A few films recently watched.

rewatched Inglourious Basterds.....i think ill give it an 8/10...i think tarantino is right on the last line about it being his masterpiece, its just hilariously fun, brutal, ...and Tarantino was always a master of dialogue, which is why I think I enjoyed Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs so much yet abhorred Kill Bill and the Kurt Russell one....this is a perfect meld of his styles.

The beginning scene and the bar scene are some of my favorite scenes in movie history.

  On 3/14/2010 at 8:59 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

rewatched Inglourious Basterds.....i think ill give it an 8/10...i think tarantino is right on the last line about it being his masterpiece, its just hilariously fun, brutal, ...and Tarantino was always a master of dialogue, which is why I think I enjoyed Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs so much yet abhorred Kill Bill and the Kurt Russell one....this is a perfect meld of his styles.

 

 

The beginning scene and the bar scene are some of my favorite scenes in movie history.

Yeah those scenes are amazing. As a full movie it feels kind of chaotic and lacking in the magic of his past films, but I love kill bill 1&2 so I might as well love this one.

Ponyo: good

Videodrome: brilliant, makes me wanna rewatch The Fly 1 & 2

Inglorious Basterds: Not as good as Death Proof, which is an underrated Tarantino classic

Why fly 2? It's a piece of shit and cronenberg had nothing to do with it

Bronson - As a feature-length film, it was definitely a mixed bag. For Tom Hardy's performance alone, it was worth sticking around until the credits. Soundtrack was A+, too.

In the Loop - This one was lost on me. I was incredibly tired of the oh-so-predictable vulgar Scottish pricks by the second hour. They more or less ruined what was already kinda boring writing. Could they have not tread just a tad lighter on that stereotype? Overall, it was a big fat Who Cares of a project. I'll give it credit for a few decent lols. Ironically, the best lol was when the main Scottish prick tells the Rumsfeld knockoff that he's "as boring as F**Kunt."

zombieland - won't bother rating 'cos i don't want to but i enjoyed this because i like emma stone

  On 3/14/2010 at 10:26 PM, The Overlook said:

In the Loop - This one was lost on me. I was incredibly tired of the oh-so-predictable vulgar Scottish pricks by the second hour. They more or less ruined what was already kinda boring writing. Could they have not tread just a tad lighter on that stereotype? Overall, it was a big fat Who Cares of a project. I'll give it credit for a few decent lols. Ironically, the best lol was when the main Scottish prick tells the Rumsfeld knockoff that he's "as boring as F**Kunt."

Malcolm's pretty much the whole point of the show though

wouldn't particularly call it a stereotype either

  On 3/14/2010 at 10:26 PM, The Overlook said:

In the Loop - This one was lost on me. I was incredibly tired of the oh-so-predictable vulgar Scottish pricks by the second hour. They more or less ruined what was already kinda boring writing. Could they have not tread just a tad lighter on that stereotype? Overall, it was a big fat Who Cares of a project. I'll give it credit for a few decent lols. Ironically, the best lol was when the main Scottish prick tells the Rumsfeld knockoff that he's "as boring as F**Kunt."

as a fan of the tv show my only problem with the film was that it was a malcolm tucker vehicle. i like him but yeah the film is too much of a good thing perhaps.

Taking Off - 10/10 really fucking good.

Amadeus - 8/10

Fright Night Part 2 - 5/10 enjoyable enough, I dig the effects and make-up but plotwise it's a bit of a mess.

Trancers - Wonderful. What made it better was the source for the DVD seemed to be a fifth generation VHS.

GI Joe -

Black Dynamite -

The Orphan - ........

Anastasia - 7/10 a pretty cool blast from the past.

Watched the first episode of Breaking Bad... the lady and I really enjoyed it. I'm always a fan of Bryan Cranston and cannot wait to see him paired up with a good director for a film one of these days. The only thing that bugged me about the show was it's soundtrack... it felt like watching a music video at times and really took away from the atmosphere it had been building.

  On 3/14/2010 at 1:47 PM, chimera slot mom said:

  On 3/14/2010 at 8:59 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

rewatched Inglourious Basterds.....i think ill give it an 8/10...i think tarantino is right on the last line about it being his masterpiece, its just hilariously fun, brutal, ...and Tarantino was always a master of dialogue, which is why I think I enjoyed Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs so much yet abhorred Kill Bill and the Kurt Russell one....this is a perfect meld of his styles.

 

 

The beginning scene and the bar scene are some of my favorite scenes in movie history.

 

Yeah those scenes are amazing. As a full movie it feels kind of chaotic and lacking in the magic of his past films, but I love kill bill 1&2 so I might as well love this one.

A Serious Man or this should've won best picture...

actual original ideas for films that define the point of going to see films in the first place...

to escape and enjoy where you escape to....

The Hurt Locker is a good film but got sand in my eyes and felt like a decent Frontline documentary, not really an original film idea...

