I just finished O Lucky Man!This is a really good film :D
Fucking amazing man Malcolm McDowell is a real DAWG.
Stranger than Fiction, great movie. :)
@Revenge: How does it compare to the book? I tried reading it and was forced to put it down about 1/5 of the way through; the needless violence just got to me. Is there a chance of me liking the movie if I didn't like the book?
coffee and cigarettes aka a list of GW's favorite people
I wonder if bill murray actually knows about hip hop or if that was just part of the film? I doubt if he does he is pretty old
Mongol!
Pretty cool movie if you're into historical drama! Very pretty scenary too.
Mongol!oh man this movie was so excellent
Pretty cool movie if you're into historical drama! Very pretty scenary too.
Jesus Christ Superstar
the original one, with Ted Neely and that sweet as fuck black guy as judas and the hawaiian mary magdalane
god it is such an awesome movie
Idiocracy
Had a few funny moments, wasnt beyond crap... lets just say worth watching once!
I didn't think Idiocracy was that funny. I thought it was a funny idea but the problem I had was that even if it was kind of the point, there is really only many laughs you can get out of low-brow humor. Like despite the fact that it was COMMENTING ON MEDIA-ADDICTED CULTURE, and despite the fact that the purpose was to emulate the garbage you see on television, at the end of the day I'm not going to laugh any harder at a ball joke if it is SATIRICAL than I am if it is sincere. I will appreciate it more but I'm not going to laugh at it! That was the problem with Idiocracy, it was poking fun at this stuff but it still did essentially the same things, just for different reasons.yeah
I went to watch the new Bond movie (Quantum of Solace) the other day. It was amazing, especially considering how far down-hill the series had gone since Goldeneye, although I was a little dissapointed with it being a little too short. The ending did seem a little rushed when the rest of the movie had been building things up at a nice pace.what i thought this came out the 14th
sidenote: guy ritchie - he married madonna nuff saidthank you for this little bit of insight JOJOFACE
i saw guy ritchie's RocknRolla (http://) at the cinema last weekend. very good movie. as far as ritchie's films go it's not as clever as revolver is, but i'd say it's about as good as snatch if not better.
i saw guy ritchie's RocknRolla (http://) at the cinema last weekend. very good movie. as far as ritchie's films go it's not as clever as revolver is, but i'd say it's about as good as snatch if not better.is this a witty joke or are you being serious?
and if you've never heard of any of this, do yourself a favor and watch some guy ritchie stuff. as far as crime films go, i don't really think i've seen a better writer/director of them in recent memory, and i'm including guys like coppola and scorsese. guy ritchie's films are a lot of fun without being idiotic or patronizing. one of the few filmmakers whose films are fun because he's actually that talented.
i'd have made a topic suggesting people go see it but i am LAZY. also, we got it here in the states much later so i would feel like OLD NEWS GRAMPS making a topic about a movie that came out two months ago
Dr Strangelove
I have to watch it again
Them... creepy with a nice twist for the end.Are you serious?
p.s. All of a sudden alot of foreign films have come to my attention.. what gives? foreign countries only just decided to start making some good watchable movies?
p.s. All of a sudden alot of foreign films have come to my attention.. what gives? foreign countries only just decided to start making some good watchable movies?
p.s. All of a sudden alot of foreign films have come to my attention.. what gives? foreign countries only just decided to start making some good watchable movies?Can you please explain what you're talking about and not ignore me?
Taken
Have never even heard of this movie until I watched it, absolutely amazing.. took me by surprise how good it was! Powerful story with some great action scenes.
Can you please explain what you're talking about and not ignore me?
Oh?
Well, only until recently ive only watched American movies and a few asian movies.. but recently ive come across a few Spanish/Italian/French movies which were excellent.
Them, Pans Labyrinth, District 13, Daywatch/Nightwatch... ect
Before I came across these movies I had only ever seen terrible budget movies come out of these countries :hmm:, I'm going to be on the lookout for more foreign movies I think.
Dude you are ridiculous, did you really think that only America made decent movies?
edit: like even if you DON'T KNOW NUFFIN about movies I thought people generally considered foreign movies fancy and exotic or whatever as opposed to low-budget crap?
Im ridiculous because ive only seen low budget movies coming out from foreign countries?
wait really? dang man you are obviously not watching many foreign movies then!!!Well, I suppose Ive not been looking for them until now.
Im ridiculous because ive only seen low budget movies coming out from foreign countries? Accept my sincere apologies, sorry for not watching the movies you’ve watched.
Well, I don't know, I just think it's weird that you haven't even heard of any good foreign movies before. Like, you haven't even overheard people saying FOREIGN MOVIES ARE SO ARTISTIC or FOREIGN MOVIES ARE SO FUCKING PRETENTIOUS ever? And even if you haven't, did you just assume that all foreign movies were low-budget crap based on the few you have seen? Have you ever been outside of America?
I don't know, that's just pretty weird to me. I guess it would make more sense if you're like 13 but if you're older than that I would imagine you would be a little more educated or something.
edit: wait according to your last post apparently you aren't american, what are you
After watching all the sh** Italian movies my mother and farther would watch I just assumed the only good movies were the dubbed American movies which is what the Italian cinemas were filled with.
I then went on to watch the same quality type of movies from other foreign countries, thats where my thinking of foreign movies were bad must have come from ... I'll admit I was wrong, but I have seen a ton load of crap come out of these countries..
I don't think anyone should be really getting into the argument of whether or not certain countries make shitty movies. They all have their fair share of terrible shit. You don't hear about those movies because they are terrible. It's beyond me why you guys think there's a valid argument in saying something like, "a lot of Italian films are masterpieces" or "haven't even overheard people saying FOREIGN MOVIES ARE SO ARTISTIC," and basically not possess the extra curricular thinking to assume that not all foreign movies are amazing high art classics, and that Massy2k6 has seen some of the shittier movies that you guys haven't.Name me one good film from India. No, Lagaan is not one of them.
The fucking worst. Great job in assuming just as much about foreign films as he did. Stop being gay elitists because you've watched a few movies with subtitles, please.
Name me one good film from India. No, Lagaan is not one of them.
I don't think anyone should be really getting into the argument of whether or not certain countries make shitty movies. They all have their fair share of terrible shit. You don't hear about those movies because they are terrible. It's beyond me why you guys think there's a valid argument in saying something like, "a lot of Italian films are masterpieces" or "haven't even overheard people saying FOREIGN MOVIES ARE SO ARTISTIC," and basically not possess the extra curricular thinking to assume that not all foreign movies are amazing high art classics, and that Massy2k6 has seen some of the shittier movies that you guys haven't.
The fucking worst. Great job in assuming just as much about foreign films as he did. Stop being gay elitists because you've watched a few movies with subtitles, please.
EDIT:
Event Horizon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/), mostly because I've been so head over heels for Dead Space and remember some people comparing the game to this movie. It was interesting, and I can certainly see how it was an influence, but I think it was just too B-Movie for my tastes. Some of the story really doesn't make too much sense in retrospect and the characters do a few things which seemed to really just make sure the plot kept going. I remember being really freaked out by this movie as a kid, but this time around it didn't really work. The religious imagery is kind of obvious and really not too substantial. I guess it was entertaining though. The visual design was pretty cool.
I don't think anyone should be really getting into the argument of whether or not certain countries make shitty movies. They all have their fair share of terrible shit. You don't hear about those movies because they are terrible. It's beyond me why you guys think there's a valid argument in saying something like, "a lot of Italian films are masterpieces" or "haven't even overheard people saying FOREIGN MOVIES ARE SO ARTISTIC," and basically not possess the extra curricular thinking to assume that not all foreign movies are amazing high art classics, and that Massy2k6 has seen some of the shittier movies that you guys haven't.yes the point is that the most common assumption is that FOREIGN FILMS ARE THE SHIT and it's kind of weird to have the opposite assumption, because the only foreign films that get any press over here are the award nominees.
The fucking worst. Great job in assuming just as much about foreign films as he did. Stop being gay elitists because you've watched a few movies with subtitles, please.
EDIT:
Event Horizon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/), mostly because I've been so head over heels for Dead Space and remember some people comparing the game to this movie. It was interesting, and I can certainly see how it was an influence, but I think it was just too B-Movie for my tastes. Some of the story really doesn't make too much sense in retrospect and the characters do a few things which seemed to really just make sure the plot kept going. I remember being really freaked out by this movie as a kid, but this time around it didn't really work. The religious imagery is kind of obvious and really not too substantial. I guess it was entertaining though. The visual design was pretty cool.
Dude you are ridiculous, did you really think that only America made decent movies?
I guess it would make more sense if you're like 13 but if you're older than that I would imagine you would be a little more educated or something.
which I assume is why you ended up watching big hollywood explosions
The point is you guys should stop being elitists and trolls. He already said he was wrong for assuming that he thought most foreign films were trash. He never tried to insult you or your intelligence (over movies, obviously the most important thing you can insult someone over) in any of his posts.
On the other hand passive aggressively...
Worst cases of unwarranted self importance on the film forums.
quantum of solace it was ok but disappointing. dragged on too much, got boring near the end, story wasn't too good and some of the action scenes were pretty stupid.
Saw like, 50 minutes of Twilight. Couldn't take it. Walked out and played Pac-Man til the movie was over.wow, the movie was that bad? Been seeing ads for that movie everywhere!
Saw like, 50 minutes of Twilight. Couldn't take it. Walked out and played Pac-Man til the movie was over.
Name me one good film from India. No, Lagaan is not one of them.
lagaan kicks ass, its pretty funny you dont know about the fucking Apu Trilogy considering you just made a topic about WHAT ARE FILM ESSENTIALS and if you had googled this you would know, and water has gotten some pretty good reviews overall.shalimar...
also...zinda...
lagaan kicks ass, its pretty funny you dont know about the fucking Apu Trilogy considering you just made a topic about WHAT ARE FILM ESSENTIALS and if you had googled this you would know, and water has gotten some pretty good reviews overall.Ok, I lied, I will watch the Apu trilogy and Water. Unfortunately I am still working through the film essentials list!
also...zinda...
Just finished watching Aliens vs Preditor 2, every review has been a bad one with this movie but I thought it was worth a watch although the hybrid alien with the dreadlocks just made me laugh... what did they do to the poor alien awww.what
Wasnt scary or tense, not even a little bit which was a shame.
Watched The Godfather for the first time. It was pretty good, I have to watch part two sometime.Watch Part 2 asap it is the most badass gangster movie ever.
Watch Part 2 asap it is the most badass gangster movie ever.
Shortbus
It was......um, interesting. Porn with a plot and decent acting.
Watched The Godfather for the first time. It was pretty good, I have to watch part two sometime.
adaptation owns. the ending blows though, even if it's a commentary on HEH MOVIES it's still a cop out. its also the movie that proves nicholas cage does shitty movies for money because he can act.
children of men. some of the dialog was bad im such a sucker and i cried like 4 times
lolSo good! My current ringtone is "WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!?!?!!"
just watched Se7en. it was really good!
Massy you watch an insane amount of movies!It helps pass the time when im not at college or work.
Massy you watch an insane amount of movies!what you meant to say was "the greatest movie of all time".
The last movie I watched was Judge Dredd on cable.
Terrible movie, but I still like it.
I AM THE LAW
watched some old movie on tv last night. not sure what it's called, but it was about this 25 year old guy who was obsessed with this 40 year old woman who was seeing a guy her age. i enjoyed it. dunno what its called though....Was it The Graduate?
I just watched 3 movies ppl say are awesome and have never seen before: a beautiful lie, memento, and good will hunting
i like all 3 lots now....
a beautiful lie is a 30 seconds to mars album, do you mean a beautiful life?
maybe because I used to love 30 seconds to mars...I must miss them subconciously..
it is. first off a good 80% of the movie you already know what happens from the trailer; he's obviously one question away from the grand prize, so any sense of drama is kind of removed by the knowledge that he's 1. clearly alone here and 2. he obviously gets the questions right to a point. there is a hilarious depiction of India as this third world nation and I'm the first person to admit child prositution, begging, gangsterism, religious violence, all run rampant in India, but yeah no one gets shit on as much as this Jamal kid does. everything's just so awful in India...the world's shittiest country...BUT HERE'S THE AMERICAN SAVING THE DAY! dialogue is just painfully bad ("come away with me" "and live on what?" "...love" REALLY GUY), it's heavy handed as fuck (for no reason a character empties out all this cash into a tub and has a final standoff in it lying in it just because I guess overwrought symbology is how he chose to make his OK Corral), incredibly predictable, and in general deserves Oscar consideration for its depiction of India about as much as Crash deserved it for its depiction of race relations.
fun fact though; a millionaire is not a thing in India. it's not significant, it's like someone saying "I'm a hundred thousander!" the currency doesn't allow for millionaire to be a status. it is in crore, or TEN million, that you get the status of rich dude. so the indian show is kaun banega crorepati, or who will be a ten millionaire, instead of who wants to be a millionaire. so the guy never says HE'S A MILLIONAIRE until Jamal hits the ten mill mark despite having made millions already. to further confuse matters, he does not call him a crorepati; he still calls him a millionaire. so he uses a meaningless term to describe the wrong thing! tell your friends, show off.
Wow there was a thread for this movie and it was getting alot of attention, people seemed to be looking foward to it.. really suprised to hear its not a good movie.
Last night I watched The Dark Knight, The Prestige, and American Psycho (yes, I had a Christian Bale-fest).
man the machinist was not that good. it had a pretty good premise i think but it was handled so boringly and generically.
really? i had me pretty good. usually i have to watch movies in many parts. this one i think i was able to watch in one sitting- i was curious to know what was going on lol.
and yeah, he looks like two completely different people from the flashback part to the 'present time' part, neither of which look like most of his other usualy characters.
hm okay, i'll agree in that i was expecting something more...
i think i just like movies about people with mental conditions. makes me feel a bit better about myself.
Falling DownNow there's a great movie :woop:
from 1993 i think
yeah I didnt even read these last posts here but Falling Down pretty much is the film you want to see about mental breakdowns
The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonI thought the movie was beautiful. It was a very long movie, but I never felt like it was dragging. The characters were all really neat and interesting, but Benjamin was probably the weakest of all.
Waaaayyy too long. You know how it's going to end right in the first scene of the movie, and that sucks because the movie is just shy of 3 hours. It wasn't terrible, there were lots of cool little things along the way, like a scene during Pearl Harbor, and also a man that recalls being electrocuted 7 times repeatedly throughout the movie, but the main plot, the love affair between the two main characters, is so boring and drawn out that I was actually checking my phone to see how much longer I'd have to be sitting there.
I was really disappointed to find that they don't give much thought to the character getting younger, they focus on his adventures and then every friend he makes along the way at some point says "hey you look a little younger." It came off as trying to prove some moral or something, but it never actually came and you realize that what you just saw was Big Fish 2.
ok so i just spent 2 days watching movies...finally someone saw gran torino (except psyburn but he didnt bother posting here so fuck him). saw it at the middle of december (around the 12th I think?) and I thought that while the characters were pretty thin (especially the gangstas), the film had a lot of personality. Especially the humour during the first half of the flick completely caught my attention. Every time Clint grunted because of his noisy neighbours or useless sons I couldn't avoid chuckling and shit like that really sets the mood. Especially the children were amusing, mostly because I recognize myself in the situation of the son who rarely visits his old dad (I have a really old dad and I live in a city a 10 hour drive away). But yeah, the story of the 2nd half built up nicely, sidetracking the story in the first half and the climax was more surprising than I figured so yeah overall pretty good. I'm a sucker for atmospheres like the one in GT tho so maybe thats why idk STOP WRITING LARS
gran torino -
not bad not bad, clint eastwood was the only thing worthwhile in the movie but the movie still was good imo
seven pounsd -
lol.
pulp fiction -
finally watched it, it was great and I guess not one of those movies i thought were just overrated so i never watched...
se7en -
morgan freeman is so cool..
the machinist -
imo started off kinda slow, and got really predictable, otherwise was a cool movie!!
dX, what theatre is playing gran torino???
Burn After Reading - Dunno what to make of this movie, I liked it cause I just couldnt guess what was gonna happen next.. it was always so random throughout the movie and you have no idea where its trying to lead you. I found it more entertaining than funny which isnt a bad thing.
I watched this yesterday and the only thing I could think of was how absolutely irritating Brad Pitt's character was. It's not that he's playing against his usual character type (which he technically is), it's just that the character itself is grating to my senses.
Anyway, Burn After Reading is supposed to be a comedy, coming from the brainchilds of Fargo, the Coen Brothers. John Malkovich stars as a boozing CIA dude who quits his job rather than get demoted, and then decides to write a memoir. Tilda Swinton is his wife who happens to be banging George Clooney, who starts dating Frances McDormand who is obsessed with getting plastic surgery. Brad Pitt is a personal trainer with a bad dye job and the movie revolves around a data disc found on the floor of the gym that Brad and Frances work at. Personally, I didn't find it very funny at all, save for when Brad Pitt's character got punched in the nose. I put it in expecting a comedy and I didn't get to laugh, so I was rather disappointed with the whole experience.
and Burn After Reading was the movie I enjoyed the most last year.Agreed.
a friend of mine was doing a wonderful laugh from burn after reading yesterday.dude, this movie. THIS MOVIE. i have watched the trailer like five times and each time it just gets more and more ridiculous. i cannot believe this is a movie. there are so many ways in which it doesn't make sense!! how is a fetus who died before developing a consciousness a vengeful ghost? it's just a fetus it does not have the capacity to think or feel yet!! why would he harbor ill feelings towards his sister and not, idk, the situation? why would he come back in the form of a ten year old boy of all things? how does that make any sense? he died as a fetus! he should take the form of a pale, sunken-eyed fetus. why is he dressed like he's a schoolboy from 1910? how does that make any sense at all??? where is he getting powers from? do all ghosts just have crazy powers? how do fetuses even get to be ghosts?? also what could he possibly hope to gain from fucking over his sister?? nklsnfdwnk this movie man, i gotta see it. i gotta see it. also the part where the old dude is crawling backwards on all fours up the stairs is disgusting.
next movie i wanna see: unborn... jan 9 :D
Bangkok Dangerous casts Nicolas Cage as Joe, a greasy haired hitman who gets sent to Bangkok to kill some people. There he hires a local boy to be his go-fer (and later bonds with said boy), he falls for a deaf pharmacy worker and some other stuff happened but I quit caring about five minutes after the movie started. The story development was slow and badly executed, Nicolas Cage displayed about as much personality as a brick, the action scenes were mediocre at best and the movie ending was so predictable that I had it figured out after ten minutes. The soundtrack wasn't half-bad and the atmosphere was nice (two thumbs up to the Pang brothers who actually filmed the movie in Thailand) but the pooly written script and sub-par acting killed the movie. I wouldn't even waste the time to download it.
dude, this movie. THIS MOVIE. i have watched the trailer like five times and each time it just gets more and more ridiculous. i cannot believe this is a movie. there are so many ways in which it doesn't make sense!! how is a fetus who died before developing a consciousness a vengeful ghost? it's just a fetus it does not have the capacity to think or feel yet!! why would he harbor ill feelings towards his sister and not, idk, the situation? why would he come back in the form of a ten year old boy of all things? how does that make any sense? he died as a fetus! he should take the form of a pale, sunken-eyed fetus. why is he dressed like he's a schoolboy from 1910? how does that make any sense at all??? where is he getting powers from? do all ghosts just have crazy powers? how do fetuses even get to be ghosts?? also what could he possibly hope to gain from fucking over his sister?? nklsnfdwnk this movie man, i gotta see it. i gotta see it. also the part where the old dude is crawling backwards on all fours up the stairs is disgusting.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail :) Can't go wrong there!:cool:
dude, this movie. THIS MOVIE. i have watched the trailer like five times and each time it just gets more and more ridiculous. i cannot believe this is a movie. there are so many ways in which it doesn't make sense!! how is a fetus who died before developing a consciousness a vengeful ghost? it's just a fetus it does not have the capacity to think or feel yet!! why would he harbor ill feelings towards his sister and not, idk, the situation? why would he come back in the form of a ten year old boy of all things? how does that make any sense? he died as a fetus! he should take the form of a pale, sunken-eyed fetus. why is he dressed like he's a schoolboy from 1910? how does that make any sense at all??? where is he getting powers from? do all ghosts just have crazy powers? how do fetuses even get to be ghosts?? also what could he possibly hope to gain from fucking over his sister?? nklsnfdwnk this movie man, i gotta see it. i gotta see it. also the part where the old dude is crawling backwards on all fours up the stairs is disgusting.
I'm a huge fan of the B-grade cheese-fest horror flicks,
I especially love the old black and white ones. There was this one that had a clay humanoid as this 'faceless horror'/golem, and when a woman saw it she freaked out at how horrible it was, despite the thing being a humanoid made of clay that hadn't done anything up to that point. It was like seeing the David and going "Aaaaaa!"
The 60's and 70's horror flicks were great too.
Let's not forget the horrible Godzilla movies! Though they did become just campy monster brawls. :3
I still get chills from that robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still.
BTW: About to watch Monty Python's The Life of Brian. :D
The Curious Case of Forrest Gump. Hahaha! Man I am so fucking clever.
in all seriousness though it wasn't terrible buuuuuuuut it wasn't that good either.
this. i like how they opened with the old woman talking to the younger one so i knew it was going to be like titanic: long and pointless.
his life story was really uninteresting! nothing happened to him except people thought he was way older than he was, whoa. and how did he deal with that? he didn't have to.
Is the twist ending that later in the movie people think he's YOUNGER than people thought??? Sorry if I spoiled it for anyone.
also he has a sister who appears in one scene but then disappears for the rest of movie. like, she's not even at the mom's funeral I don't think. what is that shit about.
his sister was running the orphanage when he came back, and when he started losing his mind shes the one that said he could stay there. It wasn't very clear though, that's for sure.
dear massy:Yeah, I wanted to say this a long time ago.
start watching non shit movies instead of august rush and end of days because you're convincing yourself they're any good.
sincerely
the film forum
no, that's how the short story is. in the movie he's born with the appearance/physical ailments of an old man (arthritis etc.) but with the mind of a child.
edit: even if he was born with all the knowledge in the world calling that stupid is like saying the story of rip van winkle is stupid because it's unrealistic, HOW CAN HE SLEEP FOR 100 YEARS???
well i didn't know how FANTASY this movie was, it sounded more like it was realistic with the exception of the aging thing, so they would at least need to be reasonable
i mean that ASSUMING he can age backwards, that doesn't automatically make the other part okay, you kind of have to address it somehow if you want this to be taken seriously
but yeah i haven't read the short story either i've just read a general summary of the plot of this movie
dear massy:
start watching non shit movies instead of august rush and end of days because you're convincing yourself they're any good.
sincerely
the film forum
An eccentric millionaire throws a party for his wife in a haunted house offering each guest $10,000 if they can make it through the night. Only there seem to be schemes at work beyond what the ghosts have planned.
I like what I like, I consider being easily entertained a good thing... It means I can grab a random movie and spend an hour and 30mins with a smile on my face.
fun fact Man on Wire is the only movie with a perfect rating on Rotten Tomatoes.http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/toy_story_2/
its not that you like what you like (although if you are entertained by end of days you either are kind of dumb or FLASHING LIGHTS/SOUNDS actually entertains you on some atavistic level), but you post almost every other day with some movie you've seen and it's always close to garbage. there's never a post where you're like "saw Man on Wire" it's always "watched Land Before Time IV, was entertained".
http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/toy_story_2/
http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/godfather/
really?
I liked the original Land Before Time movies as a kid and Man on Wire wasnt the last movie I watched.
The 40 year old virgin - Still funny..
The Departed was the last film I watched... amazing. Just amazing. If you like a film with some brilliant twists or the gangster genre, then watch this brilliant flick directed by Scorcese.
I still think Rotten Tomatoes' rating system is stupid... If people think a single film is 'quite good' and all of them barely give it a fresh rating it will have a higher rating than a movie where everyone claimed it to be THE best film they've ever seen, but one person doesn't like it. They should make their average rating score for each film the MAIN score, rather than the rotten/fresh piece of shit.
The Departed was the last film I watched... amazing. Just amazing. If you like a film with some brilliant twists or the gangster genre, then watch this brilliant flick directed by Scorcese.
Rotten Tomatoes' rating system is only stupid to people who are too lazy to actually read the reviews it links to.I do read the reviews, but that doesn't negate the fact that the rating system is done in a way that really doesn't percieve accuracy at a first glance. The first thing you see of a film on the site is the rating and that will effect most people's interperetation of the film when they're reading through the reviews.
If people think a single film is 'quite good' and all of them barely give it a fresh rating it will have a higher rating than a movie where everyone claimed it to be THE best film they've ever seen, but one person doesn't like it.
I dont agree with that statement at all. There are plenty of incredible movies that get slatered because they just don't understand them. 2001 a space odyssey for instance is an incredible movie, but a lot of people just dont get it and so rate and being "shit" or "overrated"
A rule of thumb, don't listen to someone else opinion of something. Judge it for yourselves because reviewers can be some the most obnoxious and arrogant people out there and I really don't want to be told what's good and what's not by anyone :/
Idiocracy
Wall-E
Pan's Labyrinth
The Dark Knight
The Sixth Sense
Tropic Thunder
The Mummy 3
Romeo Must Die
Aliens vs Predator 2
Bangkok Dangerous
Resident Evil Degeneration
27 Dresses
Twilight
The Love Guru
30 Days of Night
Disaster Movie
The Day the Earth Stood Still
jesus christ.I may have mixed up the title of the movie because from what I remember this was an Italian movie filled with Italian actors.
Them- this is the post where he says HUH FOREIGN MOVIES STARTED GETTING GOOD WHAT GIVES
I watched BBC - THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES
its all about modern islamic fundamentalism (focuses on the muslim brotherhood and al-qaeda mostly) and neo-cons and how the two movements share some strange similarities, and actually the only major difference between the two stems from the fact that one is an american movement and the other is fundamentalist islamist heh
Because this is one of Massy's posts:
I saw [Movie Name] and [it was good / I liked it].
Repeat everyday.
I saw Slumdog Millionaire the other night. It was OK. I don't know anything about this Danny Boyle guy.Sounds like you haven't seen Trainspotting? WATCH IT, it's a brilliant film in so many aspects. It's all about the life and grime of Heroin addicts; but it has its own sense of beauty about the film with some very interesting directive choices. It's a must-watch, hopefully you can make it through the thick Scottish accents.
Rize was pretty painful to watch iirc. the dancing and stuff was all good but the interviews and the philosophy all seemed post-hoc and glossed over a lot of the problems involved with getting large groups of angry people to play a game of dominance essentially!
Interview with a Vampire.
Pretty cool movie, imo.
what??? there is absolutely nothing impressive about the acting in cloverfieldWell before Cloverfield it had been a long time since I saw a movie full of ordinary people reacting to a situation (the only other one I can think of right now is Alien... maybe Battle Royale too, but I'm not used to hearing Japanese speech enough to tell if someone can act or not, and there were some pretty over the top characters in that too). Saying that, I'm flat broke and can't afford to see many movies at all lately, but every "good" movie that comes out these days gets just as slagged off as it is praised, so it's getting impossible to tell if a movie is genuinely good or not because the standards change every five seconds.
dude cloverfield's acting was regarded across the board as the major flaw in the movie. yikes.
also its not hard to play an ordinary person. watch this.
im doing it.
arey ou watching!!!
JUST SAW seventh seal and max payne
seventh seal was more like a play than a movie, though given the age it was cut really well (though this might have just been the version i saw). usually old movies have this really big pauses between scenes, i suppose because you can always cut more out of a scene but putting it back is a pain.
i watched 'yes,man' last week. o'm prety sure its secretly about a dude who decided to be drunk all the time.
I didn't really see a reason anyone would see this. It is pretty much that other movie he did already just AGAIN...and the plot isn't good anyway. What made you choose this movie? :fogetmmh:
I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen Liar, Liar though. I mean I know I've seen the courtroom scene where he has to say the color of the pen (it's blue) but I can't remember if I watched the movie when I was young and just can't remember the rest of it or if I've just seen that scene.
The point is everybody's at least heard of it.
truman show was kinda cheesy and overwrought, but i didn't have much of a problem with eternal sunshine. i do not KNOW MOVIES though really, and it's been years since i saw it, so maybe i'm forgetting something. i also seem to recall the mask being really gay i can't believe you like it!!
I was going to watch Eternal Sunshine with my friend today, but I slapped Reservoir Dogs in his face instead. I swear my friend was a single rub away from ejaculatoin by the end of that film, fucking superb. If you've seen Pulp Fiction, the style is very similar to that, especially the script. A number of gangsters go to rob a store, only for it to go wrong. The best film about a heist, where you never see the actual heist haha. Amazing stuff.Well, they are both Tarantino films.................
yeah i think the truman show was pretty overrated. it was ok but idk it just didn't seem to be... serious. it was bordering on comedy when it was supposed to be more of a serious movie.
Well, they are both Tarantino films.................So is Kill Bill, but Kill Bill seems quite far from Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs to me.
Requiem for a Dream is a very good movie, but yeah definitely not upbeat; very sad.
I thought There will be Blood was incredibly boring throughout the whole thing, but then that last scene! Damn! Best ending to a movie I have ever seen!
I thought There will be Blood was incredibly boring throughout the whole thing, but then that last scene! Damn! Best ending to a movie I have ever seen!congratulations you are bad at movies
I thought you were banned and how can you hate No CountryNever have I seen words so true.
I thought you were banned and how can you hate No Countrybecause no country has the worst pacing paired with a story which can be condensed into one sentence without losing any detail.
yeah im not sure one sentence is valid unless you mean dumbing shit down a lot like A MAN DIES WITH A MYSTERIOUS WORD AND JOURNALISTS GIVE UP TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT BECAUSE ITS THE NAME OF HIS CHILDHOOD SLEIGH- CITIZEN KANEyou can basically remove like an hour of the film and still not lose anything of value. what im saying is it was way too long and way too drawn out for the amount of story and progression that was in it
you can basically remove like an hour of the film and still not lose anything of value. what im saying is it was way too long and way too drawn out for the amount of story and progression that was in it
i gave it a 60/100 because it is alright but this glaring fault really sours the deal for me
obviously one sentence is exaggerated but it speaks volumes that from the whole film pretty much all i remember is guys walking around and sometimes people die.
i gave it a 60/100 because it is alright but this glaring fault really sours the deal for me
Scenes such as Llewelyn getting ripped off to buy a coat and Chigurh getting given a shirt for free at the end of the movie were integral to the character driven plot of the movie.
why would you bother giving a rating out of 100 if you're rounding it to 60 anyway? 6/10 is just fineconsistency in rating system? and because it implies a greater degree of accuracy where 6/10 could really be anywhere from 5.5 to 6.499 recurring
ahahaha no country for old men had a much quicker pace than there will be blood but it had much less music. maybe next time you watch a movie prepare an ipod? or ritalin?there will be blood was slow but still managed to keep me actively interested in the characters, which no country didn't
found a funny jim carrey thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icb_tRTnA4g
So is Kill Bill, but Kill Bill seems quite far from Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs to me.gratuitous blood. check
Pulp Fiction almost seems like a sequel in a few ways.
gratuitous blood. checkOOOOOH, SOMEONE DOESNT LIKE TARANTINO. Which is fair enough, as I know his movies really aren't for everyone. They just click with some people; others, they don't.
nerdy fanwank for people with no taste. check
dull. check
simple.check
cheesyness/overall/general badness. check
Killbill seems pretty much tarantino film for me
hmm I don't know about that. you could arguably cut out woody harrelson's character (I can't remember if he actually had any affect on the story to be honest) but the rest of the movie is either action/tense atmosphere scene or character development scene. if we were talking about the curious case of benjamin button I would agree because there was a lot of shit in that movie that was entirely unnecessary but I don't know I think most of what was in no country was necessary in one way or another
gratuitous blood. check
nerdy fanwank for people with no taste. check
dull. check
simple.check
cheesyness/overall/general badness. check
Killbill seems pretty much tarantino film for me
my bloody valentine in 3di wanna know why that film is called fuckin my bloody valentine. that threw me off when i saw the adverts.
there were pretty much no redeeming qualities.
this is on my top 10 least favorite movies list, and its a shame because i want edi gathegi to do good but he just keeps taking the worst movies possible
i would wonder why the band called themselves my bloody valentine more than why the movie did
it isthis is the reason it took me ages to bother listening to my bloody valentine and broken social scene
the wooooorst name.
seriously goddam I'm glad I'm not a huge fan of them because if someone asked whats your fav band and I said them they would think it was emo shit.
my bloody valentine in 3d
there were pretty much no redeeming qualities.
this is on my top 10 least favorite movies list, and its a shame because i want edi gathegi to do good but he just keeps taking the worst movies possible
just saw Gran Torino. it was really good
just saw Gran Torino. it was really goodYeah, I just saw it today. It was pretty good, but Clint Eastwood was pretty funny with the gun he made with his hand. Also, I was pretty shocked at the number of people in my cinema who laughed at all the racist slurs.
yes bill was in it and he died in the second one I wouldn't be surprised if he was going to be in another one later on though because lucien stabbed im through the head in the new one and he still survived
Just finished watching Hamlet 2.
(vid)
How did this not get nominated for a Razzie.
Just watched Wall-E, it was actually pretty good. There was very little speech in the movie so I don't even know how a child would enjoy it.
Just watched Wall-E, it was actually pretty good. There was very little speech in the movie so I don't even know how a child would enjoy it.
Just watched Wall-E, it was actually pretty good. There was very little speech in the movie so I don't even know how a child would enjoy it.
FantasiaALL children hate fantasia apart from the mickey mouse bit
ALL children hate fantasia apart from the mickey mouse bit
Why do you hate Asian people Massy2k6????????
fucking nips are ruining this goddamn country. especially those disgusting gook women who are taking all the good white men left around here. ugh.
am i the only one who thought gran torino was garbage?
also: not watching any movies, going on a 30 rock marathon!!
ALL children hate fantasia apart from the mickey mouse bit
xXx 2: State of the Union
Surprisingly better than I thought it'd be :)
I liked meet the spartans too :Pyou are possibly the worst person to ever post here
The Uninvitedwhy
mud either you are kidding or you have the worst movie taste ever
mud did you watch alvin and the chipmunks and laugh BE HONEST
Worst taste... yeah, maybe! I also liked "White Chicks" & Rob Schneider movies, even that animal one
Nope. The trailer where one of them put another's shit in their mouth pretending it was a nut made it seem like I wouldn't like it
has anyone seen the Great Silence
it's so fucking good. Italians make great westerns.
what was the 3d like? did it seem like things were beside you/touchable?
The 3D apparently made people forget that they were in a movie theatre; the entire row of people behind us wouldn't shut up. It was rather irritating.
When I attend a "horror" film, I walk in with the understanding that the characters, events and the plot are unrealistic and, at times, absolutely outrageous. That being said, I fully expected the female characters in My Bloody Valentine to behave as if they'd taken triple doses of Doctor Buffoon's Ultra Mega Dumbass Stupid Pills. The women in the film all did really stupid shit which wasn't the problem: the peanut gallery in the back commenting on how stupid the women were was what got to me. If you walk into a "horror" film expecting to see smart women, I need to come to your house and get rid of your supply of Doctor Buffoon's Ultra Mega Dumbass Stupid Pills because you are clearly taking too many of the damned things.half the fun of dumb horror movies is ragging on them
Also, the people behind us were American. What's the point of driving over an international border (pissing away $10 in the process) to talk through a movie? Seriously, it would have been way cheaper to pirate a movie from the internet and watch it from the comfort of home. That way, you could criticize the dumb women as loudly as you please without pissing off other people.
