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Bringing Up Baby - every film should have a cheetah
Deja Vu - a little less cracked-out than I like my Tony Scott, but enjoyable

― milo (milo), Monday, 27 November 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm halfway through both Little Children and Half Nelson. I may not finish the first one, because it's retarded. The second one is not a great movie, but I'll bite the hype on Gosling (though he was better in The Notebook).

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 27 November 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Heat
liked it a lot better the second time

― dmr, Monday, 27 November 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link

for your consideration - so tired of guest movies. would have liked to see the whole movie of 'home for purim' instead!

― tehresa (tehresa), Monday, 27 November 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link

saw this terrible bank hiest movie with my parnts staring denzel washinghton anyway it was nonsensical except for the fact that the banl robbers were dressed like big audio dynamite\
BIG
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DYNAMITE

still relevent.

― \bell abs, Monday, 27 November 2006 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

BORAT (yes!)
TEH DEPARTED (yesss!!!)

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Also saw For Your Consideration. Best thing about it was the fake ET segments w/ Fred Willard & Jane Lynch. I think they took the supersize cast thing too far with this one. And I hope Catherine O'Hara didn't really get botox.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

bueno

― grbchv!, Monday, 27 November 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Saw and liked both Volver and the new documentary about Jonestown this weekend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

For Your consideration - ambiguous reaction. Pacing - really weird. Fred Willard - comedy gold.

If he'd never made Best In Show, it'd be the best of his modern crop of stuff, though.

― John Justen wants to hit you in the head with a pipewrench. (John Justen), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

timecop starring denzel washington

― this is cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of get the feeling someone was hoping Catherine O'Hara would get Oscar nominated for her part in this movie, it will be funnier when she doesn't.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

saw fast food nation movie - liked
saw william eggleston in the real world dvd - wanted to like more
saw los angeles plays itself at the egyptian (saw it at film forum when it came out) - still great, sadly still not on dvd

― jbr, Monday, 27 November 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Stromboli
The Messiah (Rossellini)
Angels with Dirty Faces
Seven Men from Now
Gate of Flesh
Salvatore Giuliano

(also 7 hrs of "Deadwood")

Eric, booooo to watchin feature films in partz.

― Grandpa Noise, Monday, 27 November 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

forbidden planet
the departed (again)
freaks

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric, booooo to watchin feature films in partz.

Yeah, I can't imagine doing this. Then again, I don't have the luxury to do this with new releases like MR. FILM CRITIC over here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

next thing you know he'll be leaving the room for a scene or two like Hot Lips

― Ghost of Bob Altman, Monday, 27 November 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

YOUTH OF THE BEAST (Have yuo guys seen any Seijun Suzuki?!!!)
HOME MOVIE

― T. Weiss, Monday, 27 November 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the yakuza papers (boxset)

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

If it's good enough for Farber, it's good enough for me.

Anyway, it's not like we're talking about Lynch here. This is pretty much artless Academy-bait here.

― MR. FILM CRITIC (Eric H.), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

who are you

― this is cutty (mcutt), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, I'd stop Lost Highway frequently. I didn't know Manny F did that, but he IS 90 years old!

The novel Little Children ain't bad, but I'm not surprised Todd Field blew it up to Oscarbait.

I don't know where to read Mr. Film Critic these days.

― Grandpa Noise, Monday, 27 November 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

FOOD & INTIMACY; twenty minutes from canadian televison. awesome.

a virgin among the living dead

― ian (orion), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shit, forgot!!...

Hard Candy - I kind of loved this movie.

― nklshs (nklshs), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

infernal affairs, post-'departed'. it doesn't hold up, too much musical interlude corny bullshit.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Little Children and Half Nelson will both prob be in my top 10 this year, with the latter near the very top.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I picked up Bringing Up Baby at Tower and it's not quite as good as I remembered (or My Cousin Vinny), but maybe it's just the ownership effect. Silver City did its predictable (though rapidly diminishing) Sayles sense-of-place thing on me, and Chris Cooper's Bush impression was tiresome for as long as I resisted compartmentalizing it (not too long), but Danny Huston was novel enough, the costumes ruled most movies, and the girls were pretty in a very uncinematic way.

― nuneb (nuneb), Monday, 27 November 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

is little children actually good? it looks so beyond awful.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 27 November 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm a sucker for movies like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 27 November 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

speaking of beyond awful: my roommate brought home Lucky # Slevin. worth my time? worth my time....ON WEED?

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

a good rule of thumb is to avoid any movie featuring josh hartnett.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

except for The Virgin Suicides

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

and the faculty

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck those movies!

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link

tho i'd probably take them over anything he's done post '99

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd take those movies over the da vinci code. which no one should ever have to watch. don't even start watching it and start ffwding and stopping and ffwding again to the main ian mckellan bit, which is okay b/c of him, and then ffwding again because there is nothing to ffwd to. i think it contributed to my crappy do-nothing mood of last week.

saw some good shorts at resfest on friday though (these were them - the thing about shorts is that even if they're great, they're not exactly well-advertised or well-distributed :( i guess youtube is helping though.

need to see 'the departed'

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Amelie was pretty hot whilst threatening the albino, the only not-bad thing about it aside from McKellen.

But even the movie isn't as bad as the newish pre-movie commercials they're running where Ron Howard talks about all the deep, hidden symbols they introduced into the movie, illustrated by random flashes of gold accent. Apparently one of the airline logos was meant to help you unlock the mystery of Mary's cooch.

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Slevin is not beyond awful but it was not good either. imo.

― dmr, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link

recent movies which i enjoyed:
half nelson
a guide to recognizing...

― blastocsyt (blastocyst), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

lady vengeance (she has a plan) was pretty sweet last night on weed

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know where to read Mr. Film Critic these days.

Hopefully this will put an end for once and for all to this strange business about my being a film critic.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

slevin is worth watching.

― grady (grady), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

(x-post) (Although I did just write about crap Streisand Star Is Born and will soon add something about Maniac Cop and Disney's Robin Hood to the DVD section.)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll give you Nelson, jmc, but the pool scene in Little Children was the last straw on that one.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

The pool scene was masterful.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

When it was a shark instead of a sex pervert and it wasn't a pool at all but a beach on Amity Island, maybe.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Having finished the other half of Nelson, my take on it miraculously didn't change from before. Who says piecemeal viewing distorts one's impression?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Too bad Gosling's long-"deserved" hype had to wait for a condescending liberal b.s. vehicle to be birthed (I'll stick with the Jewish Nazi movie & The Slaughter Rule).

Jeanne la Pucelle

(1st Rivette I've liked)

― Dr M, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

so..not going to out 1 then, doc?

― 99 (bbia), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:39 (seventeen years ago) link

not even if Sandrine Bonnaire was in it.

― Dr M, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

no love for juliet berto?..you fool

http://intro.de/img/usergalerie/14512.jpg

― benbaumes (bbia), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't even know if she was Celine or Julie

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

it doesnt matter

― benbaumes (bbia), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched The Faculty a few months ago at my parents house, the description listed Clea Duvall and Josh Hartnett in the "starring" thing, it was a fairly pleasant shock to find Frodo Baggins, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, Jean Grae, etc etc in it. A fun stupid movie!

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I enjoyed Lucky # Slevin in that it is probably the only time I will ever hear Morgan Freeman cuss.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the faculty was rodriguez, no? kind of fun stupid movies

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

king

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit that movie. it was like a cartoon.

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

my buddy is the quarterback in that.

i am in love with the departed.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

What was condescending about Half Nelson?

Why does the presence of Jackie Earle Haley negate the brilliance of the setpiece in Little Children?

Can we change the thread title so as not to attract ILF cranks?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

for starters, the oh-so-gratuitous scene w/Gosling's family near end

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Gratuitous, maybe, but I didn't think it was heavy-handed, and I liked watching them all interact.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i am in love with the departed.

Jams, Altman or Betty Comden?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

last night - Dawn of the Dead remake. not bad altho essentially a huge 28 Days Later ripoff. opening bit before the credits was grebt.

I cosign the Faculty too

― dmr, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Why does the presence of Jackie Earle Haley negate the brilliance of the setpiece in Little Children?

He negates nothing because there is no brilliance in it to be negated. I'm sorry, jmc, but this is a definitively worthless movie.

Can we change the thread title so as not to attract ILF cranks?

I'm sorry, I'll try to be more respectful as per the standards of noize board.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Changing Times, which will probably make my top 10; Morbs OTM in claimin git's a better film about colonialism than Caché.

Nice to see the kid from Nico & Dani all grows up.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The Faculty might have been the last movie where Hartnett appeared to be awake most of the time.

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

ballpoint pen drugs kept him alert

― dmr, Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh – and nothing wrong with watching films piecemeal; it's good for digestion.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

RHYTHM is broken, tho (unless there's none to be had)

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes a bro has to take a leak

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I define piecemeal as over days, not pausing for leak

"ILF crank" = dares to find any fault with a film the indie-media poobahs (or Rotten Tomatoes) have decreed a masterpiece

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I also take my leaks piecemeal.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

the indie-media poobahs? like... zinesters?

indymedia.org?

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

naked (again. great film but man it made me want a cigarette bad)

― spaghetti occidentali ( Spaghetti Occidentali), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

naked w thewliss?

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

haven't seen that in forever ever.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

orblivion

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

the education of shelby knox (bad)
tenacious d (not much better)

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I define piecemeal as over days, not pausing for leak

Pausing to pour wine, cook dinner, and answer the phone should count too!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

^ADD^

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

tenacious d movie is 6 years late.

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

w thewliss?

yeah i saw it in 93 but this time through on dvd i could go back and replay parts with difficult dialogue (for a non-brit). almost a perfect film, i would have liked another actor playing the landlord.

― spaghetti occidentali ( Spaghetti Occidentali), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i liked little children: dream-like and compassionate and i laughed a lot (especially at the narration which was so left field as to be totally wtf every time it happened).

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I've learned to filter out the "liberal b.s." parts of movies nowadays. If you can get past that, Half Nelson is v. enjoyable. Never seen any of Gosling's other movies...but he wasn't the only one doing a good job in this one, why does he get all the attention?
p.s.http://i12.tinypic.com/49hqg6w.jpg

― blastocsyt (blastocyst), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yawn @ cutty

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Shareeka Epps is getting attention. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyway, isn't Half Nelson partially about the failures of liberalism?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I suppose it's trying to be.

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I though it was about a teacher who acts like a rock star, basically.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh holy shit, young Ryan Gosling looks EXACTLY like ilxor Cprek circa 1994. EXACTLY.

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

has there been a convincing schoolteacher drama, EVER? that French one 3-4 years ago? (Armond White argues for Jon Voight in Conrack, which I've never seen) Can young Ms Epps sing "To Sir with Love"?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

dean would tell you school of rock is convincing

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

My gf turned to each other at the end of the History Boys trailer and were like "Dead Poets Society much?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

well, apparently History Boys brings buggery to the fore

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

My gf turned to each other

LOL yr gf is Niki from Heroes

― nklshs (nklshs), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

a built in 3way!

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

school of rock is about 47 years too late

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

has there been a convincing schoolteacher drama, EVER? that French one 3-4 years ago?

I like about a third of Prime of Ms Jean Brodie.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1996/posters/substitute.jpg

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: I got Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, in which Donner gets the Kurosawa and Bunuel treatment. Richard Lester gets nary a compliment when his cut is what made the film vastly superior to its predecessor.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it's unfair that Shareeka Epps is stealing all the acclaim when Dakota Fanning has spent all this time paying her dues and has a plum role in this holiday season's gift to moviegoers called Charlotte's Web. Don't let us down, Screen Actors Guild!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Is this commercially available?

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

the education of shelby knox (bad)
Hustle & Flow director, right? Is it out in theatres, or did it just get dumped to DVD?

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Donner cut is out on DVD today.

You must be thinking of Black Snake Moan? Education is a documentary about a girl in Texas fighting for sex ed in the schools.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Is this commercially available?

Just released today. The first 45 minutes contain new sequences and eliminated others (the Eiffel Tower scenes, Lois Lane hurling herself into the river). Brando is back as Jor-El. The trouble: Donner, annoyed with The Director (he won't even mention Lester by name)'s "corny" humor, substituted purportedly serious sequences which dissolve into camp.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought that I read that the Donner Cut has screen tests in place of a few scenes that were never filmed. Is that true?

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i like movies set in schools!!

history boys was ok

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

but do you like school of rock and do you find it to be "convincing"

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 28 November 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

yes. i forgot i was watching a movie. i was there.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought that I read that the Donner Cut has screen tests in place of a few scenes that were never filmed. Is that true?

Yup. And Margot Kidder looks quite obviously younger in some sequences.

OK, this sucked for the most part. I'm ashamed that this is promoted as the definitive version.

Missing: the Eiffel Tower, conquest of the small town, and Fortress of Solitude battle sequences.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Even worse: Donner uses THE EXACT SAME TIME REVERSAL GIMMICK USED IN THE FIRST FILM to wipe Lois' memory. The Superkiss of Forgetfulness in the office -- and Kidder's wonderful enactment of torment preceding it (she reminds Superman that she has to see him in the office every day as Clark) -- are gone.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

little fish (excellent. cate blanchett is probably the best-looking ex-junkie I've ever seen, though.)

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Even worse: Donner uses THE EXACT SAME TIME REVERSAL GIMMICK USED IN THE FIRST FILM to wipe Lois' memory

OMG

SO ANGRY

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG RICHARD "DOWNER"

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

does he use the exact same footage of superman spinning around the earth's orbit from the first film?

cause if so, that is perhaps amazing?

― milton parker (milton parker), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps. But it isn't.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Dirty Ho was good. Some LOLs.

― ian (orion), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Lots of giggles, anyway. Interesting to see how fighting scenes have changed, how shocking new styles/moves might have been when they were first seen.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

no direction home - needs a lot of editing? interviews got booooring

some kind of monster - lol @ aging wusses. best wtf moment courtesy dave mustaine

― amon (amon), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Go figger, the one I don't watch piecemeal, Flags of Our Fathers, has already been pre-chewed into bite-sized bits.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm ashamed that [Donner Supe2] is promoted as the definitive version.

No need for shame unless yr involved in the marketing.

