I still don't know how I feel about it. I will get back to you in a year when I have figured that out.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
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I still don't know how I feel about it. I will get back to you in a year when I have figured that out.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
Buried
Quite an intense movie, and more suspenseful than I imagined it would be. I kinda liked the "FUCK YOU!" ending, but I do tend to like endings that piss off the audience. I wish I had seen this in theaters.
How? Tell me. Right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
Rip that shit and post it in S&B IMOOOOOOOO
Just watched Inside
holy FUCK. I was not prepared.
Still not on instant!
You should really go out of your way to find it. So unrelentingly brutal.
I do some TV reviewing for Slant Magazine in my spare time, and sometimes it means I get to watch cool shit before everyone else.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
The season's great by the way. Fleshes out the characters more and it doesn't rehash a lot of the running jokes from the first season. We even learn a little about Woodhouse
Oh wow! i would've put a more intelligent answer than "its possessed" if i read more into the question. sorry bout that. i feel dumb now.
Here's the review for it: http://www.slantmagazine.com/tv/revi...season-two/233
It premieres tonight, which you should watch.
Stayed in sick today and watch Restrepo, which was... not exactly the best sick day movie. I was paranoid of getting shot the entire time, I couldn't imagine what those kids felt like.
Also watched Brick yesterday for the first time. I always knew it was a "high school noir" but I didn't know that's literally what it was going to be. It took me a while to get past the whole "Big Sleep as performed by a high school drama class" but it's a really gripping movie. Levitt is what made it work, without a strong lead like that it would have turned into a farce.
Is Generation Kill worth the money for the blu-ray?
If you already saw it, yes. If not, it's got more humor in it than one would expect. It really zeroes in on the ineptitude of commanding officers. Some may feel it's too short. I'm one of them.
I guess I'll probably watch it before I buy it. If it lives up the quality of The Wire then I'll buy it anyway. If it doesn't then I'll be glad for having saved myself from disappointment.
2LDK
It sucked.
RED
It was kinda entertaining in an amusing watching old foggies do their shtick one last time kinda way.
The Fall
Damn good. Lee Pace is a heartbreaker.
I thought it had potential to be so much better than it was, so ultimately a letdown for me.
The King's Speech
Very good, but not without a couple of overcooked scenes:
(Lionel freshens Bertie's brandy)
Bertie: Thank you.
Lionel: What are friends for?
Bertie: ... I... wo- wouldn't know.
Eeeeeuuuuuugggghhhh.
But, whatever. It took a banal conflict and made it immensely captivating.
EFFECTIVE STORYTELLING DEVICE: The movie surveys about four of Bertie's public speeches. The climatic, "We shall prevail," speech is the only one shown to completion. All of the others smash cut away as he begins to stutter, giving the film a jerky, stopping-and-starting feeling whenever the king addresses an audience. This is apropos for a movie about overcoming a stutter, you see! Well, most of you do.
For Buttcheeks: Because his speech is jerky and stop-start. The film stutters with Bertie by refusing to release the tension of his speeches until Bertie himself can.
Also, I know you're confused as to why I likened the movie to a sea animal with a blunt, round snout, but that says "apropos," which is different than "a porpoise." We'll get into that after nap time, though, okay hon?
4/5
This is spinal tap - I only really like one part of one song, but I still really enjoy the movie for some reason.
I met her on Monday, 'twas my lucky bun day?
My main problem with The King's Speech was that the whole time I was watching I couldn't shake thinking to myself "I've seen this before."Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
It felt novel to me, but I haven't seen many movies.
It's because the movie is AMAZING.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
I keep trying to get through Jerry Maguire, and it is nearly impossible. Tom Cruse is a huge tranny mess.
Harry Brown
Apparently I'm into old foggies killing youngins lately. Not as entertaining, but far more...realistic?
Just finished watching Into the Void.
I want my 2 hours back.
I watched the king's speech. I really liked it. I liked the writing, the story, the characters, the settings, how it was paced and filmed. Really good movie.
And I'm not sure how i feel about ARBM reaching into the future and replying to things I haven't said yet. TNL, where people ride your balls in the future, from the past and present.
I really enjoyed this one as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Error
Then just stop watching it and move on to something else?Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I ended up putting on a record and drawing, so... ON IT.
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1296328780Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Mac Tonight is THE BEST.
Exit Through the Gift Shop
What it has to say about the commodification of art isn't particularly profound, but the way it says it certainly is.
