{"id":447,"date":"2007-12-31T21:00:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/447"},"modified":"2008-01-03T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T03:36:01","slug":"six-movies-i-didnt-get-in-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/447","title":{"rendered":"Six Movies I Didn’t Get in 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

or, “The WTF Awards<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

Not the worst movies I saw this year – those are better forgotten (ugh, Vibroboy) – but the ones that I should’ve enjoyed but didn’t, and so it’s probably my fault.<\/p>\n

My Brother’s Wedding<\/a> & When It Rains<\/a><\/strong> (both Charles Burnett)
\nIt was Burnett’s big comeback year. I thought both “Killer of Sheep” and “To Sleep With Anger” were overwhelmingly great, but these two left me cold… “Wedding” seeming especially amateurish considering it was made after the gorgeous “Sheep”, and “Rains” just didn’t live up to my expectations being one of Rosenbaum’s ten favorite films of the 1990’s. Fortunately both are out on video now, with “Wedding” available in a brand-new director’s cut, so I’ll get to try them again sometime.<\/p>\n

Mutual Appreciation<\/a><\/strong>
\nMagazines and blogs love “movements”, and as Film Comment is pointing out in this month’s issue, the “mumblecore” movement died pretty quickly. Judging from this uninteresting little movie, a mumblecore keystone, it should have.<\/p>\n

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism<\/a><\/strong>
\nI heard this was great from way back, and once it came out on DVD and everyone got to see it anew, they all agreed it was great. So what’s my problem? I love bizarre and perverse euro-art films, but this bored me.<\/p>\n

Le Plaisir<\/a><\/strong> (Max Oph\u00fcls)
\nEach Max Ophuls movie I see I enjoy less than the last one. At least I didn’t dislike “Letter from an Unknown Woman”, and I learned to appreciate it more when watching the DVD extras afterwards. This one I still haven’t figured out. The central segment felt tedious, and I’m sorry this is the one Ophuls movie that I’ve shown to Katy.<\/p>\n

Paprika<\/a><\/strong>
\nIt’s officially official – I do not understand anime.<\/p>\n

Iraq in Fragments<\/a><\/strong>
\nFailed to find all the beauty that is supposedly within, still wondering if our film print was out of focus.<\/p>\n

These are only runners-up because I should’ve known better:
\n The Good German<\/a><\/strong> (everyone said this Soderbergh flick was a dud, but I had to see for myself)
\n The Descent<\/a><\/strong> (halfheartedly-acclaimed horror that I halfheartedly liked)
\n Inferno<\/a> & Pelts<\/a><\/strong> (Dario Argento continues to not ring my bell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

or, “The WTF Awards” Not the worst movies I saw this year – those are better forgotten (ugh, Vibroboy) – but the ones that I should’ve enjoyed but didn’t, and so it’s probably my fault. My Brother’s Wedding & When It Rains (both Charles Burnett) It was Burnett’s big comeback year. I thought both “Killer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}