I thought I should maybe ammend this with a bit of a tribute to Pete Postlethwaite, who died last night. I'm a bit gutted, to be honest. He'll rightly be lauded for some classic iconic roles, and is a huge loss. If you ever needed a silver lining though, check out The Town and Inception. He was in two of the best films of the last ten years as a good bye gift to the World, and that's exactly how it should be.
Now... who fancies watching Usual Suspects with me... "ya fuckin' cock sucka" *************************************************************************
Now. Over to The Ledgers for their top five...
JMcG 1 - Shutter Island 2 - Inception 3 - The Town 4 - Karate Kid 5 - Let Me In
with Toy Story 3 and I'm Still Here running them close.
MC... 1 - Kick Ass 2 - Social Network 3 - Inception 4 - Ironman 2
5 - Restrepo GC... 1 - Inception 2 - The Town 3 - Kick Ass 4 - Scott Pilgrim 5 - Shutter Island AT... 1 - The Town 2 - Inception 3 - Let Me In 4 - Monsters 5 - I'm Still Here
I thought I would do my top five films of the year, with no more than 140 characters explaining why. A bit of a nod to twitter, and to movie poster quotes.
That starts from tomorrow. I'll post mine in the morning, then JMcGs in the evening. We'll soon see who has better taste. Or who is more learned.
In the mean time, there were a couple that I felt deserved honourable mentions...
"Don't Let People Tell You 2010 Was Rubbish For Films. They Ignored This."
It's been a good year for films, I think.
Sure, you have to delve through a lot of shit (especially when you have a cine pass!), but this top five are worthy of any year.
My highlight of the year, (Apart from JMcG coaxing me into get said cine pass that is - best thing I did was get back to the flicks matey, cheers for encouraging that), in unquestionable though.
Toy Story 3. With Mrs T, and Ethan Zachs.
Seriously, seriously hard to think of a better family day we've had this year.
I'd wanted to see Exit Through The Gift Shop for ages.
I have a few friends on twitter, and this one is an Artist.
An Artist I really rate, too. he did me a massive favour for my fifth wedding anniversary actually, and did three bits of art based around some of mine and Mrs Ts favourite song lyrics. And they're awesome.
Before that, he did that there Blog header. Aint it cool?
So watching this, it really struck me about how there are artists out there, always looking for that big break...
Hi y'internet people. I have no idea why the internet sent you here, either. I write a Blog. Review films. And for some obscure reason, when you're all googling Battle Los Angeles, you're coming here. Sorry about that. Just so you know, I actually saw the film and reviewed it for the greatest site ever. Just click the link, HERE. You probably don't want to know what I thought of Skyline...
Holy shit. If they don't screw this up, this could be in my top three of 2011.
I'm seeing SkyLine Sunday. I'll do a drunken review somewhen.
3/4 Ledgers went to see Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps on Monday. The 4th Ledger must have been busy.
JMcG and I have waited for this day. A day where we sit opposite spectrum's on the film scale.
I hated it. He loved it. So, we both put a case to the Jury.
Mine today. His over the weekend. Then you can vote. Of course, most of you will be so compelled to vote Guilty after this review, that you're more than welcome.
Is Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Guilty... or Not Guilty? You don't have to have seen it to vote. I pray you never see it. Here's why...
