A few films recently watched.

oh yes, kes.. music is lovely too

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the black windmill 6.5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQqhri2YXmg

"La Ceremonie" by Claude Chabrol. 8/10. It has Isabelle Huppert, the most attractive unattractive woman in the history of film.

Kes is a nice movie.

Come & See - 10/10

One of my favorite movies of all time. Highly recommend it to anyone with a taste for war movies and surreal cinema. Amazing!

Martyrs 9.5/10 gruelling

kes is a nice movie

Foxes - 6/10. Some decent performances.

  On 2/11/2011 at 9:55 AM, flurobox said:

Come & See - 10/10

 

One of my favorite movies of all time. Highly recommend it to anyone with a taste for war movies and surreal cinema. Amazing!

I've told these idiots a thousand times to see it and they ignore me.

I watched it.

  On 2/11/2011 at 9:55 AM, flurobox said:

Come & See - 10/10

Amazing!

Yeah Kes is a nice movie, but not toooo nice, it has got a sadness to it. That's why I couldn't put a number to it, that would seem to surgical.

What hope for the poor lad? I hope his humour and soul never left him down the pit, though it proberbly did.

Yeah I know it's only a film lol.

  On 2/11/2011 at 2:58 PM, AJW said:

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

this gave me the same creep-out as Trash humpers

raiders of the lost ark

8/10

easily the best indiana jones movie. much more violent than i remembered though, strange that my parents let me watch it when i was like 6-7 years old.

  On 2/11/2011 at 3:47 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 2/11/2011 at 9:55 AM, flurobox said:

Come & See - 10/10

 

One of my favorite movies of all time. Highly recommend it to anyone with a taste for war movies and surreal cinema. Amazing!

I've told these idiots a thousand times to see it and they ignore me.

im gonna watch it today.

It's great.

  On 2/11/2011 at 9:54 PM, data said:

raiders of the lost ark

 

8/10

 

easily the best indiana jones movie. much more violent than i remembered though, strange that my parents let me watch it when i was like 6-7 years old.

Raiders of the Lost Ark is easily Speilberg's best film besides Jaws. The truck chase scene is seriously one of the best action scenes in cinematic history.

in case anybody forgot this ridiculously good scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzKf9FCNmZo&feature=related

Mothman Prophecies - 9/10 - That movie still creeps me out. Richard Gere acts like someone who has a gerbil up their arse.

love story - 9/10 - great doc about a fascinating group. arthur lee was brilliant. one of the best bands of the 60s.

  On 2/11/2011 at 10:40 PM, essines said:

  On 2/11/2011 at 3:47 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 2/11/2011 at 9:55 AM, flurobox said:

Come & See - 10/10

 

One of my favorite movies of all time. Highly recommend it to anyone with a taste for war movies and surreal cinema. Amazing!

I've told these idiots a thousand times to see it and they ignore me.

im gonna watch it today.

  On 2/11/2011 at 11:11 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 2/11/2011 at 9:54 PM, data said:

raiders of the lost ark

 

8/10

 

easily the best indiana jones movie. much more violent than i remembered though, strange that my parents let me watch it when i was like 6-7 years old.

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark is easily Speilberg's best film besides Jaws. The truck chase scene is seriously one of the best action scenes in cinematic history.

 

in case anybody forgot this ridiculously good scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzKf9FCNmZo&feature=related

HELLS YES

that and the Last Crusade, simply because Connery and the rest of the gang make the adventure so damn enjoyable.

i try telling my more intellectually snobby film friends about how awesome Ark and Crusade are and they laugh me off.

also, finally finished the Wire...dunno if i posted earlier, but easily the best tv series ever.

ill give it a 9.5/10...just because some of the subplots towards the end were "meh" (the newspaper actors were for the most part godawful, save for the augustus guy), and while the actor playing Carcetti did a fantastic job, the mayoral thing in the 5th season was losing a lot of steam.

rewatched season one of deadwood. easily the best television show of all time. beats the wire, beats the sopranos. the only element that seems out of place is timothy olyphant's stilted acting, but i can live with it. also been rewatching the wire, which simply doesn't hold up. the dialogue is, for the most part, cheese, and the acting ranges from great to absolute shit. it's a good show, but it's overrated.

i respectfully think you're full of shit. The wire is greater that the sum of its parts, that's what made it so great. You don't see the show bending to popular opinion and flailing about as a result. What you said about Deadwood is very telling - you just liked the first season. I felt the same way, I thought the first season was good, but couldn't even make it through the start of the second season, where the sheriff dude and the saloon owner wrestle off of the balcony. Way too over the top and cartoonish.

In the first season of Deadwood, there was only one sequence I thought was exceptionally good, the part where the young grifter kids get killed. That was a brilliant episode, easily some of the best TV I've ever watched. But I think it's quite strange to compare one season to the Wire in its brilliant entirety.

I've not watched Deadwood, but I saw his name mentioned and just wanted to chime in with the following:

I don't know how Timothy Olyphant keeps getting work.

I tried re-watching season one of Deadwood and I felt overwhelmed with its cheese. All the macho hyperbole kinda wore me out...as did the impression, at any given moment, that David Milch was sitting on my shoulder whispering the lines of every single character into my ear. "Goddamn, I'm smart. Don't you think so? Like Shakespeare, this."

The Wire is a televisual equivalent of a novel. It's not 100% on 100% of the time, but when you get to the end of Season Four, it's like...whoa, this has been such a great read. The wheels fall off a bit in Season Five, however.

Deadwood's greatness lies in the concept and execution of seasons one and three. The second season was disappointing nonsense. Obviously Milch loved it, because he made an entire show around such nonsense: John From Cincinnati.