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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.

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

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