We've been catching up on our 2011s and I have to add 3 more.

Midnight in Paris - I don't want to give anything away, just go see it, but it's probably our favorite of the year.
Descendents - Very real. Very human. Great writing, if you liked Sideways and Election.
War Horse - There are plenty of reasons a critical person could take this movie apart, but I've got room in my heart for happy endings and Spielbergian splendor.

Issy wants to make fun of dag for liking Melancholia, but he also liked Midnight in Paris, so it all evens out.

We'll necropost some more in a few weeks when we legally view some more movies in a movie theater.

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My faves for the year:
1. Midnight in Paris
2. Moneyball
3. Melancholia
4. Hanna
5. The Guard

I haven't seen any of your worst 10 which pleases me greatly.

Hanna, Super 8, Tree of Life, and Melancholia all fall into "ok/good but not great" for me.

Drive is teetering on the edge of awesome just for style alone... or perhaps I'm just biased because Ryan Gosling is such a fucking babe. (But he really is a great actor too -- everyone should see Lars and the Real Girl and Half Nelson.)

I really enjoyed X-Men: First Class.

I haven't seen it yet but I'm excited about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy because of the fucking amazing cast.

I've booked ten films. Some of my choices had to do with staying at one location. The venues are scattered across town.

Brighton Rock
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
Magic Trip
Melancholia
Sahkanaga
Take Shelter
The Hedgehog
The Mortician
Vigilante, Vigilante: The Battle for Expression

The other titles will go into my Netflix queue.

In reply to this comment by Sarzy:
There's some interesting looking films playing there -- are you seeing anything?

In reply to this comment by dotdude:
'Thought you might be interested in the line-up for the New Orleans Film Fest:
http://neworleansfilmsociety.org/festival/full/

Online Program:
http://issuu.com/shweikimedia/docs/neworleansfilm?mode=w
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There appears to be an issue with votes since VS came back online. While votes are being registered correctly, the "who voted for this video" bits are not being updated. For example, I submitted this a few hours ago, and while it has votes, I can't see from who:

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Likewise, this had 4 votes before the outage, but now has 7, yet only the original 4 people are showing up at the bottom:

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