i mean i guess you hate david lynch? there are all kinds of movies and plays where plot is utterly secondary. there is nothing inherently wrong with that.

like what?

like what?

moderate left? how in the living fuck can you say that? what evidence of that is there?

and i already mentioned lynch. and all of absurdist theater. and stuff like who's afraid of virginia woolf. there are a lot of other movies that have fine plots but are elevated based on other aspects of filmmaking.

i mean only 8-year-olds usually consider plot to be of the utmost importance in any work of literature/film/theater.

Eulogy at this point, I really don't care about the "look" or the actors in the movie. If the plot is crap, the movie is shit.

this is how i feel about the social network. if this plot line was completely fiction, it would have been the most inane story ever told in the history of film. but instead, since its loosely inspired by something that 500 million people care about, and is probably only around 85% fabricated, it is a potential picture of the year? :banging:

and i love fincher.

or is the political jab relating to how you shit your pants whenever i point out that liberal democrats do exist and some of them even hold political office

single payer healthcare is so moderate right now

This pretty much sums up how I feel about David Lynch:

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and i already mentioned lynch. and all of absurdist theater. and stuff like who's afraid of virginia woolf. there are a lot of other movies that have fine plots but are elevated based on other aspects of filmmaking.

meh i mean i guess so. I would say Aguirre, the Wrath of God isn't so much about the plot but it's still like eleventy billion times better than Inception.

This pretty much sums up how I feel about David Lynch:

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i've been told twin peaks is great. i'll probably get around to watching it someday.

i've been told twin peaks is great. i'll probably get around to watching it someday.

Season one is good. Season two, the show fell off a cliff because Lynch wasn't as involved in the show.

Season one is good. Season two, the show fell off a cliff because Lynch wasn't as involved in the show.

yeah my friend said it got a lot more soap-y at that point.

Big Fan- 6.C+

after viewing my immediate thought was i liked it enough to not hate it. but this might be a movie i like more after having more time to think about it. i think the main character was written real well, with enough nuances to make it seem like he might just be sane enough even though most everyone else in the movie has good reason to think he needs some help. in that sense, the movie does well in ensuring the viewer understands the perspective of the various characters. patton oswalt, who i am not a particular fan of, did a great job here.

The Mechanic - A great father/son movie

yeah. i've only seen three now i think. the only one i had a coherent reaction to was blue velvet.

i'll say that i don't have any idea what the hell is going on, his movies are not boring. i have to keep watching even though i know i don't know wtf is happening.

same here. it helps me to read relatively well written reviews cos they sometimes help explain stuff life symbolism that I would otherwise have just passed by.

of course, it also helps just to watch the movie again. i noticed so much more significant stuff when i watch blue velvet for the second time. some of lynch's stuff is really cool.

you're infinitely more tiresome than samuel redman lately
both quality posters, would read again

thanks pal, remind me not to call you a fucker n stuff

i mean only 8-year-olds usually consider plot to be of the utmost importance in any work of literature/film/theater.

by the way what the fuck is this?

i'm 8 years old because i don't want to see the transformers movie because the plot is a fucking hellhole for bad writers and i didn't like inception because THE ENTIRE IDEA IS COMPLETELY RETARDED

even you complained about the talky explainy parts, the thing is <i>there is no way for this movie to make sense to anyone unless the actors themselves start explaining it to each other <u>and that is one of the hallmarks of bad writing</u></i>.

If it was done without all that Explain The Concept to Ellen Page stuff, it would be some kind of bizzare arthouse movie, it may have been somewhat tolerable but it would have never gotten made and there wouldn't be so many explosions and pointless machine gun fire.

In fact I think Inceptions retarded gun fetish dovetails pretty neatly into my position that we now use violence simply for the sake of entertainment and cheap thrills. I have never seen so many pointless rounds of ammunition in a film than I saw in Inception. It reduces gunfire to background noise.

since when is plot, characters, and a gripping story "for 8 year olds"? Did you get lost up David Lynch's ass?

films are plots but they're also other stuff. like whatever you like about anything

it's not any more complicated than that.

yeah i mean, I think as usual Eulogy is using his definitions for words rather than actual definitions.

Here's the plot of Aguirre the Wrath of God: Spanish conquistadors get lost in the Amazon rain forest; madness ensues.

That's a good plot that enables the director and cast to do a lot of things. Aguirre is not a plot heavy movie, in fact, the language is so simple that even though it's in german I almost could understand most of it without subtitles. What makes Aguirre great is Klaus Kinsky's spell-binding performance and the images and general feelings and themes expressed in it. it's filmmaking at the very highest level, period.

Blade Runner is about a dude hunting down human replicants. But it's so much more still...

The plot of Inception is a psuedo sci-fi thriller where some dudes go into people's dreams so they can get information and/or plant ideas in their head then they get guns and shoot people and there's like kicks and blah blah blah actually this plot is so fucking horrible it would take at least 500 words to actually detail so...you know. If plots are for 8 year olds why is Inception's plot so Byzantine?

And when you get down to it, I really didn't see "great performances" in Inception. I saw Leo doing what Leo's been doing since Gangs of New York: seethe with emotional distress. It's officially tiresome and he desperately needs to do anything else. I wouldn't really highlight anyone else as being "a great performance" I mean Tom Hardy and JGL trying to out-cool each other would be awesome for a film that didn't take itself so seriously and Marion Cotillard deserves better than a one dimensional symbol.

yeah i didn't think inception was very "smart" either. i liked it because it was very exciting to watch. it's not a thing i think about still. if you don't like something, don't try to ruin it for everyone else. "oo but this is a message board".

yeah i know *shrug*

i watched blade runner with some people recently. some of my friends were immediately hooked, while others just couldn't get into it. it's not the symbolism, it's not that they didn't get the story. it's taste goddammit

I dunno, I think people's standards are incredibly low because they refuse to be critical, and that's why shit like Transformers gets made or how everyone thought There Will Be Blood was the most Brilliant Thing Ever

i watched blade runner with some people recently. some of my friends were immediately hooked, while others just couldn't get into it. it's not the symbolism, it's not that they didn't get the story. it's taste goddammit

most people i've tried to show blade runner to complain that it's "boring"

they need the ADD rush of Inception.

