Comments on: Sundance Diary: Day 10 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/28/sundance-diary-day-10-4/ Eric D. Snider's blog. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:03:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mike Willden http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/28/sundance-diary-day-10-4/#comment-96716 Mike Willden Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:38:34 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/28/sundance-diary-day-10-4/#comment-96716 out of the 27 movies I have seen this festival there were 3 I hated: The Worst of the Worst is Death In Love, if you thought Downloading Nancy was bad, this was horrid, I meam how many times do we need to see scenes of masturbation, nazi torture including brain dissection, and people you hate so much, even more then yuo could possibly hate the characters in Nancy (I actually appreciated Downloading Nancy as a film with some of the best acting I have seen in years, plus I found it quite powerful). I alos hated Adventures of Power and Love Comes Lately. I loved The Visitor and Frozen River, my 2 favorites. But I don't ever listen to the buzz. The buzz is wrong 90% of the time. I have learned how to decipher the Sundance book, and it is amazing how much you can understand by a film from the catalogue once you know which sundance staff member backed it up and thus wrote the write up for it. Some names I just stay away from, others I question. For example Trevor Groth is mostly hit or miss, he tends to like the disturbing, crazy, twisted flicks, Like Donkey Punch which I loved also. I really had a good movie year at Sundance this year, best ever actually, i picked all amazing films and stayed away from the post festival hype since I purchase my tickets ahead of time. Best overall year, but there was nothing quite like Once or The Waitress this year though, but there were only 3 films I would rate under 3 stars this year, so overall excellent.. out of the 27 movies I have seen this festival there were 3 I hated: The Worst of the Worst is Death In Love, if you thought Downloading Nancy was bad, this was horrid, I meam how many times do we need to see scenes of masturbation, nazi torture including brain dissection, and people you hate so much, even more then yuo could possibly hate the characters in Nancy (I actually appreciated Downloading Nancy as a film with some of the best acting I have seen in years, plus I found it quite powerful). I alos hated Adventures of Power and Love Comes Lately.

I loved The Visitor and Frozen River, my 2 favorites. But I don’t ever listen to the buzz. The buzz is wrong 90% of the time. I have learned how to decipher the Sundance book, and it is amazing how much you can understand by a film from the catalogue once you know which sundance staff member backed it up and thus wrote the write up for it. Some names I just stay away from, others I question. For example Trevor Groth is mostly hit or miss, he tends to like the disturbing, crazy, twisted flicks, Like Donkey Punch which I loved also.

I really had a good movie year at Sundance this year, best ever actually, i picked all amazing films and stayed away from the post festival hype since I purchase my tickets ahead of time. Best overall year, but there was nothing quite like Once or The Waitress this year though, but there were only 3 films I would rate under 3 stars this year, so overall excellent..

]]> By: Karen http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/28/sundance-diary-day-10-4/#comment-96435 Karen Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:03:54 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/28/sundance-diary-day-10-4/#comment-96435 Ahem, if you had read the comments on your blog (which you clearly had loads of time to do, of course), you would've heard from two people about how wonderful "Frozen River" was. I actually said so twice (on two different diary entries). Not huge buzz, I know, but high acclaim it was. Man on Wire was terrific too. It really did unfold like a caper movie. Until the last ten minutes or so, which were kind of a let down. But hey, I think this is the first year I'd actually seen a couple of the movies that won prizes! Ahem, if you had read the comments on your blog (which you clearly had loads of time to do, of course), you would’ve heard from two people about how wonderful “Frozen River” was. I actually said so twice (on two different diary entries). Not huge buzz, I know, but high acclaim it was.

Man on Wire was terrific too. It really did unfold like a caper movie. Until the last ten minutes or so, which were kind of a let down.

But hey, I think this is the first year I’d actually seen a couple of the movies that won prizes!

]]> By: pizzocalabro http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/28/sundance-diary-day-10-4/#comment-96432 pizzocalabro Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:50:51 +0000 http://www.ericdsnider.com/blog/2008/01/28/sundance-diary-day-10-4/#comment-96432 Anywhere, U.S.A.: You suck, your adorable child star notwithstanding. I want my money back. Not to mention the awful afternoon spent driving and waiting around in freezing, snowy, awful weather. Anywhere, U.S.A.: You suck, your adorable child star notwithstanding. I want my money back. Not to mention the awful afternoon spent driving and waiting around in freezing, snowy, awful weather.

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