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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
27 December 2009 9:03 PM, PST
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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In My Opinion: Top Ten Biggest Disappointments of 2009
21 December 2009 4:35 PM, PST
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Ten films that didn't live up to expectations
Ten Most Disappointing Films of 2009
This year I've decided I'm not going to write a "Worst of 2009" list. What's the point? If you must you can visit the review archives for 2009, sort by grade and find my reviews of Fanboys, The Last House on the Left, All About Steve and I Love You Beth Cooper and then fill in six of your choosing from the "D" section and be done with it. Instead, I'm going back to what I've done only one other time and going to take a look back at the films that ended up disappointing me on one lever or another.
This way I don't have to talk about The Marc Pease Experience or Bride Wars. Year One and Whiteout don't need further dicussion and neither does G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra of Fighting. Instead I can
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- Brad Brevet
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Dan O'Bannon, Chris Henry And Actresses Who Play Wii In Today's Twitter-Wood
18 December 2009 3:30 PM, PST
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This was a rough week for memorial tweets, with Tisha Taylor Murphy and Roy Disney's passings both making headlines. More condolences showed up today for "Alien" screenwriter Dan O'Bannon and Bengals wide received Chris Henry, who both had their share of fans in our feed.
Following up on Jason Reitman's Olympic Torch tweets from the week, posted a much better photo today and got some moral support from Roger Ebert. You can check that out below, along with a shot of "New Moon" actor Alex Meraz's new t-shirt, two actresses who are not ashamed of their Wiis. It's all retweeted in the Twitter-Wood report for December 18, 2009.
Twitter Pic of the Day:
@TheAlexMeraz Don't you just love when you buy a kick-ass shirt?! I know I do. The cashier laughed when he saw me buy it http://bit.ly/7PnZn0
-Alex Meraz, Actor ("The Twilight Saga: New Moon,
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- Brian Warmoth
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Collider Holiday Giveaway - We Finally Have a New Server! Win Free DVD’s, Blu-rays and Books!
6 December 2009 7:12 PM, PST
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With the holiday’s fast approaching and everyone struggling to find enough money to buy presents, we’ve come up with a novel way to save money: get free stuff from us! Thanks to a bunch of PR films, I’ve got a huge box filled with DVDs, Blu-rays and books and I’m going to give everything away to our readers. So if you’d like to know what you could win and how to enter, just hit the jump for all the info:
And one bit of news before you click on the jump…if you’re a regular reader of Collider, you’ve probably noticed we’ve had a lot of problems keeping the site online over the past few months. Due to heavy traffic and an old server, the site was crashing almost everyday. But after many weeks of work behind the scenes, we have a
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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44 Inch Chest trailer: proof that cool does not have an age limit
2 December 2009 9:34 PM, PST
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44 Inch Chest is about a husband who, with the help of his friends, kidnaps the man that his wife has been cheating on him with. The film also features one of the coolest over-40-years-old casts ever – Ray Winstone (The Departed, Beowulf), John Hurt (V For Vendetta, The Propositon, 1984), Tom Wilkinson (In The Bedroom, Michael Clayton), and Ian McShane (”Deadwood,” Death Race) all have major parts and look very cool in the film’s trailer. Especially Ian McShane, one very smooth over-the-hill man.
Read more on 44 Inch Chest trailer: proof that cool does not have an age limit…
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- Rusty Gordon
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‘New Moon’ Gets Blind Sided, Stays on Top
30 November 2009 10:47 AM, PST
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The Twilight Saga: New Moon saw a worthy challenger this weekend in The Blind Side as the feel-good family film competed with emo teens for the holiday crown. The vampire phenomenon repeated its first place finish, but plummeted 70% to an estimated $42.5 million.
The huge drop places the sequel just outside of the top 50 biggest second weekend falls, according to Box Office Mojo. Though New Moon still finished 25th on the second weekend grosses of all-time. A slide was to be expected after a record-breaking debut, but the typical drop for a blockbuster is usually in the 60% range.
