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VengefulKBM
Movie Buff - 314 Films Ranked
Member Since: Dec 13, 2011
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Bio: Had another account on here as "kbmusiclover", but I started over with this one when I realized I barely even remembered half of the things I'd rated and it was getting impossible to rank things. This will have much fewer, yet more accurate rankings.

My tiers are kinda messed up, though, because even though I am a very harsh critic, I generally tend to know going in whether I'm going to like a movie or not, so I've seen far more good movies than bad ones because I have a good sense of what to avoid. Therefore, if anybody in the world is interested, I will provide you with this list:

100: Perfect
90: Incredibly good
80: High-quality film with a few minor flaws
70: Good movie that I would want to watch again
60: Decent
50: Average
40: Not Good
30: Bad
20: Really Bad
10: Abhorrent
0: Complete trash
Recent Rankings
97 The Player (1992) - Feb 22, 2012
Mini-Review: A beautifully-crafted postmodern comedy. One of my all-time favorites. Altman's skewering of the Hollywood world is pitch-perfect, and this works on practically every level (particularly if you know Hollywood well enough).
65 War Horse (2011) - Feb 22, 2012
Mini-Review: The final 30 minutes are flawless. The rest of Hollywood needs to take lessons in how to end a movie from Spielberg; he's always done it brilliantly. That being said, the rest of the movie is entertaining for all the WRONG reasons, and things that are supposed to be strong, emotional moments just come off as funny a lot of the time. Also features a fairly amusing John Williams outing, in which the score basically shouts "Hey, I'm John Williams, did you remember?" over and over again at you.
90 South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (1999) - Feb 22, 2012
Mini-Review: As not a big fan of South Park, this borders on "masterpiece" level for the animated film genre. A deftly-written self-parody, what puts this over the top is the slew of amazingly well-written songs by the talented team of Parker & Stone (foreshadowing their future Broadway success with Book of Mormon). As a musical theatre nerd, "La Resistance" is a must-see showstopper, as are "Mountain Town", "Uncle Fucka", and hell, practically everything else. Just see it.
80 Ocean's Eleven (2001) - Feb 22, 2012
Mini-Review: Very fun popcorn movie that forces you to think - but not too much. Wonderfully entertaining cast.
95 Up in the Air (2009) - Feb 22, 2012
Mini-Review: My favorite George Clooney movie, and my favorite of 2009. This deliciously funny movie still manages to have both a heart AND a dark streak, and the whole thing just has a very *real* feeling to the proceedings. I loved everything about this.
45 The Descendants (2011) - Feb 22, 2012
Mini-Review: I honestly don't get it. It's not that I didn't pay attention, or didn't find anything to appreciate, or anything like that - but this film just left me empty. Great performances and stellar directing are bogged down by a screenplay that doesn't know if it wants to be a comedy or drama so half-heartedly tries at both, and a soundtrack of Hawaiian that is distressingly misused during otherwise-gut-wrenching scenes. This is no Sideways. I expected much better.
94 Midnight in Paris (2011) - Feb 17, 2012
Mini-Review: Amazing stuff. Owen Wilson, who usually drives me insane, was charismatic and loveable. The script was brilliant, and connected with me on virtually every possible level, as someone who's always sort of wished he could live in the past. In a year with a lot of really good award nominees, this is still a standout.
91 Moneyball (2011) - Feb 15, 2012
Mini-Review: Definitely one of the best sports movies ever made, I can say that without a shred of doubt. Its singlemindedness (the movie never strays for an instant from scenes about baseball) is both its strength and its weakness - but mostly a strength. A great cast, and somehow it made me forget that I don't like the Oakland A's at all.
77 1984 (1984) - Feb 15, 2012
Mini-Review: In its best moments, it's truly haunting. In its worst, it's rather confusing - not from a "what's going on" standpoint, but rather a "why did the filmmakers go that route" sort of a way. It's certainly a more-than-serviceable adaptation, but there are times when one finds oneself thinking, "if only the rest of the movie had been this haunting". John Hurt is phenomenal, as usual. But it's nothing that can live up to the book.
70 Immortal Beloved (1994) - Feb 15, 2012
Mini-Review: Only as good as it is because of Gary Oldman. This tries really hard to be something it's not ('Amadeus'), when it should've just stuck to the gripping history of it all. Still, Oldman's typically stunning as he completely transforms into Beethoven, and it makes Immortal Beloved worth seeing at least once.
 
 
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