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i saw Johnnie To's Exiled, which was more fun than i expected, and i expected a whole lot of fun.

By the end, I kept rooting for all the characters to die.

Saw trailer for Starter for 10. It looks like a wish fulfillment piece of dung.

the bascogne episode about the medic is just amazing though.

-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), Today. (later)

zing?

(Which one is the speilberg one?)

i love the stuff with the ineffectual CO though.

the hanks one is the one where jonesy keeps flashing back to shooting that german kid in teh field. he goes to paris etc. it's sort of a grab-bag episode. not bad, but i didn't need that flashback stuff. all of the trauma is so apparent already, we don't need to get all emo about it.

I don't think you should. I like that, somewhere out there, there was a thread I had been banned from.

"satan's brew" is hilarious

I love it when The Wire does their seasonal getting the band back together arc.

You're not sposed to like anyone in Blowup, cept Vanessa R on principle.

hated this so much

on the same ww2 tip, i watched flags of our fathers last night, which i thought was an out-and-out AWFUL movie. the worst buddy-buddy dialogue i have ever heard, and the whole narrative worked as flashbacks within a larger flashback, and pretty much the last scene is an old man's dying words. wtf clint. i don't think i can see iwo jima again.

also watched taxi driver again. it had been a while. reading easy riders, raging bulls for the 40th time and it makes me wish i had all the time in the world to screen everything biskind writes about. also, that's seriously the most sexist book i have ever read outside maybe the bible.

there are some naysayers but that's pretty much the consensus right there

(plus love for Alec Baldwin, and Jack's ratface)

last night finally saw 12 monkeys (sorry bros i was bored/underwhelmed -- i think my fave gilliam movie might be baron von muchausen) and also watched shadows, which was fucking incredible.

Anyone ever seen TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON, or these other '60s pop Peter Whitehead films?

http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/?start=2007-2-15&end=2007-2-21

i remember you saying that about iwo jima -- how hackenyed and haggis'd it was -- and i doubted you. no longer.

Biskind's juicy dishing about how hotshot directors were brought down by the twin demons of arrogance and rampant libido is also tainted by his admission that he can't vouch for the accuracy of many of the book's details. ''Not only is the terrain distant, but in this period memory has been enfeebled by booze and drugs,'' he writes on the very first page....

Even facts that could have been checked more easily are sloughed off. Biskind claims that ''up to 1975, no picture cost more than $15 million''; ''Cleopatra'' cost 20th Century Fox $44 million in early-1960's dollars, and the eight-hour Russian ''War and Peace'' (1966-67) cost at least $96 million. Biskind misspells the names of several well-known Hollywood people; he wrongly asserts ''there was little or no precedent for an actor actually producing a picture'' before Warren Beatty on ''Bonnie and Clyde'' (what about Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Ida Lupino, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, et al.?); and he thinks Julia Phillips is the only woman producer to win an Oscar (Lili Fini Zanuck and Wendy Finerman have done so as well).

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/10/reviews/980510.10mcbridt.html

I said nothing to the contrary of this, fwiw.

Strictly Ballroom

oh and if you guys like the oblivians or thee headcoatees and anything similar, the ettes are a must-own.

I'll watch them later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_films

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

(there's a complete buster keaton feature "Sherlock Jr", which I haven't watched yet, split into 6 parts)

New Yorkers, I must see White Dog this Tuesday, alas no time will work cept 10:20pm! Dig:

(1982, SAMUEL FULLER) Kristy McNichol adopts an injured German Shepherd — then finds it compulsively attacks African- Americans, including Paul Winfield. Based on a true story, Fuller’s film was shelved for a decade amid charges of racism.
1:00, 5:10, 10:20

THE HOST - ABOUT TO START WATCHING THIS EXCITEDDDD

Also, the roadcrew theme became the music for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News!

harisson ford also a total babe in that movie, but less total babe than paul newman in chl

my roommate called it one of the best movies ever

now i am watching the Butcher Boy

i just watched "stranger than fiction" - was in the mood for that kind of movie though didn't know what to expect (had read no reviews, only seen previews), and i liked it, though it's kind of overwritten at times. generally though, good writing, interesting direction and cinematography (some cool pull-back long takes, or whatever they're called), and weird but decent acting - the whole thing sort of flips btwn emotion and not-emotion constantly, i guess b/c the main characters' emotions are sort of intellectualized or analyzed - or they're sort of on the brink of feeling them? or they are feeling them, yet in a more detached way? which is weird and should make those characters hard to relate to, yet i did, and you'd think this would make for a boring film, but i wasn't bored. it kept things intriguing. it's not really a full-on comedy.

and it makes chicago totally look like somewhere i could live?

