Comments on: LYT’s ten best list — annotated edition

By: coachwife6

coachwife6 — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:11:00 +0000

Did anyone have trouble burning the Napoleon Dynamite CD? I tried on several different computers with different settings and I just couldn’t get it to work. Didn’t know if it was because it had movie dialogue and songs interspersed?

By: Ghostboy

Ghostboy — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:09:00 +0000

And speaking of James Cameron and 3D — I just caught his new doc, Aliens Of The Deep, which aside from having a horribly title and the same rather pedantic faux-produndity that plagued Ghosts Of The Abyss, is pretty damn astounding. The images he captures are breathtaking — and the more-pristine-than-ever 3D photography is the perfect tool with which to capture it. Makes me want to become a marine biologist.

By: Ghostboy

Ghostboy — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:42:00 +0000

Yeah, I did — and I was actually completely enthralled throughout the film, entirely because of the amazing technology on display. I only wish it had been at the service of a decent film (to be fair, I’m a huge fan of the book, which this utterly failed to capture the spirit of). If anything, it left me incredibly excited about James Cameron’s upcoming 3D feature.

By: LYT

LYT — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:14:00 +0000

Does my heart good to see one otehr notable Shrek 2 hater — seems like I’ve been standing alone on that for months. (One email a week at least until I finally closed comments on that review.)

As for Polar Express, did you see it in 3-D IMAX? Makes all the difference in the world.

By: Ghostboy

Ghostboy — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 06:09:00 +0000

Well, I think the only movie I came close to hating on your list is The Polar Express. And I didn’t hate that, just thought it was lame (hate gets reserved for Shrek 2). I also didn’t really care much for Butterfly Effect. But glad to see Hero get some love over House Of Flying Daggers, couldn’t agree more about Donnie Darko: Director’s Cut and Hellboy pretty much ruled (at least until Spidey 2 came out, which I liked more, although I hold exactly the same reservations about the AI in the tentacles — that didn’t make any sense). Anyway, good list…mine is somewhere on my website, but I’m too lazy to find the link.

By: LYT

LYT — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 05:43:00 +0000

P.S. Max, the wooden chairs you left with me have just been immortalized in the movie “Mad Cowgirl.”

By: LYT

LYT — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 05:41:00 +0000

Cool. No need to by the director’s cut then. I’m perfectly happy with Hellboy as it is.

I vastly prefer it to Spider-Man 2, though. Much more a Del Toro movie than SM2 is a Raimi movie. I still don’t get why Doctor Octavius would give his mechanical arms an evil independent intelligence, monitored only by an exposed microchip that is highly vulnerable to damage (Doc Ock in the comics was a bad guy on his own motivation, not because he became “possessed&quot.

Love the poster, though, where, as my friend Chris Sivertson put it, Kirsten Dunst looks like she’s just been fucked really hard.

By: ReJeKt

ReJeKt — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 05:29:00 +0000

Spiderman 2 by the way, was not only a much better comic book movie, but damn fine on it’s own merits. Not even a contest.

By: ReJeKt

ReJeKt — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 05:20:00 +0000

It’s not so much the detective as it is the noir. The comic was both, and the movie is neither.

And don’t bother with the Director’s Cut. Unless you really want whatever extras it has, I only noticed one major addition from the theatrical version, and it was worthless.

By: LYT

LYT — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:39:00 +0000

Do you really consider Sin City a “detective” comic? I know there are detectives in it, but it always struck me as being more about booze, babes, and blood than the actual solving of any mystery.

Batman, technically speaking, is often a detective comic (literally titled as such!), but none of the movies have ever gotten that part right. Hoping this new one will.

Dunno Hellboy all that well, but what I have read of the comics seems consistent with the movie. Anyone seen the extended director’s cut? I don’t feel I need more, but if it’s super fantastic I might get it.