I watched Adaptation for the first time the other day. One of the best and funniest films I have seen in a while
Good Dick - The lead girl was rather bizarre, didnt quite understand what she was all about.
wait really? i mean i guess parts were funny but if it's one of the funniest i don't think you've seen many funny films lately
has anyone seen el topo?
notorious 7/10
i had tears in the end.
Oh, and don't even get me started about when they made fun of the Asian guy at the autograph signing.
Everyone keeps talking about Adaptation. I suppose I should check it out.
Ammores Porres 8/10
Push. Was pretty good other than the confusing ending. 9/10 imo :)
dude thats not even close to the title phonetically or spellingwise.
Just watched Lost Highway......
Not sure if I got the full experiance, which most movie viewers are apperently having. But if anyone wants to explain they'r view of the story be my guest
for an overly simplified explanation just think of a mobius strip
it's not really Lynch's best but I thought it was cool
sure if you are rating how bad it is
all it had was FLASHY ACTION, ugh
another recommendation: I think Inland Empire is the greatest collection of random scenes he's put together. It's kind of like watching the end of Mullholland Dr but for three hours. I'd recommend it, but idk, i could see that movie boring some people to death if you appreciate logical sequence. Plus the DVD has a bunch of great extra behind the scene footage of David Lynch being goofy and making the movie, which is defiantly worth watching if you're a Lynch fan.
Push. Was pretty good other than the confusing ending. 9/10 imo :)
Why would you watch it if you don't like flashy action? :)
Well, I guess it's good for pedos too, Dakota Fanning was showing off her legs in every scene.
jesus man 9/10 do you have no standards at all. please, enlighten me as to what could have made it a 10/10. i want to know.
slumdog; i liked this. pretty fair depiction of a slumdog life in india. thought it was going to go the way of the kite runner and just pile on the terrible things but no, it did not. what bugged me the most was at the end when it succumbed to it's romance arch side and phone rings ITS HER........ SHE HAS THE PHONE
believable... but annoying. anyway, a solid movie to be sure, enjoyed it.
jesus this post took 2 edits I CAN NOT TUPE
Just watched Lost Highway......It's been a couple of years since I saw it, but I remember getting into my head that the dude that has this weird conversation with the main dude is his jealousy and that Dick Laurent is his evil side, that he thought was gone for good. I can't remember much from it but I thought it made a lot of sense at the time and a lot of the story elements make a lot of sense if you consider that point of view. At least for me.
Quarantine is a remake of a film that's only one year old. :(
I was reading that on the imdb page. The source film is called Rec (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038988/), a Spanish language film. Why a film that's only a year old needed to be remade is beyond me... Are writers really running out of ideas so quickly that they watch foreign language films and say "Hey, let's translate that movie, put together a new cast and shoot it again!"(?) What did they do for the Spanish dub on Quarantine? Use the audio track from Rec???Money.
I was reading that on the imdb page. The source film is called Rec (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038988/), a Spanish language film. Why a film that's only a year old needed to be remade is beyond me... Are writers really running out of ideas so quickly that they watch foreign language films and say "Hey, let's translate that movie, put together a new cast and shoot it again!"(?) What did they do for the Spanish dub on Quarantine? Use the audio track from Rec???
I watched the movie in English and turned on the Portuguese subs. Seriously, folks, stop employing mentally challenged monkies to do subs. It was just BAD.
I wouldn't mind seeing Rec, it's just a matter of finding it, and making sure I can get a copy with English subs since Mamamack no speak Espanol.
EDIT: What the hell drugs am I on tonight? Cloverleaf...
'I’m a cyborg but that’s ok' - A very strange movie from the director who gave us the vengeance movies... I did enjoy watching this movie but didn’t understand a damn thing, I found some scenes just hilarious and others over the top and completely bizarre.
I don't even think they took psychedelics. Just alcohol, weed, coke, heroin and ether; stupid shit like that.They specifically mention mescaline several times and the blotter paper is pretty visible when being consumed early in the flick. Other than that, I'm fairly sure there's some DMT in the movie though I'm not sure if this is correct.
Ah, movie night. I love it when I get a day to myself. I took in two movies on Sunday. One was, by far, better than the other, so we'll start with the shitfest that was:
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0891592/) is a movie about Chun-Li and... you know what? I'm not even going to bother. This movie was BAD in every way possible. The writing was horrible, the acting was just awful, casting was whacked. I love it when movies film on location and, in this case, the movie was filmed in Thailand but that couldn't even save it. SF fans ought to be crying FOUL at this bad perversion of established SF story. Aside from the obvious 'Chun-Li is supposed to be Chinese', there are so many other odd things about the story that I gave up caring. Bison spoke with an Irish accent, despite being orphaned in Thailand when he was a baby and, apparenly, Charlie Nash had a falling out with his shower because he seriously looked like a greaseball (note to Chris Klein: not bathing doesn't make you a gritty tough guy, it just makes you smell funny). Even if you changed the names of the characters and did away with the SF name, this movie would have still sucked. Honestly, do yourself a favor: Get SF4, play through the arcade mode a couple of times, scream out random cheesey movie lines and BAM! You've outdone the new SF movie. For all of its campy awfulness, I FAR prefer the Jean-Claude SF movie from the 90s.
I didnt realise this was out already.. I knew this would suck though but for it to be even worse than the old 90's version, wow not even I thought it would be that bad.
It was great watching the 7 year old Chinese girl at the beginning grow up in Hong Kong and transform into an American. I had no idea Japan raised their citizens to become Americans, so I definitely learned something new from this movie.
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li - I had to watch this movie and Mamamack you weren’t kidding.. It was horrible in everyway! It got me thinking... maybe I should send a rich Chinese girl a mysterious scroll and see if she gives up her life and money to become a tramp who eats food from the garbage only to find the person who sent the scroll.Jesus dude, do you not fucking read ANYTHING I post? I've said repeatedly that being white does not make your American.
It was great watching the 7 year old Chinese girl at the beginning grow up in Hong Kong and transform into an American. I had no idea Japan raised their citizens to become Americans, so I definitely learned something new from this movie.
It was great watching the 7 year old Chinese girl at the beginning grow up in Hong Kong and transform into an American. I had no idea Japan raised their citizens to become Americans, so I definitely learned something new from this movie.Also this says a lot about you. "I mixed the locs up" is still dumb! "something like that" my ass. All east Asian countries are not the same!
haha what? none of the gore had any reason behind it other than I'M ZACK SNYDER AND I LIKE BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODSeriously.
Jesus dude, do you not fucking read ANYTHING I post?
I read his posts, thought "oblivious casual racism, must be british", checked his profile and he's from the UKYeah! Hahaha!
Love good olde blighty...
Seriously.And holy shit, that's a big dissapointment. I was asked if I wanted to go see it today, but I decided against it incase it was SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
Original version: Dan and Laurie defend themselves against mugging knot heads in an alley
Snyder version: Bone ruptures flesh. Heads are thrown through concrete walls. Necks are broken. One neck is stabbed. There where no survivors.
Original version: Rorschach handcuffs a guy to the wall, lights the room on fire, hands him a bone saw and says something like "Don't bother sawing through the cuffs" then walks out
Snyder version: Roschach frantically hacks his face away with a cleaver.
Original version: 'Fat chance' get's his throat cut with a box cutter.
Snyder version: He gets his arms cut off with an electric saw.
haha what? none of the gore had any reason behind it other than I'M ZACK SNYDER AND I LIKE BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
Original version: 'Fat chance' get's his throat cut with a box cutter.
Snyder version: He gets his arms cut off with an electric saw.
Now image if he had kept the original ending.
I forgot, why did they cut his neck in the original? He was blocking the lock but Big Figure said "sorry dude gotta slit your throat." I agree with everything else (I already raised a stink about Rorschach and the butcher knife but 90% of the internet disagrees with me) but it actually made sense to cut his arms off because he was blocking the lock.
There was no emotional impact.
I just watched the Chun-Li movie over my roommate's shoulder and have no idea what the fuck it was about. The entire thing was made out to be realistic and stuff then Chun-Li creates a fireball and blasts M. Bison who's a fucking businessman or something... AGH. To make it worse, they reference Ryu in Japan in an international tournament OH PLEASE GOD DON'T MAKE ANOTHER
How can you look at the scene where they are rebuilding a community within the crater and say that =(
Daredevil. 9/10 - pretty cool. Loved the irish dude I usually hate in every movie except Phone Booth's part
Daredevil. 9/10 - pretty cool. Loved the irish dude I usually hate in every movie except Phone Booth's partIf something is pretty cool, it's 9/10? Shouldn't it be in the realms of mind blowing and innovative to be a 9, realistically...?
there's a still a tear stain on my book paper. if i had it with me i'd scan it to show you guys.
Daredevil. 9/10 - pretty cool. Loved the irish dude I usually hate in every movie except Phone Booth's partdaredevil with ben affleck?
I just watched In Bruges because it was mentioned in this topic and he's (Colin Farrell) is pretty good in that.
Shouldn't it be in the realms of mind blowing and innovative to be a 9, realistically...?
Does anyone actually watch 'terrible' movies if a bunch of people tell them its terrible beforehand?
I usually steer clear of those movies but I feel like I should have given them a chance or atleast tried watching them so I can tell people they are terrible.
Does anyone actually watch 'terrible' movies if a bunch of people tell them its terrible beforehand?
I usually steer clear of those movies but I feel like I should have given them a chance or atleast tried watching them so I can tell people they are terrible.
I watched Twilight again but a proper copy, was hoping watching a mint copy rather than a dark blurry one might make the film a little better for me but turns out this movie sucks no matter what.
I watched Twilight again but a proper copy, was hoping watching a mint copy rather than a dark blurry one might make the film a little better for me but turns out this movie sucks no matter what.How could you ever think otherwise? :laugh:
link that shit in the zoo I wanna watchnetflix brohommad
The Watchmen, it was ok.
If something is pretty cool, it's 9/10? Shouldn't it be in the realms of mind blowing and innovative to be a 9, realistically...?
hey dietcoke you know any good mao docs dude
I'm sure the uncut DVD will have longer segments with all the side characters
At some point in the future, Warner Bros plans to release an "ultimate edition" of the film that will splice Tales and Hood in, which means you will have one heck of a marathon. Says Zack Snyder himself, "The überfans of this property are going to go crazy for that."
and if I'm hearing things right they're including animated(?) Tales of the Black Freighter bits, with the option to have it all interleaved into the movie at the proper points. if this is old news, hey, but I was pretty excited when I heard it so there. it wouldn't fit quite as well without the sort of nautical theme the original ending had, but hey.
all told, it's going to be an incredibly long watch if they include all the stuff they should (I particularly missed the Hollis Mason thing and Rorschach's Kitty Genovese story and the way that fit in with the original grouping of secondary characters right before the end,) but it's probably that or make it into a miniseries (which probably would have been much better in terms of content and pacing but wouldn't have been nearly as profitable.)
it just so happens that the last movie I watched was watchmen so just read this post from the top again and we'll call it done.
Just got Citizen Kane in from netflix cuz i wanted to burn a copy of it... but they only sent the first disc of whatever 2 DVD set it was in. :(
gonna watch part one of the new Che movie todayplease tell me if it's any good, i'm thinking of watching the motorcycle diaries and che movies back to back when the oppertunity is possible.
There's a rape scene,
I hate movies with that. That's the last thing I want to pay to see.
please tell me if it's any good, i'm thinking of watching the motorcycle diaries and che movies back to back when the oppertunity is possible.
Yeaster, did you watch it a second time, or did you just feel like reposting your rating/review?
Why exactly does it get a 6.5 if it was bland and boring but with a handful of redeeming scenes?bland and boring (to me) pretty much seem the definition of average so a few redeeming scenes + cool cg would put it above average, what is your problem with this score?
What sorts of other movies are you watching if that review means its above average?
bland and boring (to me) pretty much seem the definition of average so a few redeeming scenes + cool cg would put it above average, what is your problem with this score?
like if i saw a movie that was bland and boring in every possible way i would probably give it a 5, but if it has stuff that is not boring it would get a better than average score, this is pretty common sense!
do us a favour and don't post a score. scores are shitty. especially numbered ones.
Why exactly does it get a 6.5 if it was bland and boring but with a handful of redeeming scenes?
What sorts of other movies are you watching if that review means its above average?
bland and boring (to me) pretty much seem the definition of average so a few redeeming scenes + cool cg would put it above average, what is your problem with this score?we all have different interperetations of what average is and how MUCH better it has to be, to be a 10.
like if i saw a movie that was bland and boring in every possible way i would probably give it a 5, but if it has stuff that is not boring it would get a better than average score, this is pretty common sense!
Insanitarium (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103984/) is a movie. Yup, that about sums it up.
NO NO NO NO, will not do one line posts. Bad Mamamack!
Insanitarium casts some folks including someone from Desperate Housewives and the chick from Attack of the Show. The premise is this: Sister tries to kill herself and gets committed, brother fakes his way into insane lock-up to find his sister, discovers (from a conveniently placed neurotic geek) that the doctor of the funny farm is conducting experiments on his patients, attempts to break sister free and succeeds but only after about a hundred people get eaten by the doctor's 'patients' who are hyped up on some drug that makes them want to eat people. Oh yeah, and their eyes turn white. And Quark is there, too. Did I mention the chick from Attack of the Show?
Anyway, this movie was, at best, decent. The longer it got, though, the cheesier it became. OK, we get it, the patients are cannibals. The doctor is crazier than the people he's taking care of. Quark is creepy even without his Ferengi make-up. Eye candy comes in the form of the dude from Desperate Housewives and the chick from Attack of the Show, but that's about all this movie has going for it. With a bit more script work and a bit more time, this could have been a good movie. As it stands now, it's a 'meh.' Decent enough to recommend a rental, but don't waste your money buying it.
i hope ressurection is better
has winona ryder been in anything decent? this is the first movie i've seen her in iirc, apart from the closed circuit tapes.
I just saw "Knowing" on sunday, and jesus christ what a ripoff.
I went in expecting crap (it's a Nick Cage movie) and was pleasantly surprised when the movie had really awesome scenes, like when the airplane comes from out of nowhere and crashes right behind Nick Cage. Pretty awesome. The effects and everything were done really well. Then the plot twist comes, and everything starts making sense, and you find out this whole time you've been buying into metaphors and imagery all very well disguised. It's a fucking christian movie. If you thought Signs was bad, this will blow your mind. THe last half hour of the movie loses all subtlety. Suddenly there are angels flying around, the garden of eden story is retold, and I shit you not, there is an actual tree of knowledge in the movie.
I really would've enjoyed this movie much more if they could've either went all in the christianity bs, or left it out. At one point I actually thought a reincarnation of Jesus might show up. Terrible movie.
I just saw "Knowing" on sunday, and jesus christ what a ripoff.
I went in expecting crap (it's a Nick Cage movie) and was pleasantly surprised when the movie had really awesome scenes, like when the airplane comes from out of nowhere and crashes right behind Nick Cage. Pretty awesome. The effects and everything were done really well. Then the plot twist comes, and everything starts making sense, and you find out this whole time you've been buying into metaphors and imagery all very well disguised. It's a fucking christian movie. If you thought Signs was bad, this will blow your mind. THe last half hour of the movie loses all subtlety. Suddenly there are angels flying around, the garden of eden story is retold, and I shit you not, there is an actual tree of knowledge in the movie.
I really would've enjoyed this movie much more if they could've either went all in the christianity bs, or left it out. At one point I actually thought a reincarnation of Jesus might show up. Terrible movie.
it's not.
has winona ryder been in anything decent? this is the first movie i've seen her in iirc, apart from the closed circuit tapes.
Yikes, thanks Mongoloid. Going to skip Knowing. :(
Winoya was in a decent Adam Sandler movie I think... Mr. Deeds?
I just saw "Knowing" on sunday, and jesus christ what a ripoff.
I went in expecting crap (it's a Nick Cage movie) and was pleasantly surprised when the movie had really awesome scenes, like when the airplane comes from out of nowhere and crashes right behind Nick Cage. Pretty awesome. The effects and everything were done really well. Then the plot twist comes, and everything starts making sense, and you find out this whole time you've been buying into metaphors and imagery all very well disguised. It's a fucking christian movie. If you thought Signs was bad, this will blow your mind. THe last half hour of the movie loses all subtlety. Suddenly there are angels flying around, the garden of eden story is retold, and I shit you not, there is an actual tree of knowledge in the movie.
I really would've enjoyed this movie much more if they could've either went all in the christianity bs, or left it out. At one point I actually thought a reincarnation of Jesus might show up. Terrible movie.
If anything the film appeared to take a somewhat neutral stance on whether Free Will or Determinism is the order of the Universe. Also, it attempted to present how such beings as Angels, and even God, could exist within the natural confines of the Universe.
What's so preachy about an alien race being able to predict the apocalypse, who then act upon this knowledge by selecting a number of Earth's children to populate another planet? I imagine that's as close to Divine Intervention as an athiest could conceive of being at all realistic or possible.
You could argue that the Tree of Knowledge was unecessary if the stance taken was indeed intended to be neutral, but its presence merely affirms the themes that have been explored throughout the film. I personally felt that the closing shot was absolutely breath-taking. The fusion of the context, the special effects, the music and Proyas' insistence on holding-on to that final frame for just long enough... expertly executed!
I saw Psycho today for the first time, again as part of my film class. It wasn't at all what I expected, which I'm not quite sure what I mean by that since I didn't really have any solid expectations. I just know that it wasn't what I always expected. But, that was in a positive way. It was very, very good, and unlike a lot of films I didn't have it figured out by the end (the ending did cross my mind at some point, but I thought that the fact that you can hear the "mom's" voice would have contradicted it, I guess he's just that good). I even jumped the second time they did the violin noise, even though it's been used so much since. Overall, it was just an excellent film. I really like that this film class is leading me to watch all these Hitchcock films because they've always been something I wanted to see but for some reason I just never had.Yeah, I saw Psycho like two months ago for the first time, which is very long overdue. You think that half a century later and all the pop culture references, the movie would be dry. I was very surprised as it does not feel "primitive" at all, rather it still manages to bring some shocks + twist that are still fresh.
for some reason I never knew that T-101 didn't kill people in Terminator 2 Judgement Day. Growing up, I knew Arnold was my dad's idol... when I was little he got me watching shit I probably shouldn't have seen, like Predator etc. So I always imagined Arnie as the blam blam killy guy. (Junior and other comedies aside) However, just watched Terminator 2 on bluray (an upgrade that doesn't make a difference. might as well get the dvd and save the price! (but it was on sale ;-;)) and he didn't kill 1 person! Probably on purpose, to make the T-1000 seem evil by comparison (instead of just a skinny guy who can liquify).
Yeah, I saw Psycho like two months ago for the first time, which is very long overdue. You think that half a century later and all the pop culture references, the movie would be dry. I was very surprised as it does not feel "primitive" at all, rather it still manages to bring some shocks + twist that are still fresh.
My comments make me a cinema idiot.
Oh and my only gripe with Psycho is that they had to explain everything the last 2 minutes of the movie for all the morons on the back row. I mean, c'mon. Give us a little credit.
Yeah I watched Knowing last night, this would have been a great movieI still thought it was a great movie regardless though, i can somewhat let the ending slide because it was a great movie.Hidden content (Click to reveal)if it hadnt been for the aliens
I still thought it was a great movie regardless though, I can somewhat let the ending slide because it was a great movie.Hidden content (Click to reveal)Its at least not like that Indiana Jones Kingdom of the Crystal Skull bullshit where the whole entire movie was mediocrity around every corner :blarg:
Yeah I watched Knowing last night, this would have been a great movieHidden content (Click to reveal)if it hadnt been for the aliens
but i figured if you knew the title you knew the plot tooI don't know how big Bill and Ted is in the states, but It's not entirely impossible if it didn't somehow slip into Sweden as a big-thing as well (for example, Wayne's World is pretty known here). It didn't though :P
who i am kidding velfarre probably has autographed copies of dogstar lps and is astonished no one else appreciates them.
who i am kidding velfarre probably has autographed copies of dogstar lpsthis would be so fuckin' rad if it was true
with diddy or sidney poitier?
crank 2.
fucking absurd movie, they rewrite whatever universal rules were established in the first one and they do just about everything they can to be silly. at one point they shoot a stripper in the chest and silicon starts leaking out. also the badguy from the first one's head is still alive, hooked up to tubes n shit in a tank.
Never seen 2001 A Space Odyssey until last week. Worst. Fucking. Film. Ever! So slow and fucking boring. Most of the film was just shots of spaceships slowly floating through space and people eating space dinners. Kubrick is a fucking joke.
Never seen 2001 A Space Odyssey until last week. Worst. Fucking. Film. Ever! So slow and fucking boring. Most of the film was just shots of spaceships slowly floating through space and people eating space dinners. Kubrick is a fucking joke.
Oldboy... has to be the 6th time if seen it now
Superbad was pretty cool..
Big Stan.
Superbad. I assume it needs no explaination, besides the fact that I was laughing my ass off at 2am.
all right guys, I cannot disagree with this post enough, I find it overly simplistic, stupid, overarching, etc, but for fuck's sake:
There's nothing else I could possibly say about Space Odyssey. I think "Slow spaceships floating through space slowly" pretty much sums it up. Well okay, I could have mentioned the people walking slowly around in sticky shoes to drive the point home that there's no gravity in space. Aye, I get the point, Kubrick! You don't need to drag the scene on for another 40 minutes! That's the main problem with 2001, everything just goes on for too fucking long! Like that bit where the guy's working out, running around his low gravity ring-room. Aye, okay, Kubrick! He's in space! I FUCKING GET IT! Why is this scene still going!? He's already done about 26 laps. I FUCKING GET IT!Today's generation of young people have no patience or conception of artistic beauty what so ever.
Yes, I know there's some big whoop dee doo plot here, but there's only enough for a 40 minute short movie, not this 4 week long slog festival!
As a film, 2001 is shit. The end.
I'd rather watch Commando 'cause it has guns and explosions!
I want to know why is is a good film? Why would someone sit and watch this for entertainment? Or it not MEANT to be entertaining? Is it designed to be watched at pretentious gettogethers where everyone sips the finest tea and analyzes the characters' hairstyles for messages on society?
Fortunately for you, there are whole host of blockbusters out there for you to enjoy that do just thisYawn! If only I felt the need to justify myself to nazis like you. But I don't, so I won't.
I'm not really interested in a examination of the film. What I was getting at was how it was filmed. How scenes went on for way too long. That sorta shit annoys me, so that's all I can focus on. I focus on it and try to figure out WHY they're going on for too long. And with 2001, the answer was obvious: There was nothing else there. Maybe the slow scenes are s'posed to evoke a specific feeling or emotion in those pretentious enough to read up on what they should feel or think during this masterpiece. But I'm sure Kubrick could has condensed his great fucking message into 40 minutes.
Yawn! If only I felt the need to justify myself to nazis like you. But I don't, so I won't.
its like some guy throwing away foie gras and murmuring that chef boyardees much cheaper and feeds you and has FUNNY SHAPES why would you eat anything else. where do you even start? a basic argument about art jesus christ take a film class or something if you're really this lost.
So making the viewer feel bored was intentional? AH HA! KUBRICK REALLY IS GREAT!
Know what's really funny though? All the wee personal digs. Hah! You guys are really... passionate.
it does what it aims to really well and instead of saying it's a garbage movie you should say you don't like that type of movie. "2001, certainly no meet the spartans"People who9 don't like 2001 like Meet the Spartans. Hah! That's good. I look forward to more of your witticisms.
People who9 don't like 2001 like Meet the Spartans. Hah! That's good. I look forward to more of your witticisms.
Stop feeding the fucking troll. You become worse than he is when you reply to this shit.
also I'm kind of serious about the Cremaster Cycle kind of sucking but I think it's because I have exactly zero idea what any of it was about. good thing its got some hilarious visuals.
edit: I bring up Cremaster because I think Climbtree saw it and had the same reaction which was "wtf is going on am I a big babby or is this just really too much".
[edit] Cremaster 2 (1999)
CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1. Cremaster 2 embodies this regressive impulse through its looping narrative, moving from 1977, the year of Gary Gilmore's execution, to 1893, when Harry Houdini, who may have been Gilmore's grandfather, performed at the World's Columbian Exposition. The film is structured around three interrelated themes - the landscape as witness, the story of Gilmore (played by Barney), and the life of bees - that metaphorically describe the potential of moving backward in order to escape one's destiny. Both Gilmore's kinship to Houdini (played by Norman Mailer) and his correlation with the male bee are established in the séance/conception scene in the beginning of the film, during which Houdini's spirit is summoned and Gilmore's father expires after fertilizing his wife. Gilmore's sense of his own doomed role as drone is expressed in the ensuing sequence in a recording studio where Dave Lombardo, former drummer of Slayer, is playing a solo to the sound of swarming bees. A man shrouded by bees with the voice of Steve Tucker, lead vocalist of Morbid Angel, growls into a telephone. Collectively these figures allude to Johnny Cash, who is said to have called Gilmore on the night of his execution in response to the convict's dying wish.[4]
Barney depicts Gilmore's murder of a Mormon gas station attendant in both sculptural and dramatic forms. Inferring that Gilmore killed out of a longing for union with his girlfriend, Nicole Baker, he represents their relationship through two conjoined cars: the blue and the white 1966 Mustangs that they coincidentally both owned. In the murder sequence, Gilmore shoots his victim in the back of the head. This act sets in motion the trial and verdict that will condemn him to death, a sentence he embraces despite all efforts to overturn it. Barney stages the judgment of Gilmore in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Gilmore welcomes death, refusing to appeal his sentence and opting for execution by firing squad, in a literal interpretation of the Mormon belief that blood must be shed in order for a sinner to obtain salvation. His execution is staged as a prison rodeo in a cast-salt arena in the middle of the flooded Bonneville Salt Flats. Gilmore is lowered onto a bull and he rides to his death. In Barney's interpretation of the execution, Gilmore was less interested in attaining Mormon redemption than in performing a chronological two-step that would return him to the space of his alleged grandfather, Houdini, with whom he identified the notion of freedom through self-transformation. Seeking escape from his fate, he chose death in an act of ultimate self-will. Gilmore's metaphoric transportation back to the turn of the century is rendered in a dance sequence featuring the Texas two-step. The film ends in the Columbian Exposition hall where Houdini is approached by Gilmore's grandmother Baby Fay La Foe who will seduce him, an act that sets in motion the circular narrative of Cremaster 2.[5]
The first time I saw Life is Beautiful was about two years ago while I was stuck in bed with an insane flu. I remember the thing way back with Benigni at the Oscars walking down the seats, but I didn't really have any idea what the movie was about. I was thinking...ah, a foreign romantic comedy...eh, but it sure beats the football game on the other channel and the cooking shows, so lets see where it goes. Then came the second half.
The movie really got to me. The scene where Guido is arguing with his son about going and "taking his shower." Anyone who had a Holocaust unit in history class has to cringe at that part.
Then, at the end when the tank rolls up and Joshua sees it... Don't feel bad Cho, I think that scene could probably squeeze a couple of tears out of a granite slab.
I just watched the film Punch-Drunk Love. Seen it before, but my god is it wonderful. That camera that just never stops, those lights, those colours, that score, all of it revolving around that brilliant performance by Adam Sandler. It's funny and it's sweet and it's kinda dark and it conveys that sense of panic and dread amazingly, but it's just lovely and magical and right now I'm thinking it's probably edging to be my favourite of Paul Thomas Anderson's movies (even more than that milkshake one...and even more than that porno one.)
The writing was great, loaded with subtext, the acting was fantastic, almost every visual element was perfect (cinematography, makeup, hair, costume, set design). I know it's not really a guy movie so it might not be the greatest suggestion for this thread, but if you have to see something with your girlfriend, this is a good option.
haha I watched this last night too. I thought it was awesome how the whole film was basically a mixture of blue and red. Barry where's blue all the time and his office is blue etc, whilst Lena wear's red most of time. I'm not completely sure what its meant to symbolise, but I think it has something to do with their connection together. Also, Harmonium brings them perfect harmony in the end, probably symbolising their love. This is probably why Barry brings it with him when trying to win Lena back.
But yeah, this was the second time watching it for me and so I was looking out for the blues and reds and they're all over the place. It's actually really in-your-face when you are looking for them.
Are you fucking kidding? I wouldn't watch this with a girlfriend, ever ever. Couples should not watch this movie together.
Hellraiser 2: Hellbound
7/10
Great sequel. Julia was awesome. Hasn't aged that terribly, CGI attempts aside.
NOTORIOUS
fairly bland! we've heard his biography already, in his music. Pshhhh. and he totally set tupac up.
Never seen 2001 A Space Odyssey until last week. Worst. Fucking. Film. Ever! So slow and fucking boring. Most of the film was just shots of spaceships slowly floating through space and people eating space dinners. Kubrick is a fucking joke.
The roundabout point being my mom figured out in one sentence and a few seconds what Grindie is still trying to snidely imply with a bunch of HEH I WATCHED A MOVIE SO FUCKING STUPID I DIDN'T NEED TO THINK ARE YOU JEALOUS posts so man you're a stupid piece of shit Grindie no one cares that you watched Commando 2 and have a false sense of pride about it because you literally can't figure out movies don't have to conform to a standard of bullshit and I really hope you realize that you can constantly drop "ya don't need ot think to figure it out" and this will hopefully be the last time anyone takes the bait because I really just wanted to talk more about how bleak Chinatown was but then remembered how dumb you are.Haha! You're class. You can take anything a normal person would say in 2 lines and spread it into a fucking novel! I like your style.
Haha! You're class. You can take anything a normal person would say in 2 lines and spread it into a fucking novel! I like your style.
But if you want my opinion (which you obviously do), Commando is a way better film than 2001. 1. Because it's actually a film and 2. Well, point 1. pretty much covered it.
But if you want my opinion (which you obviously do)
man you're a stupid piece of shit Grindie no one cares that you watched Commando 2 and have a false sense of pride about it because you literally can't figure out movies don't have to conform to a standard of bullshit and I really hope you realize that you can constantly drop "ya don't need ot think to figure it out"
This conversation made me think about Naked Lunch. I really like it even though I barely understand the half of the stuff going on in it (and all the people I've forced to watch it hate it and hate me after showing it to them). Has anybody figured out the connection between the bugs and the typewriters? Has anybody here even seen it and what do you think of it?!
you keep mentioning Rothko
this Rothko? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko
I don't understand, its fucking squares
This conversation made me think about Naked Lunch. I really like it even though I barely understand the half of the stuff going on in it (and all the people I've forced to watch it hate it and hate me after showing it to them).
End of the Line (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSDekmdtq9Y&feature=related).i have heard that nosferatu is scary. i don't watch scary movies though, they usually are not very good. try psychological horror or horror-of-personality which i just learned the term for just now this moment
I usually don't watch horror flicks, haven't seen a new one for like 5 years and especially not alone (cause I'm a big pussy lol) so this was somewhat of a personal trial for me. Grabbed a random movie that was supposed to be "woop woop scary" and got this.. I shit my pants 3 times during the first 10 minutes but then it all went downwards. This is probably the most disgusting movie I've ever seen and I can't recommend it to anybody really.. unless you like people hitting religious youngsters with crowbars in subways and blood.. lots of it. Funny thing it's full of religious satire and I didn't have a clue what it was about before I saw it. Guess it fits into the brand new spiritual GW.
Man.. someone recommend me a scary movie that isn't just full of gore >_>
I went ahead and watched a FILM CLASSIC, Chinatown. It's interesting how well this movie's aged, although a scene where Nicholson slaps a woman actually had more impact on me just because while it's not casual or anything, it's definitely more shocking for us now.
What I found interesting was my mother's reaction at the end of the film. Those of you who don't like spoilers (to be fair, with one of the most famous ending lines in film you probably know at least the tone of it) should avoid the rest of this post but Chinatown has a bleak fucking ending. No one good wins; the pedophile gets to rape his daughter, make millions, the decent people die, the rich get richer, and we're told "forget about it, it's Chinatown". It's not a coincidence that the movie ends with all those foreign faces surrounding the dead woman, immigrants and strangers. It reminded me of the Great Silence, another movie that ends "unfairly" and of Lord of the Flies, every single copy of which seems to include the same essay at the end that ends the same way: "who will save the soldier?"
The reason I bring this up was my mom's instant reaction was "What kind of ending was that?" In Bollywood, there is a strong escapist tendency. You can have a melancholy ending, but someone must escape or win. Movies like The Great Silence and Chinatown though, deliberately show us that no, we don't win, sometimes even slightly. Chinatown beats Gittes over and over.
And I told this to her, and her opinion shifted. Now she likes the movie.
The roundabout point being my mom figured out in one sentence and a few seconds what Grindie is still trying to snidely imply with a bunch of HEH I WATCHED A MOVIE SO FUCKING STUPID I DIDN'T NEED TO THINK ARE YOU JEALOUS posts so man you're a stupid piece of shit Grindie no one cares that you watched Commando 2 and have a false sense of pride about it because you literally can't figure out movies don't have to conform to a standard of bullshit and I really hope you realize that you can constantly drop "ya don't need ot think to figure it out" and this will hopefully be the last time anyone takes the bait because I really just wanted to talk more about how bleak Chinatown was but then remembered how dumb you are.
i liked the fountain a lot, if only for the imagery. i'm not much of a SPECIAL FX GUY or whatever but damn that movie is pretty. i saw it at the theaters and it was almost ruined for me because this dumbass guy i used to hang out with came with me and he kept asking me questions
i don't know, i really liked that movie! a lot of people told me it was bad too but fuck them..they.. they dont understand it
what the fuck does GOOD ENDINGS MEAN
steel did you really think the visuals were bad? i find that kind of hard to believe!
(http://www.hippopress.com/061130/FILM_TheFountain.jpg)
just saw the new Xmen. it was okay. it was definitely better than the 3rd xmen movie, but thats honestly not saying much. i loled in the beginning when young wolverine yelled though, it was really funny. some of the special effects were a bit lame, like wolverines claws LOOKED REALLY FAKE in a few scenes. theres really no excuse for that in this day and age, tbh. people could do better jobs in fuckin photoshop.Wait, are there multiple endings in multiple theaters? That's kinda cool.
Deadpool was really cool though. the secret ending i got was deadpool grabbing his head and saying "Shh," which i liked
Wait, are there multiple endings in multiple theaters? That's kinda cool.
The deadpool ending was shot after the movie was finished, I think it's because they needed a way to reel in the people that had already seen the workprint.The first hour of King Kong was a total waste of time. The boat trip was so boring, and could have been cut down significantly. After King Kong finally shows up, the movie gets way more awesome. Jack Black was awesome though.
I just saw King Kong, which I thought was pretty good. I think Jack Black is a pretty decent actor when he's not being playing stupid.
Also the scene with the bugs is liable to give me nightmares.