The VHS version they released in the US was inexplicably canary yellow.

Cool Hand LUke is one of the movies that turned me into rebellious little hippie shit.

It was weird how they scrubbed away anything that identified it as Chicago, though, like the CTA logos on the buses.

I was kind of meh about it.

* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - cute (MM & the flick); wish they could've balanced the meta-goofs w/ the Cosby Mysteries plot better; more old Corbin Bernsen please; SS should really stop getting killed

* Ghost Rider - it was either this, or spend all day cleaning my apartment; I probably made the wrong decision (tho seeing the FF2 trailer all big, plus the new Spidey 3 trailer, & another 300 trailer, and the SHUT THE FUCK UP Disney Frog promo backwards and upside down - yes, backwards and upside down - was kinda worth it)

waht

Also this weekend - after Breach was finished, & the credits were rolling, the elderly female folk a row behind me told me to SIDDOWN as I was waiting to leave. Not sure if I was impressed they cared enough to watch the credits, or annoyed because IT WAS THE CREDITS LADY.

* Saw 2 - "smart" "thriller" I enjoyed immensely because I like seeing people getting brained w/ nail-covered baseball bat and/or taken out by flesh-eating disease, especially if they're from 7th Heaven.

the descent first half: good, scary. second half: bad, silly. O NO BATBOYS!

-- a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (slytus...), February 20th, 2007 2:59 AM. (hanks1ockli) (later) (link) (admin)

because it was so SCARY??

Wanted to see this so bad when I was a kid. Dreadful stuff. Contains absolutely 0% peril. There's a hilarious overlong scene that makes a point about showing Achilles parking his hover car, obviously intended solely for the purpose of revealing his rather nifty and futuristic automatic central-locking key, except its the size of a portable radio, complete with a two foot antenna. And the main chick's stunts weres so plainly performed by a muscley dude without the slightest attempt to conceal it. Another Charles Band winner! CRASH AND BURN!!!

Wha bout To Live and Die In L.A.? William Petersen? Willem Dafoe? L.A.? Living AND dying? Come on!

(I haven't seen it, tho.)

The Butcher Boy is prolly Neil Jordan's best movie.

I'm gonna skip insanely late White Dog in fave of Peter Whitehead's The Fall.

anyway:

The Decomposition of the Soul
Tristram Shandy: AC&BS
All the Real Girls
Play It As It Lays
Tout va Bien (awesome supermarket scene)
Letter to Jane
Colossal Youth
An Affair of Love
The Painted Veil (first half OK, second crap despite Diana Rigg as old nun)

i recommend them both

i really want to deface it, but it's near the booth.

dub of BBC copy of Dr Who episode from mid 90s? on huge pie sized reel
that led zep movie vhs
akira dvd
warriors dvd, possib orig cut?

at the screening i went to the last reel had french subtitles instead of english and all the crits who had sat through 3 hours of it had meltdowns

-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), Today. (later)

yeah i felt kind of the same way.

-- nklshs (nklsh...), Today. (later)

it was really boring!

Costumes by Joel Schumacher

Plus there is sometimes an additional scene after -- Young Sherlock Holmes started that I think.

i love this movie.

-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...)

FERRIS BUELLER U PHILISTINE

Young Sherlock Holmes used to be my favorite movie.

YES! One of my fav college dorm drinking movies

i'm not sure i really 'get' stage adaptations of movies :/

The Departed - enjoyable popcorn flick, but where's Scorsese's thumbprint? felt like it could've been directed by anybody, and at brief times by a clueless anybody (OH LOOK A RAT I SEE WHAT U DID DERE). what keeps things moving is the ruthless plot that's 90% lifted from the original Hong Kong film. it does a bangup job capturing Boston, though. if you live there chances are you know several people just like Wahlberg's character.

