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I was so psyched when I got Cat People on HD-DVD, goddamn.
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Movies You've Seen Recently III: The Third Chapter
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Offret - Due to the language and location a very Bergman-like Tarkovsky movie. I expected to like it more. ***
Inland Empire - I see it. I get it. I just can't do anything with it. **
Tiny Furniture - I've been loving the HBO show Girls, so was excited to seek this out. It felt like a lowbudget stripped down stepping stone onto something better (which is Girls). **1/2
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Lovely atmosphere and setting. ***½
The Prowler - A solid effort into the 80s slasher genre. Some fun kills, great Savini gore. ***
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - ***½
Argo - Just a quick rewatch before the oscars to see if I'd like it more a second time around. I didn't. ***
Chao ji xue xiao ba wang AKA Super School Overlord AKA Future Cops - Fucking ridiculous but unfortunately less entertaining than I thought it would be. There are Street Fighter characters in the future that timetravel to 1993, enroll into highschool looking for someone. Lots of gags, lots of shenanigans, lots of silliness. No rating for I have no idea how. Feel free to check out the trailer here: http://youtu.be/8VmGL7vpfFo
Inland Empire - I see it. I get it. I just can't do anything with it. **
Tiny Furniture - I've been loving the HBO show Girls, so was excited to seek this out. It felt like a lowbudget stripped down stepping stone onto something better (which is Girls). **1/2
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Lovely atmosphere and setting. ***½
The Prowler - A solid effort into the 80s slasher genre. Some fun kills, great Savini gore. ***
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - ***½
Argo - Just a quick rewatch before the oscars to see if I'd like it more a second time around. I didn't. ***
Chao ji xue xiao ba wang AKA Super School Overlord AKA Future Cops - Fucking ridiculous but unfortunately less entertaining than I thought it would be. There are Street Fighter characters in the future that timetravel to 1993, enroll into highschool looking for someone. Lots of gags, lots of shenanigans, lots of silliness. No rating for I have no idea how. Feel free to check out the trailer here: http://youtu.be/8VmGL7vpfFo
Buckethead
Banned
Great film.
Love the ending.
Jables Swan
Member
bowing at your taste.
I had to watch this beauty on DVD. is there no blu-ray?
A good movie is a good movie. Why should it make a difference who makes it?
Jables Swan
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It doesn't. I really liked it. 3 1/2 stars out of 5. Just shows how good Pixar are and how high our expectations are for them.
Net_Wrecker
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Billy Wilder week?
Billy Wilder week.
I've seen Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, and The Apartment, all of which I really enjoyed. It's time for me to tackle some more.
GIMME YO FAVORITES
Billy Wilder week.
I've seen Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, and The Apartment, all of which I really enjoyed. It's time for me to tackle some more.
GIMME YO FAVORITES
Witness for the Prosecution and The Lost Weekend.
BaronLundi
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Witness for the prosecution.
Love in the Afternoon.
Some like it hot.
Sabrina.
The Major and the Minor.
And I like The Fortune Cookie but I might be the only one.
Avoid The Seven Year Itch.
Count Dookkake
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Nice review. Was wondering when you would get around to this one.
Flick also deserves note for the quality of the transforming FX.
Watched it last night. Enjoyed it.
I thought it was pretty good until the last quarter of the movie or so. That ending just seemed so sudden to me.
Yeah, I'm very lost in last 30 minute or so and conclude I'm just not smart enough to understand aside became master for your own life and thing.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
One Two Three is incredible; Stalag 17 equally so, though obviously on an entirely different spectrum of entertainment.
I never liked Some Like It Hot.
Extra Sauce
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Been meaning to watch this for fucking ever. Basically since it came out 14 years ago.
It's a charming little movie, especially if you enjoy RZA's music. Definitely not an action movie, more of a slow burn with a fairly satisfying climax. Some of the humor is cute, some of it falls flat. The atmosphere, the music and Forest Whitaker are the best things about the film.
3/5
I... I love you.
My bullshit for the last week:
I watched the Three Colors, 8,6,8/10. Blue>Red>White. I guess I went in for the seriousness of Blue more so than Red, and White was just wtf. French babes.
