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Dreamgirls is really good, though, Eric!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 29 December 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the real Motown musical (i.e. The Wiz) way better, though.

Volver something of a letdown. I wasn't expecting fireworks, but maybe I was expecting a few more women...?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 December 2006 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link

recently:

children of men -- yes, good.

days of being wild -- it's weird watching wong's movies in reverse (as tears go by is the only one i haven't seen yet), seeing his various obsessions germinate. so this kind of felt like in the mood for love for kids. great, of course.

domino -- felt like an extended infomercial for keira knightley, sadly lacking an 800 number. fun for about an hour, but i was real bored by the end.

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 December 2006 05:46 (seventeen years ago) link

children of men - mostly good

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Godfather 2 - disc 1

Fucking Netflix! Why don't both discs just come together?! And why did I think I'd be able to "just watch a little of it while I eat my dinner"?

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link

why don't things just happen

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

chappelle's block party - generally funny
match point - ehh

― false cat (sleep), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

finishing up arrested development (season 3 disc 2)

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

NO TV

The Fountain is a splendid failure, there shd b more movies like it.

Armond White: Sparkle > Dreamgirls

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

the good shepherd

it was all right. i found it less dull than a lot of others have. maybe it's from reading all that crap about the cold war and trying figure out which characters were surrogates/composites for various historical figures. (crudup=kim philby!).

it was probably a bit too self-serious and dour, though.

Anyone else keep expecting every male cast-member to come out of the closet?

hahahahaha otm!

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link

today i watched passin' it on (about black panthers) and winter soldier and this week i have also watched mr. death, fog of war, american dream (i like barbara koppple) and something else. i don't know why i am so documentary craaaaaaaaazy

― caitlin oh no (harbl), Saturday, 30 December 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link

there is nothing really 'splendid' about the fountain.

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Also Armond White: "We Are Marshall is good because it’s not propaganda; its regard of healing goes beyond 9/11 to the essence of American character. Listen at the way McConaghey urges a player to 'Head-slap the shit' out of an opponent. Beneath its Jock Uplift formula, We Are Marshall is sly, hard-core Americana."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link

speaking of documentary, i had some serious issues with Manufactured Landscapes, which i saw recently. in some ways i really loved it for what it showed, things i'd never seen before, portrayed artistically, capturing the scope/enormity of a landscape. however, though i know it was based on an art project, i thought it would go beyond that, be more political, be, well, wider in scope. i don't know, the photographs are pretty great in a sense but at the same time i feel a distinct lack in them. mostly because i think the photographer isn't all that empathetic to the 'human element'. and/or he's just not all that smart/intellectual?

anyway, i was supposed to watch little miss sunshine tonight and then i just ended up writing an article about my favourite shows of 2006 and now i don't know if i can go through with watching the movie. so maybe i will just keep listening to music and write something about manufactured landscapes.

i also want to see children of men.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:59 (seventeen years ago) link

28 Up
first one that I didn't find 100% compelling.

Nice coincidence, I watched that one last night too. I wanted to see John, the superprivileged super-snooty guy in that group of three, but he refused to show. He probably realized how badly he was coming across compared to the realer real lives of the others. I hope he shows up in 35-42-49.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 December 2006 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLY SHIT DREAMGIRLS

i cried five times, for real.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Antonia's Line

It's pretty good, but all men are either rapists or stupid, harmless sods, and all women are full of genius, strength and purity of heart.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:17 (seventeen years ago) link

but how was the movie?

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

INLAND EMPIRE

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Saturday, 30 December 2006 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Children of Men (generally wow)

Eric, what about Armond's crazy "Bush as America's coach" passage.

Also, while i'm always interested in Sicinski's take, dude gave Borat 3/10.