Civilization is crumbling...

i don't recall really advocating for inception's script but ok.

i didn't say plots weren't important. i said they're only a small part of what makes a good film good. and what i meant was that only 8-year-olds would dismiss something entirely because the plot didn't make them cream their pants.

and really the plot of inception is just a guy trying to implant an idea in someone else's head. not really that complicated.

but it's done in a way that you have to have long scenes with someone explaining the concept to another character

i usually don't like contemporary hollwoody flicks at all and i though there will be blood was really good! you have got to get that objective ontology out of your head

the what?

i thought TWBB was one of the most captivating movies i've ever seen until that last act, which was horrible to the point of self parody

seriously. just try to understand for a second that you're not alone in this universe

but it's done in a way that you have to have long scenes with someone explaining the concept to another character

which also allowed for some of the most visually stunning sequences in the movie. take the good with the slightly annoying.

seriously. just try to understand for a second that you're not alone in this universe

what?

why should that prevent me from voicing my opinion?

which also allowed for some of the most visually stunning sequences in the movie. take the good with the slightly annoying.

i dunno, i really didn't see anything remarkable about Inception's visuals.

what?

why should that prevent me from voicing my opinion?

you could be less belligerent about them

i dunno if you're the guy who should be lecturing me about that but yes, I suppose I could reign it in.

it's not just about being nicer, it's about understanding that there's really no way to make objective statements about observations, and it's actually easy to recognise this within art

i didn't make any objective statements i'm just saying what i think

next time you think, try to incorporate the possibility of other perspectives, and the contingency of your own, into your declarations of "opinion"

honestly i don't really give a shit man, i'm gonna say what i want about something I really didn't like. if that offends your conservative, path-of-least-resistance mindset...well shit i still don't care.

and i'm sorry i will never buy this "there's no such thing as good or bad art"

Nickelback is shitty. Transformers is dreck. And not everyone can paint or design.

i mean if you want to see bad art: www.smashingpumpkins.com some of the worst web page design i've ever seen.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

Watched this again recently. Was as brilliant this time as it was the first time I watched it. Definitely in my Top 10 of All Time.

A++

is that like more leet than the director's cut or whatevers

It came out in 2007 on Blu-Ray. I saw the original "voice-over" version on cable not too long ago...compared to that, the Final Cut is definitely an improvement.

Further info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner#The_Final_Cut_.282007.29

uh the director's cut is the one without the v/o. I have that one on an old school DVD that has widescreen on one side and fullscreen on the other. Which is fun because you never know which side is up until after the credits, but I digress. The director's cut removed the voice over, I'm not super sure what's so different about the "final cut" other than the fact that it perfectly coincides with a release in a new format...

i've never seen the theatrical version. sounds like i would really detest it. one of the best things about Blade Runner is the ambiguity.

sounds like this "final cut" just "fixes" "bad" special effects.

uh the director's cut is the one without the v/o. I have that one on an old school DVD that has widescreen on one side and fullscreen on the other. Which is fun because you never know which side is up until after the credits, but I digress. The director's cut removed the voice over, I'm not super sure what's so different about the "final cut" other than the fact that it perfectly coincides with a release in a new format...

i've never seen the theatrical version. sounds like i would really detest it. one of the best things about Blade Runner is the ambiguity.

The Final Cut has no v/o either. The differences between the DC and the FC are mostly subtle ones, but they are noticeable. The FC, unlike the DC, is apparently the only version of the film in which Ridley Scott had total creative control. I recommend watching it if you haven't yet. I promise you you won't be disappointed.

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Rutger Hauer. :rockon:

i dunno sounds like the star wars things where they updated the special effects, not really necessary even if it did bug me about the dove flying up into the blue sky

did they make it so the guy says "He says that you are a Blade Runner, sir." instead of "HE SAY YOU BRADE RUNNAH <i>!!</i>"

13 Ghosts
House on Haunted Hill
Astro-Zombies
Queen of Blood

More late night horror shows my mom tapes for me. I liked Queen of Blood the best, followed by 13 Ghosts.

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most people i've tried to show blade runner to complain that it's "boring"

they need the ADD rush of Inception.

Civilization is crumbling...

for some reason i never got around to watching blade runner until recently (and i'm a big PKD fan so that's very strange) ... and... all i could think of is "that's it?"

i plan on watching it again. but so far i don't see whats so amazing

now watching "homicidal". the beginning was cool. this crazy lady goes around calling herself "miriam webster" and nobody can figure out that its a fake name. yea right get real.

for some reason i never got around to watching blade runner until recently (and i'm a big PKD fan so that's very strange) ... and... all i could think of is "that's it?"

i plan on watching it again. but so far i don't see whats so amazing

because a lot of little kids like you don't even give a shit about when it was released

i'm 28 lol

but no, i regard the time movies were made. from a technical standpoint it was great, could pass for a movie made in the mid-90s or maybe later

yeah you're missing its greater relevance. i'll just enjoy it by myself, thank you.

Strait-Jacket (1964) with Joan Crawford. Pretty sweet.

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yeah you're missing its greater relevance.
heh

Caddyshack

Man, I hate Rodney fucking Dangerfield.

sounds like this "final cut" just "fixes" "bad" special effects.

