Movies people are/are not looking forward to in 2011

[masterofsparks]

Should I start a 2012 thread?

http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,8423.0.html

[Kormod]

Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie.  It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.

I wish Chris Eigeman was in this.

[Joe Rogaine]

Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie.  It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.

I wish Chris Eigeman was in this.

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Have you seen the clips from it? I'm mixed it looks like it may not be very promising.

[Paul DeLouisiana]

Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie.  It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.

I wish Chris Eigeman was in this.

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Have you seen the clips from it? I'm mixed it looks like it may not be very promising.

I felt the same way but I think that any of his movies would suffer the same judgement if shown in five minute clips.

[Kormod]

Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie.  It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.

I wish Chris Eigeman was in this.

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Have you seen the clips from it? I'm mixed it looks like it may not be very promising.

I felt the same way but I think that any of his movies would suffer the same judgement if shown in five minute clips.

I'd have to disagree, I guess. This clip from Metropolitan is what got me into Stillman's work:

Metropolitan

Edit: Fixed. I posted the wrong clip.

[Chris L]

Quentin Tarantino's favorite and least favorite of 2011. About what you'd expect, but it looks like he's willing to stir up a fanboy fight in a couple of categories.

Quentin Tarantino’s official Top 11 of 2011

1. Midnight In Paris
2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack The Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers

Others considered in no particular order

50/50
Beginners
Hugo
The Iron Lady
Carnage
Green Hornet
Green Lantern
Captain America
The Descendants
My Week With Marilyn
Fast Five
The Tree Of Life
The Hangover Part II
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
The Beaver
Contagion
The Sitter
War Horse

Nice Try Award

Drive
Hanna
Drive Angry
Real Steel

Best Director

Pedro Almodovar
Bennett Miller
Woody Allen
Jason Reitman
Michel Hazanavicius

Best Original Screenplay

Midnight In Paris
Young Adult
Red State
Attack The Block
Our Idiot Brother
Beginners

Best Adapted Screenplay

Moneyball
The Skin I live In
Carnage
Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
Hugo
X-Men: First Class

Worst Films

Sucker Punch
Potiche (Trophy Wife)
Miral
Insidious
Rampart
Straw Dogs
Paranormal Activity 3
Meek’s Cutoff

[Kormod]

I didn't expect a Woody Allen film to be at the top of the list. Though Midnight in Paris, by what I can tell from the previews, does seem like it might fall under Tarantino's nebulous "hangout movie" category, which he loves to gush about.

[Chris L]

I didn't expect a Woody Allen film to be at the top of the list. Though Midnight in Paris, by what I can tell from the previews, does seem like it might fall under Tarantino's nebulous "hangout movie" category, which he loves to gush about.

No joke, he also included what might be Woody's most maligned movie, ANYTHING ELSE, on a list of favorite films since '92 that he made a while back.

[Martin]

That "Nice Try" thing for Drive...

[Martin]

...and some other picks are puzzling at best.

Overall a pretty bland selection though.

[Chris L]

I had no problem with him putting Meek's Cutoff in the "worst" list.

[Omar]

...and some other picks are puzzling at best.

Overall a pretty bland selection though.

Classic QT.  His taste in film, especially in these year-end lists, is always delightfully bizarre.  I think "Nice Try" is a perfect response to the overrated Drive.

[Martin]

Let's take a look at that top ten again:

1. Midnight In Paris
2. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes
3. Moneyball
4. The Skin I Live In
5. X-Men: First Class
6. Young Adult
7. Attack The Block
8. Red State
9. Warrior
10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)
11. The Three Musketeers

Now, this may reflect either on QT or the year of our lord 2011 (depending on what you (dis)like more), but can we at least agree that that is a stunningly mediocre list? Bizarre only in that it's thoroughly middle-of-the-road stuff, maybe except for The Artist and Almodovar. I find nothing delightful about it. I'm not a big QT fan but at least his taste in film used to be somewhat interesting or eclectic. This looks like your average cineplex goer's top ten.

(Or maybe it just says something about me.)

[Smelodies]

I saw "Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes."  It had some horrible cardboard bad guys, but some cool special effects.  Was it 2011's Avatar?

[wood and iron]

The inclusion of The Three Musketeers was the biggest WTF until I realized his buddy Christoph Waltz was in it.