I heard a while back they were going to create an American remake.
i never thought it was a problem but unlike you and a lot of people I never thought the book or manga was such hot shit.
mindfuck stuffwould you consider mulholland drive a mindfuck?? its a really BAD term to use but mulholland drive is probably one of the most apt films to get that description. interested in your thoughts
i never thought it was a problem but unlike you and a lot of people I never thought the book or manga was such hot shit. I actually still kind of enjoy Battle Royale because I think that's something where the concept pretty much could have sold the entire movie anyways and it could have gone fucking anywhere and kind of did and it would still be the definition of a fun action movie that isn't wolverine xmen origins or whatever piece of shit.
action movies need to focus more on concepts because I find I love the ones that embrace being about THEIR SHTICK more than joking about with a plot and when BATMAN MOVIE is an exception you might want to cut your losses. Crank ruled for instance because the entire premise is over the top YOUR HEART WILL STOP IF YOU DONT DO INSANE SHIT and it never tried for anything else.
would you consider mulholland drive a mindfuck?? its a really BAD term to use but mulholland drive is probably one of the most apt films to get that description. interested in your thoughts
recommendation btw for everyone but grindie who gets confused by the difference between push and pull signs on doorsHah! You're still sore about that whole "I don't like your stupid film" thing, eh? Jesus! Get over it already! Or just get better taste in films.
his wife doesn't die!
evidently there's a scene where this is pretty much said on a TV that i missed (i went to the kitchen to get some pizza). i thought her being alive was just an effect of the time difference.not particularly but i didnt mind it. tbh i barely form opinions on most movies unless theyre really offensively bad or really good. i dont even remember the movie much but i know i watched it which meant that i sat in place for 90+ minutes being moderately entertained. i kind of zone out and just absorb without much judgment most of the time. i'm just not too critical unless if it's not TRANSFORMERS or something. it does seem like you missed the point a bit, tho
SPOILER FOR EVERYONE THAT HASN'T SEEN THIS: EVERYONE IN THE MOVIE EITHER LIVES OR DIES.
there didn't seem to be any consistency with anything though! the barriers the people faced were fairly different and sometimes not even the same in the same story and this made any theme messy at best. "sometimes people have trouble communicating but mostly it's pretty easy"
did you guys like the movie?
I watched Synecdoche, New York.
sunshine cleaning is horrendously indie jesus christ even if you liked it, it made you feel bad for liking it. I hope the dude stops making movies.
I saw it too Mamamack, and I hated it.
They spent the entire movie creating this huge elaborate story that only Russel Crowe could figure out, (Rachel McAdams turned out to be completely irrelevant to the entire movie), and then the twist turns out to be that what really happened was the most simple idea given at the beginning of the movie. Bullshit. I was also pretty upset because I'm a big fan of Jeff Daniels and he has such promise most of the movie, until finally he is just written out for some reason.
it's an ugly movie! and aside from that it's pretty dumb. i have a feeling lynch films don't mean anything, they're more about creating an atmosphere or invoking emotion or whatever and so they have these stupid plots and fun little dream sequences.
oh hey know what this part? this part is weird because it's a dream. remember how this was cool when you saw it in rugrats? yeah me too!
Watched Drag me to hell and its probably the funniest movie ive seen this year. From the bank clerk and hobo fight at the beginning of the movie to the talking goat. Not sure if it was intended to be funny but allot of what happened felt like it was suppose to be comedic like how a dried up corpse ends up throwing up in the girls mouth when falling of the stand or when the girl fights the handkerchief and you hear it squeal when she steps on it, I laughed my ass off throughout most of the movie.It's supposed to be like a b-movie, so kinda yes.
coxswain have you ever seen the evil dead movies? I heard that drag me to hell was supposed to be good in the same way as those movies and I bet either you haven't seen them or you hate them for the wrong reasons. or maybe not but I am curious.
justin long didn't really do any acting
ok I want someone who isn't retarded to waste their money on this movie and get back to me on that
I'm sorry dude but that movie was insulting to me
I am insulted
Ahhh, gotcha. Yeah, I made this account...a long time ago (a few years at least). Yeah, my username sucks, for sure. I actually wouldn't mind changing it, but as far as I know there's not really a way to do that. Either way, it doesn't really matter, because I tend to check this site about once a month, and I post even less.nah don't sweat it brah
EDIT: Almost five years, forgot that it said under my user when I joined.
Just saw Star Trek last night, the whole time I was watching it(Was pretty good overall) I was just reminded of Mass Effect. Also what was up with the light shine everywhere.yea I don't see how you could have gotten a Mass Effect feel out of it since it. The ship wasn't nearly as dark as Mass Effect and there were not really any planetary scenes depicting similarities to the game at all. I did get a Battle Star Galactica feel from the way the movie was filmed/edited though.
The last movie I watched was Up, and I enjoyed it immensely. I haven't seen a movie that both made me incredibly sad and laugh out loud in a long time. I was pretty choked up at the start (especially since I went with my wife, who is 5 months pregnant with our first child).
I loved Dug the dog - he had some of the best lines.
So I watched Drag Me to Hell and going in I was kinda like "meh" (I only went to see it because my sister wanted to) but then once I noticed Sam Raimi actually directed (and wrote) it I got super excited (I had originally thought his company Ghost House Pictures had just produced it).
I really liked it, it was like a throwback to his older stuff and I got all giggly and nerdy about it. Having said that, if you aren't a fan of old school Sam Raimi you will likely HATE this movie as it's pretty much pure camp from beginning to end. Could have used a Bruce Campbell cameo though.
Is that the one with Queen Latifah?
EDIT:
Ah, the one with De Niro.
And somehow my imdb'ing led me to reading Don Bluth's bio and now I want to watch The Secret of NIMH. I think I have it on beta...
Queen Latifah should have played Travis
watched Taxi last night. took me a long time to really get into the movie as it does have a sort of rather slow pace to it, but the ending and build-up to it was just epic, especially starting at the part where Fallon's character was introduced
best film confusion ever was when my dad was getting a rental DVD off lovefilm (they post them to you) and we told him to get "the dark knight with heath ledger in it" and he went and got a knight's tale delivered. Sure it has heath ledger and "knight" in the title..... dad fail...
I just got done watching the pbs jonestown documentary and I remember meeting a lady merchant mariner that was from guyana africa or the area where the encampment was set and she told me about it when I was in school training.
Seriously though, those people are a bunch of fucking idiots. And why do the hell do dumb people keep falling for psychos that use socialism as a baited guise to basically destroy them. I get that they were pretty heavily deprived of sleep and maybe even kind of brainwashed but you've got to be a complete fool in the first place to sit there and watch that fucked up shit going on and still go with it.
I also don't get why the survivors didn't bother running in there after most the guards killed themselves to pull that bitch fucker out by his goddamn hair so he can face a trial and rot in jail like the piece of shit deserved.
Bunch of dumb mothers too feeding poison to their babies. God I hate fucking people so much.
The Uninvited... It's a real damn shame i saw the entire plot twist coming from 10 minutes into the film.
Emily Browning is damn cute though, so I didn't mind very much. She looks lovely when she's psycho
The happening was interesting. The suicide scenes were pretty damn funny, and even though
the movie was mostly environmentalist propaganda, i enjoyed it. Mark Wahlberg should stop looking like
Matt Damon though.
Year One - I was hoping to get a few laughs from this but I struggled to watch the whole movie, Jack Black and Michael Cera playing themselves just didn’t work at all.. It worked in Superbad for Michael playing a high school student and Jack Black in School of Rock playing a crazy over the top musician but it just didn’t work for a movie based around the cave-man era., I don’t know how else to explain it… It was just bad!
The clip I saw had people running away from wind. Do you remember in The Day After Tomorrow when they're running away from ice? Do you remember how stupid that was?
I heard that in Transformers 2 they outrun an explosion.
yes I saw Transformers 2 also and liked it only because it's transformers and I just like giant robots that transform into trucks and shit, but damn the movie is bad.
highlights of the movie:
1. john turturro looks up and devastator is above him with two wrecking balls hanging between it's legs
2. shia lebouf gets killed by megatron and goes to transformers heaven where the primes tell him it's not his time and send him back
3. wheelie humps megan foxes leg
I was going to mention the second one but decided against it due to spoiler reasons but yeah that was just beyond stupid.
Hmm, I'm not really sure where all The Happening hate comes from. I agree, it's not a good movie. Considering how good I know that M. Night, Mark Wahlberg, and Zooey Deschanel can be, it definitely should have been a lot better; but I think it's still fairly entertaining, especially if you can get into the weird B-movie atmosphere.
The Happening was really terrible, and not just "bad for M Night standards" (The Village would probably apply there), but it was bad in general. The entertainment comes from how horrible the movie is, and gets worse as the "story" progresses.
hey guys tideland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideland_(film)) is the worst piece of shit. don't watch it.
Great, now I want to watch it.
he kisses her one more time I think and then my roommate and I both raised our hands and shouted "done" (this was not planned!!) and watched the history channel instead.
Also watched Jason and the Argonauts last night on tv, im one of those people who cant stand budget movies with cheap CGI effects but with this movie I don’t have that problem, I think it looks great even without the high end CGI stuff... Actually I doubt it would have had the same effect if it was filled with the CGI we have now a days.the made for tv one or the black and white one with the funny skeletons
the made for tv one or the black and white one with the funny skeletons
also most recently watched 'the last unicorn.' without spoiling too much the movie is about music by america
tom tykwer's The International (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963178/)
a movie that was great in theory, but terrible in execution. everything about it managed to be underwhelming and mediocre. the only good part was the ending, but they even managed to ruin that by this idiotic newspaper montage that they felt compelled to add on to make sure the slower audience members could follow.
not a terrible movie, but ruined by how much better you knew it could have been.
yeah i was hoping that when it said MUSIC BY AMERICA (i didn't know this was the case until the opening credits) but there's 2 songs maybe 3 total? and only one sounds like them
I'm already sick of the Bruno character, and I'm yet to see the movie. I'm sure it'll be funny, but I'm already sick of the act. It's like haha gay joke *hits on guys* *wears g-string*
I'm already sick of the Bruno character, and I'm yet to see the movie. I'm sure it'll be funny, but I'm already sick of the act. It's like haha gay joke *hits on guys* *wears g-string*
I saw Bruno, I can imagine GW being overly critical of it.
However, I thought it was funny as hell. Not quite as good as Borat but still VERY VERY VERY FUNNY. The part where it randomly shows a dick bouncing around gave me such a fright ahahah
could one of you guys maybe say why you liked it?
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it was alright I guess.Yeah, that's what me and my friend agreed on. What else can we REALLY expect from a Transformers movie though? If it was a straight draw from the children's show, I'd probably walk out. The writing would be horrible. It's just too bad they had to sneeze destiny into it.
probably because they thought it was funny??
Don't know if Anime OVA's count
I saw NOTORIOUS last night, as a big fan I thought it was ok. I did particularly like how it was quite accurate with small details though, for instance the photos on the wall of their house are actual outfits biggie wore and stuff like that.
I finally got around to watching Brazil, and damn was that a good movie. I thought the casting could have been a bit better, but it worked. I was more impressed by the setting, the insane plot, and the fact that it maintained humor throughout. After reading more about Gilliam (was involved with Python and directed 12 Monkeys, which is awesome), I'm determined to see the rest of his work.unfortunately nothing he ever did is as good as brazil. not even close. it's all worth watching, but don't get your hopes up too high.
(can i give a valid reason not to go basically?)it is a movie for children. go if you like movies for children, do not go if you do not like movies for children.
I got up early to catch the only screening of Moon today at a local theater.
And I have to say, it was brilliant. Really inspired me creatively. It asks so many philosophical questions, just, this incredibly unique story that is simply beautiful. One of those movies I will never see anywhere else. I don't have much to say without spoiling the movie.
One of those rare sci-fi gems highly recommend.
I got up early to catch the only screening of Moon today at a local theater.
And I have to say, it was brilliant. Really inspired me creatively. It asks so many philosophical questions, just, this incredibly unique story that is simply beautiful. One of those movies I will never see anywhere else. I don't have much to say without spoiling the movie.
One of those rare sci-fi gems highly recommend.
I saw a trailer for this a while back and been wanting to see it sinse then but it hasnt shown up in any theater's nor have I seen a single add for it anywhere. I got the impression from the trailer that it was more of a low budget movie rather than a high end Hollywood movie so getting my hands on this may be tough.$5mill indy movie.
I just watched the new Street Fighter movie, and it was really shitty. I can't believe they got just about every fucking detail wrong.
Can anyone recommend some really above par horror movies?
Tbh I really don't understand the backlash that Speed Racer got, I saw the movie twice and I loved it both times. I loved the really amped up style, the childishness of the whole thing fused with the whole "mature" story. Real fun ride.
The kid with the monkey was just too childish for me
That's one fine ass :fogetcool:click to find a special screening near you (Click to reveal)(http://www.guitar.com/uploaded/profile_images/forum_9e07964f_mooning.jpg)
I can't beleive you left out Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula from your list, Roman. That movie is a total mindfuck.
primer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/)
i was really surprised by this movie. a friend lent it to me, and i went into it not really expecting much, but i was extremely impressed with the movie this shane carruth guy pulled together with a $7,000 budget. i wouldn't call it an important film, but it's certainly an inventive one that will require some thinking after viewing. it ends up being science fiction, but along the kubrick lines, not your typical hollywood science fiction bullshit. i'd say more, but it's the sort of film that you don't want to go into knowing too much.
a plus is that it's really the sort of movie that i think most people could sit down with and enjoy. it's bright without being too pretentious, gritty and real without really trying to be hip and stylish. it strikes a good balance of a lot of things, probably due to the fact that the film was actually made by one person (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1503403/)
i don't really know an awful lot about shane carruth, but i hope he does more things. he's got talent and some brains, and the drive to work alone. as long as he doesn't get gobbled up by the hollywood machine(and his lack of any other projects since is an indication that he doesn't really have an interest in that) he's really got the potential to be the leading american filmmaker going further into the 21st century, if only due to there being a staggering lack of any other proper candidates.
EDIT:
also if you are an aspiring filmmaker, this is a film you must watch. it's a reminder of what you can do with the proper drive and preparation even if you don't really have any resources available to you whatsoever. it's actually making me reconsider the stance i had on film, which was NEVER MAKE A MOVIE EVER TOO MUCH HASSLE.
I watched the killing fields last night. For those who havent seen it, its quite an old movie (1984) that follows a reporter who documents the events that take place in Cambodia under the rule of Pol Pot and the communist party - Khmer Rouge, during and after the vietnam war. its a pretty good movie that opened my eyes to horror or what happened under a pretty extreme case of communist ruling. The acting and cinematography are great, but it is the music that is probably the most striking part of the movie. It was written by Mike Oldfield (tubular bells) who took some really odd choices when writing the music, that I think, adds a lot to the horror of the storyFuck you Oriental Lazy Boyz.
primer (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/)aha oh god, i watched this movie only i wasn't paying much attention and i don't understand a bit of it
OH MY GOD WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU INDIANA JONES :(
WHAT THE FUCK.
Have any of you dudes seen Mongol? I'm going to watch it sometime this week (netflix...) but I want to know what I'm in for. It's supposed to be pretty good.Mongol to me, is the typical rags to riches epic period piece whatever kind of story. The kid who faces tragedy, grows up, builds and empire, and reigns supreme again, it's a pretty typical fare but I recommend it. It's well structured, well put together, and somewhat stylized, like it even has stupid slow motion sequences but the movie and compositions look good regardless. Tadanobu Asano is always badass... Not my favorite but check it out.
Have any of you dudes seen Mongol? I'm going to watch it sometime this week (netflix...) but I want to know what I'm in for. It's supposed to be pretty good.
The Legend of Chun Li.. My GOD that is a shit fucken movie. Kristen Kruek is pretty hot though.
I was gonna watch it just cause I follow Smallville (can't say I'm a fan...it really dropped off after about S3 or 4) but I figured it couldn't measure up to the amazing van Damme SF movie.
has anybody seen that Anvil movie? They are playing it at our indie theatre this week but I don't have time to see it.
edit: WHAT WISE LADY? I NEED TO GO TO THAILAND TO FIND GEN? BUT I JUST SAW HIM RIGHT BEHIND ME....OH WELL I GUESS I'LL GO TO THAILAND INSTEAD OF TRY TO SEE WHERE HE WENT HEREI laughed so hard at that part. The whole time I was watching the movie I just had this thought about Micahel Clark Duncan and how badly his career has gone down. I fucken loved The Green Mile, amazing movie.
I laughed so hard at that part. The whole time I was watching the movie I just had this thought about Micahel Clark Duncan and how badly his career has gone down. I fucken loved The Green Mile, amazing movie.
I watched quite a few movies lately: Coraline which was excellent, Crank: High Voltage which was good, Terminator Salvation left me pleasantly surprised (on the other hand the ending had a plot hole that they clearly got from trying to put a message at the end).
I also watched Quarantine (Yeah yeah I know its a remake of what is considered a much better Spanish flick, but subtitles ruin horror movies, if you are able to "read ahead" you know whats coming, and you have to constantly flick your eyes up and down to read what they are saying and to see the emotion on their face, it also ruins the immersion, making me realize I am in fact watching a movie, and I am NOT going to learn other languages JUST so I can watch these films)
Quarantine was one of the most horrifying movies I've ever watched. Its one of the few that actually scared me because you get to know the characters decently in the beginning the the movie has an excellent sense of atmosphere.
Saw G.I. Joe.
It was horrible and ridiculous from the very first scene.
It really felt like one enormous toy commercial. I laughed out loud when during the middle of a sword fight, the white ninja all of a sudden grabbed a jet pack and flew around. Absolutely ridiculous.
Though I did think the white ninja was pretty cool.
brazilSweet. Did you like it?
Roger Ebert disliked it, giving it 2 out of 4 stars, saying "the movie is very hard to follow. I have seen it twice, and am still not sure exactly who all the characters are, or how they fit."Brazil BY ROGER EBERT / January 17, 1986
ratatouille. I hadn't watched it until now because it never seemed very interesting to me, "rat likes to cook" seems like a pretty stupid gimmick. but it was vgood if a little cheesy at times, especially whenever remy argued with his father.
Just watched Demolition Man again. I love that movie.
is that out already??? It looks good but the big name voice actors kinda threw me off.
that's what i thought too at first. i was like "Cyrus? Jonas? eghhh" but the voices are actually really good. they work well for the characters and the voice actors are talented. just ignore the names and enjoy the show. although try not to get angry when you hear the credits song (it starts out catchy and cute but then it gets, uh... very "Disney channel")
How did you get in to see it? Aren't you 12 or something?i'm 18 in a few days bro
Well you sure fooled me with your posts. Would you recommend this film for a 22 year old english *toff like myself?I'd recommend this movie for anyone who likes to see Nazi's brutally killed and tortured. I'm normally pretty squeamish but I honestly felt pleasure seeing Nazi faces being carved with knives.
*common twat
I'd recommend this movie for anyone who likes to see Nazi's brutally killed and tortured. I'm normally pretty squeamish but I honestly felt pleasure seeing Nazi faces being carved with knives.
It's a blast from beginning to end. Tarantino sets up tension incredibly well. There were moments where I blinked and all of a sudden the whole movie went haywire, and shook me up so much that i would go "oh shit" out loud. It's a fantastic ride, it's so well crafted. The music, the clashes between so many different styles of film making that really settle together so well. I could go on and on about this movie, but all I need to say is it is genius. The actors, the music, blah blah, everything. It's meshed together into a simple masterpiece. I've never felt so good after seeing a movie in a theater before.
Christopher Waltz best supporting actor
It was amazing, in every sense of the word!why?
Just saw the basterds movie, and I must say tarantino sure knows how to overload a movie with dialogue
This one actually seemed to use it more effectively than his other movies (like Pulp Fiction, the 2-hour pop culture reference). The dairy farm scenes and the bar scenes were really good at building suspense through dialogue.Mongoloid has the attention span of a 10 year old so :welp:
Mongoloid has the attention span of a 10 year old so :welp:
hey faggot, sorry to disappoint but i liked the movie!SPOILER
the opening scene served its purpose, set up the villain and the tone for the rest of the movie. the bar scene on the other hand killed off a dozen characters that had been introduced and to that point had no real role! I mean the two basterds in that scene, the third one didn't matter, one was only there because he spoke german, and the other was given a huge introduction but did nothing prior to his death. I did like the scenes where the guy ate tierre missou with the jewish girl and where he strangled the german actress.
If anything, this stuff only detracted from the movie IMO because I went in expecting/wanting to see more of the basterds.
All tarantino movies have a lot of dialogue but I had hoped he got a lot of it out of his system in Death Proof!
We want to know why!
the opening scene served its purpose, set up the villain and the tone for the rest of the movie. the bar scene on the other hand killed off a dozen characters that had been introduced and to that point had no real role! I mean the two basterds in that scene, the third one didn't matter, one was only there because he spoke german, and the other was given a huge introduction but did nothing prior to his death. I did like the scenes where the guy ate tierre missou with the jewish girl and where he strangled the german actress.
If anything, this stuff only detracted from the movie IMO because I went in expecting/wanting to see more of the basterds.
All tarantino movies have a lot of dialogue but I had hoped he got a lot of it out of his system in Death Proof!
hey faggot, sorry to disappoint but i liked the movie!i just came back from the movie tonight and went to read your post because your spoilers were no longer relevant to me buta hahaha you're such a dolt
the opening scene served its purpose, set up the villain and the tone for the rest of the movie. the bar scene on the other hand killed off a dozen characters that had been introduced and to that point had no real role! I mean the two basterds in that scene, the third one didn't matter, one was only there because he spoke german, and the other was given a huge introduction but did nothing prior to his death. I did like the scenes where the guy ate tierre missou with the jewish girl and where he strangled the german actress.
If anything, this stuff only detracted from the movie IMO because I went in expecting/wanting to see more of the basterds.
All tarantino movies have a lot of dialogue but I had hoped he got a lot of it out of his system in Death Proof!
i just came back from the movie tonight and went to read your post because your spoilers were no longer relevant to me buta hahaha you're such a doltSee vellfire
See vellfire
I think um, I think my friend P-burn was telling CaptainChekov there to consult your post. I think this because there is no question mark or comma but then again slack grammatical style but still ? is very important for the general flow of the post
psyburn please communicate better
I think um, I think my friend P-burn was telling CaptainChekov there to consult your post. I think this because there is no question mark or comma but then again slack grammatical style but still ? is very important for the general flow of the postwhat
psyburn please communicate better
you didn't show me anything, i didn't say anything about whether i agreed with him or not (not seen the movie so not passing any judgement there) i just think your post was dumb but at the same time didn't want to see you talk
don't be giving me any of this SEE??? SEEEE????? shit
last movie i saw was ponyo which i discussed in the other topic, got a few movies on netflix i should be watching but haven't gotten around to since i've mostly been watching through two pints with a buddy
I watched Inglorious Basterds expecting it to be a historical movie that possibly sheds light on aspects of WWII.haha
I watched Inglorious Basterds expecting it to be a historical movie that possibly sheds light on aspects of WWII. Instead it became a pointless display of violence and some unholy sexuality. The movie is not based on any history but is a reimagined version of WWII. There were 3 scenes of people with their scalps having been removed with a knife. There was a scene of someone being executed with a baseball bat. There were many scenes of shooting, knifing, and other methods of killing people.
A couple of people sitting next to me or closeby got sick and had to leave, one threw up on the seats. I don't blame them. The bible teaches us to be at peace with one another and tells us to keep our minds and hearts pure before Christ. This movie encourages the exact opposite and beginning from the very title, glorifies murder, rage, lust, revenge, cowardly acts during war, terrorism, and pride.
I think this is a shameful film that needs to be condemned not only by Christians but by all Americans for what it represents. There is nothing at all funny about depicting Americans as a bloodthirsty, brutal people.
My friend went to one of those Red Box things looking for some movie that wasn't there, so we got Dragonball Evolution. Let me just say, though it was as TERRIBLE as I expected, it still wasn't what I expected. I had no idea there was going to be TEENAGE HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA and stuff like that. Still, w/e it was a great laugh.I'm Yamcha.
I'm Yamcha.
*thumbs up*
ponyo. I don't even
I will start out by saying it is the best looking ghibli film I've seen, and it had some really fantastic design elements. in this sense ponyo is really, really good. but the dialogue
I wasn't trying to scrutinize it or anything, I was just trying to sit back and enjoy the movie like you gotta do. it got pretty awful at times though!! I'm not sure who is to blame for this but I don't think it was entirely the voice actors' fault. I don't really know how it stands up to other ghibli or miyazaki films yet, I think I have to see it again when it comes out on video. also I had mcdonalds for lunch and I kind of felt like garbage
Jacob's Ladder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/)
heard lots of good stuff about this movie, so i went into it fairly certain that i would enjoy the movie. i didn't. at all.
i would probably rate jacob's ladder as the most disappointing movie i have ever seen.
I used to list Jacob's Ladder as one of my favorite movies on this forum but shh don't tell anyone that. I caught it on TV the other day and found it a lot more bland and uninteresting than I remember. Adrian Lyne is actually the worst.Yeah, I remember watching this film after hearing about how awesome it was as a thriller and by the end of it I was so disappointed! I don't really see what all the hoopla was about. And this is coming for a person who enjoys sudden plot twists most of the time.
One day you'll understand that to die is much truly than to live, 4 September 1998:
Author: Max Kobzev ([email protected]) from Moscow, Russia
This greatest movie gives us clue to the depth of our souls in most deadly moments of our lives. My heart is shrinking every time I saw the scene of hanging. I have no words any... You must see this brilliant picture.
I watched Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky last night, and it's the most insane display of violence and hilariously bad voice acting I've ever seen (watched it dubbed).
"You've got a lot of guts, Oscar!"
Yeah, I remember watching this film after hearing about how awesome it was as a thriller and by the end of it I was so disappointed! I don't really see what all the hoopla was about. And this is coming for a person who enjoys sudden plot twists most of the time.
Game of Death with Butch Lee. it was pretty bad. I was reading about the whole story surrounding the movie and it was pretty interesting stuff, how the funeral scene actually contained footage from lee's funeral, and all the brucesploitation films that popped up after its release. there were a few good shots from an art/directing pov but besides that and the background info it was a pretty awful movie. bruce lee only shows up towards the end I think. oh and the yellow tracksuit is pretty good, symbolizes china I guess
I didn't notice the face change during flipping etc but I'm pretty sure lee could do his own flips. that plastic surgery part was actually pretty funny though, like you'd think they were going to use it to cover up the fact that they used different actors for the same part. maybe that was their original intention, but instead they have him "look exactly the same" after surgery and just wear sunglasses and a beard.
It is a lesson in how (not) to make a film when the star dies before completion. It seemed also to have no script supervisor, nor anyone with the ability to say "CUT" when a take went bad. How else can you explain a final cut of a movie that contains "They're across the skreet!" as dialog. The cut-aways even in the fights that actually used Bruce Lee footage are jarring and obvious as hell. And they also don't explain how the character has plastic surgery to cover up getting shot in the face, but manages to look like himself at the end...except when he's doing a flip or getting hit. Variable plastic surgery strikes again.
haha now I want to read ebert's twilight reviewit's just unfortunate that people seem to think of him as some sort of authority on films, despite the fact that he knows next to nothing on the subject. it wouldn't surprise me if he is actually blind and deaf and biologically unable to watch movies and has just been faking it for years.
I don't think we should be too critical of his movie critiques. in case you guys didn't know, Roger Ebert has high-functioning autism. this doesn't make him a particularly good film critic, but he earns a decent living and he seems to enjoy himself.
it's just unfortunate that people seem to think of him as some sort of authority on films
I watched Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky last night, and it's the most insane display of violence and hilariously bad voice acting I've ever seen (watched it dubbed).
"You've got a lot of guts, Oscar!"
I did, however, go into the movie expecting a sort of steve martin type bumbling character movie though.
I would definitely recommend it, though maybe not the kind of movie you watch with a room full of friends.
Magnolia
Still going with silent (well......mostly silent at this point) films, saw Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times last night. I enjoyed it, the feeding machine at the beginning was the highlight of the film as far as comedy is concerned, I also like that he eats a ridiculous amount of cocaine and it just sort of makes him walk around in circles for a while. His relationship with the gamin (don't remember her name, just the word GAMIN because i had never heard it before) was kind of weird, I guess I thought of her as much younger than she is and Charlie Chaplin looks much older, so it felt really really strange. But then again this is Hollywood, love at first sight and all that. It was a good movie overall.I just gotta say, Modern Times is odd. The first like 40 minutes of it are really really great, but then it kinda drags around and shit. Well I thought so initially but then afterwards I kinda got it's playfullness about being outside of the factory job being a slave to the man who takes your rights, and then you're free and entering a new world of different rules and opportunities (after all, Chaplin's a great groovy left-wing guy), so the dumb love makes sense and stuff. and it became one of my fave films on it's second watch(though Great Dictator is indeed his best though)
Considering going to see Zombieland despite it looking really stupid.Well what else is it supposed to look dude
I just gotta say, Modern Times is odd. The first like 40 minutes of it are really really great, but then it kinda drags around and shit. Well I thought so initially but then afterwards I kinda got it's playfullness about being outside of the factory job being a slave to the man who takes your rights, and then you're free and entering a new world of different rules and opportunities (after all, Chaplin's a great groovy left-wing guy), so the dumb love makes sense and stuff. and it became one of my fave films on it's second watch(though Great Dictator is indeed his best though)
Considering going to see Zombieland despite it looking really stupid.
Well what else is it supposed to look dude
i really hate that michael cera jr. kid that stars in it but it really works in this movie. his character has this obsessive compulsive need to follow the rules hes made to survive and it really seemed to add to the movie.Dude Jessie Eisenberg is a fantastic actor with great range. How can you even compare him to Michael Cera...
Dude Jessie Eisenberg is a fantastic actor with great range. How can you even compare him to Michael Cera...
idk who the hell compares Jessie Eisenberg to Michael Cera besides the hair.
I know this topic isn't "What anime did you last watch?" but it's close enough. Recently I was watching Movie 6 of One piece which was fan-subbed by Kaizoku-fansubs and it is one of the best One piece movies out there. It's a lot darker than most other One piece movies which I found really interesting and kept me glued to the screen for the entire movie. This movie is fairly outdated right now, as One Piece movie 9 has already been released but it's still one of the best. Kaizoku-fansubs just finished subbing episode 258, so I'm gonna watch that next.Anime is not art
Anime is not art
Neither is Jennifer's Body and yet I talked about it.Film is an artform, whether or not specific films are art is debatable. Though not having seen Jennifer's Body, I suspect it has some redeeming artistic qualities but i'm not so sure.
Anime is not artas long as you believe this, you will never be a true filmmaker.
Anime is not art
"Film is art, FACT." -PsyburnThough film is a relatively new art form, it is the art of moving pictures. Also yeah, who did put me in charge of deciding what is what, film being an art form.. And who put video games as an art form, besides a bunch of nerds who know nothing about art in general sitting behind their computers holding their controllers wasting their lives away trying to justify the explosions they're experiencing as 'art'.
Who the hell put you in charge of deciding what is what?
If you want to consider Film as ART then you have to consider all forms of amusement in form of media or visual entertainment as ART.
"FilmAnime is art, FACT." -Psyburn
Geez man.
Though film is a relatively new art form, it is the art of moving pictures. Also yeah, who did put me in charge of deciding what is what, film being an art form.. And who put video games as an art form, besides a bunch of nerds who know nothing about art in general sitting behind their computers holding their controllers wasting their lives away trying to justify the explosions they're experiencing as 'art'.You do realize that if film is simply the art of moving pictures then all animation (including anime) would fall under film and thus be art right?
You do realize that if film is simply the art of moving pictures then all animation (including anime) would fall under film and thus be art right?You are correct animation DOES fall under film but anime sucks
that's really pretentious psyburn, you can tell you're a first year arts student. I'm pretty sure you aren't making a jokeanime sucks and i wish i was an art student but i'm not because nobody likesm e
just fyi if you're going to seriously talk about film and art, not like HERE but in a paper or something, I would not use the word anime at all. anime is a marketable product with a name designed to seperate it from western cartoons. but in terms of moving pictures it's just called animation, or japanese animation if you wanna be distinct
Seriously man, what're you going to convey in a video game. You know in other art forms people usually you know, convey something, formalist cinema and all that... but what about in a video game? 'can love bloom in the battlefield' my ass
You are so fucking close minded. Video games can convey emotions and feelings movies can't. I'm just going to link UdM's research group Ludicine (http://www.ludicine.ca/en/video-game) because this topic is not the place for such a debate.hahahahahhahahahahah
i hit another car in euro truck simulator and felt guilty
i have never felt guilty during a car chase in a movie
justwatched the 1939 hunchback of notre dame. mad good. mad good.
Legend of the Drunken Master is amazing. I fucking love that movie.
This
Jet li was in that movie called THE ONE which I thought was pretty goodThe One and Romeo Must Die are the only real Jet Li movies I like.
Zombieland was real good I thought. The main character did seem a lot like Michael Cera and Tallahassees tragic backstory seemed a little slapped on but overall it was a real nice movie
Zombieland was real good I thought. The main character did seem a lot like Michael Cera and Tallahassees tragic backstory seemed a little slapped on but overall it was a real nice movie
I just saw the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I think it was good I really don't know. Tom Waits was easily the best thing about this film.
has anyone seen where the wild things are yet because i will not be seeing it until next weekend and i want to know if it is amazing or just great
I watched Moon recently. That is an amazing movie, and Sam Rockwell showed some amazing acting.
I watched Moon recently. That is an amazing movie, and Sam Rockwell showed some amazing acting.This.
i thought jennifers body was one gigantic lesbian scene. pretty dissapointed to hear it's not.
I watched Moon with my dad the other day, it really wasnt what I expected it to be but was still very entertaining.what did you expect. (did you watch it thinking it was new moon?)
i thought jennifers body was one gigantic lesbian scene. pretty dissapointed to hear it's not.
megan fox is known to not have any feelings (thign is... i'm not joking)
how can guys think she's hot? a blow-up doll has more of a personality
what did you expect. (did you watch it thinking it was new moon?)
I also didnt expect to see clonesyeah, same, actually... but it was a pleasant suprise (if very wtf at first)
I saw fantastic mr fox, it was really good XD
I also just realized that pollock songs play noises in my head
i want to see thisU got an important insight into the male psyche today velffare. Nobody likes a cocktease and you should remember that if you don't wanna get raped.. bitch...
i saw that obscure object of desire on tuesday, it was really good but i was kind of confused with the embroidering at the end. i didn't feel confused at all until that point.
the dudes in my class all wanted conchita to be raped because HOW DARE SHE NOT SLEEP WITH MATHIEU WHAT A WHORE, SHE SHOULD BE RAPED
seriously they legitimately said that they wanted her to be raped because they didn't like how she kept teasing mathieu and not sleeping with him
i want to see this
i saw that obscure object of desire on tuesday, it was really good but i was kind of confused with the embroidering at the end. i didn't feel confused at all until that point.
the dudes in my class all wanted conchita to be raped because HOW DARE SHE NOT SLEEP WITH MATHIEU WHAT A WHORE, SHE SHOULD BE RAPED
seriously they legitimately said that they wanted her to be raped because they didn't like how she kept teasing mathieu and not sleeping with him
that post made me miss psyburn
why isn't he back yet
I bet you killed him drule psyburns a sad kid and you took his favorite toy away
i want to see this
Fucking furry :fogetnah:
Really? You actually found it entertaining?