Mostly it's just hiding lifting cables, cleaning up the picture etc, but they also graft Joanna Cassidy's head onto the very obvious stunt-double-in-a-bad-wig, and Ben Ford's chin onto Deckard during one scene where the dialogue and mouth-movements were completely mismatched. It's very cleverly done, totally seamless, and it's worth watching the featurette "All Our Variant Futures" and epic documentary "Dangerous Days" to see how they did it. The "behind the scenes" story of Blade Runner is perhaps even more interesting than the film itself, showing how all the original materials were found in a storage facility marked "junk", just waiting for a final call for disposal that never came, describing scenes and extensions to the story that never got filmed due to running out of time/money, on-set battles, the unbelievable amount of work that went into designing even the tiniest things that would only be on screen for seconds; they really created a whole new world. Also, everything was pre-digital, so done with models and camera tricks that would baffle modern film-makers.

In other changes, the unicorn scene is slightly tweaked, and there is a whole new digitally-created backdrop for the release of the dove, which, whilst it is a major improvement over the random industrial estate on a sunny day, doesn't sit quite right with me. There's a third version of this scene on one of the extras DVDs which I prefer; it was filmed on set and has the Blade Runner "feel". There was no rain (in reality the dove got soaked and couldn't fly), but I'm sure adding some digitally would have been simple enough.

The Director's Cut was the version that got me hooked, but for anyone new to the film I'd recommend starting with the Final Cut.

i'm watching dogtooth right now

no idea wtf is going on

the parking lot movie- 6.C

amusing enough, and at just over an hour doesn't overstay its welcome. i kind of felt the presentation didn't match the subject. well, mostly the music i guess, which resembles an extreme sports advertisement. unfortunately its in almost every clip and got pretty annoying. no surprise that most of the guys profiled are snarky fuckers, but you could tell who was full of bravado and who was actually clever.

i watched getting to the greek

highs: jonah hill pantomiming to the mars volta, russell brand, colm meany, fuzzy walls
lows: jonah hill's girlfriend is peggy from mad men? never in the real universe.

i'm watching dogtooth right now

no idea wtf is going on

so uh... B+?

I dunno.

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Nacho Libre - a stoner's delight

I watched Carnival Magic which was horrible and Berserk which was horrible then I watched True Stories which is always awesome. David Byrne is so earnest.

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Cousin, Cousine


French flick with 2 distant cousins that meet at a wedding, fall in love and have an affair despite the fact they're married.

Les Cousins Dangereux


French flick with 2 first cousins that meet at a wedding, fall in love and have an affair despite the fact they're related.

fixed

return of martin guerre is a kick ass flick from france

"Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment
Christopher Nolan's much-hyped thriller is a joyless, awkwardly constructed mess (http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/07/14/inception)

Oh hehehe I missed this one. Andrew O'Hehir knows what's up.

i watched rose kill the spurs last night. it was a great movie!

the spurs???? THEY WOULDN'T GET KILLED.

or are you talking about blackburn v. tottenham or something

nah nigga i'm talkin bout the san antonio spurs. getting shut the fuck down by the bulls! that's what they get for sending a hobbling tim duncan to the allstar game over kevin love.

yeah well we played a 9 game road stint and we got dallas next for the end of it.

i need movie recommendations for today/tonight

return of martin guerre is a kick ass flick from france

^

and if you want something fun and vibrant and has more life and energy than practically anything released last year (ESPECIALLY INCEPTION) then get Scott Pilgrim

i have no desire to watch scott pilgrim

i should add that my only option is netflix streaming so it's gotta be on there

yeah why should movies be entertaining and fun they should be super cereal boring fests with lots of automatic weapon shootouts that seem to somehow make gunfights boring and some bullshit about dreams within dreams within dreams ad infinitum.

oh my god you are so annoying

and you are a joyless robot

because i don't want to watch scott pilgrim?

can you maybe just leave me alone?

for a LOT of reasons, eulogy.

that doesn't even make any sense.

you calling me joyless. let's all step back and ponder that.

anyone that experiences joy from watching inception is inherently joyless.

i giggled a lot while watching the latest parks and rec this morning

the last 40 hours or so have been a pretty big joy-fest for me in general though

yeah but you never crack any jokes on here, you're always super cereal, you take everything personally, you argue incessantly...

YOUR NAME IS EULOGY

do you realize that the only people i argue with here are like you, nimrod, and corganist

...you fight with trolls...

like want2bcaic, right

project much?

uuuhhhh nooooo

maybe i'll watch aliens

I downloaded the Man With No Name Trilogy (aka Dollars Trilogy), Dances With Wolves (the 4 hour version), Unforgiven, and Tombstone. Also a bunch of early American film-noir I've been meaning to watch like The Glass Key, In A Lonely Place, and Kiss Me Deadly.

Not sure where to jump in first. Maybe the 90s westerns...

tombstone is worth it for val kilmer. he's brilliant in that.

ya i'mma go with those 2. i remember watching them with my dad on video shortly after they came out.

i also downloaded bruce willis' "last man standing"

i have no desire to watch scott pilgrim
you should watch scott pilgrim

what is with people saying "i have no interest in that" YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT HOW DO YOU KNOW

it's a movie ffs it's not like someone is trying to convince you to eat shit

ya i'mma go with those 2. i remember watching them with my dad on video shortly after they came out.

i also downloaded bruce willis' "last man standing"

i cou ldn't finish this for many reasons. it's on pause and i will finish it but i couldn't do it in one sitting. here's this:\

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you should watch scott pilgrim

what is with people saying "i have no interest in that" YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT HOW DO YOU KNOW

it's a movie ffs it's not like someone is trying to convince you to eat shit

yes i am from now on just going to indiscriminately watch every movie ever

oh wait no that's fucking stupid

i will be starting aliens soon. i probably haven't watched it since i was like 12. kind of excited.

i cou ldn't finish this for many reasons. it's on pause and i will finish it but i couldn't do it in one sitting. here's this:\

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hahaha it's so corny i know that's why i said val kilmer...

it's a movie ffs it's not like someone is trying to convince you to eat shit

hahahaha

seriously it's over-the-top dorky but it has this exuberant style that I've never really seen before

plus there's tons of SP references

what is with people saying "i have no interest in that" YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT HOW DO YOU KNOW
isnt that exacty what interest means usually? youre either drawn to something or not, you dont have to know much about whatever it is at all

Unstoppable - This was pretty bad, yo. I guess even Denzel Washington needs a paycheck every now and then.

