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YEAR END LIST MANIA - film/tv

Ronald Thomas Clontle

19:28 / 14.11.01

What were your favorite films of 2001?

What were your favorite tv programs?

Did anyone see any theatre? At all?

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Warrington Minge

20:39 / 14.11.01

Ok here we go in no discernable order...

FILMS:

Amelie
Ghost World
Almost Famous
Requiem for a Dream
Mummy Returns ( ...well I liked it !!! )

TV:

Randall and Hopkirk ( deceased )
- am I the only person who likes this?

Spaced ( not strictly this year but I only caught up with it recently with the repeats on the comedy channel )

Theatre:

I think I only saw one play this year. MY ONE AND ONLY. It was ok!!

There is a huge possibility that this post will be re-edited by me about a zillion times over the next couple of weeks. I can never remember my favourite films!!

No star here laces

06:41 / 15.11.01

FILMS:

Man who wasn't there
Audition
Uzumaki

THEATRE:

"Ophelia" by my friend Spid
"Gagarin Way"

TV:

The Blue Planet - by a fucking mile. Possibly the best wildlife program ever.

07:04 / 15.11.01

Minge - no, you're not the only one who likes R&H(D).

Hmm. Lists. Anal-retentive nonsense engaged in by pathetic obsessives, or valid form of empirical plebean criticism? I don't know...

Thinking about films, though, reminds me just how much shite I've been to the cinema to see this year. Meet the Parents (which had one funny scene and that was it), that shit D & D flick - the best thing I actually saw at the pictures this year was Final Fantasy, which tells you something about the rest of the shite I saw...

2001 - the year I missed everything decent.

07:20 / 15.11.01

Its not really been a great year for movies has it?

Movies

The Man who Wasn't There
2001 (in correct format at the cinema)

TV

The Simpsons (top of the list every year)
Buffy

Cant think of anything else so if there is more they couldnt have been standout..

Do you mean films of 2001 or the best ones people have seen...(old or new?)

07:31 / 15.11.01

Oh, I nearly forgot -

single worst piece of telly this year, by a Kaddathian mile, has to be that bloody Mutant X thing - it is just so absolutely shit, and the thought that Howard Chaykin had anything to do with it just shows that that cross-media stuff doesn't always work.

Every piece of film used in the making of that series should be set on fire with a flamethower, preferably in Crazy Town's living room (see the music list thread).

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

10:21 / 15.11.01

Buffy again, of course. And Enterprise- for being star trek, and yet... good, without being dragged into the quagmire of trekkiness. And it deserves praise for getting Scott Bakula off welfare, or whatever the hell it is he's been doing since quantum leap.
And the first episode of season 5 of southpark 'scott tenorman must die'.

film? Um. not final fantasy. Nonono. although it amy well be better than D&D and meet the parents, as I haven't seen either.

10:58 / 15.11.01

My point was not that FF was a good movie - it wasn't, tho' the end was cool, and I liked the way it had the same craziness as the FF games ('And now I will destroy - this entire city! For no apparent reason!') - just that it was the best movie I could remember seeing this year at that point in the (shudder) morning.

I've since remembered that I saw Evolution as well, which has to go down as probably the best flick I saw this year for sheer b-movie silliness; and Rush Hour 2 which, okay, isn't gonna get any awards for being high art, but was a Jackie Chan movie, and therefore cool.

Advice to police: if you ever need a witness statement from me, get it in the afternoon. Otherwise, there'll be loads of shit missing. (robbery? no, I don't remember seeing a robbery...)

And trust me, the D & D film is utter bilge. And a bit fascist, as well, which is worrying...

12:02 / 15.11.01

Films:

1.THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE
2.GINGER SNAPS
3.REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
4.AMELIE
5.GHOST WORLD (probably - I haven't seen it yet)

(I'm assuming 'Crouching Tiger..' came out last year, even though I saw it this year..)

TV:

1.SPACED
2.BUFFY
3.That Jon Ronson show about conspiracies..
4.SIMPSONS
5.nothing else

14:26 / 15.11.01

Don't have a TV, didn't really catch any flicks, but I did see Design for Living on Broadway for my birthday. Very charming and witty, as Noel Coward should be. My only complaint was Alan Cumming's peroxide hairdo, which was heinous.

15:29 / 15.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Ierne:
Don't have a TV, didn't really catch any flicks, but I did see Design for Living on Broadway for my birthday. Very charming and witty, as Noel Coward should be. My only complaint was Alan Cumming's peroxide hairdo, which was heinous.

