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[Pinko Marx]

she does look like she could give a really good one.

for real.

Idk so much about that. I always get a HUGE lezbo vibe from her.

 

[CajoleJuice]

she does look like she could give a really good one.

for real.

"It can be done. You just need to go deeper."

 

[brandonh83]

man his expression in the last panel sells it so much :lol

 

[Solo]

Apart from Inception and Toy Story 3, what are the other 'great' movies this year? A Prophet and How to Train Your Dragon? Shutter Island, Kick-Ass and The Ghost Writer would qualify as good I guess.

Ghost Writer is the answer. Inception is next up after that. But we've still got fall movie season to go, so things will change.

 

[KHarvey16]

I think Winter's Bone can easily make a case for being listed among the year's best as well.

 

[nemesun]

I think Winter's Bone can easily make a case for being listed among the year's best as well.

This man speaks the truth. Winter's Bone is this year's Into the Wild.
So Far 2010 hasn't been as bad as I thought it be-
Inception
Shutter Island
Winter's Bone
How to Train Your Dragon
--------------------------
Toy Story 3

All in all decent.

 

[Speevy]

Winter's Bone is another movie they'll never release anywhere near me.

 

[brianjones]

This man speaks the truth. Winter's Bone is this year's Into the Wild.

that doesnt sound too appealing to be honest

 

[Speevy]

Winter's Bone is this year's Frozen Country for Old River

 

[Inferno313]

I was kind of unmoved by Winter's Bone. It was good, but it didn't really affect me. It was probably due to the crappy theater I saw it in, where between the terrible sound and the character's accents I couldn't make out a lot of the dialogue. I look forward to giving it another shot on Blu-Ray. Still need to see Cyrus, and I never saw Ghost Writer .

 

[Blader]

I still need to see The Ghost Writer. Heard good things.

It is good, but there was nothing about that made a big impression on me. Well-written, well-acted, but not all that memorable.

I also remember there being a lot of shitty green screens. :lol

 

[nemesun]

that doesnt sound too appealing to be honest

I absolutely adore Into The Wild...... to each his own I guess.

 

[Archer]

Idk so much about that. I always get a HUGE lezbo vibe from her.

Agreed. We can dream tho.

 

[Quincey]

I'm trying curb people's reactions to more reasonable levels is all. Maybe in a forced way... but still.

Why? How does their reaction affect you in any way. Why don't you just go fuck off and let people feel the way they want to.

 

[BobsRevenge]

Good god man, you're the Armond White of Neogaf. Even artsy folks don't want you on their side.. I don't even want to know what you think of La Strada.

I don't remember it very well.

edit: Why would it matter? I don't understand the point of that.

 

[giga]

Marion Cotillard was the best actor in this film hands down.

 

[IMACOMPUTA]

Marion Cotillard was the best actor in this film hands down.

Yeah she was really good. I think I'd pick Cillian Murphy for the best performance though.

I liked Inception more than Ghost Writer.
Not that I didn't like Ghost Writer, but Inception left much more of an impact on me.
A much more original idea to stimulate my brain.

EDIT: I REALLY want to see Winter's Bone... and Restrepo

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Agreed. We can dream tho.

I concur. still...gaf can show her The Way.

 

[MMaRsu]

My god that was such an amazing movie

 

[DMczaf]

Inception hits $100M in it's first week

http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/news/2010-07-20-inception-starts-the-week-off-on-a-high-note

The early estimate from Warner Bros. for Inception's gross on Thursday is an impressive $8.56 million, meaning that Christopher Nolan's flick has reached a domestic cume of $100.15 million.

 

[Lyonaz]

Watched Inception last night. Loved the movie!
Can't wait for the Blu-ray with the commentary.

 

[Inferno313]

Watched Inception last night. Loved the movie!
Can't wait for the Blu-ray with the commentary.

I don't think Nolan has recorded a commentary since Insomnia though. Maybe he'll bend for once.

 

[robertsan21]

one of the best films in years.

awesome cast and awesome acting!

 

[MMaRsu]

I'm still fawning over it.. my god I want to see it again right NOW

FUCK

:lol

 

[gdt]

Okay, I think of myself as someone who knows a fair bit about film-making...

So how did they film THE scene? The

Spoiler

zero g

sequence. I've been racking my brain trying to figure it out.

Edit: Heh, as soon as I finished this post, the doorbell rang, and the mailman delivered the Leo issue of RS.

 

[DMczaf]

Edit: Heh, as soon as I finished this post, the doorbell rang, and the mailman delivered the Leo issue of RS.

You better test your totem.

 

[Solo]

Okay, I think of myself as someone who knows a fair bit about film-making...

So how did they film THE scene? The

Spoiler

zero g

sequence. I've been racking my brain trying to figure it out.

Same way Kubrick filmed the spacewalk scene 42 years ago. Kubrick didnt have CG to help him, though.

 

[storybook77]

Finally got to see this with my son last night. This movie is excellent and my son managed to follow it just fine (he's 12).

 

[gdt]

Figured this should be in here too.

An excerpt from Leo's recent Rolling Stone interview:

(I just got the issue, and I'm reading it now)

...and he had discussed a Viking epic with Mel Gibson. When we spoke, Gibson's scandalous recorded rants had yet to emerge, but DiCaprio already knew working with him would mean answering awkward questions: "He's extremely talented - Apocalypto was a hell of an underrated movie. I'm my own man, he's his own man, we all make our own decisions in life," he said.

Typed it up myself, please excuse any mistakes.

Seems like he was wary before the phone calls :lol .