I dunno, I can't think of a movie that is just more BLAH to me over this whole year. WE TAKIN' THE BENTLEY jesus christ. And driving the limo through the falling-apart-as-we-speak building, how WELL TIMED it was OH LOOK I PULLED UP JUST AS THE WORLD IS FALLING APART OH SHIT. And the megavolcano was... argh! Yeah I dunno. The characters were bland as shit (and jesus christ there were too many of them (film could've functioned FINE without those fucking pair on the cruise ship!)) and urgh. I really could not like that movie, and I went into it thinking "hey this could be fun (but probably won't be (but could be))". I mean I wasn't determined to hate it but that's how I came out.
Jesus Christ that post made no sense. Carry on!
I sww Boondock Saints 2 and it's pretty much the perfect sequel to the first.i'm guessing by the fact that you liked it means that its a terrible movie
I didn't like the first one so much, so I wasn't that into it, but really the only complaint I have is that it seemed a lot like they used the first movie to template the second. They are THAT similar.
It was alright though. The surprise ending was pretty cool.
i watched no country for old men last night and was furious with the ending. maybe in the book the themes are fleshed out more so death personified or whatever shit doesn't seem like such a stupid gimmick, but i was so pissed i woke my girlfriend up to yell at her for suggesting i watch it. the rest of the movie was awesome though, so i shouldn't complain too much.
The Matrix: Revolutions... again. And I still don't think I fully get it.
Yeah, you probably found the ending a little abrupt. The Coen brothers did this in their last 3 movies. They like to leave the ending open and leave some place for the viewer to make their own hypothesis. They prefer to ask questions than to answer them. That is way more evident in A Serious Man. The whole movie turns around that idea of faith against chaos (as in theory of chaos).
I sww Boondock Saints 2 and it's pretty much the perfect sequel to the first.
I didn't like the first one so much, so I wasn't that into it, but really the only complaint I have is that it seemed a lot like they used the first movie to template the second. They are THAT similar.
It was alright though. The surprise ending was pretty cool.
did you even read the post?because you're retarded
how about you stop trying to be such a fucking cock to me all the time and actually read what i wrote.
Also, anyone else here run to rotten tomatoes after hearing people state what movies they saw recently? I'm usually more of a tv show junkie, but kinda RAN OUTTA THOSE, lol. So I'm snooping around here, and picking and choosing random movies you all saw, granted it gets a FRESH from rotten tomatoes.
I've also rented Farcry, Uwe Boll's latest adventure into video game destruction. . . should be interesting.
synecdoche, new york. i'm still not entirely sure what i think about it. i'll have to watch it again
finally saw fantastic mr. fox, loved every minute of it. jesus what a good movie.
Anyone see Princess and the Frog? I'm going tuesday or wednesday, wanted to know if it's any good.
Velfarre, I really want to see that movie about the fox. It looks wicked.
why do people go to see movies like this in the theaters
i mean woo i love disney
Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review claiming "With The Princess and the Frog they've gotten just about everything right. The dialogue is fresh-prince clever, the themes are ageless, the rhythms are riotous and the return to a primal animation style is beautifully executed." [36]jesus christ. I googled her and she's old and white btw
there are so few movies in theatres nowadays that i want to go see that i'll take any excuse because i love going to the movies i just hate most of the movies coming out!!!!right but these are disney movies.
i'd rather go to the movies to see something i actually would like to see one time than not go at all
i just hope it doesn't have a trailer for tooth fairy before it like mr. fox did because i might puke if i have to watch it again
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. Spoilers...
Whether Avatar is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick District 9, released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race. Specifically, it's a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people. Avatar and scifi films like it give us the opportunity to answer the question: What do white people fantasize about when they fantasize about racial identity?
Avatar imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent. In the film, a group of soldiers and scientists have set up shop on the verdant moon Pandora, whose landscapes look like a cross between Northern California's redwood cathedrals and Brazil's tropical rainforest. The moon's inhabitants, the Na'vi, are blue, catlike versions of native people: They wear feathers in their hair, worship nature gods, paint their faces for war, use bows and arrows, and live in tribes. Watching the movie, there is really no mistake that these are alien versions of stereotypical native peoples that we've seen in Hollywood movies for decades.
And Pandora is clearly supposed to be the rich, beautiful land America could still be if white people hadn't paved it over with concrete and strip malls. In Avatar, our white hero Jake Sully (sully - get it?) explains that Earth is basically a war-torn wasteland with no greenery or natural resources left. The humans started to colonize Pandora in order to mine a mineral called unobtainium that can serve as a mega-energy source. But a few of these humans don't want to crush the natives with tanks and bombs, so they wire their brains into the bodies of Na'vi avatars and try to win the natives' trust. Jake is one of the team of avatar pilots, and he discovers to his surprise that he loves his life as a Na'vi warrior far more than he ever did his life as a human marine.
Jake is so enchanted that he gives up on carrying out his mission, which is to persuade the Na'vi to relocate from their "home tree," where the humans want to mine the unobtanium. Instead, he focuses on becoming a great warrior who rides giant birds and falls in love with the chief's daughter. When the inevitable happens and the marines arrive to burn down the Na'vi's home tree, Jake switches sides. With the help of a few human renegades, he maintains a link with his avatar body in order to lead the Na'vi against the human invaders. Not only has he been assimilated into the native people's culture, but he has become their leader.
This is a classic scenario you've seen in non-scifi epics from Dances With Wolves to The Last Samurai, where a white guy manages to get himself accepted into a closed society of people of color and eventually becomes its most awesome member. But it's also, as I indicated earlier, very similar in some ways to District 9. In that film, our (anti)hero Wikus is trying to relocate a shantytown of aliens to a region far outside Johannesburg. When he's accidentally squirted with fluid from an alien technology, he begins turning into one of the aliens against his will. Deformed and cast out of human society, Wikus reluctantly helps one of the aliens to launch their stalled ship and seek help from their home planet.
If we think of Avatar and its ilk as white fantasies about race, what kinds of patterns do we see emerging in these fantasies?
In both Avatar and District 9, humans are the cause of alien oppression and distress. Then, a white man who was one of the oppressors switches sides at the last minute, assimilating into the alien culture and becoming its savior. This is also the basic story of Dune, where a member of the white royalty flees his posh palace on the planet Dune to become leader of the worm-riding native Fremen (the worm-riding rite of passage has an analog in Avatar, where Jake proves his manhood by riding a giant bird). An interesting tweak on this story can be seen in 1980s flick Enemy Mine, where a white man (Dennis Quaid) and the alien he's been battling (Louis Gossett Jr.) are stranded on a hostile planet together for years. Eventually they become best friends, and when the alien dies, the human raises the alien's child as his own. When humans arrive on the planet and try to enslave the alien child, he lays down his life to rescue it. His loyalties to an alien have become stronger than to his own species.
These are movies about white guilt. Our main white characters realize that they are complicit in a system which is destroying aliens, AKA people of color - their cultures, their habitats, and their populations. The whites realize this when they begin to assimilate into the "alien" cultures and see things from a new perspective. To purge their overwhelming sense of guilt, they switch sides, become "race traitors," and fight against their old comrades. But then they go beyond assimilation and become leaders of the people they once oppressed. This is the essence of the white guilt fantasy, laid bare. It's not just a wish to be absolved of the crimes whites have committed against people of color; it's not just a wish to join the side of moral justice in battle. It's a wish to lead people of color from the inside rather than from the (oppressive, white) outside.
Think of it this way. Avatar is a fantasy about ceasing to be white, giving up the old human meatsack to join the blue people, but never losing white privilege. Jake never really knows what it's like to be a Na'vi because he always has the option to switch back into human mode. Interestingly, Wikus in District 9 learns a very different lesson. He's becoming alien and he can't go back. He has no other choice but to live in the slums and eat catfood. And guess what? He really hates it. He helps his alien buddy to escape Earth solely because he's hoping the guy will come back in a few years with a "cure" for his alienness. When whites fantasize about becoming other races, it's only fun if they can blithely ignore the fundamental experience of being an oppressed racial group. Which is that you are oppressed, and nobody will let you be a leader of anything.
This is not a message anybody wants to hear, least of all the white people who are creating and consuming these fantasies. Afro-Canadian scifi writer Nalo Hopkinson recently told the Boston Globe:
In the US, to talk about race is to be seen as racist. You become the problem because you bring up the problem. So you find people who are hesitant to talk about it.
She adds that the main mythic story you find in science fiction, generally written by whites, "is going to a foreign culture and colonizing it."
Sure, Avatar goes a little bit beyond the basic colonizing story. We are told in no uncertain terms that it's wrong to colonize the lands of native people. Our hero chooses to join the Na'vi rather than abide the racist culture of his own people. But it is nevertheless a story that revisits the same old tropes of colonization. Whites still get to be leaders of the natives - just in a kinder, gentler way than they would have in an old Flash Gordon flick or in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars novels.
When will whites stop making these movies and start thinking about race in a new way?
First, we'll need to stop thinking that white people are the most "relatable" characters in stories. As one blogger put it:
By the end of the film you're left wondering why the film needed the Jake Sully character at all. The film could have done just as well by focusing on an actual Na'vi native who comes into contact with crazy humans who have no respect for the environment. I can just see the explanation: "Well, we need someone (an avatar) for the audience to connect with. A normal guy will work better than these tall blue people." However, this is the type of thinking that molds all leads as white male characters (blank slates for the audience to project themselves upon) unless your name is Will Smith.
But more than that, whites need to rethink their fantasies about race.
Whites need to stop remaking the white guilt story, which is a sneaky way of turning every story about people of color into a story about being white. Speaking as a white person, I don't need to hear more about my own racial experience. I'd like to watch some movies about people of color (ahem, aliens), from the perspective of that group, without injecting a random white (erm, human) character to explain everything to me. Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before. But until white people stop making movies like Avatar, I fear that I'm doomed to see the same old story again and again.
Just got back from Avatar 3D. REALLY really impressive, visually. The plot and dialogue - eh. Not so much. In fact, I don't even think they did one single rewrite. At all.you can't tell me anyone is brilliant enough to come up with unobtainium on the first try
Totally entertaining, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
Just got back from Avatar 3D. REALLY really impressive, visually. The plot and dialogue - eh. Not so much. In fact, I don't even think they did one single rewrite. At all.
Totally entertaining, though.
Should have used "Blue" by Eiffel 65
The movie managed to make me care about the characters, as there was a lot at stake.
I fucking loved it. It was a gorgeous film, and very deeply described a very interesting alien culture. The movie managed to make me care about the characters, as there was a lot at stake.lol
I watched Still Life by Jia Zhang Ke last night. It was on this list of films a bunch of smartguys think are the best of the last decade and I am just going to work my way through that for a while.
Anyway the film was good. I thought it was mostly about how corruption in China today is leaving the country in a bad state, and how everyone is out to make a little profit whereever they can. I mean the story was about these two people looking for their estranged spouses but that isn't very interesting by itself so I didn't really care about that, although all the blurbs and reviews I read kept calling it 'A HUMAN TRIUMPH' which is a worthless way to describe something but usually it means YES VERY EMOTIONAL which the film wasn't really, at least not to me. It was pretty depressing alot of the time, and also funny sometimes.
Also there were two moments I did not understand and they will be the obvious ones to anyone who has seen it: the ufo speeding through the town, and the building suddenly taking off into space. I mean there isn't any explanation and I can't think of any thematic relevance so why were those moments thrown in? Curious! Very curious...
just saw avatar and it's fucking incredible!
finally saw fantastic mr. fox, loved every minute of it. jesus what a good movie.
Rodriguez is currently working on two screenplays. One is a family film based on a concept which she describes as "a 2012 story about purity and animals and children."
holy shit please noaaaaahahahaha what the fuuuu
I thought the alien culture was quite cool although I could tell it borrowed heavily from African stuff.Yeah, the culture was really in-depth and made up for the story we've seen a dozen times before.
6.5/10
Yeah, the culture was really in-depth and made up for the story we've seen a dozen times before.
but I'm just going to stop there because GW is full of people who didn't like Avatar and want everyone to know they didn't like Avatar.
Yeah, the culture was really in-depth and made up for the story we've seen a dozen times before.
Not directly related, but I did just see District 9.District 9 is fucking awesome. I don't give a fuck what anyone says, that movie rules.
I haven't seen Avatar yet, but I have a feeling I'm going to like District 9 a little bit more regardless. Well, unless I can see Avatar while it's still in theaters, I can't help but get a kick out of the 3d stuff.
Just saw Sherlock Holmes on xmas. It was amazing. Go see it. You will enjoy!
but I'm just going to stop there because GW is full of people who didn't like Avatar and want everyone to know they didn't like Avatar.
CONTAINS A SPOILER ABOUT MICHELLEshe is the worst actress ever
DO YOU WANT TO KILL SOME MOTHERFUCKING NAZIS LET'S KILL SOME MOTHERFUCKING NAZIS to a bunch of israelis before firing the projector up.
what is PF?
I thought the alien culture was quite cool although I could tell it borrowed heavily from African stuff.ahahahahahaha
she is the worst actress ever
ahahahahahaha
nah that's not what I mean. like I know you are from NZ so all that western shit probably seems the same to you, but if you were American that comment is funny kinda like my sig. primal, primitive...big lips and braided hair
no their actual culture/philosophy/fashion borrows from the european exploration era american indians and islanders. which may have been intentional to DRAW PARALLELS (as if they needed any help) but nah it was probably just cameron and crew being unoriginal idiots
the EAR GAUGES could look african but actually a lot of different cultures from all over the world practice gauging including the native americans
you slipped up son................. :fogetshifty: :fogetshifty:nativeamericans indianbs
I watched Ichi the Killer yesterday and it was really really gross I can't believe I listened to anyone who suggested I watch it. Here's a tip for you guys: Don't watch Ichi the Killer!!!
i have the same opinion on this movie
just watched "drag me to hell".sounds a lot like the new indiana jones movie
pretty awesome. lots of people puking into each others mouths.
Just watched 9. That was so awesome. I recommend it. Wonderful. It does look a bit like Playstation 4 probably will, but still. It's the perfect setting.
really? all of the reviews i heard of this movie said it was really awful
also it's really weird how many NINE movies we've had in the last little bit....9, Nine, District 9, etc.
wait. if there is one thing that avatar did not feel like, it was short.
Pietir Jeckson's?
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yeah I saw that the other day and thought it was pretty entertaining. Robert Downey Jr seems to be great in everything he does and seeing London in Victoria times never looked so great. The only part that was a bit of was when they somehow went from houses of parliment to tower bridge under a secret passage when Westminster and Tower Hill are pretty far away from each. Not quite sure if they were just ignoring geography or pretending that this long passage would exist, becuase I dunno, did anyone else get the feeling in the movie that Tower Bridge was built right next to Parliment?THAT SURE SOUNDS LIKE A MYSTERY
yeah it was just not good. i didn't like the whole shaky cam thing at all, and for how awesome of a subject and casting there was for the movie, everything just seemed really underwhelming.dude i remember when you went to see it and i asked you how it was on irc and you said it was great and i was all hyped up. waddafrack man.
g....gulp!!! this is all so complicated why can't we just call them(/me???) something that makes sense! Why we gotta have so many tribes and shit why we gotta live in a country named after the continent its on!so uh, was it good movie or bad movie?
whatever whatever
I watched Ichi the Killer yesterday and it was really really gross I can't believe I listened to anyone who suggested I watch it. Here's a tip for you guys: Don't watch Ichi the Killer!!!
@vellfurry is that the one with the incest I can't rememer
they sell life-sized decals of edward for your wall that say "BE SAFE" because little girls want to pretend like edward is just standing there watching them when they sleep i think this is actually MORE creepy than the twilight dildo that you refrigerate so it feels DEAD
edit: though if you have a promiscuous teen that's into twilight maybe you could buy this and under where it says "be safe" add in another decal that says "use a condom"
OMG I love the vamp I glued a bunch of hair from my moms wigs onto it and pretended it's Jacob :] GO VAMP!
But I am being 100% truthful when I say this changed my life.
Don't you like to see ellen page wearing a little thing then afura? :fogetnaughty:
OMG I love the vamp I glued a bunch of hair from my moms wigs onto it and pretended it's Jacob :] GO VAMP!it's bad enough that the dildo is real this makes it even worse ahhhh eeew eeew ahhhhh. i think it's creepier than the whole be safe silhouette because they're not rubbing their vaginas over it unless...it...unless... ahhhhhhhh nooooo
i really like that there's a dildo called "john doe" in the same store. just a regular dick! no cumbersome bells and whistles. SOLID.... MADE IN USA. durable and built to last. now you can "do it" with the computer technican or tile grout salesman of your dreams. "just plain, please!". order today. it's like those porn moives featuring SEXY SECRETARIES or SEXY REAL-ESTATE AGENTS.
@catamites That dildo description actually sounds like the narrative from one of your AGS games when you click on an interesting object in a room.
That's my fave Tarantino movie but when I say this I get drowned out by people going "BUT PULP FICTION LOL!2"
That's why I am planning to systematically exterminate you all.
nobody does that. that used to be a thing i hated too but that has become something that will get you exiled from society.
I think when people quote peter kay and start yelling GARLIC BREAD? is the worst. Makes my bodily fluids boil.
people who quote pulp fiction in regular conversation are the worst
it's cool when people quote monty python but I think you're all forgetting how many people quote dane cook. nevermind this conversation is already pretty long
it's cool when people quote monty python but I think you're all forgetting how many people quote dane cook.
reservoir dogs is better than pulp fiction imo
i cannot think of any quoting that is worse than monty python quotingdid nobody ever quote napoleon dynamite all day long where you lived? (poorly constructed sentence)
did nobody ever quote napoleon dynamite all day long where you lived? (poorly constructed sentence)
What's worse is how people do that annoying fake british accent that they do in the movie. It was mildly amusing in it, but grating in real life.this is mostly their real accents just played up slightly
Never seen Monty Python so if anyone has ever quoted from it, I wouldnt know.You should see it. It's pretty classic, imho
i found monty python to be more of a stepping stone to better stuff, like peter cook or spike milligan(who python was admittedly a sad ripoff of anyway). i can still watch python and enjoy much of it for what it is, but it's not the sort of thing that i can really watch with frequency. i'm really talking about the tv show too, because i find the first two movies almost entirely unwatchable now.
anyway, i watched Pp. pretty good movie and surprisingly sincere at times, but they really didn't have the content for a full movie. instead of just being an ok movie, it could have been a tremendous short film. there was about 15 minutes of really great stuff and an hour and change of this fluff that didn't really contribute to what the movie was about. it was excellent for what it was, though, and was a bit more engaging than i had expected it to be.did you mean to type up? because thats pretty much how i felt about it when i saw it when it came out. i saw it cos my gf really wanted to go, and i was expecting another bolt or whatever but was pleasantly surprised. it did seem kinda spaced out at times, but the fact i cared about the movie at all means it was 100000x better than most recent pixar movies
here's how you make a special-effects driven film btw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aFxk0aUuU)
here's how you make a special-effects driven film btw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8aFxk0aUuU)
so yeah, phase stuff. tim and eric are absolutely like that, to an even greater extent. i can still watch python for a few minutes every once in a long while, but i can't watch tim and eric at all anymore. it's really dumb stuff and once the effect the weirdness has on you wears off, there isn't any reason to continue watching. there's a lot of humor like that really, but tim and eric are really glaring examples of it.
but also I have no idea why you would think eric is a hipster prick
just wanna stick my middle finger in here:you know, i'd really have difficulty calling tim and eric legitimate satirists, which is kinda what you're suggesting here. i kinda connected with them at first because i liked how the show is like this big parody of what television is, but i don't really think there's much more to what they do than that in that program, and once that general comedic concept wore out, i couldn't find a whole lot to like in the show apart from the occasional quality guest performance(and i'm really talking about john c. reilly). it's really just this string of strange and awkward television parodies, and you pretty much know what you're going to get from every show, even if the settings are relatively different. that's kinda the point of the show i guess, but i think the concept isn't really strong enough to last several seasons. i'd liken it to a joke that lasts too long, but that's kinda their forte. the same could be said for tom goes to the mayor, i think, but i've found there's even less substance there.
I can see your point with some of tim and eric. There is too much of the lazy kind of weirdness they do in their stuff, but I definitely don't think that all of tim and eric is dumb. I dunno if listing examples is the best way to go about arguing this but the cinco brothers + jim and derrick episodes are both great pretty much all the way through, the office romance clips, most of the cinco product ads - i don't know that you can even call that stuff weird. it's pretty straightforward satire of corporate phonies and rapists. there is some stuff which is probably a bit less easy to defend, like richard dunn's segments. i really like them, though. alot!
it isn't as if there is nothing behind tim and eric. they aren't solely random-monging dickheads.
i mean if we're going to cut tim and eric out of the good stuff because they occasionally spend a 5 minute sketch doing nothing but slapping sloppy joes together while making faces then what's leftprobably not a lot, but that in itself doesn't make them any more worth anybody's time.
what's left
phase stuff?? more like neil hamburger and brother theodore because once you get what they're doing it's pretty bland and straightforward, particularly with neil. but I don't think this makes them bad comedians and I'm just being a curmudgeonlol are you actually trying to antagonize me because i called your favorite comedians phase humor? sorry but i just don't think they're that talented or worthwhile!
did you mean to type up? because thats pretty much how i felt about it when i saw it when it came out. i saw it cos my gf really wanted to go, and i was expecting another bolt or whatever but was pleasantly surprised. it did seem kinda spaced out at times, but the fact i cared about the movie at all means it was 100000x better than most recent pixar moviesi guess this is what quality art is :D
also that short movie was awesome. dare i say i want........ MORE?? but no it was really good. i really liked the music tbh.
i'm not really sure what i'm supposed to gain from their constant setting up painfully awkward situations, particularly with the reality that they went far out of their way to get guys like david liebe hart and james quall who really do not appear to be stable, well-balanced people. at first i felt like it was embracing these awkward sectors of humanity, which i found to be a pretty charming idea, but the more i watched the show the more it felt really exploitative. you really are meant to laugh AT these people, not WITH them, and something honestly feels very cruel about that. it's possible i've read too far into this, but i can't shake the feeling that they're just making fun of these totally crazy, albeit pretty likable, individuals because they CAN and guys like hart and quall are desperate enough for steady pay and publicity to do it.
AVC: Is there any part of you that's uncomfortable putting these people on TV?
TH: We're very careful not to cross a line, and the line's impossible to see. We have to find these moments that make them loveable and funny at the same time. But we're not pointing our fingers and cackling at them.
EW: A lot of people that are on our show, the only reason they work is because of how sincere they are about what they're doing. David Liebe Hart is really into singing these songs about hellos and goodbyes on other planets, and how these other planets work, and I think that comes across. We don't want to abuse anybody. Tim and I, when we started out, knew that we weren't into really cruel comedy, making fun of people.
TH: Eric and I don't put ourselves on a pedestal, either. We're happy to go down and be as ridiculous as anybody else. We're not Johnny Knoxville or Ashton Kutcher, sitting up top and laughing at the people on our show. We're as ridiculous as everybody else.
EW: These people are part of our world now. David Liebe Hart stops by the office once a week, so does Richard Dunn. They've integrated into everything we do now. They're part of this community.
i think i agree with this. i've only started realizing it recently, and i guess i have been trying to give them the benefit of the doubt at every turn. like you said, thinking that they were embracing weird people rather than making fun of them but i have been rewatching some things and seen some new clips which really just seem like they are making fun of david liebe hart. i watched this a few days ago:
and this was the first time i'd been annoyed at them and thought they were acting like assholes because david liebe hart seems to be earnestly asking them to sit down and talk and they just keep on going with their joke which isn't really that funny anyway. this clip just seems mean, and i don't like it.
i think saying these strange performers are only doing this because they are desperate for a paycheck is a bit much - david liebe hart, james quall and richard dunn all clearly love going on tv + tour and getting all this attention. i don't think they are entirely victims, i mean come on. HOWEVER, it's just got to be true that 90% of the people who watch tim and eric are just thinking 'lol what a retard. this guy's aretrarded retard' every time one of them come on the screen.i don't know if i'd necessarily call them victims, because they are reaching a level of success that they wouldn't have reached otherwise, but yeah like you said at the end this isn't some scenario where they're really championing these people or making them look particularly creative or accountable. these people were chosen because they are ridiculous, and the show does nothing but illuminate that. if that wasn't all they particularly wanted from them, you'd see them in sketches, playing characters and generally doing things outside of their real-life personas. but as it stands, they just have them there being generally bizarre and ridiculous without any sort of greater function in the show.
so i can see how you could get to the position of just not liking tim and eric but i don't think it's the lack of skill they have that'll get you there. you say a few times about how it's when the joke of tv stops being funny that the show gets boring but i don't see how that's a fact. the show is about bad entertainment, and there are two sides to that: the assholes who make bad entertainment cynically, and the innocent people who make it earnestly. the first side you can always laugh at because fuck those guys they deserve everything that's coming to them...well my main point is that this isn't really substance at all. it kinda peripherally was for a little while, but it's a really narrow subject matter and there's nothing really being said or conveyed. it's just all these mock shows and advertisements, and the fact that it's literally inspired by something that exists in reality doesn't automatically make it substantial. i feel that in going out of their way to make fun of something insignificant, they have ultimately become as insignificant as the things they are parodying.
maybe i'm avoiding a conclusion here now, but there's more to the show than just being awkward i think. have you seen the episodes jim and derrick and the brothers cinco? i think those two episodes are where the mark is dead on. those episodes aren't just about awkwardness, they're about personalities and cynicism and all kinds of things you see on TV that need to be made fun of.i don't think they need to be made fun of at such an absurd length. i mean, cinco jokes are in virtually every episode, and i really GOT THE POINT rather early on. how many bullshit fake cinco commercials are there? didn't you kinda GET THE POINT after the first one? when you pump a subject matter for comedy for such an incredible amount of time, you aren't really making some sort of larger commentary on it, you're just trying to tell a joke. if it IS their goal to be intellectually substantial through the awesome show(which i seriously doubt) then they're just exceedingly bad at doing it. they really just pick on the television bottom feeders that only the most foolish people honestly take seriously. if they were HONESTLY committed to criticizing the fundamental flaws with television and media, untalented performers, thinly-veiled pyramid schemes, and shady companies would be the LAST THING to devote significant amounts of time to. there are unbelievably bigger fish to fry in the media sea, yet i don't see them even sniff in that direction.
i don't think there's really any use to saying 'yeah okay, MTV is bad - great joke guys. real clever' because that's just being a curmudgeon.i don't think it's quite that simple. like i said, i enjoyed the joke for a while and generally acknowledged its pertinence. in general, i feel season one was a bit more honest(could have been the newness of it though) but it really went downhill from there. the whole thing struck me as a whole lot more senselessly mean spirited towards these awkward people(cast members included) and beyond that it was really just the same flimsy television standards that they were criticizing over and over again with virtually no regard to how much they were basically telling the same joke over and over.
back to the other thing, though. this issue of laughing with or at people is something that has been on my mind alot lately.yeah, i really despise people that say shit like that. i don't think i would be able to sit through a movie with that kind of stuff going on.
I first saw this movie last year alone with one person and we both sat and laughed and just had an excellent time. It's a really, really badly made movie by a guy with a very weird, superficial way of looking at life. The acting in the film is awful and Tommy Wiseau's is absolutely wacky on top. Anyway, for a while I was thinking this is definitely one of my favourite movies because I had such an excellent time watching it and thinking about it afterwards.
So last month I went to see a screening of it in london. I'd heard the screenings were great fun and everyone went wild at them. It was true that the audience was really lively, and people got up and ran around and basically got involved in the whole thing so it was a bit of a spectacle. There was a problem though - the audience was mean. They were pointing and laughing at all the wrong things, and didn't really seem to like it for the same reasons I do. There is a character in the movie who everyone keeps insisting is beautiful, and people just kept shouting out things about how she was ugly and fat. People were saying things like retard and all this. People were too busy with their sarcasm to enjoy all the best bits, it seemed like.
Anyway I was thinking about it later and wondering if I was just one of those people except I used a word other than retard because I've got better sense and I don't think that is why I like the film. I just really enjoyed it. I don't know - that there are people like Tommy Wiseau who get to make movies and just put such a crazy mess up on screen is funny and nice and it's a great time to watch this movie. The fans might be annoying, but I don't think Tommy Wiseau is a victim here.
So, I don't know. I am at the point of trying to decide if you can laugh at these people and let them in on it at the same time. It feels right, feels like I can! but i just don't know if i can justify it to myself yet.
lol are you actually trying to antagonize me because i called your favorite comedians phase humor?no. it's true that they are among my favorite comedians, but it doesn't bother me if you don't like them. I was trying to antagonize you because as I had said somewhere else in the same post, I really don't appreciate philosophies on humor. and while I knew you could come up with a post about it I doubted it would have any meaningful insight into why they are fundamentally bad (or at best phase humor) comedians. from what I've read of the rest of your posts on the matter you've done a bit more than that, and I can kind of agree with some of it. the situation with David and his songs does come across as a little mean. but I'm not ready to believe they are entirely insensitive to David himself, and that they would still include him on the show if it was bad for him or it made him unhappy. david really loves having his work on the show and as seen on nite live, was sincerely overjoyed when he saw a video of a fan performing one of his songs. I'm sure a lot of people laugh at him because they think he's an idiot and a freak but I don't think it's fair to say that's what TNE are advocating. he is a really cool guy and I'm glad awesome show introduced me to him
i DO disagree about theodore, but that comes slightly from the fact that his work attempted to do things that no creative person has attempted to do for hundreds of years. you'd need to go back to the 1600s and dig through renaissance drama to find people doing black comedy like that. that's the sort of thing i appreciate, but i don't necessarily expect others to. still, outside of that, i really would be inclined to argue that his rather fiercely unique perspective of the world and comedy do give him more lasting appeal outside of a couple cheap giggles.yeah, I mostly agree. the first part just makes him a noteworthy comedian, but the second part about being so unique a character keeps him refreshing. but in my experience, as you grow to know brother theodore he becomes less hilarious and more simply likeable and endearing
I was trying to antagonize you because as I had said somewhere else in the same post, I really don't appreciate philosophies on humor.why not? humor isn't some natural occurring entity with no interior explanation. there are reasons why certain things are regarded as funny, and other things are not. quality humor IS really about expression and the ability to zero in on and abstract concepts in reality. this isn't even a philosophy as much as it is a factor that underlies about how comedy works. sure the ultimate evaluation regarding how funny something is, or how funny it is at all is open to opinion, but the underlying logic and thought processes behind it are not these scientifically unknowable psychological concepts, which is what a lot of people tend to believe. don't forget that humor is a creative entity, and there are schools of thought that evaluate the worth of creative entities.
the situation with David and his songs does come across as a little mean. but I'm not ready to believe they are entirely insensitive to David himself, and that they would still include him on the show if it was bad for him or it made him unhappy.that's not the question i'm asking here. my question is if they perceive hart as a legitimate collaborator, or if they are exploiting his clear mental problems for some potentially dubious comedic end. like i said earlier, what if hart had down syndrome? would you be able to reconcile that easier? hart is clearly disturbed and they have him on their show for no other reason than to parade around how disturbed he is. i don't think there's a fundamental difference there. they're making fun of someone with a form of mental incapacitation, and i think that's a rather staggeringly immature way to formulate a creative career.
not sure any of this makes them bad comedians, it just potentially paints a kinda gross picture of themi don't think they're bad comedians, because their work is fairly unique and creative, and they do occasionally produce the inventive piece of comedy. i said they won't have a lot of lasting appeal due to how lacking in diversity and intelligence their work is. all the stuff about hart and others aside, they do beat jokes to death and reuse the same general themes to the point where any humor or meaning becomes negligible. comparing them to the three stooges would be pretty appropriate, given the similarities in shallowness and monotonous nature of their subject matter, and the only reason why the three stooges are remembered at all is because of how mind-bogglingly cheap the syndication rights are.
why not? humor isn't some natural occurring entity with no interior explanation. there are reasons why certain things are regarded as funny, and other things are not. quality humor IS really about expression and the ability to zero in on and abstract concepts in reality. this isn't even a philosophy as much as it is a factor that underlies about how comedy works. sure the ultimate evaluation regarding how funny something is, or how funny it is at all is open to opinion, but the underlying logic and thought processes behind it are not these scientifically unknowable psychological concepts, which is what a lot of people tend to believe. don't forget that humor is a creative entity, and there are schools of thought that evaluate the worth of creative entities.well I could tell you wanted to talk about it!! you can't tell me you didn't enjoy stroking your ego in that last part.
criticizing me because i evaluate humor in the same way i evaluate literature or film is pretty narrow-minded. i don't think it's an illegitimate or worthless way to perceive comedy. most people i encounter generally regard me as a funny person, and that doesn't stem solely from some subconscious process, but an effort i've made to express my thoughts in interesting and humorous ways based on what i know about how humor works. i absolutely wouldn't call myself some professional-grade comedian, or even a comedian at all since that isn't at all my intention, but it's been an effective and enjoyable method for me to interact with people and they seem to appreciate my outlook as a result. denying the possibility of evaluating comedy is just foolish. people do it and it enriches their lives. don't waste my time with this shit simply because i'm deeply interested in the subject and you wish to remain gleefully ignorant of it. there's nothing stopping you from simply continuing to scroll down the page if you aren't interested in seeing me pull back the curtain.
that's not the question i'm asking here. my question is if they perceive hart as a legitimate collaborator, or if they are exploiting his clear mental problems for some potentially dubious comedic end. like i said earlier, what if hart had down syndrome? would you be able to reconcile that easier? hart is clearly disturbed and they have him on their show for no other reason than to parade around how disturbed he is. i don't think there's a fundamental difference there. they're making fun of someone with a form of mental incapacitationare they? I thought this was a concern of yours (and mine and jamie's too), not a strong conviction. I haven't seen anyone say anything to indicate that tim and eric are without a doubt exploiting a man of poor mental heath as a freak for their audience to laugh at. does david not know why he's on the show and why his songs make people laugh when he's performing on stage? as you said at the beginning of this same quote, are they even presenting him as a freak at all, or something a lot more benign, like a cool and kind of nutty guy they like to make videos with?
are they? I thought this was a concern of yours (and mine and jamie's too), not a strong conviction. I haven't seen anyone say anything to indicate that tim and eric are without a doubt exploiting a man of poor mental heath as a freak for their audience to laugh at. does david not know why he's on the show and why his songs make people laugh when he's performing on stage? as you said at the beginning of this same quote, are they even presenting him as a freak at all, or something a lot more benign, like a cool and kind of nutty guy they like to make videos with?
I'm sure Tim and Eric are smart enough to realize that with so many people enjoying the funny songs he performs on stage, that more than a few of them view this person as entertaining on a basis where they look down to him and only find him enjoyable as some unstable freak with a really awkward taste in puppetry. That doesn't mean it was their intention to present him as such in order to only appeal to and entertain the folk that view him as such, and it certainly doesn't mean they need to take responsibility for how a certain subset of people may view one of the people they are collaborating with when they present his work to them. (especially when the majority of those people most likely hold the exact same opinion of Tim and Eric themselves) They may very well may have a lot stronger feelings on the matter since they know the guy personally enough to work with him based on their own reasons to enjoy the things he does for themselves.i really do have difficulty accepting this as fact or even all that likely, which is to a point essential in appreciating their show. i think tim and eric's portrayal of concepts in their show is actually overwhelmingly negative the majority of the time. i didn't find this to be the case as much in season 1, but after that it appeared to me that the jokes became progressively less light-hearted and legitimately meant to criticize the concepts and people under the microscope rather than attempt to embrace them. much of their show really IS disgusting people doing legitimately objectionable things, and i grew more and more uninterested in the show when it began to feel less and less like an odd tribute to awkward or disconnected people and more like some form of commentary. when things like this occur next to these odd freakshow people, i find it exceptionally difficult to figure out what the function of these odd people are, since they really aren't portrayed in a positive light either and really DON'T have a function within the show greater than highlighting their deficiencies. the line between being things they visibly dislike and the things they insist they like is completely nonexistent within the show.