Memories of Murder - continued proof of Korean deftness at playing to the cheap seats but still defying expectations. a cruel black comedy about serial killing, police interrogation tactics, and desperate karaoke. jessie how was Teh Host?

I saw To Live & Die In LA twice when it came out, so I'm largely responsible for its total box office haul of $28.

sexy beast is terrific.

The original had me more wrapped up in the characters' fate, got me thinking about the questions of identity that the setup naturally begs - and you'd think this would be primo territory for Scorsese to explore, but he never slowed down to let those themes percolate. And the Damon-Farmiga-Dicaprio love triangle was total DOA dud.

It sounds like I didn't like it - I did, it zipped along, it was fun - but The Aviator was a ballsier movie. Christ, I'm starting to sound like Morbs.

God knows it was better than The Aviator tho. But my favorite of his is The King of Comedy, w/o all that 'kinetic' razzledazzle.

the aviator is unbearably shitty.

OK MORBS THATS IT! THAT... IS... IT!

Infernal Affairs had a palpable sense of loss and sorrow that carried it beyond its b-movie plot machinations. The Departed could've easily been in a diff league than expertly executed cat-and-mouse games, but all it has going for it is plot+motion+scenery chewing. Again, these aren't bad things, but finding soulfullness in criminality and exploring indentity crises are two of Scorsese's big themes, so I sense a missed opportunity here.

I wanted more JOKES and less Matt Damon.

I HAS KNOCK-KNOCKS U WILL LIEK

the aviator is unbearably shitty.

It wasn't great, but it was interesting. I thought it was a riff on Raging Bull - a successful yet unlikable character and his decline. I can't stand DiCaprio but I didn't mind him in it, so that right there is an achievement.

about predator ships!

i had to turn the aviator off once it got past one of the big party scenes in teh first hour. dicaprio was also reminding me of a then-recent ex. ugh.

a stupid part of me wants to see music and lyrics

Any info on rehab I'll have already gleaned from TMZ/Defamer/etc..

I'M CHARLES FOSTER KANE

First US retro of Abbas Kiarostami coming to MoMA in March:

http://moma.org/exhibitions/film_media/2007/Abbas_Kiarostami.html

Good point - Citizen Hughes?

but I like -- sounds like a buttholle surfers album title

too great!

http://asyliu.blogs.friendster.com/tales_of_a_sadistic_troub/2005/10/movie_review_th.html

i was gonna make a joke about fucking watermelons in a country where they eat cod sperm, but that would be lame.

the audio aspect of that movie sounds v. intriguing

is that yr blog?

The last scene of TWC will fuck your head for awhile.

I saw Whitehead's The Fall as threatened last night at Anthol and managed not to sleep for more than 10 secs here & there.

hypothesis confirmed: "what's really cool is that it's a different type of post-apocalyptic movie than what's been coming out anymore"

should i see precious or is it gonna be totally oprah

i don't know what that is but if it's anything like The Lake House starring Sandra Bullock which i saw the other day then i say YES

it is about an obese black teenager who learns to love herself or something like that

i want to do something with myself but there are no good (imo) movies on and it looks depressing so i might like it i dunno

i wanna see precious

it was alright, not too oprah at all

what was the oprah to tyler perry ratio?

haha i haven't seen anything else by him but i guess it's like 20-30% oprah
it wasn't the best thing ever bc it kind of propped itself up with shock all the time but it was worth watching. sometimes i watch something people say is shocking and feel disappointed and want it to be more shocking so i guess i asked for it. it was pretty shocking imo. but also funny.

the preview made me a lil misty and i lovvvve crying at movies so tell me: is it a tear jerker?

i dunno i never cry at movies but if you like to cry at movies, you will :)

i am watching precious.
so far: eh.

getting better...

the end.
no tears.

were you posting...from inside the theater?

no i was posting from inside my apartment.

u didn't cry? i thought it would make crying people cry. also how did you watch it inside yr apartment

now that i think about it it really was "just ok" i prob just needed to go to the movies

i have my ways ;-)

i see about 2 movies a year in the theater. this week i've seen two in the theater
first, twilight. yep.
next i saw a bollywood movie, de dhana dan. i walked out at intermission. too loud, too stupid. imagine a roided-up indian david schwimmer as your main character, slapsticking it with the best of them.

