Hey All, this is the last minute contribution from Rob, your friendly neighborhood foreign correspondent chiming in with my thoughts from downtown Yokohama, Japan. In the end, the 2000’s may be most notable for two things, “comic book movies” and “re-movies“. We’ve definitely run the gamut of superheroes and gone from the A tier hero’s, the D tier wannabe’s in comic book movies and with Re-movies being the remakes/reboots/rehashes of more things than should be legally done in the space of 10 years. With that said, mine is going to be a rather predictable list, but stopping to think of what I liked over the last ten years (and there are some hard hard…
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G-S-T Top 10 – Best Films of the Decade (Round 1)
As stated in our FYI post, starting something this daunting is nearly enough to make my head spin. Best Films of the DECADE?? What was I thinking?? Oh, it was sooo hard not to just pick ones I like and I really wanted to avoid letting cultural favorites/Oscar winners obscure the decision-making process. But a simple voice of reason and a suggestion changed everything. After thinking about this for a while now (starting back in October) I have racked my brain (and DVD library) and have come up with something I believe will be much easier. Since a decade is a hell of a long time to think about and evaluate…
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G-S-T Review…AVATAR
Walking into the theater to see a movie that was 14 years in the making, one has to ask, “how big is the hype on this?” and further, “how disappointed will I be if this isn’t anything great?” Well the good news is that this film definitely does well by my standards and gets my vote for one of the best movies of the decade. Cameron continues to push the boundaries of existing technology, create his own if what’s available is insufficient to materialize his dreams and finally resets the bar with every effort. I wasn’t a raving fanboy awaiting the “Final Coming of Cameron” but I was still pretty excited to see this.…
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Random Film Thought of the Day…12.28.09
You know, I don’t know if I say this enough, but I just love me some Memento…actually, all Christopher Nolan films now that I think about it. Anyway, as much as I adore the story of ‘Leonard Shelby’ trying to find his wife’s killer and the hope that he will remember it once he’s avenged her, I have one big problem with the film. Think about this: A man is hit on the head. When he wakes up in the hospital, and after the doctors assess him, they deduce that he has brain damage. While not fully impaired due to his injury, he’ll never be the person he was either.…
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Merry Christmas from G-S-T
Hello World, Marc Here: What can I say except that this a has been one great year!! When we first started G-S-T, we never thought that we would have so much fun with the site. But we have and are just so glad that we’ve gotten to converse with other movie lovers and all you great bloggers out there. Thanks to all our friends, family and new readers who make G-S-T a joy to keep running. Here’s wishing you and yours an awesome Christmas and Holiday Season!! In closing, I’d like to leave you with one of my very favorite clips from one of my very favorite Christmas movies…Enjoy!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46WcFObgYhI Merry…
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Off the Shelf…’Rocky Balboa’
When it first came out in theaters, I ventured out in the cold Christmas Day to see the 6th and final Rocky. Well, it’s been a few years and piggybacking on my Off the Shelf write up of the first Rocky, I got the urge to watch the rest of the series (omitting part 5 because I refuse to acknowledge it’s existence, let alone purchase it) and finished up with this respectable film that really is better than I expected and I really liked it.
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Random Film Thought of the Day…12.23.09
I saw Gattaca for the first time some weeks ago. The one thing that I really liked about that movie was that even though it’s a quasi futuristic tale, it all had a very nostalgic and 1940s film noir feel to it. Kinda cool since I really admire the look of that era. Anyway, once I got past the green tint dominating the entire film (very popular in sci-fi movies at the end of the 90’s) I was very impressed with the story and how ambiguous the entire plot was. The ending was a bit of a let down since the main plot device kept intensely building to what one…
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Off the Shelf…'Rocky'
Dun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun, dun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nun, nun nun nun nun nun nun nun nuuuun…..dun nun nuuuun, dun nun nuuun…well for those of you thinking a couple of keys got stuck on my keyboard, that was actually my piss poor attempt to convey the Rocky theme music in Onomatopoeia. Doesn’t quite come across as it sounds in my head or do justice to the remarkable film, but hopefully this recommendation/review might. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8DlBN_LLiA
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Luc Besson’s latest…
As anyone who has seen any Luc Besson film should know, he’s a master storyteller, has an affinity for both style, flair and action, and his films rarely disappoint. The Fifth Element is still one of the most gorgeous sci-fi films out there (theres’ a reason why that movie is standard for defining the latest video technology). Anyway, I have been a huge fan of his and while I am always on board for any of his action efforts (either writing, directing, or producing) but now am excited to see something different. The trailer below is for his upcoming movie Les Aventures Extrodinaire d’Adele Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec) that seems like he’s…
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Random Film Thought of the Day…12.21.09
I was reviewing the Screen Rant preview of movies coming out in 2010 and it got me thinking. Paul Bettany is in 2 movies next year. Interstingly enough they are both tied to religion in some way. Then I started thinking further. Didn’t he play a priest in The Reckoning? Wasn’t he play a Silas the ‘albino’ monk in The Davinci Code? Is he deeply spiritual? Will he be the next Kirk Cameron?…only time will tell, but I thought it was worth posting this coincidence. Take a look at the photo below… Kind of an evolution of Paul Bettany…can someone say typecast?:P