Friday, December 31, 2010
The Best Reviewed Films of 2010
Rotten Tomatoes – Best Reviewed Movies of 2010
- “Toy Story 3″ – 99% with 247 reviews
- “How to Train Your Dragon” – 98% with 156 reviews
- “Exit Through the Gift Shop” – 98% with 94 reviews
- “The Social Network” – 97% with 258 reviews
- “Restrepo” – 97% with 101 reviews
- “Inside Job” – 97% with 91 reviews
- “A Prophet” (Une Prophete) – 97% with 142 reviews
- “The King’s Speech” – 96% with 142 reviews
- “Animal Kingdom” – 96% with 108 reviews
- “True Grit” – 95% with 173 reviews
- “The Town” – 94% with 201 reviews
- “The Kids Are All Right” – 94% with 192 reviews
- “Winter’s Bone” – 94% with 142 reviews
- “Blue Valentine” – 94% with 64 reviews
- “127 Hours” – 93% with 146 reviews
- “The Tillman Story” – 93% with 80 reviews
- “Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work” – 92% with 90 reviews
- “The Father of My Children” (Le Pere De Mes Enfants) – 91% with 54 reviews
- “Fish Tank” – 90% positive with 127 reviews
- “Casino Jack And The United States Of Money” – 90% with 60 reviews
Metacritic – Best Reviewed Movies of 2010
- The Social Network – 95% with 42 reviews
- Toy Story 3 – 92% with 39 reviews
- A Prophet – 90% with 30 reviews
- Winter’s Bone – 90% with 38 reviews
- Inside Job – 88% with 26 reviews
- The King’s Speech – 88% with 41 reviews
- The Tillman Story – 86% with 28 reviews
- The Kids Are All Right – 86% with 39 reviews
- Lebanon – 85% with 28 reviews
- Exit Through The Gift Shop – 85% with 27 reviews
- Restrepo – 85% with 33 reviews
- Animal Kingdom – 83% with 32 reviews
- 127 Hours – 82% with 37 reviews
- The Secret In Their Eyes – 81% with 34 reviews
- Fish Tank – 81% with 31 reivews
Super Hadouken's Top 10 Most Slept On Films of 2010
Yo, cuzzos! Here's the list of this year's sleeper films. If you haven't seen these films, you should pronto! Even though you haven't heard a lot about them, they're really good. Click on the names to see more info:
10. Cyrus (Jonah Hill, John C. Reilly)
9. The Experiment (Adrian Brody, Forest Whitaker)
8. The Crazies (Timothy Olyphant)
7. Animal Kingdom (Ben Mendelsohn, Guy Pearce)
6. Red Hill (Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley)
5. Going the Distance (Justin Long, Drew Barrymore)
4. Unthinkable (Samuel L. Jackson)
3. Frozen (Shawn Ashmore, Emma Bell)
2. Easy A (Emma Stone)
1. Buried (Ryan Reynolds)
Super Hadouken's Worst Films of 2010
6. Jonah Hex
- This film was simply boring to me. It was built up to be this action packed comic book film and it just fell on its face. I wanted to like this film, I really did but it just wasn't that good
5. Takers
- This film was extremely hyped up. Everybody I know loved this movie and built it up to be something great when in all actuality it was a film filled with shaky, unfocused camera work, spotty dialogue and a cliche story
4. Clash of the Titans
- I thought this film was gonna be really cool before it came out.. I was sadly disappointed. I can't really explain what went wrong with this one. It was just disappointing. One of the things that really stood out for me was the crappy CGI and once you mess that up, you've lost me.
3. Ong Bak 3
- *sighs* I had high hopes for this film. And I mean high! Ong bak 2 was a masterpiece! And I thought this would be no different... again I was wrong. They downgraded this franchise. The violent Tony Jaa fighting sequences were rare, the story was long and drawn out and the ending was so stupid! Although if this wasn't a follow up of Ong Bak 2, it would've been pretty decent
2. Harry Potter 7
- This film probably would not have been on this list if I cared about this franchise. But since I don't its on here. While watching this film, I was counting the minutes. Seriously counting the minutes until it was over. The action sequences were ok at best but overall they were lame and the story was long-winded and boring. I feel like this film was made only for the hardcore fans and I am not one of them
1. The Last Airbender
- When I think of the expectations I had for this film, it makes me wanna cry now. I was so hype for this!! I followed it from casting all the way to the first teaser trailer. This was finally gonna redeem M. Night's reputation. This was gonna be one of the year's best films... Yea hell no! This movie was the definition of disappointing. It was very drawn out and the action sequences were redundant. I was literally sitting in the theater reassuring myself that it was gonna get better, even into the last 20 minutes. That's how much faith I had in this film. M. Night Shymalan will make a come back, just not with this garbage. Sorry M. Night.
Sears and K-Mart Set to Release a Movie Download Service
Read the official press release:RoxioNow-Powered Alphaline Entertainment Service Now Live and Providing Consumers Instant Access to Movies and TV Shows
NOVATO, Calif., Dec. 28, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Sonic Solutions® (Nasdaq: SNIC) today announced that RoxioNow™ platform licensee, Sears, has officially launched its online movie download service, Alphaline Entertainment http://alphaline.roxionow.com. The new service enables Sears and Kmart customers to download entertainment online, including new movies on the same day they are released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Sonic is working with Sears on a multi-phase rollout that includes making the service available from a broad range of connected devices and ensuring compatibility with studio-supported digital programs.
