The Movie You Just Watched: The Thread

[underdog]

Black Swan

Terrible movie, typical crap by Aronofsky. I dont know why people like him or his work? Its like a few movie geeks with power decided he was the new guy that they would say was so talented and then fooled the rest of dumb Americans that want to say they are hip so they agree! Fucking sheep! Requiem was terrible, The Fountain was Terrible, The Wrestler nowhere near as good as people said but watchable, Black swan not good and sure as hell wasnt Oscar nom worthy for best director or Movie. I hate movies that try to be so artsy, weird and over the top just so they can say they are artsy when in reality a child could make them!

I do think Natalie Portman did a great job of acting in her role. It reminded me of last years best actor award. Crazy Heart was and avg movie at best but Jeff Bridges did a great job in that role and deserved his Oscar!

Haha - I love Aronofsky. I thought Black Swan was one of the best movies I saw last year, and definitely thought Portman deserved Best Actress award for her performance.

I haven't seen The Wrestler, but I really enjoyed Requiem and thought The Fountain was decent, just not complete. Pi was a great movie.

I do love how just because you don't like something, you assume something like : "Its like a few movie geeks with power decided he was the new guy that they would say was so talented and then fooled the rest of dumb Americans that want to say they are hip so they agree! Fucking sheep!"

It's really funny coming from someone who loves the Black Eyed Peas.

[Snacks]

Haha - I love Aronofsky. I thought Black Swan was one of the best movies I saw last year, and definitely thought Portman deserved Best Actress award for her performance.

I haven't seen The Wrestler, but I really enjoyed Requiem and thought The Fountain was decent, just not complete. Pi was a great movie.

I do love how just because you don't like something, you assume something like : "Its like a few movie geeks with power decided he was the new guy that they would say was so talented and then fooled the rest of dumb Americans that want to say they are hip so they agree! Fucking sheep!"

It's really funny coming from someone who loves the Black Eyed Peas.

Similar to your thought of people and who thought Catfish was good. I thought Catfish was pretty good doc this year.

As for Black eyed peas. I dont love them, I like some of their songs and their electronic beats. That being said you really need something new to throw out against me because you like Aronofsky have no originality and a child could come up with your humor and be as repetitive!

Going over the top crazy, druggie or whatever other bad things people go through is very simple and lazy and thats all he does! Sorry to piss in your cheerios.

[underdog]

Similar to your thought of people and who thought Catfish was good. I thought Catfish was pretty good doc this year.

As for Black eyed peas. I dont love them, I like some of their songs and their electronic beats. That being said you really need something new to throw out against me because you like Aronofsky have no originality and a child could come up with your humor and be as repetitive!

Going over the top crazy, druggie or whatever other bad things people go through is very simple and lazy and thats all he does! Sorry to piss in your cheerios.

I definitely agree that he goes a little over the top with crazy/druggie.

You thought Catfish was a good doc? Yikes. There was nothing real about that movie.

You must have loved Battlefield Earth, as well.

[Snacks]

I definitely agree that he goes a little over the top with crazy/druggie.

You thought Catfish was a good doc? Yikes. There was nothing real about that movie.

You must have loved Battlefield Earth, as well.

Never saw it and never would. I dont watch sci fi if at all if possible. I think I might have seen the Star wars movies, ET as a child, the newest Star Trek and Avatar. Thats about all when it comes to shit like that.

[underdog]

Never saw it and never would. I dont watch sci fi if at all if possible. I think I might have seen the Star wars movies, ET as a child, the newest Star Trek and Avatar. Thats about all when it comes to shit like that.

Don't watch it. It might be the worst movie ever made.

[Snacks]

Don't watch it. It might be the worst movie ever made.

I have read that but dont know anyone who has watched it. Its about Scientology and space ships?

[TooLowBrow]

i saw battlefield earth recently

[StanUpshaw]

Similar to your thought of people and who thought Catfish was good. I thought Catfish was pretty good doc this year.


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Who's got a needle and thread?

[underdog]

I have read that but dont know anyone who has watched it. Its about Scientology and space ships?

I think that's what it's about. The story is so badly written and acted that you have no idea what is going on.

[underdog]

i saw battlefield earth recently

I think we know who to blame.

[TooLowBrow]

I think we know who to blame.

obama

[underdog]

obama

Close enough.

[Furtherman]

Source Code. Excellent. A great twist on what has been done before and a story that moves quick and keeps you guessing.

[KnoxHarrington]

Just caught this:

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Has there ever been a director on more of a hot streak than Coppola was in the early 70's? Godfather I and II, with this masterpiece in between. I won't go crazy and say it's better than either of the Godfathers (it's probably a better movie than II, though), but it's just amazing.

It's also probably Gene Hackman's finest performance, and that's saying a hell of a lot. A very young Harrison Ford is also good in it as the assistant to a shadowy "director" who's hired Hackman's character Harry Caul to record a conversation between a couple in Union Square in San Francisco.

One thing: it's a pretty damn slow paced movie, but the pace works perfectly. If you haven't seen it, then fucking see it now.

[StanUpshaw]

The American with George Clooney.

Why to I even bother watching movies anymore? I always hate them. Ebert gave this 4-stars. Fuck him in his stupid cancerface.

[underdog]

The American with George Clooney.

Why to I even bother watching movies anymore? I always hate them. Ebert gave this 4-stars. Fuck him in his stupid cancerface.

Ebert likes a lot of shitty movies.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Scre4m (2011) - The long hiatus between films got me interested in seeing this opening day. I was really hoping that they would’ve moved away from the movie within a movie theme, but nope, it’s still there.
I do think it’s great that after these years, they were able to bring back all the main characters, Sidney, Gale, and Dewey. Speaking of Dewey, he got fucked up pretty bad in part 1, comes back in part 2 noticeably disabled and then gets fucked up even more in that film. In part 3 he seems even less disabled, and now in the 4th it’s hardly even noticeable. I guess we are to believe he’s been going through extensive physical therapy all of these years.
The killer and motives are a little easier to guess in this one. I’m not saying I knew right away, but I did at least know it was a female, since early on someone mentioned a ‘Ghost Face’ voice app.
Not giving anything away, but the killers acting was pretty terrible at the end.
It was fun to revisit Woodsboro, but really unnecessary. Nothing will ever compare to the greatness of the original Scream. If they do ever decide to make a 5cream (I’m guessing that’s how the title will look), it will take another long hiatus to get me interested in the franchise again.

Django (1966) - This was an awesome western! I thought the dubbed voices would be distracting, but they really weren’t...except when a character laughs, dubbed laughter always makes me laugh.
The casket opening was one of the greatest things on film I have ever witnessed. That buildup was great.

Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) - I have owned this on DVD for years, but never watched it because I had never seen the original Django. I felt that I really wouldn’t get any references, if there were any. So now that I saw the original, I finally could watch my DVD.
I’m glad I waited cause there were quite a few references that would’ve easily gone right over my head.
I liked Quentin Tarantino’s role in the beginning of the film, but then when he showed up again, I wasn’t as impressed.

The Wild One (1953) - Sort of based on true events, 2 rival motorcycle gangs show up in a small town. The locals aren’t happy and the town sheriff feels inferior, so the people take matters into their own hands.
Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin each play the respective leaders of the gangs. Hard to top that.

Les yeux sans visage aka Eyes Without a Face (1960) - A plastic surgeon who caused severe facial damage to his daughter as a result of a car accident, tries to make things right by kidnapping beautiful women so he can surgically remove their faces and build a new face for his daughter.
Pretty shocking that they actually showed a face removal scene. For its time, that seems like a big deal.

Easy A (2010) - I stopped myself a few times last year from actually seeing this in the theater. I’ve always been a sucker for high school comedies and this looked kinda good.
I’m glad I didn’t. The premise was good about a girl helping out losers by lying about having sex with them, but then she realizes morals are important, so she has to be truthful. I forgot in a movie like this, things would need to get preachy.
There were a few laughs. The best scenes were those involving the parents, Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson.

[Furtherman]

Funny People. Probably the most blatantly false advertised labeled movie in recent memory. I think I laughed twice and it wasn't because of any of the leads.

[Chigworthy]

Hereafter

I thought Clint could do no wrong, but this thing drags along. I have given up paying attention to it. Jay Mohr is in it and his skin looks terrible. His hair also looks a little dry, and I think he is a bit bowlegged in this.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

The Hill (1965) - With the recent passing of director Sidney Lumet, TCM paid tribute to him by reprogramming their channel to play several of his films. Of all the ones they chose, this one I had never seen.
Taking place during WWII in a prison camp, so far from Lumet’s usual NY settings, a group of prisoners must climb a very tall, torturous man made hill of dirt, repeatedly, by orders of the guards. When one prisoner dies, the group decides to file a complaint against the guard they feel is responsible.
Sean Connery gets the lead, but my favorite in this is Ossie Davis. He was really great in this.
Very strong ending.

Carnival of Souls (1962) - Extremely low budget, yet really good psychological thriller.
A car carrying 3 passengers goes over a bridge and lands in the river. After really no hope of finding survivors, a woman emerges on her own. Things get really bizarre when she starts seeing ghostly figures.
This was one creepy film.

No Highway in the Sky (1952) - British film starring James Stewart as an American aeronautical engineer studying plane crashes. On a flight from England to Canada, he becomes convinced that the plane he is on is going to crash.
This was one of the first plane disaster films to be made.

George Washington Slept Here (1942) - My first time watching a Jack Benny film. This is about city folks that decide to move to the country. They buy a dilapidated house and attempt to fix it up.
Pretty funny for its time. Jack reminded me a lot of early Bob Hope. Then again, perhaps Hope was inspired by Benny. I haven’t Googled to see who was around first.

Slap Shot (1977) - I’ve never really been a hockey fan, so I never felt the need to ever watch this.
Decided to give it a shot this week and cannot even even tell you how many times I busted up laughing throughout the entire film.
In 2000 I attended a golf tournament in which the 3 Hanson brothers from the film (not the Mmmbop guys) showed up for. I knew they were going to be there and contemplated buying this on VHS or DVD to get it signed. I decided not to. 11 years later and now I am pissed at myself.

Valley Girl (1982) - Early Nicholas Cage film where he plays a guy from Hollywood who falls in love with a girl from the Valley.
Decent teenage comedy. Lots of great tit shots, which were pretty much a staple of 80s R-rated comedies.

The Other Guys (2010) - Decent comedy, some jokes just tried too hard. So many people in this that I had no idea about. I think I would’ve rather watched this if it were about The Rock and Samuel L. Jackson.

[underdog]

Win Win

Was underwhelmed. There was a great movie in there somewhere, but Hollywood just got their hands all over it.

[RingWraith]

Funny People. Probably the most blatantly false advertised labeled movie in recent memory. I think I laughed twice and it wasn't because of any of the leads.

I'm with ya on this. "Funny People" pissed me off for it's lack of being funny. Ugh!

[RingWraith]

The Other Guys (2010) - Decent comedy, some jokes just tried too hard. So many people in this that I had no idea about. I think I would’ve rather watched this if it were about The Rock and Samuel L. Jackson.

Same here!

[newport king]

Exit Through The Gift Shop - Banksy and the art were cool, but the subject of the movie was a douche.

Source Code - Fucking Awesome. Right up until the ending. I didn't need to walk away from this feeling good.

Green Hornet - Im not a comic book movie guy, but i thought it was ok.

Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Holy shit this was a long drawn out movie. If it was an hour and a half it would have been better.

[realmenhatelife]

Q & A- I watched this after it kept coming up on O&A, it kindof stunk. It's just a little sloppy, there isn't a lot of tension. I think it suffers from context and the points it was making about police corruption and racism/homophobia were probably more impactful in 1990.

The real problem is that the most interesting characters arent the characters you get to see a lot of. The movie should just follow Nick Nolte around for two hours, Bad Leutenant style, and Luis Guzman and Charles S Dutton trying to figure out what to do with him, with Armand Assante thrown in. Timothy Hutton is like grown up Shia Labouf, just terrible. And Sidnet Lumet cast his daughter, who cant act for shit, as the female lead.

And the actual motive behind all the bad stuff is just really contrived, the whole surface idea, that Nick Nolte is just some out of control maniac, is so much more interesting.

[Crash]

...on BBC America right now. :smile:

[newport king]

Man On Wire docu-style movie about the man who tight roped across the twin towers. Half the movie was in french, but whenever Philippe talked it was impossible not to be fascinated by his childlike enthusiasm. as for the actual act, FUCK THAT. Good movie though

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) - I picked the perfect day to watch this. My upstairs neighbor moved out earlier in the day, so I fully utilized my surround system. Holy shit, that opening theme sounded incredible.
I always assumed this was some sci-fi flick, so I always put off watching it. I was way off. This was like Night of the Living Dead except swap out the zombies for unrelenting gangbangers. What a fun film.

Sisters (1972) - Crazy film about a woman who witnesses a murder while looking out of her apartment window into the window of an apartment across the street. When the police arrive, there’s no evidence of any crime taking place.
The “crazy” part is that the accused killer was a Siamese twin who was separated from her sister as an adult.
It was good, but that ending seemed awkward, even though I understand why it ended that way.

Cutter’s Way (1981) - Ron recommended this one on the show one day. Turned out to be a decent recommendation
Jeff Bridges plays ‘Richard Bone’ whose car breaks down in an alley just as a man is disposing of a 17-year-old girls body. Bone’s friend, Cutter, is a Vietnam vet who lost an arm, a leg, and sight in one eye. When Bone thinks he spots the killer, Cutter comes up with motives as to why that particular person is responsible.

Black Dynamite (2009) - This movie did an excellent job at paying homage to blaxploitation movies of the 1970s. From the silly plots, bad dialog, washed out colors, etc...
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this.

The Long Good Friday (1979) - While reading www.cinemaretro.com this week, there was a story about a possible followup to this film. I had never seen this, but heard great things about it, so I queued it up.
I was blown away at how great this is. Just a great, great film with a phenomenal ending.

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) - Also read on CinemaRetro this week was a story on Yvette Vickers, who starred in this film, though she didn’t play the 50 ft. woman.
Yvette was 84 years old and found dead in her home. A neighbor decided to check on her when he noticed the yard wasn’t being taken care of. Her body was so badly decomposed that it’s possible that she may have dead for up to a year. What a terrible ending to her life.
As for the film, it was definitely b-movie material. A little silly, but it was only 65 minutes, so not a chore to sit through.
Yvette Vickers played the love interest of the man who was married to the 50 ft. woman. She was pretty hot in 1958.

Wings of the Morning (1937) - I always thought that the 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, was the first color film, but this one came out a year earlier.
I didn’t realize it was about horse racing, so with the Kentucky Derby going on tomorrow, it was kind of ironic that I decided to watch this.
Henry Fonda plays a horse trainer who meets a beautiful gyspsy woman disguised as a boy. Eventually the disguise is dropped and they fall in love. This was like the original Just One of the Guys except there was no tit shot at the dance.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week (The Bond, James Bond edition):

Two years ago, TCM played James Bond films starring Sean Connery. It was my first time seeing them. I watched them in order, though they did skip the one that starred George Lazenby, so I downloaded that one so I could continue watching them chronologically.
I decided to get back into the Bond films and pick up where I left off (Thank you, Netflix). The crazy thing about this and it was totally unintentional, was that I watched the first Bond film, Dr. No on May 7, 2009 and continued with the rest that week. Two years later on the exact date, I’m once again spending a week watching Bond films, beginning with the first starring Roger Moore.

Live and Let Die (1973) - Very hard to replace an established character with a new actor, especially one so iconic as Sean Connery. George Lazenby tried, but he was one and done. In comes Roger Moore.
This was entertaining, but I wasn’t really impressed with the tarot card plot. Things got real good when they moved to New Orleans. The crocodile farm and boat chase scenes were quality.
Yaphet Kotto’s death scene was hilarious.
I did miss the gag of Bond throwing his hat and it always landing on the hat rack. Guess that’s just Sean Connery’s thing.

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - This one was a little different in that Bond didn’t seem to use any gadgets. The villain, Scaramanga, had a gun that he assembled using a lighter, a pen, and a cigarette case, but that was pretty much the only gadget seen.
Not nearly as action packed as the last one, but still fun to watch. Christopher Lee was a great bad guy.

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - This will probably go down as one of my favorite Bond films. A very strong opening with an amazing stunt. A ton of action throughout. Richard Kiel as the henchman ‘Jaws’ was an awesome character.
Glad to see that the gadgets were brought back, too.

Moonraker (1979) - Bond goes to outer space to stop a man from destroying earth, so that he can create his own master race on his space station.
Wasn’t really feeling this one. The late 70’s were pretty much all about sci-fi with films such as Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and TV shows like Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers, so I guess it was only fitting for James Bond to join the bandwagon.
The one thing I really didn’t like was that it took place in the present day, yet during the final battle on the space station, everyone involved was using laser guns.

For Your Eyes Only (1981) - A fun opening with the return of the unnamed (due to a lawsuit) villain, Blofeld.
Bond goes back to being gadgetless, so it plays more like a spy film. I think I prefer the gadgets.
I liked this better than the previous one, but not by much. Maybe I’m just watching too many at once, but I’m definitely seeing a decline.

Octopussy (1983) - Speaking of declines. Probably the greatest title of all the Bond films. I remember wanting to see this as a kid, but I think I was too embarassed/scared to say the title around my parents.
The plots seem to be getting weaker, but it’s the crazy stunts that keep me interested in the franchise. I’m afraid to continue because as I get closer to the CGI age, I know I won’t be as impressed with the stunts.
I am enjoying Roger Moore as 007 though.

Never Say Never Again (1983) - The same year Octopussy was released, this film came out a few months later. Sean Connery makes his return and final appearance as James Bond, though this film isn’t technically a part of the 007 franchise.
Even though he’s referred to as 007 and James Bond, this just didn’t feel like a Bond film. All the characters were there, though they were all played by different actors. It was a decent spy movie, just not a great Bond one. Plus, Monty Norman’s infamous Bond theme was not used. The SPECTRE villains group was present, so I guess that’s the trade-off, since they haven’t been mentioned since Roger Moore took over as Bond.
The video game scene was laughable.
The highlight for me was seeing Rowan Atkinson in his film debut.

A View to a Kill (1985) - This film marks the end of Roger Moore as James Bond.
Surprisingly, I liked this one a lot. I had mentioned previously that the plots were getting weaker, but I really enjoyed this one.
Christopher Walken was great as the villain.
Netflix only has the 2 Bond films that followed this one, The Living Daylights and License to Kill, both starring Timothy Dalton as 007. I think I’m going to take a break from Bond films and just wait until Netflix adds the rest, then maybe do another marathon.

[Dan G]

Am I the only one watching movies here?

Here's what I watched this week:

Bridesmaids (2011) - I only went to see this because Chris O’Dowd (Roy from The IT Crowd) was in it. I had only seen the trailer once and thought it looked decent, though it did look like it was a chick flick. Still, I went by myself and overall liked it a lot.
I really had no idea who any of the female leads were, though I did recognize Melissa McCarthy from the cancelled TV show Samantha Who?, where she played Christina Applegate’s friend.
I was surprised to see Matt Lucas in this, who I was a fan of from his show Little Britain. At first his scene was funny, but this comedy is 2+ hours, so in hindsight, his scenes were really unnecessary.
Part of the movie takes place on an airplane, where it felt like I was watching deleted scenes on a Blu-ray disc. I understand they had to give all the bridesmaids something to say/do on the plane, but not all of them worked for me.
Women will probably enjoy this much more than men, but don’t be fooled into thinking this is a chick flick. It’s really funny.

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1952) - Based on a story by Dr. Seuss, this is about a young boy whose biggest enemy is his piano teacher. The teacher, Dr. Terwilliker, is constantly stressing to the boy about practicing. One day while dozing off during practice, the boy has a vivid dream that Dr. T. is attempting to force 500 boys to play on this gigantic piano simultaneously for 24 hours a day.
This was a very colorful film with great looking sets during the dream sequence.

Koroshi no rakuin aka Branded to Kill (1967) - Considering the year it was released, I was not expecting this to be an ultra violent/sex filled film. I liked this one a lot.
I did notice a scene that apparently Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai paid homage to, the firing of a gun up through a drainage pipe.

Hearts and Minds (1974) - Documentary about the Vietnam war. It leans more on the anti-side of things, but does get a lot of opinions on those who were for the war. They even get opinions of Vietnamese people who lost their homes, family members, etc...
It was very good.

Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) - Another documentary, this one dealing with coal miners in eastern Kentucky.
I thought this was going to be boring based on the subject matter, but it really wasn’t. These coal miners went on strike for 13 months and had to deal with avoiding gunfire (all shown, by the way) while standing in picket lines.
The one thing that was never really resolved in the documentary was whatever happened to the scabs? When the strike ended, I wanted to know if they had to work with the scabs or did the scabs lose their jobs?

Ratcatcher (1999) - Scottish film about a young poor boy, riddled with guilt after accidentally letting his friend drown. He keeps it all a secret, while he dreams of him and his family getting out of their slum and into a much nicer home.
This was a very good, yet very sad film.
Even though it was in English, it was still subtitled since the Scottish accents were so heavy. It definitely helped.

Tirez sur le pianiste aka Shoot the Piano Player (1960) - François Truffaut’s second film after the great 400 Blows.
A bar playing pianist, who changed his identity and left behind his troubled past, gets caught up in a bad situation when his brother asks his assistance after a job he has botched.
I liked it.

