The Inconsistent Writer

The Dude

  • Day 52: A Movie With The Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted)

    CHINATOWN (1974) Chinatown has long been considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. Robert Towne has yet to create anything better or at least equal to this masterpiece. It’s a gritty noir with a tough-yet-flawed detective who has to… Continue reading

  • Day 51: A Movie With The Best Direction

    SCHINDLER’S LIST (1993) Steven Spielberg’s drama of Oskar Schindler and his purchase of 1200 Jews during WWII is the epitome of his directing abilities. To be such a captivating storyteller and an amazing visual artist, this film is unbelievably difficult… Continue reading

  • Day 50: A Movie With The Best Film Editing

    JFK (1991) Anyone who’s seen this film (even if they don’t care for it) knows the massive amount of information that’s shoved down your throat about conspiracy theories and second gunmen. However, there’s so much information, that it would be… Continue reading

  • Day 49: A Movie With The Best Cinematography

    A SERIOUS MAN (2009) Any film that combines the brilliant talents of the Coen Brothers and Roger Deakins is going to produce beautiful images. For some reason, this film stands out as my favorite of Deakin’s work. The man’s had… Continue reading

  • Day 48: A Movie With The Best Art Direction

    THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY I know I’m picking 3 films instead of one, but in all honesty, it’s just three parts of one really long movie. When defining and explaining this to someone earlier, I decided that I… Continue reading

  • Day 47: A Movie With The Best Costumes

    RAN (1985) Influenced by Shakespeare’s King Lear, Kurosawa loosely adapted it into his final epic. Kurosawa’s use of color is amazing with the costumes in this film and it can be seen throughout the picture. The film had 1,400 extras,… Continue reading

  • Day 46: A Movie That Had The Worst Book Adaptation

    HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (2009) I’m not going to sit here and nitpick this movie because I honestly like the series. This was a hard category today, because I don’t read a lot (I do read considerably more… Continue reading

  • Day 45: A Movie That Makes You Want To Be A Kid Again

    THE SANDLOT (1993) By far one of the best kid movies that’s been made in the past 20 years. It’s a great summer movie, baseball movie and it’s hilarious. I never had as many friends as Smalls had made in… Continue reading

  • Day 44: Favorite Animated Feature Film

    WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) I almost went in a different direction but glad I thought of this film last night. This film skillfully, ingeniously, and seamlessly combined live action with animation. You can’t deny that this isn’t an animated… Continue reading

  • Day 43: Favorite Documentary Film

    THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS (2007) This category was difficult. There’s always too many political or social commentary documentaries out there, along with the really good behind-the-scenes filmmaking ones as well. I chose King of Kong because it was… Continue reading