Richard Roeper's Top 10 Films of The Year.

[The Apocalypse]

V for Vendetta is 20 times better the United 93. That movie was so bad, I left during the middle of it. If it didn't happen in real life and someone made that idea of the top of their head no one would have seen it.

 

[skorponok]

Closer is quite possibly my favourite film, ever.

Mine too

 

[Shuley]

Closer had great dialogue and acting...but it's not the best movie I've ever seen.

 

[Shuley]

V for Vendetta is 20 times better the United 93. That movie was so bad, I left during the middle of it. If it didn't happen in real life and someone made that idea of the top of their head no one would have seen it.

No it's not,but I would be thinking the same thing if I was your age.

 

[Agentsands77]

V for Vendetta is 20 times better the United 93. That movie was so bad, I left during the middle of it. If it didn't happen in real life and someone made that idea of the top of their head no one would have seen it.

A preachy, heavy-handed popcorn film that cheapens its brilliant source material is better than a subtle, revolutionary approach to the most important historical event in decades?

And to say if UNITED 93 hadn't happened in real life and someone had made that movie would be to miss the point. UNITED 93 was made the way it was precisely because it was a real-life event. It's not there to entertain like another fictional film would be - it's there to remember an event.

 

[dmcnx]

What does his age have to do with it?

 

[Warhammer]

Gee Wizz.
This is only an opinion.
It's not like Apocalypse said that Little Man was better than United 93.
Besides, it's not like 9/11 is something that everyone deeply cares about.

 

[DACrowe]

I fail to understand how someone who calls Casino Royale one of the best movies of the year can call V for Vendetta a preachy unsubtle popcorn movie.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Dear god this thread is so full of self importance it's bursting at the seams

 

[Killgore]

V for Vendetta is 20 times better the United 93. That movie was so bad, I left during the middle of it. If it didn't happen in real life and someone made that idea of the top of their head no one would have seen it.

Wow. Never thought of it like that. And yeah you're right. I guess that's what you call pandering. A great true story should not only be true but also function as a great story. If Schindler's List was fiction, it'd still be a phoenominal movie.

 

[Agentsands77]

I fail to understand how someone who calls Casino Royale one of the best movies of the year can call V for Vendetta a preachy unsubtle popcorn movie.

You have to look at what these movies aim to be.

For what CASINO ROYALE aimed to be, it hit it dead-on, and then some. It was great. CASINO ROYALE isn't preachy, and it's not meant to be particularly subtle. CASINO ROYALE isn't a "message" film, and that's hardly a bad thing. Neither is RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, and most of us would all admit that's one of the best movies of all time.

I enjoy V FOR VENDETTA for what it is, a stylish popcorn adaptation of a great work of dystopian fiction, but it wants to be (and *should* be) so much cleverer than it is. This film wants to be up with the great science fiction works, but because it's fairly flawed, it doesn't work. For that, it gets knocked down a few points.

 

[Shuley]

What does his age have to do with it?

Age does make a differance since alot of young people haven't seen or done enough in life. You'll understand what I mean when you get older.

 

[Cyrusbales]

V was better than CR, and united 93 has achieved VERY little praise outside of the US, as it is rather self indulgent.

Age doen't necessarily matter about film opinions, it's more about maturity etc.

 

[blind_fury]

Those list were pretty bland. Roger Ebert can't come back soon enough.

 

[Agentsands77]

V was better than CR,

We'll just have to agree to disagree. I though V FOR VENDETTA was fun, no mistake, but it was almost every bit as clunky as THE MATRIX, and in the process hurt its great source material.

united 93 has achieved VERY little praise outside of the US, as it is rather self indulgent.

Funny that it was made by a non-US citizen.

 

[Cyrusbales]

We'll just have to agree to disagree. I though V FOR VENDETTA was fun, no mistake, but it was almost every bit as clunky as THE MATRIX, and in the process hurt its great source material.


Funny that it was made by a non-US citizen.

my point still stands as to the audience appeal.

 

[The Apocalypse]

No it's not,but I would be thinking the same thing if I was your age.

I don't think my age has anything to do with it. Hell I live in NYC and I was affected by 9/11, but its just a film. A film I found boring. Yeah i'm pretty sure it meant something to some people but I sitll think V for Vendetta > United 93.

 

[Warhammer]

Age does make a differance since alot of young people haven't seen or done enough in life. You'll understand what I mean when you get older.

Say what?

 

[Warhammer]

Action films aren't impossible to make.Besides The Departed is a much better film than Casino Royale,So was Rocky Balboa.

Neither are crime dramas, but Scorcese hit it gold. Martin Campbell hit it gold with Casino Royale.

Btw, I haven't seen The Departed yet, but there is one theater in my city that is still showing it.

 

[Dan33977]

It doesn't amaze me that most of the people who've replied to this thread haven't seen most of the films on this list.

 

[Cinemaman]

Since there is no Roger Ebert Top Ten, I'll post Richard Roeper's Top 10 instead.

1. The Departed
2. The Queen
3. Flags Of Our Father/Letters From Iwo Jima
4. United 93
5. The Lives Of Others
6. Babel
7. Notes On a Scandal
8. The Good Shepard
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. Blood Diamond

Hey, where is The Prestige, Children of Men and The Fountain?

 

[kane9321]

the departed was totally great

 

[primemover]

United 93 is an amazing peice of film, that is how to handle something like 9/11, World Trade Center wished it could be that good.

Pretty solid top 10 list, and I am sure most of the movies you guys are complaining aren't on the list are right behind that top 10.