go fuck yourself
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, I didn't even nominate Kevin in screenplay.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, and The New World is far and away Malick's worst fuiud.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
morbius telling gabbneb to STFU somehow perfectly encapsulating everything good about a sb-free board
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
he freed someone from death row
def deserved the Nobel over the Smooth Criminal
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
Are you reminding us that Obama is half-black? I don't have much of an opinion on the appropriateness of the prize, perhaps because I don't take it especially seriously (the sciences and other achievements less in the public eye moreso), but I think it quite likely that Obama has saved more lives, net, than Morris.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Are you reminding us that Obama is half-black?
wtg morbs, can't believe you're suggesting blacks shouldn't get the nobel
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
What do you propose is the significance of comparing Obama to Michael Jackson, schlump?
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
whites shouldn't get it either
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
It's the song title, fool.
Thanks, I've been aware since age 11. Why was the song title of one of the other most famous black people in the world selected as an appellation?
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
cuz he's a silver-tongued war criminal according to Morbz.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
This is really not that difficult.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
i am totally with you, i think 'smooth criminal' referred covertly to michael jackson, like the song, reminding us of how those two guys are similar, rather than being a neat encapsulation of how obama might be perceived, smooth, like how you might describe a good, camera-friendly orator, & criminal, the thing we are discussing, his purported criminal acts.
MJ was black iirc, & your weird 'half-black' pluck is further out than anything anyone else is saying
― Never translate German (schlump), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
"your weird 'half-black' pluck is further out than anything anyone else is saying"
I was merely being precise wrt Obama. MJ, of course, lost a great deal of pigmentation, so there is some parallel there.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
your sensitivity has lost a great deal of pigmentation today.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
dirty detrius, yeah
― j crunchwrap supreme, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
I bet gabbneb likes The Artist, too
OH NO, PRINCE REF
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
That is what I thought of first, being that music is the greater medium.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
Obama has saved more lives, net,
"net" is what should be thrown over you.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
That seems insensitive somehow.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
The Artist is crap.
― Lord Sotosyn, Friday, December 23, 2011 10:19 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Permalink
yes, it is to Singin' in the Rain & Guy Maddin what Drive is to Le Samourai & The Driver.
I was wondering about this - the breathless reviews I've read, none of them have cited Maddin or Singin' In The Rain, both of which seem like such obvious touchstones/reference points. It's like people forgot these movies existed or something.
― I am womansplainer hear me roar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
music is the greater medium.
haha okay waht
It's like people forgot these movies existed or something.
It's possible. Watching The Artist made me forget that movies can ever be any good.
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
The Artist is what SITR would've been if it had concentrated exclusively on the Kelly-Reynolds relationship...without songs or jokes.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I suspected as much
― I am womansplainer hear me roar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
I have to stress what a boring nullity this thing is.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
You guys seem to be talking about it a lot.
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
weren't you talking about Jacko?
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Most ppl who are mooning over The Artist have never seen Maddin, and probably no silent films in decades if ever. (Then there are extreme exceptions like Kevin Brownlow and Godfrey Cheshire, which just flummox me.)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
have never seen Maddin
same goes for tree of life apparently
Q: should i watch the crappy version of a brighter summer day that i just torrented or wait a billion years for it to somehow become attainable to me otherwise
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:40 (twelve years ago) link
the 2011 version, that is, which i assume is of better quality
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link
it's on Google video too.... I would wait, it's gotta be coming out on DVD in the next year.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 07:44 (twelve years ago) link
schlump, Tabloid is not a mess or anything--quite amusing, actually--but it's very much television. Like an extended episode of First Person, nothing ambitious about it.
― VHS duct, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 08:14 (twelve years ago) link
If he's a Great Filmmaker, it's because he freed someone from death row, an impact I don't immediately recall any other film matching.
lol, NOT taking this bait
― VHS duct, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 08:16 (twelve years ago) link
Nat'l Film Registry list gets downright schizo.
● “Allures” (1961)● “Bambi” (1942)● “The Big Heat” (1953)● “A Computer Animated Hand” (1972)● “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment” (1963)● “The Cry of the Children” (1912)● “A Cure for Pokeritis” (1912)● “El Mariachi” (1992)● “Faces” (1968)● “Fake Fruit Factory” (1986)● “Forrest Gump” (1994)● “Growing Up Female” (1971)● “Hester Street” (1975)● “I, an Actress” (1977)● “The Iron Horse” (1924)● “The Kid” (1921)● “The Lost Weekend” (1945)● “The Negro Soldier” (1944)● Nicholas Brothers Family Home Movies (1930s-’40s)● “Norma Rae” (1979)● “Porgy and Bess” (1959)● “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991)● “Stand and Deliver” (1988)● “Twentieth Century” (1934)● “War of the Worlds” (1953)
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
● “Stand and Deliver” (1988)
haha waht
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get the doc love for the late-opening El Sicario, Room 164.
also not sure it's a documentary.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
saw Tuesday, After Christmas today. I can't think of any significant flaws except the fuzziness of the husband's relations with his in-laws.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
heads up non-critics like myself can stream Tuesday, Poetry, Certified Copy and uh Cold Weather on netflix right now
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
ty, cosmo
i watched poetry just the other day - is v good
― j crunchwrap supreme, Thursday, 29 December 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
Poetry is marvelous.
Will watch CC tomorrow now that I see it's available.
― Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 29 December 2011 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
uncle boonmee also streamable
― a collection of gruff, big-balled boasts (zachylon), Thursday, 29 December 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lchb2pe8RW1qa0jlno1_500.jpg
^^ would stream
― Never translate German (schlump), Thursday, 29 December 2011 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
you trout!
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
(oh, catfish I guess)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
someone commented in the VV film poll that the "verdant night-scapes and gently materializing apparitions of uncle boonmee" were the best movie moments of the year. agreed!
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
and finally saw Meek's Cutoff last night. Kinda thrilling to watch Kelly Reichard handle the sex/race relations. Also a plus to see something where Paul Dano is tolerable.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 29 December 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
got my hands on UK horror-thriller Kill List; a little too familiar in some ways (the climax splits the difference between a couple of genre touchstones), but damn if that last 20 minutes didn't give me heart palpitations.
― Simon H., Thursday, 29 December 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
Tinker Tailor was pretty great. Bellflower was interesting.
― gukbe, Thursday, 29 December 2011 05:45 (twelve years ago) link