Watching the bullshit rubber meet the poseur road when MBW was negotiating his rubbish, masturbatory, self-aware, farmed-out artshit for tens of thousands of dollars was so gratifying. Had he put a $200 price tag on the same exact piece instead of $20,000, he would have been laughed right out of his own exhibition. There is no clearer or more entertaining demonstration of consumer fetishism than the climax of this film.
But I was gnashing my teeth under my smile. Seeing this phony make millions peddling derivative nonsense was infuriating. That he genuinely believes himself to be an artist makes it even worse; I would have more empathy for an admitted, unapologizing conman, and I know I'm not alone on that. What does that say about art? About artists?
This was absolutely fantastic, and about so much more than art-as-commodity. The stylized, narrative-driven documentary (Man On Wire, The Cove) is fast becoming a quaint little sub-genre. I hope it sticks around.
5/5
Dammit now i want a big macQuote:
Originally Posted by Chux
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Kokuhaku Totally off-the-rails story of the murder of a junior high school teacher's daughter and her revenge, and even though the parts are recognizable it really pulls you in. The movie starts where most movies end, with seemingly nowhere to go, and then keeps going, leaping over any genre restrictions in its way.
The Social Network Impeccably-well put together telling of a story that isn't as compelling as everyone made it out to be. Left me with a slight buzz and admiration for the filmmakers, but that's about it. And though its commendable for not making gods or devils out of the characters, it still kind of falls into the "it could happen to you" capitalist pipe dream movie bin.
Toy Story 3 Like most Pixar, equal parts top-level craftsmanship, poignant allegory, and populist crap. The part where the toys became resigned to die in a garbage furnace was kinda heavy.
The Piano Teacher The only Haneke I had never seen, maybe because seeing his name next to Elfriede Jelinek's put a knot in my stomach. They do each other justice though, and it's a great movie. Like with all of Haneke's movies I enjoyed reading some of the reviews. You can tell a lot about people from their reactions. Especially lol'd inside at Richard Roeper's "... a pretentious and ultimately empty examination of a sick and evil woman."
psssssst. None of it is real. Mr. Brainwash is a Banksy fabrication.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
If it's staged, then it's even better and its message stronger.
Just saw the piano teacher, it was good.
I loved Exit Through the Gift Shop, and I loved Mr. Brainwash's "art as brand" display.
Exactly. It doesn't really matter. Funny that it's nominated for best documentary, considering. But, I mean, it definitely is a fairly straightforward doc in the beginning before it veers off into crazyland.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
I just watched the first 20th Century Boys movie.
Shit was nuts in terms of scope, I thought the movie must be ending (based on the fact that I knew there were two more movies) an entire hour before it actually did. I can't even imagine how far this story goes if that was only the adaptation of 5 of the 22 volumes.
The Departed movies so fast you won't even realize that 3 hours have past. I had some issues with the pacing of The Good Shepherd.
Correct. This is Spinal Tap is one of the best movies ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I saw Lost in Translation last night for the first time since it came out. Sometimes Cinemax drops great movies like that in between Grown Ups or whatever the fuck and softcore porn. If anything it has gotten better with age.
I liked it more not knowing what he said, btw...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Murry's whisper at the end of Lost in Translation
I like to think he said "For relaxing times, make it Suntori time"
She really captured the feel of just arriving in tokyo so well. I was blown away when I got there. It helped form my decision to go to Japan, and I don't regret that being a reason at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I just thought this to myself the on the way to lunch and feel like I need to see the movie again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
So I did just that. Best Buy had LiT on sale for $14.99 on Blu Ray and I just watched it. Still good.
It's a great movie, with a wonderful opening shot.
Never understood the crying about that flick.
GF saw it for the first time and really liked it.
True story, I turned it on expecting to just watch the first five minutes (lol waiting for eardrops) and remembered one part of why I liked the movie when the opening came up.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
The Expendables - I did not enjoy this movie even though I really wanted to, this made me sad. Needed more Arnold.
Red - Better than the expendables, pretty much entirely because of John Malkovich. What a fantastic actor. Still, not a great movie.
The Piano Teacher - Very good movie, I don't know what else to say. It shook me somewhat.
I have found more and more recently bad scoring of a movie can really ruin it for me. It is making it noticeably more difficult for me to enjoy mainstream movies when the movie soundtrack has the maturity of a child's finger painting. Evil guy's opening scene. *cue evil ambient music*. Thank you scoring jackass, I couldn't figure out he was cartoonishly evil when he shoots 4 innocent people in the back of the head. Sigh. I should just stop watching Hollywood all together.
