A few films recently watched.

  On 12/21/2010 at 7:39 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 12/20/2010 at 10:44 PM, Squee said:

Black Swan

6/10

 

Great acting but seriously...? What a piss poor story.

 

i disagree. i liked the story.

 

 

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she pushed herself so hard for perfection. she had one perfect performance in her.

 

 

 

 

it surprised me how creepy it was. i expected a little lynchian creepiness (similar to how inland empire makes me feel when she sees herself from the filmset) but it was genuinely creepy.

 

saw it opening night so was a little caught up in the hype. want to see it again and see if i like it as much the 2nd time.

Yeah, I know... but come on... too many shenanigans for such a story. I had hoped for a lot more.

But yeah, you're right. The atmosphere was great.

I really liked it. the movie is not without flaw but i felt it sucked me right in. as i said in the Black swan thread natalie portman's performance is great, the movie is worth seeing just because of her acting. also, it's the kind of movie mirezzi would hate heheh.

children of men

i watched this when it first came out and wasn't into the style and i wasn't overly moved by the story either, i think i was much more of a cunt back then. having seen a few peeps discuss it on here earlier about that new sci fi show cuaron is doing i decided now was the time to revisit it in a new state of mind.

very few films hit hard like it did, and id wager a bet that the future painted wont be far off our own sometime down the line, the camera work blew my fucking head off. great great film. i really DO NOT like clive owen but i think he was cast perfectly for this movie and it totally worked.

  On 12/21/2010 at 6:23 AM, remy marathe said:

  On 12/19/2010 at 4:21 AM, data said:

this is gonna be the best movie of 2011.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNFME2Kj8PA&hd=1

 

every cliché in the book!

 

ITS THE 80'S! REMEMBER THE 80'S? NO? I'VE MADE A FILM ABOUT THE 80'S! THE DECADE THAT'S SHORT HAND FOR NOSTALGIA AND GOOD TIMES WHEN A WRITER DOESN'T HAVE ANY REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE TO USE. MY MOVIE IS A COMING OF AGE TALE ABOUT A YOUNG MAN STUCK BETWEEN THE ADOLESCENT AND ADULT WORLDS! IT STARTS OUT TONGUE IN CHEEK BUT EVENTUALLY THINGS GET SERIOUS AND YOUNG MAN MUST DECIDE TO PURSUE HIS DREAMS AS PRESENTED IN THE FORM OF A CAREFREE YOUNG WOMAN. HIS FAT DRUG ADDLED FRIEND WILL GET SERIOUS NEAR THE END AND OFFER SOME WORLDLY ADVICE WITH NO CONTEXT IN THE MOVIE! EVENTUALLY YOUNG MAN WILL GO TO LAW SCHOOL AND BECOME A BORING FUCK WHO WRITES TERRIBLE CLICHED DOGSHIT SPEC SCRIPTS FOR STUDIOS TO PRODUCE AND MARKET TOWARD BRAIN DEAD TWEENS WHO WERE STILL A TENSE DISCUSSION OUTSIDE OF AN ABORTION CLINIC WHEN KURT COBAIN TOOK A SHOTGUN BLAST TO THE FACE! YAY! TRON! SYNTH POP! STUFF NO ONE REALLY LIKES! THE 80'S!

Okay grammar and cinematography.

7.3/10

Yojimbo - 9/10

beautiful

I'm going to watch the sequel tonight, too

Imaginarium of Dr Parnussurus - 9/10

Exit Through The Giftshop - No Thx / 10

somewhere

sofia coppolas worst film yet. im not saying i hated it, but what worked in marie antoinette (long shots where nothing happens etc) didn't really work

here at all, it's just about some guy being bored, and we get to watch him being bored. 5 minute shots of him watching tv, lying by the pool, driving, 10 minute

shots (or so it felt) of his daughter ice skating, playing guitar hero and cooking. i get it, he's bored, his life goes in circles, and that's all this movie is about,

i love the virgin suicides, lost in translation and marie antoinette, but this was just blah.

  On 12/22/2010 at 2:31 AM, fenton said:

Imaginarium of Dr Parnussurus - 9/10

Exit Through The Giftshop - No Thx / 10

I liked Dr ParnAssAss a lot but I actually though Exit Through The GiftChop turned out to be really interesting, surprisingly.

Transsiberian - 4/10

boring.

