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The Marine 2 – Blu-ray Review
1 January 2010 7:27 PM, PST
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Folks, I have seen the light. I was just ready to call The Hurt Locker one of the top three best films of the decade and easily the best film of 2009. Then, my life changed when I opened up a package to reveal The Marine 2. It couldn’t possibly be worse than the awful first film with a man who poison’s wrestling in John Cena, I thought. I was very, very happily wrong. The Marine 2 should have seen theatrical release as it’s so far greater than The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow should be ashamed of what she’s created.
Credit must be given to first-time actor Ted Dibiase Jr. for his outstanding performance as Joe Linwood. George Clooney? Psh, he’s nothing compared to the perfect, stiff Dibiase. He perfectly graduated from the Kristen Stewart School of Acting and it shows. He’s graceful with it,
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- Philip Barrett
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The Bottom 5 - Peter Debruge’s Biggest Disappointments of 2009
1 January 2010 6:26 PM, PST
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You may have seen the five worst films of 2009, but I did my best to avoid them. Instead, at year’s end, I’d rather recap my five biggest disappointments - movies that promised the world and delivered a fraction of their potential. To me, that’s far more upsetting than a bad movie, because they’ve squandered the opportunity, and now no one can go back and do it right. You probably won’t agree with my choices (maybe you went into Where the Wild Things Are expecting to be annoyed and came out enraptured - that actually happened to me with co-writer Dave Eggers’ other 2009 release, Away We Go). These picks were meant to be personal, but I’d love to hear what you think. Feel free to share your biggest let-downs after the list, which you’ll find just after the jump…
1. Funny People
Let’s face
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- Peter Debruge
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Best films of the noughties No 1: There Will Be Blood
1 January 2010 2:14 AM, PST
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Paul Thomas Anderson's strange and disquieting 2007 masterwork shows us the past, present and terrifying future of our dysfunctional dependence upon oil
Towards the end of the decade, director Paul Thomas Anderson unburdened himself of this strange and disquieting masterpiece, a mesmeric and utterly distinctive movie, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! The film was of a higher order of intelligence and innovation than anything he had attempted before, and anything else in noughties Hollywood. It was the story of one tormented man – the lonely and driven oil prospector Daniel Plainview: a magnificent performance from Daniel Day-Lewis whose masterpiece this was, too. He revealed an effortless, seductive technique, almost a sensual pleasure to watch – rivalling and in fact surpassing Olivier in his silver-screen heyday.
There Will Be Blood is a tragic parable of man's dysfunctional dependence upon oil: the once glorious lubricant of commercial triumph and technological innovation,
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- Peter Bradshaw
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