They probably didn't really think about it too much beyond the mere fact that there could be plenty of other people out there with reasons to enjoy watching this man, and that they should make him a part of their show just on that merit alone.
not everything deserves to be put down or to be cynically scrutinized. all you'll really accomplish by doing so is to annoy people you'd otherwise agree with. or in an argument you may come to realize the liberties you've been granting the humor you do like, simply because you've found no reason to rip into it. that is just an awful way to live, and it makes it difficult to really enjoy anything. every form of art has its own group of annoying cynical hypercritics. it works best with the visual arts like painting, because few people use that kind of art purely for entertainment and those who do aren't coming in contact with those kind of critiques anyway. if you've explored music on the internet much, you've no doubt come in contact with an irksome Music Fuck. a humor fuck is the only thing worseman, it's like you really can't get your mind around someone understanding and still legitimately disliking tim and eric's work without being some ultra-critic who is fundamentally incapable of appreciating anything. i don't know how you can suggest i'm a HUMOR FUCK for not liking staggeringly unintelligent comedians who have absolute zero acting and performance ability and are completely oblivious of when to stop strangling a joke that's been dead for years. it's not like there is a shortage of legitimate comedy out there. around when i got sick of tim and eric, i went looking for other comedy performers and stumbled onto peter cook, a fundamentally similar comedian with a universe more of depth, diversity, and ability. i fail to see how this is an AWFUL WAY TO LIVE, since abandoning tim and eric led me to seeking out a comedian who i found dramatically more rewarding.
man, it's like you really can't get your mind around someone understanding and still legitimately disliking tim and eric's work without being some ultra-critic who is fundamentally incapable of appreciating anything.well uh no, that's not the case. it's kind of disappointing that's what you got out of all that. I haven't said anything about liking or disliking tim and eric, I've actually talked about everything besides that. you can think what you want and as I have said before I don't care about your opinion of them whatsoever. the problem I have is with what you are presenting as legitimate criticism of their humor:
i don't know how you can suggest i'm a HUMOR FUCK for not liking staggeringly unintelligent comedians who have absolute zero acting and performance ability and are completely oblivious of when to stop strangling a joke that's been dead for years. it's not like there is a shortage of legitimate comedy out there. around when i got sick of tim and eric, i went looking for other comedy performers and stumbled onto peter cook, a fundamentally similar comedian with a universe more of depth, diversity, and ability. i fail to see how this is an AWFUL WAY TO LIVE, since abandoning tim and eric led me to seeking out a comedian who i found dramatically more rewarding.now that you're not talking about david you're no longer saying anything. a joke that's been dead? what joke? what do you know about humor getting old, how did you know when this joke turned sour? what makes them bad actors? I think they can be pretty good actors at times. and now they've gone from not very smart to staggeringly unintelligent. and it's not just this post, it's every post you made about them that isn't about their collaborators. this isn't criticism. these are personal complaints that don't mean anything to anyone but you. the only thing in this post you've said that serves any purpose other than to annoy is when you mentioned peter cook, who may very well be a much more successful comedian. I'll check him out. and in this next sentence I started to say something about how peter cook might also have his own shortcomings and to dwell on them when you enjoy his work so much would be a miserable thing to do, but I really see no reason to repeat points I've already made just because you've selectively chosen which parts of my post to isolate and dissect
now that you're not talking about david you're no longer saying anything.most of what i believe on the matter was covered in this post (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=8481.msg1569500#msg1569500) and this one (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=8481.msg1569508#msg1569508) and i don't really care enough about this conversation to go into detail outside of what i've already covered there. i'd need to start picking apart clips to show what i mean on some greater academic level, and there's no way i'm going to start wasting my time on that. i think i've allowed you to troll me enough on this topic.
Monty Python has always been hit or miss for me and I think it has to do with the level of absurdity.Monty Python is the predecessor of monkey cheese. If you can't figure out why that isn't funny, it's because it's not. It's a caveman hitting himself in the face with a club saying 'monkey cheese' over and over.
Take this well-known scene for example:
It's like some kind of crazy performance art, and it's so abstract that I don't find any humor in it. Watching some of these skits makes me question the true nature of humor and why some people find certain things funny, because it's all entirely subjective.
I remember watching this clip with Drule a year or so ago and we were both upset with the way they treated David. I think the problem is that most of the guys they have on the show like David Liebe Hart and James Quall (not Richard Dunn, he knows what he's doing!!!! (I think they all know what they're doing but Richard Dunn is a character actor and the other dudes are Genuinely Weird Dudes)) are kind of socially incapable and invite this treatment. It's sort of like Maury Povich, where they'd parade all these people on the stage for everyone to judge or laugh at. I don't know if that's their intention, but looking at this clip again kind of makes me wonder.
Monty Python has always been hit or miss for me and I think it has to do with the level of absurdity.although this isn't what monty python was really ever like. this clip was from their last movie, which they shouldn't have made because they were admittedly out of monty python ideas at that point. the major bulk of their sketches are just kinda blatantly silly rather than being this deliberately dense performance art kind of thing. it was exceptionally rare that their humor was ever that abstract. it's usually very easy to identify how a python sketch could be funny, but whether or not it was is a different matter entirely.
Take this well-known scene for example:
It's like some kind of crazy performance art, and it's so abstract that I don't find any humor in it. Watching some of these skits makes me question the true nature of humor and why some people find certain things funny, because it's all entirely subjective.
Monty Python is the predecessor of monkey cheese. If you can't figure out why that isn't funny, it's because it's not. It's a caveman hitting himself in the face with a club saying 'monkey cheese' over and over.i don't know if that's fair. monty python is also the predecessor of tim and eric and pretty much all humor of that nature. i don't really think it's a coincidence that the actual structure of tim and eric mimics python almost exactly. like tim and eric, python was extraordinarily heavy on parodying fake commercials, television programs, and public figures to an almost nauseating extent. even the quirky visual style is similar in nature, with tim and eric's being the garbled poorly edited public access mess, and python being terry gilliam's ridiculous take on turn of the century art(although gilliam's work is really far superior here). most python wasn't really that senselessly random either, and a lot of it did have an identifiable thought pattern behind it rather than just being overwhelmingly pointless stupidity.
Monty Python is the predecessor of monkey cheese. If you can't figure out why that isn't funny, it's because it's not. It's a caveman hitting himself in the face with a club saying 'monkey cheese' over and over.I'll upload some of the best eps for you if you want.
I haven't watched Tim and Eric since season 1!! I really want to watch more of it because I enjoy it a lot and I'm not sure why I haven't. I don't know where the show has gone since season 1 outside of a few clips I've seen, but it's all seemed pretty okay to me. What Hundley said about the show being a tribute to these weird people is what I enjoyed about it. If it's developed into something more malicious then I can see where he's coming from. I really hope it hasn't!!!
tim and eric haven't really done public access style stuff since season 2. that was mainly season 1, which also had the most stupid/immature humor
watched the hero of time again.Which Dawn of the dead? the first one or the remake? I've seen both. the original is OK. but it hasn't aged well and I honestly liked the remake.
oh, and dawn of the dead. i wasn't super impressed by it. :(
groundhog day is my black hole film i let myself feel better withI used to watch G-hog day when I was down in the dumps too!!
Which Dawn of the dead? the first one or the remake? I've seen both. the original is OK. but it hasn't aged well and I honestly liked the remake.youre so wrong
Which Dawn of the dead? the first one or the remake? I've seen both. the original is OK. but it hasn't aged well and I honestly liked the remake.
Groundhog Day. Pretty neat concept, but cheesy ending. Should Bill Murray have to spend every waking minute helping people out to achieve fulfillment? I guess so. Somebody please tell me another worthwhile Bill Murray movie that isn't Ghostbusters or The Life Aquatic.
Which Dawn of the dead? the first one or the remake? I've seen both. the original is OK. but it hasn't aged well and I honestly liked the remake.The remake. It had some great ideas, but I was expecting it to be better.
How dare you...PSH... The first one seemed like it DRAGGED ON.
Speaking of apocalyptic movies. Watched "Carriers". THESE CARROTS WERE RUNNING FROM THE COPS. ONLY I THINK THE CARROTS WERE PEOPLE AND THE COPS WERE A GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
Anyway, it was about a group of 4 people trying to run from a rash and cough inducing disease that is pretty much killing everyone on the planet.
I would say it was pretty good. however the characters had what I like to call "Horror Movie Character Syndrome" or HMCS.
Symptoms include:
-Taking completely unnecessary risks in situations where that gets you killed.
-Showing little forethought into what they are doing.
I saw Legion sunday night, knowing it would be pretty terrible, but I liked the premise so I paid the 9$.
Big mistake. I walked in thinking the ending was going to be pretty obvious the baby has to be the antichrist right? but sadly it seems that they didn't even make it that far.
Another thing that really bothered me, literally every character had a crying moment where they talked about their lost aspirations and shed, I kid you not, a single tear. Literally every character.
i don't know if that's fair. monty python is also the predecessor of tim and eric and pretty much all humor of that nature. i don't really think it's a coincidence that the actual structure of tim and eric mimics python almost exactly. like tim and eric, python was extraordinarily heavy on parodying fake commercials, television programs, and public figures to an almost nauseating extent. even the quirky visual style is similar in nature, with tim and eric's being the garbled poorly edited public access mess, and python being terry gilliam's ridiculous take on turn of the century art(although gilliam's work is really far superior here). most python wasn't really that senselessly random either, and a lot of it did have an identifiable thought pattern behind it rather than just being overwhelmingly pointless stupidity.i'm sitting here reading my book of goon show / Q / spike milligan-penned work and i want to say i am so glad you recognise this. i do still enjoy most of python's TV material but even michael palin categorised python as 'sub-goon show silliness' or words to that effect. spike milligan doesn't get the credit he deserves for seeding the careers of a lot of comedy acts.
at the time, monty python was pretty revolutionary. there really was no mainstream comedy that legitimately managed to push the boundaries of what comedy was. even if monty python doesn't hold up awful well, it really did open to door for other people to explore avenues of comedic expression, and that was their intention for the most part. the problem is that the style of monty python was ripped off of spike milligan and the goon show, and people falsly attribute the invention of that style of comedy to python, even though that isn't even vaguely true.
it's just unfortunate that nobody remembers spike milligan. comedy would be a lot more dull and conventional without his influence on others. as far as i've ever been able to tell, he was really where absurdist comedy was born. it's very likely we wouldn't have had the works of peter sellers either if it wasn't for how much he learned about comedy from spike milligan.
Oh, you thought the baby was going to be the antichrist? From the looks of the movie, I definitely thought that the baby was the second coming of Jesus or something similar.
saw moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_%28film%29). pretty good movie. can't say i was blown away by it, but i liked it. it was strange how much they approached these thought-provoking ideas in a way where it wouldn't provoke any thought about them at all. you could really nit-pick this movie to death, and it's not nearly as mind-blowing as people are giving it credit for, but it was mostly good. the production design was pretty solid considering the budget was only 5 million. the lack of apparent computer generated imagery was refreshing, if nothing else.i just came in here to post that i watched this earlier today
Finally saw I Love You, Man. Easily my favorite of this kind of new 'raunchy' comedy that everyone loves so much. Funny script for the most part but really Paul Rudd is the reason it works. Well, Jason Segal too, but to a lesser extent. Very funny movie though.I Love You, Man was raunchy? I guess it had a couple moments, but for the most part it's pretty tame.
Jason Segel was so much better than Paul Rudd in the movie. He was the main reason I loved the movie. I hated the ending, but then again I haven't seen a movie with a good ending in the longest time.
I Love You, Man was raunchy? I guess it had a couple moments, but for the most part it's pretty tame.
i just came in here to post that i watched this earlier todayyeah. they really could have fucked it up majorly, but handled all of the ridiculous elements with a lot of maturity. i think i went into it with pretty lofty expectations and expected to be TOTALLY BLOWN AWAY, which is why i wasn't nuts about it. still very happy that i saw it. i'm glad people are still into those gritty, old fashioned science fiction movies. i usually care about science fiction that much, but i get unreasonably soggy for movies in the same family as 2001 that do it the old fashioned way.
i thought it was an excellent movie considering how low budget it was but i guess they coulda ended it better. I love the deadpan handling of some p. fucked up situations.
wow primer is really good. what a good movie. i gotta watch this a few more times.yeah, man. i think i watched it three times the weekend when i first saw it, because i've never had a movie that really BEAT ME that i couldn't figure out completely after one viewing. a friend of mine let me borrow his copy and insisted that i wouldn't understand how everything worked after one viewing, so i went into it thinking HAH YEAH RIGHT MOTHERFUCKER I'M THE MASTER AT FIGURING THIS SHIT OUT. i made it about halfway through the movie thinking i was really getting it until the universe fell apart and i realized i actually had no idea what i had been watching for the last 30 minutes. i've never had a movie fuck me like that. it was pretty cool.
this one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/
watched antichrist today. criticisms aside it's a horror and it freaked me the hell out.
apart from ideological worries it has some art house pretensions that can make you feel like... one of those people, and some of the dialogue is a bit lame. but it works! i'd recommend it as long as you're not easily impressionableI just spent like an hour reading into this movie. I've never seen a movie like this before, so I think I might give it a go..
i just watched primer again because i didn't remember it being that confusing. the only confusing part is thomas granger. the first time i watched it i thought he was a duplicate of the that 70's dude look alike for some reason. i thought maybe he never used a box but since the ginger guy used the failsafe it meant his daughter was shot, which is why he was drunk with 2 days regrowth. but there's clearly two of them at the same time (phone call).yeah that hermione granger thing was the main part that confused me too. even after reading your spoiler I'm not sure why he runs or how he time-traveled. also I'm not sure if the Eric from that 70's show who's narrating is the same one that Hero Eric fought and locked in the attic or the other Eric that hasn't time-traveled yet.
the characters are really good since they're just average nerds i guess without that hollywood behaviour (what, WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? I DON'T.... UNDERSTAND).
watched antichrist today. criticisms aside it's a horror and it freaked me the hell out.
Yeah, I admit I prefer the old school vampire over that new age shit they call Twilight.
yeah that hermione granger thing was the main part that confused me too. even after reading your spoiler I'm not sure why he runs or how he time-traveled. also I'm not sure if the Eric from that 70's show who's narrating is the same one that Hero Eric fought and locked in the attic or the other Eric that hasn't time-traveled yet.
I thought about the film a lot earlier today without re-watching it (it was an early morning and I can't help what I think about on early mornings) and it started to seem more mashed together than deliberately idk what word I've been searching for let's go with NEBULOUS. if that's the case, and he just muddled everything to make it difficult to grasp rather than to reveal the storyline in an interesting and stimulating manner, then this is actually a pretty stupid movie. like the new the prisoner tv miniseries where the writers seemed to think "if we deliberately make it difficult to understand everyone will think it's deep and forget about how our two good guys have really weird mouths" also I hate everything on early mornings
I thought about the film a lot earlier today without re-watching it (it was an early morning and I can't help what I think about on early mornings) and it started to seem more mashed together than deliberately idk what word I've been searching for let's go with NEBULOUS. if that's the case, and he just muddled everything to make it difficult to grasp rather than to reveal the storyline in an interesting and stimulating manner, then this is actually a pretty stupid movie. like the new the prisoner tv miniseries where the writers seemed to think "if we deliberately make it difficult to understand everyone will think it's deep and forget about how our two good guys have really weird mouths" also I hate everything on early morningsno, that was all intentional. this wasn't some accidental clusterfuck of information. it's extremely possible to put together a very coherent timeline or sequence of events based on what happened. the exception is really granger, since that was left unknowable, but there really needed to be something like that in the story. at the basic level this is really a story about two ethically-unaware idiots opening pandora's box, and watching chaos ensue. i don't know how you can expect NEBULOUS from a movie that endeavors to portray that, since that goes against the central premise of the movie. the only way to tell this story was to make it totally fucking chaotic and ridiculous. i'm actually pretty impressed that he kept things as generally sane and understandable as he did. you could really go completely overboard by trying to make a realistic story about time travel.
i just wanna say that i watched Primer like twice, and sort of understood what was going on, but then I read the plot overview on wikipedia and it all made more sense. I can honestly say that some of the things I probably never would have figured out. im glad i read about it but it does kinda take away the mystery of everything, because the movie is really dense and layered.
i really dislike when people use predictable or unpredictable to describe movies. what does that even mean??? it flowed logically?? the possibility of unpredictability makes any movie unpredictable. at any time the lead character could peal their face off or get hit by a bus. predictability or unpredictability don't make a good movie!!i'd have to agree with this, even though i admittedly don't like it when a movie is overwhelmingly predictable to the point where you don't really need to even watch it. although that's more a matter of being cliche though, and the filmmakers going through the motions of making a movie that's already been made before and not contributing anything new to the idea. you can know something is coming in a movie and still be moved by it. actually i don't recall hating a movie because it was too predictable, now that i actually think about it. usually it's just that what happens is DONE POORLY and not simply the fact that you aren't in some perpetual state of SHOCK at how NEW everything is. predictability can aid in a movie being shit, but i don't think it's ever the cause.
i don't know if i agree that no-one goes to the movies anymore. i mean i have 0 kind of reference to any other era than now but it seems to me like cinemas are still pretty lively. maybe older folks stop going to the cinema, my parents don't ever go anymore and i know they used to all the time. it was nice to get basically a tour of a dying cinema. i like cinemas, i like to be in them and i think that they probably are the best way to watch a film (but they are expensive and rarely show the things i want to see anyway), so if it is true that it is a decling business then that is a shame! but i don't know if they are.i know it's not nearly as big of a deal as it once was, but i know lots of people who still are happy with routinely throwing away two hours worth of pay to see will ferrell get punched in the genitals for two hours. i make sure to keep no less than 10 feet between these people and myself at all times.
also i was watching an interview with some actress in some horrible movie and realised that a lot of actors are those people that like garbage movies. they like that trash! they're doing a good job.sidney poitier directed ghost dad
oh man is the prisoner out? is it any good? it looked pretty garbage from the trailers but i'd still like to see it.no the prisoner is garbage and the two main good guys have really weird mouths. also I'm not sure about the timeline, my main problem concerns which Erin becomes the main Erin. who even is MAIN ERIN (the one who repeatedly goes to the party or not) and since there's three of them, what happens to the other erin in your timeline so there's only two at the end? I'm just wondering if it doesn't say in the movie or if you've missed something.
there's some parts of the timeline that you're not meant to know and you don't need to know, like how many times they went through the shotgun party until they got it right, or everything about granger. ginger guy just gets freaked out by him so goes back to undo everything, so the main characters don't know either
actually i think i might try and draw up a timelinewords not drawn (Click to reveal)Abe up on the roof watching Erin. He's already built three time machines, one for each of them and the backup, and he's travelled back in time in one already
Abe meets Erin on a park bench, Erin has used the back up several times already (later when they're calculating stock gains he has huge trouble writing, he has the ear piece in a lot and his ear bleeds. Erin forgets the basketball game)
Erin has already stopped the shotgun guy. Abe yells at him for risking his life (abe wasn't at the party).
Erin gets a phone call. Can't come home for dinner. Says "ok, 6 o clock"
They go back in time, Erin takes his phone back and thereby stops his double from answering
Kid sets off alarms, wakes abe up.
Abe meets Erin, says they can go punch his boss in the face then travel back and stop the kid setting off the alarms.
On the way they see Thomas Granger, drunk with 2 days regrowth. Erin says he saw him at 6(!), had some function with his wife. There's a clean shaven one at home.
Abe freaks out, knocks himself out while he's still asleep and uses the back up to return both of them to 4 days ago. He locks the still asleep version in the bathroom.
Abe comes back to the roof, meets Erin and doesn't say the right stuff, so Erin knows Abe used the backup.
Erin explains that the timeline we were watching was Abe's first, but not his. He had found out about the failsafe and used it, bringing a folded time machine.
This Erin drugged the first Erin and locked him in the Attic. Then he met and faught with his future self who had already recorded all the conversations, and won, but decided to let him become the main Erin because he had more invested.
Erin shares the ear piece with Abe and invites Will and tells him to invite his cousin (Rachels ex) to the party.
Abe and Erin both go, Erin may have gone 20 times. They stop the shotgunner. Their doubles wake up. Abe sabotages their time machines, so there are two Abes and Erics in existence, those that went through time lots and those that were locked up. The narrator is talking to the locked up one I'm guessing, since he says he owes him.
no, that was all intentional. this wasn't some accidental clusterfuck of information. it's extremely possible to put together a very coherent timeline or sequence of events based on what happened. the exception is really granger, since that was left unknowable, but there really needed to be something like that in the story. at the basic level this is really a story about two ethically-unaware idiots opening pandora's box, and watching chaos ensue. i don't know how you can expect NEBULOUS from a movie that endeavors to portray that, since that goes against the central premise of the movie. the only way to tell this story was to make it totally fucking chaotic and ridiculous. i'm actually pretty impressed that he kept things as generally sane and understandable as he did. you could really go completely overboard by trying to make a realistic story about time travel.I meant the presentation of the plot is obfuscated (this is what causes any possible confusion), and I'm saying this is either deliberate in the presentation of the story or it's a mishmash of garbage or maybe a mixture of the two. it's about how the plot is presented, not whether there's an actual timeline you can construct. now that I'm fully awake I'm leaning towards the former but I'll have to watch it again to be sure.
even if you don't try to dig through the way the plot WORKS, i still think that the movie has its own merits. all that really matters is the two men, the machine, and the reality of how out of control the whole situation gets. figuring out the plotline is completely inessential in realizing the actual point of the movie.
no the prisoner is garbage and the two main good guys have really weird mouths. also I'm not sure about the timeline, my main problem concerns which Erin becomes the main Erin. who even is MAIN ERIN (the one who repeatedly goes to the party or not) and since there's three of them, what happens to the other erin in your timeline so there's only two at the end? I'm just wondering if it doesn't say in the movie or if you've missed something.
I meant the presentation of the plot is obfuscated (this is what causes any possible confusion), and I'm saying this is either deliberate in the presentation of the story or it's a mishmash of garbage or maybe a mixture of the two. it's about how the plot is presented, not whether there's an actual timeline you can construct. now that I'm fully awake I'm leaning towards the former but I'll have to watch it again to be sure.
and no, I'd still argue the real value of the movie lies in the presentation of the plot. without this foundation the movie would be (might be) another dumb, if entertaining and charmingly low-budget sci-fi flick. it seems like when people are talking about how primer is such a good film, this is specifically what they're talking about. it certainly does have other merits but none of them are remarkable enough to make it a good film. time travel and morals: one man sets out to destroy the Box he created while another makes a Box big enough for a house!
I meant the presentation of the plot is obfuscated (this is what causes any possible confusion), and I'm saying this is either deliberate in the presentation of the story or it's a mishmash of garbage or maybe a mixture of the two. it's about how the plot is presented, not whether there's an actual timeline you can construct. now that I'm fully awake I'm leaning towards the former but I'll have to watch it again to be sure.
watched man bites dog (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Bites_Dog_%28film%29) after seeing a clip climbtree posted in the random thoughts topic in general. i viewed it posted in near-entirety on youtube, minus a short scene that would have gotten it taken off the site(you'll understand why if you watch it there).
what an upsetting movie. it's called a black comedy, but i didn't really see that at all about it, although that may be the humor not translating well through subtitles. usually i don't miss the boat entirely on humor in movies, but i'm really not able to see the humor in this movie. not sure if i really liked it, but it was a fairly interesting, fairly well-done movie that has some interesting(and possibly unintentional) observations to make about the relationship between media and society. i felt pretty sick by the end of it(with the world, not just the movie), so i guess it had to have done something right.
i saw some woody allen movie on netflix (Deconstructing Harry), which is really funny. mostly because it's nerdy woody allen making these films in which he dates dozens of beautiful women. netflix got me to try to watch a movie called Cashback, which i couldn't finish.ahaha, cashback. that movie is GARBAGE. i couldn't finish it either.
watched the movie surrogates (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/). an interesting concept for a movie, but very poorly made. i was watching it with someone else and almost walked away from the movie several times during it.it's really strange but i was talking to gz and he happened to watch this movie for the first time on the EXACT SAME DAY. we both had virtually the same conclusion about it too.
i just watched goodbye dragon inn and i think it was slow for no reason sometimes. but it was creepy and surreal at some parts and funny at others and i think once i accepted that 80% of every scene was just to let that mood settle on in i liked it a bit more. i wonder about the lack of dialogue. something to indicate what all of the characters were doing would have been good. there was some but most of the time when the woman was walking around i just thought she was a ghost.Talking of dying cinemas there's this reallly old cinema in my town that's been killed by a gigantic Multiplex which is further away but has more screens and arcade machines and a coffee shop built in. I really like going there though because the projector technology's obviously a little bit fucked and when you buy your ticket there's a man in an important looking hat who rips it in half and threads his half on a giant bit of string it's like the 1920s in this cinema. Basically fuck big cinemas I'd rather go to this little one with big framed prints of douglas fairbanks as robin hood etc hung over their faded wallpaper, it's the best cinema
i don't know if i agree that no-one goes to the movies anymore. i mean i have 0 kind of reference to any other era than now but it seems to me like cinemas are still pretty lively. maybe older folks stop going to the cinema, my parents don't ever go anymore and i know they used to all the time. it was nice to get basically a tour of a dying cinema. i like cinemas, i like to be in them and i think that they probably are the best way to watch a film (but they are expensive and rarely show the things i want to see anyway), so if it is true that it is a decling business then that is a shame! but i don't know if they are.
Yeah I watched Gamer only because I had it and had nothing else to do, I always thought this movie would suck and I was right.what was so bad about gamer?
I watched Pontypool despite the 'meh' ratings (54 on metacritic) HOLY SHIT. WATCH THIS MOVIE. I can't tell you what its about other than that is vaguely post apocalyptic. That is what I knew going into the movie and MAN it was good knowing only that. If you watch a trailer its likely to give it away.who cares wut metacritic or rottentomatoes thinks
didn´t watch any movie to dayme 2
I saw Shutter Island tonight, didn't like it.
I'm interested in hearing what anybody else thought though. I couldn't help but feel like it was completely predictable until the ending where they kind of denounce the "plot twist" with ambiguity.
That said, I thought all of the lead actors did amazing jobs!
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. Yep.
The other night I watched Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. There are maybe 3 really good "interviews" in the film. Other than that it was pretty incoherent. Some parts of the dialog gave a fair sample of Wallace's writing abilities, but it is in no way a fair reflection of his work!
I watched two movie`s yesterday , and the day before , just one .
oh yeah, i forgot about this. this is directed by John Krasinski, right? I'm not sure if i give a flying hoobastank what he's got to say but i guess i am interested in a david foster wallace adaptation even though i made it about what 60 pages into infinite jest on my most valiant attempt before succumbing to the thickness in my right hand (i'll do it one day. definitely!). i remember thinking the trailer looked bad. very JOKEY or whatever, in a predictable way. i haven't read the book so i didn't really have any right to expectations but i thought the book was gonna be like a series of interviews with Charlie 'The Black Hole' Sheenya and he makes an appearance as this complete jerk. i don't think it was a complete failure. it was probably just doomed from the start since a film adaptation of dfw fiction kind of contradicts his whole approach.
i'll probably see it soon now that it's out.
also i have been watching jia zhang ke films and i recommend his films if you want to know about modern china and it's transition from communism to capitalism in the last couple of decades. i was watching his film 'platform' and it's synopsis will tell you it's about a travelling theatre group in 1980 semi-rural china but from what i could tell it was more about that transition. it was really cool and interesting - i couldn't watch the end of the film though because of that fucking subtitle thing i mentioned on the last page. what a bummer. everything i've seen by him deals with the theme of modernisation to some extent. i've seen still life and the world too. of those two i think i liked still life better. the world kind of lost me a little, even though it's premise is pretty on the nose: it's a story about the lives of people who work in the beijing world park, which is a park where they recreate all the most famous landmarks and buildings from around the world so you can see the world without ever leaving beijing. still life is good, you should see that.
his films are kind of hard to describe in a few sentences because they are long and include all kinds of things. i've enjoyed them all, i'm gonna see more of them.
I just watched the movie Legion, I knew it was going to be bad but I had no idea it would be as bad as it was. It made as much sense as a teen horror movie. Avoid this movie.
Yeah it rather pisses me off that those are the past three things I've actually seen, but I've never considered myself a very avid movie person.
Planet Terror. Really awesome movie.
god alice in wonderland looks fucking bad.
haha I watched WOLFMAN and ITS SO FUCKING BAD
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/11/12/wolfman-benicio-del-toro.jpeg)
Rawr!
Last that I watched at home: Over the HedgeDude, Over The Hedge is actually a really quality film.
I've got a great taste in movies [sarcasm]
is the wolfman really bad? Is benicio good in it?? he's one of my favorite actors!!
Finally got to watch Precious.
The Blind Side can go suck a dick. Stories based on true stories just don't feel honest with me unless it involves somebody doing something horrible to somebody else. Without that, I can't even figure out how somebody can think it was a story worth telling in the first place.
hey has anyone here heard of the show "Trim"?
My bosun told me it was some show made by the producers of the wire and its kind of like that except its based on new orleans? is it any good or what?
also saw walk hard on tv. it wasn't good in general but there was also this huge section in the middle where absolutely nothing happened. I don't know why I'm writing this, I don't think anyone here would seek out this movie. if you're a fan of the hangover, boy will you be able to tolerate this movie:
anyone watching The Pacific? I absolutely adored Band of Brothers so i'll hopefully be catching up on the first few episodes of this asap.I've been re-watching Band of Brothers recently. I'm up to Chapter 4. I love it. I've only watched the series once before, but I remember the episode focusing on the medic being the best one. I can't wait to see it again.
How to Train your Dragon! Your life isn't complete until you watch it!
i don't feel like reading reviews or shit has anyone seen/heard of this
Holy crap just got back from Kick Ass, one of the the best movies I've seen.
Like, good enough that I can't watch anything right now with out thinking how it doesn't live up to Kick Ass. Just holy shit.
Also introduced me to the song "Omen" by The Prodigy.
been listening to it over and over for a while.
Holy crap just got back from Kick Ass, one of the the best movies I've seen.
Yes, I though it was really good. I thought the acting was fine... if not really good... didn't cringe at all...
please call them movies.i bet you call music soundies right hehehehehe
"For a superhero movie." Interesting clause
I do want to see Kick-ass as well, but I'm a bit more skeptical, even though just everyone I've talked to who has seen it says that it is really good. Apparently the graphic novel is pretty good as well, but I doubt I'd ever actually go ahead and read it. I haven't read a graphic novel since reading through Watchmen a few years ago.
My point was more along the lines though, that even though there are generally less serious roles in a less serious subject matter, it is entirely unfair to call it less valid acting, or anything that would imply that it is such. Acting is acting, regardless. There is definitely a line between good acting and bad acting, but I don't think that you can necessarily say that acting for one genre is any less acting than it is for another genre.
Everyone in the theatre i was in laughed when Nicholas Cage's character tried to speak, (he was all burnt up/dying)
This happened throughout the movie; I really think that says it did a bad job conveying it was time to be serious rather than the theatre was full of morons (which it was)
Also can anyone verify that the comic is or isnt a Spiderman spoof? It was pretty obvious I think they say something about great power/great responsibility but aside from that the movie borrows pretty heavily from the original Spiderman movie circa 2001 or whatever.
Everyone in the theatre i was in laughed when Nicholas Cage's character tried to speak, (he was all burnt up/dying)I suppose I was lucky? I don't think I heard anyone laugh at that part and my theater was packed.
This happened throughout the movie; I really think that says it did a bad job conveying it was time to be serious rather than the theatre was full of morons (which it was)
...I suppose I was lucky? I don't think I heard anyone laugh at that part and my theater was packed.
Everyone in the theatre i was in laughed when Nicholas Cage's character tried to speak, (he was all burnt up/dying)
This happened throughout the movie; I really think that says it did a bad job conveying it was time to be serious rather than the theatre was full of morons (which it was)
The Men Who Stare at Goats: C-, not very good at all
Shutter Island - A, fucking awesome
I don't think many elder actors can look so intimidating at such at age, but Eastwood pulled it off no problem.
Well sir, you might or might not be in luck, depending on how you enjoy the following movie when it releasesThanks! I really like Michael Caine in everything he is in, so I'll definitely check out this movie!
I didn't know what movie to watch so I ended up downloading Dance Flick and damn, it was deleted as fast as it was downloaded.
Any great A comedy movie suggestions?
My theater was apparently above average... which is surprising since I'm in fucking Arizona right now. Its 43rd in IQ...
I'm actually tempted to watch the movie again because I really, really enjoyed it.
did I say that I watched Audition (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235198/)? that was a cool movie.
