This post is titled:
Video Table with Summaries 2010
Here's a post of videos I've wached so far in 2010, with short summaries for each. Of course these are completely subjective, and you'll only agree with these if you have the same taste as I do. The list is arranged by release year and IMDb index number within year. The table is also sortable if you have JavaScript turned on, just click on a column heading to sort.
| Title | Year | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Snake in Monkey's Shadow | 1979 | Standard Wuxia fare |
| Shaolin Temple, The | 1982 | Somewhat incoherent in the English dub |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | 1984 | Dead-on presentation of this important work |
| The Razor's Edge | 1984 | Bill Murray adds divine comedy to human tragedy |
| Europa, Europa | 1991 | A drama about the value of lying |
| Supercop | 1992 | Solid action work from Jackie Chan |
| The Ice Storm | 1997 | Seventies suburbanites get their own awful movie about a kid who learns something |
| Songs from the Second Floor | 2000 | What "Children of Men" would be without a hero in it |
| Zero Effect | 1998 | Best modern Holmes homage before 2009 |
| Intolerable Cruelty | 2003 | Divorce lawyers get their own screwball comedy |
| Wonder Boys | 2000 | Academics get their own awful movie about a kid who learns something |
| Shadow of the Vampire | 2000 | Great fairy tale about achieving your awful ambitions at any cost |
| Children of Men | 2006 | Wonderous and highly auditory SF tragedy. Must see! |
| Gangs of New York | 2002 | Great fairy tale about burying the past, even when it's still alive |
| Finding Nemo | 2003 | Ichtyologists get their own father and son relationship movie |
| Cooler, The | 2003 | Good Vegas drama about believing in luck |
| Lost in Translation | 2003 | Even one friend can be enough, when you feel you don't have any |
| Aviator, The | 2004 | A sympathetic portrayal of a genius who falls apart |
| Alexander | 2004 | Historians get their own awful movie about a boy who never grows up |
| Synechdoche, New York | 2008 | If you're lucky, somebody tells you what your art is |
| Green Street Hooligans | 2005 | Hooligans get their own awful movie about a kid who learns something |
| Brick | 2005 | Brilliant noir set among teen angst |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | 2006 | Great fairy tale about achieving your awful ambitions at any cost |
| District 13 | 2004 | Parkour enthusiasts get their own awful movie about rogue cops who fight drugs |
| The Fall | 2006 | Great bi-level fairy tale about failing at your high ambitions |
| Juno | 2007 | Somehow, this movie makes me care about these people |
| There Will Be Blood | 2007 | Great example of how the story of your life isn't always what you think it is |
| 9 | 2009 | Ragdolls fight robot animals for the future of the Earh |
| Burn After Reading | 2008 | Good movie about the dangers of trying to be something you aren't |
| Invention of Lying, The | 2009 | A comedy about the value of truth |
| Taking Woodstock | 2009 | Demetri martin nails the lead role in this little movie about a big party |
| Extract | 2009 | Decent movie about realizing you're not the only person in your life |
| Men Who stare at Goats, The | 2009 | I didn't expect it to be this good |
| District 13: Ultimatum | 2009 | Not enough Parkour in this one, |
Please keep in mind that these are just some movies I've watched in the past few months If it seems like my reactions to most of these are somewhat tepid, remember that these are mostly movies I didn't bother to see in theaters when they came out, and have borrowed from a friend rather than even renting them.
2010.03.17 at 12:00am EDT
All text and graphics copyright © 2007-2013 Elliott C. Evans except where otherwise noted.
[Visit my web site] [Subscribe via RSS]
