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i've had too much free time lately, and a lot of it has involved dvd watching...

capote - sort of okay, pretty forgettable despite good performances

the matrix revolutions - held a temporary place as the worst film i'd ever seen, until my headache went away. then i realized it wasn't, it was just completely unwatchable

the boondock saints - taken from the willem dafoe thread: it's dumb, it's poorly acted, it has a curious ethnic hierarchy (russians are gibbering goons, italians are mostly useless but there are some good italians, the irish are, well, saints), and the character of dafoe is seemingly made gay only so he can be the safe, neutral mouthpiece for the director's homophobia. it attempts to channel religious symbolism/irish culture for bullshit pretentious points that impress the dumber students in film schools, the titular characters are dull ciphers, the dialogue is instantly forgettable, and it has a cameo by ron jeremy.

not to mention the horribly awkward scene in which ron jeremy and the italian mob boss make the saints' italian buddy tell them a joke and force him to say "nigger" instead of "black guy" (though the italian buddy has no qualms about saying "spic"). not only is that scene supposed to be funny, but i don't think there's a single black or hispanic character in the film. that scene is where they're represented. and the two most important female characters, insofar as i can remember, are italian buddy's girlfriend and her friend (who get treated like you'd expect in a film such as this).

domino - i rented this because of ilxors talking it up, but i've learned my lesson and will never listen to tony scott apologists again. if possible, more incoherent than 'man on fire'! and worst than matrix revolutions. but not worse than boondock saints (despite having scott's usual assortment of specious stereotypes).

day of the dead - some zombie film fan i must be, not having seen this until last night. it's really good, despite the over-the-top portrayal of the military guys as racist psychopaths (bad acting abounds from those guys) and the relative lack of zombies stomping around compared to other films of the same genre. it pays off in the third act, which seems to be nothing but gore and zombies learning how to use guns.

thieves' highway/night and the city - two jules dassin films, the first starring richard conte as a trucker out for revenge against an evil lee j. cobb, who is responsible for his father losing his legs in an accident. he goes to SF, gets mixed up with what appears to be a femme fatale, his partner is pursued by a couple of rival truckers who aren't quite as awful as they first seem, and it features a rather brutal (for the late-'40s) truck accident death scene. 'night and the city' is richard widmark as a promoter trying to crawl his way to the top and eventually getting caught in a vicious revenge cycle because of a british sydney greenstreet type. they're both really good.

king kong (2005) - this is a very long movie. however, i was never bored. the performances are good and naomi watts is pretty amazing in her role, especially since i imagine she had to act opposite a blue screen most of the time. the depiction of a 1930's new york city is pretty convincing, the last half on the film is pretty much perfect, since it focuses mostly on watts and the big ape and it doesn't have the slower pace/perfunctory romance/natives that the first half does.

a history of violence - a perfectly directed film that i watched and was constantly amazed by. probably the best parts--other than some of the more disturbing scenes of violences--were the two sex scenes, which most directors would just gauze and fade their way through, but cronenberg loves this shit. the fucked-up, going-through-the-motions-of-being-a-normal-family ending was spot-on.

unknown pleasures - jia zhangke directed this and other than it making my eyes hurt because it stretched out from 1.85 to 1 to 1.33 to 1 on my TV screen for some reason, this was very good. not too dissimilar to something godard might have come up with decades ago, if he was shooting a DV film in China. this movie does go on just a little long in spots, but it's worth seeing.

goodbye dragon inn - fucking awesome and despite being "slow", it moves by more swiftly than its 81 minute running time. it has a number of the funniest (albeit extremely subtle) moments i've ever seen in a film (the bathroom scene), and it successfully accomplishes what wong kar-wai does in his films in a very different way and in a very different setting: the palpable sadness (and occasional humor) of disparate lonely characters searching for some sort of community or connection.

