tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3205055753640568284..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: What were the best movies of 2010?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80810510584209498002011-01-09T12:57:55.018-08:002011-01-09T12:57:55.018-08:00http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/81010/da...http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/81010/david-thomson-white-material-claire-denis<br /><br />WHITE MATERIAL is getting lots of praise. Steve will have to review it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52902528217566906662011-01-08T11:11:48.869-08:002011-01-08T11:11:48.869-08:00http://features.metacritic.com/features/2010/film-...http://features.metacritic.com/features/2010/film-critic-top-ten-lists/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73404475986876505092011-01-08T11:09:40.725-08:002011-01-08T11:09:40.725-08:00http://features.metacritic.com/features/2011/best-...http://features.metacritic.com/features/2011/best-and-worst-movies-of-2010/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62896317895686487232011-01-07T15:21:04.176-08:002011-01-07T15:21:04.176-08:00>But what will the kids do on date night?<
...>But what will the kids do on date night?<<br /><br />Use their imaginations?<br /><br />>Concerning the Miss Steinfeld. Actors don't bother to Anglify their names or conceal mixed ancestry anymore--they used to. Weren't quite a few of the old Hollywood personnel of "exotic" lineages?<<br /><br />The Cartwright clan from TV's "Bonanza" consisted entirely of Jewish actors.<br /><br />In TV's "Star Trek" (original series), they even had a Jew playing an extraterrestrial.<br /><br />Darn those sly moguls. At least we still have Andy Griffith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28055614177398614932011-01-07T15:03:18.684-08:002011-01-07T15:03:18.684-08:00"anyone who said Toy Story 3, kill yourself....."anyone who said Toy Story 3, kill yourself...it's an uninspired Pixar flick about a teenager about to go off to college who is conflicted about parting with this toys (and then the toys have an adventure!)...if this is actually your idea of the best movie of the year you are really sad<br /><br />IF YOU LIKE THIS MOVIE YOU ARE A MANCHILD"<br /><br />Jesus Christ. It's a movie, not a work of art. Some of us actually have children. It was a cute movie to watch with the kids, nothing more. Most of us aren't analyzing the plot. You run an immature forum that is full of teenage humor, you really are in no position to be calling anyone a manchild, "Pleasureman".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8825103030448057692011-01-07T14:30:13.356-08:002011-01-07T14:30:13.356-08:00Did Svigor take over your brain today, Truth? I me...<i>Did Svigor take over your brain today, Truth? I mean, wow. I expected so much better from you.</i><br /><br />Apparently, the "Shiksa" dimension of "The Social network" was noted by some who think Hollywood is not friendly towards Jewish women! I wonder what Mila Kunis and Natalie Portman say about that?<br /><br />http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/who_does_aaron_sorkin_really_hate_20101021/fbjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18203819871175927892011-01-07T14:01:58.580-08:002011-01-07T14:01:58.580-08:00Jew Gadi, Maine! (Puerto rican for 'you are co...<i>Jew Gadi, Maine! (Puerto rican for 'you are correct sir')</i><br /><br />Your transliteration of Hisbonics seems a bit off; I think it's spelled "mang," not maine.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70843765844875471192011-01-07T11:55:40.167-08:002011-01-07T11:55:40.167-08:00"If you're gonna see only two per year, s..."If you're gonna see only two per year, shouldn't you be a bit more picky?"<br /><br />On the other hand, if you're only going to see two per year, why not do a little slumming?Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57203421939553663172011-01-07T10:15:12.002-08:002011-01-07T10:15:12.002-08:00"Did Svigor take over your brain today, Truth..."Did Svigor take over your brain today, Truth? I mean, wow. I expected so much better from you."<br /><br />"I don't think that was the actual 'Truth#.' He always posts with a link to his blog in his name."<br /><br />Jew Gadi, Maine! (Puerto rican for 'you are correct sir')<br /><br />'Truth' in Blue = Me<br />'Truth' in Black = wannabe fanboy<br /><br />By the way, thanks for refering to my pathetic effort as a 'blog.' I'll try to put a few new entries in.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26277786100297695042011-01-07T01:13:36.091-08:002011-01-07T01:13:36.091-08:00I liked "Enter the Void." But as far as ...I liked "Enter the Void." But as far as I can remember I only saw three new films in 2010.Ray Sawhillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434181069400646328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44724211266698407422011-01-06T23:21:53.900-08:002011-01-06T23:21:53.900-08:00Steve in the Huffington Post?! (although I noticed...Steve in the Huffington Post?! (although I noticed the comments for his article were closed).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67728131577291243742011-01-06T21:43:02.236-08:002011-01-06T21:43:02.236-08:00"So, you wanna see more movies about keebler ...<i>"So, you wanna see more movies about keebler cookie elves and comic book heroes?"</i><br /><br />Yes. Actually, the last movies about the Keebler cookie elves and the comic book hero, "Return of the King" and "The Dark Knight," were easily and undeniably two of the best movies of 2003 and 2008, so I make no apologies. Their sequels are both due in 2012.Captain Jack Aubreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81682986142658434132011-01-06T19:56:02.122-08:002011-01-06T19:56:02.122-08:00Black Swan, Shutter Island, and The Social Network...Black Swan, Shutter Island, and The Social Network were all entertaining. <br />I don't understand everyone's love affair with True Grit though. I had trouble keeping my eyes open through that one.Anonyianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40081546540138132902011-01-06T19:42:04.080-08:002011-01-06T19:42:04.080-08:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFp5a4zrJu4