Aliens - B+?

This wasn't as good as I remember. The end is obviously awesome ("GET AWAY FROM HER YOU BITCH"). And I get that Paxton is supposed to annoy the shit out of me but good LORD that got hard to deal with.

Pretty sure I prefer the first one. But I haven't seen that in a while either. Having one of the greatest scenes in the history of everything in it doesn't hurt its cause, that's for sure.

Easy A - surprisingly a lot funnier and better than I was expecting.

In A Lonely Place - had this really great scene

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can't. stop. X-Files.

bogey is awesome. treasure of the sierra madre

Blue Valentine was p. cool.

The Expendables - totally not my idea to watch but, even by popcorn action flick standards, it was really really awful.

<b>Lessons of Darkness</b> - Werner Herzog doc about the Kuwaiti oil fires after the first gulf war. Herzog is a visionary and a genius, this is seriously crazy. CRAZY. This directly influenced both Lord of the Rings (I don't think there's any accident that Mordor resembles the scenery of this film) and There Will Be Blood. You thought the dynamite to stop the oil fire trick was cool in TWBB? Wait until you see it done for real...

goddamn herzog is awesome.

drive angry 3d.

most fun i've had at the movies in a long time!

yea herzog takes the cake

Didn't buy what was so appealing about Ramona in Scott Pilgrim.

where did that come from?

I thought she was cute but that was just based on a superficial level, she's poorly written, which is pretty typical at this point: a poorly written female character in a nerdcore movie? NO WAY. You know, cute girl is cute! LOL WHAT ELSE DOES SHE NEED??? PINK HAIR.

movie still takes visual risks others refuse to, and frequently succeeds with them. Stylistically speaking, scott pilgrim is one of the best movies I've seen in a while. It has lots of flaws but generally makes up for them.

it helps that i never feel like the movie takes its own melodrama seriously

jussayin'

*scott pilgrim spoiler:
Scott should have gone with Knives:end spoiler

yeah it's funny how whole and human that character is compared with the abstract of desire which is Ramona.

FYI there is an alternate ending on the blu-ray extras showing exactly what i wanted

that ending really made no sense. ramona tells him to buzz off and he follows her instead. Is there an alternate ending where she asks if he's retarded and/or deaf?

i still think i like inception better than scott pilgrim tho, despite nolan's stunningly boring fight/action scenes

i was getting tired by the end of scott pilgrim

i also watched scott pilgrim with somebody that doesn't listen to indie hipster music nor play videogames and I could easily tell that they thought this was the silliest dumbest movie ever THEY COULD NOT PROCESS IT.

WINNING.

the visuals are still cool, and people who can't like that take themselves much too seriously. There's not really anything "hipster" about scott pilgrim unless nerdcore is the new hip.

nerdcore is hipster if enjoyed ironically

actually i call anything alternative "hipster", i don't care about accuracy.

facts don't matter

pretty sure i only like inception better because i have a man bro-crush on Leo and JGL and Tom Hardy.

and by bro-crush I mean bromance.





in that I want to have homosexual intercourse with them because they're so charismatic.

Country Boys - documentary about two 16-18 yr old teens in Appalachia. It was pretty interesting, I guess, especially seeing the wicked early 00's style and fads. I was really into the first disc but I didn't see the second disc til tonight and I had sort of lost interest. But, I guess, it was OK.

yeah it's funny how whole and human that character is compared with the abstract of desire which is Ramona.

yeah but scott is an idiot

actually all the characters are idiots

that's kind of the point right. it's all humour and style, intentionally low on substance. the graphic novels are pretty similar. it's like watching someone play a really self-referential video game. hey guys i learned the bassline to final fantasy ii

Yeah but it had Jason Schwartzman and Brie Larson in it.

God I'd do bad things to Brie Larson. But by that point she'd be totally smitten by me so it would be okay.

the only bit about Jason Schwartzman I didn't like was that he chewed gum.
Remember when older people would be like, 'ew, gum' well for some reason I am like that. If someone is chewing gum it irks me so much. They masticate differently too. It's a different gyration of the jaws. It just screams cheap to me for some reason. If a girl I like is chewing gum I try ignore her till she gets rid of it.
the act of getting rid of gum really disgusts me too. wrapping it in something and putting it in an ashtray. or just putting it in an ashtray. or when it gets thrown in a lined bin and sticks to the side.
just typing this is grossing me out.

no lies i was gagging there, for real.

fuck this shit.

yeah but scott is an idiot

actually all the characters are idiots

that's kind of the point right. it's all humour and style, intentionally low on substance. the graphic novels are pretty similar. it's like watching someone play a really self-referential video game. hey guys i learned the bassline to final fantasy ii

i dunno if it's intentionally low on substance or it just sabotages the sappy romantic comedy parts that it secretly thinks are deep

The Next Three Days - enjoyable thriller; still hate russell crow's face but this was entertaining

jussayin'

