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Resisting the Blu-ray
24, Mar 2011
by Nigel Druitt
I am a movie lover, but I keep telling myself I don’t need Blu-ray to prove it.
What’s the big selling point? As my wife reminds me, I don’t have a high-def TV, so picture and sound quality aren’t my biggest concerns. There’s the argument of durability; so far, I haven’t had much problem with my DVDs, and I own so many that I haven’t come close to wearing any out.
Special features? Well, I used to be a junkie for those. I own the four-disc Extended Editions of all three of Peter Jackson‘s Lord of the Rings films. Each of those extended movies is three-and-a-half to four hours long, and I watched them multiple times. Each of the three sets has documentaries clocking in at longer than the films. I watched all of those. I watched two of the four available commentaries on all three films. Are you totaling those hours up? I’m trying not to.
Obviously, this was all before I had kids…
In Search of Best Picture
17, Feb 2011by Nigel Druitt
As the Oscar telecast creeps up on us again, it begs the question: How many times has the Academy really gotten this “Best Picture” thing right, anyway?
Think about it. How many controversial decisions are there in the Academy’s history? How many times is a movie other than Best Picture long remembered as the best of the year?
- In: User Showcase
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Directors Who Dominate: Steven Spielberg
27, Jan 2011by Nigel Druitt
Since last fall’s revamping of Flickchart‘s global ranking system (see the official announcement about that here), many films have found themselves moved around on the global charts. But one thing remains consistent: the Directors Who Dominate continue to do so. Previously covered in this series, Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino remain at the top of the charts (with their highest-ranked films at #1 and #4, respectively.) But the biggest change is that their newest efforts (Inception and Inglourious Basterds) have a much stronger presence on the chart, where they now appear at #2 and #13. And this brings us to another director who continually dominates, the man who is widely regarded (for good or ill) as the father of the modern blockbuster: Steven Spielberg.
- In: Directors Who Dominate
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by Dan
Rank the week of December 28th’s Blu-ray and DVD releases against the best movies ever made:
The American (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best thriller movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #2358
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From everything I’ve read, George Clooney’s latest has been 2010′s most divisive movie. People either LOVE it or HATE it. The main complaint is that it’s a bit “slow,” so check your expectations.
Resident Evil: Afterlife (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best sci-fi horror movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #4977
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Milla Jovovich returns to fight the undead.
Legacy (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best thriller movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: Just Added
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The Wire stars Idris Elba and Clarke Peters reunite for an excellent looking thriller. Check out the trailer.
And Soon the Darkness (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best horror movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #19277
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Well, at least you get to watch Odette Yustman and Amber Heard for 90 minutes.
Legendary (DVD and Blu-ray | PG-13 | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best sports movies of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #11200
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With John Cena and Danny Glover.
Twelve (DVD and Blu-ray | R | 2010)
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Rank it amongst the best dramas of all time.
Flickchart Ranking: #17704
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Directed by Joel Schumacher. He has made some incredible movies but also some incredible bombs. This rests firmly on the bomb side.
- In: New Releases
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by Nigel Druitt
In This Corner…
Back in the days before 1995, before Pixar came along and ruined everything, the Walt Disney Studio was responsible for the greatest animated films of all time. In 1937, Walt Disney changed the face of cinema forever with the first feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Every few years heralded the advent of a new Disney masterpiece, but following The Jungle Book in 1967 (the final animated film Walt himself oversaw before his death), Disney animation hit a bit of a slump.
It wasn’t until 1989, with the success of The Little Mermaid, that the studio’s second Golden Age of animation arrived, and it lasted until CGI (and the obvious storytelling prowess of Pixar Studios) moved in and brutally kicked traditional hand-drawn animation out of the cinemas. It was a magic age that brought us films the likes of Aladdin, Mulan and Tarzan, but there were two films that stood head and shoulders above the rest.
Both were films that told classic stories in a way that only Disney animation could achieve. Both reveled in critical and box office success. (One was able to claim for nine years that it was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time; the other was able to claim for 19 years that it was the only animated movie to ever be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award–until an expansion of the category to ten nominees and this film came along.) And both were unquestionably among the most brilliant jewels in Disney’s animation crown. But this, folks, is Flickchart, and there’s only one question to ask: Which movie is better? Find out in this edition of Reel Rumbles (now Super-Sized, with a special Bonus Round!): The Lion King vs. Beauty and the Beast.
- In: Reel Rumbles
- Tags: 1937, 1967, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2006, Aladdin, Alan Menken, Angela Lansbury, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Beauty and the Beast, David Ogden Stiers, eddie murphy, Elton John, Ernie Sabella, fairy tale, film, films, Flickchart, Gary Trousdale, Hamlet, Hans Zimmer, Howard Ashman, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jerry Orbach, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Kirk Wise, Linda Hamilton, Matthew Broderick, movies, Mulan, Nathan Lane, Open Season, Paige O'Hara, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pixar, Reel Rumbles, Rob Minkoff, Robby Benson, Robert Guillaume, Roger Allers, Ron Perlman, Rowan Atkinson, Shakespeare, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Tarzan, The Haunted Mansion, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Tim Rice, Walt Disney