This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2009

Because it's futile to try and wait until the beginning of December anymore.

Previous instalments:
This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2004
This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2005
end-of-2006 film stuff (detrius 2, the Richard Donner Cut)
This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2007

iow STFU STFU STFU

you missed a year.

You forgot to link 2008.

Of course, might as well use this thread now to celebrate Mo'Nique's win at Sundance! Slim 'n' sexy! Love her!

im shilling for 'in the loop'

well, boasting about having seen it.

What is "detrius"? Is it like "detritus"?

sgsmb = gabbneb of detrius

What is "detrius"? Is it like "detritus"?

good work

with a lot of work and a little bit of luck this can be the most aggressively contrarian film thread on ilx yet--best wishes

what's the gold standard of '09 'contrarianism' max?

Detrius sounds like a Greek chick.

sgsmb = gabbneb of detrius

― Dr Morbius, Monday, January 26, 2009 4:15 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're still this morbius of this bitch.

Wait, who is sgsmb?

It wouldn't be detrius without questioning of "detrius."

Wait, who is sgsmb?

me

Oh that explains why I don't know you.

This thread already has almost as many responses as the 2004 edition.

In retrospect, this year's Sundance, wow...

Precious, (500) Days of Summer, Paper Heart, Adventureland, Big River Man

I'm actually looking forward to seeing 500 Days of Summer but I'm a Grodon-Levitt stan (and I'm quite fond of Deschanel in the right role.)

My top 10 the first 5 months of this year kicks 2008's ass.

(and none of those are on it)

My top 10 the first 5 months of this year kicks 2008's ass.

And the 10 are...?

lay it on us, Morbs!

I have soooo much to see. My top three is fucking awesome, though!

1. Adventureland
2. Because We Were Born
3. Star Trek

I like pictures:

http://screencrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/adventurelan08-11-23.jpg
Adventureland

http://www.ridm.qc.ca/assets/images/event_image/420wide/puisque_nous_sommes.jpg
Because We Were Born

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/garinungkadol/screencap/movies2/star-trek-2009-sample-003.jpg
Star Trek

smart move not revealing your top 10, morbs. Now I have no clue which movies I'm supposed to avoid.

oh man, i'm curious!

geez, TS, I am not gonna trust you on made-up-story films.

I don't have a list ready this sec, maybe I can improvise one quickly for Formal Interest Smartypants.

There's your next ILE screename.

Hunger
Cargo 200
35 Rhums
The Hurt Locker
American Casino
Two Lovers
In the Loop
Summer Hours
Serbis
Vegas: Based on a True Story

Hunger
The Hurt Locker
Two Lovers

I concur w/ these, all at least very good, though I actually saw the first two last year.

35 Rhums

goddamn i wish i hadn't thought this was may instead of march

xxxetc-post

I do have to say, as much as I thought Adventureland was a piece of shit, it was really, really beautiful to look at.

seeing hunger tonight, i think

oh, and my number three is now lymelife, i think? also really enjoyed terminator salvation

am i going to regret bringing ice cream into the hunger screening?

p.s. no one ever saw forbidden lie$, i'm guessing? it has cred now that it's in the metacritic top five, right?

Silent Light nearly as great as rumored.

Black Dynamite

HUNGER was pretty incredible, but the first half could have been cut down a bit.

also it inspired me to go on a diet

http://www.indiewire.com/article/2009/06/24/academy_ups_best_pic_category_to_10/

Precious will obv be nominee

so PAPER HEART is the best film of the year so far and CONVENTION is also really fucking incredible

guys, you know i was v v much looking forward to (500) Days of Summer? It kinda sucks.

I mean, it's not the worst film of the year or anything, but it's like...the sort of film that indulges in all the standard tropes of modern day romantic comedy and yet claims to serve as an alternative?