 

[BobsRevenge]

Figured this should be in here too.

An excerpt from Leo's recent Rolling Stone interview:

(I just got the issue, and I'm reading it now)



Typed it up myself, please excuse any mistakes.

Seems like he was wary before the phone calls :lol .

That's awesome. Apocalypto was soooo underrated. It was like the perfect action movie, just set in central america in the 1700s (I think).

 

[artist]

 

[gdt]

Those are Avatar drops.

 

[BeeDog]

Just came back from the theater. This movie is fucking good, highly entertaining and a very (to me) original concept tackled in a good way (though I suspect there'll be plot holes here and there; haven't had time to delve into spoiler discussions/analysis). IMO, the best movies of 2010 are:

1. A Prophet
2. Inception (maybe a shared first place with A Prophet)
3. Shutter Island

 

[SamuraiX-]

Amazing chart. Gonna go see this again tomorrow morning. Already contributed another $20 to this statistic.

 

[artist]

Amazing chart. Gonna go see this again tomorrow morning. Already contributed another $20 to this statistic.

I'm going tomorrow also.

 

[suaveric]

Figured this should be in here too.

An excerpt from Leo's recent Rolling Stone interview:

(I just got the issue, and I'm reading it now)



Typed it up myself, please excuse any mistakes.

Seems like he was wary before the phone calls :lol .

Wait, how is it possible that Rolling Stone mentioned the recordings in that article? I thought magazines have a lead time of a month or more, and those tapes have only been out two weeks.

 

[jtb]

If this does have Avatar style legs and drops, I will eat exorbitant amounts of crow. Willingly.

 

[gdt]

Wait, how is it possible that Rolling Stone mentioned the recordings in that article? I thought magazines have a lead time of a month or more, and those tapes have only been out two weeks.

RS is bi-weekly, so their lead time is much shorter, I guess.

I imagine that was added just before printing.

 

[suaveric]

I never knew RS was biweekly. That would explain it.

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

EDIT-Woops. Just realized what I said can be a spoiler. :lol

 

[Zeliard]

Those are Avatar drops.

Word-of-mouth, yo. Very difficult to track pre-release. Never underestimate the power of "holy shit, you gotta go see this."

 

[harSon]

Okay, I think of myself as someone who knows a fair bit about film-making...

So how did they film THE scene? The

Spoiler

zero g

sequence. I've been racking my brain trying to figure it out.

Not sure why we're spoiling but...

Spoiler

Wires, pulleys and CG, basically the same way everyone else in the industry does it. That or you can actually film in Zero Gravity on one of those special planes, which is what they did for Apollo 13. In Inception's case, it was the prior.

 

[artist]

If this does have Avatar style legs and drops, I will eat exorbitant amounts of crow. Willingly.

No movie will have Avatar style legs, comparison to Avatar is apples to oranges. Anyone doing that is obviously setting themselves up for disappointment.

 

[tirminyl]

Just saw this movie and I already want to go back and see it again. Awesome!

 

[artist]

The Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures' Inception is now only the 5th film this year to gross over $100M in its first week of release joining Toy Story 3, Alice In Wonderland, Iron Man 2, and the Twilight Saga: Eclipse. But it's the only 2D original film to do so. Warner Bros says the official number going into today is $100,155,000.

Nolan pissing on 3D's face.gif

 

[donkey show]

Just saw this movie and I already want to go back and see it again. Awesome!

Just saw it again last night after seeing it the night before! :lol

 

[DMczaf]

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood

Chris Nolan's Inception for Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures will still be the No. 1 movie for its 2nd weekend in release. It went into today having made $100+M in the U.S. and Canada in just 7 days -- only the 5th film and the only original 2D movie to accomplish that. Inception made a big $14.4M Friday for a Superglue-like hold of 34% compared to a week ago for what's expected to be a $40+M weekend and a new cume of $140M. Ah, what dreamy legs.

 

[ezekial45]

http://www.deadline.com/hollywood

Nice to hear. There are still showings that are sold out at my theater.

 

[Deku]

Yeah she was really good. I think I'd pick Cillian Murphy for the best performance though.

I liked Inception more than Ghost Writer.
Not that I didn't like Ghost Writer, but Inception left much more of an impact on me.
A much more original idea to stimulate my brain.

EDIT: I REALLY want to see Winter's Bone... and Restrepo

Kind of on the same boat.

Some commentators in the media are calling it a cerebral movie. I don't think it's cerebral. It's emotional. I think that's what's clever about it, though I'm not sure if it's intentional. The movie is very matter of fact in the beginning. Almost like a run of the mill 'Italian Job' movie with a bunch of big name stars thrown in and a lame James Bond 'fling' love affair that will leave the audience cold. That's what I expected.

But as the movie delved deeper and deeper into dreams, the film ratcheted up the emotional immediacy of the movie and it becomes a drama interspersed with action sequences rather than the other way around.

By the time I left the theater It didn't feel like I watched a science fiction movie. I felt it was closer to DePalma's Mission Impossible mixed in with Oceans 11 and the Matrix.

Just a very different kind of movie. It's not asking big questions. And the movie's morals is ambiguous at best.

Easily one of my favorite films in recent memory. Though I've accepted its classification as sci-fi, I have a hard time putting it in with my sci-fi top 10. The rest are either actually cerebral or just stuff blowing up.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

I don't think that I've ever had such a drop from the initial "film high" to "pretty good, but not great" as I have with this film.

There are a lot of individual elements that really stand out to me, but overall, I just don't feel as bowled over as I was expecting.