A few films recently watched.

Frozen - 7.5/10 - this might seem a low rating for a film I enjoyed tremendously but in my rating spectrum it fits. Great plot idea. More suspense than I have seen in any recent film. Truly a horrific situation and well executed. Don't think I will ever ski now, never have and this being the Jaws of skiing, I don't think I ever will now....

  On 9/10/2010 at 12:58 PM, Atop said:

Frozen - 7.5/10 - this might seem a low rating for a film I enjoyed tremendously but in my rating spectrum it fits. Great plot idea. More suspense than I have seen in any recent film. Truly a horrific situation and well executed. Don't think I will ever ski now, never have and this being the Jaws of skiing, I don't think I ever will now....

not the type of movie i'd usually enjoy, but this one was pretty good. the scene with the

  On 9/10/2010 at 3:54 AM, karmakramer said:

Well said but still the feet?

True. I still don't know what to make of that. Can't tell if it was actually a deliberately destructive act, or just her violent way to keep the child close to herself/nature (as another scene showed him running off on his own a lot).

  On 9/10/2010 at 2:25 AM, Panthroid said:

Antichrist

Misread -and thus underrated- by many. This movie fits perfectly in the Lars Von Trier anthology. Once again we have a female idealist who sacrifices everything (her sanity and physical health) for a greater cause (to fully undergo the grief she feels she deserves), only to be brutally abused in her vulnerability (in this case by the cold hard reason of the know-it-all husband). He tries to degrade the complexity of her mourning to mere phases (the fear-phase, anger-phase, etc). A bit further into the movie, when the much-discussed torture scenes kick off, I could imagine her thinking "Well, what would you call *this* phase, motherfucker?".

Apart from all of the character/psychology/ethics stuff, this is a damn fine moodpiece. Amazing visuals and a very nice creepy-drone-laden soundtrack.

It wasn't bad nor good, in terms of Von Trier filmography. I read it the same way as you did (can there be another way of reading it ?), the meaning was pretty obvious but still I found it to be a little over the top, flirting with ridicule sometimes. And it was quite predictable. Some great ideas as usual with Lars though, aesthetically beautiful. However, the psychological depth of the main character in Breaking the Waves or Dogville was way more refined, thus more successful, point which I believe to be crucial to Von Trier's movies.

  On 9/10/2010 at 9:36 AM, Gocab said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 5:01 AM, goffer said:

Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema – 5/10

This was very bad… every bit of it. Fuck.

no offense, but this reads more like 1/10.

I'm sorry my numbering system offends you... it works on a scale from the worst movie I have seen (1/10) to the best movie (10/10). This was not the worst movie I'd ever seen thus I couldn't rate it accordingly.

5/10 = 50% which is a failure by academic standards. It had some interesting concepts,warranting the 5 points, but above all it was a waste of time. 1/10 is a bourgeois concept anyhow.

the disappearance of alice creed 6/10

not huge expectations for this one and it was good but not great. some of alice's dialogue was really bad ("take me back to my family","daddy" etc i think it was the dialogue rather than the actress). the cast was all good. it was well shot.

  On 9/10/2010 at 7:12 PM, goffer said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 9:36 AM, Gocab said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 5:01 AM, goffer said:

Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema – 5/10

This was very bad… every bit of it. Fuck.

no offense, but this reads more like 1/10.

I'm sorry my numbering system offends you... it works on a scale from the worst movie I have seen (1/10) to the best movie (10/10). This was not the worst movie I'd ever seen thus I couldn't rate it accordingly.

5/10 = 50% which is a failure by academic standards. It had some interesting concepts,warranting the 5 points, but above all it was a waste of time. 1/10 is a bourgeois concept anyhow.

i find 5/10 an odd rating for a film you hated too (although from your follow-up explaination you didnt hate it ). also i believe it possible to give a 0/10

  On 9/10/2010 at 7:12 PM, goffer said:

a failure by academic standards.

Which academic standards are you talking about ?

  On 9/8/2010 at 12:52 AM, remy marathe said:

the american - i liked this minimalist reduction of the spy genre, but the audience i saw it with seemed totally baffled by it. some really good cinematography.

really want to see this; you should check out corbijn's only other feature film "control" if you liked the photography.

  On 9/10/2010 at 8:03 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 7:12 PM, goffer said:

a failure by academic standards.

 

Which academic standards are you talking about ?

if you get 50% on a test, you still get a big fat F.

i've been on a huge bergman kick lately. wild strawberries, fanny and alexander, and the seventh seal all in the last few days. i fucking love bergman.

  On 9/10/2010 at 9:24 PM, disparaissant said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 8:03 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 7:12 PM, goffer said:

a failure by academic standards.

 

Which academic standards are you talking about ?

if you get 50% on a test, you still get a big fat F.

 

i've been on a huge bergman kick lately. wild strawberries, fanny and alexander, and the seventh seal all in the last few days. i fucking love bergman.

Did you watch the 312 minute cut? It's amazing.