1. Paper Heart
2. Adventureland
3. Because We Were Born
4. glastonburykids
5. October Country
6. Loot
7. West of Pluto
8. Convention
9. Hunger
10. Star Trek

Paper Heart, though, that's next-level filmmaking. Unbelievable craft. Very meta but in a fresh way. I was starting to quote one of my favorite Cera lines, but I just realized that his humor doesn't translate to paper very well.

oh, not to continue ripping on (500) days, but when Zooey called it postmodern, i wanted to gag

I sort of want to make The Room count as a 2009 film, even though it's been on the midnight circuit for a few years now.

i though il divo looked good, though (as in lots of these, 'hurt locker' espesh) it's a bit duhhhh to separate editing and cinematography.

Not really. Barry Lyndon cinematography. Nashville editing.

Il Divo did not look so great.

Star Trek villain/red matter stank.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 11, 2010 4:15 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

disagree with the first, agree with the second

i though il divo looked good, though (as in lots of these, 'hurt locker' espesh) it's a bit duhhhh to separate editing and cinematography.

― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Monday, January 11, 2010 4:18 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not really. Barry Lyndon cinematography. Nashville editing.

― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, January 11, 2010 4:31 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya u might as well say its duhh to separate cinematography and sound design

ehh, up to a point, but with 'il divo' and 'the hurt locker' and 'battleship potemkin' i think it makes sense. (the first and last especially are very rigorously conceived, 'nashville' not so much.)

battleship potemkin isnt even NOMINATED

Has someone alerted Armond?!

Deakins deserved something for A Serious Man, but I guess he's sooo 2007.

huhhhh, he's been great for about 30 years

Il Divo did not look so great.

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Monday, January 11, 2010 9:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

probably my favourite thing visually from the last couple of years; the grandiosity and splendour and richness of everything was like a functional illustration of the regime.

ok yeah so the hurt locker is pretty good, albeit that the end is a bit too unambiguously gung-ho

pretty damn tense mind. renner's performance is excellent. he looks a bit like a chumpier daniel craig at times.

unambiguously gung-ho? i thought it was delightfully ambiguous about the situation.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS i mean the end with the rock music and the 'yeah another year of WAR' and the jump-cut into his suit and the li'l speech to his child...ok it's ambiguous as to whether he'll live or die but he seems to have chosen which side his bread's buttered on! loved him in the supermarket, that and the scenes with the dvd kid were the best non-combat scenes by miles. especially the last scene where the dvd kid appears; that had such unspoken resonance for me

also SPOILER BUT NOT IMPORTANT ONE why can't you have some goddamn britishers in your film without killing most of them off within 5 minutes?

saw summer hours and re-screened mulholland; thought both were great

louis, the guy is obviously compelled to do what he does, but the film is not gung-ho.

i know the film isn't; i just meant the ending which with the final shot and rock music had me all 'HELL YEAH' and then instantly regretting it because as we've seen (and heard through the mouth of the crushed sanborn) war is hell without the yeah

and renner's character, for someone who obviously loves the situation of combat, is as complex as any i've seen of that sort. how he manages to be so convincingly nice, and yet never seem entirely safe or docile, is amazing. he's the REAL unexploded device of the movie amirite

I thought the movie could've just ended with the conversation between James and Sanborn in the Humvee and been no worse for it. Slocki OTM about the rest feeling like an episode of LOST.

yeah, that would have been possible, although maybe a tiny bit too mawkish. they could have structured the last bit differently, but i had no problem with the scenes of him at home (i actually quite liked them)

oh and the dude wearing the bomb at the end - is he the same dude who had the trigger but threw it away rather than blow up james (in the scene where he discovers 8 bombs)? i rather suspect he might be

i know the film isn't; i just meant the ending which with the final shot and rock music had me all 'HELL YEAH' and then instantly regretting it because as we've seen (and heard through the mouth of the crushed sanborn) war is hell without the yeah

and you're saying that's NOT ambiguous?

okok it IS ambiguous fine sorry the OVERALL effect is ambiguous and it's an intelligent movie yes, also a superb character study/war movie/etc, final scene in isolation isn't very ambiguous but this isn't really a concern of mine - i do not get wished to tie up in the minors detail

Heh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTMSJ_qDC6o

Bullock, Streep tie and suck face at the Broadcast Film Critics Awards.

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/01/bfca_reveal.php

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/01/16/alg_streep_bullock.jpg

So, after the Globes' Avatar/Hangover/Blind Side/Up lovefest, I actually am more pumped to watch the Oscars this year than I have been for a long time.