*erm.... Jarhead, cough*

THX 1138 - l7/20

If you watched this and then watched Attack of the Clone Wars, you would never guess it was the same director. This was a really good movie, albeit a little slow and drawn out, I like the execution of the story here. It loses points for hammy dialogue.

The Gate - 8/10 more like this please!

  On 3/14/2010 at 2:20 AM, kokoon said:

and for the first time in many years, big lebowski. a simple 10 out of 10. perfection!

YES

Antichrist - 8/10. There's been plenty of discussion of this movie so I won't get into too much exposition. Even knowing what transpired in the movie, I still winced at some of the scenes. I left wanting to see it again as their seemed to be many threads of meaning going on.

love it, need to watch it again soon....

i'm probably of the minority opinion here but i thought antichrist would have been a better and more solid film if it weren't for the Necromantik style gore in it. it was a very effective movie merely for it's atmosphere and buildup.

5 (five) most recent:

scale: 1-10

Visioneers: 9/10 - Zach Galafinakis is the current fuzzy golden goat on Hollywood's altar. I remember a few years ago when I encountered him in "The Comedians of Comedy"... he lay on a forest floor picking at leaves talking to a camera about how he wanted to be involved "in the most independent movie ever made". Visioneers is the closest he's come to accomplishing this, although G Force, his mid-grade army porno adaptation of We3, might be a close second. It would get a ten from me except in the performances of some actors here and there throughout, the presentation of some bits as overly-excruciating, and the annoying sense of Smug this movie affects some people with. Certain scenes in this film stick like splinters in your thumb while others seem like a fabulous parody of capitalist culture. I would recommend it to Americans that don't watch a lot of television but once did, or do and claim that they do not. Or fans of 1984: the year, the movie, the book, the cereal.

Shutter Island: 7/10- At what point did Leonardo DiCaprio become "Leo"? Has he always been "Leo" and people just stopped calling him Leonardo outside of press briefings and posters? People I know just call him Leo. I see him and say "Hey Leo," as if in breathless anticipation of his next confused facial expression. And he's all like "Yeh wut." The real Big question with this movie involves names. Specifically two names in the movie that are perfect anagrams for one another. There. Now I ruined the movie for you. Actually seems like Scorsese loves Leo, he loves him so much he had him rehash his character from The Departed. I picture Mark Wahlberg wandering onto the set of this movie and pissing off Ben Kingsley. Or really pleasing him. Orally.

Ink: 8/10 - Not explaining anything, but if you liked Jim Henson's The Storyteller series, or anything about Steampunk, you could maybe enjoy this. Could have been a really bad movie, a really TERRIBLE movie, but a decent script and efforts on the part of the director + some actors seem to have taken this movie to the point I can appreciate it as something more interesting than the fifteenth-or-so rehash of The Matrix's more gnostic themes (i.e. simulacrums, seeming order of "archons" and "realworld/alt timeline" themes). Again, not a movie for people with extremely short attention spans or people that don't love or at least like Dark Crystal / Fraggle Rock. . .

Sleeper: 10/10 - I picture Woody Allen at the opening night of this film in New York and I have to change my pants. For three reasons.

Alice in Wonderland: 7/10- Tim and Helena should be happy that they've made so many films together. Friggin' spectacle, it is. Theater-only sorta thing, cramped in there with families muttering at just-above conversational tone to keep their kid's quiet in the row right behind us. "Brian. Brian. No. That's unacceptable. No. Shh. You want us to leave? Brian. BRIAN." But no, the Bandersnatch was pretty good. Certain bits stood out. This movie's strongest point is the lead actress. These 3D glasses showed me lots of fluff, literally, fluff, and little else. The Mad Hatter's dance at the end made this movie lose 3 stars. The overall attempt at creating a tone as strong as the one in Nightmare Before Christmas made it gain one.

That's all I've got to say about that.

  On 3/15/2010 at 8:35 PM, Awepittance said:

i'm probably of the minority opinion here but i thought antichrist would have been a better and more solid film if it weren't for the Necromantik style gore in it. it was a very effective movie merely for it's atmosphere and buildup.

I concur...

  On 3/15/2010 at 8:35 PM, Awepittance said:

i'm probably of the minority opinion here but i thought antichrist would have been a better and more solid film if it weren't for the Necromantik style gore in it. it was a very effective movie merely for it's atmosphere and buildup.

I would agree but imho the violence was not a focal point for me at all in this film. I remember the violence being hyped, then when I saw it, it was like really? People are making a big deal out of this? I thought the guy getting his cock chopped in Hostel 2 was worse. But then again I don't think that's even what you are trying to say so i may be typing for no reason. Antichrist for me was a dream. Very atmospheric and layered with meaning. The violence was incidental in my eyes.

i think you have a point there, . If the reviewers didn't make it seem like the focal point for the movie it probably wouldn't have been such a big deal to me. fucking reviewers. good movie overall, and i know people here will hate me for this but i HONESTLY felt some strong Lady in the Water vibes towards the end of the movie (3 beggers, et al).

*high five*