  On 12/22/2010 at 2:31 AM, fenton said:

Imaginarium of Dr Parnussurus - 9/10

Exit Through The Giftshop - No Thx / 10

The Imaginarium of Dr Confusionarium aka 'Faust' reinterpreted as a piece of shit, is a mess....Tom Waits and Christopher Plummer are legends and Lily Cole is a gorgeous alien like fairy creature, is real easy to look at, until she puts on that horrible dress and make up and is in that horrible scene with the glass breaking and falling everywhere, with the special effects looking like the shit was done on a Commodore 64, no offense to the Commodore...the back tracking in this film due to Ledger's death is either the reason for its clumsy, poorly written, messiness or Gilliam has lost his magic...The whole switching of actors bit never works when you know it was done to cover up for the death of the main actor....I love many films by Gilliam, but this and Tideland are two films I will never watch again...

and 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' is a film about an artist(BANKSY) creating a piece of art vicariously through an actual human(THIERRY) that mimics what the 'art world' thinks it wants and thinks is great art but isn't either of these things. BANKSY's creation vomits in the 'art world's' pretentious, vile stretched out, "I have a MONDRIAN in my closet", face. Pretty original if you ask me. People, right at this moment, are paying too much money for Mr Brainwash's fake art and not enough money for BANKSY's real art posing as Mr Brainwash's art. Brilliance!

juss sayin'

Yeah I can pretty well agree with everything Atop said

  On 12/21/2010 at 6:23 AM, remy marathe said:

ITS THE 80'S! REMEMBER THE 80'S? NO? I'VE MADE A FILM ABOUT THE 80'S! THE DECADE THAT'S SHORT HAND FOR NOSTALGIA AND GOOD TIMES WHEN A WRITER DOESN'T HAVE ANY REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE TO USE. MY MOVIE IS A COMING OF AGE TALE ABOUT A YOUNG MAN STUCK BETWEEN THE ADOLESCENT AND ADULT WORLDS! IT STARTS OUT TONGUE IN CHEEK BUT EVENTUALLY THINGS GET SERIOUS AND YOUNG MAN MUST DECIDE TO PURSUE HIS DREAMS AS PRESENTED IN THE FORM OF A CAREFREE YOUNG WOMAN. HIS FAT DRUG ADDLED FRIEND WILL GET SERIOUS NEAR THE END AND OFFER SOME WORLDLY ADVICE WITH NO CONTEXT IN THE MOVIE! EVENTUALLY YOUNG MAN WILL GO TO LAW SCHOOL AND BECOME A BORING FUCK WHO WRITES TERRIBLE CLICHED DOGSHIT SPEC SCRIPTS FOR STUDIOS TO PRODUCE AND MARKET TOWARD BRAIN DEAD TWEENS WHO WERE STILL A TENSE DISCUSSION OUTSIDE OF AN ABORTION CLINIC WHEN KURT COBAIN TOOK A SHOTGUN BLAST TO THE FACE! YAY! TRON! SYNTH POP! STUFF NO ONE REALLY LIKES! THE 80'S!

8.7/10 Excellent, will buy the extended cut box set with complimentary knick-knack, and possibly a witty t-shirt to wear at work.

Machete 6.5/10 - I guess it's alright in a grindhouse sort of way. Ridiculous and over the top. Somewhat entertaining, but that's it. Interesting cast.

Piranha 4/10 - Gore and titties, that's pretty much it. Pretty dumb movie all in all. The floating silicone implants after some bimbo gets eaten followed by a dismembered penis that gets eaten and subsequently spit out again gave me a laugh.

The Nature of Existence 7/10 - A down to earth story about a guy asking the big questions from all kinds of people from different faiths and cultures. Interesting characters and some downright nutty ones as well. I guess it shows the myriad of ways people are trying to cope with this confusing reality. More of a feel-good sort of documentary than any substantial, which I guess is too much to ask for considering the subject.

The Spirit Molecule 6/10 - Came of as a fluff piece more than a serious documentary about a most interesting chemical compound. Would have needed more hard science, but possible that there hasn't been too much of that yet. The experiences were interesting and the visuals were neat. Too little speculation on what role DMT might have on the human consciousness. And it's funny that Joe Rogan has become some sort of DMT apostle after his rant about it on some radio show some years ago.

Ikiru - 10/10

  On 12/22/2010 at 5:52 AM, Atop said:

Lily Cole is a gorgeous alien like fairy creature, is real easy to look at

  On 12/22/2010 at 5:52 AM, Atop said:

  On 12/22/2010 at 2:31 AM, fenton said:

Imaginarium of Dr Parnussurus - 9/10

Exit Through The Giftshop - No Thx / 10

The Imaginarium of Dr Confusionarium aka 'Faust' reinterpreted as a piece of shit, is a mess....Tom Waits and Christopher Plummer are legends and Lily Cole is a gorgeous alien like fairy creature, is real easy to look at, until she puts on that horrible dress and make up and is in that horrible scene with the glass breaking and falling everywhere, with the special effects looking like the shit was done on a Commodore 64, no offense to the Commodore...the back tracking in this film due to Ledger's death is either the reason for its clumsy, poorly written, messiness or Gilliam has lost his magic...The whole switching of actors bit never works when you know it was done to cover up for the death of the main actor....I love many films by Gilliam, but this and Tideland are two films I will never watch again...