breaking news - johnnie to, hong kong action director/master/etc. responsible for 'the mission' and other great films. this isn't a great film, exactly, but it's good. it has a street shootout depicted in one lazily panning and tracking six-minute shot, it features a showdown in an apartment building that makes the similar showdown in 'time and tide' look heartless and mechanical, and the acting is good from a cast i wasn't all that familiar with (the only face i recognized was lam suet as the cowardly father). there's a little of "dog day afternoon" in this, in that it's very much about the police manipulating the media to enhance their own image, while the criminals do the same in order to embarrass the police.

the sopranos (last half of season 4, all of season 5) - the show is entertaining enough that i keep up with it, well-acted enough to deserve some of the emmys the cast has received, and well-written for the most part, it's still horribly simplistic and dreadfully overrated. there's no momentum to this show, the scenes with dr. melfi are repetitive and dull (maybe that's the point?), and while the show's writers don't necessarily despise women as much as the characters do, they still don't do them any favors by making every female outside the holy trinity of carmela/meadow/dr melfi into a psycho or sexual conquest or stripper or victim or two of the above. i often think that armond white is otm re: this program, but i still watch it so it works somehow.

downfall - that hitler bunker movie. it's a lot better than i expected it to be, though it often seems to be like 'the st. valentine's day massacre' of hitler bunker films, a dreary and inevitable countdown towards the end, as the dead are checked off along the way. but one does get the sense of how deluded those nazi bastards were in the end, particularly via the goebbels clan. bruno ganz makes for a good hitler, which might not be what anyone ever wants to hear, but he does show how the guy could be charming to his friends while at the same time be a raving lunatic ordering non-existent armies to move, demanding the executions of guys who were probably already dead, that sort of thing. this would make for a good triple feature with 'stalingrad' and 'das boot'.

― gear (gear), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:53 (twenty years ago)

well done gear!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

Nice. I'm mostly in a music/book mode at present so it's nice to see something like this. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

i'm watching the parallax view later. now if i could just get someone to fix my error in the thread title and add an "s" to "DVD"

― gear (gear), Friday, 31 March 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

L'Atalante last night, never less than a revelation.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

love it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

i watched about 55% of the sting last night while sick. it is still a crazy entertaining movie.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

also still has totally weird '70s '30s atmosphere

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 April 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

the last dvd i watched was sodom - lords of depravity part 1. one dvd was live sodom and the other dvd is a german-language documentary about the history of sodom. definitely recommended for fans of the golden age of German thrash metal and the golden age of German thrash metal haircuts.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 April 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

skeleton key - Hoodoo pwns half-naked Kate Hudson, because she's too stupid to realize Gena Rowlands and Peter Skaarsgard shouldn't have thick nawlins accents.

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 1 April 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

for some reason we keep getting free weekends of showtime/hbo/movie channel, so i have been catching up on bad hollywood stuff and other stuff that i never went to see in the theatre - meet the fokkers, chronicles of riddick (i enjoyed the heavy metal bad guys in that movie - the deathmongers or whatever they were called), napoleon dynamite, the woodsman (i thought this would be better, kinda hokey though. i can't imagine it as a play. not the most sparkling dialogue i've ever heard), um, and others i'm forgetting.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 April 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I couldn't finish either The Sting or Chronicles Of Riddick when I saw them. Riddick because I was really tired and didn't know what the fuck was going on, Sting because Paul Newman showed up making eyes at the camera after 15 minutes of a bad Robert Redford movie about a thief who's ok because he likes black people, and then they all started touching their noses.

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 1 April 2006 17:15 (twenty years ago)

If TV counts, this week I seen Enduring Love which is pretty good and walks its fine line between soapy trite and soapy brite with some skill. But I love Rhys Ifans and Samantha Morton anyway, so I would say that. And I saw Kieslowski's Camera Buff (or Amateur, I think, depending on the translator) which is stone cold class - early 80s Poland is oddly reminiscent of Boys from the Blackstuff, and there's a weird/funny Ken Loach reference going on throughout that makes the parallel more obv. Very touching but black, funny and angry at the same time.

