The Listing Madness Continues
January 5th, 2008 in Drama, Movies, Top 5 List, War
With the New Year well underway, and with all of us nursing our minds and livers back to health after the holidays, many of the supposedly reputable mags, rags, and blogs, have been filling their pages with lists. The Top 5 this, the Top 5 that, an endless way to create content without really having to do something new, instead regurgitating material already covered throughout the year. But hey, we all love it, and I’m guilty of that very sin myself! Empire Magazine, the UK-based film magazine, has gone Top 5 crazy with this article. There’s some very amusing contributions, though, such as Worst Lines of Dialogue (”I smell you, boy”, courtesy of Transformers), Best Laughs, and Best Good Bits in Bad Films. It also draws attention to something great qualities in not-so-great movies, such as Sunshine’s visual effects.
Naturally, there’s going to be agreement and disagreement. Personally, I felt the beach tracking shot in Atonement is undeserved as a good scene. While technically impressive, it actually drew your attention away from the horrors of war and to the sweeping beauty of cinematic techniques. It’s actually the opposite to what Spielberg achieved in the opening minutes of Saving Private Ryan.
Regardless, it’s a nice, fluffy feature that’s worth checking out in its entirety.
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