there were some good dance scenes though

http://images.google.com.fj/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=de+dhana+dan&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=JwUXS4bHJtCTkAWJjrGKBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQsAQwBA

tell us about twilight lol

wasn't as good as the first one

lx has probably heard me say this 5x, but here it is again:
if this story took place anywhere else in the world, i wouldn't give a shit. but because it's WA coast, trees, i'm into it. at least sort of.

ha! i didn't watch the first one (or pay it any attention whatsoever) til after i moved here and found out it was filmed in wa. <3 the trees and skies.

in-flight movie review:

the hangover - this was funny some! i like lost weekend movies. not so big on them finding a baby.
the proposal - c'mon it's sandra bullock i'm in a metal tube 37,000 feet above an ocean, this is a chocolate and peanut butter situation. no but the movie was bad. she was not her likeable best. and that dude that managed to marry scarlet johannson took off his shirt of course
post grad - dumb. alexis bledel moves home after college and wondrs what to do with life. carol burnett in all her bewigged glory tho! also michael keaton becoming weirder and weirder
500 days of summer- don't bother unless you think spending 90 minutes wonderimg at the wonder that is zooey deschanel is a good way to pass the time. which it is
adam - an aspie falls in love! no really, he has aspergers and falls in love. that's the movie

days of heaven

(tv review cuz i watched tv too: wipeout is a great show and how i met your mother is surprisingly funny)

days of heaven classic despite richard gere i meant to say

haha i watched the proposal flying from sydney too, yeah, not good

i am the only one that doesn't like days of heaven i think? there's nothing to it! just pretty pictures
i got louis malle box for xmas though

sometimes "just pretty pictures" is all u need?

not impressed.

sorry siskel

also my brain confuses richard gere and tom cruise, which lowers my impression of richard gere

how i met your mother is a pretty great sitcom

have been watching the national geogrpahic channel too much

watched stevie 2night & maborosi last night -- both are beautiful & sad in wildly different ways

guess the verhoeven movie:

http://i41.tinypic.com/2j5knz7.jpg

the hands are someone doing the A from YMCA so it must be waynes world 2

schwing

The Fourth Man

no im sorry, robocop

saw tinker tailor soldier spy yesterday and it was p fn rad, felt like a 70s style low key thriller except updated w/contemporary moves to tighten the whole thing up, acting was great and gary oldman was off the fn chain, srsly a great performance, luv that guy

it occurred to me that theres maybe more movies out in the theater now that i wouldnt mind seeing than i can ever recall

a dangerous method
we need to talk abt kevin
knuckle
shame
in time
the descendants
melancholia
margin call
ttss (successfully screened)

aaannd theres abt an equal number i could watch when theyre available in my home

if you are feeling the pressure & wanna trim yr list then step into the detrius thread & half of the list will get trashed. i couldn't get so excited about TTSS?, idk, it was sorta deft & quick & smooth more than dramatic or thrilling to me

yeah only one besides ttss im truly stoked on is a dangerous method, i was just impressed w/the numer of films id be willing to at least check out in the theater

it was sorta deft & quick & smooth more than dramatic or thrilling to me

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yah thats p otm, i feel like its big flaw was that it was all abt revealing infos, like v little actual intrigue occurred in the present day of the film, but it was so deft and quick and smooth and so much fun trying to keep track of what was going on that i was just like fuck it let it be itself it is beautiful in its own way

My classy "cocoon with arty Xmas movies" night with whiskey playlist:

first episode of TV version of Fanny and Alexander
A Christmas Tale
The Red Shoes

Rewatched Becket, which is better but longer than I remembered. Unexpectedly superb O'Toole commentary track too; he speaks knowledgeably about Plantagenets and the state of the Church in twelfth century England.

I saw Nicholas Ray's Party Girl on a big screen a couple of weeks ago--think I liked it more than any Ray film I've ever seen (about six or seven, probably). I showed this to my students the next day in class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EL05alymtI

ISSP teacher: "You do realize she's stripping, right?"

"cocoon with arty Xmas movies": no Eyes Wide Shut?

EH, is Santa bringing you the BluRay of Meet Me in St Louis?

