February 2012
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The Sweetest Thing (by Maris Kreizman)
Today’s 10YOM is guest-written by Maris Kreizman. She’s a writer and creator of the brilliant Slaughterhouse 90210, which you should read as soon as you finish this.
Year 2002 Trademarks:
Discussion of how fat-free chips cause anal leakage
Charlie’s Angels hair
Chokers
“Your penis packs a wallop, your penis brings a load. And when it makes a delivery, it needs its own zip code.”...
December 2011
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The Most Mediocre Movies of 2011
Around this time there are a lot of posts listing the year’s best and worst movies, but none honoring those films that land squarely in the middle. I thought it’d be fun to list some of the most mediocre films of 2011. These are the movies you’d be cool with if they showed one during your flight to Des Moines, but will otherwise never think of again. They’re not 10 years...
September 2011
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Big Trouble
Year 2001 Trademarks:
Postponed due to cataclysmic event that has come to define the 21st century
Dennis Farina
Ten years ago 19 angry men gave America its worst Tuesday ever, even by Tuesday standards. Since countless talented writers have shared their personal biographies of the events of 9/11, most of whom have practice writing about topics more important than the influence of Alicia...
April 2011
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A Knight's Tale (by Will Hines)
Today’s review is guest-written by actor/comedian/2001 film aficionado Will Hines.
I didn’t expect A Knight’s Tale, the 2001 this-has-to-be-for-teenage-girls-only-right? movie starring Heath Ledger and Paul Bettany, to be funny. But it was. I saw it on a plane in December of 2001, and I expected it to be lots of slow-motion shots of Heath Ledger doing dreamy things like being...
January 2011
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Vertical Limit
Editors note: I started writing this post on New Years’ Eve 2010. This will be the last entry for the year 2000. Keep checking for the next post, in which we’ll be boldly going into the world of 2001 cinema…
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Features Chris O’Donnell’s last theatrical starring role to date
Released on Superbit DVD
Mountain Dew-esque extreme view of snow
I...
December 2010
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Dungeons & Dragons
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Early Marlon Wayans attempt to leave Wayans Brothers empire (see: Senseless)
Predicts the great Lord of the Rings fantasy boom of a year later
Thora Birch
In this blog’s last entry, I pondered weather the dated computer-generated monster effects in Paul Verhoeven’s Hollow Man – and bad CG in general – could possibly age as well as practical, KNB-style puppetry...
October 2010
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Hollow Man
Was Paul Verhoeven the most underrated director of the 1990s, or the most overrated?
This was what went through my head as I watched a see-through Kevin Bacon twist a supermodel’s titties with his invisible fingers in Verhoeven’s 2000 sci-fi thriller, Hollow Man. The movie is the last film Verhoeven directed in America, capping off a strange, hilarious, outrageous decade-long stay in...
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Fake MTV News brief with Kurt Loader
Nu metal soundtrack (including System of a Down)
“Goths aren’t evil!” debate
The best part of re-watching Book of Shadows, 2000’s follow-up to The Blair Witch Project, isn’t watching the film at all, but re-visiting (by proxy) the Great Blair Witch Craze that the sequel proved the culmination of. America...
June 2010
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Road Trip
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Blockbuster Video jewel cases
Tom Green (specifically this scene):
When American Pie was released, in 1999, it was hailed as the rebirth of the “post-teenage gross-out genre” of the 1970s and 1980s. The ancestor it was most frequently compared to in particular (by, among others, the New York Times) was Porky’s, the 1982 comedy about horny...
May 2010
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28 Days
In 28 Days, Sandra Bullock plays a boozy New York writer who gets sloshed at her sister’s wedding with Dominic West (what McNulty fan woudn’t?), crashes a limo into a nearby house, and is sentenced to a stint in rehab. Bullock arrives at the wooded retreat grudgingly — a city-smart gal who, even in 2000, is constantly talking on a mobile phone or typing away on her ThinkPad....
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April 2010
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Zonino Likes 10YOM
The blog Zonino! wrote a very kind post praising 10-Year-Old Movies:
“A lot has happened in the last ten years. Watching some of these movies brings to mind a simpler time when our big concerns were Y2K, starting a successful “dot com,” and who was better - Britney or Christina.”
