A few films recently watched.

district 9 in HD while stoned

/10

  On 1/28/2010 at 7:43 PM, analogue wings said:

  On 1/28/2010 at 4:18 PM, AJW said:

Strange Days 1995 Dir. Kathryn Bigelow

 

Despite it's plastic looking futuristic effects this is really charming and has some gret exciting moments in it. Perhaps down to James Camerons involvement. Very enjoyable 90's sci fi set in the party and sleaze orientated 'weird future' of 1999.....

 

watch The Hurt Locker and Avatar back-to-back and tell me Kathryn Bigelow needs James Cameron's help making a good movie

Cameron actually pushed Bigelow to make The Hurt Locker, cause he thought she would do a great job with the script.

  On 1/28/2010 at 7:43 PM, analogue wings said:

  On 1/28/2010 at 4:18 PM, AJW said:

Strange Days 1995 Dir. Kathryn Bigelow

 

Despite it's plastic looking futuristic effects this is really charming and has some gret exciting moments in it. Perhaps down to James Camerons involvement. Very enjoyable 90's sci fi set in the party and sleaze orientated 'weird future' of 1999.....

 

watch The Hurt Locker and Avatar back-to-back and tell me Kathryn Bigelow needs James Cameron's help making a good movie

yeah I suppose I ought to

  On 1/29/2010 at 2:27 AM, chimera slot mom said:

district 9 in HD while stoned

 

/10

Get thowse fookin proowns! ARGH PROOWNS (handheld camera crash boom bang) GAAAAH golly! they gaet cat food and computers!! FOOOUUKIIN PROOOWNS. zany south africans. That lead role actor is just full of beans throughout

  On 1/28/2010 at 10:40 PM, Super lurker ultra V12 said:

Avatar 3d 11.7/10

 

real word looks a bit dull now :/

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

  On 1/29/2010 at 10:17 AM, AJW said:

 

Get thowse fookin proowns! ARGH PROOWNS (handheld camera crash boom bang) GAAAAH golly! they gaet cat food and computers!! FOOOUUKIIN PROOOWNS. zany south africans. That lead role actor is just full of beans throughout

lol saw this for the 2nd time recently and enjoyed it maybe more than i did first time. probably a 7/10. loses points for the end shot

up 8/10

looks great. can see textures of clothing and the faces are great too. best human animation i've seen i think, although they are very cartoony so maybe thats why. story is good, i'm so usedto hollywood bad guys not quite dying and then returning at the end i expected the guy to be alive, so that was nicely unpredictable. didnt make me cry however, so disappointed there.

  On 1/29/2010 at 6:09 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

up 8/10

looks great. can see textures of clothing and the faces are great too. best human animation i've seen i think, although they are very cartoony so maybe thats why. story is good, i'm so usedto hollywood bad guys not quite dying and then returning at the end i expected the guy to be alive, so that was nicely unpredictable. didnt make me cry however, so disappointed there.

The dogs kinda ruined it parts of it for me - the dog called Doug was quite hilarious though. It would have been a much better movie if they had left out the whole mad-explorer character and just let Carl do his thing.

  On 1/29/2010 at 10:17 AM, AJW said:

  On 1/28/2010 at 7:43 PM, analogue wings said:

  On 1/28/2010 at 4:18 PM, AJW said:

Strange Days 1995 Dir. Kathryn Bigelow

 

Despite it's plastic looking futuristic effects this is really charming and has some gret exciting moments in it. Perhaps down to James Camerons involvement. Very enjoyable 90's sci fi set in the party and sleaze orientated 'weird future' of 1999.....

 

watch The Hurt Locker and Avatar back-to-back and tell me Kathryn Bigelow needs James Cameron's help making a good movie

 

yeah I suppose I ought to

 

  On 1/29/2010 at 2:27 AM, chimera slot mom said:

district 9 in HD while stoned

 

/10

 

Get thowse fookin proowns! ARGH PROOWNS (handheld camera crash boom bang) GAAAAH golly! they gaet cat food and computers!! FOOOUUKIIN PROOOWNS. zany south africans. That lead role actor is just full of beans throughout

hahah absolutely. I love the ridiculous badassery of the evil mercenaries as well. "I love killing you prawns. In fact I love it so much I'm gonna stand here and talk to you about it and not actually kill you"

  On 1/29/2010 at 6:28 PM, Squee said:

  On 1/29/2010 at 6:09 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

up 8/10

looks great. can see textures of clothing and the faces are great too. best human animation i've seen i think, although they are very cartoony so maybe thats why. story is good, i'm so usedto hollywood bad guys not quite dying and then returning at the end i expected the guy to be alive, so that was nicely unpredictable. didnt make me cry however, so disappointed there.

 

The dogs kinda ruined it parts of it for me - the dog called Doug was quite hilarious though. It would have been a much better movie if they had left out the whole mad-explorer character and just let Carl do his thing.

the dogs didnt ruin it for me but i agree it could have been better without the explorer guy. just make it about the journey but that wouldnt get the kids in to watch it would it?

there was some descrepancy with carl and the explorer ages. carl alwys looked old but he must have been in his 70s when he went to paradise falls. when he was at the cinema he was maybe 10 and the explorer was maybe 30ish. so 60 years later when they meet the explorer should be 90.