Nóz w wodzie aka Knife in the Water (1962) - Roman Polanski’s first film, this one being in Polish.
A couple, on their way to go sailing, nearly hit a hitchhiker, so they give him a ride and then end up taking him sailing with them.
It was a tense film because you’re just waiting to see what, if anything, is going to happen.
I thought the girl was extremely attractive and was very surprised to see her get nude.
One problem I had was a lot of dialog wasn’t subtitled, so if you don’t speak Polish, you’re left wondering what’s being said.
The score was great, all sax throughout the film.

La belle et la bête aka Beauty and the Beast (1946) - This was the first film adaption of this classic love story. I never knew the story, since I had never read or seen any other versions of it, so the plot was all new to me.
I found this to be very good. The whole castle set up, with only exposed arms as candle holders, hands pouring drinks, and statues with moving heads, was really well done.

Grey Gardens (1973) - An extremely boring documentary about 2 relatives of Jackie Onassis, that live in a decaying mansion.
I have no idea why this is considered good. I was so wanting to turn this off after the first 10 minutes, but I have this thing that if I start a movie, I must watch it until the end.
The only enjoyment I got out of its 95 minutes was that my dog wasn’t tired, so he kept bringing me his ball to throw.

Баллада о солдате aka Ballad of a Soldier (1959) - Russian film about a war hero awarded a short leave of absence so that he can go and visit his mother. On his travels he befriends different people and his kindness toward them causes him delays in getting to his destination.
His fate is mentioned at the beginning of the film, so you end up really pulling for him to see if he ever gets to visit his mother. This was really well done. I thought it was excellent.

[Furtherman]

Am I the only one watching movies here?

HA!

You know, I think props for your suggestions and movie titles are long overdue.

You post some great stuff here. Well done, sir.

[Kublakhan61]

Am I the only one watching movies here?

Here's what I watched this week:

Koroshi no rakuin aka Branded to Kill (1967) - Considering the year it was released, I was not expecting this to be an ultra violent/sex filled film. I liked this one a lot.
I did notice a scene that apparently Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai paid homage to, the firing of a gun up through a drainage pipe.

Nóz w wodzie aka Knife in the Water (1962) - Roman Polanski’s first film, this one being in Polish.
A couple, on their way to go sailing, nearly hit a hitchhiker, so they give him a ride and then end up taking him sailing with them.
It was a tense film because you’re just waiting to see what, if anything, is going to happen.
I thought the girl was extremely attractive and was very surprised to see her get nude.
One problem I had was a lot of dialog wasn’t subtitled, so if you don’t speak Polish, you’re left wondering what’s being said.
The score was great, all sax throughout the film.


If you liked Branded to Kill, I'd suggest Youth of the Beast. Same director, same awesome style.

As for Knife in the Water, I couldn't get past all the male posturing. I found it to be unbearably masculine.

[CountryBob]

HA!

You know, I think props for your suggestions and movie titles are long overdue.

You post some great stuff here. Well done, sir.

Yeah - thanks for reviewing all of these movies. Now, why dont you get outside and do something active and quit watching so many movies. :smoke:

[Dan G]

Yeah - thanks for reviewing all of these movies. Now, why dont you get outside and do something active and quit watching so many movies. :smoke:

Well, I do walk to the theater, so that's pretty active.

[Crash]

Ovation (available on DirectTV) is having a week of animation that pushes the boundaries.

I'm watching Ghost in the Shell 2 right now. Not sure it's as good as the original, but it's visually stunning. It's subtitled, and Japanese must be faster or briefer than English, because it gets a little hard to keep up with.

I like the movie so far though.

[Furtherman]

The Crazies (2010)... pretty decent movie about an outbreak in a small Iowa town. Timothy Olyphant is the sheriff trying to get out because the Army has quarantined the town. I like that it was done from the townsfolk view, and we don't know what the Army, or what the outbreak was doing at first, and you had to find out with the characters. Not exactly a zombie movie, but it had some good scares.


Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1. I found this to be boring and even fell asleep at some point. I guess you had to read the books for this last one because there were all sorts of characters popping up in which I had no idea who they were or where they fell into the story.

[CountryBob]

Pirates of the Caribbean - 4

Even though all the talk was that they have shit the bed in this franchise - I enjoyed the 2 hours of tuning out and going along for the ride. Knowing that this wasnt going to be an academy award winner helped.

I was upset that the Mermaid's didnt have tits - anyway to get nudity is a plus.

3-D dosent do much for me as I hate wearing those fucking glasses. I enjoy going to the theater thought for these big summer popcorn movies. Mmmmm popcorn,,.....

[cougarjake13]

finally saw the hangover


overall pretty good but i dont see what sll the fuss was about

[weekapaugjz]

watched let me in last night. one of the best horror movies i've seen in a long time. it was a little slow moving at a few points, but really set a tense tone for the whole movie. really liked how the movie was lit. now, i gotta track down the original swedish version, which i've heard is fantastic.

[Crash]

finally saw the hangover


overall pretty good but i dont see what sll the fuss was about

Yeah, I've felt that way about a lot of movies. You almost expect too much because of all of the hype. Most recently I felt that way about "Inception". Good movie, but the way everyone was praising it, I guess I went in with unrealistic expectations.

[weekapaugjz]

last week i watched the doc "the wild and wonderful whites of west virginia". fucking great. if you want to sit back and laugh at a bunch of drugged up, drunken back woods fucks, then this movie was made for you!

[Snacks]

last week i watched the doc "the wild and wonderful whites of west virginia". fucking great. if you want to sit back and laugh at a bunch of drugged up, drunken back woods fucks, then this movie was made for you!

what a trashy fucked up family they are. I felt no sadness for them when things went bad and I cant wish anything good to happen for them. They might be the most disgusting family ever!

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Beautiful Girls (1996) - Pretty good portrayal of group of friends encountering their 20 year high school reunion.
I wanted to make fun of this film because with a name like that, how can you cast Rosie O’Donnell? I lked her in this though.
Natalie Portman was great, although I thought she acted too mature for her age.

Les enfants du paradis aka The Children of Paradise (1945) - Told in 2 parts, this epic French film is about several men in a theater group all vying for the love of the same woman.
It was enjoyable, though long.

El espíritu de la colmena aka The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) - Considered one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, this is about a young girl infatuated with the movie Frankenstein. Her older sister tricks her into believing that a spirit lives in an old abandoned barn, so she continually tries seeking it out.
Some parts seemed to drag, but overall it was very well done.

Lord of the Flies (1963) - Great story of survival, about a group of young boys who survive a plane crash and end up on a deserted island.
The acting was pretty bad at times by some of the kids, but pretty sure these were all inexperienced kids.

La strada (1954) - A simple girl goes off to spend her days with a traveling entertainer that is constantly berating her.
Throughout the film you’re wondering why this guy wants her around if he is constantly abusing her...then the ending happens and it all makes sense.
Very, very good.

À nos amours (1983) - French film about a teenage girl with a dysfunctional family. The only time she seems to be happy is when she’s having sex with guys.
The teenage sex isn’t the shocking part of this film, it’s the physical abuse this girl takes from her mom, dad, and older brother. She takes some shots that really looked brutal. There’s one scene where the brother has to separate the mother and daughter, so he grabs the mother and throws her on the bed. It looked like she hit her head on the wall as she went down. The next scene shows a stream of blood running down her neck. I have to believe that was real.
I did like this one.

The Fly (1958) - For its time, this was a very good horror film.

Человек с Киноаппаратом aka Man with the Movie Camera (1929) - Silent Russian film about, just like the title says, a man with a movie camera.
There is no plot, no dialog, no subtitles, no insert cards, and no actors. It’s just a guy documenting life in the Soviet Union. He does break it up into themes, for instance, there’s a part where a couple is getting registered to get married, the next shot is a couple registering for a divorce, next shot is a woman in labor, next shot is a funeral precession. All these continually cut back and forth, adding interesting angles and special effects. By the way, the birth is actually shown, so you see the baby coming out almost from the doctor’s perspective.
The orchestra music playing throughout the film is really good.
This was just fantastic.

Colour Me Kubrick (2005) - a true-ish story (as the title card reads) about a guy in England that went around swindling people, convincing them that he was the legendary film director, Stanley Kubrick.
It was pretty comical. John Malkovich as “Stanley” was great at basically being a constant drunk.

[Snacks]

Here's what I watched this week:

Beautiful Girls (1996) - Pretty good portrayal of group of friends encountering their 20 year high school reunion.
I wanted to make fun of this film because with a name like that, how can you cast Rosie O’Donnell? I lked her in this though.
Natalie Portman was great, although I thought she acted too mature for her age.

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this is one of my all time fav guilty pleasure movies. on a side note I think it was their 10 year reunion not 20. Not a big deal but they mention it and reference to their age in different parts of the movie. It is surprising that this cast was used for a 10 year reunion when they all look like they are in their 30s at least!

[Furtherman]

For some reason there were two Jake Gyllenhal flicks on back to back yesterday.

Prince Of Persia: I can't really say what this crap film is about (some kind of magic sand that turns back time?) but that Gemma Arterton sure is hot.

October Sky: I haven't seen this movie since it came out and I forgot how great it is... based on a true story about teenage friends who build rockets in a WV mining town, trying to earn scholarships before they have to go work in the mines. Just an overall wonderful film and story that you don't see much of in the movies.

[cougarjake13]

October Sky: I haven't seen this movie since it came out and I forgot how great it is... based on a true story about teenage friends who build rockets in a WV mining town, trying to earn scholarships before they have to go work in the mines. Just an overall wonderful film and story that you don't see much of in the movies.





so not a sequel to vanilla sky ? ok


gotta give it a shot then

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

The Living Daylights (1987) - I didn’t expect to get back to watching James Bond films so soon, but noticed the 2 in my Netflix queue were expiring this week.
Now I am starting the Timothy Dalton era as 007. I really wasn’t impressed with this film and to me, Dalton just didn’t seem like Bond. I had no problem accepting Roger Moore as the super agent when he took over, but Dalton just didn’t convince me. According to IMDB, the script for this film was written with Moore in mind, so maybe the next one will fit Dalton’s character.

Licence to Kill (1989) - I didn’t realize this, but this was Timothy Dalton’s final appearance as James Bond. This film was better than the previous, but I still had a hard time buying Dalton as 007.
I hope Netflix adds the remaining Bond films. I’ve seen this many, I might as well continue with the rest.

Dances with Wolves (1990) - I can finally add this to my “Oscar winners watched” list.
I didn’t know that Kevin Costner also directed this. I thought that was impressive.
Overall, I was pretty bored with this 3 hour film. Perhaps if there was a scene involving a baseball I would’ve liked it more.

Fong juk aka Exiled (2006) - I’ve seen a few other Johnnie To films, so I was somewhat familiar with him. This one was decent, but not as good as the others I’d seen.
The gunfights were fun, but the CGI blood splatter looked more like a mist.

The Wrong Man (1956) - A Hitchcock film that really didn’t feel like a Hitchcock film.
Henry Fonda stars in this true story about a man who resembles a man wanted for a string of holdups. He is arrested and spends time in jail. Meanwhile, his wife doesn’t know what to believe and suffers a mental breakdown.
I liked it.

Gozu (2003) - I’ve seen a bunch of Takashi Miike films and liked them all, but I hated this one...until the final 10 minutes and then it turned me around.
This was a bizarre film, featuring characters such as an old woman who constantly lactates and a man who can only get sexually aroused when a ladle is inserted into his ass.
The final moments are something that will forever be ingrained in your mind.

La bête humaine aka The Human Beast (1938) - Based on a novel by Émile Zola. I was somewhat familiar with him as I had watched a biopic earlier this year.
This is about a railroad engineer who suffers from an inherited disease which causes him to have sudden violent outbreaks. He ends up falling in love with a woman whose husband had just killed someone.
Good stuff.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Grizzly (1976) - Surely, this was made to capitalize on the success of Jaws. I guess they felt that if Jaws scared people from swimming in the ocean, Grizzly would scare people from camping in the mountains.
All Grizzly did for me was make me laugh at some of the kills and at the absurdity of everything. The acting was abysmal as well.

Le salaire de la peur aka Wages of Fear (1953) - French film that takes place in Central America.
An American oil company has an accident where several employees are killed and injured. Employment positions open where several people in this poor area are seeking work. The job is very dangerous. Four drivers are needed to transport large shipments of nitroglycerin. The trucks are not exactly up to safety standards and the roads and terrain aren’t the easiest either.
This was pretty good and had some tense moments.

Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait (1974) - Documentary on the Ugandan dictator.
I knew this guy was considered evil and that he was responsible for the deaths of up to a half a million people, so I kind of expected to see a lot of bloodshed.
All of that must have happened after this film was made. The signs were all there that he was evil, this mainly focused on his maniacal thinking. On more than one occasion Hitler’s name was brought up and Idi Amin didn’t seem to object to the Nazi leader’s ways.
It was interesting.

Overlord (1975) - British film about a young Army recruit going through training just as D-Day is approaching.
It was cool at first because it mixed real war footage into the film, but then the editing got to be too much and was somewhat distracting.

Dai-Nihonjin aka Big Man Japan (2007) - On the day it was announced that an American remake was being developed, I decided to check the original.
I first heard of this film about a month ago when Roger Ebert posted on his Twitter that it was just made available on Instant Netflix, so I immediately added it to my queue.
All I knew about it was from the Netflix description. Basically a Japanese mockumentary on an aging superhero. I was expecting something like a Christopher Guest type film. Let’s just say I was way off.
The first 20 minutes were a bit slow for me because I really had no idea what the point of it all was, then all of a sudden it turns into a CGI fest with the main character suddenly transformed into a gigantic superhero battling other extremely large monsters.
It was a bit too silly for my tastes, though there were some funny moments.
The ending was extremely odd.
I won’t be seeing the remake.

Vampyr (1932) - This was a pretty chilling Scandinavian film. Probably more so to do with the print quality, as it is a very old film.
The use of shadows was done extremely well. Can’t say that I completely understood the ending, but it was still a cool film.

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) - I can’t believe I subjected myself to watching this. The hype is what made me want to check it out.
The women actors were pretty bad...until their mouths were stuck to each others asses, then their acting improved greatly.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t as gory as I expected it to be.

Super 8 (2011) - I am not a fan of the typical summer blockbusters. I avoid the comic book/superhero types, but there’s usually one blockbuster that piques my interest. Last year it was Inception, this year it’s Super 8.
This is actually the first IMAX movie I’ve ever seen. Well, I did see an ESPN IMAX movie about 10 years ago that I can’t remember the name of, but that was made specifically for IMAX.
I was originally planning on seeing the regular version of this on Friday, but then it was announced that the IMAX version would be released a day earlier and include a free poster. I’m a sucker for free movie posters, so I headed out this morning to see the first showing.
This had an E.T./Close Encounters type vibe to it. It wasn’t as family friendly as I thought it would be. I was somewhat expecting bad child actors doing stupid shit, but the kids were all great and they really weren’t annoying.
I kind of groaned at one point when it was leaning toward a happy ending, but really, that was my only complaint. Other than that it was a fun movie.

[cougarjake13]

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) - I can’t believe I subjected myself to watching this. The hype is what made me want to check it out.
The women actors were pretty bad...until their mouths were stuck to each others asses, then their acting improved greatly.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t as gory as I expected it to be. .


ahhh so thats where south park got it from

[TheGameHHH]

I just got done watching this doc on HBO called 'How To Die In Oregon'. It was all about terminally ill people and their right to die on their own terms. It was fascinating and so difficult to get though. Watching people slowly die on camera is brutal. They don't show any deaths obviously, but its still heart breaking to watch some of the people deteriorate.

[weekapaugjz]

Grizzly (1976) - Surely, this was made to capitalize on the success of Jaws. I guess they felt that if Jaws scared people from swimming in the ocean, Grizzly would scare people from camping in the mountains.
All Grizzly did for me was make me laugh at some of the kills and at the absurdity of everything. The acting was abysmal as well.


easily said by a man 35 years after it's release. this movie scared the shit out of me when i was a kid. my mom thought, "hey, he likes bears, i bet he'll like this movie!" WRONG.

[cougarjake13]

Am I the only one watching movies here?

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how the fuck do you find the time to watch all that you do ?

[Dan G]

how the fuck do you find the time to watch all that you do ?

I average about 1 a day, so it's only 90-120 minutes of my day.

[Snacks]

Blue Valentine: Terribly overrated. I was so bored and pissed at how this was edited. I hated both characters and the acting wasnt that good.

I am number 4: Got better as it went a long but still not worth watching. I still dont know why I decided to rent this in the 1st place?

[TheGameHHH]

Blue Valentine: Terribly overrated. I was so bored and pissed at how this was edited. I hated both characters and the acting wasnt that good.

I am number 4: Got better as it went a long but still not worth watching. I still dont know why I decided to rent this in the 1st place?

completely agree, that movie was terrible

[underdog]

completely agree, that movie was terrible

I thought it was stunning. The realism and energy between the two characters was something I hadn't really seen in many films. Then I watched "Alle Anderson", which is basically Blue Valentine in German, only better.

[cougarjake13]

I average about 1 a day, so it's only 90-120 minutes of my day.

ahh well that makes sense

reading your posts i was thinking thats what you watched that day or the last 2

[Devo37]

The Hangover 2 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1411697/)

some of the same stuff as the first one, but a lot really funny scenes, and pretty funny overall.

[Gutter]

Saw Super 8 last night and i thought it was pretty damn good. I don't like annoying idiot kid characters in movies, but they didn't play on that too much.....the kids acted older even though they still had the dialogue fitting for their age. the train wreck early on that begins the story seemed like it went on forever and made seeing it in the theater worth every penny. The special effects pay off later on as well. There are a few jump out of your seat moments, and its peppered with some funny lines and scenes too that i wasn't expecting. And those jolting scenes are really well placed....you don't see many of them coming. Overall i thought it was well written, the plot moves in a way that makes sense, and its a fitting ending that you can kind of see coming but doesn't become overly cheesy when it does culminate. Reminded me a lot of Stand by Me with a Sci-fi twist. I seriously think this will be a classic that people still watch many years from now. 9/10. I really enjoyed it.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Midnight in Paris (2011) - As much as I love Woody Allen, this was the first film of his that I have seen in a theater.
I love when Woody stars in his films, but as he’s gotten older, now he just writes and directs, though I have heard that in his next film, he will appear on screen, so I’m excited for that.
As for this film, Owen Wilson did a great job. If this were made 25 years ago, Woody would’ve played the lead. I felt that Owen captured Woody in his performance.
I wasn’t as impressed with Rachel McAdams, though there were a couple nice scenes of her from behind, so that was nice to watch.
The story was pretty cool. It won’t go down in my top 5 Woody Allen films, well, maybe if I went with ones in which he only wrote/directed.

L’avventura (1960) - Italian film that starts off in one direction and then almost ignores what it started with to end in a different way.
A group of friends head out on a yacht and decide to explore a volcanic rock in the Mediterranean. One of the women goes missing, so her boyfriend and the rest comb the area to find her. While searching, the boyfriend and her best friend end up falling for each other. Days go by and the girl still hasn’t been found, but there are leads that the group are pursuing, but as the days go by, the focus moves more and more on the new relationship and less on finding the missing girl. At one point, the new love interest meets up with a fellow group member and the
girl isn’t even immediately brought up. I would think their first sentence would be, “hey, has Anna been found yet?”
Aside from that, this film was very good. It was a mystery about finding someone that turned into a film about finding yourself.

Les bas-fonds aka The Lower Depths (1936) - The plot of this film seemed so familiar to me, but I just couldn’t place it. It wasn’t until after it was finished that I looked it up on IMDB and found that Akira Kurosawa remade it about 20 years later. I had seen Kurosawa’s version just last year.
Pretty sure I started posting my reviews on here last year, so that review would be on here. I haven’t checked, but I’m sure I enjoyed Kurosawa’s, I really don’t remember, but I really liked this one.

Le Corbeau aka The Raven (1943) - French mystery about a doctor in a small town that is being slandered in hand-written letters that are mailed out to people of the town. All the letters are signed by a person using the alias, Le Corbeau (The Raven).
It was really good. It keeps you guessing on who’s behind the letters and also if these slanderous things are actually true or not.

Cléo de 5 à 7 aka Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) - Interesting film about a young woman awaiting the results of her cancer biopsy. It follows her in a 2 hour span, hence the title.
The beginning was awkward because it starts with her visiting a tarot card reader, at that point the film is in color, but then starts switching between black & white and color. The film ultimately remains in black & white for its duration after the opening scene.
I don’t think I have ever seen a film with so many mirrors and other reflective surfaces. Pretty much every scene had a mirror and I found the camera work to be very impressive.

Mala Noche aka Bad Night (1985) - Every once in a while I’ll enjoy a Gus Van Sant film, but more often than not, I end up asking myself why I attempt to sit through them. This is one of those that I questioned. With a running time of 77 minutes, I figured it would easy enough to get through. It wasn’t. This film was gay. I mean that in the literal sense. It was really gay.
A white store clerk develops a huge crush on an illegal Mexican immigrant. The whole film he’s chasing after his man crush, but there’s no sign that the Mexican is even gay, he just constantly ignores the guys advances.
I was pretty bored watching this one.