Last movie I watched was ichi the killer. Was most confusing. I googled the ending and it still isn't clear to me. Everyones got their own rendition of what went on :/
next superhero = Thor.. most likely in the Avengers, which I believe comes out in 2012?.
to be fair, Blade Runner isn't an action film nor is it meant to beYes, of course.. it's just that going into it with no description of the film and the initial information given out at the film's beginning I was expecting an action flick. What I got was something better though!
to be fair, Blade Runner isn't an action film nor is it meant to bei don't understand what you are saying here. i probably would describe blade runner as an action film noir, for lack of a better way of categorizing it. i think you could have made the movie black and white with stock film noir protagonist(bogart, widmark, o'brien etc) and it'd border on indistinguishable from a 50s noir(production value aside). blade runner is the movie where i understood why harrison ford is a decent actor and has any appeal at all; he's really this throwback actor to the days where all you really needed was to HAVE MOXIE and look convincing when being punched by a large dude. he was unusually successful partially because he stumbled onto senselessly iconic roles, but in part because there really weren't many actors like that in his time. he'd probably have been fairly run-of-the-mill had he been born early enough to be a film noir actor. i'm not entirely convinced that harrison ford and glenn ford aren't actually the same person.
also i've started watching twin peaks. not a movie i guess, but stimulating enough that i guess it's worth mentioning here. just watched the pilot and now i think i'm sufficiently interested in watching the rest periodically. i made a BIG MISTAKE and read some pretty major spoilers, but i think that has me a little more interested in watching more of it. it's the sort of thing where i have some vague idea of where it goes, and have seen where it started, and am pretty curious to see everything go so completely bonkers to the point where that's where it will end up. david lynch is always worth watching anyway, even though i feel like he blurs the line between madman and genius a little too much.
actually, does anybody know of a good place to stream twin peaks on the internet? i found some episodes on youtube but they're scattered and leaves some episodes out. i don't think this is the sort of thing i'd want to watch out of sequence or with major gaps in the story's timeline.
did you try torrenting it?i did rather easily find a torrent but the torrent was larger than the space available on my harddrive and i was too lazy to clean shit up to make room for it! i normally am not so lazy about things like this, but from what i've seen in the pilot it doesn't look like it's the sort of show that really requires a great print to get the full experience and it'd generally be easier to just casually hop onto some site and watch it. i was just generally checking to see if anybody knew of an easy way to watch this
also i've started watching twin peaks. not a movie i guess, but stimulating enough that i guess it's worth mentioning here. just watched the pilot and now i think i'm sufficiently interested in watching the rest periodically. i made a BIG MISTAKE and read some pretty major spoilers, but i think that has me a little more interested in watching more of it. it's the sort of thing where i have some vague idea of where it goes, and have seen where it started, and am pretty curious to see everything go so completely bonkers to the point where that's where it will end up. david lynch is always worth watching anyway, even though i feel like he blurs the line between madman and genius a little too much.
i don't understand what you are saying here. i probably would describe blade runner as an action film noir, for lack of a better way of categorizing it. i think you could have made the movie black and white with stock film noir protagonist(bogart, widmark, o'brien etc) and it'd border on indistinguishable from a 50s noir(production value aside). blade runner is the movie where i understood why harrison ford is a decent actor and has any appeal at all; he's really this throwback actor to the days where all you really needed was to HAVE MOXIE and look convincing when being punched by a large dude. he was unusually successful partially because he stumbled onto senselessly iconic roles, but in part because there really weren't many actors like that in his time. he'd probably have been fairly run-of-the-mill had he been born early enough to be a film noir actor. i'm not entirely convinced that harrison ford and glenn ford aren't actually the same person.
i'm actually just not sure what point you are asserting here, which is why i'm interested enough to question you on it. i've seen it a bunch of times, but i'm still trying to figure out what i really think about blade runner. it's not really a great adaptation from what i've heard(idk if this is an exaggeration but i've been told it's only about HALF of the do androids dream of electric sheep novel), and kinda puts itself in the noir realm because there wouldn't really be anything to watch without it, but i think i've always kinda battled with the thought of if it's just an otherwise EMPTY movie with a couple inexplicably nice lines and careful aesthetics. a ridiculous amount of film noir are kinda like that actually, where it's this kinda vivid, intriguing experience but i'm hesitant to really go out and call it IMPORTANT or something. the more i think about i would probably put ALL FILM NOIR into this general category, aside from the asphalt jungle. good movies, don't get me wrong, but the relationship between the aesthetics and the subject matter never really seems to be that strong.
kinda rambling but i guess i was in the mood to just ramble about this stuff
Well, I said it's "not an action film NOR (not "noir") is it meant to be." Calling it an action film noir is fair, of course, but it's not an action movie in the same way Die Hard is. That's all I meant.hahaha jesus christ how did i misread that. yeah for some reason i read it as "it's not an action film noir" which doesn't make any sense. it doesn't even make any sense in that sentence structure now that i look at it again. :(
hahaha jesus christ how did i misread that. yeah for some reason i read it as "it's not an action film noir" which doesn't make any sense. it doesn't even make any sense in that sentence structure now that i look at it again. :(
actually a little bummed that you didn't actually say that because i was curious to hear an explanation of that logic!!!
i am changing the direction of this topic: explain why blade runner could NOT be classified as action noir
I kinda feel like knowing who the killer is would ruin several scenes involving the killer along the way
I watched twin peaks online on VEOH but I'm pretty sure that turned into a garbage site you need to register for and download lots of spyware just to watch tiny blurry videos
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Pretty good. Robert Downey Jr. fits the role really well actually.
Also Recently finished the finale of Battlestar Galactica. Everyone was telling me how awful it was and I have to say it was a helluva lot better than Lost's Finale.
Spoiler talk:Hidden content (Click to reveal)Still kind of mediocre and had that religious BS sprinkled all over it but it had that through-out the show so it didn't strike me as something out of the show's character in a sense.
I thought the "human history is cyclical" twist was clever, but it kind of bugged me as an ending. Since it basically said that all the advancements technology-wise and society-wise we made were all for naught... again... everything is reset. Makes the hole thing seem pointless.
Also, WTF, it did not fucking explain what Kara Thrace/Starbuc was. She just disappears out of thin air? What bullshittery is this?
has anybody seen a movie called The Human Centipede???Yeah, heard of it. Not seen it. Movies involving the consumption of
A friend found the trailer and showed it to me and it looks like a generic straight to dvd horror flick but in it resides maybe the most fucked up premise to a movie i've ever heard...?
ugh she was such an annoying bitch. hated her so much, ruined the movie for me (not that it was any good anyways)That's how she was supposed to act. Much better to see a strong-willed woman than the typical "woe-is-me" damsel in distress that is so worthless.
That's how she was supposed to act. Much better to see a strong-willed woman than the typical "woe-is-me" damsel in distress that is so worthless.
has anybody seen a movie called The Human Centipede???rami watched it, dunno what he thinks of it though. the trailer and whole idea is pretty lolworthy though.
A friend found the trailer and showed it to me and it looks like a generic straight to dvd horror flick but in it resides maybe the most fucked up premise to a movie i've ever heard...?
in my experience whenever someone refers to a "strong-willed woman" in some big hollywood film it's in reference to a horribly written psycho sex idol. BDSM undertones are also often presentgood luck getting filmmakers to stop making films with their dicks
ive decided not to go see human centipede next weekend at the theatre just because it sounds too horrid for me to handle, but i do give it props. imo this is the reinvention of the horror genre!
i killed it in one hit
I downloaded that movie btw because I was curious but now I'm kind of hesitant to watch it
I downloaded that movie btw because I was curious but now I'm kind of hesitant to watch it
Mongoloid the shock factor has succeeded thanks to you. this is what you've done
let's be honest anybody here at a gaming forum has enough spare time that every movie they watch doesnt have to be critically acclaimedI'm kinda joking but it's more about the principle of something spreading by shock factor
i submit that this movies attempt to make you feel disgust or nausea for even a brief moment is just as genuine as any other trend movie he could've downloaded
also he's not paying for it so we don't have to fight the corporate beast this particular time
i don't think the film industry will be damaged regardless of how popular this becomes
yeah that movies pretty f up
I was disappointed though the manipede thing wasn't grotesque enough
why does this topic generate an ad for me about "precious, now playing on youtube" story of fat sassy african american?the real precious is a manipede
in my experience whenever someone refers to a "strong-willed woman" in some big hollywood film it's in reference to a horribly written psycho sex idol. BDSM undertones are also often present
did Human Centipede even SELL TICKETS at all or is it one of those things that's internet famous and no real people have watched it anyway so I guess controversy didn't work
Just watched one of the most bizarre films of my entire life. I was going "WHAT?!" every 10 minutes. Should be expected for a David Lynch film though. It was Mullholland Drive. Once I searched for an explanation on the net it all made sense. I'm ashamed that I didn't quite get it from the film itself, but looking back I see what he was going for. Truly bizarre though. See it if you like a head scratcher and lesbian scenes. lol.oh no
I mean, fucking duh it was an obvious ploy, its just that it was so horribly done that a) it was super obvious and b) it was just really unecessary in the perspective of everything that had happened up until that point because if you look at it from the plot perspective of the movie there was absolutely no reason for it to happen or anything that would have been indicative of leading up to it in the first place. Which is too bad because it honestly wasn't all that bad of a movie before it. Not that it was anything to write home about, but if they had tried to make the rest of the movie at least the slightest bit original rather than going down the route of just being disturbing for all the wrong reasons, then it might have actually been in the decent category. If the intended point of the movie in the first place though was gross out, then mission accomplished.
never heard of it
so wait for it in the red box then huh???
i am pretty wtf right now because i have absolutely no recollection of posting that and the timestamp says 5am
that doesn't even look like one of my posts but kudos to me if i can black out and still be coherent enough to type that much
It's all done through a camera (not in a Blair Witch style I don't think -- though I haven't seen that movie, so how would I know?) so you definitely feel like you're "in" the situation rather than having a vantage point from heaven. .
As of 2008, DreamWorks acquired the rights to produce a live-action film adaptation of the original manga with Steven Spielberg. Avi Arad and Steven Paul are confirmed producers; Jamie Moss was originally hired to adapt the manga into a screenplay,[2] but in October 2009 it was announced that Laeta Kalogridis had replaced Moss as writer.[3][4] The live-action film is set to be released in 2011.
steven spielberger, the ultimate director
fail-safe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_%281964_film%29)
absolutely incredible movie. it's literally an alternate version of dr. strangelove, made at the same time, but completely serious. i'm not sure if i've seen a more GRIPPING movie in my entire life. the message of the film is something that's been seen before and since countless times(done in a more interesting manner in strangelove) but the execution of this film is superior to really anything i've ever seen like this. there's almost this film noir quality to the film, with sparse, inconsequential sets, and an overemphasis on dramatic lighting. if this wasn't balanced carefully it would have really ruined the film, but as such it really guides the eye to where it's supposed to go and where your attention is meant to be paid. i find the movie oddly hypnotic, and i'm not really sure it's meant to be.
also the cast in the movie is incredible, with a lot of guys giving what is really their best performance. walter matthau, in particular, is fucking badass in this. it's really a shame that people only remember him playing GOOFBALL roles, because he could legitimately do anything.
anyway, the movie is made by sidney lumet, who also did network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_%28film%29) and twelve angry men (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_%281957_film%29). both of those movies are really big deals, justifiably so, but i still think fail-safe is a better made movie. not by a lot, really, but i think the level of intensity the movie reaches and maintains is really incredible. i even think it's a better movie than dr. strangelove, but nobody else agrees with me.
what i think lumet really has an incredible ability to capture, moreso than any director i am aware of, is the sheer dramatic power that you usually only see live in the theatre. one of the reasons actors typically prefer that to film acting is because it's a much more natural, much purer experience for them. you slip into the character's mind and don't leave for a couple hours. it's really the pinnacle of acting, which is an enormous contrast to film acting, which is heavily fragmented and does not have the ability to surprise the actor or the audience in terms of the sheer dramatic presentation of it. you just don't sink in as deeply and the result is visible in most films. i don't really know how he does it, but many of lumet's films manage to capture that very pure emotion that usually don't get to see beyond the theatre. fail-safe is probably not as good an example of that as twelve angry men, but it doesn't hold the film back.
kinda rambling, but this is a really stellar movie. the kind of movie that i really wouldn't hesitate recommending to anybody.
fail-safe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-Safe_%281964_film%29)
absolutely incredible movie. it's literally an alternate version of dr. strangelove, made at the same time, but completely serious. i'm not sure if i've seen a more GRIPPING movie in my entire life. the message of the film is something that's been seen before and since countless times(done in a more interesting manner in strangelove) but the execution of this film is superior to really anything i've ever seen like this. there's almost this film noir quality to the film, with sparse, inconsequential sets, and an overemphasis on dramatic lighting. if this wasn't balanced carefully it would have really ruined the film, but as such it really guides the eye to where it's supposed to go and where your attention is meant to be paid. i find the movie oddly hypnotic, and i'm not really sure it's meant to be.
also the cast in the movie is incredible, with a lot of guys giving what is really their best performance. walter matthau, in particular, is fucking badass in this. it's really a shame that people only remember him playing GOOFBALL roles, because he could legitimately do anything.
anyway, the movie is made by sidney lumet, who also did network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_%28film%29) and twelve angry men (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men_%281957_film%29). both of those movies are really big deals, justifiably so, but i still think fail-safe is a better made movie. not by a lot, really, but i think the level of intensity the movie reaches and maintains is really incredible. i even think it's a better movie than dr. strangelove, but nobody else agrees with me.
what i think lumet really has an incredible ability to capture, moreso than any director i am aware of, is the sheer dramatic power that you usually only see live in the theatre. one of the reasons actors typically prefer that to film acting is because it's a much more natural, much purer experience for them. you slip into the character's mind and don't leave for a couple hours. it's really the pinnacle of acting, which is an enormous contrast to film acting, which is heavily fragmented and does not have the ability to surprise the actor or the audience in terms of the sheer dramatic presentation of it. you just don't sink in as deeply and the result is visible in most films. i don't really know how he does it, but many of lumet's films manage to capture that very pure emotion that usually don't get to see beyond the theatre. fail-safe is probably not as good an example of that as twelve angry men, but it doesn't hold the film back.
kinda rambling, but this is a really stellar movie. the kind of movie that i really wouldn't hesitate recommending to anybody.
what i think lumet really has an incredible ability to capture, moreso than any director i am aware of, is the sheer dramatic power that you usually only see live in the theatre. one of the reasons actors typically prefer that to film acting is because it's a much more natural, much purer experience for them. you slip into the character's mind and don't leave for a couple hours. it's really the pinnacle of acting, which is an enormous contrast to film acting, which is heavily fragmented and does not have the ability to surprise the actor or the audience in terms of the sheer dramatic presentation of it. you just don't sink in as deeply and the result is visible in most films. i don't really know how he does it, but many of lumet's films manage to capture that very pure emotion that usually don't get to see beyond the theatre. fail-safe is probably not as good an example of that as twelve angry men, but it doesn't hold the film back.great example of this is beatrice straight in network, who won best supporting actress for five minutes of screentime
i was just reading about blue velvet right now. i saw last person posted as roman and thought 'maybe he's posting about...holy snacks.' though i guess it isn't that much of a coincidence.
you know, i feel like i've already talked about this alot but maybe it was to myself. i'm pretty sure i enjoy david lynch and silent hill 2 for the same reasons. it's all to do with the same thing. i wouldn't say silent hill 2 is a rip off though, they don't steal any major elements i can think of and i don't really know that the pyramid head scene you mentioned is that similar to anything in blue velvet at all? i won't get specific for people who haven't seen it, but the components of that scene are entirely different, or differently configured, so they don't really bear any resemblance to any scene in blue velvet that i can think of. and i've seen it 37 times....i'm a blue velvet expert.....
actually i have talked about this before, it was on tomatoland i think. i have alot more to say about it, though, because i feel like this particular ZONE is MY ZONE. i don't know if that's clear - i can't really call it thematic, or aesthetic, because it's almost neither, but at the same time kind of both, and the requirements of this zone it are so permitting that it would be ridiculous to specify them. i think if you appreciate a movie like blue velvet in the same way that i do, you'll know pretty much what i am getting at.
it's a shame about the straight story. it kind of messed up my view of david lynch. i think he done it only for money but that just makes it worse.
It is definitely a nod to blue velvet!
I saw the straight story a while ago and thought it was NICE and while hardly my favorite Lynch movie it didn't really change my view on him at all. I'm curious what you mean by this. for the record it was written by someone who edited a bunch of his movies so there's that and even if it was done for the money I don't think that's inherently a bad thing because most of that money probably went to financing other projects. like at least it is charming and well made and not just straight GIMME DA MONEY
why have you guys seen all three twilight movies
No I know Robert Pattinson is purposely being a bad actor because he hates Twilight so much, Kristen Stewart might be doing the same thing (especially considering she did p good in Into The Wild).
I think the best scene, with the best like acting and chemistry and everything, is the one throwaway scene between her and her father where he tries to give her "the talk". It really was like, the best acted scene in the entire movie imho. the dad owns, I like the dad. In all the movies he's done a good job of being "concerned single dad, no control over daughter, she has a secret!"
Starship Troopers, which I haven't seen it in a long long time. I know that I'm in the vast minority, but I love this movie. It's awesome.
i don't think you're in the minority, this is a pretty big cult movie and i think we've even discussed it in this topic. this is a pretty poorly done movie but i don't there's many people who don't think it's at least entertaining!
Just saw Inception. Yeah, it was pretty fuckin' good.yeah, this is a cool movie. i found the characters pretty flat and wished that there was more stuff to really think about(the story was really set up for that), but it was still a lot of fun.
yeah, this is a cool movie. i found the characters pretty flat and wished that there was more stuff to really think about(the story was really set up for that), but it was still a lot of fun.i just read about this movie from finn magazine!!! maybe i should see it some day. redundant post
yeah, this is a cool movie. i found the characters pretty flat and wished that there was more stuff to really think about(the story was really set up for that), but it was still a lot of fun.pretty much this. I enjoyed the movie as a blockbuster film! It's nothing new, but I had a great time watching it. Fun movie.
Is it anything like this perfect movie that the news and people seem to be hyping it up to be? Are the critics correct in their super-duper positive reviews of this movie?compared to the rest of the horrendous special effect-driven bullshit of the last few years, ABSOLUTELY. compared to, you know, REAL MOVIES, absolutely not. it's fun, but nowhere near great. it's kinda like a less pretentious/stupid matrix i guess. action-packed enough to satisfy the mainstream, and interesting enough to not be totally without merit.
compared to the rest of the horrendous special effect-driven bullshit of the last few years, ABSOLUTELY. compared to, you know, REAL MOVIES, absolutely not. it's fun, but nowhere near great. it's kinda like a less pretentious/stupid matrix i guess. action-packed enough to satisfy the mainstream, and interesting enough to not be totally without merit.
i was actually a little underwhelmed by inception. it's a shame because i had been anticipating it for about a year since first seeing the first teaser trailer. i guess part of the reason for this was because i had been following it too closely and hyped it up far too much for myself. it was by no means close to being a bad film (as hundley said as far as mainstream stuff goes it was more or less the only good thing released this year), but it just didn't blow me away like some of nolan's earlier stuff. i'll probably grow to like it a lot more from repeat viewings when i can finally make sense of everything.yeah this definitely isn't a BLOW YOU AWAY sort of film, which is part of the reason why i didn't think it was a great movie. i thought that a lot of the conflicts in it were resolved in rather underwhelming ways and didn't do a lot to really amplify the drama or get you particularly involved in it outside of the vaguely surreal nature of it. there were some really interesting scenarios in the story that had the potential to really reach some sort of climax, but they always kinda petered out and didn't do anything particularly memorable. thinking back on it i can't really remember a lot of the individual things that happened in the movie. the atmosphere of it all was interesting(sometimes engaging) but it had a small amount of memorable moments.
dicko's best of 2010 was sex and the city 2
I mean it sounds pretty cool (http://www.bigempire.com/filthy/sexandthecity2.html)
Ocean's 11 2001 Good, but not cool 3
Ocean's 12 2004 Pray there's no 13 2
Ocean's 13 2007 Pray there's no 14 2
has anyone one seen the bad lieutenant that came out last year with nick cage in it? It is thankfully different from a lot of the things that he has done in recent years, and reminds me a lot of the way that he was in the 90s. Also he was decent enough to not ruin Kick-ass too.
good news for you then, ghost rider 2 is full speed ahead!
Inception. Love love loved it.
did none of you see Raising Arizona? Nick Cage was surprisingly well cast in that movie (well, it IS the Coen Brothers...). Funny movie.he's the sort of actor that appears to feel right at home playing phenomenally dim characters. but nowadays they keep throwing him in TAKE-CHARGE LEADING MAN types. he never should have graduated beyond those fringe eccentric characters.
Let's stay on the topic of Nicky Cage. I demand attention to him. i am looking VERY meaningfully at you right now Hundley
Keanu Reeves hopped up on coke.
discuss a bit
John Malkovich is a pokemon...and he's the only species left
Let's stay on the topic of Nicky Cage. I demand attention to him. i am looking VERY meaningfully at you right now Hundleyholy shit. i can't even tell if this is the worst acting performance i've ever seen or the best. this barely even resembles human behavior. wow.
discuss a bit
K-PAX.I love this film, although I still have arguments with people over the ending. I believe that he was inhabited by an alien, yet people argue that he was a psychologically troubled man all along with no extraterrestrial presence. I don't buy that, it doesn't explain how he knew all he did.
I love this film, although I still have arguments with people over the ending. I believe that he was inhabited by an alien, yet people argue that he was a psychologically troubled man all along with no extraterrestrial presence. I don't buy that, it doesn't explain how he knew all he did.
The more I think about K-Pax, the weirder it becomes. The two concepts of a more advanced extraterrestrial (PAX=PEACE, GET IT??) and a repressed mentally ill man who has built this absurd wall to separate himself from his past seem to be equally likely in this movie. The fact that he has such an accurate outlook on a distant star system is unlikely because he's never seen cracking a book, as is the fact that he has such success in affecting the minds of the mentally ill.
I like the idea of a mentally ill "Prot," though, this guy who went out and researched this new insane existence and goes as far as eating a banana with the peel on it to look like an extraterrestrial.
dinner for schmucks looks fucking terrible. paul rudd, steve carrell and zach galifinakis are all totally capable of being funny. i've even seen them do it. and they are making a piece of dung like this, at this point? go to heck.
yeah, I feel this way about the movie too. I haven't seen it though, so I will be reserving full judgement of it until I do though.
Oh.. I've only watched the movie.You owe it to yourself to watch the tv series. You'll fall in love with the show and then be devastated once you run out of episodes to watch. It's kind of a bittersweet experience. Whedon's best work I'd say.
no its actually pretty cool if you have a soul and are not coxswain
Is Scott Pilgrim vs The World really a pretty cool movie? The trailers look terrible the movie looks like it is terrible!
confirm/deny am I being trolled?
Firefly is pretty easy to torrent? and since it's only one season long its pretty cheap on DVD too.
It's also the only television series that Joss has done that is remotely close to being worth watching.
It's also the only television series that Joss has done that is remotely close to being worth watching.
Ahahaha :rolleyes:
that one with uhh
dolls
EDIT: oh outside the realm of TV he apparently had a hand in writing some for Toy Story, Titan A.E., and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Which were all pretty good. Especially Toy Story.
that one with uhh
dolls
Dr. Horrible is not a television series.well yeah technically but it had 'episodes'. But whatever.
I love the guy's work but to be fair, he DID also write Alien Resurrection.I actually haven't seen it. but According to Joss the director screwed it up some how.
well yeah technically but it had 'episodes'. But whatever.
yeah considering it was pretty much an internet exclusive thing, i don't see how you even could possibly think it has or had anything to do with television ever. And Dr. Horrible is not really all that good either.I never actually was under the impression that it was on TV. I knew it was Internet exclusive. I just happened to list it among the Television shows.
I started watching rainbow bridge but maybe 10 minutes in I skipped to the concert and I think that was for the betteryeah definitely but the point of the video was the BEGINNING of it ya goofmeister
I just watched "The Happening." That had to be one of the most unintentionally humorous movies I've seen. I have no idea how they got so many decent actors to give the worst performances of their careers.Haha. Yeah. Mark Wahlberg was just awful in that movie. I think all of the actors knew the source material was atrocious and just wanted everything over with.
i really love the scene where the lady accuses mark whalberg of trying to kill her and hes like "whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat nooooooooooo"
it is just so amazingly bad it should've never made it past editing
Quarantinei know a lot of people be hatin' on this movie,
It was really good. The last 25 minutes were incredibly intense.
I'm still not convinced that The Happening isn't some kind of avant-garde comedy or something.
On the other hand maybe I'm overthinking it and it was just a kind of okay film that demonstrates how completely glossy action movies have taken over if they can make a high-concept thing about dreams and just make it another rush of shiny surfaces and a cheap excuse for SLOWMO FIGHT SCENE aaaaa. Gimme ya thoughts.
inception would have been better with ellen paiges character written out. not that i don't like ellen paige, i do, but the character just shouldn't have been there.The character had to be there as an entry point for the audience into the world of Inception. This ain't Lost where they can throw up an instructional video and have Dr Pierre Chang talk about how all this shit works.
also, i saw the expendables. and it was a lot of fun, i don't know what you're talking about. loved it.
I just bought the whole Rambo collection on Blu Ray, having seen none of them before. I have weird gaps in my 80s culture.
First Blood was great, Rambo First Blood Part 2 was ok. Starting Rambo 3.
Watched something called Salt, I didnt like it.jasonbournewithavagina
Not a movie but I'm on Season 3 of Dexter and it's good. Damn good.
I gave up on Dexter after season 3.
Season 4 any better?
season 3 of dexter was definitely the worst of all of the seasons so far. Not that it isn't still pretty good, I'm just saying is all.
Series 1 of dexter was his brother, series 2 was blowing up the comedy black guy, series 4 was third rock from the sun. What the fuck happened in series 3
just finished the firefly series.. I really loved it! I feel quite guilty I watching the movie before the series, because I wasn't indulged much on the movie at first.. Buit now I;d like to see it again.
also, fuck fox
The Fistful of Dollars movies are basically the Western rendition of Yojimbo if you get your hands on that. It's another Akira Kurosawa samurai movie starring a morally ambiguous "hero." I was kind of amazed to see how much classic Westerns borrowed from Japanese cinema.conversely, Kurosawa was a John Ford fanatic and borrowed a lot from him
Downloaded Persons Unknown and watched all 13 episodes. LOVED EVERY MOMENT. Apparently NBC marketed this as a mini-series and announced that they would answer all the mysteries by the end which ended up being a huge lie. The show's finale sets itself up for a second season which I hope the show succeeds in getting, which is looking slim at this point. (The people saying the show sucked are those that are pissed at NBC for the false marketing). If you liked LOST at first because of the mystery, I highly recommend this show, with a major disclaimer - not everything is answered.. but it's one hell of a thrill ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. I haven't been so enthrilled in a new series this much since BSG season 1.
Downloaded Persons Unknown and watched all 13 episodes. LOVED EVERY MOMENT. Apparently NBC marketed this as a mini-series and announced that they would answer all the mysteries by the end which ended up being a huge lie. The show's finale sets itself up for a second season which I hope the show succeeds in getting, which is looking slim at this point. (The people saying the show sucked are those that are pissed at NBC for the false marketing). If you liked LOST at first because of the mystery, I highly recommend this show, with a major disclaimer - not everything is answered.. but it's one hell of a thrill ride that I thoroughly enjoyed. I haven't been so enthrilled in a new series this much since BSG season 1.Yeah. I'm kind of irked that they didn't fucking answer the questions. However, if they actually make another season all would be forgiven.
I swear it said movies, not television shows. :shrug:fk you bro
I swear it said movies, not television shows. :shrug:guess you haven't read the topic
Is that the frank capra movie that is an adaptation of a shameless rip-off of a christmas carol?:fogetshrug:
well i might have seen it unintentionally. i don't remember seeing something literally called a christmas carol.Watch Scrooged instead!
you've never seen it's a wonderful life or any version of a christmas carol
do you hibernate at christmas
never seen it's a wonderful life? really?
This is what I was thinking too.I'm trying to be a dick. Who the fuck hasn't seen a christmas carol or at least doesn't know what it is. Have you like never taken a basic middle school literature class?
I might be able to understand not seing "It's a wonderful life" but you seriously haven't seen A Christmas Carol? You know... like Scrooge and the ghost of Christmas Past and stuff? Ringing any bells?
I'm not trying to be a dick or anything, I just cannot fathom how you haven't seen any version of A christmas Carol.
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is devil good or watchable? I had to pick between that and resident evil and I think I fucked up
well I know I fucked up butdamn that shit was horrible
I'm trying to be a dick. Who the fuck hasn't seen a christmas carol or at least doesn't know what it is. Have you like never taken a basic middle school literature class?:shady: I've never seen it AND I have no idea what it's about.
:shady: I've never seen it AND I have no idea what it's about.
I'm trying to be a dick. Who the fuck hasn't seen a christmas carol or at least doesn't know what it is. Have you like never taken a basic middle school literature class?
seriously????no remember he's a jehovah's witness, they don't celebrate christmas
i don't care if you've never seen any adaptation of it you have to at LEAST know the basic premise to get along in this society what is wrong with you
Aside from that, you're right. I've never seen that movie and thus I am a menace to society.
the problem isn't that you haven't seen some movie version of it it's that you don't seem to know ANYTHING about it, that's like not knowing the basic premise of romeo and juliet. doesn't matter if you've never seen a movie of it or read it or anything you still HAVE A CLUEOh wait, is this the story of the rich guy who is too greedy to give gifts to other people/children, and then 3 ghosts come to haunt him during one night to teach him lessons in morality? Yeah, then I know about it, I just never knew that the Christmas Carol was its name. See, I'm not fully ignorant of it. :laugh:
same goes for mateui. for shame.
the problem isn't that you haven't seen some movie version of it it's that you don't seem to know ANYTHING about it, that's like not knowing the basic premise of romeo and juliet. doesn't matter if you've never seen a movie of it or read it or anything you still HAVE A CLUEchild&videogame
same goes for mateui. for shame.
I just watched The Game with Michael Douglas. It's directed by David Fincher, who is awesome (he made Fight Club). It's a pretty crazy movie with a ton of twists, but the twists actually make perfect sense and are part of the plot rather than a stupid afterthought (like most of today's movies).Incidently I just watched it again tonight. I really enjoyed this film both times I've seen it. I like how the viewing experience is completely different a second time. Its why I love films with twists. Some say they lose something on a second viewing, but I think they just get enhanced because you're able to pick up on the little hints that are dropped along the way.
the problem isn't that you haven't seen some movie version of it it's that you don't seem to know ANYTHING about it, that's like not knowing the basic premise of romeo and juliet. doesn't matter if you've never seen a movie of it or read it or anything you still HAVE A CLUE
same goes for mateui. for shame.
never did say i didn't know anything about it though. i've seen a few commercials of the 2009 carol and that's it.h
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you know it's not really all that popular at least here in finland. i know it but comparing it to romeo & juliet is ridiculous.
I watched Kids. That movie was really fucked up. I feel kind of dirty after watching it. It was ok, though.Yeah me too. the music video is REALLY scary. :[ asadsgsdfasd ][/ asadsgsdfasd]YAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.hhhh...!![/b] ramci's tortured scream echoes from the cesspool for a long, long time...*
Seriously. A Christmas Carol is like a literary classic. The fact that you guys have all gone through multiple phases of your education and have not once heard about this piece of literature (or are ignorant to the fact that it isn't just some random movie) is sickening alone. Like it's definitely up there with the important books or pieces of literature that everyone knows along with like Romeo & Juliet, and To Kill a Mockingbird.yeah, you didn't read this as a kid in some little 30 word book? frick, hero, just look it up on wikipedia and become a part of civilization
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind..cool
idk where the one is from but mateui has no excuse
The Netherlands, tiniest fucking country in the world. Don't know if that's an excuse,I really couldn't care less if you knew nothing about literature but it's kind of weird of you to not know this. Anyway, nevermind reading the book just download the Muppets version it's the best one.
I really couldn't care less if you knew nothing about literature but it's kind of weird of you to not know this. Anyway, nevermind reading the book just download the Muppets version it's the best one.
wait dada are you saying the netherlands knows what the muppets are????no he's saying all people in the netherlands are muppets
no he's saying all people in the netherlands are muppetsthis, and in the literal sense.
CANDYMAN. I was thoroughly impressed. Even got to see some tit. In all seriousness, it started out looking like a cheap thrills horror film with overt racial themes, but got increasingly psychological as it progressed. The soundtrack was a nice touch (use choral arrangements and organs wooOOoo i'm phillip glass) Really worked for the film.
Americans associate us as much with weed as we associate americans with Mc Donald's, it seems
we started watching the fountainhead in class and it is just unbelievable how silly and trite it is how do people tae it seriously
i mean i dunno how close it follows the boo_ but all the silliness is very RANDiAN. it's li_e if an awful sadomasochist romance novelist and a 5th grader living in a world of goods & evils with conservative parents collaborated to mae a story i am not exaggerating one bit. 5th grader is actually generous just picture a complete simpleton who can still read & write
meanwhile the professor is praising it for its insights into the spirit of an artist which is pretty disappointing because it's li_e a poorly plagiarized 'a hunger artist' or a thomas mann story mashed with a paranoid and loony conservative american perspective
oh it's mr. bergman from The Last Leaf by O. HENRY only childish and completely awful instead of childish and sentimental
warped, would you recommend seeing it? ive heard good things about it but only from my friends who like to name drop shit, so i dont really take their suggestions. i do love phillip seymour hoffman though...hes in it right?Yeah Hoffman is in it, he plays the main character. Like I said The concept is pretty damn unique. But you have to have some tolerance for slow moving movies and depressing stuff.
Poor Man's Matt Damon
Burt Reynolds is the poor mans Sean Connery
Zachary Levi (guy from show "Chuck") is the poor man's Jimmy Fallon
What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone.to be honest if that is the message of the movie then ahhaha okay. it doesn't really elaborate the subject of perceived reality rather than having a unelaborated one-sided view of life or fate in itself! (VERY hollywood great follow of mindfuck tradition) kinda wallows in the misery in the discovery and anxiety of discovering the nature of individuality.
Also:
As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as you shed them; as you shed your beauty; your youth; as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are...
Gone.
Also earlier:
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.
This movie also only made me want to live forever even more.
Cashback. Some good light entertainment, exactly what I was looking for tonight.ugh. i couldn't get in to that movie. glad you just see it as light entertainment though and not some piece of legendary indie art.
Is that yet another movie that banks on cheap surprise scares?
Actually I should rephrase this: are there any modern horror films that have more going for them than cheap scares? I've only seen a few in my lifetime that do, and those would be The Thing, The Shining, The Mist (The, The, The...), Alien, and Candyman. Those are about the only movies in the horror genre that ever sparked my interest. I realize there's an entire camp horror following out there, but I don't really buy that. I do like some of the cheesy Stephen King movies (as in The Mist) for their odd and kitschy characters in these intense psychologically terrifying situations. I might need to look into that whole library of movies.
the mist, it ended a few mins ago on tv.
didn't watch from the beginning, but shit this is a fucked up movie. it's the typical monsters enter real world cliche shit, but still scary as hell. i dunno if it was a good or bad movie i thought it was really depressing especially when they stabbed that army guy and threw him outside. and then at the very end the guy shoots his own damn son because they all think there's no hope and otherwise they would be torn to shreds eventually. and the army comes in with flamethrowers and tanks and rescues everyone. damn that is so fucked up.
but yeah i hate horror movies but when i saw this on tv i had to keep watching. really not my type of movies though especially monster movies
Luke was supposed to be a Jedi since IVcritical understanding failure
critical understanding failure
Finally for around to watching Inception, thought it was a total mindfuck and had a great time watching it with my brother.coincidence how this pops up once there is a DVD-rip of it available on torrent sites?
coincidence how this pops up once there is a DVD-rip of it available on torrent sites?
and i may or may not be doing the same thing very soon...
Apparently a screener of the social network leaked a week or so ago, so i'm going to get that and watch it sometime over the next few days and see what happens.
q what is a facebook?
Watched the latest Resident Evil movie, I wanted to turn it off 15mins into it but my brother was determined to watch the whole thing so I really didnt have a choice. It was worser than I could have imagined, avoid this movie like the plague or T-virus.
the mist, it ended a few mins ago on tv.worst ending of any movie ever. i think we had a large discussion about the ending of this movie in this forum one time. very silly conclusion to a pretty decent horror flick.
didn't watch from the beginning, but shit this is a fucked up movie. it's the typical monsters enter real world cliche shit, but still scary as hell. i dunno if it was a good or bad movie i thought it was really depressing especially when they stabbed that army guy and threw him outside. and then at the very end the guy shoots his own damn son because they all think there's no hope and otherwise they would be torn to shreds eventually. and the army comes in with flamethrowers and tanks and rescues everyone. damn that is so fucked up.
but yeah i hate horror movies but when i saw this on tv i had to keep watching. really not my type of movies though especially monster movies
Just came back from seeing Saw 3D. Not really a fan of the 3D aspect of it as I feel it kind of detracts from the film. Whenever there is motion the picture tends to get a little blurry for me so that annoys me. However, I loved the film and the twist at the end which in retrospect I should have seen coming. I love this franchise.