*scott pilgrim spoiler:
Scott should have gone with Knives:end spoiler

what irked me was... wasn't it established she ended up with that roadie guy? i thought it was resolved. but then at the end there was the whole WHICH GF WILL U CHOOSE bit as if that's what the movie was about all along. it may have adhered to the comic but it was kind of nonsensical. also the whole thing with the clash at demonhead ex-gf couldve been scrapped for the movie format imo

and yeah ramona was pretty 2D but like you said the movie doesnt take itself seriously so that i can forgive

i'm watching this movie in my head right now as I envision it for the future:
I will make a compilation movie featuring all the funniest momentts from other movies. This might seem redundant but only because I have not fully explained the concept, and it goes like this: In all the funniest moments in other movies, they were so fucking funny (and unscripted, as expected humour is not very good) that everyone just burst out laughing. the other guys in the scene, the camera man, the director, all of them. So the shot gets ruined. All the funniest moments in movies have never been in movies! Plus the director was laughing so hard he forgot to say 'cut!' so the film went on rolling and so thats great.
However, i know you're now thinking , 'Oh, blooper reels, who cares' but thats not true. For the kind of movie to feature a blooper reel will probably be the cheap kind of movie that wasn't dealing with any comedic integrity anyway, so fuck those movies.
I'm rating this movie 10 stars. Thats not ten out of ten, thats twice over on a 5 star rating. thats 200% perfect.

POV: Farmingville - was recommended to me from Netlfix. It's about the late-90's attempted murder of two day laborers in a small town in NY. It's sad/funny to listen to people tiptoe and watch their words because they're racist but don't want to be caught on t.v. being a racist. Best part was a cameo by Elliot Spitzer.

Pay It Forward more like Gay It Forward AMIRITE

pay it forward - it was watchable, i guess. pretty predictable
menace ii society - good ambiance. not my 1st time seeing this
enter the void - would have preferred seeing this high to drunk
grave of the fireflies - very sad :[
sex lies and videotape - good movie
crash (1996) - this movie was on the phaggy time. 2 hrd to take this srsly
black swan - boring
batman the animated series, seasons 1, 2, 3 - 10/10. cinema at its finest

Battle Los Angeles - worst movie I've seen in a long time

yeah dude how do you not know that just instinctively

love and other drugs-- more like shit and other turds
the town-- okay
due date-- hella funny then just got dumb
a single man-- loved

Actually went to the theater tonight and saw Battle LA. What a boring movie...

what a shocker.

Battle Los Angeles

What the hell is Aaron Eckhart doing in this pile? Basically a Marines recruitment video with some decent action and a inane, threadbare alien invasion plot that is just begging to be ridiculed. Wow, and I thought this would be the movie Skyline should have been. This might actually have been worse.

D-

trotskilicious asked me to convey mock surprise on his behalf

"quelle surprise"

trotskilicious conveys surprise

dead posts an emotion eric photo

Fargo - A-
Pretty awesome.

can't. stop. X-Files.

Me too. I watched the entire series about a year and a half ago and I just started it again from the beginning and I'm addicted again.

The library played Mad Max last night. We went because I'd never seen it. The fee-on-say always gives me crap about it.
I thought the first third of the movie was a mess but the last two-thirds definitely made up for it.

Me too. I watched the entire series about a year and a half ago and I just started it again from the beginning and I'm addicted again.

Yeah, me and the girlfriend started re-watching on Friday, and we're already at season two.

à bout de souffle - B
pierrot le fou - B+
le mépris - C
bande à part - C+

now watching alphaville

Yeah, me and the girlfriend started re-watching on Friday, and we're already at season two.

It's crazy but I think I like season 6 the most of all (I really like the monster episodes)

One of my all time favorite episodes though is Bad Blood in season 5: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751081/

It's sooo campy.
Luke Wilson guest stars and it's just fantastically written and completely hilarious right from the start.
Having the story told from Mulder's POV and then Scully's POV was so well done.

I watched some pretty terrible films recently...and I pretty much knew they were going to be terrible going in, but I was bored so...

Unstoppable - Basically a similar concept to Speed except 100x worse and way less dramatic/interesting. I was hoping that everyone in the film wouldn't take it so seriously but I guess some people didn't get the memo. My favorite part of the film was when Denzel's character was jumping from train car to train car (risking his life to put on the emergency brakes), while his daughters (who are both waitresses at Hooters) and their slutty co-workers watched the live news feed and cheered him on from the bar.
3/10 for the ridiculous Hooters scene alone.

I watched The Ghost Writer today. Good movie, wasn't really expecting the end. I thought the whole time, due to the description I read of it, that there was going to be an actual ghost that helps the guy writer the book so I was just waiting for the ghost to appear.

you're being too obvious now

bleh

Bad Blood is insanely good.

The X-Files seems to be divided into 3 episode trends:

Story/Mythology episodes/"monster of the week" episodes/comedy episodes

all so good

It's crazy but I think I like season 6 the most of all (I really like the monster episodes)

One of my all time favorite episodes though is Bad Blood in season 5: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751081/

It's sooo campy.
Luke Wilson guest stars and it's just fantastically written and completely hilarious right from the start.
Having the story told from Mulder's POV and then Scully's POV was so well done.

I WAS DRUGGED

The other shitty film I saw was...

Buried - I think it's always interesting to be able to basically take a single character and put them in a confined area and actually make a 90 minute film out of it. Directors and writers need to be on the top of their games for it to work and it's a real exercise in their craft. Phonebooth and the recently decent 127 Hours were pretty good examples of when this concept works. Buried on the other hand, is pretty bad and is a good example of how it doesn't work and Ryan Reynolds plays a big role in that.
2/10

Bad Blood is insanely good.

The X-Files seems to be divided into 3 episode trends:

Story/Mythology episodes/"monster of the week" episodes/comedy episodes

all so good

the mythology episodes are my least favorite kind of eps.

Pretty much whenever I come across episodes with the smoking man (this second time through the seasons) I just skip them.

phone booth was fucking terrible and everyone else in the world said ryan reynolds was great

I remember Phone Booth being pretty fun when I saw it in the cinema. Ryan Reynolds was not good imo and it didn't help that he didn't really have much to work with. Throughout the film you see him go through the 5 stages of grief and IDK it just seemed very fake to me.

you're being too obvious now

bleh


No I was legit expecting a ghost. The description said the guy had gotten the help of a ghost to write an autobiography book who along the way uncovers secrets. That with it being a thriller I was expecting a ghost and initially thought the English guy in the hotel bar near the beginning was the ghost. Wasn't until maybe an hour into it when the guy kept referring to himself as Long's ghost that it dawned on me that there would be no actual ghost in the movie.

