Well the Australian Film Institute has released a list of the best 100 films in the last 100 years. I think they did a great job on the list and I will post it later in the post. It seems that the AFI have a real good nack at picking good films although Citizen Kane has surfaced amongst a lot of Greatest Movie lists.
AFI took up some time on CBS announcing all the ballots and votes etc. for the films on the list. Well I should probably stop rambling on and show you the list, so here it is…
100. Ben-Hur (1959)
99. Toy Story (1995)
98. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
97. Blade Runner (1982)
96. Do the Right Thing (1989)
95. The Last Picture Show (1971)
94. Pulp Fiction (1994)
93. The French Connection(1971)
92. Goodfellas (1990)
91. Sophie’s Choice (1982)
90. Swing Time (1936)
89. The Sixth Sense (1999)
88. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
87. 12 Angry Men (1957)
86. Platoon (1986)
85. A Night at the Opera (1935)
84. Easy Rider (1969)
83. Titanic (1997)
82. Sunrise (1927)
81. Spartacus (1960)
80. The Apartment (1960)
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Evan Almighty, the follow on of Bruce Almighty, has a new clip online. Personally I am a Jim Carrey fanatic so I am a bit biased to the Bruce Almighty movie, but I am not gonna make any opinions as of yet about the clip. Just go watch it down the bottom.
The movie opens on July 22 and it should be good (if it was a total remake of Bruce Almighty it might be too soon, but it ain’t so meh). The movie has picked up the title as the most expensive comedy ever. It topped the scales with a whopping tally of around $250 million, crazy as caramel pie.
Alright enough of me rambling on, here is the clip, watch it and tell me what you think of it
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High definition clip here
So as we reported earlier this week, Michael Moore’s latest documentary Sicko was leaked onto the internet. Not a good thing by any stretch of the imagination. But now that it is released (an almost perfect copy) on the net, the Weinstein company has decided it is better to get it out there now than later when everyone has scored themselves a free copy.
The Weinstein company is opening the movie to the whole of New York and selected theaters where Moore’s movies have gone well around the US. The critics are eating this movie up and loving every bit of it, RT is giving it a 90% which is damn well awesome.
The second Moore news item is something I like about Moore. He follows up on his movies, he doesn’t sit back eating more food and doing that sort of shit, he gets out there and follow up on what he says in his documentaries. In the case of Sicko he recently held a standing only press conference on how bad the health system is and how some bill could change it all.
Moore says that if they vote yes for a bill to put the whole health system under government care and get rid of health giants trying to maximize profits the health system will be a better place. Which is definitely true, Australia has a public health care system and it is free when we get hurt, unless you go private which the public health care system still look after you.
I wanna see Moore’s film change the US health care system, I wanna see film sway the whole government into changing it’s mind. 2 thumbs up to our fat man Moore and I hope he changes the whole US health system from one powerful movie.
Well I am one to say I am impressed with this news. The Incredibles was no doubt in the top 5 animation movies of all time, I just loved the way the characters were shown and they way the story ran. With the animation it allowed the directors to be more creative in there super powers.
So the director of The Incredibles, Brad Bird, has talked to AP about possibly doing an Incredibles sequel now that Ratatouille is out in cinemas and that is a weight off his shoulders. Here is what he had to say on the matter
I love the world. I love the characters, and if I could come with a story that was as good or better than the original, I’d go there in a second. I have pieces of things that I would love to see in a sequel, but I haven’t got them all together yet, and I certainly wouldn’t want to come out there with something that is less than the original. … Sequels are not part of the business plan at Pixar. It’s all about the filmmakers being passionate about going somewhere.
Business plan? Who cares about the business plan, I want another Incredibles. Going by Pixar’s track record they have been more than dubious about creating sequels which is understandable they can get a little outta hand (Rocky anyone?) and a possible flop is not out of the picture.
If we take that square root it by the circumference of the human scaploid bone and then take the golden ratio and multiply all that by x (the amount made by every single Pixar film doubled and divided by 3) we come to a conclusion. Brad Bird should make another Incredibles, it is as simple as that.
Aardman, the legendary claymation film studio who brought us the likes of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run they also brought us (unfortunately) the 3D movie Flushed Away, are at it again as they release the films they are preparing to release out into the wild in the coming years.
The first film is called The Cat Burglars and is a story about a group of stay cats who steal milk. Sounds original and hopefully it will be in claymation. They have signed up Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah to work with the direction Steve Box on this one. Aardman says it will include the cool styling of Ocean’s Eleven and the the comedy action of Wallace and Gromit, sounds like a keeper
The next movie is based around the Pirates books (written by Gideon Defoe) which includes 3 books and one to be released 2008. I think it is gonna be hard to pull this one off as water with clay just hasn’t proven itself worthy and real water would screw with the clay. For this movie they have the minds of Peter Lord (co-founder of Aardman and director of Chicken Run), Andy Riley and Kevin Cecil who worked on Slacker Cats and Hyperdrive.
The final film is called Operation Rudolph, which sounds a little bit corny, and is an action film set on Christmas night. The film will portray the happenings of the production of toys and stuff at the North Pole. The twist is it is a high tech military procedure on a massive scaled. It shows how Santa and his army of combat elves get around the whole world in one night. The only person, who they have released, working on this film is one of the Borat writers Peter Baynham.
I am going to go the Pirate based movie (if they can pull the water off) then the Cat Burglars and then Operation Rudolph as I think the Christmas movies are way overdue although Aardman have a canny knack at pulling it off at the right times.