Comments on: Top Movies of the Decade http://www.againstthehype.com/2009/11/movies-of-the-00s/ Holding good movies to greater standards Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:12:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Colin Low http://www.againstthehype.com/2009/11/movies-of-the-00s/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Colin Low Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:14:59 +0000 http://www.tinyepiphanies.com/?p=708#comment-8 Oh, don't get me wrong, I sometimes blame myself for not having the stomach for "sadsacks", which can feel like a label I use to keep myself from needing to know these characters better. (I'll give an especial shout-out to Meryl Streep in <em>Adaptation</em>, since she leavens her, um, sadsack-itude with lots of humour and deftly projected feeling.) But even if a movie on your list doesn't manage to hit my emotional buttons, at least I can always see <em>why</em> it is appealing, and chalk the difference down to taste; this is more than can be said for some of the lists that will turn up at the end of this year. And thanks for the compliment, and for taking the time to comment here! I certainly hope to love many of the movies to come (and at the very least learn from them). Oh, don’t get me wrong, I sometimes blame myself for not having the stomach for “sadsacks”, which can feel like a label I use to keep myself from needing to know these characters better. (I’ll give an especial shout-out to Meryl Streep in Adaptation, since she leavens her, um, sadsack-itude with lots of humour and deftly projected feeling.) But even if a movie on your list doesn’t manage to hit my emotional buttons, at least I can always see why it is appealing, and chalk the difference down to taste; this is more than can be said for some of the lists that will turn up at the end of this year.

And thanks for the compliment, and for taking the time to comment here! I certainly hope to love many of the movies to come (and at the very least learn from them).

]]> By: tim r http://www.againstthehype.com/2009/11/movies-of-the-00s/comment-page-1/#comment-7 tim r Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:29:03 +0000 http://www.tinyepiphanies.com/?p=708#comment-7 Impressed you'd want to take my list on in such detail! It seems from your comments like I must have a serious tolerance for sadsacks (guilty), male nudity in prisons (er, guilty) and cross-species romance with dodgy CGI (yeah, guilty), though I guess we differ on the empathy question in each case. Great site you've got going -- I look forward to checking out future responses. Fingers crossed our batting average of taste alignment improves! Impressed you’d want to take my list on in such detail! It seems from your comments like I must have a serious tolerance for sadsacks (guilty), male nudity in prisons (er, guilty) and cross-species romance with dodgy CGI (yeah, guilty), though I guess we differ on the empathy question in each case.

Great site you’ve got going — I look forward to checking out future responses. Fingers crossed our batting average of taste alignment improves!

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