  On 9/10/2010 at 7:45 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 7:12 PM, goffer said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 9:36 AM, Gocab said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 5:01 AM, goffer said:

Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema – 5/10

This was very bad… every bit of it. Fuck.

no offense, but this reads more like 1/10.

I'm sorry my numbering system offends you... it works on a scale from the worst movie I have seen (1/10) to the best movie (10/10). This was not the worst movie I'd ever seen thus I couldn't rate it accordingly.

5/10 = 50% which is a failure by academic standards. It had some interesting concepts,warranting the 5 points, but above all it was a waste of time. 1/10 is a bourgeois concept anyhow.

 

i find 5/10 an odd rating for a film you hated too (although from your follow-up explaination you didnt hate it ). also i believe it possible to give a 0/10

I did hate the film, but not as much as say High School Musical which I would score a 2/10. There are different levels of hate, just as there are different levels of love and disgust.

Into Eternity 8/10

Catched it on the TV tonight. An oddly haunting documentary about the project to build an underground storage space for nuclear waste here in Finland that would need to be safe and unaccessible for at least 100000 years. It's written in the form of a message to the future humans who might have discovered the storage with the experts involved giving their thoughts on the subject. Beautiful cinematography.

The whole idea that our civilization will leave behind hundreds of tons of extremely dangerous waste that will be radioactive for the same amount of time it took us to leave the savannas of Africa and harness nuclear energy is mindboggling. What is the best way to keep it away from future generations? Dump the waste and simply hide it and forget about it and keep telling future generations that it's a bad place and should not be explored. Or build huge monoliths with an assortment of languages and pictograms explaining the site. Will humans or whatever might still be here in 100000 years understand it and keep away or think of it as some sort of treasure and get exposed to deadly radiation?

  On 9/10/2010 at 10:51 PM, azatoth said:

Into Eternity 8/10

 

Catched it on the TV tonight. An oddly haunting documentary about the project to build an underground storage space for nuclear waste here in Finland that would need to be safe and unaccessible for at least 100000 years. It's written in the form of a message to the future humans who might have discovered the storage with the experts involved giving their thoughts on the subject. Beautiful cinematography.

The whole idea that our civilization will leave behind hundreds of tons of extremely dangerous waste that will be radioactive for the same amount of time it took us to leave the savannas of Africa and harness nuclear energy is mindboggling. What is the best way to keep it away from future generations? Dump the waste and simply hide it and forget about it and keep telling future generations that it's a bad place and should not be explored. Or build huge monoliths with an assortment of languages and pictograms explaining the site. Will humans or whatever might still be here in 100000 years understand it and keep away or think of it as some sort of treasure and get exposed to deadly radiation?

wasn't Finland also building a huge bunker to store specimens of all plants and other biological material, to be safe for a long time? not sure if it was in your country, but it was definitely in northern europe. you must have heard about it already..

so this is that joaquin phoenix doc. was contemplating on making a thread but i guess ill just post it here. what do you guys make of this? i assumed it was a joke thing, but man this seems really depressing. at the very least, itll be interesting to see if casey affleck is a competent filmmaker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2spHiYOORc

It's the Svalbard global seed vault.

  On 9/10/2010 at 11:42 PM, Z_B_Z said:

so this is that joaquin phoenix doc. was contemplating on making a thread but i guess ill just post it here. what do you guys make of this? i assumed it was a joke thing, but man this seems really depressing. at the very least, itll be interesting to see if casey affleck is a competent filmmaker

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2spHiYOORc

i still don't understand the point behind making a documentary about this guy.

i don't think it is the right time yet. but that's just my opinion.

  On 9/10/2010 at 11:44 PM, Gocab said:

It's the Svalbard global seed vault.

that's it! i remember watching about it on tv one day.

i really admire the way scandinavians think.

You sure this isn't a mockumentary? Looks nice.

  On 9/10/2010 at 11:45 PM, ruiagnelo said:

  On 9/10/2010 at 11:42 PM, Z_B_Z said:

so this is that joaquin phoenix doc. was contemplating on making a thread but i guess ill just post it here. what do you guys make of this? i assumed it was a joke thing, but man this seems really depressing. at the very least, itll be interesting to see if casey affleck is a competent filmmaker

 

 

 

i still don't understand the point behind making a documentary about this guy.

i don't think it is the right time yet. but that's just my opinion.

yeah, im not sure why i should be interested.. perhaps the film will transcend its burn out subject..

  On 9/10/2010 at 11:48 PM, Gocab said:

You sure this isn't a mockumentary? Looks nice.

not really.

that's what scares me.

  On 9/10/2010 at 11:48 PM, Gocab said:

You sure this isn't a mockumentary? Looks nice.

i just read a review in entertainment weekly and it sounds like a genuine meltdown. perhaps questionable ethics on casey afflecks part. we'll have to see

the fact that movie/music snob z_b_z gives a shit indicates this movie is doing something right. if he gives a shit then i can imagine lesser mortals wrestling to get into the cinemas

never mind. not gonna feed into it.

have dick. will travel