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 methodwe need to talk abt kevinknuckleshamein timethe descendantsmelancholiamargin callttss (successfully screened)
aaannd theres abt an equal number i could watch when theyre available in my home
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 14:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, 12 December 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
it was sorta deft & quick & smooth more than dramatic or thrilling to me
― Never translate German (schlump), Monday, December 12, 2011 9:46 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
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
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
My classy "cocoon with arty Xmas movies" night with whiskey playlist:
first episode of TV version of Fanny and AlexanderA Christmas TaleThe Red Shoes
― Detrius of Life (Eric H.), Monday, 12 December 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
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?"
― clemenza, Monday, 12 December 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
actually it was in the VV, but I see why I made the error.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2007-01-16/film/becket/
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 14 December 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
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
― his venerable escutcheon, Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
haha the one with ryan reynolds?
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 15 December 2011 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
RYAN REYNOLDS
― his venerable escutcheon, Thursday, 15 December 2011 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
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
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Thursday, 15 December 2011 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
lmao
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Thursday, 15 December 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412BWS8S72L._SS500_.jpg
― j crunchwrap supreme, Saturday, 24 December 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
martha marcie may marlene is p rad imho
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Saturday, 24 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
ive watched all these in abt the last wk:
alice doesnt live here anymorestolen kissesthe night of the hunted (am kinda gettin in 2 rollin, this was good)5X2the exterminating angelafterschool (hadnt realized the marcy martha may marlene guy produced this)fear and desirerabidman on a swingthe wayward cloud o_O
― j crunchwrap supreme, Saturday, 24 December 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
o i also watched tiny furniture - fuck that shit, tho it looked great for a $50k budget or w/e
― j crunchwrap supreme, Saturday, 24 December 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
On Thursday I got together with some old friends and watched:
Another EarthI'm Still Here
One of them was better than the other.
― sean doily, Saturday, 24 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 26 December 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Watching Mikio Naruse's Ukigumo on a crappy laptop
― tanuki, Monday, 26 December 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
mi5 ghost protocol yall
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Monday, 26 December 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― well then (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
man i started a margin call thread on the other ilx but not a single person watched it
― max max max max, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
i am prepared to talk trash re: that film on real ilx when it's back, if you wanna give it another try
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
i didnt really have any original opinions about it tbh
― max max max max, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max max max max, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
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
― well then (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
screener season has begun hint hint
― Cooper Chucklebutt, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― well then (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max max max max, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max max max max, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
i read a review that said this was about how bankers are like real people too which made it sound totally awful
― judith, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
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'
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol i love CSI so maybe im in the target market
― max max max max, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
so glad me not enjoying a finance film why because borrrring somehow seems to elevate me above appreciating genre fare
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I liked Margin Call but the Spacey sequences with the dog and his boring personal life were unnecessary "character development.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
i think spacey is kindof dreamy im sorry hes never in anything anymore
― judith, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max max max max, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
It's Wednesday after Christmas and am watching Tuesday, After Christmas.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
My conclusions too but the dialogue given him during the first crisis meeting errs in making him too much a buffoon.
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
― well then (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Never translate German (schlump), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
A Single Man had a lot of problems, the worst of which was that no one gave a shit about the novel.
― Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 28 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
a single man is one of the best movies of the last five years, everything was a surface and discrete
― well then (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 28 December 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link