You have definitely turned me on to the beauty of Alan Cumming, Ierne! MmmHMM!

Did you ever see his spread as a woman for "Marie Claire?" He was very pretty.

But hey, for TV I vote "Scrubs!" "Scrubs!" "Scrubs!" which is hilarious, and the lead (who was the blonde guy in 'Broken Hearts Club') is as they say very easy on the eyes. The episode where "A Little Respect" by Erasure is a virus was totally brilliant!

Also "Temptation Island," for the sheer train-wreckness of it all.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

16:32 / 15.11.01

tv

1. Gilmore Girls. best show on tv, hands down. if only you'd all switch off the Buffy and switch over to Rory... funny, smart, moving, weird in a realistic way, emotionally accurate. I love it so much, that I've gone past the 'should I be slightly embarassed?' stage and into full-on evangelical 'watch this amazing show' mode.

2. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Do you Europeans get to see this? I would hate to think we get to keep Jon Stewart, Steve Carrell, Mo Rocca et al all to ourselves... brilliant.

3. SNL - great cast this year, if you pretend a few folks aren't there and just focus on the talented ones: Will Ferrell, likely the best SNL cast member EVER, Tina Fey she of the evil smirk and catty delivery, Jimmy Fallon the cute doofus who cracks up at his own jokes (actually, his whole act is that he's Wayne from Wayne's World, but really good looking..), Rachel Dratch and Horatio Sanz, who are capable of some really excellent bits..

4. Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien: making do just fine without Andy.

5. Good Eats on the Food Network and Politically Incorrect w/ Bill Maher - just really good shows, is all...

also: thank you Nick At Nite for playing reruns of Family Ties and Cheers. It makes me happy whenever I get to see them.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

09:31 / 16.11.01

Man Who Wasn't There
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Apocalypse Now Redux
(Will think of some more movies. Honest.)

TV-wise:
Buffy
Frasier
LEXX IV

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09:31 / 16.11.01

Jack Reed: A Search For Justice 2

Best film ever.

gentleman loser

18:32 / 18.11.01

Man, I'm soooooo disappointed that there hasn't been more response to this thread!

Teevee:

Gold: Invader Zim (Nickelodeon)

The only reason to pay for basic cable.

Johnen Vasquez's TV-Y7 rated masterpiece is warping a entire generation of children, which makes me very happy. People being turned into lunch meat, organ stealing, the Noogums blob monster (straight out of H. P. Lovecraft), asteroid sized water balloons, saucer people cults, time travelling rubber pig mayhem and a sublime Halloween episode, what's not to like? (Yes, I'm still working on my essay: "Zen and the art of being GIR")

Silver: BattleBots (Comedy Central)

Yes, the robots have become overpriced and commercialized, but who doesn't like flying metal chaos? Bil Dwyer's increasingly bizarre pop cultural similes has actually made me keep the sound turned up this season.

The Heavyweight and Superheavyweight Finals were so good this season that I wondered if the whole thing wasn't rigged like "professional" wrestling.

Bronze: Special Unit 2 (UPN)

Yes, monsters are real and they're terrorizing Chicago. It's up to two cops with ridiculously big guns along with the help of a sleazy gnome (no, I'm not kidding) to stop them.

Waah, it's not enough like "Men in Black" or "X-Files" say the critics. Fuck 'em! It's good, cheesy fun.

Runners Up - Enterprise (UPN), The Fairly Oddparents (Nickelodeon), Samurai Jack (Cartoon Network), Adult Swim block (Cartoon Network)

C'mon people! Chime in before this thread falls off the board. . .

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Ronald Thomas Clontle

19:15 / 18.11.01

folks might still be figuring out what their year-end lists may be.

but how's this for a response:

eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! grosssssss!
Battlebots! Yuk!

09:33 / 19.11.01

the simpsons is the best TV every year, i assume, although i haven't gotten TV stations in about 3 years, so i guess it could conceivably have gone to shit, but i dunno, that thought doesn't resonate right with me.

did you catch all five comma splices in that sentence?

about movies, don't you think we should wait until after the method man movie comes out to ask this question? and why no mentions yet of jurassic park 3? huh?

i think requiem for a dream came out last year...but it would be on my list, with mulholland drive, and the man who wasn't there. memento is number one on my shit list because it created a lot of hype but failed to save Polaroid from going out of business. what the fuck!