A few films recently watched.

akira can get confusing, but its still probably the best anime ive seen.. maybe mononoke rivals it, or ghost in the shell 2..

mononoke is good, but i think spirited away is better...one of my top 5 favorite films

I saw Akira when I was 9 ( it was quite a mind fuck ) After a few viewings...I was able to figure out most of the stuff .

The manga explains the WTF moments in the movie .

i first saw it around 12 or 13. it was an english dub and the tranlastion was horrible.. its hard to follow anyway but that dub made it next to impossible.

on another note, im watching funny or die on hbo. anyone else think its like a watered down version of tim and eric? meh

LOL I think you're talking about the Streamline dub ( a dub...I hold close to my heart lol ) And yes , original dub did make it a little hard to follow the story.

And I don't have HBO : (

heh yup thats the one

  On 4/17/2010 at 1:52 AM, Boxing Day said:

Kick-Ass - 10/10 - I loved it. Nothing complex , a movie without an agenda , Ultraviolence. FUCK YEAH

QFT but I thought the dialogue, humor, darkness, goofyness, plot, pacing everything was really well done, it was definitely more than just some of the most amazingly radical ultra-violent action ive ever seen

My friends and I watched Kairo (2001) (Japanese horror movie) last night. It seemed more like a drama than an actual horror movie - mostly because of the lack of scares. There were a couple of creepy scenes but nothing much happened. Also, an hour and a half into the movie the movie froze so we downloaded a copy of the movie but that didn't do us any good since it was a corrupt file...

?/10

Good...God . I just got done watching Airborne ( 1993 ) I haven't seen it in YEARS

It has one of the most ''epic'' endings ever .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vod3PFinkLk&feature=related

3:54 - 4:17 = The 90's

im too lazy and at work to think of a top 5 anime films, but these are a few you should check out.

afro samurai (yes i know its a series but it runs like a 6[?] part film)+ afro samurai 2. the characters, soundtrack and actors are spot on and some of the best i've ever seen. rza does the soundtrack. what more needs be said?

cowboy bebop (movie). the series was one of the first animes i ever watched, and still reigns supreme.

akira is really great, a must-watch even if you don't end up liking it.

  On 4/17/2010 at 11:49 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

Good...God . I just got done watching Airborne ( 1993 ) I haven't seen it in YEARS

 

 

It has one of the most ''epic'' endings ever .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vod3PFinkLk&feature=related

3:54 - 4:17 = The 90's

lol this movie has been brought up quite a few times with homies as a nostalgic window into the pinnacle of cheesy 90s

Saw three films today...

Spirited Away. (Rewatch. Good film.) First time I was disappointed as I'd just seen Mononoke-hime, but this time I was able to appreciate it more for what it is than what it isn't. Drags a bit in the middle I guess but overall it's a satisfying journey. I jumped big time during the stair scene.

Perfect Blue. Eh. Inland Empire before Inland Empire. This would have been better live-action, as it was originally envisioned. Animation came across as lazy, and the story didn't really keep my interest. Fucking violent.

Oh and I just saw One Missed Call (a.k.a. Chakushin ari) as it was playing on SBS2. I must say, although it began off lame

I ended up being pretty impressed by the last twenty or so minutes. Not a brilliantly executed film (pretty cliche actually) but the red herrings were enough to keep me entertained and watching. The payoff is excellent.

akira

evangelion

mindgame

tekkonkinkreet

origin

paprika

  On 4/17/2010 at 5:02 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

tekkonkinkreet

oh fuck how did i not mention this.

tekkonkinkreet is, imo, the one film id show everybody if i was only allowed to pick one for everybody to watch

I finally finsihed Vertigo - 7/10

I loved James Stewart and Kim Novak was beautiful! It went a bit downhill at the end though.

I'm watching Rosemary's Baby now.

i love vertigo. probably one of the better hitchcock films ive seen. the dream sequence is ridiculously great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgBQyhrQJJo

  On 4/17/2010 at 9:47 PM, Z_B_Z said:

i love vertigo. probably one of the better hitchcock films ive seen. the dream sequence is ridiculously great.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgBQyhrQJJo

Yes! I loved his floating head. I would make that my new avatar if it wasn't for awesome my Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri avatar

Inglorious Basterds

Fucking lol 10/10

  On 4/17/2010 at 9:47 PM, Z_B_Z said:

i love vertigo. probably one of the better hitchcock films ive seen. the dream sequence is ridiculously great.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgBQyhrQJJo

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  On 4/15/2010 at 2:18 AM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 4/14/2010 at 8:29 AM, Z_B_Z said:

check out 'africa addio' next. that ones relatively extreme. a lot of controversy surrounded it at the time of its release because they film a man getting shot and killed.. jacopetti and prosperi were certainly exploitatative, but they made some interesting films. also check out 'addio zio tom'. not a documentary but still a very extreme film.

 

also, a lot of the mondo cane stuff was staged

 

Africa Addio is insane. The poaching scene fucked my world up. They also made a movie in the 60's called "women of world", which is a lighthearted doc about.... well. women of the world.

watched this yesterday. the poaching was so brutal..

interesting though.. any other shocking documentary type films I should check out? doesn't necessarily have to be of the same subject matter..

also saw Gummo and Kids. thought Gummo was great

Nostalghia:

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Probably the greatest film ever made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP6eV1kiauE

  On 4/18/2010 at 3:16 AM, viscosity said:

 

 

interesting though.. any other shocking documentary type films I should check out? doesn't necessarily have to be of the same subject matter

 

also saw Gummo and Kids. thought Gummo was great

while not an actual documentary, 'addio zio tom' is filmed as one, and if you want to be shocked, id go with that one next.

if you liked 'gummo', id check out 'julian donkey boy'. also check out 'ken park'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUS8GGujwro

slightly nsfw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddufqu1mEfM

very nsfw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwrSQELv6zU