Stephen King's Top 10 of 2006
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Stephen King thinks Waist Deep is one of the top ten movies of 2006. I say this not to mock the guy or knock his opinions ... but maybe the King of literary horror should get out and see more than 40-some movies a year. Especially if he's going to put together a year-end Top 10 for Entertainment Weekly.Self-proclaimed as "just another schlub in the popcorn line," Mr. King also expresses much love for Snakes on a Plane (#7), The Descent (#5), and The Departed (#3), but I was quickly reminded of why I admire Stephen King so much when his #1 flick of the year was ... Pan's Labyrinth! Good pick, Steve! Plus let's give it up to the guy for remembering to single out a few lesser-known titles -- even if The World's Fastest Indian (#10) wouldn't make my top ten of February, 2006, let alone the whole year. And I'll just assume that King hasn't seen Children of Men yet, because I suspect it'd be right up his alley.
Still though ... Waist Deep??
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12-19-2006 @ 5:45PM
visceralfilm said...
I'm not a horror guy, but The Descent was gripping.
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12-19-2006 @ 6:10PM
crod said...
Well he does pick out some great TV shows :)
The list isnt tooo bad. I havent seen waist deep to judge so Im going to have to give it shot
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12-20-2006 @ 2:28AM
Eric D. Snider said...
It's ridiculous to write a top 10 list if you've only seen 40 movies. I mean, compile it for your friends or your blog if you want to, but publishing it in a national magazine, presumably to influence people with your opinions? Absurd.
Of course, I don't understand why Stephen King writes a column for Entertainment Weekly anyway, so I'm not the one to ask.
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12-20-2006 @ 10:30AM
kel said...
If Stephen King was a stuffy, professional (and increasingly irrelevant) critic then yes maybe it would be ridiculous to make a top ten list after watching only 40+ movies. But he's not, and he was quick to point that out. He's just an average guy when it comes to the consumption of entertainment, and he writes from that point of view. He also makes a larger point as to why he only watched 40 or so movies this year. That's really where he was trying to inflence opinions.
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