The first SAW movie is great. Then I watched SAW 2 and immediately decided I'd never watch another.this is a common mistake. the first saw movie was not good.
this is a common mistake. the first saw movie was not good.
watched the first episode of weeds, it was awful. it's like every other showtime or HBO show I've seen in that you have to find something about the premise really really interesting or funny, or just like staring at the TV, in order to be amused by it at all. actually in that sense it's very similar to that new NBC show called Outsourced. don't tell me stick with it it gets better because I'm not going to watch any more episodes. the first episode already highlightedenough uncomfortable subjects with the promise of drama just like every episode of THE L WORD to tell me it's not worth it. it's probably the worst show I've seen that isn't incredibly dumb by design like big bang theory or friends
Breaking bad seemed really bad to me. I only watched half the first series but i didn't want to watch anymoreThis was meant to be an edit rather than a quote. I can't remove it either. drrrruuulllleeee
I watched "Forbidden Zone" last night and enjoyed it a lot. I think Vellfire made a topic about it in Tomatoland a while back but I only got around to checking it out now. It's like a low-budget thirties musical comedy adaptation of a Robert Crumb comic with cardboard backdrops and a family called Hercules voyaging through the Sixth Dimension and people awkwardly lipsynching to old songs. Some of it's kind of selfconsiously "out there" but most of it is pretty funny and I liked it!
I'm seeing Tron Legacy tonight, it will be the first movie I see this year. I am hella excited.I disagree that it was an AMAZING movie that was great across the board like a lot of people have said. It had its good points and bad points. I do, however, totally disagree with all the critics bashing it because it isn't another Casablanca.
edit: Wow I didn't know it was getting such lackluster reviews. Every actual person I've heard that has seen it enjoyed it a lot. Also lol at this:
"For a far more thought-provoking tale about the virtual realm, try The Social Network."
Ahaha what the heck lady??? Who the fuck goes into Tron a) expecting a thought provoking tale about the virtual realm and b) expecting anything like The Social Network? HMM I WAS KIND OF HOPING FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOFTWARE AND LESS LIGHT CYCLE RACES...WHAT A LET DOWN...
don't read reviews gang unless it's just to find out oh this is what the dummies are saying about this
In no way does Tron Legacy stand up there with recent Sci-Fi masterpieces like AvatarYou're being sarcastic/not serious here right?
You're being sarcastic/not serious here right?yeah, some guys were talking about avatar the other day and I didn't say anything then so I posted it online
Avatar's story was shit. I didn't give a fuck about the characters, the plot was trite and very predictable, the villains were comical cardboard cutouts, the dialogue had me rolling my eyes consistently. Ugh it was so terrible. The only redeeming qualities were that the actors weren't bad and the 3D was purty dur hur.
Just finished watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.. Why the fuck that cute dumb bitch jumped into the clouds..I don't know how you did that. That movie was like 32 hours long.
Lo Dark cloud was pretty cool, just learned that he was the inspiration for the design of Prince of Persia..
it was barely two hours man. why do people always complain about the length of movies. if it's 4 hours or something and not really that interesting then okay i guess (but the length of it wasn't the problem) but why are people like THIS FILM DOES NOT JUSTIFY IT'S 126 MINUTE RUNTIME.....115 MINUTES WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE ACCEPTABLE. the length is never the problem.it's called an exaggeration. I know the movie was only 2 hours long, but it felt much, much longer because it was incredibly boring.
this is Not Important but i'm the police $-$-$
What? Why do you think Tron is dumb?
Whenever I watch films set in the south I always wonder how much of the dialogue is supposed to be stylized and literary and how much is supposed to reflect how people actually talk there. Cos there's always this extreme economy of words that say a lot, and a lot of figurative stuff. I heard Winter's Bone was supposed to be an authentic kind of portrayal of this part of the world but it felt pretty stylized and even surreal to me at certain points (like the guy everyone is really scared of in the movie). The way it was structured like a kind of detective movie, as well.
I think I was just talking about how these kinds of characters in movies so often say things that are deceptively simple but fraught with profound meaning. Or like all the characters talk like they are reciting some encapsulating line from a poem. I'm not criticizing it really, it's just a way to write dialogue I guess. Maybe I'll be able to think of some examples the next time I bring this up.it's just one of those essential things writers need to do to keep things interesting, really. very few people actually talk like literary characters, and if you wrote a story that was purely realistic it'd be exceptionally hard to make it anything but boring.
I don't mean accents, that's not really much to do with language.
dada lured tim curry into his house and took a photoYeah this
that's actually what tim curry looks like he has to wear heavy makeup to do other work
Jesus Dada is that screencap from the new blu-ray release because that is ridiculously high-res.Just a 720p torrent but yeah I suppose it's from the blu-ray release.
Jackie Chan (like his old non-Hollywood stuff) is pretty awesome too.
Legend of the Drunken Master. Watch it in English. This is a great film.
don't know if this is of significance to most people though, as most people aren't going to watch f for fake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_for_Fake) and FURIOUSLY MASTURBATE like i unashamedly do.
Watching Wicker Man. The only thing scary about this movie is Cage's acting.eeeeeeeeeeeexcatlyyy!!
I am just hella interested in sci-fi from pre-real space exploration times.
Watching Wicker Man. The only thing scary about this movie is Cage's acting.Yeah I just watched it last night. I'm convinced that Cage = Keanu. Seriously. The movie had me interested midway through, but then I figured out its twist ending and overall it felt maddening to have so many elements that were pointless. I'm actually wondering whether the version I watched was cut or something because Leelee Sobieski's character showed up only twice for a total of less than 3 minutes of footage, and I went to IMDB to see what people were saying about it and there was apparently a whole plot point of Cage's character being a virgin... which wasn't made clear in the film I watched.
Man I've got too many movies that I still want to see. They're just piling up on my hard drive. Charade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMkeqjacvAU), Ikiru (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mLrLHDdXHI), Lake of Fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b6h0lsiQcw), Persepolis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXHeKuBzPY), The Producers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCNjOBzg8tc), The Sting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsFsUXFrUo), Fail-safe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9R3w8wDrmM), Hana-bi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHpV5-pRwHU). I don't know which one to watch next.
I haven't seen The King's Speech and I probably won't because I can't shake the feeling that it's first and foremost an OSCAR BAIT film and that bothers me. I'm sure it's a very well made movie (sure! Why wouldn't it be?) but it's also very obvious that it was made in the Oscar Materials Factory for the very specific purpose of winning some clown(s) an oscar. Boo. I can't get on board with a movie like that. I think it's very telling that I didn't see it yet I KNEW that it would win all of the major awards (specifically Best Picture/Actor). Maybe in five - ten years when it's further removed from the oscars I will be more capable of enjoying it, but in five or ten years I won't care about it and neither will anybody else.watched it yesterday, and you hit the nail on the head. not to say it's a bad movie, as it's rather good for what it is, but these sorts of movies definitely go this very boring IMPORTANT DOCUMENTARY route as far as the aesthetic goes, where the only goal of the filmmakers are to make the sets and actors look as important as possible. i'm not jaded enough that i can't stomach that at all, but it's definitely one of those movies that would have been virtually identical had it been presented on stage with the same cast, which is something that really bothers me when i see it, as it really suggests that there was no fundamental reason for making the film in the first place. nothing is really gained by presenting this on film rather than stage, outside of money and oscars.
Just want to remind everybody, especially those of you who aren't aware of this, that the oscars don't celebrate art.
I haven't seen The King's Speech and I probably won't because I can't shake the feeling that it's first and foremost an OSCAR BAIT film and that bothers me. I'm sure it's a very well made movie (sure! Why wouldn't it be?) but it's also very obvious that it was made in the Oscar Materials Factory for the very specific purpose of winning some clown(s) an oscar. Boo. I can't get on board with a movie like that. I think it's very telling that I didn't see it yet I KNEW that it would win all of the major awards (specifically Best Picture/Actor). Maybe in five - ten years when it's further removed from the oscars I will be more capable of enjoying it, but in five or ten years I won't care about it and neither will anybody else.this is exactly the reason why I haven't bothered to check it out yet. but then again i feel the same way for most oscar nominated movies.
Just want to remind everybody, especially those of you who aren't aware of this, that the oscars don't celebrate art.
this is exactly the reason why I haven't bothered to check it out yet. but then again i feel the same way for most oscar nominated movies.i think it's quite a bit better than most of those awful movies that inexplicably take home lots of oscars for no fucking reason, but yeah, don't go out of your way for it. better stuff out there to watch.
this is exactly the reason why I haven't bothered to check it out yet. but then again i feel the same way for most oscar nominated movies.Oh man I remember when I watched Gladiator (which received about a billion oscars). What a genuinely horrible movie. That's when I realized oscars pretty much mean nothing. Not that there aren't good oscar-winning movies; it's just that there's not necessarily a correlation.
watched david lynch's twin peaks movie Fire Walk with Me (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105665/) even though i have only seen the pilot episode of the show and only have a peripheral understanding of how the show worked(see: i skimmed some article some dude wrote comparing the similarities between deadly premonition and twin peaks)
kinda dumb movie, even by david lynch standards, but i guess it's kinda vaguely worth seeing since david lynch is obviously not a citizen of this planet and/or has some sort of serious undiagnosed brain tumor. i guess i enjoyed it despite how broken of a movie it was, but it wasn't a particularly rewarding experience. it was overwhelmingly clear that they were anticipating the movie to be SMASH HIT and allow them to make sequels to it, which probably would have worked since some of the minor storylines going through the movie were a lot more interesting.
in summation, gordon cole is the best character in film history and i could easily spend five hours watching him scream at people
yeah i decided to stop at the episode when it's obvious the story is over, too. when people say season 2 sucks, they mean everything after that. up until then it's pretty much as good as the first series, and at a few point it is better.
i have only seen the pilot episode of the show and only have a peripheral understanding of how the show worked(see: i skimmed some article some dude wrote comparing the similarities between deadly premonition and twin peaks)
X-Men: First Class. It sucked.
It was pretty hilarious though. Other than the acting (McAvoy, Fassbender, and Bacon [to a lesser extent] were all great), it was a godawful movie. I got some chuckles though; especially seeing how bad Beast looked. I kept waiting for him to start howling and playing basketball.
My friends and I would laugh every single time it started playing the ominous music behind Erik and Raven's speechifying. "If I were you, I wouldn't change a thing." DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN. Man, he's so evil.
What a crappy movie. I'm genuinely shocked that it's getting such praise.
It's like the movie was both too much and too little at the same time. It was too much in the sense that they threw everything at the wall; all kinds of characters, powers, motivations, war plots, etc. But so little of it stuck, and what it ended up seeming like was a veritable checklist: we have to make sure we explain Cerebro, we have to explain why Raven goes with Erik, why Xavier's in a wheelchair, why Erik has the helmet, etc. None of it seemed necessary, and some of the mutants they chose were, quite frankly, ridiculous. I guess it was mostly Darwin and Angel that I had a beef with, but Azazel was stupid too (but then again, if Nightcrawler wasn't so well known, I'd probably think he was dumb as well).
For the most part, the actors were good enough to carry it, but the script was pretty awful. The story moved far too fast; the movie never really felt like a movie. It was pretty much montage climax montage climax montage. I wouldn't say you get to know any character very well at all, certainly not enough to like ANY of them except perhaps Xavier, and I'd still say 95% of that was due to McAvoy's fantastic acting. Patrick Stewart should be proud.
Everything was rushed; same problem with X-Men: The Last Stand. I'd say this is barely better. A two star movie at the absolute most.
re Darwin: I don't suppose you remember that one scene where Shaw infiltrates the place where the mutant trainees are kept and spouts off on some long monologue about mutants taking over the world (this being right before Darwin dies)? I distinctly remember Shaw saying the word "Slavery" and the screen panning to WHO ELSE but the black guy. Funniest part of the movie.
Darwin... Now I actually laughed at Darwin.
Darwin was black and the first X-Man to die... I know that shouldn't be funny, but with his power being evolution, I could only think "I've seen this movie and the black guy dies first!"... Yeah, I'm going to hell for watching David Duchovny movies.
Havok was only in First Class because they wanted to use Cyclops without actually using Cyclops.
Both Havok and Cyclops have the same sort of powers (technically, Havok fires plasma instead of concussive energy, but he usually uses his powers for the same effect) and both need some kind of bolt on piece of equipment to use their powers properly (Cyclops constantly fires massive eye beams of death without his visor while Havok just looks more retarded using his powers in the movie without his power management guff).
my favorite part of the movie has to be after Harry buries the house elf, he goes inside to talk to the goblin. the goblin asks, "you buried the elf?" and harry nods eagerly: he has proven he's cool with the magical minorities. I haven't read any of the books since I was a kid, but as far as I know there is no reason why a goblin should care about an elf. the series is full of embarrassing derivative stuff like that, stuff that unintentionally alludes to real life without actually making sense in context. if I was a kid watching this I'd probably think that means harry is a good person and that's why you have to be respectful to all kinds of people.i agree that this felt a bit hamfisted in this film without any context. the whole conversation makes a lot more sense in the book since it's been bedded in since the second book that WIZARDS MARGINALISE MAGICAL CREATURES and it'd been expanded upon at various points. without this it is just a bare allusion to real life racism rather than at least being tied into the world in some way (though whether it works that well in the books either is another matter). this is the problem with having cut a lot from the books out of this film / previous films, it really came back to bite them when it came to making the whole thing have any coherence
earl i didn't read that. why are you talking about that. you shouldn't have gone seen that.can it pipsqueak.
i went to see it on sunday with my mom.I thought maybe there was a specific reason why this goblin cared about the fate of this elf, but it really was because they're both marginalized magical creatures? I find that pretty funny.
i agree that this felt a bit hamfisted in this film without any context. the whole conversation makes a lot more sense in the book since it's been bedded in since the second book that WIZARDS MARGINALISE MAGICAL CREATURES and it'd been expanded upon at various points. without this it is just a bare allusion to real life racism rather than at least being tied into the world in some way (though whether it works that well in the books either is another matter). this is the problem with having cut a lot from the books out of this film / previous films, it really came back to bite them when it came to making the whole thing have any coherence
that said i think a couple of changes were for the better. in the book the very important DESTROY ALL HORCRUXES stuff at hogwarts is basically just harry running around the school looking for a tiara. ginger man and emma watson bump into him on the stairs and say "oh btw we went to the chamber of secrets™ and destroyed a horcrux" with no fanfare whatsoever. at least with this film they made an attempt to play it for some dramatic tension and give a sense that anything was happening around them
can it pipsqueak
ginger man and emma watson bump into him on the stairs and say "oh btw we went to the chamber of secrets™Am I the only one who feels this compelling force to yell "Look, it's Ron Weasely!" everytime I see a ginger, or is it just me?
Edit: The main bad guy in The Iron Man 2 is played by John Romero and he is an evil russian with a grudge going back to the 60s cold war again.Wait, what?
For "Forbidden Zone" obsessives (ie. vellfire) I should mention that this movie also apparantly features a rare song by Oingo Boingo...
On the suggestion of Vell, I watched UP! (1976, not the one with the old dude and the balloons)
All I have to say is HAHhAHAHHAHAHAHAH "YOU AND YOUR ROUND MUSCULAR ASS, LET'S SEE WHAT ADVANTAGES SURVIVE YOU IN A FIGHT TO THE DEATH" "...BUT WHEN WILL I REVEAL MY TRUE IDENTITY!?!"
(spoiler: hitler)
i dunno. both are pretty well-made movies, but neither did a lot for me. don't even know why i'm posting about these moldly old movies nobody here would ever likely watch anyway.If it means anything, I might! I've watched a bunch of your recommendations. That reminds me I still need to see The Bed Sitting Room! I haven't been in the movie watching mood lately.
edit: also I loved The Sting.
Watched a french movie called Incendies, it was a random foreign movie I had and didnt have a clue what it was about or what to expect. Dont even know how long I had it on my computer for, just saw it there while feeling bored.
I was blown away.
It felt slow at first and I didnt quite understand all of the religious politics involved but it came together superbly by the end.
This movie was intense, beautiful and horrifying. Not knowing what I was watching made the movie so much more enjoyable and by the time I reached the ending I had goosebumps.
I dont know if this movie is old news now or it wasnt promoted as well as it should have been but if anyone plans on watching a foreign movie I would certainly go with this one.
edit: also I loved The Shit.
finally got round to watching Drive and hell, what a good movie. i don't know if it was simply because i was completely and utterly in the mood for a movie like this or if it was just a great movie anyway but it hooked me. pretty shocking in places too, a lot of the death scenes made me feel pretty uncomfortable but i'm generally pretty squeamish. night time driving to warbling 80's sounding chillwave combined with CRIME storyline and a silent love interest. i dunno, i really liked it.
That post should have been on the what's on your mind topic.You are right, let me move this to Vague Discussions... *turns around, gets next to the pile of turd of a post, starts grabbing shit into a cartwheel while EDC watches behind blankly...* NOT! *in one smooth movement flips arounds and shoves mass of turd with both hands in edc's astonished face!*
It's not exactly a "hey I just watched a movie" type post, and reading it made me think It was responding to thoughts in general. (although if you have recently watched a movie that made you think of that post, then by all means I want it to appear in this topic) I wasn't even past reading the first paragraph and I was already intrigued enough by your post to engross myself in it and completely forget I was reading any topic other than the "what's on your mind" topic.
you're a horrible goblin and you know it!!!!
was about to make a post about this too. Drive was really good, I saw it in the theaters and it was a great experience. It's intense, cool and a really enjoyable movie. But I sorta liked this one the same way I liked movies like Inception, Oldboy, V for Vendetta, Taken, Black Swan etc etc, all these flashy, slick, dark, gritty action/drama movies of the past 10 years which are good but also really silly. Black Swan is not an action movie but to me, it falls in the same category in terms of movie experience. The whole time while I was watching Drive I kept thinking that the plot is a bit dumb and the chillwave soundtrack is annoying and then there's awkward romantic montage and all that.. but these movies just kind of suck me in, and it's great when you can watch a movie like that. forget everything for a few hours and live in the world of the moviez for a moment.
you're a horrible goblin and you know it!!!!eat shit!
Battle LA - terrible movie. So bad. No, very very bad. It makes Skyline look like a masterpiece. Worst movie I've seen in decades. I've never seen a movie with this much shooting be so boring, but the director perfected the art of an action snoozefest. Practically everyone was checking their watches every 5 minutes to see when it would end. Absolutely no character development and the story was literally one shooting scene followed by another shooting scene followed by yet another shooting scene. Worst line in the entire movie (if I had to pick just one?): "Maybe I can help. I'm a veterinarian" or "Marines don't cry". Come to think of it, it feels like the whole movie was a giant "JOIN THE ARMY" advertisement/US propaganda.
I just watched Bridge to Terabithia, and I really don't know how to react. I guess i'll just say I'm glad I downloaded it randomly just hearing the title from a youtube vid and not knowing anything or reading any info about the movie itself on the net. It was worth it very satisfying and easily one of my most favorite films. Please go everyone watch it...i read that book when i was pretty young and i remember it being sad. actually come to think of it, the end was pretty fucked up for a kids book
back to back?? you won't be able to go on living. akira is disorienting, gotflies is super depressing. you will die.yeah i was going to say 'have a blast!!' hours ago. they're good movies but i hope he is still alive. you're okay Dday? what did you think of them. Akira had erm pretty great animation though! *fingertips together, sweat drops from ramis forehead, eyes spike left and right as catas earl and everyone around him stares ramci eyes pierced/despisingly* you know, i COULD give you guys a rest with the comma humour (and in general yeah, i MUST control this savage ape...) (ahhah i was going to write hommour/homour weren't i... bonzi, how... how COULD you...)
In fairness I think there's a lot of recent bigbudget trashy movies with vaguely topical subtext but the thing is that they're more about uh vague analogies than OTT literalizations. Like there's a ton of movies with SUDDEN GEORGE BUSH REFERENCE where villainous boss dude turns to screen and says WE DONT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS or some shit but that's about it.
yeah i don't really know why i write this shit either. i'll stop.yeah you do that and i fucking kill you. there'd be even less uh humanity/exchange in this forum without these posts you bighearted dork!!
Hey dirtbag, you're a lousy shot. I don't like lousy shots. You wasted a kid... for nothing. Now I think it's time to waste you!
I would say it was pretty thoroughly heinous and I think less of myself for watching it. I guess it was kind of fascinating in the same way as that one General Hospital Guerilla Base Infiltration arc in terms of seeming retroactively like a perfect distillation of Reaganism or something, but that's something I have no real experience in anyway. I think earlchip once mentioned wanting to hear how I still vaguely picture America and I think it would be a sort of cross between this movie (or equivalent), Earthbound optimism, the first New York Dolls album and "Ghost Rider" by Suicide. Well, that's my post.that's pretty cool. I hope you go into it even more sometime, fantasy america is probably my favorite place. I will watch this movie, it honestly sounds like something you'd make up! eg murder dog. sylvester stallone is also the face of my city and literally the most visited monument (https://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=8&gs_id=t&xhr=t&q=rocky+statue&tok=N-vi6J-W7_npTNJcV3fjVw&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&safe=off&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=rocky+st&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=df402daf0747315&biw=1366&bih=611) out of all the historical and cultural attractions here (for those who don't know, philadelphia is probably the most historically significant city in the states). my sister also loves him and is convinced he's a good person. in 2008 he was seen campaigning support for John McCain, alongside Chuck Norris.
Die Wielle was alright but I wasn't as impressed with it as the former movie. It's about a high school teacher who gets stuck having to teach Autocracy (instead of Anarchy as he wanted) for project week, so he gets the brilliant idea to demonstrate to his class how an autocratic government works by having his class become one. Things quickly get out of control.
i'm not the only one, am i ??no
I was going to say "isn't that purposeful?" but then again I only saw maybe half of it and even that was probably 5 years ago. it is firmly wedged in my mind that all that stuff geodude said is 'the point' but I've probably just been brainwashed by family guy commercialsNo, that is the point. But it's possible to go the postmodern route without being so smugly masturbatory.
Gotta say, I haven't seen a Tarantino film which I've liked. It's all superficiality and style over substance, and he tries to justify it by claiming to bring back the feel of seventies exploitation films, whilst lacking the sense of irony, humour and directness that those films had. I don't get why people love him so, and then read bullshit into it. Kill Bill isn't feminist, Uma Thurman's character is a male's view of what a strong woman should be (essentially a man with tits) and is nothing more than the cliche vengeance heroine. Reservoir Dogs feels like a ten minute scene stretched out to tedium via soundbytes and violence.let's ride into the sunset together
I was going to say "isn't that purposeful?" but then again I only saw maybe half of it and even that was probably 5 years ago. it is firmly wedged in my mind that all that stuff geodude said is 'the point' but I've probably just been brainwashed by family guy commercialsoh yeah it is definitely what he is trying to do and that only makes it worse! i could probably forgive him for trying to make a film of substance and flubbing it but to deliberately going out and making something so vacuous... what a big fat waste of celluloid
keep in mind tho memes as we know them didn't exist back when pupl fiction was released, so it's kinda like criticizing ebenezer howard for coming up with the theory used by awful developers to create globalized unidentifiable suburbs
holy shit are discussing this. ARE WE DISCCUSING THIIIIIIS *prince purple rain scream* no but jokes aside yeah those were some good sum-ups by geodude hundley and kaworu... though i have only seen pulp fiction, kill bill 1 and jackie brown. i guess like any sane person i try to keep faith that he'll have at least one good movie (and believe it or not, jackie brown was closest to one!! but it was ok) but i have yet to see that midgit to make anything that resembles a movie with anything to say. jackie brown could had been an action movie/thriller from the 80's.
EDIT jesus christ my mind. does anybody get reactions' from reading tarantino's wikipedia page?!?!? i need this confirmed
"Tarantino’s love of women's feet finds its way into the majority of his films."interesting analysis
-Wikipedia
just discovered this gem of a movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98o (movie gets bonus points for havin ziggy pop in the trailer)
man, it's like im 13 years old again and just saw the matrix/fight club and had my fuckin mind blown and want to share it with everyone. lucid dreaming is unbelievably amazing. you literally are neo in the matrix of your own mind. also watch that movie because it is fuckin dope as hell.
just discovered this gem of a movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2DeTet98o (movie gets bonus points for havin ziggy pop in the trailer)Oh wow yea this is good. I remember it was shown at an event by a Philosophy org at school.
man, it's like im 13 years old again and just saw the matrix/fight club and had my fuckin mind blown and want to share it with everyone. lucid dreaming is unbelievably amazing. you literally are neo in the matrix of your own mind. also watch that movie because it is fuckin dope as hell.
Kill Bill isn't feminist, Uma Thurman's character is a male's view of what a strong woman should be (essentially a man with tits) and is nothing more than the cliche vengeance heroine.While I'd say that her being a cliche vengeance heroine is accurate, I'm curious as to what a honestly feminist heroine would be like in your opinion. Would she not "kick ass"? What is a woman's view of what a strong woman would be? (since you aren't a woman, I suppose that might be a difficult thing to answer? Not sure, as I would not know the answer myself.) Do all women think that there is a universal "strong woman" that specifically does not fall into the violence and aggression you'd see in the typical male heroes?
A strong woman is not someone who has to become a man.Except for Oscar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_of_Versailles).
Kill bill has been in the straight ACTION-ACTION genre. The stuff that mostly caters to just being actiony in the first place. Like my earlier example, Die hard (all of them), The Bourne series, Dirty Harry, Terminator. Know what I'm saying? Most of these have characters doing plenty of illogical things. Mainly just in the name of getting to more action. Where the drama is just segue for more action or just fluff to prop up the action. In this way, I've always felt Kill Bill is innocent and just following the tropes of its genre.
rofl people actually think im socceristhebest.
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yeah when she said he was a "crackhead" I literally thought he fucked himself up on crack or something and was in a coma until they explained it. And those job titles were really interesting. Pretty much all of them collaborate with creating something.It's also cool how the runtime of the film is 99 minutes. :)
Faster Pussycat. Kill! Kill1
I agree. Very quotable too. I can't believe there's no remake, I think there's a potential for it.
Not really a movie, but I've been watching The latest Walking Dead. Not because I think its a great show. Or because I think its entertainingly bad, but because I want it to be good. So I'm watching it hoping it'll improve because right now its just 'meh'.
The whole show has been just 'meh', too much useless drama... how difficult is it to gather a few supplies and lock your self in a room.
I think I don't really get scream movies due to culture though, since it seemed to be popular in the past few centuries on the west but our country's cinema didn't have that so I had no context of genre or those kind of scream comedy horror style.
Then what's the point of this topic?
Last movie I saw at the movies, since I still actually go to the cinema, was The Hunger Games. At the time I vaguely knew that it was Battle Royale but for 14-year old girls, and I didn't see a trailer for it or anything. Not that I had any expectations whatsoever but when I was there I IMDB'd the cast and crew and recognized people I like and thought, "Hey, this might actually be good." Oh, how wrong I was.
The last movie I saw in general would be Hanna. If you want to watch something that is like a better version of Hunger Games, I recommend that. Although I personally think it would have made a better webcomic than it would a film. This has to be the only film I have ever watched that gave me such a specific impression, but simply I cannot get past it. It was an alright film, but any time during that film I imagine that I am reading a webcomic instead, it immediately becomes 5000% more entertaining to me. I really cannot explain this, and I cannot help but feel this despite hardly ever reading any webcomics whatsoever.I think Hanna is an interesting experiment, but the results are a mixed bag. The action scenes are top notch, especially the Eric Bana one in the subway, and I think the performances and characters are really interesting, even though Cate Blanchett chews so much scenery. But what drags it down for me is the pacing, and the fact that it never quite knows what it wants to be; it's not quite an action movie, it's not quite an arthouse sort of thing, and the two never really reconcile.
I think Hanna is an interesting experiment, but the results are a mixed bag. The action scenes are top notch, especially the Eric Bana one in the subway, and I think the performances and characters are really interesting, even though Cate Blanchett chews so much scenery. But what drags it down for me is the pacing, and the fact that it never quite knows what it wants to be; it's not quite an action movie, it's not quite an arthouse sort of thing, and the two never really reconcile.
Watched The Divide a post-apocalyptic movie. Didnt think this movie was going to have much to offer and also expected something different from what I got but I found that I wasnt completely unsatisfied by the end of it.Eh, IDK I saw it and I think I prefer more substance to my post apocalyptic movies. Also, it wouldn't work as a fallout prequel because its set in the modern day. And they said it was the koreans in the movie (though maybe they honestly didn't know) rather than the Chinese like in fallout.
We watch a group of people slowly break down and become crazy, some more than others. Although it wasnt the sci fi movie I had expected, I certainly think it was worth a watch. One criticism would be that the movie was way too long.
Also the ending would nicely fit as a prequel to the Fallout games.
Last movie I saw at the movies, since I still actually go to the cinema, was The Hunger Games. At the time I vaguely knew that it was Battle Royale but for 14-year old girls, and I didn't see a trailer for it or anything. Not that I had any expectations whatsoever but when I was there I IMDB'd the cast and crew and recognized people I like and thought, "Hey, this might actually be good." Oh, how wrong I was.
As for the last movie I saw in general, it would have been The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I love that movie to bits even though it's generally not well-reviewed. Any movie that has a scene with Bill Murray in a red speedo and a bathrobe shooting pirates while Iggy Pop and the Stooges plays has to be awesome as far as I'm concerned.
I liked that movie too it was a research vessel he was the captain(?) of right?plus david bowie songs in portugese
its been a long time but it did remind me of being at sea alot and the quirky characters too. If I remember the pirates correctly....them were some bullshit pirates..
To describe it in a single phrase: It is the american dream, literally personified.I'm not from the US, but I genuinely find the whole concept of America to be insanely interesting. I guess it helps when most of your favourite things come from there. Anyways, you have me extremely intrigued by this film. Last time I heard anybody describe something as the American Dream personified (and not in a taking the piss sort of way) was in reference to The Great Gatsby. I have a lot of issues with that book but this is neither the time or place for that discussion.
plus david bowie songs in portugeseI have the Bowie in Portuguese CD they put out. I find myself putting it on waaaay too often than I should. Also, your whole marine biology experience sounds amazing. I wish I could do something like that although I'm science-challenged.
Finally finished the six movies of the film series Once Upon A Time In China.Personally I like 2 the best. The first one is great of course, but I find it overlong. I like how much more stylish 2 is and the fight scenes in it are just so damn superb. Also it ends on the most unsubtle political note ever that every time I see it I smile. I've never liked 3 and I've never seen the two without Jet Li. As for Once Upon a Time in China and America... well, as a kid I loved it and thought the 7-Eleven joke was the height of hilarity. Nowadays the less said about it the better.
1 - undeniably the best. Imo also has the best plot.
2 - Actor of Leung Fu was replaced and the other disciples(Porky, Kai, So) were not in the movie which was a bit downer but the plot is still good, also Donnie Yen. Clubfoot was also a nice addition.
3 - I hated the lion dance fighting.
4 - the worst imo. Laughable plot and the lion dance competition wasn't at all exciting.
5 - ok for the most part. I'm glad they got rid of those weak lion dance fights.
6 - average. no hardcore fights since they are basically killing off the americans.
it never is worth the extra money.
except lion king 3d. it was great in 3d.
Labrynth.
anyone watched "sunshine?" is it any good. I'm might be watching that with a friend tomorrow night.
it's a pretty good psychological thriller in the first two thirds. it changes in the last act, but i can't say too much w/out spoiling it.
I've been going to the cinema quite a lot lately. Today I went to see Prometheus. It's not normally something I would choose to see, but there wasn't much else on and Ridley Scott who directed Blade Runner and Alien apparently had made another good movie. So I went to see it, and I saw it in 3D since I have never seen a movie in 3D before. The 3D aspect was kind of cool, maybe it did make me more immersed in the physical aspects of the film. I think I was more engaged with the film than I would have otherwise been due to the alien visuals being rendered like that. This isn't exactly a compliment, because what I mean to say is that it provided an interesting distraction from the extremely weak and shallow script and the hackneyed scenario. So it was a fun gimmick for today but I don't think I need to see another film in 3D. The movie itself is a kind of amalgam of a bunch of things you have seen before in better films, like Alien and The Thing. So if you like those movies this might interest you but will be disappointing. The dialogue and characters are so rote and embarrassing that when there is a lull in the action and the characters are allowed to speak for more than 20 seconds at a time it made me cringe kind of like when a shit uncle comes to dinner and starts telling awful jokes and everyone is just kind of putting up with it. The script wasn't obviously offensive to me or anything, it was just very bad. As a whole the movie was pretty unimaginative and even though I really like space, scary things and aliens I wasn't excited at any point during this.
also chiming in to say that prometheus was pretty fucking bad. dumb shit happening for no reason with flat characters.
I really liked that deconstruction of Iron Man 2, the first was ok but the second kind of totally repulsed me but it probably is like the best and only accurate distillation of what 2011 is and is totally nightmarish and surreal when you think about it (chops up footage/makes it even BLUEer and YELLOWer than it already was and sets to Venetian Snares - Die Die Die Winnipeg Fuckers Die) I have to like any movie which is sort of secretly about fuck Iphones fuck Apple and I dunno even in Oboma years no movies/etc. seem blatantly anti-corporate/grotesque about it whereas the 90's was full of shit like that/picking on Bill Gates and he like saves babies from burning buildings now. Well I dunno maybe not that good but like what does Steve Jobs do for humanity other than like print money Robert Downey Jr. is actually the greatest troll everand
That east by something or something east
Its got that guy with the jerry curls and he's an ex baseball player washed up asshole in south carolina (I think it was south). who decides to teach gym at a middle school. I love that show its friggen hilarious. Especially the part where he takes ecstacy and goes to shaperon the school dance and then puts a brick through one of will ferrell's character's BMW dealership windows. I'm not a huge will ferrell fan (I like his SNL and old school stuff) but his character in this show is pretty good. Evangel mentioned my captain looking like him in the picture thread but I think he looks more like that old hippy guy with the beard from "The Men who stare at goats" theres another popular movie that guy was in but the title escapes me right now.
are you sure this wasn't a dream you had
Phil Fish was an interesting story, I feel bad for the guy and he seems like he's going to snap (or is that how all french-canadian people are?)
All of the characters act for increasingly arbitrary reasons and everything happens too quickly to process or impact at all.
a turd derivative
king is considered very good within the genre, though I wouldn't know because the only thing by him I've read is a graphic novel that's just a bunch of pictures of decapitated pigs
I'm not a nihilist (or at least I don't think I am) but there is no such thing as beauty really. Its just a mental and cultural construct. And these days even that construct is being broken down so that what we are left with is "everything can be beautiful". Beauty, in any context, isn't something we as individuals, or as a species, should aim for.
I'll admit I literally can't comprehend the idea of being OK to just stop existing. That is not something I can even begin to relate to. I don't even know how to approach concept in order to relate with people who think that, at all.
What do you call turds of turds?Turd Way
so do we all hate it in movies and tv shows when they use handheld cameras and do those short and fast zoom-ins on every shot at seemingly random times or is that just me
edit: not sure why I posted in this topic because this post was inspired by the 30 seconds I watched of that new aaron sorkin show but welp movies do it too so whatever
Watched A Scanner Darkly very nice animation really. The drama was so so but the concept was solid, mainly because it's based on a book. I'm pretty sure the book contains much more dialogue and maybe narration and explanation.
