+8
DR STRANGELOVE is all kinds of great, but it gets lost in my Kubrick affection since he just made too many perfect movies. I also sometimes am disinclined to list it as one of my favorite comedies, since what I take away from it is the madness and the terror, no so much the laughs. The laughs are pretty much all that is left for us to do once we realize how doomed we may all be one day. Which, I guess, is kind of funny after all. Sterling Hayden and George C Scott also need to have their comedic chops taken out from the solar eclipse that is Peter Sellers. Hayden may in fact be my favorite performance in the whole movie.
FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING: If it wasn't for miring me in an endless battle at the end of the film, I probably would have loved this movie. Everything up to the moment where we are forced to hang out with a bunch of elves and be slightly nauseated at their pointy ears, is about as engrossing as a fantasy film can be. It feels like a real lived in world, and there are great moments of terror and joy to be a part of. It's kind of exceptional. And I could have even overlooked the elf stuff, if it then didn't lead to what amounts to a fairly monotonous hour long sword fight. It takes a lot for me to sit still for any action scene that long (unless its the Raid 2, because that movie knows how to do it correctly) Frankly, I'd rather watch Hobbits jump on beds for the conclusion of a film, than the bout of endless cling-clang sword boredom I got here. But it works for other people, three times over it appears, and more power to them. Who cares if it takes up three slots, if that's what the votes say.