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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.

there are some naysayers but that's pretty much the consensus right there

(plus love for Alec Baldwin, and Jack's ratface)

last night finally saw 12 monkeys (sorry bros i was bored/underwhelmed -- i think my fave gilliam movie might be baron von muchausen) and also watched shadows, which was fucking incredible.

Anyone ever seen TONITE LET'S ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON, or these other '60s pop Peter Whitehead films?

http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/?start=2007-2-15&end=2007-2-21

i remember you saying that about iwo jima -- how hackenyed and haggis'd it was -- and i doubted you. no longer.

Biskind's juicy dishing about how hotshot directors were brought down by the twin demons of arrogance and rampant libido is also tainted by his admission that he can't vouch for the accuracy of many of the book's details. ''Not only is the terrain distant, but in this period memory has been enfeebled by booze and drugs,'' he writes on the very first page....

Even facts that could have been checked more easily are sloughed off. Biskind claims that ''up to 1975, no picture cost more than $15 million''; ''Cleopatra'' cost 20th Century Fox $44 million in early-1960's dollars, and the eight-hour Russian ''War and Peace'' (1966-67) cost at least $96 million. Biskind misspells the names of several well-known Hollywood people; he wrongly asserts ''there was little or no precedent for an actor actually producing a picture'' before Warren Beatty on ''Bonnie and Clyde'' (what about Charles Chaplin, Orson Welles, Ida Lupino, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, et al.?); and he thinks Julia Phillips is the only woman producer to win an Oscar (Lili Fini Zanuck and Wendy Finerman have done so as well).

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/10/reviews/980510.10mcbridt.html

I said nothing to the contrary of this, fwiw.

Strictly Ballroom

oh and if you guys like the oblivians or thee headcoatees and anything similar, the ettes are a must-own.

I'll watch them later.

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

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_J6j-bn9B08M/TA0eWvHQ1FI/AAAAAAAAPXE/GAMIEAUUXug/s1600/the+producers-754500.jpg