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 14:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the proposition - the part where ray winstone awakes freaked-out to gunfire and crashes into his bedroom door had me believing that it could be great, but it wasn't, it was good. there was only one part where the nick cave music got really bad but then someone cocked a shotgun and it was over. the cast was sweet and the ending kinda bothered me as it would've been a whole lot more compelling had they made emily watson's character a little more culpable. i like that guy pearce guy, he's good at staggering around looking confused.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

man with a movie camera
haack: king of techno

BOTH SO GOOD

― 69 (pete), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

except for those chumpy dorks commenting on haack

― 69 (pete), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The Supes II small town scene was super-shitty. I'm not a fan of old Supes II, tho. Or Donner. But I'm sorta stoked for nu-Supes II. Because I'm stupid.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

as long as "no, Jor-El the baseball player" is still in

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Do DVDs of not-movies count? Season 1 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. I'm not entirely sure if I love it or hate it.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

So is, "What do I get for my triple threat, huh? `Bow, yield, kneel!' That kind of stuff closes out of town."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Nklshs -- once CYE starts developing narrative arcs in S2, it gets better.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

the latter part of the proposition really frustrated me. ray winstone's character really fizzled out, and yeah - emily watson needed something else. she's such a strong actress, but her character was so wan.

― Lauren (lauren), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

My favorite episode of CYE so far was when they went to the party at Bob Odenkirk's house and he went on that rant that ended with the Tabasco finger up his ass, and LD had to do a double goodbye.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

do DVDs of not-movies count?

They don't, but I just saw the first half-season of "Deadwood" and was generally pleased, tho it's nowhere as subversive as many anti-westerns of the '60s/'70s (including Blazing Saddles).

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

CYE is DEFINITELY NOT cinema

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay!

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i hate the CYE narrative arcs... the more sitcommy it is, the worse.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

lauren

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when evil brother and sidekick showed up @ ray and emily's house i was like that's kinda heavy they're taking revenge for the younger brother's death, blaming it on ray when it was really emily's fault. then it turned out they didn't even know he died so it was just a big ray fucked up even that dandy douche was right sort of thing.

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― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

haha morbs laying the smack down

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Satantango

NOT YET RELEASED
: - Release date to be announced, Order Now!

argh, was supposed to be november 28

― v (sleep), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

is it the same company who released a real crappy-lookin Werckmeister Harmonies DVD?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Even I would prob. watch Satantango piecemeal.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Slocki, the good thing about the narrative arcs is that it prevents each episode of CYE from being the exact same as the one before it. Toward the end of S1, I was getting tired of the formula, but the arcs gave each new episode a purpose.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

a break or two in a 3-to-14-hr film is not piecemeal

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to morbs
yes, facets

artificial eye released a better version this month, but it's region 2 and i haven't got a region free player. also it's PAL which means playback is a little faster than it should be, i think

jaymc, yeah it comes on 3 dvds so i think piecemeal will be really tempting about 5 hours in

― v (sleep), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), Today. (later)

yeah, true. i find CYE best in spread-out chunks, though; i can't watch 10 episodes of it in a row like i can with other shows.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

oh dudez I just saw the best show ever it's called ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT and I can't believe we're not talking about it IT'S SO GOOD*

* = yes, I liked it much; no, I'm not serious.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

more re: the propostion:

i was also really disappointed at the lack of interaction between evil brother and ray winstone. that could have been fireworks!

one thing that did not disappoint was the graphic flogging scene. the story i read was that passion of the christ came out while nick cave was doing re-writes and he decided that he needed to top its flogging.

― Lauren (lauren), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched Satantango in one day and it was one goddamn dreary day.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

DEJA VU (love you, Denzel)
CRIMSON TIDE (srsly, esp. when you drop Silver Surfer science)
CRY_WOLF (love you, Lindy) (& u2, Jon Bon)

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i sorta love arthur from the proposition, though

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 29 November 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

apocalypto

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 30 November 2006 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Another yay for "The Departed."

― Factory Sample Not For Sale (Factory Sample Not For Sale), Thursday, 30 November 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"I watched Satantango in one day and it was one goddamn dreary day."

Bought it last week and finished it yesterday - probably didn't find it that grim bcz it was all spread out over 3 evenings, which I hated doing but couldn't wait for the weekend.

Really enjoyed it though Artificial Eye should've had an extra to accompany this..

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Thursday, 30 November 2006 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Dirty Ho

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

The Sun Shines Bright

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link

How was Apocalypto? I hate to say it but it kind of looks "fun".

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Thursday, 30 November 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

But it's the story about a man trying to save his family! For something to begin, something must end! That ain't fun, son!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

7 Up
7 Plus Seven

― dmr, Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

re the proposition

squeezing blood from the whip was nice, but can't really compare to the passion, a film completely devoted to flogging.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

veronica mars, season 1, first 12 episodes. god help me.

― elmo albatross, Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

sry 2 busy getting the shit whipped out of me.

― yahweah, Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

facets satantango delayed (again) till 2007
time to research region-free players

― v (sleep), Thursday, 30 November 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

watched 49Up last night, enjoyed very much. I think I've seen all of these, but it had been several years since I last watched part of the series -- people growing up and becoming total adults is weird.

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

put dvd in computer * copy to drive w/unencrypting software * burn new region free dvd

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i forgot about that option!

― v (sleep), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

been watching first season of The Wire, that's all. rented Infernal Affairs but haven't gotten around to that yet..

― daria g (dar1a g), Thursday, 30 November 2006 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Bought it last week and finished it yesterday - probably didn't find it that grim bcz it was all spread out over 3 evenings, which I hated doing but couldn't wait for the weekend.

Yeah, it can be a bit much, especially if you're able to watch the sun changing dramatically over the course of the film. That said, it is remarkably well paced and nowhere near as tedious as it really should be.

veronica mars, season 1, first 12 episodes. god help me.

The best.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 30 November 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

put dvd in computer * copy to drive w/unencrypting software * burn new region free dvd

but if the other region dvd is in PAL format you are shit out of luck if you want to watch the dvd on a normal player

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 30 November 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway vic, ddb has a region free player also

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 30 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

excellent

― v (sleep), Thursday, 30 November 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Re-Animator (AGAIN)
Paris, Texas

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 30 November 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

apocalypto was basically braveheart meets home alone in the jungle.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

did apocalypto really have the "oh those natives, if only they had been saved by jeeeesus" condescending tone I picked up from the trailer?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

not really.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

The Thing

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Friday, 1 December 2006 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

manufactured landscapes

amazing amazing doc about photographer edward burtynksy, who's work is mostly about the impact of mega-scale industrialization--huge building projects, dams, extraction etc. mindblowing. opens with 11-minute tracking shot through huge chinese manufacturing plant. film also shows: ship wrecking yards where huge freighters are run aground and torn apart; towns where industry is primarily reclamation of e-waste (huge dumps full of circuit boards), 3 gorges dam project, so huge that when it was filled with water (reservoir is 600 kilometres long) the earth actually wobbled, rivers of bright-red nickel runoff, mining projects that carve huge stepped holes out of mountains.

one of the best movies of the year. and without a DOUBT the NOIZEST movie of the year.

A++++++++

SEE IT. on the big screen if it comes to your town. robyn don't miss it while it's at ex-centris.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

SKIDOO

― t.weiss (t.weiss), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Your search “manufactured landscapes” did not match any torrents

boo, that looks awesome.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Your Location:BROOKLYN, NY 11238
Change Your Location

This movie is NOT currently playing in your area.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Brooklyn Museum
Exhibitions: Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
October 7, 2005–January 15, 2006

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

do it dude. don't watch this movie on your computer.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

well the movie part doesn't actually seem to be playing @ the bk museum, it's just the photos. but i'll keep an eye out for it - the distributor website could really be a little more useful in that regard.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/intl/canada/2006/posters/manufactured_landscapes.jpg

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

you should check the photo exhibit. they rad.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 1 December 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

missed it by a year

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 1 December 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

ha thats true

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

but if the other region dvd is in PAL format you are shit out of luck if you want to watch the dvd on a normal player

DVD Shrink will convert a PAL disc to NTSC.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 December 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

KRULL, you a long-ass/weird-ass movie with 20 minute slow-mow climax of out-of-focus monster explosions

― sexyDancer, Friday, 1 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

God I LOVE Krull, fire stallions, spider lady, pentashuriken and all! I am Ergo the magnificent, short of structure, tall of power, narrow of purpose and wide of vision...from memory bitchez!

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The sound those black armored creatures made when they died is actually on my Dr Sample right now. Button 4.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

purrently sampled from "Journey to Earth's Core" accardinta "imdb"
there's anuther weird-ass cable movie...

― sexyDancer, Friday, 1 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

That reminds me that I need to circuit bend (KOF KOF) the drum machine I was going to give to my ex

― jw (ex machina), Friday, 1 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Fast Food Nation

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 December 2006 01:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks for mentioning Krull...one of those I always pass at the video store back home but haven't gotten around to renting.

Anyone seen Altered States? Is it worth renting?

― blastocsyt (blastocyst), Saturday, 2 December 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

what'd you think of ffn, eric? i feel like i'm one of the only people who got behind that movie

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 2 December 2006 01:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I break my noize-sandbox silence to say:
I HEART JULIET BERTO!

This week I was presently surprised to see her in 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle, which I had forgotten/never realized she was I in.

I also like her in Weekend.

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Saturday, 2 December 2006 02:01 (seventeen years ago) link

(Now I'll go back and actually read the thread. Maybe)

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Saturday, 2 December 2006 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

what'd you think of ffn, eric? i feel like i'm one of the only people who got behind that movie

I'm not behind it or anything, but I feel sort of incapable of disliking anything by Linklater (note: have not seen Waking Life). I was hoping he could do the whole movie without getting to the kill floor, though. I mean, it's all fun and games in Cannibal Holocaust when it's endangered turtles and stuff, but these are cows here.

I spent the entire movie trying to figure out who that sullenly pretty, surprisingly good actress was. I was all "she should get more parts," and then I realized it was Avril Lavigne.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 December 2006 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link

"I break my noize-sandbox silence to say:
I HEART JULIET BERTO!"

This is a good reason. But..

"I also like her in Weekend."

I hadn't realized that she ws in it when I got the DVD a cpl of weeks ago.

"That said, it is remarkably well paced and nowhere near as tedious as it really should be."

Yes, obv with a broken-down viewing I don't know how boring it would be, and I have lots of patience but once you get hold of the pace in which his movies move at..

Some other things I watched this week:

"Fear Eats the Soul" (really good bunch of extras (2 hrs worth of) on this - Todd Haynes on Fassbinder ws pretty engaging, there is an old interview with the man himself, an ok-ish documentary and a 10-min short).

DVDs from library:

Mean Girls - well watching this alongside "fear eats the soul" I couldn't help comparing the four girls in this and the four cleaning ladies in "fear.."

"Elephant", "Last Days".

Godard's "Slow Motion" - The extra is a short film by JLG explaining some of the ideas behind the film (there is a really funny point he makes toward the end as to how he probably bored the viewer a bit but that's ok bcz its part of the act of creation..or something like that). Didn't know quite what to make of it except I wonder what went on between JLG and Isabelle Huppert..

TV:

"The Infernal Affairs" trilogy ws broadcast over here last week. Taped the last two as I'd watched the first one a few months ago. Big mistake as I couldn't remember the finer details on the first, so the 2nd and 3rd passed over my head. ah well..

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Saturday, 2 December 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Anyone seen Altered States? Is it worth renting?

-- blastocsyt (lo...), December 2nd, 2006.

YES

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Saturday, 2 December 2006 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah avril was good!

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 2 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i will see ffn this weekend, slocki. and it's julio?!?!?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Saturday, 2 December 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

deja vu

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 2 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I thought the Ethan Hawke scenes were really good. They're function was sort of replayed (to more didactic ends) when Avril and company sawed that fence later on.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 December 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

~~they're~~ their

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 December 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Marie Inertoinette (omg, Alfred & John Waters, u crazy)
The Bowery
Me and My Gal
Conqueror Worm

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Little Miss Sunshine

― t.weiss (t.weiss), Saturday, 2 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Marie Inertoinette (omg, Alfred & John Waters, u crazy)

Morbs, I thought you'd appreciate pink cookies and other proto-consumerist fetishes.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 December 2006 22:29 (seventeen years ago) link

agree about the hawke scenes--really enjoyed everybody in those.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Amen, Morbs: we agree on a movie.

― remy bean (bean), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Conqueror Worm

Oh crap, did I miss that?!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw damn, I did...

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 December 2006 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

sweatin' to the oldies
the tami show

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 3 December 2006 05:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Trivia for
Teen Wolf (1985)

* The character Stiles wears a number of colorful shirts in this movie. They appear in the following order: 1) Yellow shirt that says "Life sucks then you die", 2) Blue "Obnoxious: the movie", 3) Black "What are you looking at Dicknose", 4) Gray "Drunken State Florida", 5) Pink - no text, 6) Gray - unreadable, 7) Black - unreadable, 8) Hawaiian shirt, 9) White - "Wolf Buddy" and finally a white Teen Wolf shirt. Of the nine shirts he wears, only one appears to have no text on it.

― this is cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The scenes deleted:

* Stiles is looking for some marijuana in his garage and Scott confide in him he is a werewolf.

― this is cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

There's another scene of Styles trying to get a keg of beer from another liquor store. He explains to Louis that he saw it in a movie onces. After he comes out of the store kegless and gets in the car he says it didn't work in the movie either.

― this is cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Battlestar Galactica season 1 (zzz)

― Venom 18, the autistic spy (flezaffe), Sunday, 3 December 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

What are you looking at Dicknose

^^^^my friend Tom and I used to say this shit all the time

― grbchv! (gbx), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

― milo (milo), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The scenes deleted:

* Stiles is looking for some marijuana in his garage and Scott confide in him he is a werewolf.

I weep for what might have been.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

that scene is in the cable version, teen wolf sniffs out the weed when stiles can't find it

― this is cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Full Speed
Two or Three Things I Know About Her

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://del.icio.us/tag/teenwolf

ITEM: lots of Takashi Miike DVDs available at Tower still.

― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 3 December 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

jon why u braek wallet all time?

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I liked him more, then...

From Saturday to Sunday (Gustav Machaty)
Scanners (1st time!)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Scanners - one of my favorites, though it's hard to name a film with a larger gap between conceptual sophistication and technical execution.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Carnival of Souls might be in the running.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

lady vengeance - didn't dislike it, but... eh. i wasn't expecting it to be such broad comedy. it inspired today's dark red eye shadow/liner, though.