Walkabout (1970) - Australian film about a father that takes his teenage daughter and younger son out for a picnic in the desert. As the kids are playing and preparing for the picnic, the father pulls out a gun and starts firing in the kids direction. They manage to run away and the father sets the car on fire and puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. Now the kids are stranded, left to fend for themselves. As they look for civilization, they meet an Aborigine on his walkabout.
This was a cool film. After seeing a few animals hunted and killed, I knew not to expect to find the “no animals were harmed in the making of this film” blurb in the end credits. The kills looked too real and most likely were.

Onibaba aka Demon Woman (1964) - A woman and her daughter-in-law kill men and steal their belongings as a means to survive while their son/husband (Kichi) is off at war. A soldier returns and tells them that Kichi has been killed. The daughter-in-law starts sneaking off to sleep with the soldier. This angers the mother because she knows that she won’t be able to survive on her own, so she does whatever she can to stop the 2 from seeing each other.
It takes a long time to get to the part where the title fits in, but once it does certainly lives up to its name.
I loved this film and thought the cinematography was excellent.

[KnoxHarrington]

Just caught this on Netflix:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Gangster_No_1.jpg

It's a very odd sort of Mob movie. The movie centers around an unnamed gangster, played by Malcolm McDowell as an older man in 1999 and Paul Bettany as a younger man in the 1960's. The Gangster becomes the protege of Freddie Mays, boss of a very powerful crew. Mays is played by David Thewlis, who apparently played some rather minor role in The Big Lebowski, though I can't remember that character's name.

Anyway, like I said, it's an odd Mob movie. it's definitely not a Goodfellas or Donnie Brasco type movie, attempting to paint a realistic portrait of life in the Mob; it's very sort of impressionistic, with all kinds of visual flourishes, including one of the more disturbing murder scenes I've ever seen (shot entirely from the perspective of the victim.) The movie mostly deals with the Gangster's obsession with Freddie: first being devoted to him, then plotting to take his place.

It's a good movie, I liked it, but I can see how it wouldn't be for everyone.

[newport king]

Hangover2 this sucked. Its right up there with Caddyshack2. Maybe not THAT bad but it wasn't funny. at all. If there was no Hangover, then sure itd be a funny movie but its a carbon copy of the 1st.

Hall Pass, thought this was alot funnier than i thought it was going to be. Im not an Owen Wilson fan but it was good comedy.

Take Me Home Tonight, take your favorite 80's movies, and put in curse words. Enjoyed it.

[TheGameHHH]

I caught Midnight In Paris this weekend and I really dug it. I thought Owen Wilson was excellent. The movie sort of reminded me of Purple Rose Of Cairo but not in a bad way. I'm glad I got to see it.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Ostre sledované vlaky aka Closely Watched Trains (1966) - Czechoslovakian film about a young man hired to work at a train depot in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. There’s a lot of downtime at this depot, so the men have a lot of time to spend with women. The main character is jealous of how easy the other men have it with women. He himself has a pretty woman interested in him, but he’s very shy. He then discovers that he has a problem with premature ejaculation.
I wasn’t expecting this to be funny, but there were a lot of comedic moments. It also features one of the most erotic scenes I’ve ever seen. A train depot employee and a secretary are fooling around in an office and as she’s laying on her stomach on a desk, he slowly pulls up her skirt and starts rubber stamping the back of her thighs. The look on her face shows that she’s totally into it. She eventually pulls her panties down and gets a nice stamping on her ass. This eventually becomes comedic fodder and it was hysterical.
Loved this film.

Europa (1991) - Another film involving railways, this one about an American going to work for his German uncle in Germany during WWII.
I really didn’t like this one. The story was somewhat interesting, but what I didn’t like was that it was a predominantly black & white film, yet some scenes were in color, and then some scenes utilized both, one character in black & white while the other would be in color. Wasn’t really a fan of the hypnotic narration either.

The Visitor (2007) - I’ve had a Blu-ray player for 6 months now. In that time I have acquired around 50 Blu-ray discs. It wasn’t until Father’s Day that I watched my very first Blu-ray.
My parents got their first player about a month ago. A few weeks ago my parents visited me and so my Dad was looking through my Blu-rays. He spots this one and asks if it’s any good. This was actually a blind buy, so I hadn’t watched it yet. I only bought it because it was directed by Tom McCarthy. He directed one of my all-time favorite films The Station Agent. He also directed this years Win Win, which I was also a big fan of. I tell my Dad that it’s made by the guy that did The Station Agent and that piqued his interest. I had lent him that DVD several years ago and he loved it as well. So my parents take the disc home. A few hours later my Mom brings it back (I only live 5 minutes from my parents...as of now, I’m moving in a few weeks). She tells me she liked it a lot. About a week later my Dad tells me how much he enjoyed it and asks if I’d watched it yet. This question went on for a couple more weeks. I kept putting it off because there are so many movies in my Netflix queue that were expiring soon, so I’ve been trying to watch as many as those as I could.
Father’s Day was approaching and I knew that I was going to spend the day at my parents. I woke up early enough just to watch this film so I could finally discuss it with my parents.
This was actually a decent film. It’s about a college professor living in Connecticut, who also has an apartment in NYC, which he rarely visits. One day he decides to go that apartment and discovers that an illegal immigrant couple are now living there. Feeling sorry for them, he lives among them, becoming friends and tries to help them establish citizenship.
I liked this one and it was nice finally being able to discuss it with my Dad...especially on Father’s Day.

Summertime (1955) - When I think of David Lean films, I think of epics with wide panoramic shots. This was neither. It was full frame and only 99 minutes long. It was in color though.
Katharine Hepburn plays a woman desperate for love who travels to Italy on her own hoping to find that spark. She ends up falling for an Italian shopkeeper, who unbeknownst to her, is married.
Kind of a boring film, but the scenery and color both looked outstanding.

Jules and Jim (1962) - François Truffaut’s love story about 2 men in love with the same woman. I have never seen a love story quite like this one.
In 1912, two friends, one Austrian and one French, are inseparable. One day the Austrian meets a French woman and falls in love. They marry and have a child, then war breaks out. The 2 friends must fight for their home countries. When the war ends, the friendships resume. The wife has grown unhappy and starts falling for her husband’s friend. The husband notices this and encourages it. No signs of jealousy at all. It was interesting.

I vitelloni (1953) - Fellini film about a group of guys in their late 20s, still living with their parents, wanting to leave their small town. It primarily focuses on one guy who impregnates his girlfriend, then marries her, but sneaks off with other women any chance he gets.
I’ve seen a few of Fellini’s films and this one was a standard film, nothing too abstract and easy to follow.

Sleepers (1996) - The film opened with a narrator stating this film was a true story based on friendship. It ended with a statement in the closing credits saying that the state of NY denies any of this is true and that there are no records in any courts that the events in this film took place.
As a film, I enjoyed this a lot. It’s a story about a group of boys in 1966 that pull a prank that has an unfortunate result. As their punishment, they get sent to a reform school for a year. At this reform school they are abused mentally, physically, and sexually by the guards.
Fast forward to 1981, the kids are grown up and 2 of them spot one of the guards dining in a restaurant. They extract their revenge on him, which leads to a court hearing where they attempt to get their revenge on the other guards.
If any of this is true, I’d believe the abuse in the reform school took place, but once this film got to the court room, there’s no way those incidents happened in real life.
Still, it was an excellent film.

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005) - I’m currently reading Albert Brooks’ new book “2030.” I’ve seen a few of Brooks’ films that he’s directed and/or starred in and I really liked them. He reminds me a lot of Woody Allen, who I’m a huge fan of.
I decided to go on Netflix and see what Brooks films were available and discovered this one, which I had never heard of. Luckily for me, it was expiring the next day, so I had to watch it quick.
Based on the description, I thought it was going to be a documentary. It wasn’t, though Brooks does play himself. Brooks wrote/directs/stars in this film about a comedian that receives a letter from the U.S. government asking him to join this study where he must travel to India and Pakistan to find out what makes them laugh.
I thought this was hilarious, but I read a lot of hate on it on IMDB. I guess you have to like that Woody Allen self-deprecating type of humor. My type of comedy.

Bad Boys (1983) - Not to be confused with the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence film of the same name. This one stars Sean Penn as a troubled teen sent to reform school. There’s no abuse by guards in this, instead it’s against his own peers. Things come to a head when a fellow teen, the reason why Mick (Penn) was put in reform school, is also sent to this school, for a brutal crime against Mick’s girlfriend.
Sean Penn still had the Spiccoli look, but didn’t have the voice. This was a nice little violent film. Also featured the film debuts of Alan Ruck and Ally Sheedy.

Delicatessen (1991) - Awesome French dark comedy about a butcher who has an apartment building with his deli on the ground floor. The butcher’s specialty is humans, which his tenants know all about and line up for. An out of work clown answers an ad to be a maintenance man in the building, not knowing it’s actually just a ruse to find the next victim.
This was really cool and the sets looked amazing.

[RoseBlood]

Delicatessen (1991) - Awesome French dark comedy about a butcher who has an apartment building with his deli on the ground floor. The butcher’s specialty is humans, which his tenants know all about and line up for. An out of work clown answers an ad to be a maintenance man in the building, not knowing it’s actually just a ruse to find the next victim.
This was really cool and the sets looked amazing.

You might like "City of Lost Children", also by Jeunet. It's a beautiful film, filled with dark, eery, oddball characters.

[realmenhatelife]

You might like "City of Lost Children", also by Jeunet. It's a beautiful film, filled with dark, eery, oddball characters.

All of his movies are kindof like that, and I like all of them except I didn't really get MicMacs. But he's a auteur who has been exposed pretty well in America, and yet usually doesn't get brought up when people start talking about auteurs. But I do really like that he can slip in and out of different genres and really look like himself.

[Dan G]

You might like "City of Lost Children", also by Jeunet. It's a beautiful film, filled with dark, eery, oddball characters.

I have been wanting to see that for a very long time.

All of his movies are kindof like that, and I like all of them except I didn't really get MicMacs. But he's a auteur who has been exposed pretty well in America, and yet usually doesn't get brought up when people start talking about auteurs. But I do really like that he can slip in and out of different genres and really look like himself.

I didn't know MicMacs was by the same person. I actually have that in my Instant Netflix queue. I did love Amelie which I also didn't know was by the same person.

[RoseBlood]

I did love Amelie which I also didn't know was by the same person.
Amelie was the reason I watched City of Lost Children.

[foodcourtdruide]

The Visitor (2007) - I’ve had a Blu-ray player for 6 months now. In that time I have acquired around 50 Blu-ray discs. It wasn’t until Father’s Day that I watched my very first Blu-ray.
My parents got their first player about a month ago. A few weeks ago my parents visited me and so my Dad was looking through my Blu-rays. He spots this one and asks if it’s any good. This was actually a blind buy, so I hadn’t watched it yet. I only bought it because it was directed by Tom McCarthy. He directed one of my all-time favorite films The Station Agent. He also directed this years Win Win, which I was also a big fan of. I tell my Dad that it’s made by the guy that did The Station Agent and that piqued his interest. I had lent him that DVD several years ago and he loved it as well. So my parents take the disc home. A few hours later my Mom brings it back (I only live 5 minutes from my parents...as of now, I’m moving in a few weeks). She tells me she liked it a lot. About a week later my Dad tells me how much he enjoyed it and asks if I’d watched it yet. This question went on for a couple more weeks. I kept putting it off because there are so many movies in my Netflix queue that were expiring soon, so I’ve been trying to watch as many as those as I could.
Father’s Day was approaching and I knew that I was going to spend the day at my parents. I woke up early enough just to watch this film so I could finally discuss it with my parents.
This was actually a decent film. It’s about a college professor living in Connecticut, who also has an apartment in NYC, which he rarely visits. One day he decides to go that apartment and discovers that an illegal immigrant couple are now living there. Feeling sorry for them, he lives among them, becoming friends and tries to help them establish citizenship.
I liked this one and it was nice finally being able to discuss it with my Dad...especially on Father’s Day.



I loved this film. It literally had me in tears at the end. Richard Jenkins is really awesome in this.

[realmenhatelife]

I have been wanting to see that for a very long time.



I didn't know MicMacs was by the same person. I actually have that in my Instant Netflix queue. I did love Amelie which I also didn't know was by the same person.

If you like Amelie I would say definitely watch A Very Long Engagement, which is also him and Audrey Tatou.

He also did Alien 4: Resurrection which I really enjoy. It isn't as aggressively him as the other movies but its a really different take. and is strongest in it's characters. It's the sci fi movie of the bunch.

And then if you like him I would also say check out Guillermo Del Toro's movies, which I think have a similar vibe, although filtered through horror.

[underdog]

I loved this film. It literally had me in tears at the end. Richard Jenkins is really awesome in this.

I also loved that movie. Was a very great film.

[Chigworthy]

How does Marc Caro get douched so bad in this thread?

Director
The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (short film) (1987)
Delicatessen (film) (1991)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Dante 01 (2008)

Writer
Delicatessen (film) (1991)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Dante 01 (2008)

Storyboards
Delicatessen (film) (1991)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Alien Resurrection (1997)


They weren't called Jeunet et Caro for nothing. And Dante 01 was a decent sci-fi/psych film if you like their other work.

[realmenhatelife]

How does Marc Caro get douched so bad in this thread?

Director
The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (short film) (1987)
Delicatessen (film) (1991)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Dante 01 (2008)

Writer
Delicatessen (film) (1991)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Dante 01 (2008)

Storyboards
Delicatessen (film) (1991)
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Alien Resurrection (1997)


They weren't called Jeunet et Caro for nothing. And Dante 01 was a decent sci-fi/psych film if you like their other work.

You might as well throw in Laurent too, who collabs with Juenet all the time.

[Chigworthy]

You might as well throw in Laurent too, who collabs with Juenet all the time.

Pinon is in all of his films. Who's Laurent?

[cougarjake13]

Sleepers (1996) - The film opened with a narrator stating this film was a true story based on friendship. It ended with a statement in the closing credits saying that the state of NY denies any of this is true and that there are no records in any courts that the events in this film took place.
As a film, I enjoyed this a lot. It’s a story about a group of boys in 1966 that pull a prank that has an unfortunate result. As their punishment, they get sent to a reform school for a year. At this reform school they are abused mentally, physically, and sexually by the guards.
Fast forward to 1981, the kids are grown up and 2 of them spot one of the guards dining in a restaurant. They extract their revenge on him, which leads to a court hearing where they attempt to get their revenge on the other guards.
If any of this is true, I’d believe the abuse in the reform school took place, but once this film got to the court room, there’s no way those incidents happened in real life.
Still, it was an excellent film

plus im sure we'd be able to research those things happening in the court room and find out if they did or didnt happen

[realmenhatelife]

Pinon is in all of his films. Who's Laurent?

He's been involved in all of the scripts.

[Furtherman]

Green Lantern. Not as bad as the critics made it out to be. Superhero fluff, but great in 3D, and it was a decent story.


Trollhunter. This is currently on IFC On Demand. This was a great flick! Norwegian film / Documentary style about a college film students who try and confront a bear poacher, but find out he's not hunting bears. Done much like Blair Witch, but much better.

[Snacks]

plus im sure we'd be able to research those things happening in the court room and find out if they did or didnt happen

Its an odd situation because his claims are disputed and not or cant be proven yet he has never got in any trouble for them? There have been plenty of writers who have lied or sensationalized their stories who have gotten in serious trouble or a least ruined over shit like this. The guy James Frey comes to mind who wrote A Million Little Pieces.

When I watched this movie I was sickened by what happened (If true). You can think what you want about criminals and say whatever. But in all honesty jail, prison, rehab or whatever is meant to fix you not make you worse ( as well as punish). It also shouldnt be a place where you should be in more danger or rapped or even killed. Thats what correction officers are supposed to be doing not allowing other shit to go on or looking the other way or actually committing the crimes themselves! Prison doesnt rehab in this country it makes criminals worse and fucks them up even more.

As for the movies and how put together? I thought it was really good. I watch it whenever its on and the movie always draws me back in like its the 1st time I watched it. I think Brad Pitt over acted a little and their NY/Hells kitchen accents could have been better. The kids did excellent jobs, maybe even better then the older more experienced actors!

[cougarjake13]

Trollhunter. This is currently on IFC On Demand. This was a great flick! Norwegian film / Documentary style about a college film students who try and confront a bear poacher, but find out he's not hunting bears. Done much like Blair Witch, but much better.



just watched preview


looks pretty cool i'll def check it out thanks

[Dan G]

Trollhunter. This is currently on IFC On Demand. This was a great flick! Norwegian film / Documentary style about a college film students who try and confront a bear poacher, but find out he's not hunting bears. Done much like Blair Witch, but much better.

The Russian reviewer on Ebert's show really liked that one.

http://www.ebertpresents.com/movies/troll-hunter/videos/179#ooid=o4bmpoMjqqIYgA5xhoWDflzUUAtsqty0

[Fallon]

Resident Evil Afterlife.

It wasn't good, the fact that they cast the guy from Prision Break to break out of a prison filled with zombies was atrocious.

[Chigworthy]

Trollhunter. This is currently on IFC On Demand. This was a great flick! Norwegian film / Documentary style about a college film students who try and confront a bear poacher, but find out he's not hunting bears. Done much like Blair Witch, but much better.

I'm tempted to rent this on Zune, but it's cocksucking 840 points to watch. How ever much that is.

[ZigZagBigBag]

Cedar Rapids. Surprisingly amusing.

[Snacks]

Cedar Rapids. Surprisingly amusing.

did it come out on dvd yet?

[Dan G]

did it come out on dvd yet?

Yes, with probably the worst cover art imaginable.

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5940/cedarrapids2011bluray.png

[Furtherman]

That DVD cover makes me go "Ewwwwwwwww" Small town? Big trouble? Blech.

[Chigworthy]

Cedar Rapids. Surprisingly amusing.

It was ok. Kind of a ripoff of 40 y/o virgin. I didn't know it was Anne Heche until the credits.

[cougarjake13]

It was ok. Kind of a ripoff of 40 y/o virgin. I didn't know it was Anne Heche until the credits.

nudity ??

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Another Woman (1988) - Woody Allen wrote/directed this, but doesn’t show up on camera in this drama about mid-life crisis.
It was good, but didn’t come across as a Woody Allen film, then again, neither did Interiors, so what the hell do I know? I can’t always expect self-deprecating sex life jokes.

Frankenstein (1931) - The original classic from Universal Pictures. I love it when old horror films have intros warning the audience at how frightening the film they’re about to watch is. I wish I could go back in time and see audience reactions just to see if it was all a gimmick or if people really were passing out or screaming in horror at the sights scene on screen.
Another thing I really liked was the cast list in the opening credits. It looked like this:

Colin Clive...........................Henry Frankenstein
Mae Clark............................Elizabeth
John Boles..........................Victor Moritz
The Monster........................X

It was just funny to me keeping the actors name as a mystery. However, It was revealed in the end credits.
As for the film, this was very good. It was cool seeing this after recently watching the Spanish film, The Spirit of the Beehive, and spotting how much footage they used from this film.

The Leopard (1963) - From the start I was extremely bored with this, but I trudged through the 160+ minutes. When it mercifully ended, I went to its IMDB page to read about it and maybe find out why Criterion thought this was a worthy title for their collection.
I discovered that there are many cuts to this film, all much longer than the version I sat through. I also found out that there’s an Italian language version which received much praise. The one that received the worst reviews was the one I watched, a butchered cut with dubbed voices.
I watched this on Instant Netflix, not knowing about different cuts. I just saw that it was a Criterion and expected the best. This was the only version available.
I don’t know if I’ll ever attempt to revisit this film with the proper cut. It kinda left a sore spot for me. Not sure my hatred could subside...at least not in the near future.

Panic (2000) - William H. Macy stars in this film about a hired hitman who one day realizes what he’s doing is bad, so he decides to visit a psychiatrist. There, he meets a much younger sex crazed woman, who seems to have her psychiatrist appointments scheduled at the same times.
Macy is great in this and so is his father, played by Donald Sutherland. One of the best performances is by the kid that plays Macy’s son. He’s probably 6-years-old, but he was very good.
It just seems a little silly that as old as Macy is, he comes to terms that killing is bad.
It was still decent though.

Easy Money (1983) - Rodney Dangerfield plays a guy obsessed with drinking, smoking, gambling, drugs, etc... When the family discovers that his extremely wealthy mother-in-law has perished in a plane crash, her will states that $10 million will go to him and his family if he avoids his vices for one whole year.
That premise was pretty cool. It’s the stupid subplot in this that annoyed me. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays his oldest daughter and she’s marrying a Puerto Rican. Apparently she’s a virgin that never had the sex talk with her parents. She’s bothered by this and scared to consummate on her wedding night. There’s even a scene in a hotel room where she’s slithering away from her husband because she’s scared to have sex with him.
Take all that out and you have a nice 45 minute short film.
Rodney is great, as expected, and his best friend in the film is none other than Joe Pesci. They were a good team.