What crying?Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I know tons of people* that hate it.
*faggots
They're assholes.
It would be super easy for a movie like that to go the hollywood route, where they fuck and either hate eachother, or drop their married lives. Instead they don't, and it creates a feeling of longing that I haven't seen in any other movie.
If that movie took place in oh let's say Cape Verde instead of Japan, nerds on video game forums wouldn't be defending it so much.
Really, I just like it for Giovanni Ribisi as Spike Jonze and Anna Faris as Cameron Diaz/random vapid horrible whole
You got a problem with Sad Bill Murray?
How can Sofia Coppola ever top the greatest role of all time?
http://gangster-movies.com/wp-conten...godfather2.jpg
I feel like she's saying "Aw dood, r u srs rite now?" in her head.
It would be just as solid no matter where it was set.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
Who is defending it? The only people here I see talking about it are just saying it's a good movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
This is about right. The setting got me interested, but it could be any country that doesn't speak english.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
It is a good movie. It's just not the greatest movie ever made, which I've seen it called... on videogame forums... by nerds.
I don't care about weeaboos on NeoGAF or Kotaku or something. Their opinions by definition do not matter.
It had 18 year old Scarlett Johannson walking around in pink underpants, of course nerds loved it.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
Fuck her for squandering her youth and not getting naked when she was in top form
I don't know if you could set it many other places and still get that feeling of alienation that worked so well with their whole situation. You would kind of lose the whole "foreign place that so many WHITE PEOPLE are real into but don't actually know the first thing about living in" thing, which I thought made the movie truly great.
I felt pretty alienated in Manila last year, but that's probably because most of the people there assume all the white breads are just there for the sex tourism. That angle isn't quite there in Tokyo.
You weren't there for sex tourism and ladyboys? What the fuck is wrong with you?
Of course he was. Doesn't mean that he has to like that it was assumed though.
I think that is what it was about. Coppola was trying to capture the feeling of alienation she felt when she went to Japan, and she did a FANTASTIC job.Quote:
Originally Posted by FirstBlood
Giovanni Ribisi hit my gf's car. True story.
watched all of Daria. The first two seasons are the strongest, joke wise, and the later seasons are the strongest, story wise. Kind of weird going back watching it. I was in high school when the show aired and it is a show about being in high school. And I was a lot like Daria in high school. My voice even had(s) some of that monotone. It was interesting to watch for its own merits and for the memories it brought back.
I think Daria and Beavis and Butthead may be the closest two shows ever got to showing the teenage life experience in the US. I guess you could count something like Degrassi, but that show was too much drama. And real life isn't like that. There are long spells of nothing.
The Outsiders - Pretty good adaptation of the so-so book from middle school. Wants desperately to be Catcher in the Rye. Is not.
Platoon - Woah.
The Riches seasons 1 & 1.5 - Goddammit, don't watch this show. It drops you right off a cliff when it gets interesting, and there's never gonna be any more of it. Cancelled mid-season. Blah.
Shaun the Sheep - It's like a lighter Wallace and Gromit! Lots of cute vignettes, catchy theme song, it is undiluted happy for 20 minute blocks.
Creature Comforts USA - Way better than I was expecting going in to it! Nice continuation of the short/series, more of the same deal but good in doses.
The Shepherd: Border Patrol (Isaac Florentine)
I had no idea what was going on in this movie. It did have enough of what I wanted to see, though: Van Damme capping and kicking fools. The fight between Van Damme and Scott Adkins was decent, but it could have been better. Best line in the movie: "You're piss drunk and I'm holding a rabbit."
Interview with a Vampire - Lots of wrist sucking and breathy face-to-face Pitt/Cruise moments. I see why the girls are into this one. Still, well directed, great Stan Winston makeup effects, Kirsten Dunst does great as the young vampire. Christian Slater does his Jack Nicholson Jr. thing. Nice Elliot Goldenthal score, reminded me of the Alien 3 soundtrack.
Queen of the Damned - The effects were trash, the Lestat actor wasn't as charismatic as Cruise, the plotline was pretty disjointed, and the music was reallllly bad. I the dude from Korn was hired to do a combination of his own band, Smashing Pumpkins, Marylin Manson and Nine Inch Nails, and it sounds about like you'd expect that to. The scale/budget was many steps back from Interview. All the vampires-moving-quickly effects were super shitty, and the makeup wasn't a stitch on Stan Winston's stuff.
