A few films recently watched.

Lawrence In Arabia.

First Peter O'Toole picture i watch. Quite a remarkable performance from him.

Lawrence In Arabia?

lawrence does arabia

(actually, as rumor has it that may be historically accurate)

Inception: 8/10. As good as Hollywood gets these days. (I gave it "only", because most art films are on a different level, and the greatest Hollywood-made films get as far as 8 for me)

  On 7/25/2010 at 3:26 AM, abusivegeorge said:

Lawrence In Arabia?

Lawrence of Arabia maaaan.

predators: good/10 - don't know how to rate this, but i enjoyed it very much.

i watched a bunch movies in two 10 hour flights:

a mel gibson film about him taking revenge of his murdered daughter (forgot the name). 7.5/10 some good moments, sometimes i couldn't follow the plot (this could be due to shitty airplane sound quality) sometimes scenes seemed unrelated so i guess not a very well done film but in was interesting enough.

invictus: cheesy and cliche, but interesting enough and good performances. 8.1/10.

perry jackson and the lightning thief: fucking awful, terrible premise, terrible acting, one has to wonder how did they manage to get that cast on board (uma thurman, pierce brosnan, rosario dawson,..). 4/10

when in rome: romantic comedy archetype #4, but funny at times. 7/10.

how to train your dragon: meh. 6.5/10.

alice. tries too much, accomplishes too little. I like the cat and some other visuals. 7.2/10.

watching con air right now. it's perfect for the moment. i feel good.

Lawrence of a Labia

3/10

No joke

the incredibles: 5/5

the only better pixar movie is ratatouille. brad bird is AMAZING.

up: 3/5

meh. pretty much a jumbled mess, but cute. it's what i'd expect from a family film, rather than the transcendent brilliance that i expect from pixar.

ichi the killer: 3/5

both this and "up" are really really extremely soft 3's. i'd give them both 2.5, but i believe in the netflix "whole number out of 5" deal. i used to really find it restrictive, but i think that hate, dislike, like, really like, and love are all you really need. i might like to add 2.5 as "meh," but i'll give this and "up" 3 because they were both entertaining still.

ichi the killer... it was cute and funny. it was close to being 5/5, but the hypnosis thing.... ughh. ruined it. ichi could have been an interesting, meaningful character, but alas... i guess the really cheese CG might've dragged it down to 4/5 also, but in the end that was part of the humorous charm.

stiil, the scene where ichi is crying on the roof... affecting. until you consider the context.

  On 7/26/2010 at 7:49 AM, vamos scorcho said:

watching con air right now. it's perfect for the moment. i feel good.

at least a 9/10

maybe a 10

inception: 7/10 - what the hell are you all raving about?

Just got back from the cinema. Which I hadn't visited in months.

7 sounds about right. It's a clever movie but I got incredibly bored with all those drawn out "climaxes" with the same cheesy, bombastic Zimmer score we've been hearing since Batman Begins. And drop all the verbosity please. Make the dreams more dreamlike and let the images speak for themselves once and a while.

Just watched Passion of Christ.

Deserves 7/10 for trifling dialogue and for telling too little of Jesus' word/story, but gets 8/10 for showing how horrendous a punishment he willingly endured for love of mankind.

Inception:

As soon as they got to the "third level of the subconscious" anything artistic or meaningful about the movie was invalidated. What are they doing in Goldeneye's Siberia?? The p...r..o..c...e.....s......s of "jolting back" or whatever they do is lame, too. I liked it as a whole and walked out happy, but...

4/10.

'passion of the christ' is nothing but torture porn, and i think it works well on that level. a decent exploitation flick.

Inception - I liked it. I really liked it. Probably the best summer blockbuster movie I've ever seen.

sons of anarchy season 1

loved it.

the road - 9/10: wow, i can't believe people are comparing this to the Book of Eli... this was actually an amazing movie! beautiful, deep, moving.

good night, and good luck

8/10

Let The Right One In - 9/10

The remake looks pretty much shot for shot

the poster makes me want to see it..

the thing that's mainly selling me on the remake right now is Richard Jenkins plays her guardian, which is pretty awesome because i love richard jenkins.

even though i am in principle opposed to such an unnecessary remake, i cant deny the trailer looks decent. (did you see it atop?)

It looks like the original with a few extra scenes added

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9UlzQIysEk

And they officially announced at comic con that Abby ( aka Eli ) is [big spoiler]

  On 7/28/2010 at 11:03 PM, GrandPopPoplock said:

 

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a girl in the remake...not a boy

 

  On 7/28/2010 at 10:36 PM, Awepittance said:

the thing that's mainly selling me on the remake right now is Richard Jenkins plays her guardian, which is pretty awesome because i love richard jenkins.

even though i am in principle opposed to such an unnecessary remake, i cant deny the trailer looks decent. (did you see it atop?)

Yeah, I feel the same about the remake/reboot fad but this looks better than the original. The original for me is not paced well and the atmosphere of Swedish culture to an American such as myself, felt a bit awkward. Not sure if that comes across as xenophobic but I just couldn't relate with the feel of the first film, as beautifully shot as I think it is. I too love Richard Jenkins and seeing him play a serious and creepy role is going to be great. The remake looks more hardcore, dark, and straight up frightening, which is what I want in my horror. Will be seeing this on opening day.

  On 7/28/2010 at 11:06 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 7/28/2010 at 11:03 PM, GrandPopPoplock said:

 

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That's not even remotely surprising. They more or less wimped out on that in the Scandinavian version, completely avoiding the weightier material from the book. I think it's one of the biggest weaknesses of the original. What could have been a total masterpiece was instead just a very good suspense/horror genre film. You can expect a very competent remake from that Cloverfield guy, but don't expect anything intelligent. It will be dumbed down to the Nth. Count on it.

 

I want to read the book now....