A few films recently watched.

  On 9/16/2010 at 4:05 PM, chris moss acid said:

  On 9/16/2010 at 11:41 AM, keltoi said:

  On 9/16/2010 at 3:55 AM, Awepittance said:

Logan's Run - 8/10 - I've seen bits and pieces of this movie before but i finally decided to watch the blueray in it's entirety.

I'm really surprised by how much i liked this movie. it's VERY 70s cliche looking. The whole thing feels kind of like a mixture of brave new world and an original series star trek episode. If you can't handle dated feeling scifi stay away from this as far as possible.

the score is excellent among Jerry Goldsmith's best, it might be one of the first ever movie scores to combine original fully orchestral material in between fully synthesized sections. There is some laughable but elaborate miniature work going on through out the film, i admire the effort put into it.

However some of the matte paintings later on in the movie are ridiculously good, completely overgrown ruins. It got me thinking of how much better Indian Jones 4 would have been if they had done similar looking matte paintings for the rain forrest scenes.

 

 

anyone have any 70s scifi movies to recommend? I've seen mostly all of them but i need all holes filled. i've seen all the planet of the apes movies, andromeda strain, black hole. I've also seen everything here - http://listverse.com/2009/01/16/15-great-science-fiction-movies-of-the-1970s/ except 'the man who fell to earth' and 'no blade of grass' Looking for some that i've probably over looked. I still haven't seen Soylent Green, is it any good? of course i already know the ending but it still might be enjoyable

 

logan's run is awesome.

 

have you seen PHASE IV?

 

 

WESTWORLD

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logan's run is awesome.

 

have you seen PHASE IV?

I have the MST3K version!

  On 9/16/2010 at 4:05 PM, chris moss acid said:

  On 9/16/2010 at 11:41 AM, keltoi said:

  On 9/16/2010 at 3:55 AM, Awepittance said:

Logan's Run - 8/10 - I've seen bits and pieces of this movie before but i finally decided to watch the blueray in it's entirety.

I'm really surprised by how much i liked this movie. it's VERY 70s cliche looking. The whole thing feels kind of like a mixture of brave new world and an original series star trek episode. If you can't handle dated feeling scifi stay away from this as far as possible.

the score is excellent among Jerry Goldsmith's best, it might be one of the first ever movie scores to combine original fully orchestral material in between fully synthesized sections. There is some laughable but elaborate miniature work going on through out the film, i admire the effort put into it.

However some of the matte paintings later on in the movie are ridiculously good, completely overgrown ruins. It got me thinking of how much better Indian Jones 4 would have been if they had done similar looking matte paintings for the rain forrest scenes.

 

 

anyone have any 70s scifi movies to recommend? I've seen mostly all of them but i need all holes filled. i've seen all the planet of the apes movies, andromeda strain, black hole. I've also seen everything here - http://listverse.com/2009/01/16/15-great-science-fiction-movies-of-the-1970s/ except 'the man who fell to earth' and 'no blade of grass' Looking for some that i've probably over looked. I still haven't seen Soylent Green, is it any good? of course i already know the ending but it still might be enjoyable

 

logan's run is awesome.

 

have you seen PHASE IV?

 

 

WESTWORLD

  On 9/16/2010 at 10:09 AM, mrffish said:

Cemetery Junction: UK drama from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

 

is this new? i see some torrents but i've never heard of it before.

and its not a comedy?

edit: lol at the imdb reviews. sounds baaaaaaaaaaad

started sons of anarchy season 2 last night. little too much jax arse so far

I barely managed to finish season 1 of SoA.... don't know if I can stomach another season.

i am about to get some Béla Tarr films. recommendations please..

in the dark - 10/10 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417226/

i doubt anyone will be left unmoved after this

Style Wars - 8/10 - late to this but so glad I have seen it....really really enjoyed this....and now I know the basics of graf work....other than the fantastic honesty permeating from this documentary is the fact that hip hop culture started over 30 years ago and hasn't changed much, just more ego and more money involved now.........I want to go write on things

  On 9/17/2010 at 1:17 AM, goffer said:

I barely managed to finish season episode 1 of SoA.... don't know if I can stomach another season one.

I think you have to be a meth-addled homosexual to enjoy that show...or mentally retarded.

  On 9/17/2010 at 5:16 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 9/17/2010 at 1:17 AM, goffer said:

I barely managed to finish season episode 1 of SoA.... don't know if I can stomach another season one.