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 April 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

(I know Black Stuff is Bleasdale but the point is the same.)

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 April 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

'the parallax view' is good but it's not quite as good as 'three days of the condor' or 'the conversation', mostly because it's just a little bit ridiculous, though not 'jfk'-ridiculous or anything.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 1 April 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Grave of the Fireflies - tremendous animation, strong story, but it slides into maudlin sentimentality toward the end. And, The Big Sleep, the 1945 cut, which is such a great movie, though every time I think I've figured out the plot, I realize I still have no idea who killed who.

― Jaq (Jaq), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

In March, on DVD, in chronological order, I saw:

Gangs of New York. DDL fantastic. Di Caprio unwatchable. Score draw. Ending stupid. Enjoyed the politics though, having just read the first two volumes of Edmund Morris's Teddy Roosevelt biography (is it time for the thread anticipating volume 3?).

Shadowlands. Last saw this about a decade ago, before I'd actually done a degree at Oxford. Corny, irritating jokes about being English ("the beer is too cold!"), but ridiculously, relentlessly moving. Cried pretty much continuously for the last 60 minutes. Perhaps a bit emotionally manipulative and clumsy.

Spinal Tap. Ha ha funny.

Red Dragon. Surprisingly funny. Ralph Feinnes superbly creepy. Edward Norton disappointing. Hopkins great, particularly pony tail, but kept thinking about C.S. Lewis during his monologues (see above). Hannibal is next up in my rental queue. Looking forward to it immensely.

Dazed and Confused. Not as good as I remember it.

Primer. Graceful, undistracting avoidance of explaining how the time travel technology actually works, while somehow showing what experimental research is like. Plot incomprehensible. Had lost me with an hour to go, and I didn't care about any of the characters enough to catch up. While I'm not known for my ability to understand tricky film plots (I had to have the twist in Sixth Sense explained to me outside the cinema), I am doing a PhD in theoretical physics, so I like to think I have a decent understanding of causality. Extremely disappointing.

Kingpin. See Dazed and Confused.

In the Cinema I saw:

Capote. Tedious.

The Proposition. Superb. All performances good or better (except John Hurt's, whose character was a redundant distraction, and whose overacting was a noisy distraction). Great soundtrack. Gruelling and violent without being pornographic. Recommended.

Cock and Bull Story. OK. Only found the slapstick funny (not the clever bits).

The winners are: Shadowlands, The Proposition, and that bit in Cock and Bull Story where Rob Brydon does his Al Pacino impression in the car.

Tonight I shall watch Contact.

― Mike W (caek), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I also just watched L'Atalante. It is fantastic.

I'm about to watch Bowling for Columbine. Skeptically, for sure.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Good job liking Day of the Dead.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 18:33 (twenty years ago)

yeah i like l'atalante a lot, tho i've only seen a pretty beat-up vhs version. has anyone seen zero for conduct?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 1 April 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

day of the dead was a film that definitely picked up steam as it went, with the last act being on par with anything romero has ever done.

― gear (gear), Saturday, 1 April 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

I've got the Complete Vigo double DVD, J.D. Zero de Conduite is not only funny and creepy and brilliant and true, but you can spend the whole film playing "spot the later movie that ripped this scene off".

― Mystic Handyman (noodle vague), Sunday, 2 April 2006 09:00 (twenty years ago)

Tonight I shall watch Contact.

S'alright.