 

and 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' is a film about an artist(BANKSY) creating a piece of art vicariously through an actual human(THIERRY) that mimics what the 'art world' thinks it wants and thinks is great art but isn't either of these things. BANKSY's creation vomits in the 'art world's' pretentious, vile stretched out, "I have a MONDRIAN in my closet", face. Pretty original if you ask me. People, right at this moment, are paying too much money for Mr Brainwash's fake art and not enough money for BANKSY's real art posing as Mr Brainwash's art. Brilliance!

 

juss sayin'

troof! i'd also swap fenton's scores.

Other's reviews aside. I enjoyed the mess of Dr Parnaussurus more than any other film I'd seen in the last month and had to try really hard to keep on watching the Banksy film.

That's why the former receives an integer and the latter a I can't be fucked.

anyone saw Tran Anh Hung's Norwegian Wood? music by Jonny Greenwood, based on a novel by Haruki Murakami, ... could be fantastic!

Wow, Cody. This is one of the first times you've railed on a movie I actually enjoyed. Imaginarium was no masterpiece, but after the first very dull 30 minutes or so, it was surprisingly good. Overall, I enjoyed it!

I like it when you're not such a love everything flower!

Total Recall - bias/10. A movie I'm unable to objectively rate as I've been watching it since I was 10 when it came out. I will say it's Schwarzenegger's most cerebral film by far, though admittedly that isn't saying much.

  On 12/22/2010 at 3:42 PM, patternoverlap said:

Total Recall - bias/10. A movie I'm unable to objectively rate as I've been watching it since I was 10 when it came out. I will say it's Schwarzenegger's most cerebral film by far, though admittedly that isn't saying much.

Total Recall is one of those movies that never fails to deliver one of the greatest first acts in sci-fi cinematic history, regardless of how many times you've seen it. Then, because we seem to forget each and every time we watch it, it becomes a really fucking boring action movie for the third act. Well, maybe I'm alone on that, but suffice to say, most Veerhoven movies start perfectly and finish horribly.

full metal jacket - 8/10

20th cantury boys trilogy - 6/10

step brothers - 11/10

the pianist - 9/10. can't believe i had never seen this one

paranormal activity - 6,5/10

zodiac - 39/10. best film i've seen for ages

tideland - 9/10. wicked film, very abstract

the imaginarium of dr parnassus - 2/10. what was gilliam thinking?

alice in wonderland (burton) - 7/10

shutter island - 10/10. fuck, i love dicaprio

  On 12/22/2010 at 3:50 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 12/22/2010 at 3:42 PM, patternoverlap said:

Total Recall - bias/10. A movie I'm unable to objectively rate as I've been watching it since I was 10 when it came out. I will say it's Schwarzenegger's most cerebral film by far, though admittedly that isn't saying much.

Total Recall is one of those movies that never fails to deliver one of the greatest first acts in sci-fi cinematic history, regardless of how many times you've seen it. Then, because we seem to forget each and every time we watch it, it becomes a really fucking boring action movie for the third act. Well, maybe I'm alone on that, but suffice to say, most Veerhoven movies start perfectly and finish horribly.

This seems to be a trapping of many action-oriented movies. At some point it just gets tiresome. I will say watching it now I have to wonder if Veerhoven intentionally makes the action so overt and aggressive to highlight the fact that in their course of trying to free people they are doing the very thing their enemy does: trample over people/use them as expendable assets in their quest. I tend to flip back and forth on this. Sometimes it seems intentional and sometimes it just seems like violence/ridiculousness for entertainment. Maybe it's both.

i thought the ending to recall was quite awesome. I know there are some who will vehemently disagree, but District 9 is the only modern scifi film that channelled that gritty hard R Verhoven vibe for me. I wish more scfi was hard as fuck.

  On 12/22/2010 at 3:33 PM, The Overlook said:

Wow, Cody. This is one of the first times you've railed on a movie I actually enjoyed. Imaginarium was no masterpiece, but after the first very dull 30 minutes or so, it was surprisingly good. Overall, I enjoyed it!

 

I like it when you're not such a love everything flower!

What can I say? You inspire the hatred in me.

I did like the themes and derivative ideas in Parnassus but it is a cheaply glued together piece of shit.

Surprised you liked it at all.