Taps (1981) - A long standing military academy is being shutdown in a year so that condominiums can be built in its place. This angers the General as well as all the young cadets.
After an unfortunate accident, the General is hospitalized with a heart attack. The kids are told they can go home while he recuperates. Instead, the 12-17 year-olds decide to take matters into their own hands and defend their academy, first standing up to the state police and then it escalates so the National Guard gets involved.
I know as a viewer you’re supposed to cheer on the kids and hope they prevail against the adults, but I had the total opposite reaction. I wanted to see these brats get slaughtered. I kept waiting for a tank to just wipe out the building they were in.
I did find it laughable that the nearest bunker to the front gate was being guarded by two 12-year-olds. Yeah, that’s who I’d want at the front of the line in case the “enemy” approached.
It did have somewhat of a happy ending...at least for me.

Pollock (2000) - A biopic on the artist, Jackson Pollock.
To be completely honest, I knew nothing of this guy other than that he was an artist. I didn’t know the era he lived in, the kind of artist he was, why he was worthy of a biopic, and whether or not he was still living.
Ed Harris directed and stars as Pollock. As a film, I thought this was great. I don’t know how accurate Harris’ portrayal of Pollock was, but I thought it was an outstanding role.
I’d like to think I learned something about Pollock from watching this. It was an entertaining film, regardless.

La passion de Jeanne d’Arc aka The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - A silent film that gave true meaning to the word ‘silent.’ I’ve seen several silent films and while there’s typically no dialog, there’s usually music accompaniment. This did not. It was still extremely captivating.
A French film based on the real life trial of Joan of Arc, a 19-year-old woman who believed God talked with her, telling her to defend France against the English. Ultimately she is captured and burned at the stake, only to be declared a martyr years after her death.
This was very good. The girl who played Joan was great.

[realmenhatelife]

I love Easy Money.

[underdog]

Watched Hot Coffee. Documentaries anger me all the time now.

[Snacks]

Watched Hot Coffee. Documentaries anger me all the time now.

what was it about? Why did it anger you?

I love documentaries but they do anger me at times as well as keep me informed on things I might not have been interested in or known about!

[underdog]

what was it about? Why did it anger you?

I love documentaries but they do anger me at times as well as keep me informed on things I might not have been interested in or known about!

It started off about the lady who sued McDonalds when she got burned from their coffee. But the movie is just about the way big business has made the American public believe that the courtrooms are filled with frivolous lawsuits.

[Snacks]

It started off about the lady who sued McDonalds when she got burned from their coffee. But the movie is just about the way big business has made the American public believe that the courtrooms are filled with frivolous lawsuits.

sounds interesting. did you watch it online like hulu or do I have to rent or buy it to see it?

[Chigworthy]

Pulled the trigger on Zune's ripoff delivery system for Trollhunter and really enjoyed it. I'm sure the scaredy-cat hipsters who hated Blair Witch will absolutely despise it. This movie felt like it had a huge budget. The cinematography was great, sound design was really good, and the acting was surprisingly good. The varied filming locations makes me want to move to Norway. Some of the CGI may piss off the ILM crowd, but they did a good job of de-emphasizing their few shortcomings in that department. The biggest flaw that I saw was when some night vision scenes were obviously shot in daylight.

I found it interesting that while our folklore has big ugly creatures hating the smell of the blood of an englishman, Norwegian troll lore apparently has them hating Christian blood. Also kind of funny that the Polish guys who deliver the bear carcasses are as stupid as any Poles in a polish joke.

Not to mention the Kvelertak song Mjod during the credits rules. It sounds like a different version than the two that come on the album, but it may just sound different on my TV then it does on my laptop.

[ZigZagBigBag]

yes, worst cover ever. john c. reilly is funny shit in this movie. comparing it to 40 yr old virgin is silly.
Yes, with probably the worst cover art imaginable.

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/5940/cedarrapids2011bluray.png

[underdog]

sounds interesting. did you watch it online like hulu or do I have to rent or buy it to see it?

I saw it on HBO On Demand.

[Chigworthy]

yes, worst cover ever. john c. reilly is funny shit in this movie. comparing it to 40 yr old virgin is silly.

You don't think Helms' character borrows heavily from the 40 y/o virgin?


And Reilly is hilarious. When he's drunk, it's Steve Brule.

[cougarjake13]

Not to mention the Kvelertak song Mjod during the credits rules. It sounds like a different version than the two that come on the album, but it may just sound different on my TV then it does on my laptop.


listening now


not bad

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Beginners (2010) - This film is pretty much told in flashback form, though it takes place in 2003. It’s about a guy who begins a relationship with a woman he meets at a costume party. Throughout the film it flashes back a few years prior to when his 75-year-old father came out as a gay man 4 years after his wife had passed. It’s also discovered that the father has terminal cancer. So as we see the beginnings of this mans relationship in 2003, we’re also brought back to his fathers beginnings.
The father/son relationship seemed very genuine. There weren’t any hokey stereotypical gay jokes. The father didn’t suddenly become flamboyant and add a lisp. It all seemed very real. Supposedly it’s based on director, Mike Mills’ real life. Apparently his father came out late in life.
The flashbacks happened a little too much and at one point got a little confusing. Still, I ended up liking this a lot.

Night Train to Munich (1940) - Nazi spy movie about a father and daughter attempting to flee the Nazi’s and be reunited.
This was all about disguises, deception, and action.
Very good!

High Sierra (1941) - Humphrey Bogart plays a pardoned bank robber, who upon being released from prison, suddenly is hired to lead a crew to rob a safe in a fancy hotel in the Sierra Mountains.
I liked it.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) - The second film in John Ford’s cavalry trilogy, the first being 1948’s Fort Apache. This isn’t necessarily a sequel, as the story isn’t continued and the characters are different. It gets a little confusing when it gets to the 3rd film, which I watched after this, so I’ll explain in the next review.
This is a color film and looked extremely sharp. John Wayne plays a cavalry General days before he is set to retire. The Indians have planned a massive attack, so with his days in charge coming to an end, he must lead his troops into battle.
The Duke was aged to look 60 and it came off pretty well. I thought this was really good.

Rio Grande (1950) - The 3rd film in the cavalry trilogy. It has nothing to do with the previous two, but John Wayne uses the same name as he did in the first one, Fort Apache. Also, 2 characters from She Wore a Yellow Ribbon return using the same names, but their ranks in this film are much lower.
This film is also in black & white, unlike the last.
John Wayne once again is in charge, but he’s not on the verge of retiring. In this, his 15-year-old son, whom he hasn’t seen in 15 years, unexpectedly is sent to serve in Wayne’s troop. The boys mother also shows up in hopes to bring her son home.
Once again it’s another battle against Indians. Lots of action. I liked it, but not as much as the first 2 in the trilogy.

The Broadway Melody (1929) - I only watched this because it was the oldest Best Picture winner that I hadn’t seen. Trying to see as many as I can.

Dodge City (1939) - A color film starring Erroll Flynn as a man who appoints himself as sheriff in a wild west town.
This was really cool with great action. The only downside was Flynn. Dodge City is a tough city with bad asses everywhere you look, but Flynn’s demeanor is too soft to be believable.
Still, I enjoyed it.

The Paradine Case (1947) - Kind of a lackluster Hitchcock film. Gregory Peck plays a married lawyer who is defending a beautiful woman, whom he begins falling for, that is accused of poisoning her blind husband.

Lost Horizon (1937) - This was like watching the first season of Lost minus the smoke monster and polar bears.
An Englishman is sent to China to free several white people as a revolution is set to begin. When he boards his plane with his group of freed passengers, they discover their plane has been hijacked and traveling in the opposite direction of where they’re supposed to be going. Suddenly the plane crashes and only the pilot is killed. A group of porters rescues the passengers and brings them to this Utopian city, hidden deep in the mountains, known as Shangri-La.
Shangri-La is a peaceful place where no one seems to age and no one can leave either.
The leader of the passengers finds out this plane crash was not an accident, he was chosen to be there, meanwhile, the rest of the group want to get away.
Obviously this film had a huge influence on Lost. It was really good.

[Furtherman]

Kill The Irishman. On Demand. Great film based on a true story. I had no idea Cleveland was such a war zone in the 70's. Excellent cast too. Check it out!

[disneyspy]

COP OUT,after hearing bruce willis just walked thru his lines i didn't think it would be that good,but i liked it and i was shocked when i saw who the tattoo artist was

[Chigworthy]

COP OUT,after hearing bruce willis just walked thru his lines i didn't think it would be that good,but i liked it and i was shocked when i saw who the tattoo artist was

Don't cocktease us! Who was the tattoo guy?

[Dan 'Hampton]

Touching The Void. Ron mentioned this awhile back. Docudrama about two mountaineers escaping a disastrous climb in the Andes. Currently on Netflix online. Liked it.

[IamFogHat]

We saw Super 8 the other day and I thought it was all right. My biggest problem was I thought the transition from the alien being evil to them realizing it was just scared and wanting to go home was really retarded. I think it would have been way more interesting if the kids rescued the girl, made friends with the alien like they did, but then went on an adventure with it, then the ending would have made a lot more sense. And it also would have fit in better with the whole 80's Spielberg throwback motif.

[Chigworthy]

I'm struggling to watch "Heroin Town", a documentary on Netfliz about a small New England town that was portrayed as an infested slum of junk-sick low lifes by 60 minutes years ago. The thrust of the documentary seems to be exposing the creative license that 60 minutes used to blow the H problem out of proportion. It sounds like a good doc, and I rarely see a doc I don't like.


But this thing is shit so far. It's scored with simplistic jarring industrial music that I'm betting was composed by someone on the crew. It seems to be filmed with a Nokia phone from 2005. At least 10 minutes was spent showing a local band performing at the town square, singing various "clever" songs about the sumbitchin media. Terrible. The only interesting thing is a functioning junkie of undetermined sex name, yep, you guessed it, Pat.


****UPDATE***** Pat just showed "his" photos of wearing drag as a youth.

[razorboy]

I watched Wise Blood last night. I had nearly forgotten how much I like that film.

[Dirtbag]

I've been watching Kill Bill on AMC and the TV edits are sending me into fits of nerd rage.

[cougarjake13]

I've been watching Kill Bill on AMC and the TV edits are sending me into fits of nerd rage.

why would you even attempt to watch it or anything on reg tv ??

[Dirtbag]

why would you even attempt to watch it or anything on reg tv ??

Because my DVD is boxed up and the D'backs game isn't on till 6:40.

[realmenhatelife]

I watched Wise Blood last night. I had nearly forgotten how much I like that film.

Brad Dourif is just great in anything.

[sailor]

Don't cocktease us! Who was the tattoo guy?

Theodore Sheckler.

[Sinestro]

Bad Teacher was funny. The actress that played Ms. Squirrel (the foil to Cameron Diaz character) was cute.

[cougarjake13]

Because my DVD is boxed up and the D'backs game isn't on till 6:40.



good a reason as any i suppose

[Dan G]

Been a slow week since I just moved in to a new place.

Here's what I watched this week:

Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu aka Samurai Rebellion (1967) - Really cool film about a woman kicked out of the castle for hitting her husband, a feudal lord. She then remarries a samurai's son and has a child. When the feudal lord passes away, the woman becomes the heir and is kidnapped from her new family and sent back to the castle. It then becomes a fight to get her back.

Hot Coffee (2011) - Since I moved, I had to get a new DVR and with that I'm getting every single pay channel for free, so I've been recording a shit ton of movies from HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc...
This is a new documentary from HBO about frivolous lawsuits. It starts with the famous lawsuit against McDonalds about the woman that spilled hot coffee on her lap. Everyone joked about how ridiculous it seemed, but this documentary tells exactly how it happened and pictures of the injuries...which looked horrendous.
It also covers other lawsuits like a woman that sued her hospital because one of her twins was born brain damaged. Pretty sad stuff.
It was interesting.

[Gutter]

I finally saw Inception over the weekend and I really enjoyed it. It was well acted and had some interesting twists. I felt like I had already figured out the big reveal moments that occurred, mainly because there was so much going on with the time differences and what layer of the dream they're in....but i definitely found myself thinking, "wait, didn't I know that already?" when those shocking moments happened.

Overall, I thought I followed it well enough to keep up and thought it was really good.

[Snacks]

Killing Bono

A movie about childhood friends of Bono and the Edge who started a band at the same time. Bono wanted the guitarist from the other band but the lead singer of the other band never told him (they were brothers). Could you imagine if you found out 10 years later that you could have been in 1 of the biggest bands ever but your brother never told you about it because he wanted to keep you in his band?! It was a decent movie, it took a while to understand them but overall it was a funny semi true story about 1 bands success and the others ups and downs and more downs.

[realmenhatelife]

13 Assassins Takeshi Miike's remake of a black and white samurai movie, about a band of samurai hired to kill a sadistic lord before he can become an advisor to the shogun and cause more trouble. It's good and the final fight sequence is like 50 minutes. Lots of blood spouting and other japanese weirdness.

[disneyspy]

Ghost Town. Ricky Gervasis and Bob Kelly as a ghost. Nice movie, some funny moments, but nothing exceptional.



didn't see bob kelly but i thought greg kinnear as the ghost was good and gervaise killed, really liked this movie

[ZigZagBigBag]

Hard Core Logo. awesome film in the 99cent bin on itunes

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Madame de... (1953) - Totally unintentional, but I watched several films this week that are on TIFF’s essential 100 list, http://www.tiff.net/essential/about/essential100
I became aware of this list in December when Roger Ebert posted it on his Twitter and admitted to having only seen 92 of the 100 films. After this week, I have now seen 62 of them.
This one, coming in at #57, is a French film about a woman in a loveless marriage that decides to pawn off a very expensive set of earrings, given to her by her extremely wealthy husband. The wife has a plan to act as if she had lost them, but the husband soon finds out the truth and manages to secure the earrings and give them to his secret mistress...who also soon pawns them off.
It’s a really good love story and quite funny how these earrings don’t seem as important at first, but when received by a new person, they’re an extremely sentimental gift.

Ugetsu (1953) - Another TIFF essential, this one ranked at #17.
Really cool story about a pottery maker with a wife and child, who travels to sell his wares, who meets and is seduced by a mysterious woman that lives in a mansion.

La règle du jeu aka The Rules of the Game (1939) - Yet another TIFF essential, #32.
I’ve noticed that I’ve watched several Jean Renoir films over the last few weeks. This is a really good French film about men and women in relationships that fall for other people. All different classes of society converge at an extravagant house party where it seems everyone wants to be with someone else.
If anything, this film probably has the record for most rabbit deaths shot on film, as there’s an extensive hunting scene that takes place.

Fanny and Alexander (1982) - Ingmar Bergman's final film that he directed. Originally shot as a mini-series, this is the shortened version at 3+ hours in length.
It’s about a Swedish family in the early 1900s. The title characters are the 2 children of the family. When their father suddenly dies, their mother marries a bishop. The children are then miserable. The bishop is very strict. The scenes with the bishop reminded me a lot of Flowers in the Attic. When the children were bad, they were locked up, they were beaten, etc...
It started off kind of slow, and the character of Fanny wasn’t even introduced until over an hour into the film. The second half was much, much better.

The Killing (1956) - Early Stanley Kubrick noir about a group of guys that plan to rob a horse track on a very busy day.
Parts of the film are told from each character’s point of view, which was really cool. Quentin Tarantino used this technique in Pulp Fiction.
The ending was amazing. I loved it.

Youth in Revolt (2009) - I’ve heard that once you’ve seen one Michael Cera role, you’ve seen them all. This was actually my first, other than seeing him in Arrested Development. Perhaps that is why I can admit to enjoying this one. It wasn’t great or all that funny, but it still worked for me.

Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Back to the TIFF essentials, here’s #31.
A silent film starring Buster Keaton as a movie projectionist who just so happens to be reading a book about how to become a detective. When his girlfriends fathers watch is stolen, he gets framed for it. Using tips from his book, he decides to investigate on his own.
This was an amazing film and had some unbelievable stunts and scenes.
It quickly moved to become my favorite Keaton film.

La noire de... aka Black Girl (1966) - Another TIFF essential, #83.
This is an African film about a woman who dreams of moving to France. She learns of a spot where potential white people will select which women they want to be their maids. When a French woman selects her, she is told that she will be caring for the children. When she arrives in France she soon discovers that it is not how she thought it would be. The children aren’t around and she must cook and clean at the owners beck and call. She realizes she is just a domestic slave, never able to leave the home.
It was decent.

Brüno (2009) - Closing out the week is TIFF essential #8. I'm kidding.
I was a big fan of Da Ali G Show when it was on HBO, but honestly, Bruno was my least favorite character. Oddly enough, I still have never seen Borat.
This had some funny moments and some that were way over-the-top.
Good, not great.

[CruelCircus]

I decided to see Green Lantern last night.

I know the reviews weren't great, but I usually enjoy the comic book movies more than the critics, anyway.

Quite disappointed.
How do you make an Intergalactic Super Hero Movie, with a hero who literally has the power to do anything, and make it DULL?!

I mean they hardly even showed off the power of the ring, and the big, final battle scene was totally anti-climactic, and short. The non-action sections were sooo slow.

I do hope they try a second one, though, b/c the potential is there, and battling against Sinestro is really what GL is all about.

[cougarjake13]

unfortunately the first might have been too bad to warrant a second better one

[Rhah]

Watched The Losers last night, it was on HBO On Demand...

Was just a meh action movie, but was pretty funny with some one-liners. Stringer Bell from the Wire was in it.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Broadcast News (1987) - I knew this was going to be a drama, but I had no idea it was also going to be really funny as well. The humor mostly comes from Albert Brooks and he was great in this.
Very good film about local news anchors. Great blend of drama and comedy. There was one comedic scene that seemed out of place. A woman is racing against the clock as she’s dodging obstacles throughout the office to get a tape in a machine on time to air.

What About Bob? (1991) - I was 17 when this came out, and even though I liked Bill Murray, I had no interest in see a PG rated film. I was under the impression that PG meant family friendly with really dumb, safe jokes.
As an adult my tastes in films has matured, so I decided to see what I missed.
This was very funny. It wasn’t nearly as safe as I thought it would be.

Le chagrin et la pitié aka The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) - This is a TIFF essential that was available for streaming on Netflix, but I didn’t realize it was set to expire so quickly, so on the last day it was available I made sure to watch it. I thought it was going to be a 2 hour film, but that was Part 1. Netflix split the film into 2 episodes, so the total length was 4 hours and 10 minutes. Thankfully I found it enjoyable, so it wasn’t a bad way to spend 4 hours.
This is a French documentary about Germany’s occupation of France and how some leaders in France actually collaborated with the Germans.
Didn’t know this beforehand, but I saw a large scan of the US DVD cover and it says on the cover “Woody Allen Presents:”
IMDB makes no mention of Allen’s interest in the film, but I guess he’s responsible for the US distribution, similar to Quentin Tarantino’s involvement with Hero.

La dolce vita (1960) - Iconic film by Federico Fellini. Had to watch this just so I could say I’ve seen it.
Basically told in vignettes. Story about a tabloid writer who slowly tires of the people he hangs around with.
Some scenes I liked more than others. Didn’t really get the ending scene though.

The Fountain (2006) - I hated this. I mean really hated this. Apparently I’m in the minority since I read tons of praise for it on IMDB. I don’t care, I was not impressed.

Wonder Boys (2000) - Didn’t know what to expect from this, but it turned out to be an entertaining film.
Michael Douglas plays a pot smoking professor/author in a relationship with a married woman. He attempts to guide a student of his who he finds to be an exceptional writer.
It sounds like a drama, but there were a lot of funny moments.

Ying xiong aka Hero (2002) - Brought this one up earlier. I thought this was fantastic. Beautiful scenery and colors. Fight scenes looked great. Story was very cool.
I watched this on DVD and the whole time I kept wishing I was watching it on Blu-ray. As amazing as it looked on DVD, I know it would be that much better on Blu.
That arrow battle scene at the calligraphy school was awesome.

[keithy_19]

I saw Friends With Benefits on saturday.

Wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I'm not rushing to see it again.

[KnoxHarrington]

Here's what I watched this week:



Le chagrin et la pitié aka The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) - This is a TIFF essential that was available for streaming on Netflix, but I didn’t realize it was set to expire so quickly, so on the last day it was available I made sure to watch it. I thought it was going to be a 2 hour film, but that was Part 1. Netflix split the film into 2 episodes, so the total length was 4 hours and 10 minutes. Thankfully I found it enjoyable, so it wasn’t a bad way to spend 4 hours.
This is a French documentary about Germany’s occupation of France and how some leaders in France actually collaborated with the Germans.
Didn’t know this beforehand, but I saw a large scan of the US DVD cover and it says on the cover “Woody Allen Presents:”
IMDB makes no mention of Allen’s interest in the film, but I guess he’s responsible for the US distribution, similar to Quentin Tarantino’s involvement with Hero.



It's the movie he drags Annie to in "Annie Hall". It's the movie they're waiting to get into when he has Marshall McLuhan come out and tell the guy in front of them in line he's full of shit.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Where the Wild Things Are (2009) - It takes a lot to get me to watch a movie geared toward children. To this day I still have never even seen a Pixar film. I don’t even watch animated TV shows. Oddly enough, I have no problem watching old episodes of Scooby Doo or Looney Tunes, but you’ll never catch me watching Family Guy or anything on Adult Swim.
I decided to give this one a chance since it was directed by Spike Jonze. I had never read the book, so I was completely unfamiliar with the story.
I thought it was awfully dark for a children’s story, which kinda surprised me. The story was enjoyable and the puppets looked great.
I’m not about to change my feelings on movies aimed at children, but this was a huge step for me. If anything, it might get me to watch Fantastic Mr. Fox sooner. I know that’s not a kids movie, but it is animated. Even though I’ve loved every Wes Anderson film I’ve seen, I’ve always held off on giving that one a chance.