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 2 April 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

Not much love for Capote is there? I really really liked it, it was great to see a Hollywood film without a black and white view of morality.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

i recently watched this australian TV series called 'love my way'. i thought it was really quite brilliant. the last episode where the little girl dies and the parents are distraught had me bawling my eyes out. it was my first time watching TV shows on dvd. i'm into it, 45 minute blocks of viewing suit me down to the ground.

i saw capote last weekend too. some of it was good. but i fell asleep towards the end.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:12 (twenty years ago)

i liked contact. i think most people hated it. jeezus, i caught the last half-hour of the jude law alfie last nite and it was excruciating. i can't imagine what watching the whole thing is like. and all that horrible mick jagger music, yecch. i watched saw last nite on showtime. it reminded me of a 70's/80's italian flick. like stage fright or something.not bad. not scary at all, but not bad. kinda reminded me of my beloved cube too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Continuing the Bogart theme after The Big Sleep, we watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which has the classic line about not needing to show you no stinkin' badges and several very well-spoken down and out gold prospectors as well as John Huston's garrulous old man and young Huston himself. Also, wee Robert Blake as a little Mexican beggar. Features overly dramatic music by Max Steiner and is quite classic.

― Jaq (Jaq), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

I've been making an effort via Netflix to catch up on all the classic/cult/gonzo horror movies I've never seen, so to the end, Friday night I watched Basket Case. Pretty much what I expected: A nice no-budget look at an unbelievably sordid and seedy NYC of the early 80s, lots of bad acting and special effects, but a lot of interesting ideas in the screenplay and some genuinely well-executed touches. In particular the flashback story, the dream sequence towards the end, and some of the screenplay's little punchlines ("She's a veterinarian?!") work at levels much better than the average no-budgeter. Would have been interesting to see what Frank Henenlotter could have done with the resources of, say, an early John Carpenter, but then again it might not have been half the movie it turned out to be.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:22 (twenty years ago)

gos, i love basket case. and the treasure of the sierra madre!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:26 (twenty years ago)

friday nite: Derailed laughable "suspense" w/Jennifriend Anniston and Owen Clive. the last straw: we're joining Netflix.

Gear OTM on The Sopranos, though the scenes w/Dr Melfi are what therapy is like IMO. Not to say that isn't boring, of course.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

THIS movie, *The Final Cut* was on Showtime last nite, and I had never even heard of it! Did it even show in theatres? maybe I wasn't paying attention that week. anyway, i didn't watch it, but maybe someday:

In a near undefined future, people may have a Zoe microchip implanted in their nervous system to permit their families to retrieve the best moments of their memories and watch on video after their deaths. This process is called "Rememory" and Alan H. Hakman (Robin Williams), a man traumatized by an incident in his childhood, is the best cutter of the Eye Tech Corporation. The company is facing groups that oppose to the "Rememory" and the ex-cutter Fletcher (Jim Caviezel) is leading these opponents. When Alan is assigned to prepare the final cut of the memories of the Eye Tech lawyer Charles Bannister, his Zoe chip is disputed by Fletcher. Meanwhile, Charles finds that he has also an implanted microchip, which is against the rules of a cutter.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

i liked contact. i think most people hated it.

the problem with that movie is really in the last 20 minutes, otherwise it would have been a flawed but gripping sci-fi film.

― latebloomer: a power and finesse vocalist (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Its depiction of professional astronomy is about the most sophisticated I've ever seen in a feature film. It's great on science and religion. It made me want to read the book and/or write a screenplay of Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud.

Also, the bit when the machine gets destroyed by a terrorist is good. BANG!

― Mike W (caek), Sunday, 2 April 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Matthew Macona-hee-haw or whatshisname is really wooden and unconvincing alongside someone like Jodie Foster.

― latebloomer: a power and finesse vocalist (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 April 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

l'avventura - I defnitely want to see this a few more times

― xavier mcshane (xave), Sunday, 2 April 2006 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Good Night and Good Luck was a major disappointment.

― peepee (peepee), Sunday, 2 April 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

gear,

Give it some time and then check out Unknown Pleasures again. The 2nd time I saw it I was much better, I was more accustomed to the pacing of the film and the dialogue.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 2 April 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Barry Lyndon I liked it, although is Ryan O'Neal a bit mehhh. And I recognized some of the scenes shot on the grounds of Blenheim Palace from when I was there. I still love my $1 record of the soundtrack.

