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Fucking AMAZING film. I went in completely blind and walked away amazed.
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Fucking AMAZING film. I went in completely blind and walked away amazed.
moniker
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I'm going to check out Bronson soon. I've liked all film I've seen by Nicolas Winding Refn so I'll probably like it. I even thought Fear X was good. I never understood why it's so hated; it's got a lynchian quality to it, John Turturro as lead, a script co-written by Hubert Shelby Jr. and music by Brian Eno ... and the low score of 5.7 on IMDB.
Cautiously optimistic about Valhalla Rising.
Cautiously optimistic about Valhalla Rising.
iamaustrian
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Outlander
what a pathetic piece of shit.
a mix between predator and braveheart? oh yea?
more a mix between "suck" and "fuck"
the main character is one of the worst actors i saw in a long time. The CGI monster was worse than the Spawn CGI effects. The "story"(ahaha) is ridiulous. The happy end made me vomit on my couch and so did the actress. This is cliche hollywood suckness at it's best.
Even Ron Pearlman couldn't save it.
I wish I could erase it out of my brain. It almost makes me shoot my head off.
0.5/10 (half point is for the landscape)
what a pathetic piece of shit.
a mix between predator and braveheart? oh yea?
more a mix between "suck" and "fuck"
the main character is one of the worst actors i saw in a long time. The CGI monster was worse than the Spawn CGI effects. The "story"(ahaha) is ridiulous. The happy end made me vomit on my couch and so did the actress. This is cliche hollywood suckness at it's best.
Even Ron Pearlman couldn't save it.
I wish I could erase it out of my brain. It almost makes me shoot my head off.
0.5/10 (half point is for the landscape)
Cosmic Bus
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I went to SIFF's final night of noir double-features tonight. They showed a pair of Richard Widmark flicks: Slattery's Hurricane (which is fairly rare, apparently, and isn't on DVD anywhere) and Pickup On South Street (one of the only major Sam Fuller films I hadn't seen).
Hurricane was decent entertainment, although not really a noir, and was mostly interesting for how much aspects of the story pushed the production codes at the time. Even though it had a middling script, there's a stellar confrontation between Widmark and Veronica Lake around the midpoint, concluding with him more or less kicking her to the curb in a rainstorm: "Are you done? Then hate me outside, I'm tired."
On the other hand, I absolutely loved Pickup, with its slang-laden dialog, Fuller's typical outbursts of violence (my eyes almost popped out of my head when Joey knocks Candy around her apartment), all the Communism talk, and Thelma Ritter's Moe has to be one of my favorite supporting characters ever now.
moniker said:
A kindred spirit! I thought I was alone in my enjoyment of Fear-X; its fairly weak reputation is completely undeserved.
Fallout-NL
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Flek said:
They look very good, nice touch.
moniker
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Cosmic Bus said:
Agreed. I feel bad for Refn since he invested his own money in the project and it was a massive bomb. It more or less bankrupted him iirc. It was also the reason he returned to Denmark to do Pusher sequels (which he didn't want to before). He seems to have bounced back now though, so good for him.
Dr. Strangelove
I'M COOCOO FOR COCO CRISP!
The Ox-Bow Incident - Unlike any western a have ever seen. The message here is not one conveyed with much subtlety, but I felt that The Ox-Bow Incident's bluntness worked in its favor. When placed in context of the social and political climate of its time, the heavy themes presented here become all the more impactful. Lots of great performances here, too. <3 Dana Andrews. - 8.5/10
The Hurt Locker - Interesting in spaces, but overall I was left a bit cold. Not so much a war film, but a character study of a man seemingly with a death wish. Still, I can't help but feel like there wasn't much here. The characterization is largely weak, and the erratic tempo of the film became tiring by the halfway point. There are a number of good shots to be had, and I was pleased to see they did not abuse shaky cam too much. Refreshing in the sense that it doesn't relegate itself to being a soapbox piece, but it just never gripped me in a way that I wanted. - 5.5/10
How Green Was My Valley - Okay, now THIS is probably my favorite John Ford film. Beautiful, nuanced, and emotional. This film worked on all of the levels that move me as a film appreciator. It has a lot of interesting things to say about industrialization, religion, work ethic, family, love, and change. Although it was not actually set in Wales, a fantastic set was designed, and Ford again showed his penchant for gorgeous long and medium shots that make us feel as if we are a part of this quaint mining community. How Green Was My Valley is a film with a great deal of intelligence, but enough charm and beauty to satisfy those who simply take it at face value. In my opinion, that makes it as close to a "perfect" film as one can hope for. - 10/10
The Hurt Locker - Interesting in spaces, but overall I was left a bit cold. Not so much a war film, but a character study of a man seemingly with a death wish. Still, I can't help but feel like there wasn't much here. The characterization is largely weak, and the erratic tempo of the film became tiring by the halfway point. There are a number of good shots to be had, and I was pleased to see they did not abuse shaky cam too much. Refreshing in the sense that it doesn't relegate itself to being a soapbox piece, but it just never gripped me in a way that I wanted. - 5.5/10
How Green Was My Valley - Okay, now THIS is probably my favorite John Ford film. Beautiful, nuanced, and emotional. This film worked on all of the levels that move me as a film appreciator. It has a lot of interesting things to say about industrialization, religion, work ethic, family, love, and change. Although it was not actually set in Wales, a fantastic set was designed, and Ford again showed his penchant for gorgeous long and medium shots that make us feel as if we are a part of this quaint mining community. How Green Was My Valley is a film with a great deal of intelligence, but enough charm and beauty to satisfy those who simply take it at face value. In my opinion, that makes it as close to a "perfect" film as one can hope for. - 10/10
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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I feel so alone in having been left cold by How Green Was My Valley.
