The 9.5

Once is a 9.5 definitely.

No Country is a 0.2. Horrible movie.

There Will Be Blood is a 9.5.

I was thinking the same thing about U2 and this newfound hysteria. I remember when they made the cover of Time in 1989 when I was a senior in high school. That was hysteria. Joshua Tree was a 9.5. Hell, some of their songs (Sunday Bloody Sunday) were a 9.5. This is all just marketing for the kids who were too young 4 years ago to understand how big U2 has been since 1980. They'll make another 50 gazillion, go on tour, make another movie. And then in 2012 do it all again for the kids today who are too young to understand what the hubbub is, bub.

 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid could never be a 10 as long as that damned song is still in there.

 

Reminds me of a joke: Teacher tells little Johnny to use the word urinate in a sentence. Johnny says, "Ms. Radford, you're an 8, but you'd be a 10 if your tits were bigger."

 

Now that's a 10.

 

Huh?

I thought you had indicated that you are some sort of filmmaker....

 

Once is fantastic.

NCFOM is just a wretched piece of shit. Some nice views when they're in the country and all, but the movie sucked.

And TWBB was fascinating.

And yes, I'm a moviemaker if I ever get a movie camera.

 

Shawshank Redemption, by this definition, would be a 9.5.

 

You could pray to make a movie that sucked that badly.

 

Yes, so is Jaws, Goodfellas, The original Raiders of the Lost Ark, Clerks and others.

In my book, to reach 9.5 you have to be great, and the last 20 minutes of TWBB left me wanting.

The cinematography was 9.5.
The acting by DDL was 9.5.
The soundtrack was a 9.5.
Dano was a 9.5.

The ending just seemed contrived. There was too much of a jump to reach that spot, and to make DDL's character that fucking crazy just didn't make the movie that great for me.

Plus, other than HW and the blond girl, was there one likeable character?

Side question, was any CGI used in TWBB?

If there was not, the filming of the burning rig just amazes me. Some very difficult scenes must have been one take.

 

Oh, I can make a movie like that.

Contrived story. Over-acted performances, especially Bardem. He won the Oscar, yeah yeah. But he was miscast. I know who I would've wanted. Hmm, let's have the lead guy get killed but not show it. Let's just show his dead body in the motel room. Yeah, quality stuff there.

I'd rather watch Superbad again, and that's the worst movie I may have ever seen beside Love, Actually and How Bad Can It Get?

But yes, I can make a movie better than NCFOM.

 

I wish I could change my screen name to 9.5.

 

Simon, NCFOM was a great movie with a shitty ending.

The Sopranos at least did the vague ending, but it fit. You didn't have to suspend your common sense to understand what was being said by the director.

I wish these movies would just take a great story and back it with the cinematography that was seen in Old Men and Blood.