This is extremely belated but I thought my end-of-year should mural up at some point. Looking back, I find I'm not very attached to "listed" films. Rather, the images that stick in my mind most are of the older movies I've been watching, firecracker comedies with Stanwyk, or House on the Hill (image below) by Kurosawa.

Spanish edition Buzz and dark psychodrama aside, Toy Story was a competent expansion but slightly scattered revival of a beloved franchise. I suppose Toy Story 3 is on the shortlist as well, but How to Train Your Dragon seemed the more satisfying of the two IMHO, with integrated gags, exciting action sequences, and very cute critters. One niggling question, however... Are dragons like fish? Will another dragon step up to fill the uber dragon position in the dragon social heirarchy? Ok, that was two...

Who cares about fidelity really? The Social Network was a solid film, exciting like a trainwreck, on trend with its message, and only faltering with minor moralizing missteps at the end. The rest of the show is filled with enough hubris and caustic nerd antics to satisfy the most bitter among us. Timberlake steals the show with his charmingly cokified portrayal of Napster founder Sean Parker. Eisenberg plays Zuckerberg as the quintessential loner, a sneak peek at the internal workings of technocultural royalty, but one whose motives can only be conjectured. In the Social Network, the audience ultimately is on the outside. After you've googled, facebook'd, myspace'd all your immediate peeps, the question remains... How well can you know anyone anyway?
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