Siebzehn50 said:
Definitely an interesting Dark Comedy. A bit long and it uses the same jokes frequently, but it manages to tell them in different ways. Some of the acting was a bit disappointing, but Robin Williams was fantastic. I don't remember the last Williams movie was that I enjoyed (Aladdin or Mrs. Doubtfire) and it was refreshing to see him in one of the deepest roles of his career. The "twist" about halfway into the movie was a bit expected but still carried an emotional punch. Overall I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would have.
7.5/10
'Lance Clayton' - could a character possibly have a more made-for-a-movie-name?
Lethal Jelly
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Movie about the modern Italian criminal underworld, had its moments but I didn't like it much. Maybe its because I had something else on my mind at the time.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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I read a review of Gomorra that compared it to taking a goldfish out of a bowl, putting it on a counter, and watching it slowly die over the course of three hours. I have not seen the film yet, but I find that review hilarious.
closer. i finally finished watching this; i'd previously only seen the first half. the script and the performances are top notch. like, even julia roberts was watchable, despite that big mouth of hers. one of the great scenes. clive owen's fucking awesome.
Lionel Mandrake
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I just finished watching this blind buy-
I'm not really sure how I feel about it. The scenes where we actually get to see Charlie work are great. RDJ did a really good job with the slapstick. I also really enjoyed the Hollywood stuff, like the scenes with Douglas Fairbanks. But I felt really disconnected with Chaplin's sex-life and his relationships sped by so fast it was hard to keep track of them. A lot of stuff felt unresolved, but maybe that was the point.
Also, how did this movie manage to squeeze by with PG-13? There were numerous bare breasts in a scene near the beginning. Various peaks at nipples throughout and a girl's butt in one scene. There were two or three uses of the word "fuck." And some overall grim/adult subject manner. The MPAA really makes no sense.
I'm not really sure how I feel about it. The scenes where we actually get to see Charlie work are great. RDJ did a really good job with the slapstick. I also really enjoyed the Hollywood stuff, like the scenes with Douglas Fairbanks. But I felt really disconnected with Chaplin's sex-life and his relationships sped by so fast it was hard to keep track of them. A lot of stuff felt unresolved, but maybe that was the point.
Also, how did this movie manage to squeeze by with PG-13? There were numerous bare breasts in a scene near the beginning. Various peaks at nipples throughout and a girl's butt in one scene. There were two or three uses of the word "fuck." And some overall grim/adult subject manner. The MPAA really makes no sense.
The second half felt a lot more uneven, and went with the will-they-won't they for too long. I also didn't like how it didn't feel very emotionally satisfying. The main character even talks about how he hates how nobody expresses what they're feeling, and then goes and disguises his feelings. It's ironically painful. By the end, the only character I liked was the guy, for being normal. The girl became bitchy when she started dancing with him at the wedding. And the random girl at the end did not make a good ending. The story is, overall, very interesting though. 7/10
Leatherface
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TheWiicast said:
Fucking AMAZING film. I went in completely blind and walked away amazed.
GOOD to hear! I was totally blown away by the trailer but I forgot about it and it fell off my radar. THANK YOU!!!
Maklershed
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GI Joe - I think I lost some IQ points
yeah too large a portion of the movie was just him going from one woman to the next. it should have spent a lot more time focusing on his movies. as it stands they take up maybe 5 minutes tops. premiere of the kid, chaplin deciding to make a movie about hitler, not much else.Lionel Mandrake said:
also i really need to see how green was my valley
LabouredSubterfuge
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Maklershed said:
You should try watching the Transformer movies. I'm still dribbling like a lobotomised Nascar fan from those.
Just watched this:
Absolutely fantastic. Some great laugh out loud moments and also a ton of heartfelt, depressing and powerful scenes.