I think you have to be a meth-addled homosexual to enjoy that show...or mentally retarded.

oh what no love for sam crow?

its a great show. reminds me of the godfather - organised crime, the struggle to go legit.

great characters. great world.

the theme song is pretty bad/funny but otherwise its well worth watching

  On 9/14/2010 at 5:20 AM, remy marathe said:

a clockwork orange - incredibly dated. one of kubrick's worst films. malcolm mcdowell is pretty amazing in it, but that's about it.

 

one flew over the cuckoo's nest - polar opposite of clockwork. still one of the best movies ever made.

i agree that it's incredibly dated, but i think Eyes wide shut is probably his worst film haha.

why is it dated? because it looks ridiculosly 1970s and it's supposed to be the 'future'. It's much more guilty of this than even movies like Logan's Run. It was strange too because Kubrick had done one of the best and most futuristic looking scifi movies previously, 2001. I like clockwork organge though but i chock up the odd non timeless quality of the movie to a stoned period perhaps in Kubricks life. After all it was the beginning of the 70s.

  On 9/17/2010 at 1:46 AM, eugene said:

in the dark - 10/10 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417226/

i doubt anyone will be left unmoved after this

Seems like a fantastic plot. Where can I acquire this movie?

that might be a problem, i know that his docs are not available on dvds and are only screened at festivals and such. i have a vhs rip of this i downloaded from a certain russian torrent tracker but no english subs, i was googling for them for about an hour without any luck :(

watch his "Tulpan" though, won't be hard to find.

  On 9/17/2010 at 8:39 PM, Awepittance said:

i think Eyes wide shut is probably his worst film haha.

haha funny or haha I don't know what I'm talking about? GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

  On 9/17/2010 at 10:17 PM, eugene said:

that might be a problem, i know that his docs are not available on dvds and are only screened at festivals and such. i have a vhs rip of this i downloaded from a certain russian torrent tracker but no english subs, i was googling for them for about an hour without any luck :(

 

watch his "Tulpan" though, won't be hard to find.

Tulpan was fucking remarkable...loved it.

Lebanon

7/10

Devil - 6/10

It was surprisingly......ok. There were a nice amount of flaws , but...eh. It would of worked a lot better as an episode of The Outer Limits .

I saw a review that said Devil was a comedy

Rosemary's Baby: Really good. It builds a nice tension through out. The end was lacking a bit. 7/10

Dont Look Now: Jesus this was a real freaker. I've been to Venice before so it was cool seeing all the buildings again, I think I even recognised a few streets. This one is more like through out the film and then one moment of pure terror. 8/10

  On 9/18/2010 at 4:38 PM, Fishtank said:

I saw a review that said Devil was a comedy

Yeah, there are some unintentional funny moments . I was hoping the whole film was going to be an unintentional comedy.

Sadly , it wasn't...imo.

Blood Into Wine 8/10

Documentary about Maynard James Keenan and his wine mentor Mike Glomski endeavour to start a vineyard and make wine in Arizona. An interesting look at both the trouble of starting a vineyard at an unusual place and Maynard as a person. He came off as a driven and passionate person and his interest in wine making came off as genuine and not some vanity project of a bored millionaire. He is still very much a noob in the wine business and acknowledges this. It's quite funny at times and Maynard definitely has a funny bone and is somewhat of a goof.

Austin Powers 8/10

Austin powers 2 ???/10 (Shitty sober, absolutely fantastic drunk)

  On 9/18/2010 at 8:52 PM, azatoth said:

Blood Into Wine 8/10

 

Documentary about Maynard James Keenan and his wine mentor Mike Glomski endeavour to start a vineyard and make wine in Arizona. An interesting look at both the trouble of starting a vineyard at an unusual place and Maynard as a person. He came off as a driven and passionate person and his interest in wine making came off as genuine and not some vanity project of a bored millionaire. He is still very much a noob in the wine business and acknowledges this. It's quite funny at times and Maynard definitely has a funny bone and is somewhat of a goof.

My thoughts exactly....

really enjoyed it....

the Tim & Eric stuff and Patton Oswalt scene were funny as hell!

The Town 8/10

great crime drama, Ben Affleck is a good director but he should probably stay behind the camera because he's the worst part of this movie (which is ironic)

he can't hold the accent to save his life

salt - total shit, even worse than anticipated. it reminded me of red alert fmv's although here the producers were forcing you to take them seriously.

bruno - 7/10 - the talk show segment is especially surreal, ron paul lol. mostly very funny overall, it just starts to wear out from the middle on.