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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

― 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

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