I loved the scene where Miles explains to Mya why he loves Pinot more than any other wine, as both Mya and you, the viewer, realize that he's describing himself. An extremely powerful scene. The fact that the movie ended on a similar note to his unpublished novel was also an excellent touch.
4.5/5
Highly recommended!
Absolutely fantastic. Some great laugh out loud moments and also a ton of heartfelt, depressing and powerful scenes.
I loved the scene where Miles explains to Mya why he loves Pinot more than any other wine, as both Mya and you, the viewer, realize that he's describing himself. An extremely powerful scene. The fact that the movie ended on a similar note to his unpublished novel was also an excellent touch.
4.5/5
Highly recommended!
broadwayrock
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moniker said:
You know Clive Barker is screening his original cut of Nightbreed next month which is 44 minutes longer than the theatrical release:
http://www.cinematical.com/2010/02/04/uncut-nightbreed-screens-for-the-first-time-ever/
LabouredSubterfuge
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nilbog21 said:
I'm not even a massive fan of the movie but you have a demonstrably incorrect opinion of Tom Hardy's perfomance from whichever way you look at it.
Suburban_Nooblet
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Off topic comment to Night Breed: I had an awesome Night Breed shirt that I got senior year in high school. My freshman year of college Doug Bradley (Pinhead from Hellraiser) came to speak at our college and we talked to him and got him to sign some stuff afterwards and he looked directly at my shirt and asked me "if I seriously liked that movie"? :lol
Lionel Mandrake
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Had some spare time, so I watched another of my blind buys.
The reason I bought this (Aside from it being $5) is I really loved The Misadventures of Baron Munchausen. I bought that movie had a clearance sale last year and was very glad I did. The characters were really stylized and interesting. I loved the zany effects and the blatant impossibilities happening as if they made perfect sense. It was all great, so I decided to give Time Bandits a try as well.
To start things off, I think this is a movie I would have greatly enjoyed as a child, and I think most of its fans remember it from their childhood. Watching it now, it's still a good movie, but nowhere near as enduring or likable as Munchausen. I didn't find too much enjoyment in the historical scenes, as I was far more interested in the Evil/Supreme Being story which doesn't really get satisfyingly handled until the end of the film. The Supreme Being character was played great, and Evil was a lot of fun. I did find the last scene to be vastly out of place.
Overall enjoyable, but sort of disappointing compared to the other few Gilliam movies I've seen.
The reason I bought this (Aside from it being $5) is I really loved The Misadventures of Baron Munchausen. I bought that movie had a clearance sale last year and was very glad I did. The characters were really stylized and interesting. I loved the zany effects and the blatant impossibilities happening as if they made perfect sense. It was all great, so I decided to give Time Bandits a try as well.
To start things off, I think this is a movie I would have greatly enjoyed as a child, and I think most of its fans remember it from their childhood. Watching it now, it's still a good movie, but nowhere near as enduring or likable as Munchausen. I didn't find too much enjoyment in the historical scenes, as I was far more interested in the Evil/Supreme Being story which doesn't really get satisfyingly handled until the end of the film. The Supreme Being character was played great, and Evil was a lot of fun. I did find the last scene to be vastly out of place.
We get a very satisfying joke where the parents immediately touch the Evil after being told not to. This seems like a good fit for the film. But the sort of sad/shocked calls from Kevin of "Mum? Dad?" towards their charred remains seems quite grim and out-of-place for the rest of the movie.
Flek said:
"SUMMER WARS features a family that is trying to cope with the vagaries of life following the collapse of the world wide web. Set in the near future, the film portrays a dramatic situation in a world in which performing the simplest of daily tasks has now become almost impossible without the use of the internet.
Everyones online in the virtual city of Oz, where people use artificial alter egos known as Avatars to do their work for them. Kenji is a student who has a summer job working for the citys provider. One day he meets Natuski, the girl of his dreams. She invites him back to her home town, Nagano where she surprises Kenji by asking him to pose as her fiancée in order to placate her grandmother. On his first night in Nagao Kenji receives an email asking him to calculate a complex equation. A keen maths student, Kenji works away at the equation until he manages to find the solution. But all at once, everything changes: the next morning the news is full of the story of an Avatar that has run amok and is now terrorising Oz. Kenji is flabbergasted to learn that the offending Avatar is none other than his own."
What i think:
WOW what a freaking great movie, i laughed a lot and it whas a truly great time watching thisBest (new) movie ive seen @ berlinale 2010 for sure. Will buy the BluRay day1.