Inside Deep Throat Some of the trials are so mindboggling! DT was a bad movie becuase women who watched it would think that having a clitoral orgasm (instead if a vaginal one) is acceptable?! Judges be crazy! Also, Bill Maher and Hugh Hefner pronouncing clitoris to rhyme with Dolores/taurus = GROSS. But then, so are they.

Rules of Attraction It cost me $5.50. I like Ron Jeremy's commentary: "James Van Der Beek's forehead is HUGE" So true, Ron, so true. I went to college with JVDB, so I like to imagine that this is some sort of bizarro Dr3w I'm watching. (Shannyn Sossamon is as punchable as half the girls who went there.)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 2 April 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Tried to watch What's New, Pussycat but failed. I do like how with DVD you can skip a few chapters to see if the movie looks better later in.

― Zwan (miccio), Sunday, 2 April 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

steve shasta,

i actually really, really liked unknown pleasures! i just thought it got slightly draggy at the end, but that might have been the late hour at which i watched it.

oh and 'deadwood: season 1'. i borrowed this relatively recently from a friend of mine, watched it, and i'm going to have to buy the set. the acting and writing on this show puts 'the sopranos' in proper perspective, quality-wise.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 2 April 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I forgot to mention Wonder Showzen Too awesome for actual children, indeed.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 2 April 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Baby Cart At The River Styx. Again.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Sunday, 2 April 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I rented Crash, but hated it. Terrence Howard blew me away in Hustle and Flow. I rented this great palestinian film called Paradise Now which I highly recommend. And I also saw Waiting with Ryan Reynolds (Van Wilder). Very entertaining.

― Stephen Gallecian, Monday, 3 April 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

just saw Crash. I didn't hate it, but it wasn't great, but it sure wasn't painfully bad like I'd expected. mostly good acting esp. Dillon, Howard. if the guy who wrote Syriana wrote it, it would've been excellent.

DVD - Wedding Crashers. (a friend rented it.) bad plot, bad dialogue, had its moments (unscripted?) though. best thing was where the angsty son says Vince Vaughn's character tried to seduce him, & Vaughn is so fed up with everyone that not only does he not bother to say the guy's lying, he insists on keeping the painting! cool.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 3 April 2006 02:57 (twenty years ago)

Tried to watch What's New, Pussycat but failed. I do like how with DVD you can skip a few chapters to see if the movie looks better later in.

hahaha that is like my least favourite movie ever!! it is so... gross

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 3 April 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

saw Pride and Prejudice(kiera Knightley) last night and liked it. Very true to the 1/3 of the book I could get through in high school
Saw MST3K: Prince of Space
favorite scene: the three "Mr. Mooney from the Lucy Show" doppelgangers.
also
Krakor dictator: Get Dr. Makawa in front of the screen!(the camera loves him!)
a subpar episode overall though, one of those where you make your own jokes in your head and rue their missed opportunities(reeks of using my own brain, I know I know...)

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 3 April 2006 03:45 (twenty years ago)

videodrome: awesome!@#

had a day of drinking ewith an old friend and received a midight call for boozing, so i closed down some bar in hollywood and tried to dodge a rush fan that kept tryong to give me and my friends the 'god is your true savior' talk that comes out when bros feel guilty abotut being douchebags

― gear (gear), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

i am sorryh that makes no sense ; (

― gear (gear), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

SEE BERTOLUCCI'S 'PARTNER'

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Monday, 3 April 2006 08:47 (twenty years ago)

rmg, Redmond Barry is very mehhhh, so it was typecasting.

Trying to leap from one end of the film spectrum to another with back-to-back DVDs, I might've set my standard yesterday: Bresson's Une Femme Douce (like a Bunuel/Deneuve film on cough syrup) and Revenge of the Sith (not excruciating, but as the clips from the original make plain on the extras DVD, craps to Darth Lucas for turning a souped-up Flash Gordon into a postliterate Hamlet).

