A few films recently watched.

taken 8/10

colonel redl 9/10

madea goes to jail 10/10

my best fiend 6/10

milk 8/10

Going by Netflix rating scale.

Funky Forest: The First Contact 3/5

Wild Style 4/5

Joysticks 3/5

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People 2/5

The Midnight Meat Train 3/5

Cornelius: Sensurround 5/5

Street Trash 4/5

Pin 3/5

Falling Down 4/5

the conversation - 7.5/10

watchmen - 7/10

all of the futurama movies - 5-7/10 (even if I wasn't laughing all the time I just like the series)

  tv_party said:

the conversation - 10/10

Fixed.

just watched this:

better than I expected.

  mrx said:

madea goes to jail 10/10

lol

tekkon kinkreet - 4/10

so disappointing. very good animation and design but what a hodgepodge of shitty ideas and half baked anime cliches.

caprica - 3/10

not disappointing because i expected nothing less than a steaming turd after the fourth season of bsg, but this actually sucked more than i thought it would. retarded cyberpunk themes, terrible design, sub par acting...just across the board suck.

lost highway - 8/10

not quite mulholland drive, but close. hell of an atmosphere.

  Mirezzi said:

  tv_party said:

the conversation - 10/10

 

Fixed.

srsly

Just saw Body of Lies, one of Ridley Scott's better ones, I thought, if only for what I imagine to be a fairly realistic take on one aspect of modern warfare (the remote coordination between people on different sides of the globe reminded me of what I do daily in my outsourcing job). Thought some of the dialogue was good, but the characterization was fairly one-dimensional. Liked the scene where Russell Crowe acts like the stereotypical "ugly American" in front of the Jordanian dude, that rang true to me. Wish the climax had been more complex and gripping - an ending where DiCaprio's character got murdered due to the machinations of the different sides would have been much more potent, probably - but I loved the way Crowe stuffs sushi in his mouth at the end - perfect.

7/10, better than slumdog millionaire, milk, benjamin button, or any of the other films that I could only get halfway through in the past year.

  lumpenprol said:

better than slumdog millionaire, milk, benjamin button, or any of the other films that I could only get halfway through in the past year.

word, i turned slumdog millionaire off after about 15 min.

yeah, same...halway through was an exaggeration. I made it to the point where the kids mom (?) gets killed and they are sleeping in some van in the rain. My attention span for visual media is really short these days, there are a lot of other things I'd rather be doing...guess I'm growing up :p

  lumpenprol said:

yeah, same...halway through was an exaggeration. I made it to the point where the kids mom (?) gets killed and they are sleeping in some van in the rain. My attention span for visual media is really short these days, there are a lot of other things I'd rather be doing...guess I'm growing up :p

i used to rent movies from netflix and watch them on fast-forward

yeah that was alright. they definitely nailed certain aspects of our foreign policy.

but then there wasn't really anything engaging about the characters or plot and i felt they completely pussied out at the end of the film. i walked out wondering why and how it got made, and why it ended up so muddled with so much talent behind it. but it was better than syriana or the kingdom (lol), as far as that kind of movie goes.

i still don't think americans really care about a film that talks to them about the various issues of trying to engage with the nebulous area known as "the middle east". although these films are fairly one dimensional and preachy and maybe that's the problem. i would really love to see something that doesn't associate "muslim" with "extremist" or present the middle east as this dark homogeneous cesspool where everyone is insane and carries a rocket launcher. the cultural texture and political issues are so complex that i don't think a hollywood action film will ever be able to cover it.

Ip Man - 7/10

Elegant kung fu movie with minimal wire work cos it's based on a true story. Cheezy melodramatic story with fun jingoistic hokum and bad guys that are just plain bad - none of this faggot shades of grey shit. Sammo Hung directs the action so you know it's quality.

Drunken Master 8.5/10

Fist of legend - 7.5/10

Gomorra - 8/10

Primer - 8/10

  analogue wings said:

Ip Man - 7/10

 

Elegant kung fu movie with minimal wire work cos it's based on a true story. Cheezy melodramatic story with fun jingoistic hokum and bad guys that are just plain bad - none of this faggot shades of grey shit. Sammo Hung directs the action so you know it's quality.

