Monday, September 25, 2006

What Mann film next?

Sound off, dear readers.

I've already seen Manhunter & Collateral.
Ali & The Keep both suck, so they're not in the running.

Devritsko votes for Last of the Mohicans (which features the finest black powder battle scene ever filmed).

What do y'all say?

I'm leaning toward Thief, myself...it's been a while.

Here's how they're ranked on Rottentomatoes:

Thief, with a healthy 100%.
My teenage self agrees, but who knows how it would stand the test of time.

The Keep, at 14%
14% more than it deserves, frankly.

Manhunter, at 92%
A bit generous, given the clownish ending.

Last of the Mohicans, at 97%
No arguments from Devritsko, I wager.

Heat, 90%.
A little low, but not bad considering it doesn't even make a pretense of courting the female demographic. Also, the ending didn't live up to the rest of the film. Not Manhunter bad, but an anticlimax given the high level the rest of the film operated at.

The Insider, 96%.
I forget, was this before Pacino started screaming instead of acting?

Ali, 67%. Don't make movies about charismatic superstars who are still alive. Kthx.

Miami Vice, 47%. This is an odd one, not because I expected it to be any good, but because the panel of film critics at Film Comment really, really liked it.

Of course, they also really, really liked the shambolically unwatchable Cabin Fever, best described as a derivative, pretentious grad student Evil Dead, minus the evil and with a lead actor unfit to wash Bruce Campbell's jock.

Proof positive that they don't issue common sense & good taste along with the Professional Film Critic Secret Decoder Ring.

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