Intolerable Cruelty (2003) - A Coen’s brothers film that seemed to be geared toward the masses. It wasn’t as quirky as you’d expect. The comedy was pretty much all straight forward.
I really liked the pre-credit intro, but then after that I wasn’t as impressed.

Hobo with a Shotgun (2011) - Over the weekend I traded in 50+ DVDs. I got over $100 in store credit. So as I’m browsing the Blu-ray section, I see this film. Just days earlier it was made available for streaming on Netflix and I immediately added it to my queue, but hadn’t watched it yet. Since Netflix lacks surround sound, I decided to get this on Blu because it just seemed like the type that would be much better in 5.1. Plus, the disc is loaded with special features.
I couldn’t help but compare this to Machete since they’re both based on trailers seen in Grindhouse.
It certainly captured the look of a bad 70s B-film and the violence was over the top, which was to be expected. Rutger Hauer was terrific in this.
This was a lot of fun to watch.

[Snacks]

Barneys Version. Slow moving and long yet enjoyable because Giamatiis acting was great. When will he get an Oscar? He might be the best or at least 1 of the best actors of his generation. If you have a little over 2 hours to spare and want a movie with a story this is worth watching!

[sailor]

Social network. Don't get what all the hype was over.

[disneyspy]

Social network. Don't get what all the hype was over.

that movie was total shit that was talked up by the millions of internet movie critics

[PapaBear]

Social network. Don't get what all the hype was over.

that movie was total shit that was talked up by the millions of internet movie critics
I'm watching it right now. It's not bad. But the indoor scenes and outside night scenes are way too dark. I don't want to have to turn off my fucking lights to watch a movie.

[StanUpshaw]

Social network. Don't get what all the hype was over.

I saw that a while back...


what was it about again? Row boats or something?

[cougarjake13]

saw paul .... loved all the references



saw cap america .. overall not bad

[Crash]

Just saw "Constantine" on AMC...

...ahem...

...WHY THE FUCK IS THERE A BATHTUB IN A BOWLING ALLEY???

Sound sucked. Kept riding my volume up and down the whole movie. Story was okay but not great. But here's the real thing...

I want to like Keanu Reeves. I really do. So much so that I forgive movies like "Point Break". I tell myself his acting is so terrible in that movie because that's what the role calls for. He's an undercover FBI agent that keeps his own name for christsake. Because "Johnny Utah" is such a cool fucking name you can't just ditch it to go undercover! NOOOOO...you got to retain that motherfucker. And how often is the FBI recruiting agents with bum knees? Jesus Christ.

But in "Constantine" he basically reads the fucking lines! It's like he's not even trying.

So I've found myself forgiving his performances because the movies are shit. But I don't think I can deny it any more. Keanu Reeves is a shit actor. Yes I know I'm going out on a limb here...but I felt it had to be said.

Thank you for listening.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

The Rules of Attraction (2002) - I went to se this when it originally came out in theaters back in 2002. The group that I was with instantly started hating on it. From the moment the film started running in reverse, we were bemoaning it. We never gave this film a fair chance. We ended up walking out shortly after and actually got refunded.
I decided to revisit this on my own to see if I’d like it. I did. It wasn’t great, but it was enjoyable. Certainly not worth leaving a theater for.

The Ox-Bow Incident (1942) - This was like a noir western. Set in 1885, while a sheriff is out of town, news spreads that a beloved cattle rancher is robbed of his cattle and murdered. Instead of waiting for the sheriff to return, a posse forms to find the culprits and do their own vigilante justice.
This was very good and went places I really didn’t expect from a film made in the 40s.

Wet Hot American Summer (2001) - I listened to the Michael Ian Black Unmasked episode and heard him mention this film. Found it streaming on Netflix, so I queued it up.
Supposedly it’s a satire on summer camp movies. I can’t think of any summer camp movies that I’ve seen other than Meatballs (which I honestly don’t remember a single thing about). So basically anything that was satired, I didn’t get the reference at all. Perhaps if I did I would’ve liked it more. Actually, I shouldn’t have even added “more.” I really didn’t find this to be funny. Plus, how do you make an R-rated summer camp movie and not show tits? I thought that was a staple of summer camp movies?

[razorboy]

I watched The Maltese Falcon because it was TCM and it's one of the movies I can never turn off.

[Chigworthy]

We watched Insidious last night. What a creepy film. I'm sure 33% of people will go Anti-Blair Witch on it, but it's a good scary movie.

[newport king]

watched capt. america. fell asleep 4 times. couldnt get into it.

[CountryBob]

The Conspirator - excellent movie about the trial of Mary Surratt, the only female co-conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination. I didnt know much about this story but am glad to have watched it. Robert Redford directs.

[disneyspy]

i watched KILL THE IRISHMAN last night-GOOD!

[disneyspy]

I watched The Maltese Falcon because it was TCM and it's one of the movies I can never turn off.

love that movie,that and CASABLANCA are the two movies i'll watch all the way thru on TCM

[sailor]

The kids are all right. Enjoyed this one a lot.

[DJEvelEd]

Final Destination 5. I highly recommend it if you want blood. (u got it)

They really had some nasty deaths. LOVE the EYEBALL on the ground. (Youll see)

[Snacks]

Your Highness

not much to say but slow, boring and terrible. the only thing i liked was how great natalie portman looked.

[cougarjake13]

Your Highness

not much to say but slow, boring and terrible. the only thing i liked was how great natalie portman looked.

any nudity or close to being nudity ?

[Snacks]

any nudity or close to being nudity ?

not by natalie, she strips down to a thong but from what I read that was a body double.

there is nudity in other parts of the movie but not much!

[cougarjake13]

not by natalie, she strips down to a thong but from what I read that was a body double.

there is nudity in other parts of the movie but not much!

ahh


well theres no fun in that then

[Chigworthy]

not by natalie, she strips down to a thong but from what I read that was a body double.

there is nudity in other parts of the movie but not much!

Danny McBride said on O&A that there was only a body double for some swimming scene. He said that insurance wouldn't let Princess Wasabi or whatever swim in water because it is too dangerous. At least that's what I remember.

[Snacks]

Danny McBride said on O&A that there was only a body double for some swimming scene. He said that insurance wouldn't let Princess Wasabi or whatever swim in water because it is too dangerous. At least that's what I remember.

Thats the only time she took her clothes off. She stripped down to a thong like outfit and dove into some water and you saw nothing else.

[newport king]

Let Me In it was more of a story than your typical horror movie. I liked it. The Kick-Ass girl is good in everything.

Paul good. not as great as Hot Fuzz or Shaun but very enjoyable.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Capturing the Friedmans (2003) - I’ve been watching Morgan Spurlock’s TV show 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die these last few weeks. Though this documentary hasn’t showed up yet, I have a feeling it’s bound to show up somewhere on the list, so I wanted to watch it without the possibility of spoilers. I bought it on DVD a few years ago at Big Lots for $3.00 and just never got around to watching it.
This is a documentary about a Jewish family living on Long Island that seemed to document their lives on film and video. The father, a school teacher/home computer teacher, is arrested for having child pornography. This shakes up the family, then more charges come in as the father and one of his sons are charged with molesting boys at their home.
There’s no question the father is guilty of having child pornography, as stacks and stacks of pictures are found in the home, but you’re left questioning if he and his son are guilty of sexually abusing boys in their home. A few of the boys, now grown adults, are interviewed about what took place in the home. Only one claimed there was abuse, while the others flat out deny that any wrongdoings took place. Did the police bait these kids into admitting these instances took place?
It was really interesting. The DVD is loaded with extras, so there’s a lot that wasn’t covered in the film that is shown that sheds extra light on the whole situation.
I’ll be shocked if this doesn’t show up on Spurlock’s show.

Brother’s Keeper (1992) - Here’s a documentary that was listed on Spurlock’s show. It’s about 4 uneducated farming brothers who live in a tiny shack in upstate NY. One of the brothers becomes ill and dies. However, police determine that he was indeed murdered by asphyxiation by one of his brothers. The film covers the 3 living brothers as they farm, go to trial to defend their brother, and become local celebrities.
As a viewer, you wonder if this was a mercy killing, like how a farmer would take out a sick animal, or did the police/medical examiner get it wrong to frame the brother.
This was really good. Way too much nose hairs though. Too many closeups on old people talking, showing a lot of nose hair.

The End (1978) - Burt Reynolds directed and stars in this dark comedy about a guy with a toxic blood disease, only given 3-12 months left to live. Instead of living out his life, he tries suicide, unsuccessfully. He ends up in a nut hut where he meets a fellow patient offering to help end his life.
That fellow patient is Dom Deluise. This is the first film where Burt and Dom teamed up.
It had its moments, but didn’t really start to shine until Dom showed up (about 45 minutes in). He really stole the show in this.

Cocktail (1988) - After all these years, finally decided to see this.
This was predictable throughout the entire thing. I realize you have to speed up a story to fit in an hour and 45 minutes, but everything just seemed so rushed. Tom Cruise’s first night of bar tending goes terribly, he doesn’t know how to make drinks and he’s awfully slow. Then the boss says come back again in a week. The next scene at the bar has him doing tricks and making drinks left and right.
The women either were bad actors or just had bad dialogue, because some of the lines they delivered and emotion brought out was laughable.
Having said all that, I still found it be a decent film.

[Chigworthy]

I've recently rewatched Band of Brothers, which is a masterpiece. I watched The Pacific this week, which was also fantastic. I watched the war doc Baker Boys (Iraq 2008), which was pretty cool, despite some some self-important douchiness from the cameraman. I saw Restrepo a while back, which was unbelievable. So tonight I'm rewatching The Thin Red Line on Netfliz. I remember liking this steaming dump when I originally saw it. I cannot believe how bad it is. Malick actually put in a 30 second clip of a pathetic baby bird that has fallen from the nest to symbolize the young soldiers getting thrown to the wind. A soldier is walking through the grass and falls down with less believability than Jack Tripper falling over a couch. The acting is so painfully overdone. Nick Nolte is berating his troops and doesn't flinch when a mortar goes off near him. How did this amazing ensemble cast behave like this? Did Malick use Brian Atene's audition tape for his fucking muse on this shitpile? This movie couldn't carry Saving Private Ryan's piss trickles. Not even on CA-RUTCHES!!!

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[Furtherman]

Paul good. not as great as Hot Fuzz or Shaun but very enjoyable.

Agreed. It had some great laugh out loud moments and the characters were all great, but I think it was missing Edgar Wright's (who directed SOTD and HF) direction. It just seemed a bit clunky at times and didn't know if it wanted to be a full on comedy or a dramedy at times.

But Paul, the alien, was totally great. They really nailed the character with him and even though he was all CGI, I totally accepted him as a character and he was very funny, despite having Seth Rogan's voice.

[Chigworthy]

The Omega Man

Can't say that I just watched it. More like I just watched the first 15 minutes. I Am Legend is one of the all time classic post apocalyptic novels, and it would be in my satchel of re-readable books for the deserted island routine. I've been meaning to watch The Omega Man for years. I always hesitated because I was worried it would be a total ass-out disaster. Which it is. Apparently in the Hestonian Universe, when the entire human population is either dead or converted to vampiric zombies, the streets still get swept, bodies don't putrify, and someone has handed out "evil" brown robes to the zombies. I don't recall Neville shooting an M76 from the hip in the novel. What a travesty.

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[underdog]

Agreed. It had some great laugh out loud moments and the characters were all great, but I think it was missing Edgar Wright's (who directed SOTD and HF) direction. It just seemed a bit clunky at times and didn't know if it wanted to be a full on comedy or a dramedy at times.

But Paul, the alien, was totally great. They really nailed the character with him and even though he was all CGI, I totally accepted him as a character and he was very funny, despite having Seth Rogan's voice.

I heard someone (probably on Ebert's show) mention how you never thought Paul was CGI. It's absolutely right. They did such a good job at actually incorporating him into the normal actors.

[Furtherman]

Wild Things.

Yea, I know... came out in 1999 (98?) but I haven't seen it since then.

Holy crap was a fantastic, cheesey, thrashy, white trash movie. I had totally forgotten that Bill Murray was in it - and pretty much everything else except that Denise Richards has her top off a lot. I was cracking up the whole time.

I loved it. I get the movie now, how it's supposed to be that pulpy, trashy movie.

[Rhah]

Thanks for reminding me about this thread.

Just watched Pandorum on Encore on Demand. Sci-fi Horror with Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid. Monster parts in middle were sorta lame (reminded me of Dead Space video game)... called the ending.

[booster11373]

Blitz via Netflix streaming

Wanted a solid B-movie with Jason Statham and Paddy Condisine

Got a slow boring mess

[Chigworthy]

Wrecked with Adrian Brody

Brody wakes up badly injured in a wrecked car out in the BC woods with two dead guys and can't remember who he is. Over the next few days he attempts to save his crippled self while piecing together his involvement in a bank robbery right before the crash. It was slow-paced and psychological, which means that many will hate it. I liked it.

[cougarjake13]

Wrecked with Adrian Brody

Brody wakes up badly injured in a wrecked car out in the BC woods with two dead guys and can't remember who he is. Over the next few days he attempts to save his crippled self while piecing together his involvement in a bank robbery right before the crash. It was slow-paced and psychological, which means that many will hate it. I liked it.




sounds like my kind of movie

[Chigworthy]

sounds like my kind of movie

No, you'll hate it. You're not cerebral and pensive like me.

[MIKEYDAKEN]

watched redstate. not amazing but it was good.

[PapaBear]

Watched The Tillman Story last night. Infuriating and gut retching.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

The Hurt Locker (2008) - Adding another Best Picture winner to my watched list.
This was a tense film, but I can’t really say it was Best Picture worthy. Though it’s been 2 years, I can’t remember all the films it was up against.

Clockers (1995) - You ever watch a movie and then start recognizing parts like you had seen it before? I was under the impression that I had never seen this, but then I remembered the first scene in the park where they’re hating on Chuck D for being a positive rapper. So I’m thinking, okay, maybe I just saw the beginning, but as the film went on I started realizing that I had seen it, but I just didn’t remember ever watching it or how it played out.
I’m wondering if I even liked it that first time, because with this viewing, I wasn’t as impressed.
Way too many cliched characters and story lines. Up there with Crash.

Zardoz (1973) - Futuristic film set in 2293. A God has convinced his people that guns are good and the penis is bad, so people must kill to make sure human life ceases.
Sean Connery is one of those followers and he manages to find the secret vortex where he discovers that people just can’t die, but they’re not all happy and wish to die.
Very, very strange film.

Assassination Tango (2002) - Robert Duvall directs and stars as a family man who secretly is a hired assassin. He gets sent to kill a General in Argentina, but when the General injures himself and is hospitalized, that means Duvall’s character must stay in Argentina longer than planned. That’s where the tango part comes in. He is enthralled in the dance and meets an instructor who teaches him the Argentine way of the dance.
Really not much action in this, more dancing than violence.

Paris, Texas (1984) - A man who left his family and friends suddenly re-emerges after 4 years. During that time, his wife has given custody of their son to his brother, and she has moved on, not telling anyone her whereabouts.
This was very slow moving, but it’s made up for during the penultimate scene. It turned me around and made me appreciate it much more.
Supposedly this was Kurt Cobain’s all-time favorite film.

Maborosi (1995) - Japanese film about a woman who has a loving husband and a 3-month-old baby boy. All seems perfect with this family until one day the father turns up dead. It is ruled a suicide.
The film resumes 5 years later, the wife has remarried and moved to a new village. Even with new happiness, she still often grieves over her first husband and can’t understand why he would’ve killed himself. These thoughts haunt her daily.
Another slow moving film, but without any real resolution. You’re just watching this woman try to figure out life for 2 hours. I guess it’s a realistic film in that sense.

The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) - It was cool learning the back story on the creator of Hustler Magazine, but as far as biopics go, this was pretty generic.

[cougarjake13]

No, you'll hate it. You're not cerebral and pensive like me.

well i do have cerebral palsy and a penis

so yeh its for me

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Spartacus (1960) - I’ll admit that I watch a lot of movies, maybe too much to fully appreciate. I’ve always had an unofficial list of must-see films. This one has always been near the top. TCM finally played it recently, so I grabbed it.
I was always curious why Stanley Kubrick made an epic. I learned from the pre-film intro that he was not the original director. Anthony Mann was the director, but shortly after filming began, executive producer and star, Kirk Douglas fired him and asked Kubrick to direct. He had previously worked with Kubrick on Paths of Glory.
Apparently, Douglas felt jilted after not being given the lead in Ben-Hur, so this was his way of showing the studio producers that he could indeed lead in such an epic story.
There’s several cuts of this film, but thankfully TCM played the 1991 restored version, which is currently the longest cut known to exist.
Over 3 hours long and I can say I was never really bored. While it didn’t feel like a Kubrick film, it was still good. The battle scene was incredible. I love seeing films using thousands of extras instead of CGI.

The 39 Steps (1935) - I was reading The Catcher in the Rye this week and early in the book the main character talks about his younger sister and mentions her favorite film being this one. She had seen it so many times that she could recite the lines and even pantomimed the finger scene.
Having never seen the film, I queued it up on Netflix and watched it shortly after reading that chapter. Since a major plot point was revealed, I was afraid more about the film would be brought up, so I wanted to watch it immediately.
This is an early Hitchcock film about a secret organization of spies.
Even though it was somewhat spoiled, the scene recited in the book still took me by surprise, so I still enjoyed it.

The Blind Side (2009) - I swore that I would never watch this, it just looked like a made-for-TV movie.
I knew my mom wanted to see it, so I bought her the DVD last Christmas. I remember shortly after Christmas my mom went away for a week to visit my sister. My parents always watch movies together, always my mother’s choice, so my dad has grown to like and actually prefer J.Lo/Jennifer Aniston type rom-coms. He tells me while my mom was away that he watched The Blind Side by himself and could not stop raving about it. He told my mom over the phone that he had watched it and she was upset, saying “we were supposed to watch that together,” to which he replied, “don’t worry, I’ll gladly watch it again” and when she returned that week they both watched it.
They tried pushing the DVD my way, but I declined. So a couple of months ago when I moved into my new place, I had to get a new DVR. From previous experiences, whenever I got a new DVR, for about a week I would get every pay channel for free, so I’d go through the guide and record tons of movies from all the HBO’s, Cinemax’s, Showtime’s, etc... When I came across this one, I kept questioning myself and ultimately decided to record it, but if space was running low, this would be the first to go, unwatched.
Well, my DVR has been hovering at around 50% and every time I went through my recordings this just kept staring at me, so I caved and put it on.
It opens with Lawrence Taylor’s tackle on Joe Theismann which resulted in a broken leg. I had seen that play so much in replays as a kid that it’s still hard to watch. I couldn’t even watch it. I focused on other parts of the screen just so I wouldn’t see the leg break. Unfortunately, you can still hear it and that was enough to bother me.
As for the film, it was exactly what I expected. I don’t follow college or NFL, so I had never heard of Michael Oher. I can’t really hate this, it wasn’t that bad.
I’ve seen my parents twice since watching it, but I’m kind of embarrassed to let them know I’ve seen it.
I gotta say, Sandra Bullock looked incredibly hot in this.

Moby Dick (1956) - I was interested in seeing this considering it was made 20 years before Jaws was released. I wanted to see how they’d manage to pull off a dangerous whale.
Surprisingly, it looked really good. I was impressed.

Земля aka Earth (1930) - Russian silent film about rich Ukrainian farmers feuding with poor farmers.
Only watched this because it’s one of TIFF’s top 100 films. I’ve seen 66 so far.

The Caine Mutiny (1954) - Humphrey Bogart plays an overly strict Naval ship captain during WWII. The crew come to the conclusion that the captain is strict because he has a mental disorder, so as the title suggests, they want to take over control of the ship.
This was really good, but had an unnecessary love story plot that had no bearing on the story. It was just there.

The Guard (2011) - Haven’t been to a theater in over 2 months, but this just came here today, so I went to the first showing.
Really funny Irish film about an investigation in drug trafficking. A black American FBI agent comes to investigate and teams with an older Irish cop, who basically only knows black people from what he’s seen in American films, so basically, cliched things like poor, drug selling, and uneducated.
The humor is extremely dry. I liked this a lot.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Gomorrah (2008) - Italian mob film featuring several unconnected stories. Didn’t realize they would be unconnected, I kept waiting for the stories to crossover, but that didn’t take away any enjoyment I had. Each story was very well told.
I loved the look of the apartment building that some scenes took place at.

The Hit (1984) - Been hearing a lot about this, so I finally checked it out.
Very cool film about an informant who’s been living a quiet life in Spain for the past 10 years. As the title suggests, a hit is put out on him. He pretty much expected this day to come and accepts it and ultimately becomes the most cooperative kidnap victim ever.
I just might have to pick this up the next time BN has their 50% off Criterion sale.

Buried (2009) - The film starts off with a man awakening in the dark, bound and gagged, discovering he is locked inside of a coffin. After 10 minutes or so, I expected the film to show a “6 hours earlier” transition showing how he ended up being captured and buried, but that never happened. The entire film takes place inside the coffin. There is no other footage shown other than from inside the coffin.
Had I known all this before watching, I probably would’ve passed on watching this. I mean, how exciting can a film be watching a guy stuck in a box for 90 minutes? The answer turned out to be very.
I was really surprised at how much I actually liked this.