Also checked out Double Life Of Veronique again to make sure it's still a 5/10 and it is. Nice score and camera filters but too allegorical for my tastes. I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. Irene Jacob.
Madame De...: 6/10. I found to difficult to relate to these bourgeois assholes, thanks Obama.
Killer's Kiss: 3/10. A film from newcomer Stanley Cubrick. Can't say I see much future in for this guy.
The Naked Kiss: 5/10. That opening. Downhill into melodrama from there, though I did appreciate the more overt references like straight up calling her a hooker.
The Roaring Twenties: 8/10. Best gangster pic. I don't know about the documentary flavoring to it. Weird seeing Bogart as just some chump.
Cape Fear: 8/10. Bum bum bum bummmmmm, bummmmm bum bum bummmmmm! Max Cady, the original creeper and a personal hero of mine. Not as hot as the Scorsese remake (which I also liked) but still good enough to get the juices flowing. You know, like in that daughter of yours getting to be about as ripe as her mother.
Skyfall: 6/10. And it crumbowwwwwwwwwsssssss. Never been a Bond fan but this was not terrible. It started to get a little grating near the end after the event horizon of believability was breached. Gorgeous though, dat Deakins.
Oh also the three Paradise Lost documentaries: 8,5,6/10. Really sad watching these inbred dolts strain and struggle to comprehend the concepts of law and justice. Made me remember how much I like early Metallica though. I liked when that one lady with no teeth found deep meaning in the song "Nothing Else Matters," because get this: nothing else matters. No surprise that the main dude, the one who was intellectually curious at a young age and wanted to learn about different religions is the one who turned out the brightest. I read after he got out he moved to Salem, Mass. The guy who was the victim of a modern day witch hunt moved to Salem? I mean that's weird right? I think that's weird.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Saw it yesterday and liked it a lot. The last segment was a little disjointed, but still good.
rawr.
While certainly not a great movie, I thought it definitely showed flashes of Kubrick's later brilliance or at least from his photographic insight and I loved the climax; Like a gladiator fight with all those mannequins standing around.
Also The Roaring Twenties is on my to-watch list ever since I loved Scarface.
ThanksVision
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I'm watching On the Waterfront tonight and I am super excited. I have heard so many good things about Brando's performance.
Max Armstrong
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Liquidsnake
Banned
Argo---8/10
Was pretty damn good.
I liked Zero Dark Thirty more, but it was close.
Was pretty damn good.
I liked Zero Dark Thirty more, but it was close.
Has anyone seen Schrader's Cat People? Because it's awesome; it's sad that the the 40s version and Curse of the Cat People are held in higher regard when this one has everything. Moroder score, Kinski, the cinematography. There's a tracking shot near the end with Kinski glancing back at the camera while undressing as she walks up the stairs that's just fucking crazy.
I like how it works as a companion piece to American Gigolo too. It's sad what happened to this dude's career.
All I know about the film is that David Bowie did the title song which said song was used in Inglorious Basterds.
I recently watched Thirteenth Floor. I liked it but I have no understanding why I liked it. The movie is terrible in nearly every aspect, but yet it's charming some how.
Jables Swan
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Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Saw La Piel que Habito. Well that was perverse, interesting, well made, but perverse. Some of the dialogue (specially during the first half) felt off (maybe because Spanish is my first language it stood out more), it was also overly melodramatic in the delivery sometimes (even for Almodovar). It seemed to me the movie could have done without some stuff that I found completely unnecessary and that would not have hurt the story if removed
. Still I enjoyed it quite a bit and once it started peaking I was hooked. Not the strongest Almodovar, but not the weakest. The characters were shallower than usual.8/10
(the brothers subplot for example)
The movie version of ambien.
Net_Wrecker
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Thanks, guize. This is gonna be a good week.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Give a couple of months and rewatch it.
Might have to do that. I need to see Solaris and Andrei Rublev too. I'm still doing the imdb top 250 
It was interesting to see connections to Chernobyl and the game Stalker even though they're strangely intertwined these days. Reading afterwards that Tarkovsky and his wife died shortly after peaked my interest too. That's definitely shaping my view of the movie.