Still good though.

the mythology episodes are my least favorite kind of eps.

Pretty much whenever I come across episodes with the smoking man (this second time through the seasons) I just skip them.

can't say i agree at all here

No I was legit expecting a ghost. The description said the guy had gotten the help of a ghost to write an autobiography book who along the way uncovers secrets. That with it being a thriller I was expecting a ghost and initially thought the English guy in the hotel bar near the beginning was the ghost. Wasn't until maybe an hour into it when the guy kept referring to himself as Long's ghost that it dawned on me that there would be no actual ghost in the movie.

Still good though.

Seeing as it is a Roman Polanski film, I actually don't think you are trollin' good sir.

On Friday we watched Cyrus which was much darker and more awkward than I expected it to be. I still enjoyed it though.

Last night I watched Hated: GG Allin & the Murder Junkies, which prompted the wife to accuse me of going out of my way to watch/listen to fucked up weird shit. Of course, this comes like 6 months after telling her about both Human Centipede AND A Serbian Film, so maybe she has a point.

The monster-of-the-week X-Files episodes were usually the crummy ones, though there were some gems. The comedy episodes were the best (i.e.: anything written by Darin Morgan). The mythology episodes were usually solid, though the buildup was typically better than the payoff.

The Virgin Suicides - B-?

A lot more comedy in this movie than I picked up on when I was 12. Seems like a movie with a lot of unrealized potential. Needed more Kathleen Turner too.

I'm watching Funny Games. It's a comedy! Hahaha the games are very funny indeed! HAHAHAHAHAAI WANT TO KILL MYSELF

I loved Funny Games.

phone booth was fucking terrible and everyone else in the world said ryan reynolds was great

shut the fuck up already

ryan reynolds is shooting a movie here in CT with Denzel Washington and a friend of mine is filming a bunch of 'security camera' footage in the stadium here, which will get directly edited into the movie, so he's pretty amped, cause even if he was working with the DOP it's really unlikely his own shots would ever be used or make it into the final edit, or that he would even shoot anything.

so dudes when a movie comes out with ryan renolds and denzel washington and you see some security camera footage, just know that you spoke to the guy who knows the guy who filmed that shit.

american movie - so inspirational i usually watch it at least once a year

last picture show - A-

Last night, I think it was, I watched a movie from 1991 called December. It took place the day of Pearl Harbor and it was basically an hour and a half of college kids discussing/arguing over war and politics. I get it, I just didn't care for it.

i posted a review of sucker punch on the blog, it's a sexist piece of trash

tonight i watched Middle Men and it was OK.

Yesterday I was sick and I watched four films.

These are the films that I watched:

Deadgirl - really bad film. story could be interesting but the characters were amazingly stupid.
Fido - this was cute. quite original but nothing special in the end.
Youth in Revolt - I kind of hate that Cera dude, every role of his is exactly the same. I fucking hate romantic films with all my heart, this wasn't too bad though. Yes it was. Fuck it.
Teeth - Now this was something I could really enjoy. A vagina with teeth that bites cocks off. Story of my life.

the mythology episodes are my least favorite kind of eps.

Pretty much whenever I come across episodes with the smoking man (this second time through the seasons) I just skip them.

But he killed John F Kennedy :(

oss 117 - cairo, nest of spies

this was awesome, can't wait to watch the next one. loved the part where the nazi accidentally ripped the swastika banner.

Wild At Heart - i like the soundtrack better than the film.

I watched the Lemmy documentary and I thought it was pretty coll. they basically followed Lemmy around current-day, told some stories about him, and showed him hanging out with metallica and dave grohl and where he drinks.

it was def better than a str8forward boring documentary

I watched the Lemmy documentary and I thought it was pretty coll. they basically followed Lemmy around current-day, told some stories about him, and showed him hanging out with metallica and dave grohl and where he drinks.

it was def better than a str8forward boring documentary

This band documentary honestly renders every other one irrelevant:

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It's also now available for free torrent.
It's like no other band documentary ever made. Uncomfortably honest sometimes.

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Thats the promoter from China, Paul.
An enigma. A herald. A prophet.

i mean, it's not Lemmy talking to metalica and Foo Fighters and having some drinks, but you know.


That last excerpt there is pretty moving.

i'm dling the pacific. hope it's as cool as band of brothers.

i need to watch the lemmy movie. too bad it wasn't shot in the early 80s.

Y
Youth in Revolt - I kind of hate that Cera dude, every role of his is exactly the same. I fucking hate romantic films with all my heart, this wasn't too bad though. Yes it was. Fuck it.

i dunno if scott pilgrim vs. the world would change your mind on both or just make it more resolute.

I like the HORSE the band home videos with the talking soy sauce bottles and the getting healthy, getting wasted segment. What endearing gentlemen Throneroom and Eric are. :D

i dunno if scott pilgrim vs. the world would change your mind on both or just make it more resolute.

i saw that yeah, isn't really one of my favourites either.

you know both of these movies weren't bad at all though, it's something between cera and me.

or better, something not there between romance and me.

you... you don't like romantic films? :(

i'm dling the pacific. hope it's as cool as band of brothers.

i need to watch the lemmy movie. too bad it wasn't shot in the early 80s.

are you talking about the lemmy/motorhead doc? is that out?

yes

indeed it is. i'm dling it right now. it better be good. i love old school motorhead.

just watched the first episode of the pacific. pretty good, though i think i liked the first episode of band of brothers better. still very promising.

pacific sucks just goes downhill from there. good sex scene while the guy's on leave in austrailia.