I've never seen Becket, but there was a lol pan of it in Slant a couple years ago.

actually it was in the VV, but I see why I made the error.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-01-16/film/becket/

i really liked TTSS but feel like i can't really recommend it to anyone i know (except maybe ilxors and even then...)
morbs declared it "dull" and the friend i saw it with agreed. i declared that i must like that kind of dull then.

what the hell is the movie where the impossibly white-toothed hunk is telling his daughter about all his ex-girlfriends

cause i hate that guy

haha the one with ryan reynolds?

RYAN REYNOLDS

that's him!! GOD

i thiiiiiiink theres an old i love cricket thread where the schef and i talk abt that movie and i semi-live blog watching it, but really all i can remember is how sad everyone's apartments made me

lmao

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412BWS8S72L._SS500_.jpg

martha marcie may marlene is p rad imho

ive watched all these in abt the last wk:

alice doesnt live here anymore
stolen kisses
the night of the hunted (am kinda gettin in 2 rollin, this was good)
5X2
the exterminating angel
afterschool (hadnt realized the marcy martha may marlene guy produced this)
fear and desire
rabid
man on a swing
the wayward cloud o_O

o i also watched tiny furniture - fuck that shit, tho it looked great for a $50k budget or w/e

On Thursday I got together with some old friends and watched:

Another Earth
I'm Still Here

One of them was better than the other.

epic fail w/ 5-yo niece trying to watch BluRay of Meet Me in St Louis; she stomped around room doing her own compositions before we yanked it

Watching Mikio Naruse's Ukigumo on a crappy laptop

mi5 ghost protocol yall

i was thinking abt going to see that out of boredom today but its just too gd cold. myself:

my week with marilyn (blah)
margin call (thought this was really really good)
four feathers (got kinda bored tbh)
gone with the wind (old movie actors are p ugly tbh)
rules of the game (p sweet new blu ray, still best movie)
black moon (kinda want to talk/think abt this more)

man i started a margin call thread on the other ilx but not a single person watched it

i am prepared to talk trash re: that film on real ilx when it's back, if you wanna give it another try

i didnt really have any original opinions about it tbh

well-made, wonderfully acted, kind of a muddle politically

also i was weirded out by how the one dude who was like irredeemably bad had a really obvious jewish name and no one else did

haha now im thinking of all the names to put in ALL CAPS...

did you like it max? it had a lot of personal resonance having worked in risk mgmt but i thought it was a really good depiction of like, organizational structure and relationships which is s.thing movies/tv rarely do well? idk i liked it a lot

I read something about how the finance didn't make sense cause they didn't put the situation in context or something? I forget. I haven't seen it but I guess I should if it's good.

screener season has begun hint hint

i don't really get 'wonderfully acted', though i guess it's good to see wall st guys as vapid & out of touch. there was this weird hyperbolic signage throughout the film that sorta undermined the believability of anyone involved; like jeremy irons gets introed as this total sharp badass that he doesn't especially turn out to be; & everyone has to go through the montage of like squinting at screens & appearing to process things w/furrowed brows. maybe some of this is just because i'd heard people talk about how demi moore was so transcendent & she wasn't like ... even in it that much

both the mentalist and dan from gossip girl had jewish surnames iirc? i was p ok w/ how muddy its politics are because i think the feeling of contempt/frustration w/'the real world' is p impt in finance and kinda worth foregrounding, and i dont think 'the audience' doesnt deserve implicating?

its sorta garbled on the technical side i think partly on purpose and partly to make it seem more 'timeless', maybe? the thing that it does really well is show the divisions and failures of the 'system' itself, and it has a good grasp on stuff like the division btw middle and front office depts. for e.g. its really more abt organizational failure than 'finance' i think?

i did like it lamp, on a movie level i though it was pretty great, and managed to make a complicated boring thing pretty gripping and comprehensible without really eliding too much

like jeremy irons gets introed as this total sharp badass that he doesn't especially turn out to be

heh i felt like this was crazy believable

i read a review that said this was about how bankers are like real people too which made it sound totally awful

ha idk i just felt 'show not tell', because there was this "don't even try it he's TOO FAST" & you totally expect a jeremy irons you don't end up getting; the sharp, calculating, laconic shark, rather than the kinda efficient but distant/brainless CEO. & i felt like that about everything else, but i'm persuaded by the idea above that it's about power & organisation more than the specifics.