― Lauren (lauren), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (dry)

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

casino royal was prettttty sweet

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

21 Up

― dmr (dmr), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Lady Vengeance is my fav of 2006. A buddy of mine thinks its the best film of the last decade.

Broad comedy? Really? It's not like an Adam Sandler film. It starts out darkly comic, but by the midpoint the laughs get drained away by the vengeance/redemption themes. And a great, great performance by Lee Young-ae.

The Koreans have a word "yupgi" - it means something that's simultaneously unsettling and funny, it's an attitude that a lot of recent Korean films trade in. The Korean title of My Sassy Girl was actually My Yupgi Girl - that's a rom-com where the meet-cute entails a guy taking home a belligerant drunk girl after she vomits all over riders on a subway car. Odds are this will not be remade starring Sandra Bullock.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

though it's hard to name a film with a larger gap between conceptual sophistication and technical execution [than Scanners]

well, I'd say some of the earlier Cronenbergs, given this was his largest budget to date (ie, not much). and it doesn't bother me a whit.

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Saraband, which was Autumn Sonata with a bloated Liv Ulmann and a yummy incest theme.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Lady Vengeance is coming up on my list, but this weekend went to Brick instead, which has solidified my resolve to speak only in clipped, unemotional sentences.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and also @ casino royal i sat next to this guy http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/original/cramerjan18.jpg we talked abt movie theater's business model, he seemed nice.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 4 December 2006 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Polar Express - made me want to barf, seriously worst movie I've ever seen, destroyed the last bit of love I had for Tom Hanks, worse CGI than Lawnmower Man

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Rules of the Game - Odd that this ranks so highly on best-of-all-time lists. First half seems like pedestrian set-up for fantastic second half. Initial reaction was that Grand Illusion is the better movie but I might neeed to see this again.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Also halfway through Ugetsu with Bird People in China in the hopper.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh shit, can't believe I forgot this - Seven Samurai!!!!, which I had somehow never seen. A total fucking treat. Watched with my son, dad, and grandpa, who provided occasional alternate translations to the subtitles.

― drunk Friendster massage (nklshs), Monday, 4 December 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Now Ugetsu I wouldn't watch in pieces.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i love mad money dood

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Casion Royale -- pretty good! too long, tho

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

seven samurai would be great to watch with family - i also saw it for the first time a couple weeks ago and was all exclamation points about it too

art school confidential put me in a bad fucking mood it is so bad
should i watch thank you for smoking ? will it put me in a bad mood too? i have this fear now

james bond movies always seem a bit too long; it's weird

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i love mad money dood

mee too - and i don't own or care abt stocks. i told him as much and he was all thanks, thanks, that's great.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

thank you for smoking is good but art school confidential is a crime against humanity

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

just watch the trailer a couple times and pretend the rest is ok (nb have not seen it)

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Monday, 4 December 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Now Ugetsu I wouldn't watch in pieces.

For some reason I thought it was an anthology like Kwaidan.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Had an hour to kill and was like, "Let's get in a bit of Ugetsu, then."

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 4 December 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

thank you for smoking is total trash. it's a nothing movie. avoid.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

aaron eckhart was funnier in 'the black dahlia' than in this.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

gear did you like the black dahlia?

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

thank you for smoking is the best movie i have ever seen. it is completely convincing, much like school of rock.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 4 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

you know how i feel, slocki! ; (

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

you thought it was... so-so.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

deep space nine = gear!!! awesome, that has been bothering me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/guidedtour/section1/image/13_SaveViaFileSave.jpg

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i just guessed it from his posts... does that make me a latent jaymc?

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i hated 'the black dahlia' so much. i think i've mentioned that before, once or twice...

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 4 December 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Tender is the Night (half-watched while dozing, seemed crap)
Blow Out (now my fave BDP)
3 Women (Shelly DuV's character scares the shit out me)

― sexyDancer, Monday, 4 December 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

3 Women (Shelly DuV's character scares the shit out me)

Her tuna recipe is rather frightening too.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Chinatown

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Thank You For Smoking was completely forgettable. Watch if it comes on cable, avoid otherwise.

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

blood diamond

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i suddenly have no tolerance for mediocre-verging-on-bad movies (prob b/c realities of workload have set in, plus desire to actually do the work, whoa), so i'll put thank you for smoking on the back burner. and i've got the whole first season of deadwood sitting here anyway.

so blood diamond was good?

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 04:27 (seventeen years ago) link

just watched Brick.

the line about the parent/teacher conferences was pretty good.

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 06:04 (seventeen years ago) link

inland empire opens at ifc tomorrow. i think i'll go after work.

― v (sleep), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

well, get an advance ticket and steel yerself.

Viva l'Italia (Rossellini goes big budget with some amazingly epic battle scenes, punctuated by mostly dull interiors with Garibaldi and his fellow patriots)

― Bill Weber (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

anticipate!

― nuneb (nuneb), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

i meant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hFEDYmMcM

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

bought tickets to first showing, tomorrow

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

one showing too early, the other too late.
(maybe I'll call in sick)

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

11:15, meet me there

― this is cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/102/314393174_f12a5c3b3c.jpg

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

holy cow, I know that gal.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

White Nights (Visconti)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Kontroll

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Summer of Sam
I noticed the when the gudio thug squad takes down some punk for liking Boston, he's played by John Savage, who plays a similar function in Do The Right Thing. Love a running gag, me.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i thot kontroll was disappointing. i'd still call it good tho.

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I lolled at the disclaimer at the beginning, that this is not a true account of the Budapest subway and plz to be recognizing the difference between fact and fiction

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i wanna see that kontroll movie

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

if they do a porno take on it they should call it pussy kontroll

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

at first I was afraid it was gonna be as bad as Night Watch but it got better

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i had to think back if there was anything supernatural in kontroll. no, right?

i think i was turned off by the "young genius with unexplained psychological aversion to success and daylight" meme + girl falling for same which seemed too 90s indie ethan hawke soft-misogyny bullshitty to me

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

pùèžji kontroll

― Kenneth Branagh (gcannon), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

no there was nothing supernatural, Night Watch is just my recent standard for "mediocre foreign flick that critics graded on the curve"

Kontroll was better ...

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot how dull Stripes is.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

ones i downloaded yesterday but have yet to watch (although i did see a couple before)

the edge
buffalo 66
the grudge 2
the mission
glengarry glen ross
funky forest
edmond
fitzcarraldo
the white diamond

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

holy cow, I know that gal.

Lynch looks as though he'd like to know her.

Ugetsu - I haven't read much on this one, but it struck me as much a result of Japanese post-WWII thinking as Godzilla. Two men abandon their families to war-profiteer, and are taken down a few pegs for their hubris.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

there is something to The Edge

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

ASHES OF TIME

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot how dull Stripes is.

-- Alfred Soto (soto.alfre...), Today. (later)

only on ilx, folks, only on ilx

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

how could one possibly forget how dull Stripes is?

― Venom 18, the autistic spy (flezaffe), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i really want to like stripes

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

great 1st half

or 2nd half, i forget

film critcs are the art of real forgetfulness

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Stripes = Full Metal Jacket
???????????????????????????
School More Interesting Than Work?

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Kontroll is next on my flix list!

Jon, you know the other night when you were telling me about Duel to the Death and how it's all magical and has crazy ninja scenes?? I was trying to remember Ashes of Time to compare it to but couldn't dredge up the title from memory!! I wanted to like it, I really did -- just couldn't tell what the fuck was going on.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

inland empire:

if you love lynch you will love inland empire

if you do not love lynch, you will not love inland empire

polish gypsy magic, hollywood prostitutes, do the locomotion with me

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I made the mistakes of smoking up while watching Ashes of Time. Like Stalker or Saragossa Manuscript, not the labyrinth to unravel under the influence.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

duel to the death is so awesome

should i smoke before inland empire
my sources point to yes

― v (sleep), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

fell asleep during Seven Samurai. will try again later.

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny warned you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

watched Art School Confidential last night. kinda meh, in a long line of kinda meh movies I've seen recently. I really hope Terry Zwigoff is going to make a great movie again one day.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

if you do not love lynch, you will not love inland empire

Patently untrue. I like 3 films of his a lot -- these last two and The Elephant Man -- and would burn many of the others.

should i smoke before inland empire

NO, bcs you cannot evaluate a film properly then (ie, my barman friend who though Burton's Planet of the Apes was 'great' stoned. or you'll be s1ockli.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Problem with smoking before three hour movies is the problem of coming down sometime soon after the previews. I don't think THC is really necessary with Lynch, as he's already "there."
Coffee, though

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i smoked before inland, it was wonderful

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

these last two

to which last two are you referring

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Carpenter's The Thing became a whole lot more effective on pot, though I admit I sort of got lost when I tried it on It's Alive.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i yam surrounded by teh stoners

cutty, Mulholland (the masterpiece) and Inland (its demented, perhaps traumatized cousin)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"cutty, Mulholland (the masterpiece)"

SILENCIO

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i like inland more--because i knew this time around it was a failed pilot turned film, it was a film from the ground up

all this talk about lynch making up everything as he went along is ridiculous, he obv knew what he was doing the whole time

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't a failed pilot turned film

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The Thing is fucking fantastic, truly great film, etc. etc.

My favorite part is when they are getting ready to torch the camp and you realize that at some point these dudes were just like, "Yeah, we're going to die here."

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

the thing and repo man = #1 and #2 for '80s pics.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

when smoking, skip it's alive and go straight for cohen's god told me to (anyone on the noize board who hasn't seen it, I wish I could be there when they finally do, always up for watching that again)

tonight: re-watching alone in the dark. believe this review: http://www.geocities.com/pleasence/alone/alone.html

― milton parker (milton parker), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT FOR RE-ANIMATORRRR.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

omg 'alone in the dark' is awesome. martin landau, palance, pleasance! from the director of 'the hidden' and....well, nothing else i can think of.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Mulholland really is a masterpiece of sorts, but it also reveals the limits of Lynchworld - there's just too much stuff in the way and too much reserve to really get across - so I might argue that the Straight Story, even if a small film, is better because of the Straight-jacketing.

― nuneb (nuneb), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

did not know it was the same director as 'the hidden'

it is just as awesome as 'the hidden'

― milton parker (milton parker), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

God Told Me To is fucking bananas, like if grant morrison wrote Law & Order episodes with a $2.50 budget.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

the only thing the hidden has up on it is more car smashup action

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

what about this:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0092632/

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

and i will always pair that with this:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0092563/

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't forget Seprent & The Rainbow.
(Late 80s B-flix come in 3s)

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

that's okay. it could be worse, it's helped by the actors.

i liked this one:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297853/maindetails

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd already seen God Told Me To (which probably would've really screwed me up high).

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

The Believers is great if you're a big fan of the "terrified, bug-eyed, superstitious, black man" stereotype.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

it's kind of like 'mississippi burning'

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Do the Right Thing would kinda kick that shit to the curb for a bit a year later

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Ashes of Time is like 100x less nonsensical than Duel to the Death

― jw (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 December 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

do you still have that ninja movie?

― latebloomer! (clonefeed), Thursday, 7 December 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link

sexydancer otm about post-trailer comedown: perils of smoking up beforehand

morbz i don't know what you're on about

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 7 December 2006 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link

incidentally for those of you who are interested i interviewed manufactured landscapes director today she was really cool and smart and interesting. she also did a paul bowles doc once upon a time where she hung with him.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 7 December 2006 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i checked his 'manufactured landscapes' book out of the library : D

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

nice!!!

you like?

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 7 December 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

it's great!

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 02:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/WORKS/Ships/Shipbreaking/Shipbreaking_10.jpg

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, best thing about Kontroll (broadcast here a few weeks ago) ws the disclaimer, and the producers were forced to put that in. Other than that, they make the most of the gothy-ness of the subway - looks good if you're watching it in the early hours.

Night Watch ws broadcast last week - saw 10 mins and that ws enough for me.

Other things

Cinema:

Requiem - German exorcist movie. This ws great!

DVD sale:

The trial of Joan of Arc (Bresson)
Nobody Knows
Cries and Whispers
Jubilee

DVDs (borrowed from library):
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind
Fantastic Four
King Kong (Naomi Watts/Jackson)
Dogville

TV:
School of Rock
Assault on Precint 13
Le Divorce - Merchant Ivory thingy w/Naomi Watts and an appearance from Stephen Fry. Naomi attempts suicide and 10 mins later its like nothing happened..

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Thursday, 7 December 2006 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link

casino royale (pretty good)

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Thursday, 7 December 2006 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Screened The World which, despite some Linklater-esque anime sequences and minimal distribution late last year, is strong enough to probably go in my list of this shitty year's best.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i found the animated bits annoying.

― v (sleep), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

2004: "God, such a shitty year for film."
2005: "Oh, wait, my bad - THIS is a shitty year for film."
2006: "What was I thinking? This is without a doubt the shittiest shit film shit year for shit!"

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

this year was not bad

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

We are all allowed to get curmudgeonly in December.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

but it's CHRISTMAS mr soto!

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i want to see inland empire again

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

yes wow at inland empire
still thinking about it

― v (sleep), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know that many people who thought 2004 was extremely bad.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

what are cutty's picks for 2006

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

inland empire
little children
the departed

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

just three movies?

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

those are my picks for 2006

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

also, let's go to prison

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i wanted to see that

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

haha I saw School O Rock on tv the other night too (first time)
Jack Black's shtick is more charming and less annoying when he's in front of kids.

― blastocsyt (blastocyst), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

the amount of purposeful school of rock on this thread is sickening

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

and convincing

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

cutty is projecting

he loves school of rock

first movie he downloaded to his xbox

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never seen "school of rock", nor would i go see "the pick of destiny"

however, that "nacho libre" is something else

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

2005 was pretty good for Amerikkkan film. Brokeback, Good Night and Good Luck (best thing about DVD: you can fast forward through the jazz interludes), Wedding Crashers, Devil's Rejects, The Constant Gardener (honorary American), Domino.

― milo (milo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

domino?

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

ilx makes me hate film

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

domino, yecch

― this is cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

MY NAME IS DOMINO

I AM A DEATH DEALER

WAIT HOLD ON

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, Domino.

― milo (milo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I WILL FOOL YOU WITH LAPDANCE, LOL

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought the kids in School of Rock were well-cast and written, so there.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Even the gay kid?

