muse

That hip hop story I did back in Sept has finally published.

Great, great design work. Muse is very artsy, very highbrow, very mature.

I went boar hunting tonight with the Sai Kung pig team.

Alright, a couple weeks back I posted this Best Films of the Decade list by two British publication and both lists were um...ridiculously off.

THis one is better. For starters-- ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND at #1 and No Country For Old Men at #4.

There isn't a romantic who doesn't absolutely love this movie. Even non-romantics can't deny the visual style was way cool. Even the elitist film snobs who likes to pick apart scripts and overanalyze a camera angles (you know, the kinds that can't enjoy Oceans 11 or Knocked Up cause it's just "too commercial and fluff" for them, instead they like to sit through snorefests like The Postman or dances with Wolves and shit) can't deny the narrative was if not innovative, at the very least different and fresh.

I dunno if it's a lock at#1, but if this isn't on your top ten at least, your list is crap. The end.

As for No Country, I'd rank it higher than four. I think it's a masterpiece of a movie. Did you know the entire film had no music or background score? How can a film be THAT DRAMATIC and intense with no music? Imagine Halloween, Rocky, The Dark Knight, Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure without music? The film loses 25% effectiveness at the least, right?

The only film I can picture that can still be effective without the score/music at all are Deer Hunter and Taxi Driver. That's because prime De Niro is like coca cola, guy can accompany anything and everything and be good.

So yeah, No Country had no music, yet the film was undoubtedly intense. Throw in a world class performance and an iconic villain in Anton Chigurh and this film is another "hands down, without a shadow of a doubt, top five selection".

The other on the top five I don't agree though. 25th Hour?? REALLY? And I'm an Ed Norton and Spike Lee fan! Ed Norton will always be the man cause he was in Rounders and Spike Lee made Do The Right Thing, one of the most important movies on racial/cultural divide. And Philip Seymour Hoffman is in this! Only the greatest actor in the world today! But 25th Hour just ain't that good.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-films-of-the-00s,35931/4/