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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 07:24PM Not that I'm struggling for content or anything... (To be honest, I've just been seeing some around that've been really winding me up with their choices!) I'll keep it snappy! The rule is if it's listed on IMDB as 2000 or later then it counts.
1/ THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
The greatest Western since Unforgiven! Casey Affleck proves himself as one of the greatest actors to come out of America since De Niro. This is my favourite film ever after Jurassic Park. It knocked Taxi Driver off my number 2 spot! (Director: Andrew Dominik)
2/ THERE WILL BE BLOOD
And this guy is just the most awesome actor to come out of anywhere since anyone. As cinematic life stories go, I can only think of 2 that can sit in the same room without avoiding eye contact: Raging Bull and Citizen Kane. (Director: Paul Thomas Anderson)
3/ MEMENTO
Original and inventive. Guy Pearce is brilliant, the supporting cast of The Matrix is brilliant, and the set-up is gold. (Director: Christopher Nolan)
4/ THIS IS ENGLAND
Stephen Graham is one of several awesome people in the movie. It doesn't go for the "It's about racism! Let's all be miserable for 2 hours!" stick either. None of your "Racism is bad, m'kay" nonsense. You actually get characters. (Director: Shane Meadows)
5/ FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
I love me some Billy Bob and I love me some Explosions In The Sky. You get one to star in it and the others to score it and you're 90% of the way there already. The bit where it's an awesome sports movie helps; the only other sports movie this good is Rocky. Great style, too! (Director: Peter Berg)
6/ 28 DAYS LATER...
Changed the horror movie scene completely, redefined zombies (for better or worse), and Danny Boyle once again gave the British film industry a reason to exist. The last 20 minutes are 20 of the scariest, most violently awesome minutes in cinema. (Director: Danny Boyle)
7/ THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
The greatest action movie ever made that isn't called Die Hard. The only reason it loses points to that movie is because it doesn't stand alone quite as well. The whole thing is basically 3 massive action sequences in a row. These guys gave the Bond franchise a much needed kick up the arse. (Director: Paul Greengrass)
8/ POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD
The greatest movie ever made about a fast food joint that gets built on a sacred Indian burial ground causing everybody to turn into massive zombie chickens! Songs, too! (Director: Lloyd Kaufman)
9/ SLEEPLESS
Terrifying slasher movie about a serial killer in Italy. If Hitchcock was alive today (and had been severely beaten around the head as a child), this is what he'd make. It'd be his best film, too. (Director: Dario Argento)
10/ GONE BABY GONE
Big Affleck directs Little Affleck. I don't wanna keep using words like 'amazing', but if Casey Affleck keeps showing up what can I do? With The Killer Inside Me coming out this year, I might as well reserve him another spot! (Director: Ben Affleck)
11/ MUNICH
The fact that Steven Spielberg, the greatest director who has ever lived, has only scraped a film at number 11 just goes to show how awesome the decade has been. For me, this is the best film he's done that doesn't have dinosaurs in it. Flipped up in all kinds of ways and not an easy watch. (Director: Steven Spielberg)
12/ ANCHORMAN
No other movie Will Ferrell has done has been quite as good, but that's like saying that all of Abe Lincoln's other victories weren't quite as good as the American Civil War. (Director: Adam McKay)
13/ BEFORE SUNSET
Just two people walking around Paris chatting about how they could have ended up together, except not as boring as I make it sound. A brilliant sequel about what happened to the kids from Before Sunrise (basically a modern-day Brief Encounter) when they got all old and depressed. I make it sound crap, I know! (Director: Richard Linklater)
14/ INFERNAL AFFAIRS
Take The Departed, remove all the bigshot Americans copying and pasting old performances, change the cookie-cutter Scorsese soundtrack to an awesome score, and get rid of the extra 50 minutes of Jack Nicholson swinging dildos and hokey love-triangles, then you have Infernal Affairs, the best cop movie since Heat. (Directors: Andrew Lau and Alan Mak)
15/ DISTRICT 9
Bit gutted it didn't win an Oscar. Never mind. (Director: Neill Blomkamp)
16/ ZODIAC
David Fincher's second serial killer movie isn't an awful lot like his first. It's more like a beautifully crafted episode of Cold Case Files. Great performances, but the real star is the ridiculous attention to detail. (Director: David Fincher)
17/ FEMME FATALE
More Hitchcock-if-he-was-alive fare, except more Americans and more girl-on-girl. Brilliantly over the top. Got a bit ignored when it came out. Redacted, De Palma's most recent movie, nearly made the list as well. That's a serious war movie. This is glorious nonsense. (Director: Brian De Palma)
18/ ELEPHANT
The Columbine Massacre by a different name. Almost unwatchable in parts, such is its effectiveness. Very cleverly and tastefully done, though. The cast of unknowns are all great. (Director: Gus Van Sant)
19/ AVATAR
Totally amazing 3D. The Citizen Kane of 3D. The story is a bit generic and it's far too long, but, crikey, is it sexy! (Director: James Cameron)
20/ BATTLE ROYALE
A bunch of schoolkids. A load of guns. Exploding heads. Am-az-ing! (Director: Kinji Fukasaku)
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Friday, March 5, 2010 at 07:41PM (I don't quite know what that title has to do with anything, but it sounds ACE!)
A Rope Around Your Broken Neck is out, motherflippers! Out like a thing that is totally out! It's taken a while - I've been staring at it and re-reading the script for what seems like a lifetime - but it's here! I'm beginning to feel like I'm starting to know roughly what I'm doing. It'll be awesome as flip to be able to go to a convention with an extra comic to sell. At Birmingham last year, I felt a bit underprepared. Other people had t-shirts, competitions, artists to do awesome pictures, and badges. THIS TIME IT IS I WHO WILL HAVE THE BADGES! (I actually have badges!)
The absolute awesomeness of having a new comic out is slightly dampened by the thought that this is the first time in a year or so that I've not had a comic in production. There's nothing doing at the moment. There are a couple of scripts knocking about, though - one completed, one well on its way, and a whole drawer filled with messy notes for others - so it shouldn't be too long before the rusty, underfunded wheels of Attackosaur Comics begin turning once more! The bit where you find an artist for a new project is always the most awesome, I reckon. I've been lucky enough to work with some very kickass artists with wildly different styles so far. That first page you get with the first pictures of the stupid nonsense that's been hounding your brain for months and months and months is flippin' magic! I love seeing someone's version of a dude that has up until that point only existed in my warped, rotting brain. When the next one's up I'll be sure to pimp the hairy arse off it!
Laters!
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Monday, March 1, 2010 at 07:05PM 
Attackosaur Comics is attacking the Wales Comic Convention 2010 on April 25th! The ground assault begins at Glyndwr University. Home turf this time! Only 20-odd miles down the road! Woop! We'll be peddling copies of Paralysis and The Mutilated Dead and launching (if launching is the right word for a one-shot) A Rope Around Your Broken Neck! Info about the event - including tickets, guest stars, that kind of thing - can be found here! Gotta tell ya, I'm pretty excited to meet Johnny Bravo!
We're planning to invade the Bristol International Comic and Small Press Expo in May and hopefully return to the very awesome British International Comics Show in Birmingham in October. Might even pop up to Thought Bubble in Leeds in November if we do well! There's a busy year ahead for our favourite semi-robotic T-rex of superdinosaur size and strength!
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Monday, January 25, 2010 at 11:13PM Yes! That's right! We have a shop! It has 2 things in it! You can visit it here! Alternatively, click on the sexy shirt or bag below! Woop!
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