It was interesting to see connections to Chernobyl and the game Stalker even though they're strangely intertwined these days. Reading afterwards that Tarkovsky and his wife died shortly after peaked my interest too. That's definitely shaping my view of the movie.Thug Waffle
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Yeah, I didn't truly appreciate 2001 until the second time I saw it. Probably another year after the first time. I felt that way when I saw Solaris the first time.
Speaking of firsts:
The Thing
4.5/5
God damn. I am so glad I didn't see this when I was a kid because I would never have purchased a dog if I had. I loved this all the way through.
Kilgore Trout
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Might have to do that. I need to see Solaris and Andrei Rublev too. I'm still doing the imdb top 250
Of the Tarkovsky that I've seen, I think that Andrei Rublev is the most inaccessible due to its length. Even more so than The Mirror which is non-linear and without a perceptible plot. It's really well done and beautifully shot, but I honestly can't say I remember much about except for a handful of disparate scenes, some as long as 45 minutes. Not that I want to discourage you from watching it.
Outland.
Very nice sci-fi this was, more sober than i was expecting and i liked the characters, as well as the visuals.
The final plot twist felt out of place though
Enjoyed it, simple but good.
Very nice sci-fi this was, more sober than i was expecting and i liked the characters, as well as the visuals.
The final plot twist felt out of place though
(why would the black dude turn on Sean Connery? It was established why he wouldn't be helping him, but try to kill him? felt out of character)
Thug Waffle
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Might have to do that. I need to see Solaris and Andrei Rublev too. I'm still doing the imdb top 250
Eh, the IMDB Top 250 isn't that great. I'd go with the "Sight and Sound Directors' List" or "They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?" Just a suggestion. The IMDB list is flooded with contemporary bias.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
I like Sight and Sound's Director list. I thought it was better than the critics (though they are similar of course).
I'd also suggest at least saving it for last. My problem was I didn't know who the hell any of these people were or what they were doing or why they were famous. I think you kind of have to study the events and people it depicts first, or be Russian and already know.
What the flippity fuck. This movie is interesting....Im not saying its good, but for a movie i randomly picked out of Netflix instant streaming i dont know what to make of it.
Mega spoilers, dont read, you should give this movie a shot.
i certainly didnt see this being a fake horror movie about the morality of the child foster care system. Wat.
xXBetter Off DadXx
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Yeah, I just got done watching Argo as well, pretty well made. I remember hearing a lot about how some things were altered from the actual events for the movie, now having seen it I'm curious to know what those were. I'd imagine the end might've been Hollywoodified to some extent.
Goddammit I love that movie. I like it more each time I watch it.
Well, I feel better about my first experience with Tarkovsky and The Mirror now. I did get the impression it might be a movie I'd have to see at least once more to grasp everything that was going on, as it did appear to be jumping around and not in a straight forward manner either.
Just finished watching this myself. I liked it, thought it was very sweet. I had no idea what the plot was beforehand, so I was kind of surprised at the direction they took. Really great music as well. I'd gladly watch again.
ThatCrazyGuy
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Saw Taken 2.
I thought it was going to be worse, especially the nade tossing and driving.
Energy felt different than 1. Acting was way worse and what they were saying was bad as well. Liam was more wooden this outing to me.
Idk, just disappointed. I love Taken. taken 2 is just flat. Still got some entertainment though.
I thought it was going to be worse, especially the nade tossing and driving.
Energy felt different than 1. Acting was way worse and what they were saying was bad as well. Liam was more wooden this outing to me.
Idk, just disappointed. I love Taken. taken 2 is just flat. Still got some entertainment though.
Jables Swan
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That's funny we were all watching about the same time.
lazybones18
Banned
The Color of Money
First time watch; it has its moments but it felt really soulless. And it needed more pool trick shots
First time watch; it has its moments but it felt really soulless. And it needed more pool trick shots
ThisWreckage
Banned
End of Watch.
I HATED this movie. The acting was serviceable, but this movie made me vilify police officers even more than I did before. Red Bull chugging, adrenaline junkie, fascist, shit stirring bros. Dirty Harry for the youtube generation. I mean that in the worst way possible.
I HATED this movie. The acting was serviceable, but this movie made me vilify police officers even more than I did before. Red Bull chugging, adrenaline junkie, fascist, shit stirring bros. Dirty Harry for the youtube generation. I mean that in the worst way possible.
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