― milo (milo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

;)

fixed

― Venom 18, the autistic spy (flezaffe), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Burglar

― urghonomic (gcannon), Friday, 8 December 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

good films of the 00s that have somehow magically filtered through to gabbneb (* = personal favorites) - *a prairie home companion, AI, an inconvenient truth, *before sunrise, cast away, erin brockovich, *ghost dog, the gleaners and i, gosford park, *grizzly man, the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring, mulholland drive, ocean's eleven, *ocean's twelve, proof of life, *riding giants, the royal tenenbaums, sideways, tape, waking life, winged migration

honorable mentions - 8 mile, *blue crush, *broken trail, dr t and the women, dude where's my car, fahrenheit 9/11, good night and good luck, the lord of the rings: the two towers, master and commander: the far side of the world, the perfect storm, space cowboys, stanley kubrick: a life in pictures, sunshine state, startup.com, the terminal

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link

thank you for smoking wasn't so bad! i liked the acting, the writing was decent if not necessarily inspired, it did drag in parts but hey. (only thing is that i feel like having a cigarette! which i'm sure i'd get bored of after 2 puffs anyway.)

really really really want to see inland empire. it's not out here until next wkend though (i think), am not going to read any reviews until i see it.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 8 December 2006 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link

ocean's 12?!?!

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

robyn where did you see that inland empire is coming out next wknd?!?!

WORRIED THAT I AM NOT DOING MY JOB PROPERLY

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 8 December 2006 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

ocean's 12?!?!

much better than the first one, it entertains on par with the best of spielberg/badham/scott/tarantino, if not donen/minelli/edwards/lester, and if it has little redeeming social value, at worst it's a vicarious luxury vacation with a couple of your casually stylish actor friends.

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 8 December 2006 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link

or, what he said

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 8 December 2006 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, maybe an HM for KB V2 as well

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 8 December 2006 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"haha I saw School O Rock on tv the other night too (first time)
Jack Black's shtick is more charming and less annoying when he's in front of kids."

True dat -- I thought I'd hate it (Channel 4 screened a doc about Linklater and Jack Black managed to be insufferable in that, although the questions abt Linklater prob didn't encourage better answers) but within 20 mins I ws 'in', really.

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Friday, 8 December 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw "Dungeons & Dragons" the other night, the one with the poche monkey in it

hehe

― blastocsyt (blastocyst), Friday, 8 December 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

slockz, i just assumed IE was coming out here when it was released in LA but my assumption is probably totally wrong! i was about to be sad about it, but i'm going to be in NYC next week anyway! (fingers crossed) now i just have to decide whether to spend 3 of my precious nyc hrs on it, plus the resultant state it'll put me in... hm.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 8 December 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

gabbneb in hilarious Blake Edwards > Spielberg wtf'er

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 December 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm more flummoxed by the equivalence he draws between Spielberg, John Badham, and Tony Scott.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 December 2006 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

ocena's 12 is so bad

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Friday, 8 December 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Fallen Angels.

― jessie the logged out monster, Friday, 8 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah INLAND EMPIRE doesn't come to chicago until mid-january!! ;___;

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 8 December 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

man, ocean's 11 was bad enough

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

INLAND EMPIRE starts in Boston tonight! Finally, an advantage to living in this godforsaken iceberg.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 8 December 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

gabbneb in hilarious Blake Edwards > Spielberg wtf'er

the cohorts are temporal, not quality-based, you maroon (as in "this is the best X in Y many decades").

I'm more flummoxed by the equivalence he draws between Spielberg, John Badham, and Tony Scott

they're basically equally entertaining. one of the three obviously has nothing else on his mind besides selling something, but even if spielberg has the most redeeming social value, at least john badham doesn't admire aliens (and has a sense of humor).

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 8 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

man, ocean's 11 was bad enough

I don't especially like the first one (tho it's a worthy movie), but the second one is great!

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 8 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

(or, xpost, at least he doesn't have a sense of humor based on a childhood disney diet, tho i guess i'll take that over spaghettikungfuxploitation)

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 8 December 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Ocean's 12 is better. Soderbergh doesn't bother pretending the caper will make sense or be remotely possible - he just fucks with the audience. 11 is horrible, 12 is worth seeing at least once.

― milo (milo), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm still pissed about domino, i think i rented that because of you! or ebert. >;(

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

My love for Man on Fire should have been a tip-off on my attitude toward Tony Scott.

― milo (milo), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

tonight either 12 Monkeys or Strosczek (uhhh sp?)

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

12 monkeys is the greatest film evar

― this is cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I KNOW this will only be my 80000th viewing.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

'the thing'

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Go for Stroszek... just try not to hang yourself afterwards.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

The memetic theory of cultural evolution could be considered a form of Lamarckian inheritance of non-genetic traits

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 8 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

In the middle of Little Miss Sunshine. I was surprised at how much I didn't think it sucked for the first half-hour or so ... but it refuses to stop getting fucking worse and worse as it goes on! How can a kid not know he's color blind?!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

a lot of color blind people don't actually know they're color blind, from what i understand.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Most kids get tested for this in school, I thought. In any case, there is nothing that's happened in this movie for the entire roadtrip that's not completely cheap.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 8 December 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

that movie fucking sucks

― this is cutty (mcutt), Friday, 8 December 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

They should have turned Strozsek into a TV sitcom. Lotsa laffs.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 8 December 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

redeeming social value, at least john badham doesn't admire aliens (and has a sense of humor).

-- nuneb (gabbne...), December 8th, 2006.

what the fucking hell is wrong with admiring aliens?

― latebloomer's ice rink of martyrdom (clonefeed), Friday, 8 December 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Payback - last awesome Mel Gibson movie. Can't wait to see the noir-er director's cut.

― milo (milo), Saturday, 9 December 2006 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

even if spielberg has the most redeeming social value, at least john badham doesn't admire aliens

I can't even begin to parse this sentence, gabbneb.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 December 2006 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link

12 monkeys is the greatest film evar

-- this is cutty (holle...), December 8th, 2006. (mcutt)

filmed in b-more ;--)

― amon (amon), Saturday, 9 December 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

also lol@ fezaffe's fix

― amon (amon), Saturday, 9 December 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link

when smoking, skip it's alive and go straight for cohen's god told me to ...

-- milton parker (milton.parke...), December 6th, 2006. (milton parker)

Trivia: When Larry Cohen asked composer Miklos Rozsa to score this picture, Rozsa replied, "God told me not to."

Goofs: Anachronisms: The car in the flashback scenes was a 1951 Chevrolet, with post-1973 New York State license plates and registration. Briefly, it also turns into a 1939 Plymouth, when it hits a pothole.

― amon (amon), Saturday, 9 December 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

http://community.livejournal.com/film_stills/519934.html

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 9 December 2006 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

scene where young, titty-less Keira breaks sorority girl's nose = awesome

― milo (milo), Saturday, 9 December 2006 05:16 (seventeen years ago) link

ocean's 12 doesn't even have a heist. just slow-mo frenchies doing capoeira and the worst julia roberts shit in the world.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 9 December 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link

no need for those ocean's pics with 'the good thief' out there.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Saturday, 9 December 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

good thief is so awesome

― a_p (a_p), Saturday, 9 December 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i actually didn't really like ocean's 11 when i first saw it but then i caught it on an airplane and i was all omg this is the treatiest airplane treat ever.

CONTEXT.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Sunday, 10 December 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

It is possible to like both Ocean's & love The Good Thief w/out feeling like you're selling yrself short. I'd like to think, anyway.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Sunday, 10 December 2006 01:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Touching the Void

totally fucking awesome

― grbchv! (gbx), Sunday, 10 December 2006 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

punishment park!

coming soon, as soon as i get a new DVD player to replace my jacked one:
symbiopsychotaxiplasm
zizek!
battle of algiers
le commune

― 69 (pete), Sunday, 10 December 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Bergman's "The Magic Flute" (awesome!)
Event Horizon (it sucked, duh)
Kuchar brothers "Sins of the Fleshapoids" (thumbs way up)

― Dr. Drew Daniel, PhD (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 10 December 2006 06:33 (seventeen years ago) link

WHAT IS IT (IT IS AWESOME)

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 10 December 2006 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw inland empire a couple days ago, completely loved it. it reminded me of 2046 in sort of being a career retrospective -- all the fetishes lovingly revisited, stripped of any pretense to context outside of fetishization -- and a kind of reward for the faithful. (or maybe it's also like rush playing the entirety of 2112 on tour a few years back because they knew at this point anyone coming to see them would want to hear it.) lots of good stuff all through it, but the closing credit sequence deserves some kind of prize all its own.

also finally got around to hana-bi. what a sad little movie.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 December 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

hana-bi is sad, i remember. kitano's expression never changes in that, does it.

still working my way through past seasons of the wire. i'd seen end of s3 once before, but now i've seen a lot more of what led up to it. just gutted re: stringer bell! that guy was something else

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Sunday, 10 December 2006 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

SherryBaby. Meh. I didn't really even like this sort of thing when it was Assayas and Cheung delivering the hurt so good. I'm not flipping out just because Maggie G. shows her tits and pot belly multiple times.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 10 December 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I think her pot belly had a heartbeat.

― milo (milo), Sunday, 10 December 2006 09:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Profondo Rosso. It was okay, but it has stuff like literally 20 minute long scenes of some guy wandering around a mansion doing absolutely nothing. Walking up some steps, then down again; brushing some cobwebs out of his way, then staring absently out a window. I can't take interminable shit like that!

― Dan I. (w1nt3rmut3), Sunday, 10 December 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

may i recommend last days, dan i

― v (sleep), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Coincidentally enough I'm halfway through Profondo Rosso, having only watched suspiria before and I'm finding that its prob half hour too long -- the score keeps me going.

Other ones:

Viridiana. Library borrowings: Moolade (not seen any of Semebene's work before, or any African films i think), The Edukators (great!). TV: The Barbarian Invasions, Uzak (very Tarkovsky-paced Turkish film), Velvet Goldmine (yes I know I've only managed to finally watch this the other day *sigh*).

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I just saw The Shout, too! So much better than I expected.

― Dan I. (w1nt3rmut3), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

all I remember of profondo rosso is the set pieces, esp.. there's one with a child's toy sort of skittering across the floor, right? creepy as hell.

sembene hasn't made too many films.. not surprising for african filmmaker b/c so hard to get funding & lack of infrastructure etc. I recommend xala, though. it's pretty good. funny.

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

been a while, but i really loved most everything about prof rosso when i saw it - great atmosphere, david hemmings is like weird/awkward in this awesome way

― 69 (pete), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i just saw downfall - best hitler ever.

― j.d. (j.d.), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

downfall is so good. i gotta see it again.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Downfall and Sophie Scholl are next up in my Netflix queue.

First 20 minutes of Candy before I started feeling sick. Junkies are boring anyway.
Since then: hours of tivoed Mythbusters

― milo (milo), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link

How was Heath Ledger?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Greasy.

― milo (milo), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Not much of an impression beyond that. 20 minutes didn't put much of a dent into it - loooong credit sequence, drug setup, intro Geoffrey Rush, me suddenly feel ill.

Geoffrey Rush is chemistry professor/junkie enabler/ecstasy maker who keeps a Spanish-speaking houseboy with "a large penis." Pretty blonde girl is an 'artist' led astray by Leder.

― milo (milo), Monday, 11 December 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

downfall is awesome.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Monday, 11 December 2006 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the best is when they open the ark of the convenant at the end and bruno ganz's face melts off

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait a second!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link

http://titulky.icr.cz/mini/LockUp.jpg

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Monday, 11 December 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Kontroll totally awesome! Why is it that leather jackets only a mobster/douchebag would wear in US are automatically dirtbag standard awesome issue on Bulcsu & Co? Also, I am glad Bela was not last gasp of subway pusher, he was such a thoroughly good figure I was afraid he was being set up for sacrifice.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Ozon's Time to Leave was awful, except for one endearingly awkward threesome scene.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Noize Bored, what should I watch first (after I watch recent episodes of The Wire)?

- The Chronicles of Narnia
- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
- Rashomon
- Death & The Maiden

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

RASHOMON

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

it would be cool if everybody had a different answer

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Tried to watch a bootleg of Narnia but got quickly bored/frustrated. Maybe just due to bad sound? Should I bother to Netflix?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't ask me (yet)!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I really didn't like Narnia. It loses it's charm when you are old enough to realize giving small children weapons isn't really a great idea, even in bizarre Furry/Christian hybrid fantasy worlds.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Jessie, did you read/like the books? I cut childhood reading teeth on 'em and have big soft spot despite the flaws...but might not extend to Hollywood depiction.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, man, I grew up on those books! It was one of those cases of having my childhood love ruined.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't find the film annoying. The girl who plays Lucy is great; so is Tilda Swinton, in what looked like a wtf casting decision.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Tilda Swinton as White Witch was the least wtf casting ever.

I'm not sure what it was about that movie, it looked good and was well acted and stayed true to the story, but it was just so BORING.

Finally saw Brokeback Mountain, it is well made but I wasn't in the mood or something. Ang Lee, are you trying to drive people to suicide with your dour movies? Even Hulk was over-the-top heart-breaking.

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i keep meaning to rent Narnia, but I can't help but think it'll just be really boring, especially on my small-ass TV.

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Tilda Swinton as White Witch was the least wtf casting ever

In the book she's a drag queen! Swinton plays it like Grace Kelly.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah nickalicious is OTM on the boring

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Tilda already played a drag queen in Constantine, tho!

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

not to mention Orlando

― dmr (dmr), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

not to mention orlando!!!! (xp)!!!

i got the 6-disc or whatever narnia at work and i guess i gotta watch it eventually... stoned sunday afternoon?

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

whoa, mindmeld

― dmr (dmr), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Woah wtf 6 discs? Is it the old PBS version or something?

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"or whatever"

― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Watched The Fountain, so-so.

Is it just me or did that Narnia movie have a really bad score? I remember thinking that it sucked when I saw it in the theater and some girl I met was saying how she really liked it.

― mh (mike h.), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

if you are watching the Wire watch the Western first, and then, Rashomon, I'd say.
the DVD commentary on the second-to-last episode of wire season 3 opens with talk about how much they love westerns (I think it was pelecanos that was talking) & the face off between omar and brother mouzone was directly inspired by this.

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Swinton plays it like Grace Kelly.

WTF?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 11 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

"sembene hasn't made too many films.. not surprising for african filmmaker b/c so hard to get funding & lack of infrastructure etc. I recommend xala, though. it's pretty good. funny."

Yeah, part of the extra ws an interview w/Sembene and at one point he talked about all this..I'll search Xala.

