― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Saturday, 23 December 2006 18:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Dementia 13The 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
― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Sunday, 24 December 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― baccarat heads spice pushka underdog official texas holdem bundgee (bundgee), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― reading murder books, tryin' to stay hip (get bent), Sunday, 24 December 2006 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
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 (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (clonefeed), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― remy bean (bean), Sunday, 24 December 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
The Good Shepherd - so dull, so incredibly dull
― milo (milo), Monday, 25 December 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link
-- 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
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
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/locations
― amon (amon), Monday, 25 December 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
"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
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
― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 25 December 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― milo (milo), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Monday, 25 December 2006 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 25 December 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Monday, 25 December 2006 14:40 (seventeen years ago) link
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