tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post4687999403087735907..comments2023-10-19T05:36:56.844-07:00Comments on "Let's Not Talk About Movies": 2011: The Year We Make SequelsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-56681529510633212652012-01-13T00:50:19.833-08:002012-01-13T00:50:19.833-08:00Actually, an American director (and that's a b...Actually, an American director (and that's a broad brush) would have denied it the elements of style that a "stranger-in-a-strange-land" director brought to the L.A. locations. And "style" is the one thing that set it apart."Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-30841940708531534382012-01-11T12:38:27.911-08:002012-01-11T12:38:27.911-08:00Yojimbo - Do you think Drive would have been bette...Yojimbo - Do you think Drive would have been better had it been directed by an American? I wonder this sometimes but then also realize that it also feels like a filmmaker making up for a lack of interesting script so I'm not sure that would have been the case after all.The Taxi Driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04352371911592068643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-5576758055080199052012-01-11T10:29:54.422-08:002012-01-11T10:29:54.422-08:00Andrew, it's always a pleasure to see you here...Andrew, it's always a pleasure to see you here and read your thoughts, whether you agree with me or not. I appreciate the feedback from you, always.<br /><br />Mike: Oh, no, <i>Drive</i> for me was the in-bred love-child of <i>Flashdance</i> and <i>Taxi Driver</i>. Yep, it's pretty. It even has some good ideas in its empty little head (and Albert Brooks is terrific in it...), but, criminy, what a silly, romantic view of psychothapy. Gee-yaw...At least Scorsese's film had a CONSCIENCE (but, then, again, this one's set in Californioa...)."Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-1468521758970553312012-01-06T10:30:30.101-08:002012-01-06T10:30:30.101-08:00Your paragraph about how bad movies made ones like...Your paragraph about how bad movies made ones like Apes seem like something worthwhile is about how I felt about Drive, something apperently everyone else loved to death. <br /><br />As for writing less, I feel ya, but my theatre is quality over quantity, which seems to be your approach as well.The Taxi Driverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04352371911592068643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190627334056603500.post-16253301189731411592012-01-03T21:59:07.310-08:002012-01-03T21:59:07.310-08:00First off, thanks a bunch for the shoutout. I'...First off, thanks a bunch for the shoutout. I'm very humbled by it, and sort of bashful especially since I don't know what to do with compliments.<br /><br />Secondly, I get you on top tens but I'm way to pragmatic (and pretentious) to do away with ranking things even though I was thinking today how I need to write about how ranking things makes the "things" being ranked lose a great deal of their goodness. <br /><br />Thirdly, I SO get you on the funk. So many of my reviews felt like they took blood, sweat and tears and it's gotten to the point where I question my enjoyment. All the points you make about the movie year are sage.<br /><br />Fourthly, and most importantly, I LOVE the citations of Rabbit Hole - my favourite 2010 film and possibly one I liked more than any in 2011.Andrew K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01104647944747041277noreply@blogger.com