Currently watching Gosford Park

Maggie Smith is incredible. jennifer connelly beat her for supporting actress? pft.

I like the HORSE the band home videos with the talking soy sauce bottles and the getting healthy, getting wasted segment. What endearing gentlemen Throneroom and Eric are. :D

Who is Throneroom? Erik is Lord Gold, if thats what you mean?

Currently watching Gosford Park



A

of course Helen Mirren steals the whole movie in the last five minutes. great movie. would recommend.

you... you don't like romantic films? :(

dreams dashed

i will make him love again

Watched Funny Games on Mo's recommendation.

Harrowing is the word.

Watched source code. 3/5

I saw Win Win last night. Definitely an A. Really hilarious and touching without being over the top or too sentimental.

country strong - oooooooooooooooooooooooh boy, what a fucking piece of shit movie! but quite an entertaining piece of shit. i actually usually find paltrow a pretty good actress (horrible person, decent actress) but this was just wrong wrong wrong. seriously miss fishsticks as a "washed up, over the hill" drunk southern country singer. the drunk scenes were particularly hilarious and the best part was when she opened her fan mail before her first show and there was a baby doll with blood all over it :rofl: leighton meester was very cute and garrett hedlund is basicl the poor man's heath ledger. hoooooly shit.

dinner for schmucks: this was hilarious! i'd read all sorts of shitty reviews for it, so my expectations were low, but fuck this was weird funny! i have a feeling they actually wanted russell brand for jermaine clement's role, so i kept picturing him. kind of fizzled apart in the end, but overall, i was pleasantly surprised.

i actually usually find paltrow a pretty good actress (horrible person, decent actress)

Not sure why, but every time you make a comment about some vacuous celebrity being a horrible person it fills me with rage. I'm guessing it is because you follow the lives of celebrities.

you are correct. the rage may be a tad unnecessary.

Watched Funny Games on Mo's recommendation.

Harrowing is the word.

it is my favourite romantic comedy

country strong - oooooooooooooooooooooooh boy, what a fucking piece of shit movie! but quite an entertaining piece of shit. i actually usually find paltrow a pretty good actress (horrible person, decent actress) but this was just wrong wrong wrong. seriously miss fishsticks as a "washed up, over the hill" drunk southern country singer. the drunk scenes were particularly hilarious and the best part was when she opened her fan mail before her first show and there was a baby doll with blood all over it :rofl: leighton meester was very cute and garrett hedlund is basicl the poor man's heath ledger. hoooooly shit.

Yeah, I couldn't even do this one and you have confirmed that was the right choice. I like country music waaaaay too much to see it Paltrowed. And the fact that she started acting like the world's leading country music expert when it was released did not help.

Watched Funny Games on Mo's recommendation.

Harrowing is the word.

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Which version, the Austrian or the US "remake"?

Original. Might watch the remake sometime too though.

just watched Battle Royale for the second time.

forgot how awesome it is.

I was really disappointed by Battle Royale actually.

shut the fuck up, e.

Whatever your personal issues are with me I really wish you'd just let them go. This is getting really pathetic.

.

yeah, my issue is that you're a downer and a wet blanket that's ready to rain on every parade.

nobody gives a shit if you were extremely disappointed with battle royale because you're always incredibly disappointed about everything.

yeah, my issue is that you're a downer and a wet blanket that's ready to rain on every parade.

nobody gives a shit if you were extremely disappointed with battle royale because you're always incredibly disappointed about everything.

A

of course Helen Mirren steals the whole movie in the last five minutes. great movie. would recommend.

.

Ichi the Killer - C?

80-minute idea stretched to an at times excruciating 130-minute running time. wasted potential, imo.

i thought that movie was a mess

yeah a C might be being generous. bleh.

edit: but when kakihara takes those rings out and gets punched in the mouth... that was pretty coll.

Sucker Punch - an all round terrible film with god awful dialogue, boring fight scenes and characters I could not give a fuck about. If I knew it had been directed by Zach Snyder I would never have paid to see this atrocity.

SERIOUSLY HOW CAN YOU FUCK UP HOT GIRLS STEAMPUNK GERMAN SOLDIERS DRAGONS FIRE ROBOTS AND MORE BOOBS?!?!!

how could you not know it was directed by him

Sucker Punch - C

just didn't work

The Bird with the Crystal Plumage - B+

Dario Argento's first film...surprisingly good and tightly plotted. awesome blu ray transfer.

Don't Look Now - A-

Donald Sutherland fucking the shit out of Julie Christie in a hypnotic psychological horror

Sucker Punch - an all round terrible film with god awful dialogue, boring fight scenes and characters I could not give a fuck about. If I knew it had been directed by Zach Snyder I would never have paid to see this atrocity.

SERIOUSLY HOW CAN YOU FUCK UP HOT GIRLS STEAMPUNK GERMAN SOLDIERS DRAGONS FIRE ROBOTS AND MORE BOOBS?!?!!

by not having any self awareness at all and being a degenerate troglodyte that's how

Sucker Punch - C

just didn't work

teedub you're so nice to movies

i just got back from sucker punch. walking in, i knew virtually nothing about it other than it having girls in school uniforms fighting so i figured it could have camp value or whatever. so i was pretty taken aback by what kind of movie it actually was. it took me about 40 minutes to understand where it was going.

yknow i actually thought it was pretty good except for the ending. whole narrative just sputtered out in the end. but other than that i didn't think it was terrible at all

black swan - a

the fighter - c

hot tub time machine - b

some shit in hot tub time machine cracked me the hell up. i was really surprised.

Tron (Blu-Ray)

Campy, cheesy, and lots of fun to watch. Bruce Boxleitner is the man.

B

Source Code

Not quite as good as I hoped it would be, but still interesting. Some decent, though not wholly unexpected, twists near the end.