More films: Metropolis and Don't come knocking

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

The Grace Kelly of Mogambo and of Gore Vidal's later recollections, Eric.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

INLAND EMPIRE.

TONIGHT.

YESSS.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

sweeet. I think I'm seeing it Thursday.

last night - Days of Heaven

― dmr (dmr), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

roommate: i should really have boondock saints
me: i haven't seen it
rm: oh man? it's AWESOME

somehow i doubt this

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

You are right to doubt that.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

tell him to watch that shitty documentary about the making of

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ugh, awful

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

do not trust anyone who likes 'boondock saints'. move out immediately.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah the doc is bad, it'd be funny to see a fan of the movie watch it tho. (i've never actually seen the movie.)

― MAP (mattp), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 07:05 (seventeen years ago) link

My not-too-bright rockstar ex loved that movie. I always suspected it was overrated.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Pan's Labyrinth...fanfuckingtastic.

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Bird People In China - quirky, wistful stuff from Miike
Tomie - dopey dud, don't bother, heard the sequel's better

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

did bb go to Out 1??

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

omg i want to see pan's labyrinth

(re: moving out...yeah, well, i'd love to. his taste in movies/music/everything is pretty atrocious across the board...not so much because it's deliberately bad, but because he doesn't really care. ask him what he's listening to in his room, and he'll have no idea. "just some mp3s" etc. but i'm stuck)

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

World Trade Center = United 93 remade as The Towering Inferno.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

you've been waiting to drop that one, admit it

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, really, Armond White: "[Stone] chooses to enlighten us about American character. Avoiding action-movie exploitation and specious docu-drama engenders absolute respect" is bilge.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

well i wouldn't go that far. but i thought wtc was way better than it had any right to be, all things considered. i mean given that it's an incredibly sappy disaster movie. directed by oliver stone. about 9/11.

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Boondock Saints is pretty amusing for being a retarded vigilante fantasy flick.

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Stone is neuteured without paranoid histori-political horseshit.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'd almost prefer a neutered Stone to an overly priapic (sic) Stone.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah would you prefer alexander??

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

just don't be such an auteur ho and pretend somebody else directed it for a second

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i love how armond white is oh so concerned with the 'absolute respect' when his hero oliver has proven he has no second thoughts about going after most-definitely innocent people who can't defend themselves anymore in order to prove his point (cf: clay shaw in 'jfk'). obv the fictional character of shaw is almost hilarious enough to forgive this.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Any time I've been prompted to explain why Boondock Saints is wretched I usually am at a loss for words and throw my hands in the air and walk away.

― mh (mike h.), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh give it a shot anyway.

i sort of want to watch it w/roomie now, for the EXPERIENCE

― grbchv! (gbx), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

It has absolutely ruined discount DVD bin shopping with its overwhelming omnipresence. I am tempted to buy thousands of copies just to destroy them and return balance to the discount bin.

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

you do NOT want to watch boondock saints. i'm serious about this.

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The Science of Sleep. Here it is, what I wrote on my listology entry: "creativity as passive-agressiveness, ugly-beautiful leading femme so as not to distract from directorial preciousness ... my companion noted this was essentially Amelie With a Dick, but since that dick is attached to Gael García Bernal, who I've never before thought was charismatic like this, I allowed myself to hit the snooze alarm a couple times, at least early on."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Did I mention I hate Amelie?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

me too

― hank s1ockli (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember having a thread on old-ILX about that, I think.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 14 December 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.hottopic.com/is/image/HotTopic/204390_hi?$product$

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 14 December 2006 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I had an ex boyfriend who wanted to get a Boondock Saints-related tattoo. I should have dumped him immediately.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:10 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^^ just another reason we need a confessions thread. get it out there, ppl.

― grbchv! (gbx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

THEY LIVE - oh rowdy roddy piper, I wuv u.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link

It Was Night in Rome (Rossellini)

The Science of Sleep >>>> Amelie With a Dick

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51/TRAVISISADISASTER/ameliepic.jpg

― jw (ex machina), Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

hahahahahahahaha

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 14 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

oh that's awesome

― grbchv! (gbx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

saw Kaspar Hauser at BAM tonight with Mike Sniper, Arturo & Aaron.

― ian (orion), Friday, 15 December 2006 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Finally saw Volver. The sheer pleasure of watching Almodovar unravel and tie (unconvincingly) the narrative outweighed the sense that this was simply ridiculous stuff. I don't know why Penelope Cruz is getting all the raves. She's fine, but every scene with Carmen Maura' big eyes and generous cheekbones in closeup warmed me.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the hairdressing sister best, but Penelope is on a different sort of plane.

The Rise of Louis XIV
All That Jazz

― DrM (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

'L'Armeé des Ombres' wins the 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Award for best foreign film, 37 years after it was made.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link

the white diamond - omg potent! herzog brings the strange, compassion, exploitation, absurdity, all that. and as usual just a beautiful movie.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:53 (seventeen years ago) link

just watched this the othet nite. awesome:

http://www.granadamovieposters.com/photos/scorpioinsert.jpeg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

burt lancaster disguised as a black priest = classic

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 15 December 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

brokeback mountain

― latebloomer's mayan name is tapir ballz (clonefeed), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/images/mts2_196176_fanseelamb_brokebackcollage.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha awesome

― latebloomer's mayan name is tapir ballz (clonefeed), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Lancaster AND Delon?!? Teh SEXEE!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

the white diamond - omg potent! herzog brings the strange, compassion, exploitation, absurdity, all that. and as usual just a beautiful movie.

yes, this movie was a treat

― v (sleep), Friday, 15 December 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

It wasn't as satisfying or creepy as Grizzly Man. The last third was quite dull.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked it considerably more than GM.

Can a Michael Winner film be 'awesome'?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Looking forward to White Diamond (in queue), I am a sucker for anything ft. an airship.

What other Herzog would you guys recommend? All I've seen so far are Grizzly Man and Incident At Loch Ness, which I am told aren't exactly representative.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 15 December 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Aguirre

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Lessons of Darkness

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

and I guess Fitzcarraldo but if you've already seen Aguirre it can seem sort of redundant (imo)

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

My Best Fiend isn't such a bad place to start, being a mix of Kinskisms and Herzog's commentary.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Fitzcarraldo = movie about pursuing yr dreams and the power of faith
Aguirre = movie about slow death at the hands of a tyrannical madman

Don't quite see the redundancy there. You can't even say that Kinski's performances are even remotely similar.

Definitely start with one of those, and if Kinski's not your cup of tea try Stroszek or Kaspar Hauser.

I love Herzog as a filmmaker, but Herzog as a personality can be tough to take sometimes. I couldn't finish watching My Best Fiend because of him.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

conversely, Herzog the man has an archetypical "good father" resonance in our household. Largely due to his voice-over talents and hi-jinks like this: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/02/werner_herzog_s.html

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

In classic Herzog fashion, the 63 year old director stated "Someone is shooting at us. We must go." The interview continued, however, as Herzog's pants became stained with blood. Herzog commented, "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

but Herzog as a personality can be tough to take sometimes.

He seems cool, I'd hang with him

I watched

Fear of a Black Hat (uh this has aged terribly)
Baller Blockin' (UH...)

― amon (amon), Friday, 15 December 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

conversely, Herzog the man has an archetypical "good father" resonance in our household.

Yeah, that's why I say "sometimes". Sometimes he's patronly, other times he's just patronizing.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 15 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

they both strike me as madmen, Fitzcarraldo is just more dapper

but anyway, nevermind the redundant, I just liked Aguirre a lot better

cue gear with kinski_monkey.jpg

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 15 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cinekolossal.com/star/j_k_l/kinski/kinski1.jpg

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Friday, 15 December 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

easily best scene with monkeys in all of cinema

― latebloomer's mayan name is tapir ballz (clonefeed), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

absolutely. too much monkeys!

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

fitzcarraldo and aguirre are both great but guy's made 50+ movies and only 8 (i think) are scripted - what of the documentaries?

great piece on him in last month's harper's inspired the white diamond viewing - he came off a lot better than expected. of course i've always placed him somewhere in the evil genius spectrum.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"Can a Michael Winner film be 'awesome'?"

um, hello, *the mechanic*, *death wish*, *the sentinel*?

anyway, scorpio is just cool 70's mayhem. is it great? no. highly entertaining though.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i see lessons in darkness and my best fiend were uh mentioned there. my best fiend is fun if yr into kinski (waaaaay better than the autobio) but doesn't really have the usual herzog juice.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

c'mon it's a "greatest hits"
check out Herzog's largely fictitious documentary "Gesualdo: Death for 5 Voices" and there's a 3-in-1 doc dvd of a ski jumper, a cattle auctioneer, and the last man on a volcanic island about to blow you must see.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

piratebay is apparently a treasure trove of the guy

http://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=herzog

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link

the sentinel is must-see, every single scene has something impossible going on. plus, epic casting.

― milton parker (milton parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, just realized for the first time, the woman playing beverly d'angelo's corrupt lesbian lover is sylvia myles from andy warhol's heat

― milton parker (milton parker), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the last man on a volcanic island about to blow you must see.

yes!!! i was searching for the name of that one. it's awesome. totally awesome.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i have never seen Michael Winner's The Nightcomers with brando. I wanna see that.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"La Soufriere"
http://www.amazon.com/Ecstasy-Sculptor-Steiner-Woodchuck-Soufriere/dp/B000B5XOZW/sr=8-12/qid=1166226398/ref=pd_bbs_12/104-4700467-7391157?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

yikes! WH doc box:
http://wernerherzog.com/main/index.htm

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a great scene in "La Soufriere" in which Herzog is being chased around by clouds of deadly poison gas. Good fun.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 15 December 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

wow at doc box!!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 16 December 2006 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

but Herzog as a personality can be tough to take sometimes.

He seems cool, I'd hang with him

Joaquin Phoenix thought so too!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 December 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

werner was hilarious in julien donkey-boy

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Saturday, 16 December 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

the cattle auctioneer documentary he did is awesome

― amon (amon), Saturday, 16 December 2006 03:02 (seventeen years ago) link

He's also v funny in Werner Herzog eats his shoe.

Even Dwarves Started Small is mandatory.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 16 December 2006 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW I chose my daughter's pediatrician out of a big list simply because her name is Dr. Herzog.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 16 December 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link

inland empire

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 16 December 2006 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i just watched Wassup Rockers. seriously terrible. janice fucking dickinson. that industry hollywood party. the acting. so bad

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 16 December 2006 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link

there goes the oscar nominations :(

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 16 December 2006 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link

it had some sweet qualities

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Saturday, 16 December 2006 09:20 (seventeen years ago) link

not as good as "teenage caveman" huh?

― sexyDuncer, Saturday, 16 December 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i luuuuuuuv teenage caveman

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Saturday, 16 December 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I loved it too! i haven't seen wassup rockers. i would probably like it. i still haven't seen ken park! my bro-in-law edited ken park and bully.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0353137/

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 16 December 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

wassup rockers and ken park are kinda meh, bully is the masterpiece.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought wassup rockers was fun. i can't imagine that it was intended to be anything but fun.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i liked lots of wassup rockers. but seriously janice dickinson and the hollywood party were difficult to watch.

one of my best friends was clark's personal assistant on Another Day In Paradise

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 16 December 2006 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

on another note, my coworker just told me that his wife just finished working on http://www.youregonnamissme.com/ the Roky Erickson documentary and is in plans to get it on DVD soon.

― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 16 December 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw that in september. it's really really really good.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Sunday, 17 December 2006 02:53 (seventeen years ago) link

wow at doc box!!

Yeah, and only $200 USD before shipping. Worth it though, and Herzog would probably sanction bank robbery to fund its purchase.

werner was hilarious in julien donkey-boy

OTM, the scene where he tells his son he looks just like his dead mother, then browbeats him to put on one of her dresses and dance with him, that's cinema gold right thar.

Even Dwarves Started Small is mandatory.

Also OTM, although it's tested some friendships after I popped it in.

Herzog's Fata Morgana is also great. If you're not stoned it'll sure make you feel like you are.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Sunday, 17 December 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

although it's tested some friendships after I popped it in.

fuck those people

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 17 December 2006 06:44 (seventeen years ago) link

TV: Luzhnin defence, Spider, Secretary, caught the last hour of Videodrome and Carandiru (Brazilian prison drama).
DVD borrowings: Brokeback Mountain, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Vendredi Soir, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizzou.
DVD buys: La Femme Infidele and The Life of Oharu (really enjoyed this, but in really bad condition..)

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Sunday, 17 December 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Troll 2. the only film in which evil is warded off by a bologna sandwich.

― latebloomer's mayan name is tapir ballz (clonefeed), Sunday, 17 December 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Cobra (omgwtf; also, the car chase in a 1950 Mercury Custom = inspiration for Miller/Darrow's Hard Boiled??)

― Venom 18, the autistic spy (flezaffe), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

cobra is fucked. great car. i saw that in the theatre.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

my stallone top ten would probably be:

nighthawks
rocky
first blood
paradise alley
f.i.s.t.
lords of flatbush
death race 2000
tango & cash
cliffhanger
judge dredd/cop land(tie)

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

no oscar??

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

shit, i forgot assassins.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i need nighthawks on dvd. deluxe edition with soundtrack. where is criterion collection when i need them?

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

assassins being the only evidence of wachowski brothers genius if you ask me.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf, i can't believe i've never sen the nightcomers!!! i really wanna now. brando horror + stephanie beacham!!!

http://game.pchome.net/movie/250x350/1972/299ff1af-b398-4e28-bb59-7973cdd5f209.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.filmgothic.com/scene_da_film/immagini_posizionate/stephanie_beacham_the_nightcomers_1972.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.dacre.org/flash/www/us101438.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"Because of the detachment in the direction the much-vaunted S&M sequences are restricted to a couple of scenes with Beacham either trussed up on the floor or strapped to her bed by Brando with rope. It says something about the film that these scenes are more exciting when read about about than actually witnessed."

I'll be the judge of that!

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

jeezus, that herzog box is like 200 bucks in u.s. dollars??? oh well.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 17 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The Nightcummers?

First Blood is totally underrated.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Sunday, 17 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

INLAND EMPIRE LAST NIGHT HOLY SHIT

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Sunday, 17 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

jeezus, that herzog box is like 200 bucks in u.s. dollars??? oh well.
Will chip in $25 for a travelling Noize copy. I got hard drive room to spare.

