You know what it’s like – you download some well-loved Eminem tunes off iTunes and you realise you’ve got the ‘family’ versions, complete with pauses, heightened percussion or irrelevant words with the right number of syllables. Hot on the heels of the fantastic Social Network trailer, we now have another Social Network trailer, which is exactly the same except for one word of two syllables. Anyone familiar with the classic by Radiohead will know what’s been added.
You can view the new trailer on the official website. You can also, like me, shake your head at why only a word was altered for this version – surely it would have been the perfect excuse to produce a new trailer with more new material and not just one new word?
David Fincher is set to be a major attraction at Comic-Con in San Diego this week. Fincher will join the panel for The Goon, an animated film he’s producing, on Thursday.
Two new films have made it into the IMDb top 250 favourite movie list – Inception (at no 3) and Toy Story 3 (no 8). The inclusion of Inception has caused some to question whether it is ‘accepted’ for some critics to dislike the film. Two features stand out for me. In the first, Roger Ebert considers whether a film can be accepted universally as ‘great’, and in the second, the Guardian looked at whether there really is something meaningful behind Inception or whether it’s a case of the emperor’s new clothes.
Here is the IMDb top 10:
1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Inception (2010)
4. The Godfather: Part II
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
6. Pulp Fiction (1994)
7. Schindler’s List (1993)
8. Toy Story 3 (2010)
9. 12 Angry Men (1957)
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Personally, I think lists are there to disagree with and I most certainly disagree with this one. No Close Encounters of the Third Kind? What more proof do you need? And if Inception is there, why not The Dark Knight? No doubt, in a week, the list will juggle once more. Interesting though.
I have a lot more to say about this list but WordPress is not well tonight, so I’ll return to it later.
Includes pictures from Zodiac and Paramount (via IHJ), and Empire Magazine.
I can’t comment about the list, because unfortunately I have not seen Inception.
But I can comment about the trailer for the new film by David Fincher. I love Fincher, but the trailer did nothing for me.
Not Toy Story 3 who made this list??
Hi Monica! I hope I nception reaches Brazil soon. I’m looking firward to hearing what you think of it.
I love Fincher too and I think the Social Network trailer is one of the best trailers I’ve seen for anything for some time. I love it.
Hey Gail! It’s a list voted for my IMDb readers – but it’s crazy how two films that are out now can affect it like this. It’ll be interesting to see how it steadies down – I want t do another longer post on this list. Unfortunately WordPress has too many bugs tonight for me to have done a longer post. I hope it’ll be fixed soon!
Thanks for commenting!
I was thinking the same – Toy Story 3???
I think IMDb has some strange calculation method, where they balance the number of positive votes agains the total number of votes. Or something. That way, movies with fewer votes can get higher on the list than they would have otherwise.
Hi Anna! That is a very strange method indeed – but at least we don’t have the three Twilight films at the top…
Heh… No, then we would have to assume that the entire population of Earth had been hi-jacked by aliens, and stored away in cocoons somewhere in Area 51…
I’m surprised that Shawshank Redemption still is no 1. We saw it on DVD maybe 10 years ago, and had never heard of it until a friend (almost) threw her DVD on us. It wasn’t marketed much here, and I can’t remember that it was even up on threatres where I live…
I liked the movie, very much, but it’s not my favourite ever (I think you know which one is
) and there certainly are lots of movies that are at least as good. Strange that this one can have such a firm hold on no 1 after all these years…
Morning Anna! I’ve never liked the top two movies and so this list makes me feel like I’ve done something wrong! That I’ve failed because I don’t like movies set in prisons (except for Papillon) and I don’t like gangster movies (no exceptions). My other half loves these two films and just doesn’t understand why I don’t – I have watched them but nope. I think it must be because I need to empathise with a story and/or character and these types of film don’t penetrate my outer layers! Sometimes I wonder how much of this list is because certain films are supposed to be liked.
I think these lists are mostly determined by men.
I think you’re right – after all many of these films hardly have a positive female presence…