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Here on Earth
YEAR 2000 TRADEMARKS:
Bleach blonde hair
Alt-rock soundtrack
Annoying “Are you ready for Fox DVD?” ad on disc (the one that starts with Tyler Durden saying, “I want you to hit me as hard as you can” and features 90% X-Men clips)
THE MOVIE:
Weeks before his graduation, private school snob Kelley (Chris Klein) drives his cherry-red sports car to the wrong side of the...
March 2010
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10YOM Featured On Cracked
Sunday’s 10-Year-Old Movies review of The Skulls appeared on Cracked.com. Check it out here (or at 10YOM) and find out if Paul Walker and Joshua Jackson are wearing pants in this photo.
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The Skulls
YEAR 2000 TRADEMARKS:
Concerns elderly rich perverts in robes (see: Eyes Wide Shut, The Ninth Gate)
Disc sold as “Collector’s Edition”
Stars of two WB dramas (Popular and Dawson’s Creek)
Spawned numerous straight-to-DVD sequels (see: Bring it On, Wild Things, American Pie)
THE MOVIE: The Skulls, released in March 2000, is the second installment of Joshua...
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Beyond the Mat
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Entire subject of film
Abundance of Loony Toons apparel
Before the epic reign of John Cena dominted the Ring, motherfuckers
“The Rock isn’t just some candy-ass on the corner of Know-Your-Role Boulevard and Jabroni Drive. Tonight in front of the thousands of Rock’s fans all chanting his name, and...
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Reindeer Games
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Ashton Kutcher bit part (as in previous 10YOM “Down to You”)
Scripted by same person who wrote Arlington Road
Tongue-in-cheek con/heist movie (see: Ocean’s 11, Get Shorty, Heist, The Score, et al.)
What’s it like 10 years later?
IT BELONGS TO MULTIPLE CIRCA-2000 SUB GENRES
Reindeer Games arrived in theaters at the crossroads of two...
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Wired Looks Back at "Dotcom Movies"
“10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust”
This month’s Wired celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Dotcom Bubble. The feature includes an overview of the circa-2000 films that arose from the era, including Pirates Of Silicon Valley and You’ve Got Mail.
I know, I know: they totally overlooked Antitrust.
February 2010
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Scream 3
Year 2000 Traits:
Exclusively alt-metal soundtrack (including Godsmack, Incubus, System of a Down and Stained), produced by Creed
Jay and Silent Bob cameo
Patrick Warburton referred to in review as a “rising action star”
Absence of original franchise writer to develop ABC’s Wonderland
Liev Schreiber
When the first Scream was released in 1996, it was called it an...
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Eye of the Beholder
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Numerous cheeky “I hate these new computers?!” jokes
Frosted hair
“Scene Selection” and “Interactive Menus” listed as Special Features on DVD box
What’s it like 10 years later?
I don’t recall how I first saw Eye of the Beholder, but I suspect it was rented by my mother sometime around late 2000, when it was a New Release...
January 2010
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Down to You
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Gratuitous Ally McBeal-inspired Motown lip-syncing
Contrasted by NY Times with short-lived WB dramedy Popular
Second-act scene revolving around a CD wallet
What’s it like 10 years later? Down to You was the first 2000 film I re-watched this year that I wanted – I mean really wanted – to like. Not that I am (or was) an especially huge Freddie Prinze, Jr. fan. And...
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Supernova
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Use of Sugar Ray’s “I Just Want to Fly” in trailer
Casting of Victor from Party of Five
Lou Diamond Phillips presented as sex object
What’s it like 10 years later?
It’s impossible to talk about Supernova without first mentioning the importance of the year 1996 for science fiction and horror. Sure, the year saw the premiere of The...
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The Hurricane
Year 2000 Trademarks:
Pre-Tony Scott Denzel Washington
Presence of K-Ci and JoJo (of “All My Life” fame) on soundtrack
Leiv Schriber
What’s it like 10 years later?
In a way the movie feels more timely now than it probably did back in 2000. Today’s audiences, having experienced John Q and The Great Debaters, feel right at home in a mediocre Denzel Washington film....