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djross
Celluloid Junkie - 2990 Films Ranked
Member Since: Apr 15, 2006
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Bio: A score between 91 and 100 indicates a masterpiece.

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Recent Rankings
75 T9 The Turin Horse (2011) - Dec 12, 2013
"By a strange coincidence, 2011 was the year von Trier, Ferrara and Tarr all chose to bring the world to an end. This version is the most abstract, and perhaps the bleakest. The photography and shot design is superb, and this portrayal of existence stripped back to the fundamental mechanics of everyday life is both very interesting and not boring, but this viewer was still not quite convinced of its greatness. Tarkovsky meets Bresson, and there is one shot quite heavily reminiscent of Kiarostami."
50 T4 Arbitrage (2012) - Dec 11, 2013
"A man gets trouble from all the women in his life (thus in some sense a non-comedic remake of Gere's Dr T and the Women, and also Rampart). It is clear we are supposed to find each of the women more sympathetic than the man. What is far less clear is why. Gere is pretty good. So too is Stuart "Angel Martin" Margolin, teaming up with Gere once again for the first time since Margolin's bit part in Days of Heaven. Roth does a De Niro impersonation with a dash of Gabriel Byrne."
50 T4 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) - Dec 11, 2013
"Although I've forgotten the first three films, I feel sure this one is the best, with almost a Harold Lloydesque character to it. Aiming for fun rather than sombreness suits the absurdly unrealistic nature of the action: the previous films were all simply bores. Here at least the rollercoaster ride is nothing but a rollercoaster ride. Odd portrayal of marriage: a wife is a possession, but one best kept locked away and out of earshot, for the sake of the husband's job and pursuit of adventure."
40 T3 Elysium (2013) - Dec 10, 2013
"By a somewhat remarkable coincidence, when I removed the disc after watching this movie, Barack Obama appeared onscreen speaking live at the Nelson Mandela memorial in Johannesburg. The speech and the film seemed to have in common quite a few of the same contradictions and elisions, though the speech had better writers than the movie. The acting was better too. In a reverse-HAL, a computer program winds up saving the day for humanity."
40 T3 The Vacation (2013) - Dec 09, 2013
"Kind of a version of The Shining in five minutes, somewhat in the style of the filmmaker's father. Moody but does not quite work."
30 T2 Fast Five (2011) - Dec 05, 2013
"Have not seen the second, third or fourth entries in this series, but judging from this example, the success of the franchise may be due, apart simply from the car chases and stunts, to the slightly odd way it's characters embrace, on the one hand, so-called family values if not indeed overt religiosity, and, on the other hand, criminality and extreme recklessness. Also notable is the fact that in this series, as far as I know, no one ever dies as a result of a car accident."
30 T2 GoldenEye (1995) - Dec 04, 2013
"Exemplifies, depicts and struggles with the many transitions that occurred during the 1990s: the exit from the Cold War and the opening of the Iron Curtain; the advent of the internet age; changing attitudes to gender relations, especially in terms of workplace rules; and the move from miniatures and models to computer-generated imagery. Poor Tina Turner title song, written by "Bono" and "The Edge". Ends (prophetically) by mentioning Guantanamo as a nice spot for some romantic debriefing."
75 T9 Only God Forgives (2013) - Dec 04, 2013
"Bloodthirsty and absurd, but gripping. Far superior to the conventional Drive, despite critical opinion to the contrary. All pretence to generic morality is dropped in favour of a slow but wildly exuberant abstract(ed) expressionism, not just in terms of sound and image but psychosexually as well, taking audacious and unusual risks with character and dialogue. One can only hope that the director does not draw the conclusion that departing from convention results in commercial punishment."
55 T5 Behind the Candelabra (2013) - Dec 03, 2013
"The leads work hard to raise this above the level of a generic biopic, and the director tries his best to add some stylistic panache, but these efforts are only partially successful: ultimately, the film suffers due to a mediocre script. I've always felt Michael Douglas has been a somewhat misunderstood and under-appreciated actor, so it is nice to see that in this instance his work was generally well-received. Dan Aykroyd, on the other hand, was simply unconvincing in his minor role."
25 T1 Stranger in My House (1999) - Dec 02, 2013
"Unlikely to receive any awards from the psychiatric fraternity for its portrayal of mental illness."
 
 
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