Cahiers du Cinema de Noize

The black guy was gay, that's about all I remember about the movie. That and the colors were wildly oversaturated in post.

Dementia 13
The Departed (about the best we can expect from Scorsese by now, sigh)

-- 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.

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.

-- scott seward (skotro...), December 24th, 2006.

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 (skotro...), December 24th, 2006.

The Good Shepherd - so dull, so incredibly dull

STORY OF MY LIVES.

-- 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.

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.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/locations

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.

see the rundown, it is a treat.

Transporter 2 - not as good as Crank, the fight scenes are inventive but that Jackie Chan stuff gets old.

"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)"

no no i mean it's okay!

haha that was an xpost!
and now!

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'