Sonic’s multi-year agreement with Sears extends the reach of the RoxioNow platform which powers a range of digital services for leading brick and mortar retailers, cable operators, PC manufacturers, game system vendors, consumer electronics makers, and Hollywood studios’ direct-to-consumer initiatives. Sonic and Sears are teaming to embed the services at a chip level on a growing network of devices including portable media players, Blu-ray Disc players, mobile phones, and high-definition television sets from leading manufacturers.
“Collaborating with Sonic provides a great opportunity for Sears and Kmart to launch digital services for customers seeking even faster access to the latest in home entertainment experiences,” said Karen Austin, President of Consumer Electronics for Sears and Kmart. “We’ll continue to increase the reach and flexibility of the Alphaline Entertainment service by providing consumers on-demand access to the latest entertainment from a range of home and mobile electronics.”
“The Sears launch represents an important milestone for Sonic, with another RoxioNow-powered storefront now open for business,” said Mark Ely, President of Strategy, Sonic Solutions. “We look forward to continuing to collaborate with Sears and bringing Alphaline Entertainment to consumers through a broad range of connected devices.”
The RoxioNow platform serves a broad range of premium content, including new movies and next-day TV programs, to a growing, multi-manufacturer ecosystem of home and mobile electronics. RoxioNow enables storefronts for brick and mortar retailers, cable operators, PC manufacturers, game system vendors, consumer electronics makers, and Hollywood studios’ direct-to-consumer initiatives. The platform allows these companies to participate in the entertainment supply chain, add value to product offerings, and form ongoing relationships with customers. “Powered by RoxioNow™” stores enable consumers to instantly rent and purchase high-quality entertainment on their favorite devices and, through the RoxioNow online entertainment library, access their content at any time, on any RoxioNow-powered device.
David Fincher Explains the Henley Royal Regatta Tilt-Shift Scene from "The Social Network"
Fincher says:The Henley Royal Regatta were incredibly good to us and they allowed us to actually shoot the race at Henley. I had no idea how huge the Henley Royal Regatta was. I’d only seen photographs and a lot of them are telephoto so you don’t get the idea of this mile-and-a-half of grandstands and corporate sponsors. I mean, it's a huge thing and we originally thought we would shoot a bunch of inserts on the Charles [River] and then use that footage to intercut with wide shots we'd shot at Henley.
The trick of this scene, and the thing that made it so difficult was, it's not like the fight in Rocky where it's been talked about forever and it's importance has been established and you know what it means to the Winklevosses. You get dropped into the middle of this race, and I joked with Aaron [Sorkin] about it a lot, 'How do I make people care about whether or not these guys win or lose a race that we don't know where it is, we don't know what it means?' And he was like, 'Well that's your problem.' [laughing]
He was using it as a way of saying, 'You miss by that much.' Then to have the Winklevosses miss by that much with Mark Zuckerberg, they missed by that much with Larry Summers, they're missing by that much at Henley and it's the final straw.
But it is a tricky thing to design a sequence around missing by that much when you literally get dropped into the middle of it. You really don't know where you are, it requires a subtitle to tell you you're now in Henley for the Henley Royal Regatta, which you probably don't know is the Super Bowl of boat racing.
So this was one of those sequences where the only time we could shoot it was July 4, 2010. It was literally five to six weeks before we had to finish the movie. The movie had to be done so we could get it in theaters, and they were incredibly helpful to us and made it all possible.
One of the reasons it was done in this faux, swing and tilt– tilting lens board style was because all of the close-ups of the Winklevosses and the Dutch rowing were done in Eaton on a man made lake that doesn’t look anything like Henley. Doesn’t have any– just has green grass, but we would shoot the close-ups of all the people and then we had to matte in still photographs that we’d shot at Henley.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Sundance 2011: First Photos and Plot from "The Ledge"
Plot:Atop a high-rise building, Gavin, a young hotel manager, is about to end his life. Hollis, a detective whose own world has just been turned upside down, is dispatched to the scene. As Hollis tries to persuade Gavin not to jump, each man begins to open up about his past, and we discover that neither of them is convinced that his life is worth living.
In his Sundance debut, director/screenwriter Matthew Chapman has crafted an intense thriller filled with soulful inspiration. While the film examines the complex notion of what drives us as people, strong performances and immersive characters keep the audience on the edge of their seats. The Ledge is a nuanced character study of love, faith, and convictions that will leave you with a question . . . How far are you willing to go for what you believe in?
Sundance 2011: Trailer, Plot and Photos for "Mad Bastard"
Mad Bastards Trailer for Sydney Festival from Pollen Digital on Vimeo.
Plot:
TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13-year-old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make things right with his son. Grandpa Tex has lived a tough life, and now, as a local cop, he wants to change things for the men in his community. Crosscutting between three generations, Mad Bastards is a raw look at the journey to becoming a man and the personal transformation one must make. Developed with local Aboriginal communities and fueled by a local cast, Mad Bastards draws from the rich tradition of storytelling inherent in Indigenous life. Using music from legendary Broome musicians the Pigram Brothers, writer/director Brendan Fletcher poetically fuses the harsh realities of violence, healing, and family.