Drive (2011) - This was my type of action film. No over-the-top stunt scenes, no explosions with the hero walking away without even looking back, etc...
The action scenes, though sparse, were used effectively, thus making them all the more entertaining.
The whole cast was great, but I especially loved Albert Brooks and Bryan Cranston. I didn’t even recognize Cranston at first since he had hair, a limp, and faded tattoos.
Brooks really surprised me with how ruthless he was. I really dug this.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Operation Crossbow (1965) - This film wasted no time getting to the plot. From the opening scene you know exactly what this is going to be about.
Taking place during WWII, England has discovered that the German’s have developed rocket bombs, which they plan on using against them. To counter, England sends undercover spies disguised as scientists to blend in with the bomb developers and put a stop to them.
Pretty action-packed with quite a few surprises.

Le dernier métro aka The Last Metro (1980) - Another WWII film, this one taking place in occupied France.
A woman running a theater hides her Jewish husband in the theater basement.
Kind of boring.

Kohayagawa-ke no aki aka The End of Summer (1961) - Ironically, I watched this on the last day of the summer.
Beautifully shot Ozu film about a widowed father hoping to see his 2 daughters get married; meanwhile, he’s secretly seeing a woman whom he ‘fathered’ a child with 20 years prior.

Moneyball (2011) - True story about the 2002 Oakland A’s and their General Manager, Billy Beane.
Interesting story from the front office perspective, rather than focusing on the on-field performances.
Brad Pitt was really good, but so was Jonah Hill.
This reminded me a lot of The Social Network.

[cougarjake13]

Here's what I watched this week:

Operation Crossbow (1965) - This film wasted no time getting to the plot. From the opening scene you know exactly what this is going to be about.
Taking place during WWII, England has discovered that the German’s have developed rocket bombs, which they plan on using against them. To counter, England sends undercover spies disguised as scientists to blend in with the bomb developers and put a stop to them.
Pretty action-packed with quite a few surprises.

Le dernier métro aka The Last Metro (1980) - Another WWII film, this one taking place in occupied France.
A woman running a theater hides her Jewish husband in the theater basement.
Kind of boring.

Kohayagawa-ke no aki aka The End of Summer (1961) - Ironically, I watched this on the last day of the summer.
Beautifully shot Ozu film about a widowed father hoping to see his 2 daughters get married; meanwhile, he’s secretly seeing a woman whom he ‘fathered’ a child with 20 years prior.

Moneyball (2011) - True story about the 2002 Oakland A’s and their General Manager, Billy Beane.
Interesting story from the front office perspective, rather than focusing on the on-field performances.
Brad Pitt was really good, but so was Jonah Hill.
This reminded me a lot of The Social Network.


only 4 ??

dude ur slacking off

[ZigZagBigBag]

13 Assassins. Samurai film with bitchin' 45 minute battle scene at the end. Total massacre.

[bohicanator]

Via Netflix streaming...

Think Grey Gardens with Oxy-snorting Hillbillies... It's a trainwreck, it's a hoot. It's impossible to watch just once.

"This documentary is about a Family in West Virginia." If you aren't hooked on the 1st 15 minutes then it ain't gonna be your thing.

I don't give a shit, I'd feel right at home hangin' out with the Whites. unless they constantly mooched.

I knew about Hank Williams Jr. -But somehow I totally missed that there was a Hank III out there doing Hillbilly punk.

Johnny Knoxville was one of the producers. this is a Dickhouse production.

One of my favorite scenes was Sue Bob, jumping on the trampoline, then sitting in front of a Highschool picture saying, "I've always been the pur-diest one."

If you liked this Doc. post your favorite scene or a review!

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Jesco White -High Fashion

[Dan G]

only 4 ??

dude ur slacking off

I know, right. Had to take time for the new TV shows premiering this week.

[Chigworthy]

I don't give a shit, I'd feel right at home hangin' out with the Whites. unless they constantly mooched.

post your favorite scene or a review!


I would have felt right at home hangin out with them when the nephew ran a pill bender and shot his uncle's jaw off. What a riot! Or when the MIWF stabbed her baby daddy and had Grandma hide the knife. Or when she had her cousin crush up some oxy on the hospital nightstand after she gave birth and had the newborn taken away, then snottily whined about what a victim she is. Or when the "adult" children are throwing a birthday party for elderly Grandma and can't help but smoke out her shitty apartment despite her protests. Those Whites are incorrigible! And then the one guy flashes his hayseed asshole at Grandma's party. Talk about a party favor!

[WampusCrandle]

High Noon, Alien, and X-men: First Class

[Judge Smails]

I watched The Jerk for like the first time in ten years . . . still funny and holds up for a 30+ year old movie. For some reason it never seems to get mentioned as often as the other classic comedies like Caddyshack, Animal House, Ghostbusters etc.

[cougarjake13]

I know, right. Had to take time for the new TV shows premiering this week.

fig thats what it was

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

The Misfits (1961) - The last film of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable. Monroe died of an alleged drug overdose in 1962 and Gable died of a heart attack within 2 weeks of this films completion.
Monroe plays a recently divorced woman who meets 2 cowboys who offer her to come out to the country with them.
She ends up falling for the older cowboy (Gable), but then gets disgusted when she sees them in action. They’re horse wranglers who then sell the horses to be made into dog food.
The horse wrangling scenes were tough to watch.
I have only seen Monroe in comedies playing the sexy, dumb blonde, so to see her in a drama was new to me. I thought she was really good in this.

Orlacs Hände aka The Hands of Orlac (1924) - When I recorded this off of TCM, the guide said it was from 1960. What I ended up getting was the original German silent film from 1924.
A famous pianist survives a train crash, but his hands are severely damaged. His wife arrives at the hospital, pleading to the doctor to do whatever he can to save his hands. At the same time, a recently executed murderer’s body has arrived at the hospital. I’m sure I don’t need to go on, you can pretty much guess what happens next.
This was cool, though many scenes seemed to drag on. The ending was like watching a Scooby-Doo cartoon.

Le professionnel aka The Professional (1981) - French action film about a secret service agent sent to Africa to assassinate a President. Relations then become friendly, so the hit is no longer needed, however, the French don’t notify their man, instead, they sell him out and he is then arrested and imprisoned in Africa.
Two years go by and the agent is able to escape and secretly arrive in France. At the same time, the President whom he was assigned to kill is also visiting France for a meeting. The agent now wants to go after the people who sold him out and to complete the mission he was originally sent on...kill the President.
This was great!

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) - What the fuck was this? Based on the title, I was seriously expecting a Japanese superhero movie, ala Ultraman. Instead, I get the Japanese version of Eraserhead.
A Japanese man enjoys inserting metal into his body. A man stumbles upon this and suddenly metal objects begin sticking to him. He then starts to look like a junkyard as more and more objects transform him.
Stop-motion effects were cool, but this was one bizarre fucking movie.

Kicking and Screaming (1995) - I watched this for 2 reasons, it was released by Criterion and it’s from the same writer of The Squid and the Whale, a film I really loved.
This is about a group of college graduates unsure of what the future holds for them. It was a very pretentious film. None of the characters were even likable.
I wasn’t impressed.

Cinema Paradiso (1988) - Now this, this was fantastic. Italian film about a film director reflecting on his childhood and how he came to falling in love with movies.
Extremely worthy of being on TIFF’s Essential 100 list.

Higher Ground (2011) - Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut and she also stars.
A family escapes death when their van veers off a road and into a lake. They believe God intervened, so they dedicate their lives to God and become a hardcore religious family.
After years and years of going to church, the wife starts having doubts and begins questioning her faith.
I thought this film handled both sides of believing/not believing very well and not really in a way to offend either side. Though I’m a non-believer, this is the type of film I would love to watch with a believer, just to see their reaction.
Surprisingly, for a film dealing with this subject matter, it also had some really funny moments.

[newport king]

Fast Five
This very well may have been the most insanely ridiculous/awesome Fast & Furious movie to date. And thats saying alot. At one point they drive off a cliff and fall into what looks to be about the depth of the Grand Canyon into water. While theyre falling i fully expected them to raise the convertible ala Pee Wee's Big Adventure and float down. But no, they jump out of the car and pop out of the water unscathed, and tag the scene with some "cool guy" line. No mention of how theyre both alive. This movie was completely preposterous and i loved every minute of it.

Red State
From start to about 20 minutes before the ending this was a fantastic movie. I feel Kevin Smith did a great job and the preacher, mother and granddaughter were terrific. Then right at the climax of the movie, he just kind of wraps it up. Felt it was a really weak ending to a damn good movie. I actually wanted more when it was over, that's how let down I was with the denouement of this movie.

[Furtherman]

Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. ‎32,000 years ago, humans drew animals, some now extinct, on the walls of a cave in Southern France. They remained undisturbed for over 20 thousands years before being re-discovered in 1994. An amazing documentary now available On Demand. Directed and narrated by Werner Herzog.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Pay Day (1922) - Charlie Chaplin’s final short film, he went on to make full length features after this.
Here he plays a brick layer with a wife who takes his money. He ends up taking it back and proceeds to go to a bar and gets very drunk, then must sneak back into his home without waking his wife.
The scene where he’s catching bricks thrown to him at a fast rate was cool. Obviously it was all reversed, but still done very well.

A Whole Bunch of Buster Keaton Shorts - Every Sunday night in October, TCM is playing Buster Keaton films. This past Sunday, my DVR recorded over 9 hours worth of his films. So, the next several listed here will be films by Buster Keaton.
Convict 13 (1921) - Buster is out playing golf. When he hits the ball, it ricochets off a building and hits him in the head and knocks him out. At the same time, an escaped convict is loose. He spots Buster’s unconscious body and switches clothes with him. When Buster comes to, he resumes his golf game, but the police have spotted him and attempt to arrest him.
The Boat (1921) - Buster takes his family out on the boat. Of course nothing ever goes right with Buster. I loved the gag involving the boat’s name, Damfino.
The Goat (1921) - Buster gets mistaken for a murderer. It was really funny how the accusation gets started.
The Play House (1922) - The first half of this was amazing. It starts in an opera house where Buster plays every single character, the band members, performers, minstrels, and people in the audience (men and women).
The Electric House (1922) - Buster has just received his diploma for botany and already has a job interview. Problem is, he has someone else’s diploma and gets hired as an electrical engineer. A millionaire has hired him to make his house high tech. At first the inventions he comes up with are great, but you just know something bad is bound to happen...and it does.
The Love Nest (1923) - Buster is very upset that his fiancee broke off the engagement, so he embarks on a boat trip around the world. I liked this one a lot.
The Balloonatic (1923) - My least favorite of all the shorts I’ve watched this week.

The Ides of March (2011) - My first talkie of the week after watching nothing but silent films.
George Clooney directs and stars, though he doesn’t get top billing, that goes to Ryan Gosling.
This is being billed as a political thriller, but when I think of political thrillers, I think of murder cover-ups and assassination plots. The only assassination in this is assassination of character.
Not taking anything away from this, I still thought it was very good.
Cast was excellent.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week (The Owned Edition):

Last week I made a thread about DVD/Blu-ray collectors. In it, I mentioned that out of the 80+ Blu-rays that I own, I have only watched 2 of them. So, with that, I decided that this week I will put the Netflix and DVR to the side and only watch DVDs and Blu-rays that I own and have never seen before.

13 Assassins (2010) - I’ve watched a lot of samurai movies from the 1940s and 50s, so to see one made in this millennium intrigued me. As violent as those old ones were, it was weird at first to see an even more violent version.
By now, everyone pretty much has heard about the near full hour final battle scene. Just incredible to see, without a boring moment.

A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Finally got around to seeing this Kubrick classic.
Definitely one I need to see again to fully grasp. I liked it, so watching it again won’t be a chore.

Three the Hard Way (1974) - I was always a big fan of blaxploitation films, but my only exposure to them was picking out random VHS titles from various video stores. I have this one on DVD because it came in 2-disc set with 3 other blaxploitation films, including my all-time favorite, Black Belt Jones.
With this one, you pretty much have the top 3 blaxploitation stars of the time, Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Black Belt Jones himself, Jim Kelly.
The plot is great and absurd. A very wealthy white man hires a scientist to develop a serum to wipe out the black population. The plan is to dump it into the water supply, but like sickle cell anemia, the serum will have no effects on white people.
The acting is terrible, but that’s what also makes these movies so much fun.

Brick (2005) - Modern day noir involving high school students. The story was good, but I think it would’ve been better if the characters weren’t in high school. They just weren’t very believable. Seeing a student known as ‘The Pin’ always wearing the long black robe and walking with a cane and dealing drugs out of his basement seemed silly.

Thumbsucker (2004) - Found this DVD really cheap and only bought it because of the cast. Didn’t know anything else about it.
Basically a high school senior still sucks his thumb, though it’s done in private, his dad catches him and tries to break the habit.
Meanwhile, we learn his parents seem mentally ill, and he’s just the typical quirky kid trying to fit in where he can.
I did laugh at the end where in the end credits it thanked the website, www.thumbsuckingadults.com. Had no idea this was an affliction or something people actually enjoyed doing. I decided to check out the site and it turns out the site is so old, it hadn’t even been updated to recognize this film’s release.

Talk Radio (1988) - As a longtime fan of talk radio, somehow I just never got around to ever watching this. I guess the premise of watching talk radio bored me, which would explain why I never watched Howard Stern when his show was on E!
Watching this reminded me so much of a guy I used to listen to here in Tampa named Bob Lassiter. Bob had a similar type show where he’d just take random calls on any subject, some were serious, while others were just people acting like crazy characters. Bob would rip on all of them and it was always a treat to listen to. Bob didn’t have the same demise as the character in this film, but he did end up passing 5 years ago. There’s a website with many of his airchecks, so you can hear what I’m talking about with the comparisons, http://boblassiter.blogspot.com.

In Cold Blood (1967) - Based on a true story. Two ex-convicts are tipped off about a wealthy farmer. Turns out he is wealthy, but only in his bank account, as the only cash in his house is $43.00. Sadly, a family of 4 were murdered anyway.
Having seen the 2005 film Capote, I knew the story of how everything went down.
This was still a very good film. The music was excellent, scored by Quincy Jones.

[disneyspy]

i just bought clockwork orange on bluray today,can't wait to rewatch

watched the extended cut of GREEN LANTERN,finally DC comics put out a good movie

and just watched MALL COP,OBSERVE AND REPORT was a much funnier comedy

[Furtherman]

Fast Five.

This movie was great! Over the top and totally implausible, but still a lot of fun. Plus a great ending. The Rock kicked ass.

[JimBeam]

I watched " Just Go With It " last night.

Funniest Adam Sandler movie in what seems to be 50 years.

The eye candy w/ Brooklyn Decker was great but the plot itself was good.

The soundtrack also was very cool.

The mashup of " Every Breath You Take " by Sting/The Police and Snow Patrol was awesome.

[sailor]

just watched winter's bone and the new star trek. winter's bone was so bleak and depressing. it was like the whites of west virginia without all the dancing and fun. star trek was fun, better than expected, but often seemed like a parody. like, hey, look at this use of a catch-phrase...do you know who THAT was??

[Snacks]

Win Win

I thought it was a great movie that takes place in NJ with a wrestling back story. As always Paul Giamatti does a great acting job as a lawyer struggling financially while also being a local hs wrestling coach. When is this guy going to win an Oscar?

It was a serious themed movie that had lots of funny moments. I really enjoyed it and Bobby Cannavale was great and Amy Ryan was oddly attractive as Giamattis rough around the edges wife!

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

American Juggalo (2011) - This has been brought up several times over the last few weeks on The Ron & Fez Show. I never planned on watching it because I was never a fan of the Insane Clown Posse.
Decided to give it a chance when Ron had the director, Sean Dunne stop by for an interview. Turns out, Sean isn’t a fan of ICP either, he just wanted to make a documentary on their fans at the latest “Gathering of the Juggalos,” filmed this past August.
Juggalos are a strange group of fans, but one thing I do admire is how they’re all about family when together. Not saying I’d want to be friends/family with any of them, but I do respect their fandom. I wish I could say all their female fans are ugly, but toward the very end in a montage, 2 gorgeous juggalettes are on screen for a few seconds. Probably the only 2.
One thing I learned from this was that Juggalos like to yell “Whoop Whoop!” This bothered me because I’ll never be able to enjoy Kam again.

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You can watch the documentary for free at www.americanjuggalo.com.
It’s only 24 minutes and actually worth watching, fan or not.

The Long Goodbye (1973) - Watched this because it was directed by Robert Altman, not really knowing it’s about a detective character named Philip Marlowe, who had several film depictions in the 1940s, most famously played by Humphrey Bogart in a film called The Big Sleep, which I hadn’t seen before.
In this, Marlowe is played by Elliott Gould. Not knowing the back story, I still found this to be very good. It was done in a really cool style, too. It takes place in the modern day 70s, but everything about Marlowe is 1940s, from the way he talks, dresses, acts, and even his car.

The Big Sleep (1946) - Well, look what I found on my DVR. Had I known, I would’ve flip-flopped and watched this first. Then again, after watching this, maybe I wouldn’t have.
Bogart plays a detective attempting to solve one crime, but then it seems each crime leads to a domino effect which means more and more to uncover. Got confusing at times. It was alright, but I much preferred Gould’s.

House on Haunted Hill (1959) - My mom came over a couple of weeks ago and asks me if I have any classics. I tell her I have Casablanca. She says “no, do you have House on Haunted Hill?” I never knew my mom to be fan of scary movies, but I had to tell her that I didn’t have it, nor had I ever seen it.
She tells me that she had been talking to her friend on Facebook about Million Dollar Movie. Growing up in NY there was a channel she watched when she was a kid which featured different movies. This one apparently stuck in her head and she wanted to revisit it.
A few days after her visit I see a tweet from @TCM that says “There is no way out!” Spend the night in HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (’59), 9:30pm ET & HOUSE OF WAX (’53), 12:30am!
I wanted to surprise my mom, so rather than telling her myself, I call her with a bullshit story and tell her my guide on my DVR is broken and need to know what’s on TCM at 9:30 tonight. When she saw what was on she sounded surprised and thanked me for remembering. She then set her DVR for it and I told her I set mine as well. Then she says, “I thought yours was broken?”
Vincent Price plays a wealthy man who rents out a known haunted house. He has chosen 5 random people to spend the night in the house with him. If they stay the entire night, he’ll pay each person $10,000.
There was one legitimate scare in the movie, but after watching it and thinking back on the whole thing, many things just didn’t make any sense. Still it was fun to watch.
Haven’t talked to my mom since it aired so don’t know if it still lived up to her feelings on it.

Brazil (1985) - This was quite surreal. I don’t even know how to explain it. I’m just happy that I finally was able to see it.

Oh, God! (1977) - George Burns was a legendary entertainer, but I had never seen this film until this past week.
I expected it to be funnier. Probably not going to bother with the sequels.

Ship of Fools (1965) - Set in 1933, a cruise ship sailing from Veracruz to Germany shows several different characters lives and how they acted at that time. Only the viewer knows what lies ahead for them as we’re all well aware of the coming world war, as well as Hitler’s reign.
It was long. The best parts involved Lee Marvin, who played a baseball player forced out of the game because he couldn’t hit.

[realmenhatelife]

So:

Red State- I really didn't like it. I think the script was really weak. Not very tense, not very horrific, not character driven like a Kevin Smith movie usually is, noone really likable to relate to. You almost get there with John Goodman, but he steps into the movie late and maybe I just like John Goodman and not Field Agent who the hell knows what anyones name is. I kindof get the idea, to his credit Kevin Smith didn't wallow in gore like torture porn and tried to make a 70s era, apocalyptic horror movie. But there were too many modern flourishes to really work, the movie was too kinetic to really pay attention to. Then it's offset by an unbelievably long sermon from Michael Parks which just drags. Definately got shades of Burn After Reading and No Country for Old Men at the end, but not in a good way.

Bridesmaids- I've either heard this is fantastic or it's horrible. I liked it. I think any of the gross out parts kindof detract from whats really good about the movie, but there werent very many gross out parts and I think that's where the detractors are disappointed. Kristen Wiigs character was very real, when she's having a big melt down it sounds closer to the inarticulate anger that really happens instead of really precise script language. She's funny in a way I've never seen her be funny. Still dont get Mya Rudolf though. They also go somewhere different with the conflict which is nice. It's set up to be very typical and it takes a new look at it. The ending kindof lets it down, it suffers from that comedy thing where the comedy needs to completely stop to resolve the plot. But overall Kristen Wiig is a loser dealing with being a loser instead of a winner dealing with temporarily being less of a winner. I like that.

[CountryBob]

So:

Red State- I really didn't like it. I think the script was really weak. Not very tense, not very horrific, not character driven like a Kevin Smith movie usually is, noone really likable to relate to. You almost get there with John Goodman, but he steps into the movie late and maybe I just like John Goodman and not Field Agent who the hell knows what anyones name is. I kindof get the idea, to his credit Kevin Smith didn't wallow in gore like torture porn and tried to make a 70s era, apocalyptic horror movie. But there were too many modern flourishes to really work, the movie was too kinetic to really pay attention to. Then it's offset by an unbelievably long sermon from Michael Parks which just drags. Definately got shades of Burn After Reading and No Country for Old Men at the end, but not in a good way.