The second of the series passed the $200 million mark at the domestic box office on Friday, following a Thanksgiving Day behind The Blind Side, which clearly took a bite out of Twilight’s returns. The continuation of the Robert Pattinson/Kristen Stewart teen drama currently stands at $230.7 million ($473.7 million worldwide).
The Sandra Bullock drama,
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- Jeff Leins
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Tiger Woods, 'Ninja Assassin' And A Stolen 'Star Trek' DVD In Today's Twitter Report
30 November 2009 9:31 AM, PST
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The comics Twitterverse was still lining up for "Ninja Assassin" this Thanksgiving weekend — save Rob Liefeld, who caught "The Blind Side." Brian Michael Bendis, meanwhile, was caught searching for his "Star Trek" DVD, which he claims has been stolen by Mike Oeming.
Some great artwork showed up in the Twitter Report feed over the weekend as well, with Francis Manapul posting a page from a charity book he's contributing to help flood victims in the Philippines and Jill Thompson showing off her "Nightmare Before Christmas" pages. Check those out, along with Chris Onstad's eulogy for Tiger Woods' Escalade and a shot of Dave McKean signing with David Lloyd and Mark Buckingham.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for November 30, 2009.
@FrancisManapul Here's my contribution for the charity book benifiting the flood victims in the philippines. http://twitpic.com/rkkhn
-Francis Manapul, Artist ("Adventure Comics," "Witchblade")
@thejillthompson http://twitpic.
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Why I love the world's worst film critic | Stuart McGurk
30 November 2009 6:32 AM, PST
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With a calling card of 'celluloid excrement' – which he's applied to films from The Road to Fantastic Mr Fox and Watchmen – Fiore Mastracci is a critic so dreadful he's bordering on genius
A confession: I'm obsessed with a film critic. His name is Fiore Mastracci, and he's the worst film critic in the world. You know how some people are so bad they're good? Not Fiore. He's so bad, he's flipped all the way around, bypassed good, gone into bad again, come out the other end and dipped into genius.
He used to be my little secret. But no longer. His latest brilliant (ie awful) review – about Cormac McCarthy adaptation The Road – has hit the Twitterverse. He calls it "excrement on celluloid". He lambasts child actor Kodi Smit-McPhee for having a double-barrelled surname ("Why? Because we were going to be confused by all the other Kodi McPhees in Tinsel Town?
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Weekend Box Office: 'New Moon' Edges 'Blind Side' Over Thanksgiving
30 November 2009 6:02 AM, PST
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It's a bit disconcerting when a movie takes a 70% tumble in its second weekend, and still ends up with a $66 million holiday take, but that's Twilight fans for you. New Moon took all of eight days to get to $200 million, a number bested only by The Dark Knight and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It doesn't look like New Moon's staying power will be particularly impressive, but when your movie opens to $142 million, you don't really need it.
A movie that might be sticking around the top of the charts for a few weeks yet is The Blind Side, which surged to get an 18% boost over its strong opening weekend (3-day numbers). The relentlessly positive movie no doubt was helped by families looking for something generically acceptable to watch together over the holiday weekend. Even those who don't care for The Blind Side should be happy that most families
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- Eugene Novikov
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The Sunday Movie Quiz – The Answers
29 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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Here are the answers to yesterday’s weekly Sunday Movie Quiz. If you missed the quiz yesterday, go here and give it a try before you look at the answers. Hope you had fun, and will come back for another quiz next Sunday.
Movie Quotes – Name the films
1 I’ll have what she’s having. – When Harry Met Sally
2 Yes Miss Daisy, I be honking. – The Long Kiss Goodnight
3 So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation… – Alien
4 Alrighty then. – Ace Ventura – Pet Detective
5 Watch out for that first step, it’s a doozy. – Groundhog Day
6 It’s like looking in a mirror, only, not. – Face/Off
7 Hi, I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork, how have you been? – Grosse Point Blank
8 You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain’t never seen a donkey fly. – Shrek
9 Tell me about it,
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Weekend Box Office - New Moon Dominates a Record Breaking Thanksgiving Holiday
29 November 2009 10:57 AM, PST
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As if the folks at Summit Entertainment didn’t have enough to be thankful for after the record-breaking debut of The Twilight Saga: New Moon last weekend, the vampy drama also dominated the holiday frame. New Moon passed the $200 million mark on Friday and ended its second weekend in theatres with over $230 million domestically. The only day out of the past five that New Moon didn’t own? Thanksgiving Thursday. That belonged to Warner Brothers’ surprise-hit The Blind Side which nearly tied for first place thanks to a nice jump in ticket sales over its first weekend. Between these two holdovers, new releases like WB’s Ninja Assassin and Disney’s Old Dogs had to fight over box office table scraps.