― milo (milo), Sunday, 17 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.videoservicecorp.com/images/Over%20the%20top.jpg

― amon (amon), Sunday, 17 December 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

jonestown: the life and death of peoples temple

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link

how was?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i've read accounts that were more in-depth so none of it was new, but the interviews w/ the survivors are pretty moving, even with knowing what happens at the end

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:28 (seventeen years ago) link

no spoilers!!!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

SPOILRE: JIM JONES KILLS DUMBLEDORE

― amon (amon), Monday, 18 December 2006 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

DUNE

the best part of the movie is how Big Ed Hurley is the leader of a Fremen tribe.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Monday, 18 December 2006 03:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Quick Millions
The Painted Woman (both early Spencer Tracy)
Borat

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Chronicles of Narniaaaaaaaaaargh (KILL ALL CHILDREN)

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Do you know why there are no jokes about the Jonestown tragedy?

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 18 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I know i'm late on Stallone talk, but favorite non-Rocky Stallone movie here is Demolition Man, set in a future where "all restaurants are Taco Bell".

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Zardoz

― latebloomer: glutton for PUNishment (clonefeed), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 04:23 (seventeen years ago) link

RONIN (for like the 50th time)

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link

'miami vice'
'le samourai'
'casino royale'

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Man, watch Kiss Me Deadly and get some estrogen into your system why don't you.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link

the kid stays in the picture (it's okay, but i'll take odenkirk's parody any day)

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link

teenwolf

― urghonomic (gcannon), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Bad Boy Bubby
(first half hour is like non-stop misery, mom-fucking, kitten torturing. rest of the movie wide-eyed, ecstatic, wanderings. he liked music, that bad boy)

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I thought Jonestown was pretty awesome, but that's partially because I didn't know much about it except for the Kool-Aid.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

is it out in theatres where youse guys are??

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

mccabe & mrs. miller

did anyone go see kaspar hauser? almost went tonight at BAM but I lost motivation

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 07:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The Devil's Backbone

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Happy Feet - if you can make it through the Moulin Rouge style pop mashups, it actually gets pretty good in the last half. Somebody should do a write-up on the post-colonial "happy savages, entertain us" subtext buried in its friendly "save the environment" theme, though. It's begging for it.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Bergman Island
Each Dawn I Die

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Battle in Heaven
The Shop Around The Corner

Tonight:

Hail The Conquering Hero (I'm ashamed that it's the only major Sturges I haven't seen)

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

so you're ashamed that you've seen most sturges movies?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

did you get that box set by the way? it is SUH-weet.

slate had a very weird article about PS and the box set... the article focused mostly on "miracle at morgan's creek" which isn't in the set!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I assume that's a rights thing? It's available on its own anyway.

I suspect I'm getting the box for Christmas. I like The Sin of Harold Diddlebock better than 2 or 3 of the box's films, too.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The boy picked 2 versions of A Christmas Carol at Blarkbluster last night - the incredibly boring George C Scott version, and Scrooged. With the help of legos he made it through the first ("why did you pick this one instead of the cartoon?" my mom frequently asked). Scrooged (which I hadn't watched in probably 10 years) was a total fucking TREAT though, and he loved it.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The only part of the George C Scott Christmas Carol I liked was the Ghost of Christmas Present's outfit, which the boy described accurately as "ripped off from the Burger King".

NB I realize recently that all this referring to my son as "the boy" almost seems like he is a boyfriend and not a son. Please note this is not the case.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

is it out in theatres where youse guys are??

Played for a week at the Gene Siskel Film Center.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

By the way, Morbius would hate the Siskel Film Center if he lived here -- not because of the theatre itself, which is pretty good (first time I went was for a Frederick Wiseman retrospective), but because Siskel apparently only went to the theatre that now bears his name three or four times while working at the Tribune. Ebert's no hoity-toity art-film guy, either, but at least he made an effort, reviewing dozens of films there over the years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

transformer ii: totally going to suck.

― bb (bbia), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

i'm a fiend for cred in theater-naming??

Last day for Fast Food Nation in NYC, so that's my eve

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

strangers with candy

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

going to see inland empire tonight

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

first 20 minutes of clerks 2

uhhhhh...

― v (sleep), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

User Comments: A must see (more)

― v (sleep), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films offers an extraordinary collection of undisputed masterpieces that have changed the way people make and watch movies. The package includes fifty classic films on DVD along with a gorgeous, 240-page illustrated hardcover book featuring a history of Janus Films by Peter Cowie and an introduction by Martin Scorsese. Also included: extensive film notes, cast and credit listings, and much more. Take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own the essentials of world cinema in one specially priced set.

just got a thing offing this for 600 if anyones intersted shoot an email to bbaumes at gee mail and i can fwd the promo email along

― bb (bbia), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

saw 16mm Technicolor print of Powell's The Red Shoes last night at my collector friend Peter's. Hadn't seen it in years. Mindblowing, impossibly beautiful film.

― milton parker (milton parker), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i watched miami vice last night.

totally gorgeous, i thought, but pretty vapid. i might rent the Insider tonight.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Images/48_TRS/Elycia/TRS09.jpg
http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Images/48_TRS/Elycia/TRS11.jpg

http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Images/48_TRS/Elycia/index.html

― milton parker (milton parker), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

awesome that you got to watch it on film dude

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

also i wish i had a friend who collected prints. and had powell/pressburger movies on film

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

he's also got prints of Sam Fuller's Park Row & my favorite Sirk film There's Always Tomorrow, that's the next double feature

― milton parker (milton parker), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

cool hand luke

― amon (amon), Thursday, 21 December 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link

symbiopsychotaxiplasm take one

― v (sleep), Thursday, 21 December 2006 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Aguirre

― milo (milo), Thursday, 21 December 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, Rick Linklater: FUCK ONE ETHAN HAWKE

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

'miami vice'
'le samourai'
'casino royale'
-- bohren un der club of gear (speeeed.to.roa...), December 19th, 2006 7:11 AM. (later)

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Man, watch Kiss Me Deadly and get some estrogen into your system why don't you.

-- Eric H. (ephende...), December 19th, 2006 7:25 AM. (later)

i already drink a lot of soy milk and listen to saint etienne, thank you. i need to balance that shit out.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 21 December 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

COP LAND IS PRETTY FUNNY/AWESOME

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://deniro.jvlnet.com/images/copland1.jpg
U HAD A CHANCE & U BLEW IT!!! U BLEW IT!!!

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 21 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

copland is great

― amon (amon), Friday, 22 December 2006 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Sailor's Luck (frantic pre-Code shore leave comedy w/ swishy pool attendant and THE END orgasm joke... girl to propositioning sailor: "No thanks, I don't like seafood")

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 December 2006 14:22 (seventeen years ago) link

constant gardener (fell asleep)

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

constant gardener is strictly for middle-aged couples who only see one movie a year and barely pay attention to that one.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the edge (satisfyingly twisting and absurd with underlying republicanism)

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i liked constant gardener

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 22 December 2006 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally checked out after the scene where he looked into her old house, started crying because of past memories and then began FURIOUSLY GARDENING

rakin' leaves with a vengeance

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 22 December 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link

what else do you expect a constant gardener to do??

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

constant gardener was shit. during the first 1/3 of the movie i was hoping for taut int'l spy thrills but it turned out to be all about the grieving fiennes. blah.

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i fell asleep too

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

...right around the time she got murked. so the rest was gardening? was she making it w/the black guy? i can't remember.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 22 December 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched The Transporter 2 last night. But i fell asleep before the end! I totally don't know what happened to the Transporter and the deadly matthew modine virus!!!! I'll have to check it out again tonight. i STILL don't believe that someone could fly a car from one parking garage to another or fly a jet ski from the ocean to a school bus on the highway. but, you never know, he is very good at transporting things...

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 22 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

he transports the viewer into an exciting world of action, for instance

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

was she making it w/the black guy? i can't remember.

The black guy was gay, that's about all I remember about the movie. That and the colors were wildly oversaturated in post.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 22 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

do Ethan Hawke haters also dislike Randy Newman?

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 22 December 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Ethan Hawke gets better with age, whereas Randy Newman started that age.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 22 December 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link

DVD borrowings: Capote, Joan of Arc (the 'Messenger' Besson version), Hidden (for the extras as well as to see it again).
Xmas DVD buys: Merchant of Four Seasons, Hiroshima Mon Amour and another one wrapped up under the tree for tomorrow.

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Saturday, 23 December 2006 12:33 (seventeen years ago) link

i was watching The Island last nite but i took time out to get drunk and listen to Kraut records and watch hardcore videos on youtube and then i put it on again but i fell asleep and all nite the music from the dvd menu display played really loud in my dreams. i'm still watching it. i think it's almost over. i like The Island. i thought it was gonna be terrible or something.

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 23 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Saw Starship Troopers special edition DVD for $10, definitely going back for it after the holidays!

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

also watched 1 episode of 30 Rock last night. That show is not funny.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

although I might just feel guilty because Tina Fey was wearing a shirt I own in the first third of the episode.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Randy Newman cept his harmless cartoon themes.

Dementia 13
The Departed (about the best we can expect from Scorsese by now, sigh)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

-- xyzzzz__

i reeeaaally want to see hiroshima mon amour again

also 30 rock is totally funny! i mean for network tv. at least the 2 eps i saw were.

― v (sleep), Sunday, 24 December 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

watching art school confidential... so far not too bad but i'm drinking

― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Sunday, 24 December 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I am going to watch another ep (I just watched the pilot) before I give up on it, but no smiles were cracked. :( xpost

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost) it gets horrible

― baccarat heads spice pushka underdog official texas holdem bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah i've sorta lost interest but i'm sticking with it

― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

just finished watching The Rundown. Lovely film. Classic Rosario Dawson. Classic Rock. What more do you need?

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

my expert opinion on art school confidential - that jody made me watch last nite - taken from the drunk thread on ile:

okay, yeah, that wasn't very good. it starts out with promise! goofy art school/college premise! the smart-ass friend had promise. the dude from my name is earl had promise. but it just...i don't know, deflates. the murder thing, the cop thing, eh, kinda sad really. ends up not being very funny and not that great a story. and the ending is just horrible. i had high hopes for it at the beginning when it looked like it was just gonna be a rip on art school. reminded me of philly. and malky's whole speech was a great intro: "you should just drop out and go to banker school or website school". oh well.

-- scott seward (skotro...), December 24th, 2006.

plus, it wasn't even biting/savvy/cutting enough about art school! the kinda cursory gallery/beatnik chick/school observations were pretty lame. it was a comic, right? maybe that had more depth.

-- scott seward (skotro...), December 24th, 2006.

plus plus, you don't really know ANYTHING about anybody. it's so broad. which works fine if it's slapstick or completely non-linear or if a movie just LOOKS cool, but this movie was completely story-based, and nobody was really anybody, just blank canvases ironically enough.

-- scott seward (skotro...), December 24th, 2006.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Domino -- Tony Scott shouldn't be allowed to make movies.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

tony scott is doing the warriors re-make, right? if he fucks with the legacy of that movie i will kill him myself. he better bring is A game!!!

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

having said that, i don't really have a problem with him. i don't hate his movies. his best stuff was a looooooooong time ago though.

― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

art school confidential kinda sucked but the filmmaker roommate character made me laugh. reminded me of a lot of film-types i've known.

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

they're actually ok to watch, i guess. it's just that they're so BUSY. and the audio effects, with people's voices echoing and repeating and shit....ugh.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

pete + pete season 1 on dvd all day today. had to stop b/c the dog kept knocking the laptop to the ground with her fatty tail.

― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Domino last night - still awesome

The Good Shepherd - so dull, so incredibly dull

― milo (milo), Monday, 25 December 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i fell asleep and all nite the music from the dvd menu display played really loud in my dreams.

STORY OF MY LIVES.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link

today i also watched Spring Forward with ned beatty and liev schreiber. i'd never even heard of it till i saw it on sale at the video store. i liked it. it was sweet. basically just the two of them. like a play. kinda sundance-y i guess, but still good. they are both really good in it. i love ned beatty. it's nice to see him get a chance to act in a lead role. the dude who made it made a movie called touch base with lili taylor that i kinda liked and that i think you could only ever see on the sundance channel.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link

speaking of sundancey i just saw little miss sunshine. this movie wasn't that great, i thought. what's up with these comedies that don't actually have jokes??

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

12 monkeys is the greatest film evar

-- this is cutty (holle...), December 8th, 2006. (mcutt)

"filmed in b-more ;--)"

wtf, i don't know about baltimore but tons of it was filmed in philly. at the prison, everywhere. i remember when they put tons of crap all over city hall. looked really cool.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"what's up with these comedies that don't actually have jokes??"

that's what i was trying to figure out about art school confidential. was i supposed to be laughing? it was like american pie with no pie.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

wtf, i don't know about baltimore

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/locations

― amon (amon), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, but still, mostly philly. though baltimore gets props for the "famous" airport scene. i can't take pitt in that movie. such a bad crazy dude. but, you know, it's a cool mess or whatever.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

and i will watch anything with bruno in it cuz i'm like a demented idiot for bruno.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm gonna watch something, but i don't know what yet. i'm leaning towards war of the worlds. i bought holiday videos/dvds to gorge on since i was gonna be alone for four days. they were selling vhs tapes 10 for 10 dollars at the video store. i got:

the rundown
mi vida loca(which i've seen)
deadbirds
alien dead
all about my mother
crooklyn(seen it but not in a long time and i liked it way back when)
shivers - directors cut (seen it)
savage island
the ring
the clown at midnight (margot kidder! christopher plummer!)

dvd i got talladega nights, land of the dead, the chumscrubber, a history of violence, spring forward, the island, art school confidential, transporter 2, war of the worlds.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

i hated art school confidential. hated it

see the rundown, it is a treat.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i did! i watched it today. already duly noted on this thread.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i liked The Island too! I thought i was gonna hate it or something. I only got it cuz i thought it was gonna be big & dumb and i was in the mood for big & dumb, but it wasn't actually THAT dumb. and i liked the action scenes.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Dunno why the Island went down in flames. First good Bay/Bruckheimer (whichever) movie in forever.

Transporter 2 - not as good as Crank, the fight scenes are inventive but that Jackie Chan stuff gets old.

― milo (milo), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

'the clown at midnight' is awesomely awful!