Small Town Gay Bar - Listened to enough "Smodcast" stuff over the last few months, so I got around to watching this. Not a bad documentary on people in a rough situation trying to make the most of it in the deep south. Heavy focus on Westboro Baptist and Fred Phelps (the "God Hates Fags" movement).
Super Size Me - Covers a lot of the same ground as "Fast Food Nation" (the book anyway, haven't seen the movie); entertaining enough! I can see why Morgan Spurlock was a big deal after this. I'm a big fan of being more aware of what's going into ultra-processed foods and making a point of avoiding 'em whenever possible.
Second in Command (Simon Fellows)
This movie took itself a little too seriously. I guess they were trying to make a "real" movie. No real Van Dammage here as Van Damme just plays some guy. There are some tense moments, and they managed to get a lot out of the $12 million budget. It's pretty funny how many recycled actors there are in these direct-to-DVD Van Damme movies.
The Vampire books by Ann Rice are generally trash but "The Vampire Lestat" and the book "The Queen of the Damned" (which has ZERO to do with the movie besides character names) are really pretty good.
Lestat is awesome. Louis is not. The first book blows because of that. That may be one of the few movies I prefer to the book.
Watching all the Star Wars movies again in a short period of time. Made it through half of Episode I, then had to take a break until the next day. Did the same thing with Episode 2. Those movies are SO BAD. Sweet motherfuck. I like the part where Queen whats her name gets clawed by the giant monster, and it tears her shirt in half. *Sexy Claw Attack Go*
Oh, and then she jumps 20 feet, and lands crotch first on a dinosaur. NO PROBLEM, MAN! MY PUSSY IS MADE OF STEEL! In fact, there are a shitload of absurd "Commando car crash" moments in both of these. Also: the dialog... sweet buttery Jesus.
If there is time, gonna watch Episode 3 tonight. Stoked about it... I like that one.
are there still people out there that think these are something other than children's movies?
Children's movies that deal with Galactic Trade Sanctions or some shit?
The real answer is that those movies are made for no one.
Also: Watch Red Letter Media's reviews of those movies. They are better than the movies themselves and almost as long
That's just there to fill time between shots of computer generated fuckers looking at the camera and going "booga booga"Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
8 year old kids would understand what trade sanctions are.
I really don't understand fucking up Star Wars, but there it is.
So bad.
Mouth breather shit, but he makes some good points about story structure.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
They're funny. Eat dicksQuote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I could tell you were a pretentious faggot by your avatar
Some stairs on the way to the keyboard?Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
He makes a lot of good points about everything. Some of his running gags and personae bits are off the mark, but the editing is great and it's a tall order being funny while criticizing something for 3+ hours.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
RLM reviews: would watch again
SW prequels: never watch again
Listening to that dude's voice for 3+ hours x Star Wars prequels = yikes.
R.O.T.O.R. - This is the greatest film I have ever seen. There are just too many amazing things to mention.
The Troll Hunter - This is the greatest Norwegian troll based pseudo- documentary I have ever seen.
Finished up Revenge of the Sith last night. The last 40 minutes or so of that movie is SO BAD ASS. I mean, it is a horrible movie... but they way they set up A New Hope is awesome.
Barton Fink - great movie, man. John Goodman's amazing in this.
Smokey and the Bandit - basically a good all around movie to have playing in the background! Probably going to go through it a couple times this week, go all "third grade HBO viewing habits" on this thing.
Probably one of the worst movies I've seen in the past five years. What do you see in it?Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
How can you say that, Arobimi? I loved that movie.
Also the answer is: John Goodman in a Coen brothers film. It's like Bill Murray in a Wes Anderson film. you don't need anything else.
John Goodman is great in it! Also you don't really have to like the protagonist for a movie to be good!
I liked how Fink had this really learned New York liberal set of ideals about listening the "common man" that he would rattle off, all the while interrupting the blue collar guy trying to tell a story every time. I like that the movie didn't idealize writers in the slightest; it also captured the feeling of writer's block and that sort of weird space of frustrated isolation really nicely.
I thought the movie was really funny, even though it was super-dry!
The flick is way uncomfortable at parts, but it felt by design rather than "why is this dragging". That really is a razor's edge with some movies though, so I can see not liking it.
nah, that ending was bullshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
"oh nozes, my bo is a dick, I shall die of sadness"
its the future, who fucking dies of sadness? After having two babies? Women don't do that.