Bridesmaids- I've either heard this is fantastic or it's horrible. I liked it. I think any of the gross out parts kindof detract from whats really good about the movie, but there werent very many gross out parts and I think that's where the detractors are disappointed. Kristen Wiigs character was very real, when she's having a big melt down it sounds closer to the inarticulate anger that really happens instead of really precise script language. She's funny in a way I've never seen her be funny. Still dont get Mya Rudolf though. They also go somewhere different with the conflict which is nice. It's set up to be very typical and it takes a new look at it. The ending kindof lets it down, it suffers from that comedy thing where the comedy needs to completely stop to resolve the plot. But overall Kristen Wiig is a loser dealing with being a loser instead of a winner dealing with temporarily being less of a winner. I like that.

I really liked John Goodman in Red State. The movie was enjoyable for me but not amazing

[newport king]

Here's what I watched this week:

American Juggalo (2011) - This has been brought up several times over the last few weeks on The Ron & Fez Show. I never planned on watching it because I was never a fan of the Insane Clown Posse.
Decided to give it a chance when Ron had the director, Sean Dunne stop by for an interview. Turns out, Sean isn’t a fan of ICP either, he just wanted to make a documentary on their fans at the latest “Gathering of the Juggalos,” filmed this past August.
Juggalos are a strange group of fans, but one thing I do admire is how they’re all about family when together. Not saying I’d want to be friends/family with any of them, but I do respect their fandom. I wish I could say all their female fans are ugly, but toward the very end in a montage, 2 gorgeous juggalettes are on screen for a few seconds. Probably the only 2.
One thing I learned from this was that Juggalos like to yell “Whoop Whoop!” This bothered me because I’ll never be able to enjoy Kam again.



Watched it on your recommendation. The titties for a dollar girl was cute, and the blonde in that montage was hot. The movie itself, shit. However if i grew up in a trailer park and had no real shot at life, i'd probably had been at the gathering.

[realmenhatelife]

I really liked John Goodman in Red State. The movie was enjoyable for me but not amazing

I just like John Goodman.

[Chigworthy]

Skew via Netfliz streaming
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As usual, sifting through a netfliz streaming dump for anything decent can be tedious. Lately, there's been a lot of undercover Christian films that I've been duped into watching for a few minutes. I've been getting pretty good at rooting them out by reading the descriptions now. The most recent dump is at least 50% Asian dramas, action flicks, and horror movies. I've fallen off of Asian movies violently in the last few years. Thanks Tartan Extreme, you've ruined my desire to watch any of them. Thanks to Oldboy as well, as it will be difficult to improve on that. Anyway, I've watched a few terrible domestic horror flicks out of this recent dump, but was surprised by Skew. I'm glad I didn't read the slew of digital revenge posted as member reviews, because I may have not watched it. I really liked it.

Yes, it's another low-budget found footage horror movie. I guess I could nitpick about the acting, the frequent rewinds, and some implausibilities like all of the member reviewers, but I didn't have a problem with any of it. What I saw was a movie that was well-written and well-produced given the pedigree and budget of the cast/staff. Three friends set out on a road trip with one of them being obsessed with filming everything with his new camera. The premise is that the filmer begins realizing that certain people that he films succumb to horrific deaths after appearing distorted through the viewfinder. The interpersonal relationships and conflict between the friends was the pleasant surprise of the film, and by the end you realize that it is the binding mesh of the story.

This is one of those movies that doesn't wrap everything up in a pretty package for you at the end, and as usual, garners a lot of bile from the Friday 13th/I hate Blair Witch crowd. I'm still deciding what actually happened...

...and I'm glad I read a review that contained a still picture of the ghost that Simon sees at the abandoned gas station at the end of the movie, because it sheds a sliver of light on what may have been going on.




A few months ago, I reluctantly went to the local arthouse to watch Buck with my wife.
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I was really uninterested in seeing a documentary about horsemanship. I deal with horses on a somewhat regular basis, and they hold no mystique for me. Riding them blows my knees out, and their dander makes my eyes feel like they have curry combs wedged in them. So to me, this was a chick flick that I went to for my wife's sake. How silly I felt when I ended up seeing one of the most uplifting, saddest, happiest, bestest documentaries I have ever seen.

It focuses on Buck Brannaman, an unusually-dressed cowboy that travels 40 weeks a year to give high-end horsemanship seminars to horse-wackos all over the country. His story is real-life redemption through animal husbandry. I have pretty strong feelings on the way animals are worshiped today, which was partially responsible for my reluctance to see the film. But Buck is a man who champions the animal in the right way. Not as a super-human entity that makes us realize how bad a species humans are, but as a valuable companion that give us a mirror into our own selves and can help us become and maintain being better people. While Animal Planet provides us with unlimited scripted reality to make us feel unreasonably and spendishly guilty, Buck shows us that compassion, patience, and understanding can cure most any animal or human.

For me, the most poignant segment of the film dealt with a woman who brought a problem colt to Buck's seminar. The 3 y/o colt had been acting extremely aggressive and the owner sought to train the animal to be a normal, manageable horse. She qualified the horse's behavior with it's history; she had "rescued" the horse from a troubled birth where the mare had died and the colt had become asphyxiated. She gave the colt CPR and it survived, and she claimed that it had suffered from damaging oxygen deprivation. Shortly after it's birth, her barn burned to the ground and she took the colt into her home and bottle-fed it, raising it like a baby or a puppy. At 3 y/o, she still had not gelded it despite all of it's extremely dangerous behavior, including a scarring bite to her chest.

There's a reason why horses are not raised like humans or dogs, but the horse owner chose to ignore this in lieu of selfishly trying to show the world that she was the special one that could do the impossible. Ironically, she was not special enough to handle the horse during the seminar and had her friend Dan do it. Poor Dan gets his head/face bit severely by the horse during the seminar and ends up with multiple sutured lacerations.

Buck questions her as to why she would raise a horse that way, leave it un-gelded, and then allow it to continue its dangerous behavior. When she admits to having 18(!) intact stallions in her pasture, Buck doesn't get incredulous and denigrate her. He simply and compassionately asks her why she can't allow herself to enjoy life. This is something she already suspects, but Buck helps her to realize. She has set herself up for failure because it keeps the status quo of getting beaten by life at every turn. Because of the way Buck handles her, she can make her own decision, the right one, to euthanize the horse before it kills someone. Even in her supplication, her ego had one final thrust; she says that she will not allow the horse to go to any other owner to be "beaten to a pulp with 2x4s", as though this is a common fate for problem horses that don't end up in her stable.

Anyway, enough gushing and rambling. Buck is now on netfliz streaming. We watched it again today and were both just as captivated as the first time we watched it mere months ago. This is not a horse documentary, it's a human one.

[bohicanator]

Skew via Netfliz streaming

As usual, sifting through a netfliz streaming dump for anything decent can be tedious..

Could there be a sticky thread for "Online or Streaming" movie reviews? Dedicated to streaming video available online, either free or via subscription sites? Netflix and hulu plus etc. Itunes, Zune, etc

You're right Chigworthy it is hard to find good streams, and finding the "likes" of people who share similar tastes might be more likely to yield quality recommends.


With a streaming thread, you could read a review and just click and start watching.

Sorry if there already is one, -didn't look like it. Arguably though, if you are willing to pay enough, -or have no scruples at all. I guess any movie you can mention is "available online" but I was thinking in terms of subscription services.

I got a few gems and I'll bet nobody has seen.

[disneyspy]

we cant sticky a thread that doesnt exist

[newport king]

Attack The Block i thought this movie was awesome. wolf/aliens land in south london and a group of teenage thugs fight them off.

[newport king]

I put on Sucker Punch and turned it off about a half hour in. Can someone explain to me what the fuck i was watching? It seemed like 3 movies spliced together with no plot.

[Chigworthy]

Attack The Block i thought this movie was awesome. wolf/aliens land in south london and a group of teenage thugs fight them off.

It was a decent action/sci-fi/horror flick. It seemed to be missing something, I'm not sure what. Maybe it was just too simple of a story for a feature-length? The aliens were done really well.



We also watched Atrocious late last night:

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Another "found footage" one. If you hated Blair Witch, don't watch this. If you loved Blair Witch but hate any other movie that uses the found footage premise, don't watch this. If you hate reading subtitles, don't watch this. If you demand 100% realism and can't suspend one iota of disbelief while watching a fictional movie, don't watch this. If the way they lisp "s" sounds in Spain drives you apeshit loony, don't watch this. If you wan't to be spooked shitless for Halloween and can let yourself get into a movie without over-analyzing every detail, then definitely watch this.

The premise is pretty straight forward. Police investigate a mass murder and find hours of home footage documenting the last 5 days of the victim's lives. A Spanish family heads to their summer house. The older brother and sister plan on staving off boredom by investigating the urban legend of a girl's spirit that appears in the labyrinthine woods in the rural community when someone gets lost. There are several variations on the legend, from a benevolent spirit that helps lost travelers find their way out of the woods, to an evil emissary from hell that sends people to the nether regions. The teenagers each have a video camera, which adds an interesting effect to the genre. Some scenes jump between the two cameras, whether they are filming the same thing or are separated. There are two main settings for the film; the country house and the decaying "hedge maze"/forest behind a creepy gate behind the house. Kubrick should have used this maze in The Shining. This is not some maintained cookie cutter maze, it is a sprawling, decaying mess that must exist in real life. No production crew could have created this thing with a truckload of potted plants. Sections of overgrown dead juniper with inclusions of bamboo and weeds interspersed with the occasional stone bench and pillar, an idyllic gazebo, and a creepy stone well all form what becomes a character as frightening as the unseen ghost that haunts the woods.

The film uses all of the "found footage" tools to creep you out, the main one being the unseen, but sensed malevolence. Night vision works pretty effectively in the labyrinth when the white stone features come out of the murk making you think it is the ghost at every turn. Some reviews I read complained a bit about the movie's pacing, but I thought it worked well. During the extended middle act, characters would make it to relative safety occasionally, and I actually felt relieved, and wanted them to curl up and hide until it was all over. There are a few times where disbelief-suspension can mess with you, but they aren't so glaring that you can't ignore them. While other found footage movies tend to pull punches to maintain a somewhat family-friendly experience, this one does not. You will not wonder what actually happened to any of the victims. Police evidence footage at the end wraps up every one's fate pretty nicely. There is only one question unanswered at the end of the movie:

Who is Elvira?

[Gutter]

Chig, that actually sounds like a good one. I haven't even seen the movie and I want to know more about this maze thing.

[CountryBob]

It was a decent action/sci-fi/horror flick. It seemed to be missing something, I'm not sure what. Maybe it was just too simple of a story for a feature-length? The aliens were done really well.



We also watched Atrocious late last night:

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Another "found footage" one. If you hated Blair Witch, don't watch this. If you loved Blair Witch but hate any other movie that uses the found footage premise, don't watch this. If you hate reading subtitles, don't watch this. If you demand 100% realism and can't suspend one iota of disbelief while watching a fictional movie, don't watch this. If the way they lisp "s" sounds in Spain drives you apeshit loony, don't watch this. If you wan't to be spooked shitless for Halloween and can let yourself get into a movie without over-analyzing every detail, then definitely watch this.

The premise is pretty straight forward. Police investigate a mass murder and find hours of home footage documenting the last 5 days of the victim's lives. A Spanish family heads to their summer house. The older brother and sister plan on staving off boredom by investigating the urban legend of a girl's spirit that appears in the labyrinthine woods in the rural community when someone gets lost. There are several variations on the legend, from a benevolent spirit that helps lost travelers find their way out of the woods, to an evil emissary from hell that sends people to the nether regions. The teenagers each have a video camera, which adds an interesting effect to the genre. Some scenes jump between the two cameras, whether they are filming the same thing or are separated. There are two main settings for the film; the country house and the decaying "hedge maze"/forest behind a creepy gate behind the house. Kubrick should have used this maze in The Shining. This is not some maintained cookie cutter maze, it is a sprawling, decaying mess that must exist in real life. No production crew could have created this thing with a truckload of potted plants. Sections of overgrown dead juniper with inclusions of bamboo and weeds interspersed with the occasional stone bench and pillar, an idyllic gazebo, and a creepy stone well all form what becomes a character as frightening as the unseen ghost that haunts the woods.

The film uses all of the "found footage" tools to creep you out, the main one being the unseen, but sensed malevolence. Night vision works pretty effectively in the labyrinth when the white stone features come out of the murk making you think it is the ghost at every turn. Some reviews I read complained a bit about the movie's pacing, but I thought it worked well. During the extended middle act, characters would make it to relative safety occasionally, and I actually felt relieved, and wanted them to curl up and hide until it was all over. There are a few times where disbelief-suspension can mess with you, but they aren't so glaring that you can't ignore them. While other found footage movies tend to pull punches to maintain a somewhat family-friendly experience, this one does not. You will not wonder what actually happened to any of the victims. Police evidence footage at the end wraps up every one's fate pretty nicely. There is only one question unanswered at the end of the movie:

Who is Elvira?

netflix?

[Chigworthy]

netflix?

Xbox360 via Zune

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Pale Flower (1964) - With the upcoming Barnes and Noble 50% off all Criterion sale, I streamed this on Netflix to see if I’d want to purchase it next week.
Japanese film about a guy, fresh out of prison after serving 3 years, basically going right back to the lifestyle that brought him there.
I liked it, but it didn’t “wow” me. It won’t be a top priority to pick up on Blu-ray when I head to Barnes and Noble on Tuesday.

The Millennium Trilogy (2009) - As the release of David Fincher’s remake of the first in this Swedish series gets closer, I wanted to see the original, then decided to just go ahead and finish off the trilogy.
It all starts with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. An investigative journalist ends up teaming with a troubled female computer hacker to try and solve a 40-year-old unsolved murder.
I really liked this. Usually once I see an original film I typically avoid the remake, but, since it’s Fincher, I kind of am excited to see how he spins it.
Taking place roughly a year later is The Girl Who Played with Fire. This was alright, but my least favorite of the 3. Disappointing that the 2 leads only have one scene together.
Finally, we have The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, which picks up immediately after the previous ended. This was good, but too conveniently seemed to wrap everything up.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - Never saw this, but wanted to see it first before seeing Johnny Depp’s second time playing Hunter S. Thompson in The Rum Diary.
Having never read Thompson’s work, I’m still familiar with his actions from seeing Bill Murray portray him in Where the Buffalo Roam.
As someone who has never touched an illegal drug, I’d like to believe that this accurately portrayed that feeling of being high. I sure felt it in some scenes.
This was quite a trip. Literally.

The Rum Diary (2010) - I really dug Fear and Lothing, so I thought this would be similar. It isn’t. There’s no narration and very little hallucinogenic imagery. Actually, the one scene where he does hallucinate just feels like it was added to please Fear and Lothing fans.
To be fair, this does take place in 1960, before the height of psychedelic drugs, so it’s definitely much less trippy.
Depp’s friend, Sala, is no Gonzo.
I was pretty bored with this.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Red State (2011) - Tried watching this on Netflix a couple of weeks ago, but every time I tried, the audio never synced up with the video. Did a search on Twitter and discovered I wasn’t the only one having this problem. Decided to try again this week and the problem appears to have been fixed.
I like that Kevin Smith makes something nothing like his previous films. The story was a lot different than I expected, but I was enjoying it...until that dreaded ending. Did anyone like that ending? Even the ending that Smith wanted but didn’t have the budget for sounded ridiculous.

House of Wax (1953) - Vincent Price plays a wax figure creator who gets badly injured in a fire. No longer able to use his hands, he hires 2 assistants to help him create figures. Simultaneously, bodies start to go missing from the morgue and coincidentally, wax figures look exactly like those deceased bodies.
Charles Bronson plays a deaf-mute. I didn’t even realize it was him because the credits listed him under his real name, Charles Buchinsky.
This is a 90 minute film that actually had an intermission, though it was very short. Originally shot in 3-D, they make great use of it immediately following the intermission. At the opening of the wax museum, a carnival barker is playing with paddle balls outside the museum. He’s bouncing the balls right at the camera, but also talking to the viewer saying things like, “this is going in your popcorn.” Weird, but I’m sure theater crowds were entertained.

The Tingler (1959) - Another one with Vincent Price. He plays a pathologist fascinated with fear. He discovers that when someone is afraid, a growth forms on the spine, which he calls the tingler.
This is another film that worked best in theaters. During it’s original run and its recent showing at a NY film festival, some seats were rigged with buzzers to give people that ‘tingle’ to make them feel apart of the film.

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975) - Gene Wilder wrote, directed and stars in this attempt at comedy. You could tell he wanted this to be like a Mel Brooks film, but the laughs just weren’t there.

Antichrist (2009) - Wanted to watch this to see if I’d want to own it since it’s a Criterion release, and Barnes and Noble is still having their 50% off Criterion sale. Nope!

[Judge Smails]

I'm currently watching Pulp Fiction on Cinemax. Its probably one of my favorite movies of all time and this is no exaggeration probably like the 50th time I'm watching it.

I can't believe that I just now realized that Steve Buscemi is the Buddy Holly waiter in the Jack Rabbit Slim's scene. Am I fuckin' retarded or something? Is this common knowledge? (That it's Steve Buscemi, not that I'm retarded.) How the sweet fuck did I miss this until now?

[Chigworthy]

I'm currently watching Pulp Fiction on Cinemax. Its probably one of my favorite movies of all time and this is no exaggeration probably like the 50th time I'm watching it.

I can't believe that I just now realized that Steve Buscemi is the Buddy Holly waiter in the Jack Rabbit Slim's scene. Am I fuckin' retarded or something? Is this common knowledge? (That it's Steve Buscemi, not that I'm retarded.) How the sweet fuck did I miss this until now?

On top of that, you're just now realizing you're retarded. It's a landmark day for you.

[cougarjake13]

I'm currently watching Pulp Fiction on Cinemax. Its probably one of my favorite movies of all time and this is no exaggeration probably like the 50th time I'm watching it.

I can't believe that I just now realized that Steve Buscemi is the Buddy Holly waiter in the Jack Rabbit Slim's scene. Am I fuckin' retarded or something? Is this common knowledge? (That it's Steve Buscemi, not that I'm retarded.) How the sweet fuck did I miss this until now?

On top of that, you're just now realizing you're retarded. It's a landmark day for you.

congrats on the self revelation JS

[sailor]

Here's what I watched this week:

Red State (2011) - Tried watching this on Netflix a couple of weeks ago, but every time I tried, the audio never synced up with the video. Did a search on Twitter and discovered I wasn’t the only one having this problem. Decided to try again this week and the problem appears to have been fixed.
I like that Kevin Smith makes something nothing like his previous films. The story was a lot different than I expected, but I was enjoying it...until that dreaded ending. Did anyone like that ending? Even the ending that Smith wanted but didn’t have the budget for sounded ridiculous.


i think it's a fitting use of deus ex machina, but i can understand why people dislike it.

[fezident]

I loved the ending of RED STATE.
It made the viewer (and Goodman) doubt, if only for a moment, exactly how "crazy" the preacher really was. If at all. Yeah... they swerved it back around to reality.... but for about 30 seconds there.... the NON BELIEVERS had actual faith. They believed in something. I thought that was kinda powerful.

[cougarjake13]

been wanting to check out red state


maybe ill get around to it

[Furtherman]

I can't believe that I just now realized that Steve Buscemi is the Buddy Holly waiter in the Jack Rabbit Slim's scene. Am I fuckin' retarded or something? Is this common knowledge? (That it's Steve Buscemi, not that I'm retarded.) How the sweet fuck did I miss this until now?

I have no idea. That got a big laugh in the theater.

[Chigworthy]

We watched Stripes last night. I had rated it 4 stars on Netflix a while back, basing the rating on my memory of watching this movie about 20-25 years ago as a kid. What a steaming pile. Embarrassing really. Lots of tits though.

[IamFogHat]

The autistic guy in I think We're Alone Now looks just like Fez.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Bigger Than Life (1956) - James Mason plays a husband and father who is a school teacher by day and secretly a taxi cab dispatcher at night. He’s ashamed of that second job, but knows he can’t provide for his family on a teachers salary.
He also suffers from extreme stomach pains which strike randomly. He finally goes to the hospital and the doctor wants to try a new experimental drug called cortisone (remember, this is 1956).
The drug cures the stomach ailment, but the side effects cause him to become mentally unstable. This film basically is about a family turned upside down. It went places I totally didn’t expect, but I really liked it.

Fish Tank (2009) - British film about a troubled teenage girl who aspires to be a dancer. I have to say she has great taste in music. She sets up her iPod in an abandoned apartment and practices her routines to Eric B. & Rakim and Gangstarr.
Things start to get good/bad when her moms new boyfriend starts hanging around more and more.
Found it weird that a 2009 film was shot in full frame. I actually had to look online to see if that was correct because I was tempted to turn it off and find a proper copy.
Well worth watching.

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) - A political prisoner is locked up with a homosexual in a Latin prison. To pass the time, the gay man, played by William Hurt (who did an amazing, highly convincing job, and won the Best Actor award for his effort) tells stories from a Nazi propaganda love story film that he remembers. The two prisoners become trustworthy of each other and care for one another after sickness and torture sessions.
The acting was really great and though I was hesitant about seeing this, I’m glad I did.

Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Silent Russian film about the Bolshevik Revolution.
Some amazing scenes in this, especially on land in this area where a lot of steps are involved.

The Two of Us (The Old Man and the Boy) (1967) - French film about Nazi occupied France during WWII. A Jewish family in hiding sends their 9-year-old son to live in the country with the parents of the woman who’s harboring them in their attic. The boy must change his last name and live as a Catholic so that he won’t get caught. He immediately bonds with the woman’s father, whom he calls ‘Grampa.’ They are inseparable. Always doing things together, including being told about how Jews are evil. See, Grampa is an anti-Semite. His daughter apparently forgot to mention a small detail when asking if they’d take care of a child for a while.
I liked this a lot.

Johnny Guitar (1954) - Interesting western where the protagonist and antagonist are both women. Neither woman likes each other, and one does whatever she can to attempt to destroy the other.
TIFF lists it as one of their essential 100. I thought it was cool.

[KnoxHarrington]

Finally checked out this movie:

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Of course, like everyone, I'd seen the YouTube videos of Hitler freaking out, but I hadn't seen the actual movie. It's an incredible movie, highly recommended. Bruno Ganz's performance as Hitler is spectacular; you've gotta think it's the most realistic portrayal of what Hitler was actually like in person ever put on screen (and historians say Ganz even sounds like Hitler did.)

Some people worried that this movie would humanize Hitler and downplay the horrors he unleashed, but I can't see how anyone would see this movie and think "You know, this Hitler wasn't such a bad guy." Obviously, it focuses entirely on what happened in the Führerbunker and Berlin as the Russians approached, so we don't see all that (though it is addressed, for example in a speech Hitler gives in which he says that even if he is defeated, he will be praised for "cleansing Germany of the Jewish filth"), but the portrayal of Hitler does not seem to me to be sympathetic in any way. The Hitler here is nearing total mental and physical collapse: he has violent temper tantrums, then falls into deep depressions. He alternately bemoans Germany as lost completely, then spins fanciful scenarios in which armies he no longer has break the back of the Russian attackers, and blames his generals for not carrying out his orders.

I've never been particularly fond of the school of thought that holds you have to treat Hitler as an inhuman monster. I don't think that showing that, on occasion, he could be kind to his secretary or that he loved his dog lets him off the hook for the Holocaust in any way. Like all people, he was complex and often contradictory. I think that portraying him as a monster lets the German people off the hook in a way. After all, they voted him in and supported his regime. As Goebbels says, "We didn't force the German people. They gave us a mandate, and now their little throats are being cut!" This movie holds to historical accuracy, because it knows that telling the story truthfully, and letting the facts speak for themselves, will tell the story that needs to be told. Very highly recommended.

[zildjian361]

the last Harry Potter movie on Direct TV ,not bad:smoke::drunk:

[spoon]

the last Harry Potter movie on Direct TV ,not bad:smoke::drunk:

easy Dusky Rider!

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) - Saw an article on the AV Club about this film titled “Why Don’t You Like This?” (http://www.avclub.com/articles/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world,65086/), so I wanted to watch it first before reading it.
This was really never a high priority for me to watch when it came out. I thought it was based on a video game. I was wrong, but it was based on a graphic novel which I had never heard of.
It was fun to watch, though I was getting bored and counting down to how many exes were left to fight.

On Golden Pond (1981) - I watch a lot of movies on TCM, so it was weird to see Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in the later stages of their lives.
They play an old married couple who watch their daughters new boyfriends 13-year-old son.
It seems boring and probably is to most, but I really loved this.

PT 109 (1963) - A film about JFK’s time in the Navy during WWII when he captained a boat that was split in two by a Japanese destroyer in the South Pacific.
It was good, but I hate when dramas try to add light-hearted comedy. This seemed to happen a lot, like during every scene segue.
Not to give anything away, but JFK survives...this time.

Hotel (1967) - A high class hotel in New Orleans is the setting for this film involving several different stories.
Reminded me a lot of the 1932 Best Picture winner Grand Hotel, except this was much more boring.
Though, I did like Karl Malden as the key thief. He’d break into rooms and steal cash, but never got a substantial amount, which he then blamed on the sudden boom of credit card usage.

[Furtherman]

Melancholia. End of the world flick surrounding a depressed girl and her family trying to help her. Does it matter when the world is ending? Denial, angst and many uncomfortable moments during her wedding and the months afterwards, all the while a rouge planet is heading towards Earth. I'm not giving anything away because you see what happens in the opening moments of the film, and the rest is just what happened before that moment.

The movie was beautifully shot and has an excellent cast. Those moments make up the parts that drag. It could have been a half-hour shorter. But I have to give it to Kristen Dunst, who does an excellent job here playing a depressed, well... bitch, to her sister, who just wants to help her, but most of the time doesn't even like her. Also in a supporting role is Keifer Sutherland as her scientist brother-in-law, who helps fill in the science explanations of what is happening, but he also plays a great part.

It's a long, sometimes slow movie, but if you're a Lars Von Trier fan, you'll enjoy it. Great music fills out the scenes too. Beautifully shot.

[harvey_birdman]

Saw Take Shelter Sunday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5U4TtYpKIc

Really great movie. Michael Shannon (the crazy guy from Bug) portrays a person with mental illness again, but in a very different way. Directed by Jeff Nichols.

A.

[razorboy]

Sweet Smell of Success is on TCM. It's been a while since I've watched it, but it never disappoints. As impressive a combination of dialogue, direction, cinematography, strong acting and soundtrack as has ever been assembled in film.

[Crispy123]

I had a Kevin Spacey double feature (no homo).

first up: Horrible Bosses. I liked it. The coke scene was the best.

then: Usual Suspects. I've seen it but its a classic. Love the scene where Spacey describes Keiser going apeshit on the Hungarians and killing his own family.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week (The Woody Allen edition):

With Robert Weide’s PBS documentary on Woody Allen airing this week, I set my DVR to record the 2-part film and decided I’d watch some of Allen’s films in which he starred in, directed, or both.

Stardust Memories (1980) - This seemed like an autobiographical account of Woody Allen’s life. Woody plays a director appearing at a convention to screen his newest film. At this convention he is constantly approached by fans and studio heads to stop making serious films and go back to making comedies. Throughout all of this, he is reflecting on his past.
While watching this I couldn’t help but think of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½, as this seemed identical.
It was a very good homage.

Alice (1990) - Woody only wrote and directed this one. A woman married to an extremely wealthy man suddenly falls for another man, a single father whom she meets while bringing her kids to school.
Things get a little bizarre when she goes to see a Chinese herbalist who gives her different potions to take. One makes her flirtatious, while another gives her the power of invisibility, so that she can see if this man she is newly attracted to is as honest as he leads on.
This really lacked that humor that I expected from Allen. I wasn’t a fan.

Love and Death (1975) - Pretty sure this was the only 1970s directed film by him that I hadn’t seen yet.
This takes place in Russia during the 1800s. Woody plays his usual coward self while going off to war to fight for his country.
Very funny film. Would be even funnier if I was at all familiar with Russian literature, as Dostoyevsky is referenced a lot.

Match Point (2005) - Did not feel like a Woody Allen film, but it was very good.
Taking place in England. A retired tennis player befriends a man from a very wealthy family. The man’s sister falls for him, but he becomes infatuated with his friends fiancee.
Great story and performances.

Zelig (1983) - A faux-documentary about a man in the 1920s who can adapt to look like people when around them. For instance, when he’s around heavy set people, he suddenly balloons in weight; when he’s around black people, his skin color starts changing.
A lot of the things in this looked very authentic. Woody Allen in scenes with Herbert Hoover, Adolf Hitler, etc...

The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) - In 1935, a woman in an abusive marriage escapes her troubles by going to the movies. She ends up loving the newest film playing that week called The Purple Rose of Cairo which she sees over and over again. On her 5th viewing, one of the characters on the screen acts distracted and then starts talking directly to the woman in the audience. He then walks off the screen and into the theater and approaches the woman and asks her to take him to explore the city. Meanwhile, the remaining characters on the screen can’t continue the film without this integral character, so they ponder what they should do while the rest of the audience sits, watches, and complains.
This was a much better fantasy film than Alice. I liked this one a lot.

Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011) - A 3 hour and 12 minute documentary that I wish was longer. I love everything about Woody Allen. I really didn’t learn much that I didn’t learn from a previous documentary about him, Woody Allen: A Life in Film, but that doesn’t matter, a new documentary on him could come out every month and I would watch it.
This documentary really shows how diverse his films are. Amazing that all of the screenplays he types are typed out on the same typewriter he bought as a kid in the 1940s.
Great documentary!

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Slither (1973) - James Caan plays a car thief just released from prison. His dying friend tells him to go find a friend of his and pass along a name. Caan finds this friend (Peter Boyle), but wants in on whatever it is that’s going on. Turns out, this name is a person that is holding $312,000 in embezzled money.
They go to look for this person but along the way are followed by 2 mysterious looking black vans.
I couldn’t tell if this was supposed to be a straight comedy or a serious movie. It tried to be both.
The payoff was terrible.
One thing I really liked was a scene where Peter Boyle responds to Caan with a “wah-wah-wah-wah.” If you’ve seen The Dream Team, Boyle uses that exact same line as he enters an elevator. Now I want to find out if Boyle used this line in any other movies.
When I was in high school, my friends and I would constantly prank call AM talk radio stations. We would first try and have a serious discussion and then out of nowhere we would suddenly burst out with the “wah-wah-wah-wah,” all credit due to Mr. Boyle. Talk show hosts gave us the nickname, The Screamers. I found this compilation that I still had of us making those calls from 20 years ago.

http://www.divshare.com/download/16278031-106

Dementia 13 (1963) - Francis Ford Coppola’s directorial debut and produced by Roger Corman.
Atmospheric and creepy. I was surprised at what they got away with considering the year it was released.

Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - Caught this on TCM. Considered buying it during the Criterion sale, but passed on it. Now I’m wishing I hadn’t. This was great. One thing that bothers me is the Criterion cover.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NHPhFrXdL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I don’t remember ever seeing that image in the film.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) - Pretty funny film about a couple that goes to a weekend seminar about sexual freedom and letting your true feelings out.
The couple end up cheating on each other, but are honest with one another and are completely fine with it. They tell their friends about their affairs, but their friends have a hard time accepting it.
Such an awkward ending.
Natalie Wood was so incredibly hot in this.

Lost in America (1985) - Albert Brooks wrote, directed, and stars in this about a married couple fed up with their mundane lives, so they buy a Winnebago and attempt to travel across America.
I liked this a lot.

[cougarjake13]

Finally saw terminator salvation
Wasn't that bad and I liked the tie ins to the older movies

Def left it to set up more sequels

[Furtherman]

Another Earth. Tense, devastating and beautiful. Perfect.

[newport king]

Green Lantern meh.

The Change Up very funny, but the last half hour kind of lost steam

Monster Squad watched it with my 8yr old, i lived this as a kid, i didnt remember how many times they used "fag" or "homo". and totally forgot they needed a virgin for the reading of the diary...thankfully he didnt ask what a virgin was. The wife might have found some of the language inappropriate but since it was just me and him he just looked at me and laughed.

30 Minutes or Less not bad, kind of stupid but KennyFuckingP always makes me laugh.

[realmenhatelife]

Green Lantern meh.

The Change Up very funny, but the last half hour kind of lost steam

Monster Squad watched it with my 8yr old, i lived this as a kid, i didnt remember how many times they used "fag" or "homo". and totally forgot they needed a virgin for the reading of the diary...thankfully he didnt ask what a virgin was. The wife might have found some of the language inappropriate but since it was just me and him he just looked at me and laughed.

30 Minutes or Less not bad, kind of stupid but KennyFuckingP always makes me laugh.

Thats bizarre because I just watched Monster Squad last week for the first time since I was a kid, too.

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Terror on a Train (1952) - British film about a cargo train that has been sabotaged with a bomb on board.
Glenn Ford plays a man living abroad. He has been retired from the US Army, where he was a specialist in disposing of bombs. He gets called on to locate and destroy the bomb before it detonates in a populated town.
For such a suspenseful title and plot, it really lacked any suspense. The town was quickly evacuated, so no drama there. Glenn Ford plays it cool throughout his search, never dropping anything or accidentally bumping something, and no music to play up the drama.
When I typed the title into IMDB, it immediately came up as Time Bomb, so I guess the title was changed for its American release.

Rio Lobo (1970) - John Wayne stars in this basic remake of another film he had done, Rio Bravo.
As the Civil War is ending, soldiers from the north find out that a train is carrying a shipment of gold. They hijack the train and steal the gold. Turns out, they were tipped off about the gold from a soldier from the south. John Wayne’s friend was killed in the train attack, but that doesn’t seem to bother him, he catches and teams up with the hijackers to find the traitor in his camp.
John Wayne was never a good actor, but he had a great on screen presence. In this film, Wayne was unbelievable, but that was because his supporting cast was terrible. I’m not even exaggerating. It was pretty bad.

The Descendants (2011) - It’s that time of year when the films generating Oscar buzz start getting released. This one is worthy of being nominated.
George Clooney plays a father to 2 daughters, caring for them on his own while his wife lays in a coma after being in a terrible boating accident.
Clooney was great in this and so were the kids. I have never seen the older daughter before, but she was really good and incredibly hot.
This was a good one.

[Furtherman]

Cowboys & Aliens. It wasn't awful. It wasn't awesome either. It had a great principle and supporting cast and was well shot. It just kinda... boring... at times. I watched an unrated version, which probably added those boring minutes into it, but the storyline was underdeveloped. I think it just needed a little more punch. Great action scenes though.

But the Aliens? I'm seeing a trend here: Cloverfield-Super 8-Cowboys & Aliens. All these monsters look like they could come from the same planet. That is the other thing about the Aliens in this movie... they're more monsters than seemingly capable to build spaceships and travel the stars.

[CountryBob]

Cowboys & Aliens. It wasn't awful. It wasn't awesome either. It had a great principle and supporting cast and was well shot. It just kinda... boring... at times. I watched an unrated version, which probably added those boring minutes into it, but the storyline was underdeveloped. I think it just needed a little more punch. Great action scenes though.

But the Aliens? I'm seeing a trend here: Cloverfield-Super 8-Cowboys & Aliens. All these monsters look like they could come from the same planet. That is the other thing about the Aliens in this movie... they're more monsters than seemingly capable to build spaceships and travel the stars.

I was upset that they didnt show the hot chick naked - even with an R rating. Come on man!

[Furtherman]

I was upset that they didnt show the hot chick naked - even with an R rating. Come on man!

I didn't even realize that... it was an R? I can't imagine why. Maybe for the battle scenes, but I thought they were tame in regards to just quick blood explosions.

[RoseBlood]

I was upset that they didnt show the hot chick naked - even with an R rating. Come on man!

The version I saw was PG-13.

[CountryBob]

Watched it on Demand on Directv - and it had an R rating. I had to ask my Mom if it was OK

[realmenhatelife]

Martha Marcy May Marlene- I really liked it. A girl escapes a cult and moves in with her estranged sister where she goes batshit crazy. Really well acted, two people from Deadwood, and the Olsen twin's little sister has amazing titties.

[PapaBear]

Saw The Runaways last night. AWFUL!

[Dan G]

Here's what I watched this week:

Broken Flowers (2005) - I don’t think I have ever been disappointed in a film starring Bill Murray. This one was no exception.
Murray plays a guy who receives an anonymous letter stating that 20 years ago he impregnated a woman and now that his son is 19-years-old, he’s on his way to meet his father. With the help of his neighbor, Murray goes on a search to find all the women he dated during that period so he can find out who sent him the letter.
This was really funny and had a totally unexpected nude scene that made me verbally yell out "GODDAMN!"

The Great Race (1965) - A slapstick comedy directed by the late Blake Edwards. This was as close to watching a live action cartoon as you could get.
Taking place in the early 1900s, this is about a race around the world, from New York to Paris.
A lot of the antics found in this are more often found in cartoons. For instance, there’s a scene where the evil, Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) has a bomb with a homing device that’s targeted for The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis). The homing device is triggered by sound, so as The Great Leslie is driving his very loud speed boat, the bomb immediately races toward it. As it gets closer to the boat, Professor Fate and sidekick, Max (Peter Falk) get to their car to getaway. The car starts backfiring and so the bomb changes direction, runs on land and then you see a big explosion. Like a cartoon, the characters never die, they just come back and concoct a new, devious plan.
Professor Fate reminded me so much of the cartoon character, Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races.

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/5170/dickdastardly.jpg

After the film, I went to its IMDB page and saw that Wacky Races came out after this and was inspired by this film. Natalie Wood is also in The Great Race and her character inspired Penelope Pitstop.
This was really funny, but also really long, at over 2 and half hours.

Withnail & I (1986) - After seeing The Rum Diary several weeks ago which was directed by Bruce Robinson, I decided to see what else he has done and this one, his first, popped up on Netflix.
A dark, British comedy, about 2 out of work actors from the city, who go on an alcohol fueled trip to the country.
Not overly hilarious, but had a lot of subtle jokes which were very funny.

Hugo (3-D) (2011) - I never really wanted to see this, but I also knew I’d regret not seeing it, especially in 3-D.
This did not need to be in 3-D, yet it looked absolutely amazing.
A very nice homage to early classic films. One thing about this film was that it made me really want to see Harold Lloyd films in a theater. That scene of the kids watching Safety Last in the theater was great.

Fear and Desire (1952) - Stanley Kubrick’s first film. It’s cool to see the genius director before he became the genius. I liked the story. Four soldiers crash land their plane 6 miles behind enemy lines. They must do what they can to escape and not be seen.
The acting was pretty terrible, but I’m willing to give it a pass now that I learned that all the dialog was added in after the film was shot. There just wasn’t any emotion, it just sounded like guys reading their lines, which essentially is what it was.
Glad I was able to see it, but not something I’d look to ever watch again.

[Chigworthy]

Cowboys & Aliens. It wasn't awful. It wasn't awesome either. It had a great principle and supporting cast and was well shot. It just kinda... boring... at times. I watched an unrated version, which probably added those boring minutes into it, but the storyline was underdeveloped. I think it just needed a little more punch. Great action scenes though.

But the Aliens? I'm seeing a trend here: Cloverfield-Super 8-Cowboys & Aliens. All these monsters look like they could come from the same planet. That is the other thing about the Aliens in this movie... they're more monsters than seemingly capable to build spaceships and travel the stars.

Apparently, you can either have cute George Lucas aliens that make cute noises and make cute anthropomorphic facial expressions, or you can have overly-exaggerated scary linebacker-headed superfast swarming murderous aliens in movies today. I miss the scary insecct-headed superfast swarming murderous aliens of yesteryear.

[disneyspy]

i've been on a christmas type movie kick this last week,watched HOME ALONE-still good, REINDEER GAMES- one of my favorites,ELF- stupidly good and tonight will be DIE HARD, merry christmas mother fuckers

[hanso]

This old B movie on TV is ending called Eegah! The dude that was Jaws on the Bond movies Richard Kiel is some modern day caveman Eegah.

It ranked in the 100 bad movie list and played in drive-ins.

[cougarjake13]

Martha Marcy May Marlene- I really liked it. A girl escapes a cult and moves in with her estranged sister where she goes batshit crazy. Really well acted, two people from Deadwood, and the Olsen twin's little sister has amazing titties.



damn i must be watching this soon

[newport king]

My brother in-law won't let me change the channel, so ive watched

A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story,A Christmas Story...merry xmas.

[Furtherman]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Dark, twisted, mysteriously sad. Fincher does it again. Excellently directed and acted. No, I didn't read the book. The perfect holiday movie!

[sailor]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Dark, twisted, mysteriously sad. Fincher does it again. Excellently directed and acted. No, I didn't read the book. The perfect holiday movie!

Did you see the original? I thought that one was very mediocre, but people wet themselves over it.

[Dirtbag]

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Dark, twisted, mysteriously sad. Fincher does it again. Excellently directed and acted. No, I didn't read the book. The perfect holiday movie!

I watched the Swedish original this weekend on Netflix. The mystery was interesting enough, but I could have given a fuck less about the characters. Maybe the new one will fix that.

[fezident]

ANOTHER EARTH:
Interesting little movie, this one.
I wouldn't call it a proper "science fiction" story, although... one of the main elements of the plot is that there is a newly discovered planet -identical in every single way to earth- that suddenly appears in our sky. We can communicate with it. And when we do... we learn that it IS truly "another earth". The people on it are us. We all have a double.

Having said that, this movie is barely about the premise described above. It's much more about a sweet young woman who accidentally commits a horrible act... and her ongoing effort to now make things right with one of her victims.
The movie is unique in it's pace and tone.
And the ending is truly thought provoking, interesting, and worthy of much discussion & debate.

[Furtherman]

Did you see the original? I thought that one was very mediocre, but people wet themselves over it.

I did not see the original either.

[Crispy_Mobile]

Forest Gump. Its not as bad as Ron makes it out to be. Merry Christmas bitches!

[cougarjake13]

Did you see the original? I thought that one was very mediocre, but people wet themselves over it.


is it in subtitles?

[sailor]

is it in subtitles?

Yeah, but there's probably a dubbed version out there.

[cougarjake13]

Yeah, but there's probably a dubbed version out there.



gotcha

isnt it sposed to be more brutal then the american version that just came out ?