I thought this film was incredibly, incredibly cool. I don't care if it's any good or not--it's hard to tell: so audacious--wkw plainly made it up as he went along--but visually opulent and super well-acted. "In The Mood for Love" didn't 'click' with me for whatever reason (maybe I was in the wrong state of mind when I watched it), but I loved this one.

Still a cool movie.

Cool movie. Scorsese lets his roots show, with more visual references to Michael Powell (even a poignantly placed pair of red shoes) than I've seen in any of his previous films. It's almost as good as an old-school Hitchcock, until the last two scenes... I just didn't buy them. However, it's always great to see an auteur at work and on fire, and "Shutter Island" is definitely worth a view.

FANTASTIC for an hour... and then systematically goes and blows it. Too bad. Tons of great ideas in this film.

What happened to this film? I LOVED it when it came out, and nobody ever seems to talk about it any more.... brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

Boooooooring.

I liked it better than the first one. Its rampant hyper-creativity overwhelms me--Del Toro's obviously having a lot of fun here, and it reminds me of Zemeckis and Spielberg in that respect.... the director is ecstatic at the opportunity to homage to the films/comics that inspired him, and it puts a creative fire in him that inspires me.

Okay......... I love the cinematography in this film. I'll take a lot of grief for saying this, but i think it's one of the three or four most inventively photographed films of the nineties. No, I'm not kidding; and no, I'm not being sarcastic. I really do. The images in this film inspire me.

My favorite Welles. I liked it better than Citizen Kane--I can't say why, it just hit me.

Woo's best American film, it nearly reaches the emotional heights of some of his best Chinese work. The script's a LITTLE weak, though, and slightly undercuts the astonishingly cool action set pieces.

Unfortunately, this one missed the mark. John Woo is still a titan, though. :)

This is my favorite John Woo film. It's COMPLETELY underrated, and overlooked (I think because Chow yun-fat wasn't in it...). The last act is Shakespearean.

Awesome picture. Hopelessly cool. Mangold's best.

A fantastic film featuring my favorite James Horner score.

This movie's just cool. I love watching Ken Watanabe act.

Ed Zwick is a pretty darned good action director. "Blood Diamond" is preachy, sometimes sentimental, and a little rough in the screenplay department... but it blows still up real good, and the performances are great.

Crappy script. Great acting. Great score. I was constantly frustrated by this film--one minute, the direction is ameteurish, the next it's creative, even ecstatic. Grr. Coulda been better. I'd like to see what The Hughes Bros. would do with Akira...

A good, not great film----but still an extremely well-made film with several great "Mann" moments. Some of the cinematography really shows off the possibilities of video, even better than "Collateral." I'm one of the few people who thought the video cinematography added something.

A highly visceral action movie. Peter Berg's at his best doing dark action films. He didn't seem really at home with "Hancock." I think this is his best film.

Wow... their most stylistically dense film since "Barton Fink." Very, very, very dark... but the Coens are at the top of their game. I don't know what I just watched, but I was deeply involved.

Now this... this is a funny movie. For some reason.

The older I get, the more I think Errol Morris may be my favorite filmmaker. He taught me, above all else, that there's no such thing as fact.

A pretty exhaustive critique of the film I found referenced on slantmagazine.com. It's a good read: http://theaspectratio.net/inglouriousbasterds.htm

Why did this film never click with me? I LOVE many of Melville's other films--Army Of Shadows and Le Cercle Rouge in particular--but this one didn't click with me at all. Maybe it's just me...

Michael Powell = The Man. Pure and simple.

I saw "8 1/2," "Senso," "Umberto D," "La Terra Trema," and eventually "The Leopard" because of this film. No one talks about film more entertainingly than Scorsese, and it makes the 4 hour run-time of this film go all too quickly.

One of my all-time favorites. It's not "Raging Bull," but I just can't get enough of this film... probably because it's about airplanes. :)

This may be my favorite film.

The opening. Oh, the opening. I love the opening. I love the music. I love Melvin Van Peebles' voice-over narration. The rest of the film isn't quite as good (the ecstatic hula-hoop montage excluded), but I'm a fan just cuz of the opening.

I love this movie. I love it more every time I watch it. I love the script. I love the cutting. I love the performances. Granted, this film is not "Goodfellas." The performances don't have the naturalistic, half-improvised feel that make Scorsese's earlier work so ecstatic. I don't care. "The Departed" is one of the great visceral experiences in film, and one of the great gangster pictures. It's probably the genre picture that Scorsese had in the back of his head growing up--with Matt Damon playing a role he would've dreamed to cast Tyrone Pwer in.