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.

Don't feel bad, that's how they got everyone else into that film, and many more like it. It's a fairly common technique.

All I got from watching that film was a startling realization at what passes for entertainment suitable for 14 year old girls. For instance, when I read Game of Thrones, there was this one girl around that age I wanted to tell about it, but I thought the material might be too offensive that it would be bad to let her in on it. After watching Hunger Games, I finally realize how wrong I was. (It did make me think of the same question I had when I watched Game of Thrones for the first time. That question being, "If the characters themselves have to go through all this kind of stuff, but somehow found out that they were indeed fictional while doing so, I wonder how they would feel about them having to experience everything that they've experienced till now if they already knew that it was all just for the sake of entertaining some large mass of entitled nobodies who are constantly hungry for more and more "extreme" forms of fictional entertainment.)

I came out of that film, and all I could think about was how I regret never watching "The Secret World of Arietty" when it was available on a big screen.

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.

Another observation about that particular flick I had was in the hypothetical situation where I believe that video games can be high art, and I want to undeniably prove it is possible to release an arthouse style game that also involves killing a bunch of people, that is exactly the plot I would use to accomplish such a thing.

Like it would make a fantastic video game adaptation, but it would require a real snooty, attention to the details pseudo-cinematic approach to game design. Maybe the guys that did Modern Warfare could pull it off, but it would have to be at every level a well thought out game in order to pull off the concept behind it just right.

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 spent a summer working at a marine biology lab with some grad students doing field work in the Florida Keys.  Believe me, that movie became like our fucking anthem,  it's just so fantastic.  I can understand why it would be hard to get into for a lot of people, but its just a really awesome, campy fun, and having the connection to experience working in the marine world (even though much of the world in the Life Aquatic is of course, simply parody of Jacques,) its a movie that's really special to me.

I liked that movie too it was a research vessel he was the captain(?) of right?

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..

rise of the planet of the apes

it was like a good dumb movie and reminded me of the 90's like some jurassic park shit. Hollywood used to be good at making dumb ideas all epic and somehow evoke feeling now we are the Transformers generation (again). Everything about the movie was kind of OBVIOUS (lol the monkey's name is Caesar I get it) but it was effective at making monkeys kind of scary etc. parallels to history of mankind are obvious but still manage to be frightening from a different perspective

ragnar let me get this straight...you're scared...of monkeys?

Heh.


Heh heh.

I liked that movie too it was a research vessel he was the captain(?) of right?

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..

plus david bowie songs in portugese

baz luhrmann's romeo and juliet is totally bizarre

Went to a local indie film festival this weekend. If you ever hear about a movie called 25k, you would do well to go out of your way to watch it.

There isn't much point into getting into detail about what it's about, but it is exactly the kind of movie any american wishes he could make and also star in, and in this instance, it cost two of them under 9000$ total to actually prove it can happen for real.

To describe it in a single phrase: It is the american dream, literally personified.

Videodrome is a cool movie and everyone on this god damned site should at least watch it because it will explain many things that it doesn't even intend to explain that are about exactly this place.