows a thing or two about filming characters (and actors!) that lose their mind!
Huge derail but who fucking cares, what did you guys rate The Weather Man when it came out? Nicholas Cage movie that I watched for the first time last year and it's seriously fucking hilarious, probably in my top 20ish movies.
Can't believe there's no bluray of it.
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You should really see The Kings Speech.
I think it resonates even if you're not American/British. You don't even have to be in the mood to watch a movie like that. Just sit down, the movie itself will do that part of the heavy lifting.
Of course it might should be called "The Kings Speech Therapist". And in the age of the internet I didn't require the epilogue. But as far as solidly good movie go it is solidly good.
I think it resonates even if you're not American/British. You don't even have to be in the mood to watch a movie like that. Just sit down, the movie itself will do that part of the heavy lifting.
Of course it might should be called "The Kings Speech Therapist". And in the age of the internet I didn't require the epilogue. But as far as solidly good movie go it is solidly good.
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To my knowledge the movie was not released in theaters in Switzerland. As a big fan of Gore Verbinski I should check it sooner rather than later!
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Concur. I liked 1, 2 was kinda meh but 3 was amazing(if 3 is the one with the german and gold from a bank etc).
3 had a lot of good elements + Samuel L. Jackson + Jeremy Irons, but amazing is very strong word.
Nick Cage can go fuck himself. He ruins every single movie he is in. I never want to see him in another one ever again.
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