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Thu Dec 17
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12/16/09
Glad to see Primer on there. That was a movie I rented based on the cover and I loved how such a low-budget looking movie could be so convincingly good. I forgot what it was called, it's been a few years since I've seen it. I'd like to see that one again.
Can't wait for Moon to be on DVD so I can see what the fuss was all about.
And although technically it's fantasy, I think a prequel could have been put up there. Let's say ROTS, for being the most OT like SW prequel and having some legitimate drama, compared to the first two.
And I don't care what the haters say, Transformers 2 belongs up there, and in the years to come, will be seen as the subversive mind fuck it really was, not the movie that was mistakenly taken at face value by so many elitists.
I saw someone mention Children of Men... not sure what I think about that one. Dystopia doesn't sell me the way it used to. Still, it's a hard movie to not think about, and the subtle updating of tech was impressive, as it wasn't marketed as a film with many special effects, but they were there, in a real-world "this is exactly what it would like" type of way.
And, Spielberg deserves a mention. Minority Report is a movie I watch maybe once a year, holds up quite well.
I'm sure I'll think of way more movies that could have been added soon.
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A.I. (probably my favorite sci-fi of the decade)
Watchmen
Unbreakable
Matrix
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I may be regretting asking this, but how can you say Rise of the Fallen was subversive when it was created by and for the elites that watered down Transformers to a shell of its source material. They replace sparks with an never-ending explosion and cliches.
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I remember liking MASK more.
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Glad they changed it!
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Oh, it was more than that. Heart of Ice was the very first time that Mr. Freeze was taken seriously by the audience as a top-notch Batman villain. Before that, he was always at best a B-grade villain, and then only on every third Tuesday of the month. Now he's managed to achieve immortality in the form of a LEGO minifig, all thanks to B:TAS.
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"We will do no stories about Batman’s origin...that’s been done to death in the comics"
Truer words were never spoken. If I have to open one more Batman book and read about Crime Alley...
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They dabbled in that part of his life in regular episodes, but they never really went full-out with the "how" of it that I can recall.
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Wow.
As a lifelong fan(atic/boy) of this show, which pretty much shaped the way I perceive Batman, this is pretty amazing.
Now I know what all those people felt like when Charleton Heston came down that mountain with the 10 Commandments.
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I feel the same way about the X-Men cartoon. I never really got into the X-Men comics, and don't even get me started on the movies. Tweenage Rogue with Wolverine Daddy issues? Please. The cartoons left that kind of stuff to Jubilee.
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So very eXtreme.
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*sigh* Frank Miller once said that Jubilee's costume was the coolest Robin costume he'd ever seen (green shorts/shoes/sunglasses, red shirt, yellow "cape"), which is why he stole it back for Robin in The Dark Knight Returns.
12/15/09
Children of Men, like everyone has said, is easily one of the top films of the decade. How no one at io9 thought it worthy of inclusion here is a bit maddening.
Also, I don't agree that Donnie Darko has aged well. Maybe it's because the Director's Cut ruins the film for me. I'd toss out Time Crimes as a better alternative.
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Of course, Batman Begins had supernatural elements so could be considered sci-fi.
Wonder if Nolan will bring those elements back next time around.
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