A few films recently watched.

Heckler - 5/10 Jaimie Kennedy's study on hecklers and heckling. Very few laughs, although I gained a bit of respect for Carrot top.

  On 11/18/2010 at 7:41 PM, tec said:

Monsters is out soon and is supposed to be quite special.

  On 11/18/2010 at 7:46 PM, data said:

seen it, not very special. :(

Recently I've tended to gauge films based on one simple question, "Do I care if character X dies?" If yes, then it's a decent or above film in my scale, if no, well, you can figure it out.

I watched Four Lions the other day and loved it.

My Mother made me watch Avatar this morning and I thought it was pretty meh. I don't understand the hype at all, it's a CGI version of Pocahontas with a dash of Dances With Wolves. Hell, in nearly identical fashion to Dances With Wolves, Avatar's expository is presented via a diary for around half of the film. I truly didn't care about any one of those characters who died, while, alternatively, I cared about the fake terrorists in Four Lions...

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Anyway, I just read up on Exit Through the Gift Shop, and I'm currently downloading it; should provide for some nice viewing fare for this evening.

Has anyone here seen Symbol?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaeny8_symbol-movie-trailer_shortfilms

I've seen it on the film festival and it was very entertaining! 8/10

that looks great.

enter the void - banal and shallow, pretty colours though. 3/10

i watched a documentary on david lynch that might be called...nah i don't remember. its on netflix play instant and is pretty interesting. getting to see his studio. an insite into his creative process. 7/10 ish. made me want to watch inland empire as i haven't seen it since it was in the cinema. i do not remember it being quite so scary. dang. i didnt finish it as its 3 hours long but enjoyed it again so far. love the scene where she goes through the door and sees herself. and the scene where she starts laughing and says "this is like dialogue from our film" then realizes she is filming right now. creepy as fuck. 8/10. the DV quality looked okish in the theatre but on play instant its looks like shit, pixelly and fucked up. i should probably buy the Blueray.

anyone see harry potter midnight show?

i saw the new harry potter film yesterday. it's not great. i'm curious to see part 2 in july but so far hp7 is the weakest film of the series.

doh

  On 11/17/2010 at 6:46 AM, usagi said:

  On 11/12/2010 at 12:14 AM, Worlds Most Johnsson said:

Exit Through The Gift Shop 9/10

 

This was the funniest film I've seen all year. Every time I recall

 

 

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Banksy talking about how he always tried to encourage everyone's latent artistic ability but he doesn't do that so much anymore after meeting crazy Frenchman

 

 

 

, I have a good chuckle

Just watched it myself due to this pair of post. Great film.

It makes me want to cut some stencils of superfluous icons and spray them all over my culture vacuum of a suburban town.

watched four lions finally, bloody loved it. super depressing though, i couldn't help but cry when

got brazil in HD and event horizon in hd as well.

  On 11/19/2010 at 4:22 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

anyone see harry potter midnight show?

Just got back from it feel the opposite of Tregaskin....

but I am definitely looking forward to part 2!

They should have done the whole franchise like this...

in two parts, so much more of the story can be depicted...

Just watched 'the girl with the dragon tattoo'.

8/10 - Really good film

8/10

Unstoppable 8/10

very good, Tony Scott back in form but it starts off slow and doesn't really get good until the last 30 min or so

The Next 3 Days 10/10

everything in this movie is done right, the characters are interesting the story is compelling and it's one of the few movies I've seen that really made me feel for the plight of the main character.

  On 11/20/2010 at 10:46 PM, Fishtank said:

Unstoppable 8/10

very good, Tony Scott back in form but it starts off slow and doesn't really get good until the last 30 min or so

 

The Next 3 Days 10/10

everything in this movie is done right, the characters are interesting the story is compelling and it's one of the few movies I've seen that really made me feel for the plight of the main character.

LOL!

http://www.movies.com/movie-reviews/the-next-three-days-review/dave-white/m65146

http://www.movies.com/movie-reviews/the-next-three-days-review/jen-yamato/m65146

I love both of the reviewers at movie.com....

Grown-Ups - Astonishingly bad. I'm (honestly) surprised it was released in such horrible shape. Quite literally the worst Hollywood edit of a film I can recall from the last 20 years.

  On 11/19/2010 at 1:10 PM, eugene said:

enter the void - banal and shallow, pretty colours though. 3/10

The only real problem I had with it was the actor playing the main character Oscar. It had some really slow moments but it was pretty good in my opinion. How many other movies have used this crazy of cinematography recently? Not a rhetorical question I seriously want to know.

none i think, i was fascinated by the idea of this free roam/float camera since i've seen a video for beatles' "free as a bird":

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

but this film does nothing particularly interesting or poetic with this technique, it's 90% tech-demo and 10% cinema. i really liked the love hotel sequence though, seemed very self indulgent and very creative at the same time.

Triangle - 6/10

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World 8/10

China town 9/10

I just saw R - i don't think i've ever seen a movie as heavy, brutal and merciless. i can't even rate it, i start shivering just thinking about it. i'm not saying it's a great movie, but it definitely worked for me. much more straightforward than Un Prophete.

anybody seen it?

no but you make me want to.

As for me, just saw Blood Simple, the first Cohen bros. Ok, 6.5/10, never been a huge Cohen fan, besides Fargo and Barton Fink.

I watched the Planet of The Apes with my three-year-old sister earlier. Five minutes in and Charlton Heston is sitting in his spaceship. "Is that an ape?" "No, we-" "Where are the apes?" "You'll see them in a bit. Keep an eye out." Another five minutes and the crew are crossing the desert of the forbidden zone. "Grapes. Planet of the grapes." After that she was engrossed. I was a bit surprised, as I've been downloading a lot of kid's stuff for us to watch and talk about and really, only 50% of it holds her interest. Yeah, she's memorised the "Get your stinking paws off of me..." line.

  On 11/22/2010 at 2:39 AM, futuregirlfriend said:

I watched the Planet of The Apes with my three-year-old sister earlier. Five minutes in and Charlton Heston is sitting in his spaceship. "Is that an ape?" "No, we-" "Where are the apes?" "You'll see them in a bit. Keep an eye out." Another five minutes and the crew are crossing the desert of the forbidden zone. "Grapes. Planet of the grapes." After that she was engrossed. I was a bit surprised, as I've been downloading a lot of kid's stuff for us to watch and talk about and really, only 50% of it holds her interest. Yeah, she's memorised the "Get your stinking paws off of me..." line.

This is the most adorable thing ever.

Figured out you can just throw movies on a usb drive and play em on a ps3, so i've been downloading loads of hd stuff. Terry Gilliam films in HD are just psychotically lavish. Watched Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Brazil - his attention to detail is absolutely astounding.

read my lips - worth the watch for vince cassel, brilliantly unpredictable as usual. 12/19