Between those new "presumptive" populist frontrunners and the fact that the show's organizers are now clearly intent on turning the entire proceedings into a very long episode of Glee, it's pretty clear that these are going to be the tackiest awards since The Allan Carr Show.

sounds like my year to skip.

Sounds like I don't know why you even ever watch them anymore.

The Hurt Locker is still the film to beat in the director and pic categories. Meanwhile Waltz and Mo'nique should rehearse their acceptance speeches.

makes two of us! The party last year was fun, but I can't see ever watching em alone again.

Maybe I will have one and invite the eight supporting nominees who are not Mo'Nique and Christoph Waltz.

xp

time to carve a swastika in Oscar's forehead and drop a TV on him.

Why is Gavin Newsom watching Streep and Bullock make out.

Why wouldn't he?

hey, Hurt Locker took Producers Guild, but we're all thotoughly bored eh?

DGA to Bigelow.

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2010/01/bigelows_path_i.php

You know, if Hurt Locker had made even just another $10m or so, I think we would have been able to call the BP race open and shut now too, along with all but one of the acting categories.

http://www.cinematical.com/2010/02/01/razzies-nominate-new-moon-and-sandra-bullock-as-worst-of-2009/

For this special 30th-anniversary year, the Razzies will also (dis)honor the worst of the past decade. Film nominees include Battlefield Earth, Freddy Got Fingered, Gigli, I Know Who Killed Me and the Guy Ritchie-directed Swept Away remake. Worst actor and actresses of the decade include Rob Schneider, Eddie Murphy, John Travolta, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Madonna.

Still haven't seen Swept Away. Wonder if it's worth the effort to bleed some camp out of it if possible.

Pattinson is up for Worst Supporting Actor = lol

arent you a fan, Kev? I thought he was fairly witty and fetching on Letterman.

Is the joke that he was pushed into the background by that 16-year-old hottie wolfman?

Huge fan but loling at the "supporting" nod. Although now that I think of it, it may indeed be a supporting role. Are there hard and fats rules about what constitutes supporting?

My hunch is the Razzies have nominated fewer lead performances in their supporting categories than Oscars, as of late.

Haven't seen the movie, but is it any different than Jennifer Connelly winning supporting actress for A Beautiful Mind. She's the female lead in the movie but isn't the focus. (Probably lots of other examples, too, that was just the one that came to mind.)

everything I read about New Moon indicated RP was in it for 10-15 mins?

but no, overall these categories are made up as they go along. Pacino was nominated as supporting for The Godfather fer chrissakes.

we're also talking about the RAZZIES.

Conversely, I seem to recall Judi Dench mentioning her small amount of screen time when she won best supporting for (was it?) Shakespeare in Love.

Beatrice Straight to thread

I prefer supporting roles to be of the Beatrice Straight variety to, say, Casey Affleck.

Despite being held simultaneously on both coasts to add drama, there were few surprises for statuette-counters at the Writers Guild Awards on Saturday night. “Up in the Air,” “The Hurt Locker” and “The Cove,” favorites all season long, won for best adapted screenplay, best original screenplay and best documentary, respectively, and the winners gave variations on the speeches they’ve been giving all season long....

New Yorkers also had Susie Essman as a host, who was more profane than her West Coast counterpart, Seth McFarlane of “Family Guy,” could hope to be.

She began by asking the audience for nicknames for the award, a sort of winged V on a pedestal. “Flying Vajayjay” came the shout from the crowd, and after that, most people thanked the guild for giving them a part of the female anatomy.

Ms. Essman also made Oscar jokes: with 10 nominees, “for the first time, best picture will be longer than the expletive “death montage,” she said, adding that she loved “that” expletive “death montage.” She said she also loved “Avatar,” “the first movie to be simultaneously three-dimensional and one-dimensional.”

http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/bicoastal-dissonance-at-unsurprising-writers-guild-awards/?ref=movies

Precious dominates Indies; Bridges, Anvil win:

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/news/la-etw-spirits6-2010mar06,0,1245031.story

Eh. Terrible ceremony.