Palooza Presents "The 99 Films of 2011"

[Palooza]

99 Films of 2011

86. The Art of Getting By
Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Blair Underwood, Rita Wilson

Director -
Gavin Wiesen
Writer(s) -
Gavin Wiesen
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 17%
Metacritic Score - 36/100
Viewed - HQ torrent
I love you Emma Roberts, but god damnit get a better agent. Freddie Highmore has awkwardly grown up and now he's a slacker artist in NYC. This is a classic coming of age story where people make problems for themselves and other people clean them up. Rich kids feeling sorry for themselves. Boo fucking hoo, kill yourselves. I only watched this for Roberts, so my expectations were low. Expectations were met.
Spoiler Alert - The awkward kid gets the hot girl.
Grade - F

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99 Films of 2011

85. Fright Night
Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Toni Collette, David Tennant, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Dave Franco, Imogen Poots

Director -
Craig Gillespie
Writer(s) -
Marti Noxon
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 74%
Metacritic Score - 64/100
Viewed - HQ torrent
Yet another piece of the "why was this made" pie. A remake of the 1985 classic fails because of two things - Colin Farrell's overracting and my hatred for all things Toni Collette. This movie never stood a chance in my eyes when she signed on board. I wanted her dead from the get-go, but I knew I'd never get it. Anton Yelchin is pretty fucking annoying, too. And McLovin stay McLovin. This movie is so average it's a failure.
Spoiler Alert - Vampires are real. Jerry is a vampire. McLovin, too. Good guys win again.
Grade - F

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99 Films of 2011

84. The Thing
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Director -
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Writer(s) -
Eric Heisserer
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 36%
Metacritic Score - 49/100
Viewed - HQ torrent
Not only is this yet another unnecessary prequel/sequel/remake/unoriginal idea, this is a shitty movie in its own right. So predictable and so stupid. Mary Elizabeth Winstead did a really poor job of portraying a heroine and Joel Edgerton was a very generic character. Everyone else in the cast was useless and killed in one scene, blowing the movies load about 45 minutes in. Foolish. The one redeeming quality about this movie is that those who made it obviously really enjoyed the original and added a few cool homages, but these people just suck at making movies, plain and simple.
Spoiler Alert - They all die and Joel Edgerton's earring is missing.
Grade - F

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99 Films of 2011

83. Scream 4
Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panetierre, Rory Culkin, Alison Brie, Marley Shelton, Adam Brody, Anthony Anderson, Nico Tortorella, Kristen Bell, Anna Paquin, Aimee Teagarden

Director -
Wes Craven
Writer(s) -
Kevin Williamson
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 58%
Metacritic Score - 52/100
Viewed - decent torrent
Wes Craven has no balls. This was the perfect opportunity to break conventions and kill the main characters of his horror satire series. Stretching beyond self-parody into just a joke, this movie throws you a curveball on who the main killer is, but then intentionally walks you the rest of the movie. Sidney Prescott, Dewey and/or Gail Cox should be dead. Hayden Panetierre's character was a bad ass and so amazing and she was killed like a bitch by someone who else I loved. Fucking devastating. In b4 Buzzman says "BUT THEY SET YOU UP TO THINK THEY'D ALL DIE AND THEY TWISTED YOU, SHAYAMALAN STYLE!"
Spoiler Alert - Erin Brokovich's neice and Richie Rich's little brother. The big three stay untouched.
Grade - F

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99 Films of 2011

82. The Rum Diary
Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Rispoli, Richard Jenkins, Giovanni Ribsi

Director -
Bruce Robinson
Writer(s) -
Bruce Robinson
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 50%
Metacritic Score - 56/100
Viewed - In theaters
As much as I hate Johnny Depp, I really like the ridiculousness of Hunter S. Thompson's work. Johnny Depp is back in auto pilot, seemingly his only setting these days. Amber Heard is super hot, but she ruins it all by hooking up with Depp. Giovanni Ribsi's over the top character is the only thing that kept me entertained throughout this movie. I can't believe I payed money to see this trash. I blame myself.
Spoiler Alert - Does anything even happen? I don't remember.
Grade - F

[Warner2BruceTD]

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99 Films of 2011

81. Happythankyoumoreplease
Josh Radnor, Malin Akerman, Kate Mara, Tony Hale, Zoe Kasan, Pablo Schreiber

Director -
Josh Radnor
Writer(s) -
Josh Radnor
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 39%
Metacritic Score - 45/100
Viewed - Starz
Like most people, I hate Josh Radnor. He's horribly annoying and always so mopey. In this, all of the characters are like that well because his vision is what drives this movie. Malin Akerman is proved useless since she's bald and hideous, Kate Mara is hot but her name is dumb and anybody who is into Radnor's character is a no-go in my book. Tony Hale was the only saving grace, but he wasn't himself he was very straight laced and into Akerman's bald character. It was pretty shitty.
Spoiler Alert - I don't remember anything significant happening. I may have fallen asleep.
Grade - F

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99 Films of 2011

80. The Debt
Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Tom Wilkinson, Marton Csokas, Ciaran Hinds, Sam Worthington, Jesper Christensen

Director -
John Madden
Writer(s) -
Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman, Peter Straughan, Assaf Bernstein, Ido Rosenblum
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 76%
Metacritic Score - 65/100
Viewed - HQ torrent
This movie has a hard time being exciting. It tries really hard, but it just gets so boring at most points. The plot has way too much going on and even with that, I was still bored. The acting is top notch and the directing is pretty decent, but the story brings this movie down. It's also about Jewish redemption and we all know Eric Bana is the only one who is allowed to do that. Also, Sam Worthington is possibly the worst actor in the world.
Spoiler Alert - Helen Mirren kills the nazi doctor... again.
Grade - F

[Palooza]

MOAR F's

79-70 coming tomorrow, with plenty of F's...

 

..they're all F's.

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I thought The Mechanic was off the hook

MattUM's Movies That Are Off The Hook

1. The Mechanic
Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Tony Goldwyn

Director -
Simon West
Writer(s) -
Richard Wenk and Lewis John Carlino
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 53%
Metacritic Score - 49/100
It was off the hook.
Spoiler Alert - Stath should have been named President.
Grade - A++

[Houston]

I thought The Debt had some good potential(maybe solely because of the cast), but it never took off. It was riding on average the whole movie until the end when it got really bad. The climax of the film is two old people fighting to the death in a hospital? No thanks.

[Fappin Raptor]

So far only seen 2 movies on the list. I think that's good.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Battle Los Angeles was good. The soundtrack alone is worth it. It was pretty much action from 15 min in till the end.
Transformers 3 was pretty good. Not as good as the first much better than the second. Best 3D since Avatar. Megan Fox was missed as the storyline and chemistry with new chick was bad.

Mechanic sucked. But he had a kick ass audio system.

The Sitter was hysterical.


Why the fuck do you people start these lists at 99 or 100 ??
Make it a top 20 and move on. Top wrestlers and top events of our lives will never be done now we add a list of 2011 movies that wont be finished until 2013.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

p.s spoiler the spoiler please.

[Palooza]

p.s spoiler the spoiler please.

No.