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.
 

hey thanks for that post. I was really meaning to see some of his movies last month at the TIFF Best of the Decade film screenings but totally forgot. I'm going to try and see if I can find them online. Did you stream them (and if so - where?)?

Yeah, I saw moon and thought that it was pretty fantastic.  I hope to see more of Sam Rockwell, especially in some bigger roles as well.  He really proved himself as a fantastic actor and was a really good choice for the movie in terms of casting.  I was surprised at how decent Kevin Spacey was as well for the Gerty.

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.

I would recommend seeing avatar in a theatre, without the 3d nonsense and whatnot, the movie can't really carry itself, but seeing it in the theatre was pretty enjoyable

sunday night for me was the crazies. pretty good solid movie; it was everything you thought it would be, but there was nothing inherently bad about it. it didn't drag at all. if there was one flaw, it was that they kept trying to reveal things as if they were plot twists, but I think the audience had just assumed these things knowing they'd go unexplained. a little insulting but i suppose not everybody is into outbreak movies.

Planet Terror.  Really awesome movie.

Planet Terror.  Really awesome movie.

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Saw the first Saw movie on Friday. It was just as good as I remembered it being. The series get too much hate.

The last two movies I saw were Avatar and 9.
Avatar is an OK movie, but the RealD glasses did mess my eyes up a bit at some points and there were times when I expected a bit of 3D stuff to happen and it didn't.

9 is a movie I can't really say I enjoyed all that much.
The basic premise is that a scientist creates an A.I. powered factory that goes loony and kills all life on Earth, but not before it's creator can build 9 living sack cloth dolls that then go on an adventure though a number of user created platforming le... Oh wait...
These dolls hide out until 9 turns up to fuck their lives up by getting a number of them killed by said A.I. doom machine which is powered by their souls or something.
There's some annoying holes in the story such as there being no explanation for why there's no roving hoards of doom bots which wouldn't have been killed by the poison gas attacks used by them, and there's not really much of a happy ending if you think about it as the remaining few sackboy number lovers can't exactly rebuild the world as they're basically just dolls and as we all know, dolls can't breed (sure, they could sew on a penis or something, but they can't have babies).

I had intended to see Alice in Wonderland because I like Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, but from what I hear, it's actually a fairly poor movie.
Considering the cast, it seems to be one of those "cram in 900 famous names and hope that takes attention away from the poorer elements" movies.
Based on the reviews, the Red Queen is the only good character in it, and Depp is a bit too weird.

Watched Precious, I really liked this movie except for some of the daydreams although I can see why they were there. The part where Precious sat looking into the mirror and we saw the slim white blond girl as her reflection was very cool and I thought had the most impact from the rest of the daydreams. I liked that part a lot.

Saw An American in Paris (not the porno!!!) and it was very disappointing. the beginning was really great with a narrative gimmick, but after that is was a pretty boring love triangle plot, with one or two dance sequences. Songs weren't very inspired or memorable. Course if you've seen Singin in the Rain, other movie musicals are lame in comparison

god alice in wonderland looks fucking bad. 

Agreed.  I didn't think it was possible for Tim Burton to look even more Tim Burton-y.

I watched Moon. I liked Moon.

I don't think I know of anyone that disliked Moon.

Anyway, watched "Extract" it was pretty funny. Kept me entertained and I laughed (which doesn't occur often with recent comedy movies).

Main character actually seemed pretty likable.

Watched The Crazies and thought the car wash scene would make for a great amusement park ride.

Outland.  It's supposed to be High Noon on Io with Sean Connery, and it pretty much is, but I was kind of underwhelmed.  I really liked the visuals and setting, however.  And Sean Connery is at his Conneriest.

I watched The Final and had no idea what this movie was until 25minutes in when I realised I was watching a teen slasher movie.

Like you would expect it was filled with some extremely poor acting especially from the only black guy who shows absolutely no emotion in his face whatsoever. It had some annoying and cliche subplots like the retired soldier with a bunch of regrets he plans on making up for and all that typical highschool drama bullsh*t alongside everything... and apart from the movie dragging on a bit, I loved it.

haha I watched WOLFMAN and ITS SO FUCKING BAD



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