Title
Weekend
Total
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New Moon
$42,500,000
$230.7
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The Blind Side
$40,100,000
$100.3
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2012
$18,000,000
$138.7
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Old Dogs
$16,800,000
$24.1
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A Christmas Carol
$16,000,000
$105.3
6
Ninja Assassin
$13,100,000
$21
7
Planet 51
$10,200,000
$28.4
8
Precious
$7,090,000
$32.4
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
$7,020,000
$10.1
10
The Men Who Stare at Goats
$1,533,000
$30.5
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- Nicole Pedersen
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Interview: 'Ninja Assassin' Director James McTeigue (Part 2)
28 November 2009 4:02 PM, PST
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Read part one of our interview over here.
By his own admission, James McTeigue seems to be fast-becoming Hollywood's go-to guy for revenge stories. After beginning his career as an assistant director for the Wachowski brothers, he made his directorial debut with the graphic novel adaptation V for Vendetta, and is now set to release Ninja Assassin, about a martial arts master squaring off against his master and his former clan. Ironically, McTeigue is himself a generous, thoughtful and positively mellow guy, which makes his aptitude for bloody showdowns even more surprising.
Cinematical recently sat down with McTeigue at the Los Angeles press day for Ninja Assassin, where he talked about tackling his latest revenge tome. In addition to discussing the physical and philosophical origins of ninjas (and the movies that love them), he talked about protecting the cultural and ethnic integrity of his characters and story, and ruminated on
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- Todd Gilchrist
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The Sunday Movie Quiz
28 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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Welcome to this week’s movie quiz. If you missed last week’s, you can find it here, with the answers here. As usual, there are several sections. Same rules as before, no prize, just for fun. Answers will be posted tomorrow. Feel free to shout answers in the comments if you want, and if it’s too hard or too easy let us know.
Movie Quotes – Name the films
1 I’ll have what she’s having.
2 Yes Miss Daisy, I be honking.
3 So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation…
4 Alrighty then.
5 Watch out for that first step, it’s a doozy.
6 It’s like looking in a mirror, only, not.
7 Hi, I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork, how have you been?
8 You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly, but I bet you ain’t never seen a donkey fly.
9 Tell me about it,
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- Barry Steele
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Interview: James McTeigue, 'Ninja Assassin' (Part 1)
27 November 2009 4:15 PM, PST
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Director James McTeigue has been working on films since the late 1980s, back in his native Australia. He was second assistant director on Dark City and first assistant director on Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. He started working with Andy and Larry Wachowski as an assistant director on The Matrix, and they've been collaborating on projects together ever since. The Wachowskis wrote the first feature film helmed by McTeigue, V for Vendetta, and he provided second-unit direction on their most recent film, Speed Racer.
Ninja Assassin, which opened this week, is the latest movie McTeigue has directed, with the Wachowskis on board as producers. You can read William Goss's review for more details about the action/fantasy film. Cinematical sat down with the director in late September during Fantastic Fest, just after the movie played the festival. He was very pleased with the fest screening and happy to talk about the film.
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Preview: Brothers
27 November 2009 4:01 PM, PST
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About ten years ago, three promising young actors were working to secure a place amongst the Hollywood A-list. Natalie Portman had finished her first major acting role, as Mathilda in Luc Bessons Leon. She would go on to make her major breakthrough in the Star Wars prequels. Tobey Maguire had small roles in respected films like The Cider House Rules and Wonder Boys, then also got his major break in a high budget franchise, winning the role of Spiderman. Jake Gyllenhaal came to public attention through his role in sleeper Indie hit Donnie Darko, then hit the big time through a combination of big budget popcorn in The Day After Tomorrow, and critically acclaimed drama in Brokeback Mountain. Next week in the Us, these three actors, firmly A-List, come together for Jim Sheridan’s brothers.