Sammo Hung is the shit. You should check out 'Close Encounters of the Spooky Kind', it's one of my favorites of his.

  zaphod said:

i felt they completely pussied out at the end of the film.

yeah, when axl rose came up over the flashy credits I was wondering if I was watching a Tony Scott film like "The Last Boy Scout" instead... Seems Ridley Scott has little comprehension of what he's directing these days - he's on "commercial shooting" autopilot...

  zaphod said:

i would really love to see something that doesn't associate "muslim" with "extremist" or present the middle east as this dark homogeneous cesspool where everyone is insane and carries a rocket launcher. the cultural texture and political issues are so complex that i don't think a hollywood action film will ever be able to cover it.

lol. I thought Three Kings did a pretty good job for an actioner, at least in terms of confounding expectations...though there certainly wasn't any cultural depth to it. I really wish Body of Lies had been just a tad smarter and less Hollywoody. But it was good as far as it went.

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i will mark my films in penises...

klass - russian bully/columbine massacre type fun - 4 penises

let the right one in - swedish kiddy vampire yawnorama - 1 cold shrivelled penis

in bruge - bumbling gangster black comedy romp, surprisingly entertaining - 3 erect penises

whole herzog box set - often beautiful, rewarding but hard work - 4 erect penises

harsh times - on tv last night, christian bale in petty criminal underworld - 2 and a half erect penises

one night in mongkok - triad/hit man type fun - 3 penises

control 7.7/11

lost in la mancha 7.5/11

the weather man 8/11

stalker 10.7/11

  chaosmachine said:

just watched this:

 

 

better than I expected.

American Psycho? Yeah, it's actually quite hilarious. "A laugh riot" to use Bateman's own words...

Friday the 13th Part I - 7/10

Friday the 13th Part II - 6/10

Halloween Part I - 8/10

Halloween Part II - 7/10

Nightmare on Elm Street - 6/10

Inside - 6/10

Fanboys - 5/10

  kakapo said:

Pretty Woman - 8 out of 10

Pretty Woman - 7 out of 10

Pretty Woman - 6 out of 10

Pretty Woman - 5 out of 10

 

After spending Sunday watching Pretty Woman 4 times in a row I decided to take a break as it wasn't holding my interest, as the law of diminishing returns seemed to kick in. Well after a most enjoyable respite conisisting of 30 minutes of rubbing my flacid half impotent cock and watching the most despicable and misogynistic facefuck porn, while simultaneously consuming a supermarket bought family size 'tira mi su' in its entirety, I was ready to go again. My God, if you only knew what I would do to the Gere stick if ever given the chance.

 

Good day, gentlemen.

my boss (middle-aged man) at my first job said this was his favorite movie of all time

i really wish i would've had a mouthful of orange juice when he told me so i could've done a proper spit-take

just amazing, really...

Dragnet (1987) - 10/10

Heat - 8/10

Mac and Me - 2/7

  zaphod said:

a film that talks to them about the various issues of trying to engage with the nebulous area known as "the middle east". although these films are fairly one dimensional and preachy and maybe that's the problem. i would really love to see something that doesn't associate "muslim" with "extremist" or present the middle east as this dark homogeneous cesspool where everyone is insane and carries a rocket launcher.

My girlfriend often puts on Rick Steve's Europe. If you haven't seen it, it is basically a nerdy white american visiting various european destinations. Anyway, there was one where he strayed from the path a bit and went to Iran. This episode was fascinating because we got to see Iran as it really is (apparently full of people that like Americans and are eager to engage in a dialogue with them). He should lots of nice vacationing spots and shopping centers and cities, along with some of the smaller towns where things aren't so modern. It was nice to see it depicted as something other than a giant nuclear arms facility run by madmen and drug dealers.

Anyway, my recent viewings:

Knowing - 5/10. The story could have been interesting, but the movie did nothing with it and therefore fell flat.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 5/10. Meandering comedy with a few good moments and a few funny lines.

Hausu - 7.5/10. Hilariously absurd and surreal Japanese movie from the 70s.

Shock Waves - 9/14