July 27, 2007
hot fuzz
Saw this movie.
And now, on to an update on the rankings, with a reminder that these run from worst to best, or from least preferred to most preferred, as indicated by the numbers — so that, for example, the movie numbered "1" is the "number 1" movie on the list.
23) Smokin' Aces (nothing)
22) Factory Girl (wasn't Smokin' Aces)
21) Paris je t'aime (didn't have Hayden Christenson)
20) Waitress (Cheryl Hines' micromonologues, Nathan Fillion's smile)
19) Severance (theatre was quite clean)
18) Dreamgirls (the club sets; Eddie Murphy's Marvin Gaye skullcap)
17) Avenue Montaigne (the one brief image of the young Dani)
16) Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten ("White Riot" a capella)
15) Notes on a Scandal (Bill Nighy dancing)
14) Hot Fuzz (lighting in British supermarket)
13) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (pleasure of SRO crowd in huge theatre)
12) Blades of Glory (ambient Ferrellage)
11) Disturbia (strange racialized decision to have best friend recreate the standard John Cho performance)
10) Alpha Dog (Justin Timberlake in general)
9) Shooter (Mark Wahlberg dressed as a frickin' yeti for the final showdown; Ned Beatty's career-long conversion into Buford T. Justice)
8) Backstage (Isild LeBesco's facial physiognomy; plausibility of such drecky pop being huge in France)
7) Grindhouse (Fake trailers, muscle cars, and a wrecker named Killdozer)
6) Knocked Up (Seth Rogen's delivery, the jokes about Martin's beard, Paul Rudd's three smiles)
5) 28 Weeks Later (Goodbye Dover Beach...)
4) Transformers (has entire theory of American history, plus robot fights)
3) The Host (brief familial hallucination of feeding the lost child; Kang-ho Song's facial expressions)
2) Children of Men (blood on the lens for long tracking shot; Clive Owen's slumped shoulders)
1) Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish Winona Ryder; Harold & the Purple Crayon riff; title better in English)