2009 m...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFp5a4zrJu4<br /><br />2009 movie but Troell's EVERLASTING MOMENTS is terrific stuff.adfadsfsdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13740130131900734602011-01-06T17:52:54.001-08:002011-01-06T17:52:54.001-08:00"And who suggested The Ghost Writer? Are they..."And who suggested The Ghost Writer? Are they actually serious?"<br /><br />Yes. Steve liked it. Argue with him. <br /><br />" ... competent political thriller for grown-ups, one of the better movies of 2010 ..."<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-sailer/polanskis-emghost-writere_b_547444.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28677941295368430682011-01-06T13:39:08.891-08:002011-01-06T13:39:08.891-08:00I liked many movies this year; The Social Contract...I liked many movies this year; The Social Contract, Inception, Kick-Ass, Loft, Toy Story 3, Edge of Darkness were among the better ones, I'd say. Still like to say the Wood-man's latest. Not too bad popcorn flicks: Green zone, Unstoppable.<br /><br />Horrified to have seen: Sex & The City II, I love you Philip Morris. <br /><br />Worst movie of 2010: Knight & Day -- I actually hoped the movie would end very fast after 20 minutes, because I couldn't take its moronicness, unfunny situation, stupid action scenes and still had to fight to not fall asleep.<br /><br />I also enjoyed True Blood and the World Cup.Macianohttp://qwerty@uiop.nlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21990458745662367352011-01-06T12:21:15.662-08:002011-01-06T12:21:15.662-08:00Best of 2010, in no particular order:
Shutter Isl...Best of 2010, in no particular order:<br /><br />Shutter Island<br />Inception<br />Black Swan<br />True Grit<br />The Town<br />The Fighter<br />Winter's Bone<br />The Social Network<br /><br />I hear good things about Exit Through the Gift Shop and The King's Speech as well.<br /><br />The Kids Are All Right seems to be on a lot of critics' top 10 lists despite being transparent SWPL propaganda.<br /><br />As for Toy Story 3, most people are behind the curve and don't realize it was only cool to like Pixar back in, like, 2004. Now it's gone too mainstream and the bleeding-edge contrarians have swung back to the plucky underdog Dreamworks (I'm speaking here of only those people who find it necessary to have strong attachments to children's animation studios). You heard it here first.Mannerheimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19089815268034520282011-01-06T11:45:41.395-08:002011-01-06T11:45:41.395-08:00"I only saw two, and they both stunk: The Exp..."I only saw two, and they both stunk: The Expendables and the new Tron one in 3D."<br /><br />If you're gonna see only two per year, shouldn't you be a bit more picky?adsfadfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90168466643240911512011-01-06T11:43:27.973-08:002011-01-06T11:43:27.973-08:00"inception was the only great movie in 2010. ..."inception was the only great movie in 2010. but here's one thing that has been cracking me up about movie criticism. over the last year, nothing has been more de rigueur than bashing the avatar script as derivative. really?"<br /><br />You can derive something and make it fresh. SEVEN SAMURAI owes something to American westerns, but it FEELS fresh and different. Leone's westerns owe a great deal to American westerns, but Leone created a whole new style and approach. AVATAR is just lame and stale. If it weren't so pompous, it wouldn't matter, but it pretends to be soooo original and profound.adsfadsfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31118945112442384352011-01-06T11:40:56.615-08:002011-01-06T11:40:56.615-08:00"I think at least a few of us are just quietl..."I think at least a few of us are just quietly, desperately waiting for The Hobbit, as well as the next Batman sequel.<br />Peter Jackson and Chris Nolan, don't let us down."<br /><br />So, you wanna see more movies about keebler cookie elves and comic book heroes?adfasdfasdfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70094863438720399042011-01-06T11:39:08.327-08:002011-01-06T11:39:08.327-08:00Anyone see PUBLIC ENEMIES? B- or C+ from me. Has ...Anyone see PUBLIC ENEMIES? B- or C+ from me. Has some very good things but just doesn't come together. And Depp seems all wrong as Dillinger. He plays it too cool and smart, more like a fashion model and doctoral candidate than a thug. Starts in 1933--same yr as Hitler's rise--and is, at times, like a fascist pageantry of gangsterism. <br />There is one super scene: nighttime gunfight in the forest. <br /><br />Recently saw a French film from 2001, a real hoot. Called CRIMSON RIVERS, laugh-riot ridiculous but fun. You'd think with all the problems with immigrants, the last thing France should worry about is some mountain college(remember all those mountain movies made by Rifenstahl)creating a breed of Nazi ubermensch. ROTFL. A scream!! But then it was made a Jewish