B

The Pacific - D What a let down.

Mesrine 1 & 2 A

Ichi the Killer A

Ip Man 1 B (the nationalism ruined the kung fu)

gremlins

oh, and funny games (austrian) was excellent.

I was watching Casablanca the other night but the female getting cozy with me in my room was really distracting so I had no idea wtf was happening.

poor you.

you guys should recommend good drinking movies to me. preferably tragic epic shit, with lots of death and weeping.

something like Kurosawa's Ran.

I don't even want to admit this but a buddy and I watched Pineapple Express. IN MY DEFENSE we smoked each time they smoked, so it was kinda funny. There are definitely better stoner movies, although stoner movies in general are somehow dissatisfying.

have you heard of this one movie by the coen brothers, dude?

I don't even watch movies. The only other thing I've had a television on for recently has been for graphic prisoner of war executions.

poor you.

you guys should recommend good drinking movies to me. preferably tragic epic shit, with lots of death and weeping.

something like Kurosawa's Ran.
andrei rublev

there's epic, tragic death and insanity in aguirre, the wrath of god

not a lot of crying really though.

shame. i'm all about sackcloth and ashes. but thanks for the recommendation anyways.

Night of the Living Dead ('68) - Excellent. Perfect ending.

Once Upon a Time in China I - This is really entertaining for my drunkenness. Tons of lols and awesome flying kicks by my favorite current kung fu artist, Li Lian Jie aka Jet motherfucking Li.

btw, if any of you haven't see this, you really ought to. most compelling film i've ever had the pleasure of watching (just don't ask me what it's about):

Bela Tarr - Werckmeister harmóniák

127 Hours - this was ok, man. like... a dude gets stuck in between rocks and it was still pretty intense. not great, but then again i haven't seen a great movie in a long time.

i saw your highness lastnight. it kind of dragged on but i liked it better than pineapple express

andrei rublev - A

Thanks cocksure

Videodrome once again last night

get's better and shorter each time

Sabrina. The one made in 1954.
St. Trinians

Enter the Void - A

God Damn

andrei rublev - A

Thanks cocksure

Oh this movie is outta control A+

i keep telling people about it (not that it's that obscure) but foolofatook is the first one to listen to me :)

how could i not? i saw it was russian (i'm slavic) and about art, so i immediately downloaded it.

Naked Lunch - something so... insatiable about it, it was amazing

i just got done watching catfish and my mind is blown. i thought it was a mockumentary and enjoyed it okay because i'm into the gritty authenticity you get with a handheld digital camera.

so then i go on wikipedia afterwards to learn a little bit more about it and it turns out the whole thing is ... real? it would be the best documentary of all time if true. i personally don't buy it, but even then its interesting on a me<dsf>ta-level since is a movie about untruth to begin with.

this is going to drive me crazy for awhile

cool. i think im going to watch that.

Aguirre sucked hard. and i usually like herzog.

In Germany, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described the film as "a colourdrenched, violently physical moving painting".[15] The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described Kinski's acting as "too theatrical" to embody God's wrath.[15]
In the U.S. and the UK, the film received mostly positive critical notices upon release. Vincent Canby, writing in The New York Times, called it, "[A]bsolutely stunning...Mr. Herzog views all the proceedings with fixed detachment. He remains cool. He takes no sides. He may even be slightly amused. Mainly he is a poet who constantly surprises us with unexpected juxtapositions...This is a splendid and haunting work."[16] In Time, Richard Schickel opined that "[Herzog] does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays out on the screen. Well acted, most notably by Klaus Kinski in the title role, gloriously photographed by Thomas Mauch, Aguirre is, not to put too fine a point on it, a movie that makes a convincing claim to greatness."[17] Time Out's Tony Rayns noted, "...each scene and each detail is honed down to its salient features. On this level, the film effectively pre-empts analysis by analysing itself as it proceeds, admitting no ambiguity. Yet at the same time, Herzog's flair for charged explosive imagery has never had freer rein, and the film is rich in oneiric moments."[18]
The film's reputation through the years has continued to grow. J. Hoberman has written that Aguirre "is not just a great movie but an essential one...Herzog's third feature...is both a landmark film and a magnificent social metaphor."[19] James Monaco's The Movie Guide described the film as "A stunning, terrifying exploration of human obsession descending into madness...a staggering experience that assaults the senses."[20] Danny Peary wrote, "To see Aguirre for the first time is to discover a genuine masterpiece. It is overwhelming, spellbinding; at first dreamlike, and then hallucinatory."[13] Roger Ebert has added it to his list of "Great Movies",[21] and in a 2002 Sight & Sound poll of critics and filmmakers on the best films ever made, Ebert listed it in his top ten.[22] In the same poll, critic Nigel Andrews and director Santosh Sivan also placed it in their top ten list.[23] In 1999, Rolling Stone included the film on the magazine's "100 Maverick Movies of the Last 100 Years" list.[24] Aguirre was included in Time Magazine's "All Time 100 Best Films", compiled by Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss.[25] Entertainment Weekly named it the 46th greatest cult film ever made.[26] The film was ranked #19 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.[27]
Aguirre has won several prestigious film awards. In 1973, it won the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Award) for "Outstanding Individual Achievement: Cinematography".[28] In 1976, it was voted the "Best Foreign Film" by the French Syndicate of Film Critics.[29][30] In 1977, the National Society of Film Critics USA gave it their "Best Cinematography" Award.[31] It was nominated for a "Best Film" César Award in 1976.[32]


I must be dumb.

yeah you're pretty dumb

Twister - I guess 200-some tornadoes touched down yesterday?
Blair Witch Project
Jurassic Park - fell asleep before it even began.

$1 VHS from the flea market. Kind of kicking myself for not buying OUTLANDER with Sean Connery.

Scream 4 sucked