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link

haha milo and i are both watching the SAME HBO

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Savage Island is supposed to be really good:

"An at times fascinating redux of Wes Craven's The Hills Have Eyes, Jeffery Scott Lando's zero budget Savage Island deals with the problem of the middle class intruding on the demesne of primal man: digging plots on prime moonshine acreage, desecrating woodland gravesites, and working out their petty marital squalls against the backdrop of struggles for survival and the instinct to progeny. Shot on a terrible-looking digital video, even the format speaks, like The Blair Witch Project, of the sort of arrogance that technology breeds: forgetfulness of the savage immediacy of the Natural just on the borders of civilization and superego. (The tragic effect of a cell phone and its subsequent execution is surprisingly smart and surprisingly piquant.) Its acting forever on the verge of embarrassing, its locations "found," Savage Island also reminds of the zero budget frights of the seventies with its ability to evoke a feeling of irreducible filth and a bone deep discomfort. It works because it doesn't aspire to be much more than a straight reworking of the Deliverance dynamic--the logic of people defending their homes and aspiring for eternity through children (the child peril lifted almost whole from the Craven film), the idea of families at war with one another over land and litter remains ever vital and, handled with the disarming immediacy of terrible video, something that deserves to be respected as a statement about man, culture, and how they don't often make 'em like they used to. *** (out of four)"

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link

omg maybe i am the female scott seward!

no no i mean it's okay!

haha that was an xpost!
and now!

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://wien19.technoware.at/Upload/Images/savageIsland.JPG

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, what did i do that was like you? is it my love for The Island?

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i think it's like everything you posted in this thread!
but the transporter 2 got me to notice it

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm so buying 'crank' when it comes out on dvd.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i so wanted to get that jessica alba beach intrigue movie, but the dude was like, no, if is says RENTAL on it then it isn't a part of the 10 for 10 deal, and i was all, like, NOW you tell me, and i chickened out when it came to getting it on dvd cuz it was like 15 bucks. i was actually gonna go and buy the descent on dvd today cuz i saw it was out now, but i was too lazy to.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:31 (seventeen years ago) link

the descent is totally on my best of 2006 list/'list'!
i haven't seen 'into the blue' and i am sad about that

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The Family Stone - Rachel McAdams is bonerific in Dino Jr. t-shirt and indie-rock/librarian hair (Diane Keaton, too!), but when Craig T. Nelson is the second strongest cast member...

Miami Vice - never a good idea to let Mann do a 'director's cut.' Or maybe it just didn't hold up well to a second viewing/on a tv, it seemed kind of flat. Fewer 'whoa'-s, more 'omg I can't believe that Colin Farrell line made it into the movie'

― milo (milo), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The Descent is brilliant right up until it becomes a horror movie. Trapped in cave with no way of escaping your bitchy sister and her stupid friends is far more terrifying than evil cave-dwelling things.

― milo (milo), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't believe you rep for 'domino' incessantly and are criticizing 'miami vice'! :D you should seek out the theatrical cut (dunno why mann fucked with it). i love how it drops right into the action in the nightclub and cuts out suddenly at the end. it's got some cheesy bits obv but it's pretty ace overall. the skull-capping of the wite supremacist in the mobile home was the most obvious CGI headshot i've ever seen, though.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Style Wars - sweet
Badlands - very sweet
Little Children - sweet with scattered groans

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked it (a lot) in the theater.

I think Mann just screwed the rhythm adding footage and re-editing, and it just doesn't look as cool on 32" instead of a cineplex screen. He doesn't seem to realize his strengths are in the economy of words/action - so he tacks on a three-minute speedboat scene to set up the nightclub, and the Havana excursion gets lengthened and there's one hilariously bad music cue to kick off a sex scene I don't remember being their to start with.

― milo (milo), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i hunted down the theatrical cut dvd at best buy, you should as well if you can. i think it's one of the few places stocking it (amoeba, borders, used dvd places all seem to have nothing but the 'director's cut'). the strength of the movie is in it being totally economical and not overexplaining anything. i liked it more the second time around, most definitely.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, i saw the director's cut...might explain why i wasn't entirely thrilled with it. the havana scene was waaaaay too long, i thought.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 25 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the 'director's cut' of Miami Vice is like a minute longer (or shorter?)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link

or samer?

i can't really say i liked the island. i'm trying to remember why. although i liked the plot twist with the real ewan mac-G.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 25 December 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

the director's cut of 'miami vice' adds about eight minutes from what i heard.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Meet Me In St. Louis

*wipes tear away* I do it to myself every damned year.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 25 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i am loving war of teh worlds! not done yet though. taking a breather.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

prepare for the ending, though

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

which WOTW?

Eric, homie, I joined you this year.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 December 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

ya know, spielberg one. yeah, yer right about the ending. it kinda ends before you even know it. i wanted more carnage!! great scenes though. loved the blood everywhere. loved the bodies floating downstream. it was like dreams i have!

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

it's kinda hard to screw up the end of the world for me. mass-hysteria is its own reward.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

the spielberg one is pretty awesome til that ending. i prefer the '50s one, myself. it's not intense, just a creepy slow-motion apocalypse.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, the old one is great.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

but really, i love them all. triffids, body snatchers, zombies, it's all good.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, i am on to talladega nights, i think.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

end of the world movies have this built-in wish fulfillment because all a surviver's gotta do to survive is kill and eat. and no credit card debt or taxes or hours on the job!

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked Talladega Nights.

I liked the Spielberg WOTW too.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link

i love that part in wotw where tom is freaking and he yells "where do we go? you live here, where do we go?" at his son and his son saves his ass. that was awesome. and tim robbins was great too. he totally ceased to be tim robbins to me and totally became creepy guy freaking the fuck out! good job.

― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i loved spielberg wotw except yeah the ending, and too much tim robbins

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link

also they shouldn't have showed the aliens. except for maybe the last scene where the hand flops out

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 03:27 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, i dug ricky bobby. i heart will. sacha, gary cole. just lovely. too bad they had to throw elvis costello and mos def in there. totally harshed my mellow. elvis totally ruined a perfectly good episode of 2 & a half men for me too.

― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

needed more ian roberts.

― baccarat heads spice pushka underdog official texas holdem bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I love when SBC puts jazz on the jukebox and one guy says "Somebody made a tape of somethin' dying"

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i reeeaaally want to see hiroshima mon amour again

-- v (enemy.airshi...)

Its really great isn't it? Must get more from Resnais in general.

Got a copy of Chris Marker's Sana Soleil/La Jetee yesterday.

Caught Rushmore on TV again.

― xyzzzz__ (xyzzzz__), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 11:35 (seventeen years ago) link

also they shouldn't have showed the aliens. except for maybe the last scene where the hand flops out

-- a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (slytus...), December 26th, 2006.

it wasn't so much in this one that they showed the aliens as much as that they looked too boring. they were way too similar to the critters in independence day.

the 50's WotW had some genuinely creepy aliens in it, especially with those crazy tri-color camera eyes!

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

the spielberg one is pretty awesome til that ending.

You just hate families.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

so does everyone else who agreed with me upthread, apparently! it would be nice to see spielberg end a film in a completely non-obvious manner for once. it's not like he can't do it, but i guess why hint at something when you can go the hallmark route, or in the case of that hilarious sex scene in 'munich' the 'passionate collective soul video' route.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

"non-obvious," like a rat running along a rat cop's condo window rail?

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

(i don't like the ending of WOTW either, but mostly cuz it's T.C.)

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not gonna argue too much about spielberg because the guy's got skills and has made some excellent films, he just doesn't quite respect the audience enough to end his (recent) films without spelling everything out.

i know, i know, the rat. but i'd rather have an obvious joke than obvious sentiment.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i really love wotw and munich and schindler's list and much of saving private ryan, but i always imagine how much better they'd have been with better endings (esp. the first two, schindler's couldn't have been too much better and spr had more probs than the ending).

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I find myself lately much less willing to completely write off movies and much more willing to enjoy them in spite of their flaws. If I had seen WOTW a few years earlier I probably would have been more dismissive, and same for Little Children, really.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, i finally finished watching a history of violence. very cool. but you all knew that already.

― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 26 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Some movies' flaws are why they are bad movies. Others have flaws that make them more interesting.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Children of Men - awesome awesome awesome, go see now. Throw in the bored Russian girl from The Good Thief and Sophie Okonedo and this would be the best cast ever.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 02:44 (seventeen years ago) link

dreamgrils

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Movies not included in the slightest in Spielberg montage on Kennedy Center Honors (a montage that found room for Hook, Amistad and The Sugarland Express) included most prominently A.I., Munich and War of the Worlds. Of course, it pretty much ended with Saving Private Ryan, chronologically speaking.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Of course, that processional of vets pretty much proved the program directors are clueless at putting together tributes that don't involve musicians.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Ew, John Williams was Kennedy Center honored before Spielberg?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Spielberg is a decent whoman being.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

are you liveblogging it or something?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

bad santa (still awesome)
i heart huckabees (some roffles, but fairly pointless)

...does LED ZEPPELIN DVD count as cinema??

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Aguire, Wrath of God - I loved it, I loved that it was so bleak and yet had these weirdly hilarious moments ("long arrows are becoming the fashion").

The Unknown - I got waybaked and watched this fucking CREEPY silent 1927 Lon Chaney movie the other night while playing banjo in an empty house with all the lights off, good times.

re: Spielberg, I also watched ET the other day, which was way better than I remembered it, but there was that one scene where they photoshopped walkie-talkies into guys' hands in place of guns, and it was like, wtf.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Spielberg montage on Kennedy Center Honors

Goddammit, I saw this was on but had to watch Coup de Torchon before it went back to the library. So no songs for Steve?

PPL, PLS STOP 'GETTING BAKED' BEFORE WATCHING GOOD FILMS

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Alien (wet)
Evil Dead 2 (groovy)
The Vampire Lovers (hi ingrid!)

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

PPL, PLS STOP 'GETTING BAKED' BEFORE WATCHING GOOD FILMS

-- Dr M (wjwe...), Today. (later)

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

well, there was no other explanation for yr putting The Aristocrats in yr top 10.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i feel to stoned sleep watching fargo last night SO GREAT

― 69 (pete), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

well, there was no other explanation for yr putting The Aristocrats in yr top 10.

-- Dr M (wjwe...), Today. (later)

i hate lists :(

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't even remember doing that

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway... are you against smoking doobs and listening to good music??

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

At this point I'm against smoking doobs, full stop. And I hardly listen to music anymore.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

royal tenebaums
pirates 2
good shepherd

― baccarat heads spice pushka underdog official texas holdem bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

how was good shepherd

xpost - least noize post evar

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

didn't like de niro's direction, the film is visually very bland, could've used some editing, damon and angelina don't really appear to age at all which is very distracting, the plot was tedious

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I will rep for The Good Shepherd, as I am a fan of the slow burn & lowkey spy shenanigans & Michael Gambon.

I'm guessing I'll be the only one.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I THINK I AM ABOUT TO WATCH HOSTEL.

CHRISTMAS PUTS ME IN MOOD FOR GORE.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i watched the illusionist on the plane.

that is all.

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i feel to stoned sleep watching fargo

Well yeah, that could only improve...

Sorry mark, I don't mean to be a dick, but i'm just using as a model pothead friend who likes ANYTHING stoned. I've also never known any weedies who are more interesting when hiii.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

how was dreamgrills

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

The Good Shepherd is terrible. Lone shining moment is a flash of crazy/wild Angelina (circa Hackers/Girl, Interrupted) before she becomes unhappy '50s housewife #3,987,640.

Anyone else keep expecting every male cast-member to come out of the closet?

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was hoping that it was deliberate but I can't figure out what purpose it would serve.

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

dreamgirls was great

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

and morbs i definitely don't watch everything stoned, rarely as a matter of fact (& i tend to be MORE critical when i do)... but i don't think there's any "neutral" state you need to be in to appreciate any art.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 27 December 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

taladega nights was AWFUL. i have now seen that movie three fucking times (only once by choice), and not even my family, who loves everything "funny" (on xmas eve they sat me down to show me their new fave xmas movie -- xmas with the cranks or whatever the fuck it's called), liked it. the gay southern dude who played the country club waiter on arrested development who is on the crew and whispers is wonderful, though.

saw chronicles of narnia -- great. saw inside man again -- all the parts that are about nyc (conversations b/w cops, translating the wiretap, etc) are great, the heist stuff only soso. saw kiss kiss bang bang -- no. i'm not willing to cede any possibility of cleverness to "la culture," at least not in that vernacular. saw children of men tonight -- so so so fucking good. the best made movie i have seen in a very long time. it was bizarrely such a director's statement. and clive owen is so goddamned good that i'm almost ready to forgive him for i'll sleep when i'm dead. also got an hdtv and an hd dvd player that came with king kong so the good hour and a half of that, too. dude who plays the vain movie star who's the coach on friday night lights is awesome. let's get him more work.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Hostel was DULL and kind of sexist, Cabin Fever was WAY BETTER. Also didn't see Miike cameo. :(

NOW FOR STARSHIP TROOPERS. YESSSSS.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 28 December 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hostel wasn't even good torture-porn. It spends too much time as National Lampoon's Amsterdam Vacation before it gets to the cutting.

― milo (milo), Thursday, 28 December 2006 02:31 (seventeen years ago) link

^^^ OTM

Also the fact that the decent-ish guy dies FIRST so we are expected to root for the sexist douchebag frat boy??

And you know, if ONE of the female characters hadn't been an unrealistically hot sex object that spent most of her time naked and/or screaming, that would have been cool too.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 28 December 2006 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Hostel wasn't even good torture-porn. It spends too much time as National Lampoon's Amsterdam Vacation before it gets to the cutting.

-- milo (wooderso...), December 28th, 2006. (later)

that's why it's great!!!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

coughauditioncough

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Thursday, 28 December 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Black Snake Moan trailer.

― milo (milo), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:21 (seventeen years ago) link

wow

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 28 December 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

way to quell those accusations of rampant misogyny in yr films mr brewer! jesus christ.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The Wild Blue Yonder
Herzog's "science fiction fantasy" starring Brad "Raymond" Dourif
Treadwellesque ranting from Dourif, ace mathmatician fu, NASA thigh show, SCUBA ice caves, return to the Mists of Amazon. And the music is amazing. Could be seen as final chapter in a trilogy of Fata Morgana and Lessons of Darkness.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 28 December 2006 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched that yesterday! I fucking LOVED it, the music especially (I will pay many $$$ for the OST if necessary), as well as Brad Dourif's angry alien shtick, also I crave zero-gravity now in a bad way.