9/10
Dam, I want to see this movie so badly. Unfortunately I have to wait untill the UK BD release and that is one long wait :_((( BTW do you know if they showed Welcome to THE SPACE SHOW @ berlin international film festival ? Another animation flick I really would love to see.
edit: I really like Sabu's films so I have to watch kanikosen too, I hope I like it more then you did.
yesss. awesome that you enjoyed it so much. i've come to realise that, as a rule, people who really like movies really like movies about movies.harSon said:
it's a crime that Gloria Swanson didn't win the oscar for her performance. i believe what's so exceptional about it is how she signifies through her acting style that her character is stuck in a bygone age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX98UmQZBHU
look at what she does with her eyes and brows here. Norma Desmond is living her life as if it were a silent movie. Bette Davis was very good in All About Eve, but Swanson was just transcendent. (haven't seen the one that actually won... but still)
Maklershed
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Just watched My Neighbor Totoro last night. I loved the style and the vibe but I just couldn't stick with it to the end. I just found it too boring. I really wanted to like it though.
@Flex - that Summer Wars movie sounds great. Too bad Netflix doesn't have it.
@Flex - that Summer Wars movie sounds great. Too bad Netflix doesn't have it.
Maklershed said:
its flek and of course they dont, its brand new
Fuzz Rez said:
they actually did show welcome to the space show but i didnt had time to watch it
about sabu, he said (yeha he whas there
) they had a really tight budget and filmed the complete movie in only 3 weeks xDCount of Monte Sawed-Off
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harSon said:
Love this movie. I'm hoping her higher profile these days gets it released on blu-ray.
kiss kiss bang bang
god-fucking-awful, agonizingly boring, occasionally embarrassing, often ludicrous and never clever or funny - just really fucking in love with itself.
how did seemingly everyone give this a pass? it baffles me. the dialogue has been described as sharp, smart, clever, whimsical, stylish; it was none of that. was the movie supposed to be a parody? on what? film noir? well, it sure as hell wasn't funny. ham-fisted, awkward jokes delivered with the same smug, self-congratulatory attitude the film generally seemed to wallow in. yuck. how fucking EXCITED is this movie to be HIP?
there was no chemistry between any of the characters - no surprise there though: i don't think you should call any of these cardboard cut-outs "characters" - they're just fractured-faux-tarantino-dialogue delivery automatons.
- Look up "idiot" in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?
- A picture of me?
- No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!
har har har. high-larious!
the plot? don't even get me started on the plot. it makes NO SENSE. if at least it were interesting, engaging, full of over the top twists and turns. but it doesn't even do a good job of distracting you from its utter silliness. it's just so fucking BORING too. there is nothing and no one to care about - the film is just a bunch of gimmicks loosely tied together by - well, by what? - a narrator with so much disdain for the fourth wall, you'd think he's deriving pleasure from breaking it over and over again; worse yet he seems to think WE derive pleasure from it too. aww shucks, maybe some humor would have helped?
I saw this as well and even though I liked it, it's one of the few times where I wanted abosx2 said:
liked it! gruesome, unpredictable, refreshing..
more please
happy ending. Poor Arkin.
Also, I felt weird after seeing Madeline Zima's funbags. They were nice and perky but I used to watch The Nanny so, I dunno... it was weird seeing Gracey act all slutty.
jarosh, you're my hero. you hit the nail on the head there. i was starting to think i was the only one who despised that abortion. it's a trainwreck built on a feeble foundation of adolescent humour and would-be wit. not even troy duffy could produce such a dreadful attempt at post-pulp fiction coolness.
CajoleJuice
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jarosh, a hero to some. dead to others
indeed. and yet it has almost everybody fooled. although not ebert for once apparently (who's been extraordinarily lax and forgiving with many a stinker as of late): he gave it 2.5 stars - still too much - and ended his review in "But did I need to see it twice? Not really. Do you need to see it once? Not exactly."Timber said:
CajoleJuice said:
So I'll be watching A Serious Man tonight, I'm a fan of the Coens so I expect to enjoy it.
Funny story, I was supposed to get the Blue Ray on Tuesday but I didn't find it until yesterday because the mail man managed dropped it in the fuckin snow outside my house instead of the mail box. Somehow the envelop stayed in decent shape.
Funny story, I was supposed to get the Blue Ray on Tuesday but I didn't find it until yesterday because the mail man managed dropped it in the fuckin snow outside my house instead of the mail box. Somehow the envelop stayed in decent shape.
brianjones
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCy8K968Alo
well made and leo and kate were good but the subject matter didnt particularly interest me and it was long as fuck.
My campus was showing it yesterday. Never read any reviews about it or watched any trailers for it before seeing it, so it was a complete surprise for me. The only thing I knew was that the Wachowski bros were involved in some way.
The violence and gore caught me off-guard at the very beginning, but once that gore factor wore off, I started to see just how bad of a movie it was. The fight scenes were actually pretty poor too, so I can't say this movie really satisfied me in any way.
It was free though, so I'm not as disappointed as I would be otherwise.
Cosmic Bus
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jarosh said:
These are the absolute worst kinds of movies to have come into prominence over the past decade or so.
jarosh = <3
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