A few films recently watched.

Blades of Glory- It was shit except for Jenna Fischer being pretty.

i love the original poltergeist if only for the early Spielberg feel to it all, the pacing and character interaction in the movie reminds me a lot of Close encounters and Jaws. also the score by jerry goldsmith is fantastic as well as some of the visual effects for the time. i heard that Tobe hooper wad fired midway and spielberg took over the directing.

  On 1/8/2010 at 7:14 PM, Z_B_Z said:

 

piece. of. shit. laughable really. the characters stupidity in this film is amazing.

i enjoyed this probably more than i should of because i used to be an apartment manager, and this type of renter was basically my worst fear at the time

I'm about to watch My Name is Bruce.

  On 1/9/2010 at 6:07 AM, Great Maker ShaiHulud said:

I'm about to watch My Name is Bruce.

that movie fucked with me seeing it for the 1st time at 18 and tripping. i quite enjoyed it at the time. i wonder if it holds up.

i switched bruno off after 10 minutes. what was i thinking

Same. I don't know why I bothered downloading it after seeing Borat.

What was it you didn't like about Brüno? IMO it was way funnier than Borat, it hit target on so many things. This seemed to get to people even more than Borat, it hit true and exposed so much about certain types of people.

Liked the way it veered from disturbing (the mothers and baby scene) to extremely silly (all the sex stuff, esp the hotel scene).

Anyway, how come you didn't like it?

i couldn't watch Bruno all the way through for the same reason Borat seemed faulty, most of the 'daring' or 'dangerous' stunts he pulled off seemed absolutely staged clearly with a safety net in case anything actually endangered him. Sasha Baron Coen is not the new Andy Kaufman, he doesn't even hold a candle to Neil Hamburger.

he isn't trying to

I saw "the Others" with Nicole Kidman. Was really boooring, though it picked up a bit at the end as it approached the twist ending. I must have read a review when it came out, because the twist occurred to me fairly early on. Kidman really does overact, she's a weird bird. Kids weren't very sympathetic, either. Gets extra points for some good cinematography/lighting. 6.5/10.

  On 5/7/2009 at 2:28 PM, Super lurker ultra V12 said:

control 7.7/11

lost in la mancha 7.5/11

the weather man 8/11

stalker 10.7/11

I think Control deserves at least an 8.8.

I've just seen The Road. It was as bleak as hell, but had about the emotional pull of a pile of bricks.

Has anyone else seen it? Am I just dead inside?

Buffalo 66. Some of you guys adore this flick, really? I mean I fully understand the appeal of hottie cupie Christina Ricci, she raises the film by at least 3 points - the film deserves to stay around for the sole reason that it's a testament to her beauty pre anorexia and boob reduction. The film deserves another point for probably being the inspiration for bullet time in the Matrix, I had no idea. but apart from that...Vincent Gallo is a pretty unappealing character and his attempts to humanize himself struck me as phony. The film is extremely thin; apart from the dinner sequence there's basically nothing there. 5/10

  On 1/9/2010 at 11:38 PM, AJW said:

What was it you didn't like about Brüno? IMO it was way funnier than Borat, it hit target on so many things. This seemed to get to people even more than Borat, it hit true and exposed so much about certain types of people.

 

Liked the way it veered from disturbing (the mothers and baby scene) to extremely silly (all the sex stuff, esp the hotel scene).

 

Anyway, how come you didn't like it?

the 'story' and character are weak as piss terrible and i felt i'd seen it all before in borat. almost everything is staged and not remotely funny.

I watched A Serious Man just now. 7.5 because the ending sucked.

i watched the godfather and godfather part ii recently. gonna start on part iii soon.

they're such fucking amazing movies. i can't believe i've never seen them before. i love the character of michael. he's simultaneously good and evil and you keep rooting for him, no matter the rotten things he does. it's awesome

i remember who i first saw buffalo 66 with. in that context it's significant for me

haven't seen The Brown Bunny, got sorta shittay reviews, might give it a try though

saw a bunch of other movies listed here. highlights I guess are session 9, which made me want to revisit kppc and the reflecting skin which was intriguing. Philip Ridley has a couple films that I might follow through and watch. i guess he's more of a theater director/author, primarily children's books. kind of disturbing given the subject matter of his films

i saw almost famous. liked it alot.

The Hangover - 7.5/10

i like buffalo 66. all that span time shit. its really funny

Downloading a dvd screener for "The Road" right now.

  On 1/10/2010 at 11:04 PM, beatfanatic said:

Downloading a dvd screener for "The Road" right now.

don't! it's missing 20 minutes.

The.Road.DVDSCR.XVID.V2(COMPLETE)-ToXiC

The.Road.DVDSCR.XviD-KTKS

as far as i know, both of them are missing 20-27 mins. also the quality is crap.

Uzak (2002) With all those "best of 00" lists I notice I missed a lot of really great stuff. This one for example is amazing. It's a film about the distance between people and themselves by a Tarkovsky fan. And although it's Turkish it's all very universal. Visually very strong, got hooked to it immediately. Beautiful!

  On 1/10/2010 at 11:12 PM, data said:

  On 1/10/2010 at 11:04 PM, beatfanatic said:

Downloading a dvd screener for "The Road" right now.

 

don't! it's missing 20 minutes.

 

The.Road.DVDSCR.XVID.V2(COMPLETE)-ToXiC

The.Road.DVDSCR.XviD-KTKS

 

as far as i know, both of them are missing 20-27 mins. also the quality is crap.

I downloaded the second complete version. its pretty decent quality for a screener though.

oh? someone was complaining about how it was still missing a bunch of scenes ..oh well.

one from a few days ago was nuked.