Thursday, December 31, 2009
  When opinions are just plain WRONG
First the Leech tried The Times list of the ‘best films of the decade’. But it was far too facile, so he disregarded it as being beneath him. So then he tried The New Yorker’s list of the ‘best films of the decade’. But it was far too pompous, so he disregarded it as being way over his head. Then he went to The Guardian list of the ‘best films of the decade’, numbers 100-11. And it was just right.

BUT THEN the numpties that wrote it determined that (pff) Fahrenheit 9/11 was the tenth best film of the decade. And that (sigh) Team America: World Police was the fourth best film of the decade. And
that (NOOOOO) the smug feature length school-boy prank Borat was the SECOND BEST FILM OF THE DECADE.

And the Leech collapsed in the corner and bemoaned these juvenile bouts of attention seeking from The Guardian, this fawning over films where the methodology consists of throwing a bucket of slurry at a wall to see what sticks. He began wailing that the one remaining space could not accommodate Donnie Darko, Lost in Translation, The Lives of Others, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and that at this rate it was probably going to end up going to The Dark Knight. Or Ant and Dec’s Alien Autopsy. Or Transformers 2.

But then a voice guided the Leech to the dark side - The Telegraph, where its film critic determined, with exquisite taste, that Mulholland Drive was the film of the decade and that Donnie Darko should not be forced out of the Top 100 to make way for films like Zoolander. And even though the list itself was fairly pedestrian and contained nonsense like A.I. and King Kong, the Leech recognised that these lists are subjective and just someone else’s opinion. It just so happened that The Guardian's opinions were plain wrong. "Seriously", he said, "if they make Lord of the Rings number 1 tomorrow I'm going right wing".



Mulholland Drive. Enjoyable enough on its own terms, even better when you watch it with me and are gently encouraged (not forced, no no no) to listen to me trying to explain everything for the entire duration of the film.
 
Comments:
Shame, I was expecting this to be a highly appropriate ocassion for another one of your infamous lists; Leech's Top 10 (or 100 if u actually had the time) Movies of the Decade.

Or are lists "so last decade" now?
 
I have far too many movies of the decade to make a list that I'd be happy with. But I still love making lists as much as the next bloke. Among the films that I enjoyed most this decade [I'm not dumb enough to say 'best'] are:

- Donnie Darko
- Waking Life
- Hotel Rwanda
- The History Boys
- Spirited Away
- Gran Torino
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Behind the Sun
- Otesanek
- Lord of the Rings, the Two Towers
- Harry Porter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Y Tu Mamá También
- High Fidelity
- Erin Brockovich
- Bowling for Columbine
- MULHOLLAND DRIVE
- MULHOLLAND DRIVE
- MULHOLLAND DRIVE


No elitism with me, no siree. But I bet I've forgotten a whole bunch
 
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