Morgan Bell
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Top 11 of 2011
January 5th 2012 01:41
I am following Jason's lead again this year. After reading his Top 11 of 2011 I decided to borrow the concept and create one of my own.
As usual I encounter the dilemma of having seen few films that were released in the USA/UK in 2011. We have a bit of a time lag here in Australia, and for those of us who watch most of our films of DVD this means being 3-12 months behind depending of the popularity of the film in other parts of the world. Indie films can be years behind. So this is the Top 11 films I saw as DVD "New Releases" or in the cinema in 2011.
See also my Top 10 of 2010.
1. Anonymous
2. The King's Speech
3. A Vicious Kind
4. Everything Must Go
5. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
6. Cracks
7. The Ghost Writer
8. Sucker Punch
9. Due Date
10. Made In Dagenham
11. Bad Teacher
It should be noted that the Huffington Post is also copying Jason and put out a Top 11 films of 2011: 11 great films you may have missed, of which I had seen zero.
As usual I encounter the dilemma of having seen few films that were released in the USA/UK in 2011. We have a bit of a time lag here in Australia, and for those of us who watch most of our films of DVD this means being 3-12 months behind depending of the popularity of the film in other parts of the world. Indie films can be years behind. So this is the Top 11 films I saw as DVD "New Releases" or in the cinema in 2011.
See also my Top 10 of 2010.
1. Anonymous
2. The King's Speech
3. A Vicious Kind
4. Everything Must Go
5. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
6. Cracks
7. The Ghost Writer
8. Sucker Punch
9. Due Date
10. Made In Dagenham
11. Bad Teacher
It should be noted that the Huffington Post is also copying Jason and put out a Top 11 films of 2011: 11 great films you may have missed, of which I had seen zero.
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Comment by Jason King
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Have not seen: Due Date, Ghost Writer, Made in Dagenham, Cracks, Alice Creed, Everything Must Go and The Vicious Kind.
I am sad to see Sucker Punch in there - was a piece of trash IMO, also think Bad Teacher and Due Date aren't worthy of a top list hahahaa.
Keen on seeing The Vicious Kind - looks interesting.
Thanks for the mention
Comment by Morgan Bell
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Yeah i noticed around the interwebs that Sucker Punch was despised and reviled, i saw it more as moving visual art, or an extended music video clip, very clever use of music to leave an impression.
Feminists went bonkers over how misogynist it was, but i thought it was a case of art reflecting life. However, i do enjoy the melodramatic and contrived, so my treasure is often other peoples trash.
Actually misogyny is kind of a loose running theme in my list, particularly A Vicious Kind (all women are whores), Bad Teacher (the amoral gold-digger), Made In Dagenham (women dont deserve equal pay), Alice Creed (the humiliated female victim), Due Date (questioning the wifes fidelity), Cracks (the psychopath woman who knows only the company of other women), and even Anonymous (the petty and incestuous woman).
So its a year of self-loathing for Ms Bell lol
Of course they all treated the subject matter differently, some with disapproval of the espoused views of an individual character, some with general acceptance, some with female triumph over a wrong.
Due Date was an obvious new version of Trains, Planes, & Automobiles, but i laughed my arse of throughout, the first time ive ever found Zach Galifianakis funny, and it was a great character study of Robert Downey Jrs role.
Rhys Ifans in Anonymous was the performance of the year IMO.