Brothers is a remake of Susanne Bier’s Danish film Brodre. Tobey Maguire plays Captain Sam Cahill,
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- Barry Steele
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Review: Ninja Assassin
27 November 2009 12:20 AM, PST
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Plot: A Un investigator (Naomi Harris), becomes the target of a deadly Ninja clan, when she threatens to expose their existence. Her only hope is a young, rogue ninja, Raizo (Rain), who breaks with the clan after his master (Sho Kosugi), kills the woman he loves.
Review: I had high hopes for Ninja Assassin. I love a good ninja flick, having grown up on a steady diet of them as a youngster. When I heard the Wachowskis were re-teaming with V For Vendetta director James McTeigue, for a
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- Chris Bumbray
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James McTeigue Interview, Ninja Assassin
26 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST
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We sat down recently with director James McTeigue to talk about his new film, “Ninja Assassin,” based on a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, and starring Korean pop star Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune and legendary martial arts performer Sho Kosugi.
As a boy in Sydney, McTeigue was exposed to a variety of world cinema and television and was heavily influenced by ninja television shows like "Shintaro" and "Phantom Agents," and by films such as "Shinobi No Mono." He graduated from Sydney University, where he studied art and film.
McTeigue made his directorial debut helming the iconoclastic screen adaptation of the graphic novel "V for Vendetta." He came to the project through his relationship with the Wachowski brothers, for whom he served as the assistant director on all three "Matrix" films. His other previous film credits as an assistant director include "Speed Racer" and "Dark City.
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New Ninja Assassin Red Band Trailer
26 November 2009 7:47 AM, PST
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With Ninja Assassin going on general release in the USA, a new red band trailer has been released online and it is very different from the previous trailer. Although this new trailer has been released to help promote the film for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I suspect the complete change in tone from the last trailer is partially to help combat the overwhelming negative criticism the film has generally received so far.
Ninja Assassin has been criticized by many for its overly complex and unnecessary plot, although it has received much praise for its stylish action sequences. Whereas the previous trailer was more dramatic and attempted to display some of the film’s back-story, this new trailer is basically an entire minute of nonstop ninja action.
The film stars Korean pop idol Rain, is produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski Bros. (The Matrix Trilogy), is written by prolific science
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- Andrew Peters
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Exclusive: Ninja Assassin Clip
26 November 2009 6:06 AM, PST
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James McTeigue's follow up feature to V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin, has just released an exclusive clip via Filmstart.
The story of Ninja Assasin follows one of the deadliest assassins in the world, Raizo. As a child he was taken from the streets by the Ozunu Clan and transformed into a well trained killer. The Ozunu Clan is an ancient secret society whose very existence is no more than a whispered myth. When the Clan mercilessly execute Raizo's friend, he becomes haunted and vanishes from the Clan. Slowly and in secret he prepares to exact his revenge.
Meanwhile in Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti has stumbled upon a mysterious money trail linking several politically motivated murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying her superior's orders, Mika digs into their top secret files in search of the truth. The investigation turns her into their prime target.
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Ninja Assassin Review
25 November 2009 9:06 PM, PST
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Short Version: Ninja Assassin has many flaws; however, the ninjas are not one of them. All of the ninja action in this film is awesome, and for fans of the genre that’s probably enough.
Screen Rant’s Paul Young reviews Ninja Assassin
Ninja Assassin is the first action movie this Fall that delivers on what it promises: Lots of ninja action.
I’m a sucker for a good ninja fight, no matter how choreographed it is. The silent-but-deadly ninja was a huge part of the 80’s action movie sub-culture; since I grew up in the 80’s, I have seen every one that I can get my hands on (yes that includes American Ninja, I, II, III, IV And V). Ninjas doing what they do best (being sneaky) have slowly crept into popular culture over time. Mythbusters did an entire episode on ninja myth and lore and the website AskANinja.
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