  On 1/27/2010 at 9:47 AM, karmakramer said:

i'm downloading the road, I'm downloading the road! finally is the day, the day I want to blow my brains out because I am about to watch the road. I am downloading the road!

aaahhhh, i can't watch it yet.

i'm about 2/3 of the way through the book. its one of the best novels i've ever read.

couldn't ruin it and watch the film. can't wait though. i saw the trailer in its bleak, bleak glory ages ago, before i knew of the book. looks good....

'9' - 8/10 - great little animated film about apocalypse and small sack people.

'Vexille' - 4/10 - typical anime. same old, same old.

'2012' - 10/10 (when pissed) - one of the funniest movies i have ever seen. all the hilarity makes up for the shit plot and awful characters and predictability

'Cat Soup' - 7.5/10 - surrealist anime. 30 minutes. about 2 kittens, one of which loses half of its soul. spend the rest of the film trying to get it back. very bizarre. (i loved the little touch of the jagged light beams in the circus part)

'Family Guy - Something, Something, Something Dark Side' - 7/10 - good for a few laughs, but not as good as the first one.

watched death proof again a couple of nights ago, kurt russell is the man. always has been one of my heroes, since watching tango and cash followed by the thing in one night all those years ago. he's the best action hero. no contest.

(sorry, i'm a fascist kurt russell fan)

(i'm not sorry at all, he is king)

yessss ultravisitor

  On 1/29/2010 at 5:20 PM, Squee said:

  On 1/28/2010 at 10:40 PM, Super lurker ultra V12 said:

Avatar 3d 11.7/10

 

real word looks a bit dull now :/

 

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/11/avatar.movie.blues/index.html

 

depression is a bit too much, but I definitely felt the difference between the two worlds

I'm having a Godard weekend.

Nouvelle Vague (1990) - First time I've seen this one. I was pleasantly surprised to see that beautiful Italian woman from Nostalghia again. A bit a bit hard to keep up with some of the monologue/dialogue so I didn't really get some of the scenes. I should work on my French so I can ditch the subtitles.

Pierrot le Fou (1965) - I adore just about every film he made in the 60ies. This is no exception.

  On 1/30/2010 at 3:53 AM, Ego said:

I'm having a Godard weekend.

 

Nouvelle Vague (1990) - First time I've seen this one. I was pleasantly surprised to see that beautiful Italian woman from Nostalghia again. A bit a bit hard to keep up with some of the monologue/dialogue so I didn't really get some of the scenes. I should work on my French so I can ditch the subtitles.

Pierrot le Fou (1965) - I adore just about every film he made in the 60ies. This is no exception.

You can't have a true Godard weekend without watching Godard's Weekend.

I tried having an Antonioni weekend until I realized Blowup sucks.

I really dug blow up... what didn't you like about it?

dunno, was just boring and dated, but I haven't given up. I will try watching it again this evening and report back. L'Avventura is one of my favorite films but I haven't explored much of the rest of his work, esp. the color films.

'Cat Soup' - 7.5/10 - surrealist anime. 30 minutes. about 2 kittens, one of which loses half of its soul. spend the rest of the film trying to get it back. very bizarre. (i loved the little touch of the jagged light beams in the circus part)

watched death proof again a couple of nights ago, kurt russell is the man. always has been one of my heroes, since watching tango and cash followed by the thing in one night all those years ago. he's the best action hero. no contest.

Really enjoyed 'Cat Soup' lovely little piece of anime. And 'Death Proof' such an underrated film! Excellent cast, brilliantly executed simple pure Taratino. Enjoyed it much more than 'Inglorious Basterds' tbh

biggie & tupac 6/10

watching nick bloomfield wander around holding his boom is always enjoyable. i felt like a white academic studying black culture a little bit. suge knights message to the kid was hilarious. i'm not sure who did what though still. made me wanna watch his kurt and courtney doc, which i've avoided as i felt a little too close to that death when it happened, whereas now i can't stand nirvana. what else of his is worth watching?

K-pax, quite enjoyable. Theres something about Kevin Spacey that I like.

closeted homosexuality ?

  On 1/31/2010 at 1:38 AM, Awepittance said:

closeted homosexuality ?

Ye probably. He'd be able to negotiate me into bed.

haha

eXistenZ

8/10 I guess. Wish it had gone on for longer. I'd bet even if I didn't know who was directing I would have figured it out the instant I saw the pods. Also, I'm glad I didn't judge this by it's cover. Lordy me that is some awful box art. Right off-putting. Actually it did put me off for the longest time. Maybe it lowered my expectations because the film was better than I had expected. Good work David!

A bit Dickish eh?

(Phillip K. I mean)

I just watched True Romace again

love that movie

  On 1/31/2010 at 5:51 AM, Fishtank said:

I just watched True Romace again

love that movie

I just watched that again a few days ago, too. First time I saw it was in 1993 in Indonesia of all places. It's one of Tony Scott's better films; I wonder if Tarantino had any input in the direction, in addition to penning the script. The two best scenes - Hopper's interrogation by Christopher Walken, and the torture scene with James Gandolfini (of all people! Of course he was unknown at the time but to see his more svelte pre-Tony-Soprano self was a trip) are vintage Tarantino. 7.5/10 but an entertaining film. I wish Tarantino had directed it as he wanted to instead of selling the script. I bet he would have done a better job; he was at his peak then, right before Pulp Fiction.