I won't defend What's New Pussycat? (Allen has always hated it), but there's been lots worse from Woody all by himself in the last decade.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:32 (twenty years ago)

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The Spirit of the Beehive - wow. I need to be careful not to gush, but good lord, this is a fine film. Watched it twice within a week, which is something I never do. Nearly every seemingly minor detail has a purpose...the cinematography is amazing...just perfect.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I decided to rent My Beautiful Landrette. Pretty good.

I'd never seen Last Tango in Paris before, and I rented that as well, without really knowing much about it at all. There was far more craziness than sexiness, which I hadn't expected. Also, the ending was a surprise to me. (There really were an unusually large number of depressing films in the 70s, weren't there?)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 17 September 2006 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

the godfather.... because a friend rates it as her favourite movie of all time, and i had never seen it. it was really good. but i think not worthy of 'favourite of all time.

also charlie and the chocolate factory, the tim burton one. very cool! i loved the colours and sets.

― gem (trisk), Sunday, 17 September 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

Just finished LaChapelle's Rize. No arguments.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 September 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

My husband sat me down to watch Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes. It's not that I don't like it...but....I laughed a little but watching it was kind of a chore, I'm afraid to say. It reminded me of when I tried to watch the original Battlestar Galactica series, having never seen it before. Without the necessary nostalgia, it was just kind of lost on me.

Watched The Proposition DVD, with commentary - yay Nick Cave! 3/4 the way through he excuses himself with "Uh, I'm gonna fuck off & have a fag, okay?" Bless him.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 September 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

Double Indemnity - didn't really capture the spirit of Cain to me, not bleak enough, and certainly not my favorite noir (too much screwball thrown in - Edward G makes it work, but the company president doesn't).

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 17 September 2006 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

Strictly Ballroom, which I liked although it's pretty awful. (Given my non-ballroom partner dancing sympathies and my romantic tendecies, I am a good victim for this sort of movie.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 17 September 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Twin Dragons with Jackie Chan. Twin brothers separated at birth, one a concert pianist and conductor, the other an underworld kung-fu type. Hijinks ensue. Good.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

(Identical twins.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 17 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

sidney lumet's 'prince of the city' is coming out on DVD May 22!

― roger goodell (gear), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

i watched the busby berkeley collection recently. its all so great!

also, oldboy was uneven but kinda wonderfully shocking.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

roller boogie, last night. really watchable for something so dreadful. and 20-year-old linda blair looked hot as hell in her spandex and roller skates.

― draining the pool for you (get bent), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

i watched 'deep red' the other night. awesome.

― roger goodell (gear), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 07:46 (nineteen years ago)

"Where The Green Ants Dream" - hated it. I'm beginning to think that
Aguirre & Dwarfs are going to be the only Herzog I really like.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

'Devil & Daniel Johnston' --- really good & bittersweet, made me afriad of doing drugs again

'Wordplay' --- Pretty fascinating and funny! I thought Bill Clinton's part was really inspiring, actually. I thought it was funny they put Jon Stewart on the back of the DVD all big when he was hardly in it and surprisingly annoying. I had a hard time getting into the competition until the end of it, which was super suspenseful.

'Borat' --- Disappointing and not all that funny. From all thee hype and lawsuits, I thought it'd just be vignette after tricky vignette, but there were only like six of them. The plot was really slow and stupid. Maybe only a half hour of it was good. The only part I really liked was the Kazakh national anthem.

'Dead Ringers' --- My boyfriend didn't want to watch it because he thought it'd be creepy. No, it wasn't creepy, it was MINDNUMBING FUCKING INCOMPARABLE CREEPY. In a stupid way, I was disappointed I didn't get to see how all his self-designed tools were used.

'Network' --- Totally not what I expected. So completely insane and wonderful! Not that I expected it to be not wonderful, but I thought it'd be just some 'hard life in the hard news' thing. But, man, how insane! The Ecumenical Liberation Army, haha.