i couldn't handle the 'i noticed something wrong' scrutiny scenes, though, they were frames away from 'can you enhance'

lol i love CSI so maybe im in the target market

so glad me not enjoying a finance film why because borrrring somehow seems to elevate me above appreciating genre fare

I liked Margin Call but the Spacey sequences with the dog and his boring personal life were unnecessary "character development.

i think spacey is kindof dreamy im sorry hes never in anything anymore

in any event to me the distance between irons' reputation and irons in an actual crisis was sort of "the point" or "a point." like, of course this guy who (some of) the underlings lionize as a major player/genius/shark turns out to be just as in-over-his-head as everyone

It's Wednesday after Christmas and am watching Tuesday, After Christmas.

in any event to me the distance between irons' reputation and irons in an actual crisis was sort of "the point" or "a point." like, of course this guy who (some of) the underlings lionize as a major player/genius/shark turns out to be just as in-over-his-head as everyone

My conclusions too but the dialogue given him during the first crisis meeting errs in making him too much a buffoon.

i read a review that said this was about how bankers are like real people too which made it sound totally awful

i think you might really like this? theres some neat stuff abt the importance of physical spaces and like insiders/outsiders that i can only half articulate and wasnt paying close enough to really 'get' but seemed... idk, 'composed' in a cool way? ugh

i think that's true but i also think it was a kinda cheap-in to a kind of lazy gravitas, inflating a character in an environment that's meant to be charged & barbed. tbh i think this is sort of a weird problem with a bunch of contemporary film; i remember in a single man colin firth kinda exists as a few temperamentally different, disparate guys that aren't either united by a common thread, or made to seem like conscious variants on a character. a lot of margin call felt kinda like bluster to me, like i can't really remember but i assume it was overscored & laden with this bossy post-glassian strident cello music, car window reflections &c&c&c&c&c

A Single Man had a lot of problems, the worst of which was that no one gave a shit about the novel.

a single man is one of the best movies of the last five years, everything was a surface and discrete

firth was nothing but a series of forms, a placeholder in existence

idk i just got pissed off that the painting in julianne moore's apt turned out to be something tom ford painted himself and completely wrong and jarring

ASM insulted, in order (a) Isherwood (b) gay life, especially as conceived by Isherwood (c) set design (d) Julianne Moore

julianne moore brought it on herself

yeah true. She's been unwatchable for a while.

yeah she was sorta gross in this but i didnt mind. i liked the set design as much as i liked the dead boyfriend's madras shorts which is a lot. i mean his house was like those high end magazine photo shoots of someone's impossibly packed suitcase (and why are you bringing a solid oak shoetree on vacation anyway?)

yeah i mean this was essentially a grace coddington photostory

The novel is all surface hiding depths, the movie is depth that isn't even good as surface.

I haven't seen Margin Call, phaps bcz no one in my circle knew what the hell anyone was saying.

Ever wanted to recommend a film you didn't like just for the transition into the end credits? Most of Brick from a few years ago drove me up the wall, but the song at the end, which came as a complete surprise, almost saved it.

hay just watched margin call thx 4 the recommend dudes p sweet - have to take issue w/the irons opinons itt - i dont think that he turned out to be a huge disappointment or appropriately idiotic or w/e - he was roughly as smart as everyone else which is to say smart but falible in the way humans are - if there was any sort of super human legend of his genius implied then of course he as human is not going to live up to it - i thought his character/acting was really good, cause what he had that no one else did, what you often see at the top of the totem pole is an element of inscrutability - that can sometimes be read as concealing ineptitude or shallowness, but the point is you can never quite tell, its an aspect of power - thought everyone else was good too, zachary quiznoses eyebrows were sculpted to a legit distracting extent tho

loved the conversation between a shaving mentalist and the grieving for his job junior analyst

youre going to fire me later arent you
*non committal grunt*
this is all i ever wanted to do
really?

i thought margin call was ok but it had problems, yeah

stanley tucci and kevin spacey were playing kinda the same character? and tucci seemed more interesting to me.

the frantic overnight investigation/preparation is done w/o any mention of government at all.