director, Kassovitz, the same guy who made La Haine and supported the 'muslim riots' in Paris. <br /><br />The movie is soooooo anti-fascist and anti-eugenics. But I find it odd. After all, don't liberals promote RACE MIXING as a kind of eugenics? They tell us that a person of mixed race is more intelligent, more wise, more beautiful, etc. What is Obama but a kind of prototype for the mulatto ubermensch messiah(according to liberals anyway)? Don't liberals say that mixing races will combine the best traits of each race and create a better race? Whether one favors a racist ubermensch or an interracist ubermensch, the concept of eugenics is behind both.adfadadfasfnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24719741118681577372011-01-06T09:52:23.609-08:002011-01-06T09:52:23.609-08:00"Oh, and a quiet, humanistic, very effective ..."Oh, and a quiet, humanistic, very effective Austrian film about revenge, longing and forgiveness called 'Revanche.'"<br /><br />Indeed. One of the best films I've seen in some time.Ron Guhnamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78587689367157843842011-01-06T09:40:01.032-08:002011-01-06T09:40:01.032-08:00"Did you know there are more people with geni..."Did you know there are more people with genius IQs living in China than there are people of any kind living in the United States?" This question, the first line of The Social Network, is asked before the Columbia logo even disappears from the screen. The question then becomes how to distinguish yourself in population of people who all scored 1600 on their SATs. Zuckerberg's answer is to light out for their territory with a buddy, à la Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Zuckerberg's girlfriend calls this the "idea of the cowboy." It's amazing how that idea still inspires. It's the inspiration behind what is easily the best movie of 2010. <br /><br />The director, David Fincher, currently working on making space on his mantle for an Academy Award, got his start working for George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic. I contend that The Social Network draws as much inspiration from the relationship between George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola as it does the actual relationship between Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker. Listening to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-M9XAuhXcE&feature=related" rel="nofollow">this interview</a> with George Lucas, it's easy to imagine the young, nerdish Lucas setting out on "an adventure" with the more worldly and successful, at the time, Coppola in much the same fashion as Zuckerberg does with Parker in The Social Network. (The first movie Lucas made for Coppola's Zoetrope Studios, THX 1138, could be entitled "The Social Network")<br /><br />By the way, the main reason I'm a regular reader of iSteve is because I see the "idea of the cowboy" in Steve. He's a Westerner, an outlaw from polite society, and a man who, as his last name suggests, is not afraid to venture into dangerous and uncharted territory. At least I think that's why I read. I know I'm not all that interested in the subject of IQ. If I were, I guess I would be reading a Chinese blogger.travisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4420899211797057212011-01-06T07:29:02.020-08:002011-01-06T07:29:02.020-08:00It illustrates the steepness of the decline that a...<i>It illustrates the steepness of the decline that anyone is actually suggesting The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series.</i><br /><br />To clarify (and I was unclear), I didn't mean to mention "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" in the context of the year's ten best. I mentioned it only because it struck me as the most extreme left-wing revenge fantasy I can recall, which explains why was praised by my liberal relatives and acquaintances. And, admittedly, it held my interest because I always want to see how revenge fantasies play out.<br /><br /><i>Udolpho.com said...anyone who said Toy Story 3, kill yourself ...</i><br />The fact that I enjoyed "Toy Story 3" and you did not does not cause me enough mental distress to contemplate suicide, but thanks anyway.Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73609667696462322982011-01-06T06:45:10.392-08:002011-01-06T06:45:10.392-08:00Concerning the Miss Steinfeld. Actors don't bo...Concerning the Miss Steinfeld. Actors don't bother to Anglify their names or conceal mixed ancestry anymore--they used to. Weren't quite a few of the old Hollywood personnel of "exotic" lineages? Merle Oberon for example. There were others. Also, many purely European-descended actors played non-Europeans, even non-whites, the most awkward and stupid example being the lead characters in the Good Earth. Some Euros can play Arabs and mestizos with some look of reality, but they don't work as Chinese. And I don't think a white man would work playing Papa Doc. The PC crowd is becoming blind, deaf and dumber. The next time some pc lunatic wants to star an obviously black actor in a Jane Austin flick, let's suggest Tom Cruise play Malcolm X and Morgan Fairchild play Hitler. That should shut them up forever.<br />Actors "work" in a part as long as they are good and can be made to look the part. Steinfeld works in the role. I've seen northern Euros with bluntish features and no "mixture" to explain them. Just how the genes fell. That is what acting is. It is among the last professions where authenticity matters as long as artifice suffices. Just the ACTORS, not the actual story where authenticity and honesty really does matter.lesleynoreply@blogger.com