― Abbott, Monday, 30 July 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Network is brilliant. I do not want to see Giger tools in action, though.

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― kenan, Monday, 30 July 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

Devil and Daniel Johnston is good. My GF totally loved it, i had to dig through a bunch of old tapes and found a couple Daniel cassettes dubs that i had. she listens to them all the time now.

― carne asada, Monday, 30 July 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

I have had Barry Lyndon Netflixed and unopened for almost a month. I just can't schedule quality time for me and Stanley.

― milo z, Monday, 30 July 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Send it back and wait for the re-remastered one this fall.

― Eric H., Monday, 30 July 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I need to sell my copy of Full Metal Jacket too.

― milo z, Monday, 30 July 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

Withnail and I - Finally got around to watching it after Netflixing it about a month ago. It had some very funny moments. It kind of reminded me of Sid and Nancy for some reason, even though it's set in 1969 and seems to have not much in common - I guess it's kind of a story of the late '60s "swinging London" come-down/aftermath as filtered through a mid-'80s post-punk perspective. I think it would have been better if the characters had been fleshed out a bit more - to shed a bit more light on their motivations - but it had some great gags.

― o. nate, Monday, 30 July 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

recently watched:

Zodiac
Chinatown
Raising Arizona
All of Me
Nashville
Little Miss Sunshine
Waking Life

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 30 July 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Punk: Attitude by Don Letts
Lagaan

― roxymuzak, Monday, 30 July 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

This Film is Not Yet Rated – taught me a lot of shit that I did not know about the MPAA: all the raters are SECRET but they get the PI lesbian duo (apparently this is a REAL THING!) to track down all 8 raters and find out their kids are all like in their 20s. Aw shit. Made me want to see Boys Don't Cry. There is a fair amount of disappointing filler, tho.

O Lucky Man! – Finally after years of wanting to see it! Did not like it as much as If... and it was way longer than I expected but v v good nonetheless. Pretty damned INSANIAC. It always cracks me up when the writer/actor writes his character w/dozens of women throwing themselves at him (see also "Darjeeling Limited," but it was actually funny in "O Lucky Man"). DVD 2 had a neat retrospective of Malcolm's career w/funny commentary from his kids.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? – All the dirty jokes in this slipped by me at first youthful viewing (see also rewatching Little Shop of Horrors).

― Abbott, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

Borat: OK film, terrible DVD. There's NO COMMENTARY??? I'd've LOVED to have heard a few words from all the people that got pwned, for one. Especially the ones that are suing.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

We Are Marshall. Surprisingly watchable...I was afraid it would be a major cheesefest. Depends on how you feel about sports movies in general, I guess. It's no Seabiscuit/Miracle, but I found it enjoyable and moving.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 25 November 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

I've been catching up on the so-called canon, I guess. Contempt on Thursday, Paths of Glory tonight (omg so good), The Passenger a couple of weeks ago. (Didn't think much of The Passenger except that amazing penultimate shot.) Next in the queue: Killer's Kiss, Touch of Evil, The Third Man, Shadow of a Doubt, Double Indemnity.

― Rock Hardy, Sunday, 25 November 2007 02:02 (eighteen years ago)

YAY! Love The Third Man...esp Anton Karas & his magical Zither of happiness!

― VegemiteGrrrl, Sunday, 25 November 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and some horror films:

Leslie Vernon: Behind the Mask – A fake docu about people making a docu about a Real Serial Killer who is of course he classic horror movie bad guy. Pretty damn pretentious for what it is! It's like reading a short story interspersed with a bunch of college sophomore pieces of literary criticism on the short story which was maybe written by a grad student. Srsly at one point Leslie Vernon explains he wants his killings to have a lot of (cannot spell) yarric? yhrric? imagery which of course in this film's clever-clever contrarian way is "representative of the vagina." hahahaha. But it had a nice twist ending and was pretty fun when it wasn't over-explaining itself and how smart they are.