burying his dog was a lame scene, but the bit with spacey in the exec cafeteria, totally defeating, knowing he's chained to a rotting ship, was great

i saw the fincher 'dragon tattoo' which was not that great the more i think about it. it has an unbelievable 90s cgi bondage music video credit sequence that had me cracking up hard

tooch was great in margin call, but when has tooch ever not been great

the frantic overnight investigation/preparation is done w/o any mention of government at all

someone says that they are doing this before the fed(s) can react and try to slow them

yup by noon the feds are gonna be all over our asses slowing us down

lol i guess i meant the bailouts that actually occurred

yeah i think thats the next step if their plan doesnt work, they werent even thinking that far out

and obvs none of them want that as they were more in the bear/lehman mold of being hours from insolvency ie they were not gonna get bailed out, best they could hope for is their company gets bought for cents on the dollar w/the help of govt guarantees

btw re lamps comments abt physical space, when they were talking abt 'floors' were they talking abt trading floors, floors of a building, or BOTH

yeah

loved demi moore btw

xp i kinda took it that 'floor' is sort of an abstract area almost? like 'world' or something. idk.

flooring me w/ these insights dudes

p sure they were talking abt trading floors but they did use elevators a lot too so idk

i guess there was a bit of a disconnect w/ the sudden firing preceding sthing which was otherwise indicated as a great revelation

yeah they never explained the opening masacre, guessing prob the company realized it wasnt in the greatest spot but more based on the general economy, then the big reveal was that they were in a terrible spot based on what they were doing particularly

yeah i suppose getting rid of risk management ppl in particular was supposed to convey 'institutional denial'

yeah good call

this is a good film and movies movies movies movies readers who haven't been cajoled into seeing it by peer pressure alone, shd be mindful of seeing it just because it is a good film

havent watched it & am trying to avoid u guyz talking abt it but fyi u can "rent" it on amazon.com instant videos - four bucks

rewatched Late Spring last night with my roommate — I don't think he was impressed

suggest banshun?

wd

just watched tree of life

I watched it again a few days ago. I think it's officially my gf's favorite movie at this point.

I feel like it's probably one of the few movies that would be a deal-breaker for me trusting someone else's taste if they didn't like it.

h8 that movie

*breaks deal with cooper chucklebutt, wonders if God hears my anguished cries of loneliness*

congrats, I'm really impressed by yr cynicism

its that movie thats cynical fwiw

"what if cooper chucklebutt created love?"

seriously, trolling aside what did you dislike about it?

im on a shitty for typing ipad atm so I can't really do it justice but in short the negative Christian vibes brought me down, I complained extensively abt it on the big board fwiw, also I love both his 70s movies, recent work I have more reservations abt

I was probably a bit too unequivocal earlier. I just found it extremely moving — painfully so.

I am on a '50s(ish) movie musical kick right now.

seven brides for seven brothers
vagabond king
there's no business show business
inspector general

what else do i watch?

oh kay el ay ech oh em ay!

also Carousal

South Pacific is super ugly, but greatest music ever. Singing in the Rain obv classic too...

the pajama game!

The Band Wagon, Gigi

when has tooch ever not been great

playing pervy killer ned flanders in The Lovely Bones

i was way into tree of life. it really annoyed me that people in the cinema started whining about how long it was as soon as the credits started to roll. like the running time is on the poster.

I have watched all of the Rogers & Hammerstein musicals too many times, but I will queue up Pajama Game, Band Wagon, and Gigi

haha its hard for me to believe "stanley tucci as perverted serial killer ned flanders" is bad but im never going to watch the lovely bones so ill take your word for it

i hear he based it on his real shitty persona

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/f123/katiezo/septemberb/stanleytuccicreep.jpg

what about his really shitty ties

i like to think stanley is reenacting this photo of zero mostel doing the same thing that i saw once. forget who the leeree was tho!

haha its hard for me to believe "stanley tucci as perverted serial killer ned flanders" is bad but im never going to watch the lovely bones so ill take your word for it

― max max max max, Saturday, December 31, 2011 11:39 AM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

lol my exact reaction

although if im being totally honest w/myself i have to admit i will likely watch lovely bones on tv some day

I'd rather wear Tucci's tie for the rest of my life than watch TLB again.

that bad huh

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_J6j-bn9B08M/TA0eWvHQ1FI/AAAAAAAAPXE/GAMIEAUUXug/s1600/the+producers-754500.jpg