It\u2019s been a while since anyone asked me for a Ten-Best movie list and if I were still regularly paid for going to movies, I would have one piping hot. It\u2019s been a peripatetic year, however, and I\u2019ve been a peripatetic sorta person lately. So I haven\u2019t been as up-to-date on new stuff as I used to be.
\nDo I wish I still were? Another question for another time. I\u2019m dying to definitively answer that one to myself. Definitively, that is.
\nNevertheless, people still ask me what I\u2019ve seen & whether I liked it or not. Clock\u2019s ticking on the end of 2011 & as I note below, I still haven\u2019t seen everything I\u2019ve needed\/wanted to see. So I shall reply in the following manner. (This is as of Dec. 27, 2011, by the by):<\/p>\n
MOVIES I WOULD PAIR IN A HYPOTHETICAL DOUBLE-FEATURE IN A HYPTOTHETICAL REPERTORY THEATER SHOWING HOW THINGS GOT SO MESSED UP & HOW WE FEEL ABOUT IT NOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMargin Call\u201d & \u201cTake Shelter\u201d<\/p>\n MOVIES THAT WERE BETTER THAN I EXPECTED:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cMelancholia,\u201d \u201cSubmarine,\u201d \u201cThe Lincoln Lawyer,\u201d \u201cRise of the Planet of the Apes,\u201d \u201cBeginners,\u201d \u201cThe Adventures of Tintin\u201d<\/p>\n MOVIES THAT WEREN\u2019T QUITE AS GOOD AS ADVERTISED (OR REVIEWED):<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cBridesmaids,\u201d \u201cTabloid,\u201d \u201cThe Ides of March,\u201d \u201cDrive\u201d (but Albert Brooks made up for a lot), \u201cJ. Edgar\u201d (Did NOT know until now that Hoover had a Massachusetts accent\u2026Whoda thunk?)<\/p>\n MOVIES THAT FULFILLED ADVANCE HOPES; SOME MORE SO THAN OTHERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy,\u201d \u201cMoneyball\u201d, \u201cThe Trip\u201d, \u201cThe Descendants,\u201d \u201cSuper 8\u201d<\/p>\n ODDLY UNDERRATED BLOCKBUSTERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,\u201d \u201cCaptain America: The First Avenger,\u201d \u201cThor,\u201d \u201cMidnight in Paris\u201d (longtime \u2013 as in jaded \u2013 Woody watchers think he got lucky, at best.)<\/p>\n ODDBALL WONDERS PEOPLE AREN\u2019T TALKING ENOUGH ABOUT:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cCold Weather,\u201d \u201cPoetry,\u201d \u201cMeek\u2019s Cutoff,\u201d \u201cThe Arbors\u201d<\/p>\n MY FAVORITE SUBGENRE OF THE YEAR: THE RETRO DOC:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cGeorge Harrison: Living in the Material World,\u201d \u201cThe Black Power Mixtape,\u201d \u201cBobby Fischer Against the World,\u201d \u201cBeats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest\u201d<\/p>\n HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT\u2026(?!):<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cUncle Boomie Who Can Recall His Past Lives\u201d<\/p>\n NOT AS BAD AS I ANTICIPATED, BUT STILL PROBLEMATIC:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Help\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019M STILL NOT SURE ABOUT (BUT CAN\u2019T BRING MYSELF TO DISMISS):<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe Tree of Life,\u201d \u201cNostalgia for the Light\u201d<\/p>\n AND I STILL HAVEN\u2019T SEEN (BUT WILL SOON, I PROMISE):<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHugo,\u201d \u201cExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close,\u201d \u201cMission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,\u201d \u201cThe Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,\u201d \u201cMargaret,\u201d \u201cPina,\u201d \u201cLe Havre,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s been a while since anyone asked me for a Ten-Best movie list and if I were still regularly paid for going to movies, I would have one piping hot. It\u2019s been a peripatetic year, however, and I\u2019ve been a peripatetic sorta person lately. So I haven\u2019t been as up-to-date on new stuff as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-2011-movies-melancholia-hypothetical-repertory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geneseymour.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}