Watched A Face in the Crowd (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Face_in_the_Crowd_%28film%29) again after hearing that Andy Griffith died.
It's one of those really incredible black and white movies that is probably too slow for young people, but it's worth watching if you like Andy Griffith and were like me and more or less just watched his television work and thought that his performance was near the ceiling of his acting capabilities. It's not. It's almost frustrating to think back on how he slipped into his sedentary acting career, because this guy had an unique energy and range that he just didn't display often enough. Seeing this makes me think he could have literally done whatever he wanted as an actor, which isn't something I can really earnestly say about a lot of people. I don't really think I could name five performances in film that were more effective than this. Scares the fuck out of me.
Basically watch this movie if you want to see Andy Griffith as the Terminator, and only Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau in prop glasses can save us.
go. watch merry christmas, mr lawrence. immediately.
the only thing i had qualms with was matt damon's character, but I think it was supposed to be a pastiche of itself. It was very try-hard, but that reflects in the character anyways, so...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUa5oHgYV2k
Can we talk a little bit about how upset we all are that they made a second silent hill movie that looks even worse than the the first one? Aren't we all so upset about that?
Whoa man, I re-watched King of the Hill a few months ago, not all of it but seasons 1 through maybe 4 or 5, and it's pretty solid.Well yeah, Its pretty well written. Which actually is sort of related to the reason it can be painful to watch. The characters in it tend to be flawed, extremely flawed. With good writing its makes you realize just how bad of a decision any one bad decision actually is.
the ideas that make silent hill interesting are really an adjunct of the series as a whole - we're really only talking about some of the aesthetic stuff, silent hill 2 and maybe shattered memories. the rest of the stuff isn't really anything special, so as long as there is something shitty to pick the bones of you can guarantee that's what people will go for. so i guess what i'm saying is why wouldn't it stink when the series basically does?
idk why i write this but no country for old men kinda bothers me that for something that strives out to be 70's-existential side - style of action film, it really doesn't seem to have any kind of profound view on things happening within the movie, thuss coming out more of a tarantino-like-series-of-sudden-events - effect than anything substancial. probably also needed more view/fleshing out on the tommy lee jones part. sorry for this blurt.
\watch your fucking moth.
Its not even a hard movie to get dude\
i should watch some of werner herzog's fiction films, cos i've only seen a couple of his documentaries and they were only interesting due to their subject matter. i didn't really find anthing he did with the subjects particular cool.the documentaries are pretty interchangeable with the fiction work when it comes right down to it. you can probably stop while you're ahead if what he's bringing to it all doesn't do anything for you right off the bat. herzog isn't for everybody, and something tells me you'll find too many hangups in his outlook to find the greater thrust of his career meaningful.
nah it's bull man. bull. bad movie. spit. i could write longer about why but i dont think it (this movie) ain't worth each others' time... !! noticed just in time, thanks for catamites for support... let's mow down this loser!!! *beats the s*it outta loser mope on school yard* who gets who now!! *smack bam crack speed*
Its about "evil" and how some are incomprehensibly capable of it without discrimination or regard. Tommy lee jones pretty much lays it out for you the first 5-10 minutes of the movie. I mean, theres probably a whole lot more in there but from my understanding thats the gist of it.
Its not even a hard movie to get dude and the action sequences aren't out of place and they're pretty accurate for the subject matter imo.
idk why i write this but no country for old men kinda bothers me that for something that strives out to be 70's-existential side - style of action film, it really doesn't seem to have any kind of profound view on things happening within the movie, thuss coming out more of a tarantino-like-series-of-sudden-events - effect than anything substancial. probably also needed more view/fleshing out on the tommy lee jones part. sorry for this blurt.for whatever it's worth the gist of this is pretty much how i'd describe all the other coen brothers movies i've seen. the only reason why i couldn't say it about this one is because i haven't seen it.
for whatever it's worth the gist of this is pretty much how i'd describe all the other coen brothers movies i've seen. the only reason why i couldn't say it about this one is because i haven't seen it.ahhahah I'm not saying that you'd have to write aggressively to be funny but both of your last bigger posts have been pr good/funny...!! it reminds me of a guy i know in fb who makes pr funny posts but somehow only about binge drinking/hangover/vodka and old cars for some reason (like only things he occasionally posts anything about in fb). This Amazing Lit/Charismatic Personality & His Knack on Charismatic Humour on Old Cars and Alcohol
seriously though, is this movie actually at all worth watching apart from that ONE GUY? you know who the hell i'm talking about, and i watched a bunch of clips on the youtube(s) because he's reasonably entertaining with that stupid haircut, but the rest of the movie just looks like it stands around waiting for him to come back so it can get interesting again. i've seen a bunch of clips of this movie and it looks like some generic minimalist homage to a bunch of movies nobody cares about. which is cool, you know, just referencing other movies rather than making your own movie, TOTALLY NOT A WORTHLESS WAY TO MAKE A MOVIE AT ALL. we need more homages DESPERATELY, this is IMPORTANT. don't know if that's a fair way to describe this movie, as i've heard a bunch of people kinda foaming at the mouth saying how this movie is some COMPLETELY REDEEMING genre study about THE DEATH OF THE WESTERN or something, which is also totally not an unacceptably empty goal of filmmaking. the thought of movies actually being about something in reality rather than just some fucking commentary on other movies? THIS IS A LUDICROUS PROPOSAL AND I VOW TO REPEAL IT WHEN I AM ELECTED INTO OFFICE.
i think pollen cores are cooler than ice cores, although layers in ice cores are a little more immediately differentiable
also phytolith analysis
looking at tiny things & extrapolating huge, locationally-specific things
so bond gets involuntarily molested by an evil homosexual? that's really funny. gotta stay topical, gotta allude to the plight of the everyday man
It was less sexy and more gay.
why does this even matter did you take yer biggirl to this movie too and cus of the homo you couldn't get it up and bounce off her belly like a miniature trampoline afterwards?
I can already imagine every single woman every bond has ever slept with just to blatantly abandon later cheering on his clear discomfort at this role reversal with earnest enjoyment.While I find the premise pretty ridiculous (GAYS ARE AFTER US STRAIGHT FOLK!!!... sexually...) IDK if the ladies he had consensual one night stands with would cheer at bond getting molested unless they were sociopaths. They might not like being ignored or abandoned later and think hes a jerk possibly but I think that they'd cheer something like that is probably going to far.
would cheer at bond getting molested unless they were sociopaths.
He thinks you shouldn't watch it I think, and thinks its utterly terrible that you are considering watching it even after the shit about the villain being gay and molesting bond was brought up because you are transsexual. *shrugs* My best analysis.
I can already imagine every single woman every bond has ever slept with just to blatantly abandon later cheering on his clear discomfort at this role reversal with earnest enjoyment.
Bond was hitting on these women and they were disgusted by it
are you saying that queer people would cheer at that? otherwise, you're basically agreeing with what he said. the rest of the sentence is important for comprehension.Quotewould cheer at bond getting molested unless they were sociopaths.then every man and woman who puts themselves out and gets disrespected and mistreated is a sociopath.
the potential role reversal here would be a sexual predator being preyed upon (with ass pinches and pec fondles, I guess?), but again, read the rest of the sentence:QuoteBond was hitting on these women and they were disgusted by itmaybe I'm misunderstanding but that isn't generic mysogonist male hero role reversal. Bond is a womanizer but the women find him charming because of it and his machoism. A gender role reversal of that would be a ladyesque bond doing the same thing to men but with the feminine counterpart. I don't know what it is called but I'd definitely watch that, that is hot as shit.
Also I'm not a Bond aficionado but this would only be a role reversal if Bond was hitting on these women and they were disgusted by it, iirc the deal with Bond is that the ladies love him???
are you saying that queer people would cheer at that?
the potential role reversal here would be a sexual predator being preyed upon (with ass pinches and pec fondles, I guess?), but again, read the rest of the sentence:
there can also be a somewhat large gap between trans/genderqueer people and sexually queer people, and there are plenty of queer people who don't care about this sort of thing at all. yelling doesn't seem to help change that.
not exactly the same thing but you should be offended if anyone at all
the guy just happend to be gay
I wouldn't agree with straight white cisman but yeah you're right about intent.
for what it's worth if i was writing the screenplay for the next action packed, "spine-tingling"(-aintitcoolnews.com) james bond movie i would totally make the plot twist of the movie the fact that james bond is the film's bond girl.That would actually be interesting, that aside, your right velfire, I didn't think about it like that, to be honest when I watch a film I tend not to care about things like that (unless that's the point of the movie). Thats probably becuase I see most of humanity as nothing but apart of a giant crud bucket and that crap like this just goes into it one giant shit at the same time, so much so that I don't diferentiate it from other crap. It's all the same shit that idiots pump out so I don't care that they made the villain gay intentionaly beucase it's all the same shit; it just means that yet again humanity failed at growth and evolving themselves and are still apart of that giant shit filled crud bucket.
Yeah it's definitely not a Hollywood thing but I guess I was focusing on that since we're talking about movies.
It's incredibly, incredibly rare for a character to be made gay for no real reason. Moviemakers don't have to think about making a straight character, but if they make a character gay they really mean it.
e: Like, the people who made Brave thought very hard about making the main character a girl. I guarantee they never once had to debate over whether or not she was going to be straight.
for what it's worth if i was writing the screenplay for the next action packed, "spine-tingling"(-aintitcoolnews.com) james bond movie i would totally make the plot twist of the movie the fact that james bond is the film's bond girl.
Or a trans. A trans would prolly be better maybe? I'm talking like self-aware trans usin that shit to their advantage. Dude walkin into the bank in a suit and tie and robbin that shit then goin to the bathroom and walking back out as in a skirt and heels with money stuffed up his/her bra. And then rollin up on some parked cops and all swoonin at em and when they get close and are like "WHAT THE F-" gettin a load of buckshot in the face and robbed too. That is a goddamn statement in itself.
just being a woman counterpart and I'm talkin a total flip not bond with a gina.I'm not just picking on you Mope, I see this said often and honestly I don't fucking understand what this EVEN MEANS. (mean with characters switching genders in general)
Transitioning and gender are a really serious thing dude it's not something to play off for laughs.
I'm not just picking on you Mope, I see this said often and honestly I don't fucking understand what this EVEN MEANS. (mean with characters switching genders in general)
"generic mother" OK yeah that's using the biological aspect probably to a degree. But IDK if revenge is purely a man thing.
Hell, while I can't really relate to Black Mamba in Kill Bill I don't think she acts completely unrealistically for either gender specifically. Maybe unrealistic as a character in general that rides typical protagonist tropes that only seem male-only because action protagonists almost always are male.
The reason I love GTA is so much is because it makes light of alot of societal issues through stereotypes and a kind of self ridicule.
I think this is the best way to reach people that just do not understand or normally care. They think they're playin a game but if you kind of slip that shit in and mask it in humor and ridiculousness it kind of makes them subconsciously think about it.
Its like reverse brainwashing and its friggin awesome. But yeah they got their problems too don't get me wrong.
"Bond with a gina" would be more like the ladies from Kill Bill while a complete reversal would be more like the woman from "The Long Kiss Goodnight"
Another example is the main character in the "ballad of gay tony". This man is a straight ethnic dude that befriends a homosexual and throughout the game he gets called a faggot and his sexuality gets challanged because of that. Guess what? Same thing. As the protagonist you automatically self identify and when you see that shit something is subconsciously stirred.
This is just sort of an aside but considering how much we've talked about being trans in this topic you should really try not to equate genitals with gender. "Female Bond" and "Bond with a vag" shouldn't be equated.
Well to be fair he's specifically referring to the "sex" definition of the word gender. And Female is a sex. You mean 'feminine [james] bond' shouldn't be equated with '[james] bond with a vagina'
or wait... hmmm... In less you are talking about female in the context of being female... mentally? Is there a way to medically test for that? I bet there is.
This is not my expertise.
I just watched The Comedy. I liked it. I didn't even really dislike the people in it, maybe that's how far I've gone or something. Just sitting around being awful with a bunch of guys and some women who listen to them for some unknown fucking reason. I think I was projecting too much onto it, but I knew I was and what I was letting myself see wasn't what it was, although it was that too. II watched it too but don't think I posted about it. it's good to see your perspective on it. I didn't get a lot out of it, but from what I can tell the movie was about the phenomenon of people who are at least little like Swanson, and I guess highlighting how empty and self-destructive that is. I remember questioning how much the LCD soundsystem guy really understands and thinking that if he knew what he wanted to say the movie would be pretty different. I like the general direction.
Trans women are female, regardless of their genitals. Trans men are male, regardless of their genitals. Intersex people have gender identities regardless of their genitals. Male people and female people are not categorized as "penis-havers" and "vagina-havers".
Well to be fair he's specifically referring to the "sex" definition of the word gender. And Female is a sex. You mean 'feminine [james] bond' shouldn't be equated with '[james] bond with a vagina'
Here's my counterpoint: instead of fighting stereotypes and marginalization by trying to parody those attitudes, why not create new, positive ones? Create positive female characters, create positive gay characters, create positive black characters, create positive trans characters, etc. etc. Don't just make them a parody of a stereotype.
Maybe you're right about the suicide rate thing and that kind of attempt not being a good approach now. I don't personally know any trans and I'm just goin off what I see and hear from media and discussion. I do see alot of them on facebook doing that self awareness and self-ridicule though. But in a good way. Its not like a fat guy who makes fat jokes about himself to make friends and deal with his physical disadvantage. Its like a blatant realization that they're different and bizzare to other people who don't understand and they kind of take it and run with it.
Maybe its a 50% suicide rate because alot of them just cannot cope with it and some of the other ones find empowerment through humor? I'm not saying all of them but I really admire that kind of approach.
To me it doesn't really matter if ignorant people get it or not because they prolly never will.
I dunno if you've tried talking to someone who actually hates people like that and just outright refuses to aknowledge anything you're saying but its nearly if not impossible to do anything at all to make them change their minds.
In my opinion the only way to do this is to trick them into thinking that way. Its a very hard thing to do. If you can trick these people to vote against themselves and trick them into furthering their hatred and displaying it in a politically acceptable manner then I don't think you can tell me that its not possible to fool them into being civil open minded humanitarians.
He's right, I directly reference sex with gender but I think with trans people it is different. I think men and women are directly effected by their genitalia which controls hormone levels and to a point psychological response and behavior. All people have both estrogen and testosterone in their bodies that effects everything they think or do. Yes the brain is a powerful thing and maybe you can direct yourself to a point but I think that even then there are certain things the human mind alone cannot overcome. I think gay and trans people are still effected like this but because of a different chemical balance in the brain, one is more prominant than the other. I know that trans people think differently and this isn't a decision its the way they're born but if a trans person has a working penis and identifies with a female then the reason for that from my maybe flawed understanding is that biologically their minds are movin one way while their bodies another but one has to be dominant.
We aren't asexual creatures. We don't breed that way and trying to erase the definition between man and women because others don't identify with that is denial of the self and when I say self I mean humanity as a whole. I don't think these people should be ridiculed or excluded but I don't think society and law should be forcefully changed in order to accept this because this is not the right way. Its not a natural approach and not true acceptance. Its like forcing all the kids in a classroom to stop making fun of the odd one out because he's different for fear of punishment and not teaching them right.
Because thats not how stereotypes work. They're created by ignorant people as a way to classify and discriminate you can't make good ones and expect those people to aknowledge them.
Humor is the lubrication of life. It is the ultimate way to cope with horrible horrible things. it is the best way to share an idea and do it in a way that any idiot can understand. When someone laughs you know they understand what you're saying because it is a natural response like coughing or breathing. They actually teach you when you do what I do to use humor to communicate and deal with whats goin on around you. If hell is falling all around you and you can still laugh about it you are the strongest person in the world and absolutely nothing can hurt you.
If you keep pressin me I will be though. You can get angry and yell about this stuff to ignorant people.
He's right, I directly reference sex with gender but I think with trans people it is different. I think men and women are directly effected by their genitalia which controls hormone levels and to a point psychological response and behavior. All people have both estrogen and testosterone in their bodies that effects everything they think or do. Yes the brain is a powerful thing and maybe you can direct yourself to a point but I think that even then there are certain things the human mind alone cannot overcome. I think gay and trans people are still effected like this but because of a different chemical balance in the brain, one is more prominant than the other. I know that trans people think differently and this isn't a decision its the way they're born but if a trans person has a working penis and identifies with a female then the reason for that from my maybe flawed understanding is that biologically their minds are movin one way while their bodies another but one has to be dominant.Yes, the key words there being "think". I don't expect you to be a biologist, or even to have a basic understanding of the biological processes that guide human behavior, but let me ask you first and foremost why you are even engaging in this discussion at all. Why do we even have to go to the biological aspect of the equation? This might be very interesting at a seminar, but pardon me if I'm not thrilled by the idea that we must include the aspect of biology as a variable in whether we condone the phenomenon of transsexuality. That, to me, comes very dangerously close to Social Darwinism.
Yeah I'm gonna agree to disagree and stop at this point after bein called phobic.You should take this as a sign that maybe you should be more rigorous in questioning your actions. I didn't even see Vellfire's post when I wrote my reply but I said the exact same thing. I actually think that, in and of itself, it's transphobic to say "let's sit down and have a talk about whether trans people are for real or just a bunch of baloney".
i can definitely see a lot distaste for transgender people (which one might rightfully call transphobia)i don't have a lot to add to that post since i'm not a transperson myself but i'm just gonna paraphrase someone i saw on twitter today - that this is simply transphobia by definition
I don't think that was his point is though. (that is, about whether a trans has the right to be their preferred sex or not.)I don't know who you're responding to. Certainly not to me, because I did not argue that Mope is saying anything about rights. What I'm saying is you cannot say "let's see if we can use spurious layperson science to disprove the plight of trans people". That, to me, is unequivocal transphobia. The fact that the biological and psychological consensuses can vouch for the genuineness of their condition is only an aside to that.
I'm sure mkk or someone could clarify a lot better than me but you seem to have a very simplistic or skewed or outdated or whatever idea of gender. Your whole post frames trans people as WANTING to be a certain gender. It's not like that. They are that gender. It's not about just humoring trans people by calling them the pronouns they want (that's bare minimum decency-wise). I don't just call trans women "she" because it's what they want, it's because they literally are women. I guess the best way to clear this up is for you to tell me exactly what you believe makes someone a woman or a man and discuss it from there.OK, before I do that, are we assuming different definitions for the words 'gender' and 'sex'? Or are we talking about them as synonymous? I vaguely remember having a similar discussion where they were pointed out as different.
Though, now that I think about it I think according to the dictionary gender and sex may be synonymous. *checks* yes it is. Which makes this a bit more confusing.
I'm sure mkk or someone could clarify a lot better than me but you seem to have a very simplistic or skewed or outdated or whatever idea of gender. Your whole post frames trans people as WANTING to be a certain gender. It's not like that. They are that gender. It's not about just humoring trans people by calling them the pronouns they want (that's bare minimum decency-wise). I don't just call trans women "she" because it's what they want, it's because they literally are women. I guess the best way to clear this up is for you to tell me exactly what you believe makes someone a woman or a man and discuss it from there.this is a really tough concept for people to get and it's fairly recent. mopes idea isn't skewed, it's just "traditional" if youll let me be lazy in word choice. this stuff is just not a part of most people's lives, especially if you're working class or not part of academia. just gotta try and get em to see it this way, but they might not... personally I think the next best thing is tolerance. just leaving my mark, my two scents
Its it not socially acceptable to call someone utilizing a pronoun that does not fit their gender. I can get that. I don't know the actual histories of the words. The first time I heard that gender and sex meant different things was not very long ago. Though, now that I think about it I think according to the dictionary gender and sex may be synonymous. *checks* yes it is. Which makes this a bit more confusing.
Whatever, should probably stick to using the term 'gender identity' to be more specific rather than just 'gender' but that's just nitpicking.
I've ever only met two transgender people in my life. Both were pleasant women. (that is... sex=males, gender=women)
EDIT: That is, its socially unacceptable to call someone by a pronoun exclusively oriented around their sex. But I imagine honest mistakes can be made. What about 'drag queens'? are they transgender or just cisgender with... something that I don't have a word for... I suppose its a case by case basis? While I've met with one and had a short discussion about music, that is all I talked about. I don't honestly know what the safe distinctions are.
Dictionaries aren't the be-all end-all of everything, y'know.Dictionaries (and encyclopedias) are extremely important as a starting point as a general blanket for situations such as these.
as for drag queens and male crossdressers-- very simply answer: they are usually cisgender men who just enjoy playing around with gender. it is an entirely different phenomenon than transgender. in fact, many trans women (my girlfriend included) find drag queens to be quite offensive.are you sure? I mean there's stuff like my campus's DRAG SHOW which is a bunch of completely cisgender frat boys and a few gay dudes dressing up in drag for a night in the name of Campus Diversity, and that's uh yeah, but there are also transgender people who do drag or wear different types of clothes. maybe you mean specifically the act of "guys messing around in women's clothes" which I think is generally innocent in intention but understandably offensive
are you sure? I mean there's stuff like my campus's DRAG SHOW which is a bunch of completely cisgender frat boys and a few gay dudes dressing up in drag for a night in the name of Campus Diversity, and that's uh yeah, but there are also transgender people who do drag or wear different types of clothes. maybe you mean specifically the act of "guys messing around in women's clothes" which I think is generally innocent in intention but understandably offensive
I see, I guess my only experience with drag is eg divine and rupaul and stuff I've read about antony hegarty and his band tho he doesn't do drag himself afaik. I guess I have trouble equating it to a minstrel show because I think I've only ever seen drag queens portrayed as "weirdos" who do it for personal reasons, not "normals" just having laugh. but if it's like the campus drag show, then yeah that's not good.
Thank you Mkk for tryin to teach me and fuck you motherfucking arrogant bastards I can tell you don't talk to people like me about this shit in real life because if you did you'd be much more miserable.You should be more fucking grateful for the unlimited amount of patience you've been granted. You're a dumb piece of shit who doesn't like being told he's wrong. Maybe things would be different if you'd be a little more accepting of people different than you are instead of using a flawed understanding of biology to try and prove them INCORRECT. Maybe if you didn't pretend to be a big fucking authority on issues like transgenderism and women's emancipation, people wouldn't call you out on being stupid, wrong and offensive as often as they have. That's YOUR fault, Farren, not ours. In fact, you've been given so much leeway on this it's almost incomprehensible. Vellfire spent post after post after post after post after post using her free time to explain it to you over and over and over again, and still your only reaction is to GET ANGRY and call her ARROGANT. Thanks for "trying so hard" to learn, asshole, particularly when you constantly refused to believe anything she told you and claimed to know better. So yeah, EXCUSE ME for my patience running thin with you. I hope your stupid ship sinks.
I dunno if you've tried talking to someone who actually hates people like that and just outright refuses to aknowledge anything you're saying but its nearly if not impossible to do anything at all to make them change their minds.
I can tell you don't talk to people like me about this shit in real life because if you did you'd be much more miserable.
Fuck, I'm the one who asked mkk to get involved because I didn't feel like I could talk from personal experience on trans matters and I knew they could, which is what you're supposed to do on subjects you know you don't know much about.I'd also like to point out that it doesn't take much to google a subject that you don't know about, the fact that you can't even do that much really goes to show "how hard your trying".
I'd also like to point out that it doesn't take much to google a subject that you don't know about, the fact that you can't even do that much really goes to show "how hard your trying".
^^ That wasn't aimed at you, I was just reiterating what you said, apolagies.
I am definitely not going to get into this but I did not know that bout transgender chromosome makeup. When I took biology in highschool all my teacher covered was the makeup of the basic human chromosome and certain exceptions like down syndrome. I knew there were people with both genetalia and stuff like that but the way I conceived it was a genetic rarity, like a fluke. Not like they're inferior because of it but just something they can't help kind of like being born with a thyroid issue.
So being from a town where people are 77% white, 55% married and mostly men I have to find and teach this shit to myself and I'm trying as hard as I possibly can. Thank you Mkk for tryin to teach me and fuck you motherfucking arrogant bastards I can tell you don't talk to people like me about this shit in real life because if you did you'd be much more miserable.
and now back to discussing some FAR MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS i last watched Jürgen Knieper - Der Amerikanische Freund it was good?????
??? ??No someone said they can't wait for someone to be UPSET about this BLATANT DIGRESSION in the movies topic so I just mentioned the silliest thing I could come up with. But! I've since googled it and yeah it's quite good stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGcpTtP0CY0)!
did you watch the movie or listen to the soundtrack?? soundtrack is good too imho, even if it is IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND
No someone said they can't wait for someone to be UPSET about this BLATANT DIGRESSION in the movies topic so I just mentioned the silliest thing I could come up with.iam too old i cannot keep up with this new-age transgressive behavior
But! I've since googled it and yeah it's quite good stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGcpTtP0CY0)!yes! i love this song. it was great in that scene where jonathan is on the train killing people and you feel like reality has finally collapsed
As far as zombie movies go, it looks good. I saw online Brad Pitt is releasing a zombie movie soon too, a lot of zombie stuff lately.
new ep of walking dead tomorrow fyi.
They already have scientist character that is inexplicably douchey and despite his ability to save kids from the harnesses makes completely baffling decisions and saying facepalmingly dumb asshole things.(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/superstarsofscience.com/wp-content/gallery/richard-dawkins/rd.jpeg)
(https://legacy.gamingw.net/etc/superstarsofscience.com/wp-content/gallery/richard-dawkins/rd.jpeg)I'll admit I'm mostly too ignorant of Richard Dawkins history to agree or refute your response. but I have a sneaking suspicion that your dislike is based on very recent things that he has said on Feminism and the Muslim religion. But I will say that the issue here is a TV show character vs a real atheist. The reason Richard Dawkins has said some of the things he's said can probably be explained, while the TV show character's words literally can't.
Watch all of both these shows, they'll really help you out. Don't watch Daria, it's just a bunch of high school girls with annoying voices or something. (I always associate Daria with sterile Catholic retreats in old manors, for some reason.)
The reason Richard Dawkins has said some of the things he's said can probably be explainedyes, it's cuz he's a dumb new school atheist who thinks he's hot stuff.
My issue wasn't with the concept of a "asshole scientist" or even "evil scientist". My problem was the extremely poorly explained douchey scientist that is pretty clearly a thinly veiled attempt to paint scientists as dick-wads and religious folk as the truly good people.hi you're constructing this dichotomy between scientists and religious people yourself
I know that this isn't what I said, that you never see a religious scientist. But they are groups that are commonly at odds with another.
also not expecting anybody's seen it including me but how do you guys feel about WRECK IT RALPH I'm actually surprised nobody's made a movie about a fictional videogame character until now. I'm sure it's absolutely safe and awful and not full of SNES/N64/dumbtopic stuff wouldn't that be awesome if it was about that
TOO MUCH SUGAR RUSH but it was pretty cool
edit: the movie should have been about the citizens of the fix-it felix game cause they were the best
i've been watching a lot of shitty movies on netflix and let me just say: watch interzonehave you seen this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film) or Vampire's Kiss (nic cage)?
raul julia*swoons*
have you seen this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_(film) or Vampire's Kiss (nic cage)?
both are excellent, although granted regarding Vampire's Kiss I've only actually seen a compilation of clips of nic cage's best moments but I think that's all you need to see anyway.the rest of the movie is good too! granted the secluded clips (also spoiling the movie on some/most parts) are astonishing in it's own but the movie itself is really good
i've been watching a lot of shitty movies on netflix and let me just say: watch interzone
vampire's kiss is fucking awesomeyessssssssssss!!!!! tristram, pal!!!!!!!!!!
overdrawn at the memory bank (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVo0dyjnWYo) is my favorite bad movie. i'm sure a large part of this is the fact that i grew up watching cheap 80s public television, and this movie has that odd aesthetic, but i'm not sure how much of that is me. i genuinely love the awful special effects, some of the actors are insanely good (raul julia and maury chaykin are somehow in this) but just don't give a shit, and the premise is in some general vicinity of being interesting, with the fact that it's just badly done and often unintelligible making it totally surreal. i mean, two of the main characters of this movie is a guy doing a deranged peter lorre impersonation, and raul julia doing a totally awful puerto rican humphrey bogart.
i think i am constantly looking for an opportunity to gush about this movie. my apologies.
but yeah like an RPG with public television aesthetics would be amazing and boards of canada-type music etc.i have literally dreamed this, and it is beautiful
how gold and blue was it
was conned into watching the bourne legacy even though i haven't seen any of the other bourne movies.
completely awful.
it actually wasn't that noticeable except in obvious settings like the huge dwarf vault of goldI have to disagree, I found it kind of overwhelming! nearly every scene in the movie had bluish shadows and a gold to orange glow/the Fantasy Filter. like every single scene was taking place at dawn/sunset or found some other excuse to use the magical color combo. there's definitely a science behind it, like McDonalds knows red and yellow is the color combo of hunger and I remember like a pale yellow and a tealish blue are the colors of sleep. but this was just excessive, like 300 or Gladiator or some other awful fantasy film. it felt like a filter, and made a lot of scenes look kinda cheap
Watched Cabin in the Woods, when it was out in cinema I shrugged it off as another generic teen horror movie but after watching a review of it being described as a 'love letter to the horror genre' I decided to check it out.
I'm glad I did, I havnt bothered watching horror in a long time because I found them pointless with nothing more than a slight jump or two to offer me. If you havent seen this, I would recommend it. Its hard to describe what its about without giving too much away but its entertaining and offers horror movies a little nudge on the shoulder with a cheeky smile.
I saw Hobbit and the 3D gave me a huge headache. Boring movie, waste of time and money, etcfucker!! why didn't we see it togEther Back Zen!!!
I saw Hobbit and the 3D gave me a huge headache. Boring movie, waste of time and money, etci dunno, do you think the second one will be any better?
saw the politically abominable 'skyfall'FOLLOWED BY SPOILERS:
saw the politically abominable 'skyfall'it had the exact same politics as the dark knight. skyfall was heavily influenced by the dark knight (it that in many ways the stories are near identical). although at least batman wasn't unironic support for shitty war-on-terror politics, but instead was a watchmen-esque criticism of how dumb the concept of superheroes are.
a watchmen-esque criticism of how dumb the concept of superheroes are.
You might like the new 52s reboot of Batman comics. Bruce Wayne being put down and finally realising Gotham isnt his city nor was it ever was.Quotea watchmen-esque criticism of how dumb the concept of superheroes are.i want to see a superhero movie where the whole point is to condemn the idiot who goes around beating up people and acting like he has the last word on justice. rob and kill bruce wayne.
You might like the new 52s reboot of Batman comics. Bruce Wayne being put down and finally realising Gotham isnt his city nor was it ever was.Pfft, any Batman comics post Morrison just aren't worth reading.
I wouldn't know what movies to introduce to my future children. I've always been a fan of Studio Gibli films, but I wouldn't want any of child of mine to become complete weeaboos.
I watched Seven Samurai last night finally and it was probably even better than I hoped it would be. I can't believe it's taken me this long to see it but BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. Tonight I'm watching The Tin Drum (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078875/) wish me luckSeven Samurai was breathtaking. I used to own the Criterion Collection DVD with commentary that really increased my appreciation for the cinematography, acting, and various techniques used.
the 90's was the cheesiest decade.
Watched Jack Reacher, it was shit.
I watched Django Unchained and I actually liked it. It's typically hyperviolent tarantino fare, but I thought all the performances from the actors was really solid and well done. I still can't imagine all those black folks were totally OK with everyone saying "nigga" every other word, though.sam l. j stated in a bunch of interviews that he wouldn't have done it without saying nigger or something like that (don't remember exactly).
I watched Django Unchained and I actually liked it. It's typically hyperviolent tarantino fare, but I thought all the performances from the actors was really solid and well done. I still can't imagine all those black folks were totally OK with everyone saying "nigga" every other word, though.
I could not imagine gravity being an entertaining movie, I got bored to shit watching the trailer. OH NO SHES SPINNING IN SPACE OHFUCKOHFUCKOHFUCKhaha, that is kinda what it comes down to as well. i thought it was generally a rather dumb experience, but i personally thought it was neat seeing a semi-earnest attempt to convey the physics of space, movement and that kind of thing, in a dramatic situation, even if it was not all that scientifically accurate and was occasionally extremely stupid(the first guy who dies does so while inexplicably bashing himself against the outside of the space ship, the only possible explanation is that nasa is required to bring barely-functional psychopaths with severe behavioral disorders on their space missions). i like that sort of thing for the same reasons i like watching videos of actual astronaut stuff, even some of the more mundane stuff. if that doesn't do it for you, this movie goes from being rather uninteresting to totally worthless to you. basically, you're right, you're not missing out.
So I mention it because it's another stupid nazi story, much like how The Reader is another stupid nazi story, except with QB VII you can pretty much just watch that and never need to watch another stupid fucking nazi movie again. I highly suggest everyone do this if they can track down this impossible-to-find miniseries. These cocksucker filmmakers do not seem anywhere close to giving up raping the holocaust for more cheap oscars, but after watching QB VII you can really safely ignore these stupid nazi stories and never need to worry about burning a good saturday evening on another stupid fucking nazi movie that you don't need in your life.have you considered a career in marketing hundley?? what a fucking selling line/u could sell a purulent kidnapped kid to a honest-to-god american AND HE'LL THANK Y O U WITH TEARS.
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Watched this Interstellar movie that we are supposed to care about. It is 2001: A Space Odyssey as told by an idiot.
One cool thing about it, though: The sound mixing is designed in a way where you can't make out what anybody is saying for large chunks of time. The director has stated that this is intentional, as he desired the focus to be more on the visual elements. This would have been a cool idea if the performances were visually interesting(they aren't), or if anything about the special effects or Nolan's filmmaking were interesting or expressive or the slightest bit informative of anything beyond Nolan's admiration of better films than ones he's capable of making. So what's left is a movie with an ambitious(and, allegedly, academically accurate) scientific basis that is deliberately obscured in favor of the director's fondness for the uninteresting performances of his actors, his dull action sequences, and shots he stole from Stanley Kubrick.
Normally, this is an unforgivable aesthetic element, as it has absolutely no stylistic function within the movie beyond adding a purely sensory level of ambiguity to the experience, in the form of not being able to tell what anybody is saying half the time. The perk of this is that you are not going to hear what people are saying half the time. This is a major plus to the experience, as the writing in this film is an embarrassing collection of plot holes, nauseating cliches, and unconvincingly idiotic and impulsive characters.
They have claimed that the science in this film is accurate, but by the time you reach that point in the film, you are already fully prepared to see mankind get wiped out and the universe be relieved of one of its great sources of arrogance and stupidity. I do not care that the screenwriter spent some time at a university somewhere studying with some bald fuck who has his own wikipedia article. At my university's library they had a collection of screenplays. Good ones, in fact, all collected in a dusty old book that nobody had picked up for a decade. And I went to some out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere university that nobody gives a fuck about. I'm sure they had screenplays at whatever the fuck important university that guy went to. It is my opinion as an educated person that the film's screenwriter was studying the wrong thing at that university.
So this is a movie I highly recommend if you want to see a really stupid, unpleasantly emotional version of 2001, or have found that you have an unrealistic level of respect for Christopher Nolan and want to see proof that he isn't very good at what he does.