I personally loved Hostel, but probably would've enjoyed it more if I hadn't known going in A) who Eli Roth is, and B) what kind of movies he makes, ie had just assumed it was National Lampoons Amsterdam Vacation and not known it was eventually to become screaming maiming cannibalism fun-time hour.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Starship Troopers = STILL AWESOME.

Next: Pirates of Caribbean 2 with fam, Barton Fink, Dog Soldiers

Yeah, going in expecting SUPER HORROR FUN TIME did detract from Hostel, but my main problems were totally unrelated to that (BORING, kind of offensive to my vagina, etc.). Also Cabin Fever was major lulz and this was not funny at all???

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Thursday, 28 December 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

WBYOST:
http://www.amazon.com/Requiem-Dying-Planet-Ernst-Reijseger/dp/B000GB7DTE/sr=1-2/qid=1167325395/ref=pd_bbs_2/104-4700467-7391157?ie=UTF8&s=music

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

SLACKER yay

― elmo albatross (allocryptic), Thursday, 28 December 2006 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

seeing children of men tonight. very excited.

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

'my neighbor totoro' - catbus!

'kontroll' - good but not great, it slows down a bit when it starts to focus on the lead dude's half-hearted hunt for the killer and his attempt at romance with the admittedly awesome girl in the bear costume. it reminded me a lot of that weird franke potente slasher film 'creep', which takes place in the london underground.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Thursday, 28 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Totoro, hooray! So good.

I kind of forgot about Talledega Nights. I basically liked 2 parts, Mos Def as a racing fan, and the thing about Jesus singing lead for Skynyrd and dude was hammered drunk in the front row. The rest wasn't exactly UNfunny, but not really funny either.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Thursday, 28 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Watched Blade Runner again with my sister, who ranted for a while about what a fucking awful movie it was. I'm just sorta indifferent toward it. I wanted to watch The Sacrifice, anyway. Suppose that's for tonight.

― clotpoll (clotpoll), Thursday, 28 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Saw the BBC production of The Line of Beauty -- staid and straight, compared to the novel.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

28 Up
first one that I didn't find 100% compelling. maybe I'm watching them a little too close together (or maybe it's that most of em hadn't changed very much from 21 to 28)

― dmr (dmr), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Figuring that any film maudit widely hated by ILX must be worth something, I'm gonna run up to 42nd St in a half-hour to catch one of the last screenings of The Fountain.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

fwiw, Sicinski hated The Fountain a lot

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm about to have a three or four movie day. Dreamgirls, check. Later it's onto United 93, Volver and perhaps maybe Last King of Scotland. Odds on me forgetting I'd even seen Dreamgirls at all by the end of the day: good.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 December 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha "enjoy," morbz

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

wow eric you're so jaded!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 28 December 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll say. I watched Devil Wears Prada instead of United 93.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 December 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The Meryl Streep-Stanley Tucci scenes in DWP were a lot more fun than United 93.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 December 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Dreamgirls is really good, though, Eric!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 29 December 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the real Motown musical (i.e. The Wiz) way better, though.

Volver something of a letdown. I wasn't expecting fireworks, but maybe I was expecting a few more women...?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 December 2006 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link

recently:

children of men -- yes, good.

days of being wild -- it's weird watching wong's movies in reverse (as tears go by is the only one i haven't seen yet), seeing his various obsessions germinate. so this kind of felt like in the mood for love for kids. great, of course.

domino -- felt like an extended infomercial for keira knightley, sadly lacking an 800 number. fun for about an hour, but i was real bored by the end.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 December 2006 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

children of men - mostly good

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Godfather 2 - disc 1

Fucking Netflix! Why don't both discs just come together?! And why did I think I'd be able to "just watch a little of it while I eat my dinner"?

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link

why don't things just happen

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

chappelle's block party - generally funny
match point - ehh

― false cat (sleep), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

finishing up arrested development (season 3 disc 2)

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

NO TV

The Fountain is a splendid failure, there shd b more movies like it.

Armond White: Sparkle > Dreamgirls

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the good shepherd

it was all right. i found it less dull than a lot of others have. maybe it's from reading all that crap about the cold war and trying figure out which characters were surrogates/composites for various historical figures. (crudup=kim philby!).

it was probably a bit too self-serious and dour, though.

Anyone else keep expecting every male cast-member to come out of the closet?

hahahahaha otm!

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

today i watched passin' it on (about black panthers) and winter soldier and this week i have also watched mr. death, fog of war, american dream (i like barbara koppple) and something else. i don't know why i am so documentary craaaaaaaaazy

― caitlin oh no (harbl), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

there is nothing really 'splendid' about the fountain.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Also Armond White: "We Are Marshall is good because it’s not propaganda; its regard of healing goes beyond 9/11 to the essence of American character. Listen at the way McConaghey urges a player to 'Head-slap the shit' out of an opponent. Beneath its Jock Uplift formula, We Are Marshall is sly, hard-core Americana."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

speaking of documentary, i had some serious issues with Manufactured Landscapes, which i saw recently. in some ways i really loved it for what it showed, things i'd never seen before, portrayed artistically, capturing the scope/enormity of a landscape. however, though i know it was based on an art project, i thought it would go beyond that, be more political, be, well, wider in scope. i don't know, the photographs are pretty great in a sense but at the same time i feel a distinct lack in them. mostly because i think the photographer isn't all that empathetic to the 'human element'. and/or he's just not all that smart/intellectual?

anyway, i was supposed to watch little miss sunshine tonight and then i just ended up writing an article about my favourite shows of 2006 and now i don't know if i can go through with watching the movie. so maybe i will just keep listening to music and write something about manufactured landscapes.

i also want to see children of men.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

28 Up
first one that I didn't find 100% compelling.

Nice coincidence, I watched that one last night too. I wanted to see John, the superprivileged super-snooty guy in that group of three, but he refused to show. He probably realized how badly he was coming across compared to the realer real lives of the others. I hope he shows up in 35-42-49.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 December 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLY SHIT DREAMGIRLS

i cried five times, for real.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Antonia's Line

It's pretty good, but all men are either rapists or stupid, harmless sods, and all women are full of genius, strength and purity of heart.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link

but how was the movie?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

INLAND EMPIRE

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Children of Men (generally wow)

Eric, what about Armond's crazy "Bush as America's coach" passage.

Also, while i'm always interested in Sicinski's take, dude gave Borat 3/10.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

okay i finally watched little miss sunshine - not so bad really, for a saturday early afternoon when it's snowing out. i really liked the cast and the volkswagon van (i grew up with an orange and white one and we drove it to california a few times, fair share of breakdowns, therefore: soft spot), but the script could've been waaay better written. could not deal with the music.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

honestly the more i think about that movie the more i hate it

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

they seriously have to ban the "let your freak flag fly" awkward dance sequence indie movie climax scene

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm trying not to think about it
xpost
it was a bit much in a way that it should've been way more

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

slytusk OTMFM - both in the growing hatred of LMS and the call for bannage of indie dance sequence trope.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Can we also ban the scene where a character uses literature in a facile way to explain the point of the movie? "See, like, Raskolnikov thought he didn't have to follow any rules. But he soon learned that sometimes society has taboos for a good reason."

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

again, bad writing is to blame, bad lazy uninspired writing :(

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

and not-so-great directing
the van-pushing was great the first and second time around but then, y'know

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Watched The Sacrifice last night. Despite the coolness of the scene with Anderson and the witch doing their floaty-spinny thing, it seemed nowhere near as hypnotic and effective as Stalker. Maybe next, folks here seem to like it.

― clotpoll (clotpoll), Saturday, 30 December 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

and no laughs!!! (in re:LMS)

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Art School Confidential = WOW. what a bad movie. to the point that I wondered if it was an intentionally bad movie.

Dog Soldiers = it's the Evil Dead! with werewolves!

Barton Fink = suhweet.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Saturday, 30 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

also

***** SPOILERS *******

did anyone else sympathize with the pageant judges when they tried to shut down the girl's dance sequence? it was actually kind of disgusting!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The movie is basically Vacation meets the Little Miss Springfield episode of The Simpsons. Sprinkle in a few Proust and Nietszche mentions, and you have a "sleeper indie hit."

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

agh i keep thinking about it! and mostly i'm upset about the actors and what could've been.
yes, the dance scene was cringey, even if i didn't side with the judges, who were supporting another kind of icky anyway. it was made even worse by the heavy-handed 'lesson' about what, about sexuality? about pagentry? family support? not being ashamed of oneself? good lessons, sure, but, UH

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the IDEA of Greg Kinnear's character but they could have made him a lot less over the top. Alan Arkin did his best with the dirty grandpa schtick, but the writing felt a little forced, and it was an even bigger mistake to write him out of the movie.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, my favorite thing was the test pilot kid. I found him genuinely funny and convincing.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

because he didn't say anything!!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric, what about Armond's crazy "Bush as America's coach" passage.

I couldn't tell if he was noting that idea or advocating it. In any case, a bit whatev to him.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"a BIG whatev"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Point Blank - I want to be Lee Marvin when I grow up.

― milo (milo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

pavement slow century

― false cat (sleep), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

fast food nation

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The Case of the Grinning Cat
Letters from Iwo Jima

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

strangers with candy: weak, funny

pirates 2: needed 75x more tentacle face

― urghonomic (gcannon), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I wanted to see John, the superprivileged super-snooty guy in that group of three, but he refused to show. He probably realized how badly he was coming across compared to the realer real lives of the others. I hope he shows up in 35-42-49.

He does, but [VAGUE SPOILER] he's kind of an opportunist about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

the enigma of kaspar hauser. enigmatic! (the german title is so much better.)

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - I haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine but a couple people told me I should & said I'd really like it & this made me wary and somewhat paranoid wondering what they thought of me (ie 'bitch is crazy!!')

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The Sacrifice doesn't add up (I had some complicated theory about why the guy had to act anyway even if not necessary.. eh.. probably overthinking) but has a few nice set pieces.. the documentary about the making-of is neat b/c the burning house at the end didn't work on the first take and they only had one more chance to get it right. Stalker is far better but damn, does it go on and on and on..

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm waiting on dvds from greencine: 'cemetery man', 'the big combo', and--due to an error on my part--the bonus disc of 'infernal affairs 2'

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

He does, but [VAGUE SPOILER] he's kind of an opportunist about it.

That makes sense, he'll be approaching the right age to start running for public office.

― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The Beastmaster, a childhood favorite. Held up better than I expected. Rip Torn in a prosthetic nose and skull-and-crossboned pigtails helped.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The Man Who Fell to Earth (also w/ Rip Torn! as Bowie's driver)

was expecting an arty b-flick but not so much sexxxploitation type stuff. the gun / sex scene was total Lynch, looked straight outta Wild At Heart. v. weird movie.

― dmr (dmr), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

oh whoops rip torn is the scientist. the driver looked familiar tho.

― dmr (dmr), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

HAPPY FEET - fucking marvelous. anyone else seen this?

― t.weiss (t.weiss), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Warner has set The Departed for release on 2/13 in single-disc and 2-disc special edition DVD versions (SRP $28.98 and $34.99 respectively). There's no word yet on extras. We expect HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc versions to be announced as well.

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:08 (seventeen years ago) link

...?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm looking forward to acquiring this

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

here's hoping for a commentary.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/the-departed.html?page=1#post94787

(doesn't look like it, cover art on the 2-disc is ace though)

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 01:58 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe he'll tell u$ why he made it

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw what you did there

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

That's our M0rb!u$

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

on nye there was some '70s van-themed movie on. then after midnight "rock 'n' roll nightmare" became the first flick i saw of 2007. i hadn't seen it in forever and it was even better than i remembered.

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

my first movie of 07:
http://www.generationmedia.com/joxjagdvd/radcover1.jpg

― false cat (sleep), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ia.ec.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/30/89/70/10m.jpg

― otto midnight has a pudding problem (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe he'll tell u$ why he made it

Coincidentally probably the same reason he made Taxi Driver and Goodfella$

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

let's not forget ¢a$ino

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Let's compare Marty's paychecks on Taxi Driver and The Departed, shall we? (The guy is not gonna be trapped into talking about the layers of Matt Damon's acting on a commentary track, and what a loss.)

tonight, Pan's Labyrinth ... and I have Scorsese's My Voyage in Italy waiting at home!

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

and I have Scorsese's My Voyage in Italy waiting at home!

Make damned sure you've seen every last movie he covers, as it's spolier city.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

$¢0R$3$3

― amon (amon), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

children of men, omg

― this is cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Rosebud was a clitoris

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Make damned sure you've seen every last movie he covers

I've seen a lot of em. Aside from twist-centered plots, I'm not a big believer in the true spoilage of spoilers.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i watched that herzog lochness movie lastnight on showtime. teh funney.

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

"Jim Carrey is The Number 23"
oh now what?

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Just Watched:
Silent Hill (well, the first 45 minutes) - KIND OF REALLY BORING. Not enough fucked up monsters. Dyke cop in leather is hawt tho. Also apparently someone gets skinned at the end so I am going to have to finish this at some point.

Soon-to-arrive Netflix:
Curb Your Enthusiasm season 1 disc 1
Eyes Without a Face (YOU GUYS I AM SO EXCITED 4 THIS 1)

Watching tonight probably:
Gozu

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Eyes Without a Face

This movie is a lot stranger and tamer than I expected ... until it was extremly not tame at all.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

christ i still need to see that thing with the crazy actor and the bears that herzog edited....must get new netflix acct

― bb (bbia), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Also apparently someone gets skinned at the end so I am going to have to finish this at some point.

not really necessary, the end is the worst part (in a series of pretty bad parts)

― dmr (dmr), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

really??? but the amount of violence sounded positively delightful.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

the gun / sex scene was total Lynch, looked straight outta Wild At Heart. v. weird movie.

yeah i watched that w/my parents when i was about 15. (we rented it on videodisc!) sex stuff majorly awkward. after the gun scene my mom was like, "um, you know that's not normal sex..." and i was all "DUH, mom!" (don't know what she was worried about, we didn't even own any guns.)

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Just watch Silent Hill on fast-forward, stop whenever something happens that looks interesting. You don't need the dialogue.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

The only blurb on the back of the Silent Hill DVD? I'm friends with that guy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

that needs to go on ILepitaphs

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

BOREDOMS - super go EP
BOREDOMS - super roots 3

― 69 (pete), Monday, 12 February 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

OH SHIT CINEMA FUCK

― 69 (pete), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/studio/2194/images/montage.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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