woah what dredd has a 93% on rotten tomatoes? I saw the trailer once a while ago and dismissed it as a too-dumb action movie but if it's supposed to be good then I would definitely go see it.  I always liked the character for some reason, and I say "for some reason" because this is based on a gameboy game I had as a kid (that in retrospect was probably based on the stallone movie and terrible), and I've never really looked into it beyond that but it SEEMS COOL!  So anyway when I'm not at work I'll watch the trailer again and reevaluate it but I'm a little bit excited that it's supposedly good. (Granted I am on IE6 which apparently can't open rotten tomatoes so maybe I'll read the reviews and still think it sounds awful but I dunno, we'll see).

don't believe what people say.

oh i also watched true grit, and it was also very very good

the new one. i watched the trailer for the old one and it appears to be good, esp. for the time, but too light-hearted compared to the new one.

Was it just me, or did the dialogue in the new True Grit seem unnatural and kind of overly articulate for some of the characters? I still liked the movie a lot, but I thought the dialogue was off.

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...

It was mostly Josh Brolin's character for me.  The way his lines were written didn't seem like natural speech to me.

Last movie I watched was The day after tommrow, the last Cinema film was Judge dredd, which was kind of a let down compaired to the one with stalone, IT felt more like a "day in the life of a judge that happend to be caleld dredd" rather then what I was expecting, something more along the lines of WHY dredd is so awesome or somthing.

Stardust was pretty good`

Finding Nemo 3D Animation Movie(tm)

Watched Fracture last night, starring A Hopkins and Gosling.   I really wanted to like the movie because the leads were both really good, but the whole thing felt kind of rudimentary, and the whole "twists" were not really suprising to me since I kind of called it in the very beginning in my head and that kind of dissapointed me.

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?

WELL I'M UPSET!

watched lynch's inland empire. disappointed how much i disliked it. normally i find lynch to be, at worst, disturbing, but i couldn't really squeeze anything out of this movie. the atmosphere wandered past me, not really committed to doing anything, and i didn't find much joy in trying to piece together the puzzle of the whole thing. it felt like he was going for something a little more kafkaesque than usual, but failed pretty miserably by neglecting to make the events particularly gripping or poignant, short of a brief selection of moments scattered throughout. i think he went too far with this one, didn't have a strong enough central concept or peripheral ideas to strengthen anything that was going on.

neat idea though, making this total disjointed trainwreck of a movie that you need to figure out yourself. that's dangerous, though, as this sort of story structure relies heavily on the individual parts being strong independently of the greater sum of the work, which i don't feel like he really did here. a couple times he almost got it right, but i found too much of the actual events in the movie disinterested and meaningless, not really possessing strong enough images or concepts to really work. i'm pretty patient with stuff like this, usually able to latch onto something unique about it, but i just found this one bothersome and exhausting.

makes me feel like lynch may just be done as a feature-length filmmaker.

well he said he probably is a while ago, so i think he's gonna spend the rest of his life on novelty items and meditating

i watched the king of comedy yesterday, which i really liked. martin scorcese was a pretty interesting film maker when he was younger, huh? i hadn't even heard of this movie until i stumbled across it accidentally, i don't think it is very well known at all which is weird cos it stars robert deniro, was after raging bull and has similarities in structure and protagonist to taxi driver. it's a more comedic version of taxi driver. basically if travis bickle wanted to be a stand up comedian.

 

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?

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?

   

Just watched I love you phillip morris last night.  It's night seeing Jim Carrey acting in roles that aren't terrible for once because he is actually a pretty decent actor.