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 December 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

okay i finally watched little miss sunshine - not so bad really, for a saturday early afternoon when it's snowing out. i really liked the cast and the volkswagon van (i grew up with an orange and white one and we drove it to california a few times, fair share of breakdowns, therefore: soft spot), but the script could've been waaay better written. could not deal with the music.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

honestly the more i think about that movie the more i hate it

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

they seriously have to ban the "let your freak flag fly" awkward dance sequence indie movie climax scene

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm trying not to think about it
xpost
it was a bit much in a way that it should've been way more

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

slytusk OTMFM - both in the growing hatred of LMS and the call for bannage of indie dance sequence trope.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Can we also ban the scene where a character uses literature in a facile way to explain the point of the movie? "See, like, Raskolnikov thought he didn't have to follow any rules. But he soon learned that sometimes society has taboos for a good reason."

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

again, bad writing is to blame, bad lazy uninspired writing :(

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

and not-so-great directing
the van-pushing was great the first and second time around but then, y'know

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Watched The Sacrifice last night. Despite the coolness of the scene with Anderson and the witch doing their floaty-spinny thing, it seemed nowhere near as hypnotic and effective as Stalker. Maybe next, folks here seem to like it.

― clotpoll (clotpoll), Saturday, 30 December 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

and no laughs!!! (in re:LMS)

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Art School Confidential = WOW. what a bad movie. to the point that I wondered if it was an intentionally bad movie.

Dog Soldiers = it's the Evil Dead! with werewolves!

Barton Fink = suhweet.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Saturday, 30 December 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

also

***** SPOILERS *******

did anyone else sympathize with the pageant judges when they tried to shut down the girl's dance sequence? it was actually kind of disgusting!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The movie is basically Vacation meets the Little Miss Springfield episode of The Simpsons. Sprinkle in a few Proust and Nietszche mentions, and you have a "sleeper indie hit."

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link

agh i keep thinking about it! and mostly i'm upset about the actors and what could've been.
yes, the dance scene was cringey, even if i didn't side with the judges, who were supporting another kind of icky anyway. it was made even worse by the heavy-handed 'lesson' about what, about sexuality? about pagentry? family support? not being ashamed of oneself? good lessons, sure, but, UH

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the IDEA of Greg Kinnear's character but they could have made him a lot less over the top. Alan Arkin did his best with the dirty grandpa schtick, but the writing felt a little forced, and it was an even bigger mistake to write him out of the movie.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually, my favorite thing was the test pilot kid. I found him genuinely funny and convincing.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link

because he didn't say anything!!

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Saturday, 30 December 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Eric, what about Armond's crazy "Bush as America's coach" passage.

I couldn't tell if he was noting that idea or advocating it. In any case, a bit whatev to him.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

"a BIG whatev"

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 31 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Point Blank - I want to be Lee Marvin when I grow up.

― milo (milo), Sunday, 31 December 2006 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

pavement slow century

― false cat (sleep), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

fast food nation

― shakey mo jopotatoes (bundgee), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 06:22 (seventeen years ago) link

The Case of the Grinning Cat
Letters from Iwo Jima

― Dr M (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:06 (seventeen years ago) link

strangers with candy: weak, funny

pirates 2: needed 75x more tentacle face

― urghonomic (gcannon), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I wanted to see John, the superprivileged super-snooty guy in that group of three, but he refused to show. He probably realized how badly he was coming across compared to the realer real lives of the others. I hope he shows up in 35-42-49.

He does, but [VAGUE SPOILER] he's kind of an opportunist about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

the enigma of kaspar hauser. enigmatic! (the german title is so much better.)

― tipsy mothra (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - I haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine but a couple people told me I should & said I'd really like it & this made me wary and somewhat paranoid wondering what they thought of me (ie 'bitch is crazy!!')

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

The Sacrifice doesn't add up (I had some complicated theory about why the guy had to act anyway even if not necessary.. eh.. probably overthinking) but has a few nice set pieces.. the documentary about the making-of is neat b/c the burning house at the end didn't work on the first take and they only had one more chance to get it right. Stalker is far better but damn, does it go on and on and on..

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:37 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm waiting on dvds from greencine: 'cemetery man', 'the big combo', and--due to an error on my part--the bonus disc of 'infernal affairs 2'

― bohren un der club of gear (bohren un der club of gear), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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