zombieland last night

sucked, so bad! kind of sort of funny at points but it was so pointless i couldnt get over it

a serious man. I dunno. sure was a downer. sy was a great character he's a fucker give me that fucker

here's a good video:

a serious man was pretty good!

it wasn't that funny!! but I have a feeling it's one of those movies I'll like more in retrospect. I'm already liking it more.

I'm excited for their next film true grit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Grit_(2010_film)

Yeah I really liked it. I feel like I should dislike the Coen Bros on principle because HEH FILM REFERENCE and the whole argument that they just throw up mean-spirited pastiche but I never got that at all! There is a kind of uh liking of the characters and situations and references etc that stops them from falling into obnoxious quirky mannerisms and "keeps it real" as the kids say. Actually maybe with Burn After Reading where the whole thing felt like some ugly and exaggerated tic but I liked A Serious Man a lot.

I watched Zombieland too and yeah it was pretty bad. I felt a little gross watching it because so much of it was really terrible and obvious. You could see all the Character Moments slotting into place and all this boring predictable shit. Heh shes a bad girl but shes wounded........... He's a toughie but looking for twinkies lmao but does he have a dark past?? A drunken confession! A bonding moment before the big climax. Things that get set up in the first five minutes and resolved in the last five minutes. And a lot of shit that thought it was cuter than it was, like the whole list thing. The directing in general I guess annoyed me. I don't know why I'm bitching so much about ZOMBIELAND of all things but okay.

I watched Shutter Island a few days ago aaaaaaaand it was okay I guess?? I mean it was semideliberately PULPISH I guess and melodramatic and most of the things I didn't care for were already in the book it got adapted from but I dunno. I kind of liked how Leonardo DiCaprio starts out as like ridiculously unwatchably affected, like trying so hard to be ACTIIIIING and it never quite works and everyone else is kind of downplaying so it's really uncomfortable to watch how bad he is, and then by the end you realise that was all a very deliberate thing all throughout the film. So that was good. The whole thing felt kind of like a... pointless genre exercise though. Like they wanted to SLUM IT and make something campy and lurid but the whole thing ends up with something that's too sharp to be dumb fun and too stupid to be a-art~ and so it was kind of unsatisfying.

I watched it again. it's good

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:

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:

this is the only movie i can remember walking out of. me and my brother thought it looked like a decent enough jokefest since it had john c reilly in it and jenna fischer screaming 'this is america!!!!' in the TV ad for it. but it wasn't. it was terrible and it should have been called Biopic Movie or Music Movie to be honest about what it's intentions were. pile of crud. that was a couple of years ago whenever it came out. i don't pay to see just any old shit anymore, that's for sure!

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.

I don't have HBO, but I will try to find a way to get my hands on The Pacific. Let me know if it's any good.

Just came back from seeing Clash of the Titans. Visually it was nice but I liked the story in the original version much better! While the old film had a certain heart to it, this one just felt kind of cold. It didn't really have soul in the end. Maybe I'm just bitter because my favourite character was only on the screen for 2 seconds in this version.


Poor Bubo...

And they left out the closing line about everyone being remembered in the constellations.. why I don't know. It would have been an effective conclusion given that the film opened in space. So yeah, this is another case where the old film is better than the new one, despite the upgrade in visuals. (But really, I think most people would expect that going in. This is strictly a visual effects fest film).