Yeah, I didn't care too much about the characters of Iron Man 2... just went for the cool suit and explosions

Just came back from Iron Man 2. Despite it not being as good as the first one, I still enjoyed it because I figured it wouldn't be that good. I liked the humour in this one, and the tech was pretty neat. Secret scene at the end of the film - next superhero = Thor.. most likely in the Avengers, which I believe comes out in 2012?.

just watched Kick Ass it's alright but not as good as the comic BTW I still need to get issue 7 and 8 sadly lol.

next superhero = Thor.. most likely in the Avengers, which I believe comes out in 2012?.

Actually Thor has his own movie coming out next year.  IMDB

Today I was in the mood for something cheesy so I watched several fan films.  Mega Man, Legend of Zelda: The Hero of Time, and Freddy vs Ghostbusters.  The Zelda movie was pretty awful, but the others weren't bad.

Haha, The Hero Of Time is amazing.

Just watched Blade Runner (Final Cut) since I've never seen it before or any of the previous versions of the film. What a strange but delightfully pleasant film. As an action film I think it fails but as a medium for symbolism and philosophy it succeeds like no other. I'm going to have to mull over this one for the next few days to absorb what I just watched. On a sidenote, the music was awesome. I love Vangelis.

to be fair, Blade Runner isn't an action film nor is it meant to be

to be fair, Blade Runner isn't an action film nor is it meant to be

Yes, 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!

finished watching an interesting movie dada suggested to me: de aanslag(english title: the assault). very interesting dutch movie. i guess you could call it a WAR MOVIE, but it's really uncomfortably benign for a war movie so it'd probably be best described as a drama. it's a really interesting movie nonetheless. one of those movies that, despite not being outwardly emotional or aesthetically significant, manages to do its own thing. never quite seen anything like it. really leaves a lot to the viewer to consider and digest, to the point where you kinda have a stronger reaction to the happenings of the story than any of the characters visibly appear to have. really strange stuff, the more i think about it. fucking lizards.

i don't know if you folks would be particularly grabbed by this movie, though. it's a bit more subdued than i think most people would expect from a movie.


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.

to be fair, Blade Runner isn't an action film nor is it meant to be

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

i love this page please everybody keep posting. i'll make a proper post soon!

twin peaks is the fucking best. i don't watch past episode 10 of season 2.

it is the best tv show in the entire world. it makes a bunch of nobodies matter so much and it is the funniest and saddest thing on tv. i mean there is the wire but it is different.

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

i'll just bite the bullet and download one file at a time in the torrent and not be such a lout

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 watched all of Twin Peaks (up until the BIG REVEAL at least) knowing who the killer was the entire time, which is the major spoiler I assume you're talking about, and it really doesn't make a difference, especially since Lynch's intention with the show was more to focus on the crazy people of Twin Peaks, with the murder mystery more as a driving force than the main focus. (I can't really remember where I read that but it's probably on the Wikipedia page or something).  That said, the scene where they reveal the murderer is still disappointing, not because you know who it is but because it's just poorly done and comes almost out of nowhere.  I stopped watching after that episode.  I know I said the point was CHARACTERS but without the murder mystery to frame the characters it made it hard to come back and care after my disappointment had faded.

By the way by "disappointing" I mean HUGELY DISAPPOINTING.  My memory of that episode is a bit clouded so maybe you'll feel differently but I doubt it.

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.

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

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.

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 have just started watching and re-watching a lot of old british comedy films. so far i've only seen the python collection (as it was easily available) and the bed-sitting room, which is one of the best films in the world. it is seriously just insanely creative. i mean spike milligan is a hero for sure but jesus christ this film.

i really love narrative which is absolutely crazy but the whole WORLD it is set in is done so well that you just find it completely plausible and get so lost in it. and if i had to pick an example of this done perfectly i would pick the bed-sitting room.

RIP milligan, true genius.

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

after reading your response I looked at what I wrote and thought for a second that I had just arbitrarily written "film noir" for whatever reason.  you're just trying to confuse me!