Anatomy – Ridiculously crap movie about some obsessed anatomist who uses the enplastication process on pretty ladies' bodies (who he has murdered by giving them a hypodermic shot that turns them into plastic). VERY boring and glaringly dumb abt human bodies.

― Abbott, Sunday, 25 November 2007 02:26 (eighteen years ago)

i saw 'the departed' recently, first movie i've watched in months. loved it. the relationship btw the psychologist and di caprio's character was kinda ridiculous tho.

and the ending really bummed me out.

― Rubyredd, Sunday, 25 November 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

Tried to watch 2 episodes from season 2 of Six Feet Under but quit on each. This show was so hit and miss. Too many different writers.

Watched Heat (Michael Mann) for about the 999999th time and it gets better EVERY TIME. At this point I'm thinking Natalie Portman's performance should have got an Oscar.

Waking Life... For all its inherent flawas I like this... I see it as another love letter to Austin, kind of like Slackers II. Why does RL like Tosca though, ugh, omg, ugh!!! Fuck those guys.

― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 25 November 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

the lives of others
master and commander
black hawk down

― omar little, Sunday, 25 November 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

i really want to see that movie based on the raymond carver short story "so much water so close to home". i think it's australian-made?

― Rubyredd, Sunday, 25 November 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

The Fantastic Four - way way better than the the Spidey movies or Superman Returns.

― milo z, Sunday, 25 November 2007 04:30 (eighteen years ago)

catch-22

― mookieproof, Sunday, 25 November 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

I have a 750 of Maker's Mark and some organic popcorn. Do I want to watch Collateral or Miami Vice?

― milo z, Sunday, 25 November 2007 04:49 (eighteen years ago)

HEAT, BITCH

― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 25 November 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

hot fuzz was really funny although maybe not as much so as bad boys 2

― jhøshea, Sunday, 25 November 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

'clerks 2'. not recommended.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 25 November 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Twin Peaks gold box -- I've never seen season 2 before; so far (4 eps in) it's not as weird as I thought it would be. and what happened to the season 1 commentary tracks?!

Experiments in Terror: some interesting, none scary

― abanana, Sunday, 25 November 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Miami Vice: Director's Cut leaves out "We get down if the play calls for it." ;_;

― milo z, Sunday, 25 November 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

'clerks 2'. not recommended.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 25 November 2007 17:19 (1 hour ago) Link

I am a complete sucker for Kevin Smith - I even read his books - but this really is not that great. For Completists Only as they say.

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 25 November 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Miami Vice: Director's Cut leaves out "We get down if the play calls for it." ;_;

-- milo z, Sunday, November 25, 2007 7:07 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

neither of them have "moves get emotional and the wrong people die" ;_; ;_;

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 25 November 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

messy, even.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 25 November 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

although it's my favourite film of 2006, the trailer still kind of owns it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B34-q7LE5mA&feature=related

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 25 November 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

yes! esp. the scene where they bust in and steal the drugs

― milo z, Sunday, 25 November 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Miami Vice was badass. uglier and grimier than the (still cool) television show.

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

But I'm a Cheerleader! – holy shit this is the sweetest & most tender chick flick I've ever seen. <3

― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 06:04 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

God Told Me To – I don't even recall adding this to my netflix queue. I'm pretty sure I thought it was a documentary. Well, I watched the first ten minutes of some orange Californians pelted by red paintballs, shot in queasy cam and with lower production values than fucking "Behind the Green Door." And, then I stopped watching.

Time After Time – A little overly precious but very fun. Malcolm McDowell got hitched to the Kate Bushalike costar; Jack the Ripper totally predicts Chigurh! (Minus actually being terrifying in any way.)

― Abbott, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Fast Food Nation (I recently had a burger. Shit.)
Devil (-> quite liked that one)
And soon the darkness (? THink that's the title)

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 22 July 2011 09:52 (fourteen years ago)

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