A few films recently watched.

Buried

8/10

fucking insane - recommend majorly!!!

  On 12/31/2010 at 4:38 AM, halisray said:

Buried

8/10

 

fucking insane - recommend majorly!!!

i saw it all comin

a serious man - one of a handful of coen movies that does absolutely nothing for me. looked great, well acted, but ultimately a total bore of a film, filled with unlikeable, one dimensional characters and a kind of fetishism that makes it a completely insular experience.

curious how you managed to like True Grit

maybe it was the extra southern, elbow to elbow, I SAY EVERYTHING THAT I SEE ON THE SCREEN AS WELL AS PREDICT WHAT I THINK IS HAPPENING NEXT, ACCURATELY, audience that i saw it with that ruined it for me. i didn't mind it being so light but at times i felt like i was watching a hallmark movie classic. and the performances went from great to why'd they use that take a bit too frequently. i'll give it another go in the quiet of my home because i like most coen bros, including a serious man

The Kids Are All Right - 7/10 - Could've been better, but I felt that the performances were lacking a bit.

Mary and Max - 9/10 - Anything claymation deserves at least an 8 automatically in my book. This one still had a lot more going for it...PSH, dialogue, humor, story, style, themes, all there.

The Anatomy of Hell - 7.5/10 - First Breillat movie I've seen. Won't be the last.

Black Swan - 8/10 - Fun movie to watch. Mila Kunis. Better than the Wrestler, not as good as the Fountain.

The Social Network - 9/10 - Important movie imo.

  On 12/31/2010 at 6:30 AM, Adjective said:

curious how you managed to like True Grit

maybe it was the extra southern, elbow to elbow, I SAY EVERYTHING THAT I SEE ON THE SCREEN AS WELL AS PREDICT WHAT I THINK IS HAPPENING NEXT, ACCURATELY, audience that i saw it with that ruined it for me. i didn't mind it being so light but at times i felt like i was watching a hallmark movie classic. and the performances went from great to why'd they use that take a bit too frequently. i'll give it another go in the quiet of my home because i like most coen bros, including a serious man

i dunno, i probably liked it because it couldn't have been more different from something like a serious man.

black swan - 8.5/10

I want to see it again today

  On 12/31/2010 at 6:30 AM, Adjective said:

 

maybe it was the extra southern, elbow to elbow, I SAY EVERYTHING THAT I SEE ON THE SCREEN AS WELL AS PREDICT WHAT I THINK IS HAPPENING NEXT, ACCURATELY, audience that i saw it with that ruined it for me.

oh man that's a lol. I know the type.

  On 12/31/2010 at 4:59 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 12/31/2010 at 4:38 AM, halisray said:

Buried

8/10

 

fucking insane - recommend majorly!!!

 

i saw it all comin

I was ratassed when I watched this - in fact I found it pretty boring.

  On 12/31/2010 at 6:30 AM, Adjective said:

curious how you managed to like True Grit

maybe it was the extra southern, elbow to elbow, I SAY EVERYTHING THAT I SEE ON THE SCREEN AS WELL AS PREDICT WHAT I THINK IS HAPPENING NEXT, ACCURATELY, audience that i saw it with that ruined it for me. i didn't mind it being so light but at times i felt like i was watching a hallmark movie classic. and the performances went from great to why'd they use that take a bit too frequently. i'll give it another go in the quiet of my home because i like most coen bros, including a serious man

holy shit we sat next to a guy who fucking cracked me up when he read the title when it came up. luckily his wife shut him up after that.

just read a book called 'the wave' - interested to now see laird hamilton on film - can anyone recommend the best doc/film on him? even better if its on netflix play instant.

riding giants or step into liquid

Tron 3/10

all style no substance

Lottery Ticket 5/10

a few good chuckles

  On 12/31/2010 at 11:44 PM, Fishtank said:

Lottery Ticket 5/10

a few good chuckles

The one with Little Bow Wow?

True Grit - 7/10 - I really enjoyed the dialogue, the girl was great, Damon did a good job, Jeff Bridges character was so grizzled it was cracking my stoned brain up quite a bit but.. there was so many distractions around me it was hard to stay invested in the pacing. It was a little slow but really good. No complaints but I don't think it would have hurt the film to have a few more exciting scenes or something to keep the pacing flowing a little brisker. But again I probably should have watched it by myself, I was too distracted, I somehow didn't realize it was Coen film & thought it was going to be more of a crowd-pleaser.

^^Saw it last night and agree with you for the most part. The ending was kind of 'wtf its over?' and not what I expected it to be. But the acting was done well and Damon did better as the movie progressed. And Barry Fucking Pepper!

the fighter - 7/10 - entertaining. tight editing, camerawork and direction - very well put together basically. christian bale as a crack addict, irish inbreeds quarreling, glamorizing dimwittedness, etc.

so how's "never let me go", really? worth err... acquiring?

true grit (1969) - 5/10

true grit (2010) - 7/10

arsenic and old lace 8/10

being there 8/10

the battle of algiers 10/10

dead man walking 0/10

bicycle thieves 8/10

crimes and misdemeanors 10/10

  On 1/2/2011 at 1:04 AM, mrx said:

dead man walking 0/10

lol please elaborate

  On 12/30/2010 at 8:04 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

true grit 8/10

 

at a couple points the dialogue from some characters (i think chaney and the guy with the bear suit) started to feel like they were just being read off a script but other than that great movie.

  On 12/31/2010 at 6:30 AM, Adjective said:

curious how you managed to like True Grit

maybe it was the extra southern, elbow to elbow, I SAY EVERYTHING THAT I SEE ON THE SCREEN AS WELL AS PREDICT WHAT I THINK IS HAPPENING NEXT, ACCURATELY, audience that i saw it with that ruined it for me. i didn't mind it being so light but at times i felt like i was watching a hallmark movie classic. and the performances went from great to why'd they use that take a bit too frequently. i'll give it another go in the quiet of my home because i like most coen bros, including a serious man

just saw this and i left the theater satisfied. nothing worthy of best film of the decade, but jeff bridges performance was fucking hilarious....the movie definitely centered on how great he was...definitely more of how I envisioned Rooster Cogburn to be as well...

the court scene was hilarious...i dunno..Jeff Bridges just impresses me the more and more I see of him.

  On 1/2/2011 at 12:54 AM, kokoon said:

so how's "never let me go", really? worth err... acquiring?

I think there is enough in this thread stating that it is indeed worth err... acquiring but.. yes it is very good.

The Fighter - 9/10 for me

  On 12/31/2010 at 11:46 PM, Squee said:

  On 12/31/2010 at 11:44 PM, Fishtank said:

Lottery Ticket 5/10

a few good chuckles

 

The one with Little Bow Wow?

yes, his performance is pretty bland but Ice Cube was pretty good as 'the mysterious old man living in the basement' and they only used the word nigger 4 times! It's mediocre at best, Slumdog Millionaire is a better rags-to-riches story.

scott pilgrim vs the world = 1/10

fucking hell rot gut for the mind.

Black Swan 6.5/10 - seemed like a mixture between the Wrestler's desperate pathetic character portrayal and the breakdown from the character in Pie mixed with the old lady from Requiem for a Dream, but dryer and more low key than all 3 of those.

True Grit 8/10 - better than i expected from the Trailer, overall i thought it was about on par with or maybe a little better than Burn After reading, not as good as a Serious Man. Idiot reviewers who say the movie has no humor or is too serious or dry are lying herd mentality reviewers