I have to admit my first response was 'aw, but what about that woman he just met, I was hoping she'd become a major arc chara-….'

Well Julie Maroh hated the male gazey-ness of the film (which was unintentionally hilarious in parts, like with the movies one heterosexual love scene that practically edits the man off the movie so we can get a better look at Adele), so I'm expecting this to be better.

Well I didn't understand any of the characters arcs or emotional journeys nor did I find them particularly well defined characters, certainly not more than Primer's. UC is a bunch of weird images, like people quoting an American author while playing with rocks in a swimming pool.

That was basically the only time I seriously disputed a grade on this site.

I just saw it today… well, it'll be an impetus to read the comic book so I can compare and have a talking point for Monday, i guess.

That's not at all what the movie says though (nor can it, with a human as its protagonist.) It'd be fair to say it's extremely anti-industrialist, but the issue is not 'humanity is evil' and more that these industrial forces are destroying our own planet.

It's been mentioned a couple of times in the comments, but this site's reviews weren't that big on it. It's definitely one of my favourite movies of the year, and the one action movie I enjoyed the most.

Redline feels like a movie that could have been shorter, honestly, and it's not even long.

Avatar was two and a half hours long. I'd say it was very well paced, just long enough to be a Lord of the Rings-esque fantasy epic but not too long to be a Hobbit-esque epic glut.

In no serious sense was Avatar a remake of Ferngully because nothing Ferngully was doing was in any way original.

Minimalist is exactly right with Gravity. When the characters trade banalities, it's because they want to keep their mind off the crushing loneliness and imminent death of space. Clooney's character has been in space long enough that the endless stream of inane bullshit is second nature to him (and to the people back…

I liked the stories of both Avatar and Gravity. Sure, neither feature sparkling dialogue and I'm sure if I just read the scripts I'd be much less impressed, but they're primarily visual stories that build their metaphor-driven narratives around spectacle and impact. They work well for the sort of movies they want to…

I'm going to say it:
I liked Gravity a lot more than Children of Men.

Gravity is a movie that took me to space. I feel it achieved exactly what it set out to and didn't need to have any more there, you know?

In the UK it already hit Sky Atlantic along with a ton of other documentaries, so I imagine its home release in the US can't be far behind.

It didn't even make a single critic's list on the site for their best of, so it was seriously never under contention.

I mean I can't help but observe one of the films so widely praised on this site which is actually about women was directed by a man and includes lengthy and controversial lesbian sex scenes.

Yeah I didn't like it either but I get it was a lot of people's bag so I am not surprised by it making the list. What did I expect? My list? Because my list would have way more just peculiar stuff on it the commentariat would hate way more for having been included.

See I disagree there. Primer is more accessible because you know what Primer is about. It's a movie about time travel. Anything confusing about it goes back to the fact it is a movie about time travel.

So what, a chick flick can't be one of the best movies of the year? I'm not following you.