A few films recently watched.

  On 3/12/2011 at 11:41 AM, disparaissant said:

  On 3/12/2011 at 6:21 AM, kokoon said:

Adaptation - 3/10: no comment

a score that low on a movie that isn't that bad... i'm curious and kind of want a comment :P

Yep, me too. Absolutely loved Adaptation.

Also, Elite Squad: 8.5

adaptation: 8/10 one of my favorite films

What's Adaption? No spoilers please

edit: +at

adaptation is one of like i dunno, three good nic cage films (all i can think of otherwise is leaving las vegas and raising arizona) written by charlie kaufman (being john malkovich, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind) and directed by spike jonze. pretty good stuff, imo, genuinely surprised to see someone dislike it as much as kokoon seems to have.

i'm watching the x-files currently. again. thanks to haldermaniac mentioning it off-hand. weirdly, i can draw a parallel to bsg - just watched "fire," which guest stars the guy who played baltar's lawyer on BSG. and then the episode right after that is "beyond the sea," the one with brad dourif, who calls scully "starbuck."

edit: and now mulder mentions that he wants boggs to summon up the spirit of jimi hendrix to play "all along the watchtower." utterly convinced the writers of BSG were watching season one of the x-files when they wrote the last season.

  On 3/12/2011 at 5:04 PM, disparaissant said:

adaptation is one of like i dunno, three good nic cage films (all i can think of otherwise is leaving las vegas and raising arizona)

What about Wild at Heart?

Adaptation is excellent.

BSG plays like Alias in space and its good reputation it's only held toghether by the few good ideas in the first bunch of episodes. you take that out and there's nothing left.

Machete is just dumb fun, very very dumb, but still fun. everything about it is meant as a joke.

Suspiria.

Been meaning to watch this for eons. It has dated badly but that seems to make it even more creepy, the soundtrack is enough to freak you out.

8/10

Double post

High Noon - 8.7/10

  On 3/12/2011 at 4:28 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

What's Adaption? No spoilers please

It's a movie written by Charlie Kaufman about Charlie Kaufman trying to write a script.

Yeah.

But it's fucking awesome!

  On 3/12/2011 at 10:25 PM, Squee said:

  On 3/12/2011 at 4:28 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

What's Adaption? No spoilers please

 

It's a movie written by Charlie Kaufman about Charlie Kaufman trying to write a script.

 

Yeah.

 

But it's fucking awesome!

Yeah, it's essentially the only great Kaufman film. The rest are either bad or overrated.

lol yeah sure...

  On 3/12/2011 at 10:35 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 3/12/2011 at 10:25 PM, Squee said:

  On 3/12/2011 at 4:28 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

What's Adaption? No spoilers please

 

It's a movie written by Charlie Kaufman about Charlie Kaufman trying to write a script.

 

Yeah.

 

But it's fucking awesome!

Yeah, it's essentially the only great Kaufman film. The rest are either bad or overrated.

I dunno, dude. Synechdoche: New York was pretty amazing.

  On 3/12/2011 at 5:04 PM, disparaissant said:

"beyond the sea," the one with brad dourif, who calls scully "starbuck."

that episode especially the scene where Scully wakes up to find the ghost of her father sitting in the chair saying something (but no sound is coming out) was TERRIFYING to my 11 year old mind, it still creeps me a lot when i watch it

  On 3/12/2011 at 10:56 PM, Capsaicin said:

I dunno, dude. Synechdoche: New York was pretty amazing.

Pretty sure it wasn't.

  On 3/13/2011 at 12:49 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 3/12/2011 at 10:56 PM, Capsaicin said:

I dunno, dude. Synechdoche: New York was pretty amazing.

Pretty sure it wasn't.

lol

  On 3/13/2011 at 12:52 AM, Squee said:

  On 3/13/2011 at 12:49 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 3/12/2011 at 10:56 PM, Capsaicin said:

I dunno, dude. Synechdoche: New York was pretty amazing.

Pretty sure it wasn't.

 

lol

but why do I think it is amazing then The Overlook?

Enlighten me film overloord....

loved you in Fishbowl btw, you were the only good thing about it....

and for lovers of 2001, Blade Runner, Close Encounters: http://www.douglastrumbull.com/

  On 3/13/2011 at 1:26 AM, Atop said:

but why do I think it is amazing then The Overlook?

 

Enlighten me film overloord....

 

loved you in Fishbowl btw, you were the only good thing about it....

 

and for lovers of 2001, Blade Runner, Close Encounters: http://www.douglastrumbull.com/

I liked it, but "amazing" is just...over the atop. You also eat your own poop, which means we can't trust your views quite as much as we once did.

lol @ Fishbowl.

I've been wanting to DVR Close Encounters, but the d-bags only ever show it in standard def, 4:3.

Midnight Run - Fucking brilliant, Martin Brest when he was still useful. More importantly, one of the best buddy movies ever in terms of comic chemistry. Charles Grodin is a fucking legend. Anybody remember how he used to deadpan his interviews on talk shows? Like, he'd be a complete and total asshole to Letterman and it wasn't clear whether or not it was an act?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WItFUVmAuE

  On 3/13/2011 at 1:34 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 3/13/2011 at 1:26 AM, Atop said:

but why do I think it is amazing then The Overlook?

 

Enlighten me film overloord....

 

loved you in Fishbowl btw, you were the only good thing about it....

 

and for lovers of 2001, Blade Runner, Close Encounters: http://www.douglastrumbull.com/

I liked it, but "amazing" is just...over the atop. You also eat your own poop, which means we can't trust your views quite as much as we once did.

 

lol @ Fishbowl.

 

I've been wanting to DVR Close Encounters, but the d-bags only ever show it in standard def, 4:3.

'Super 8' looks like the new Trumbull/Spielberg combo...excited about this one! Might be a bit too derivative your tastes?

and eating my own poop?

I try not to, oh lord how I try....

lol @ over the atop

lol

I can't think of a better man to fit the name Charles Grodin than Charles Grodin.

  On 3/13/2011 at 2:49 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

lol

 

 

I can't think of a better man to fit the name Charles Grodin than Charles Grodin.

lol too true...

Poetry (2010) - 4/5

Copie conforme (2010) - 5/5

Zizek! (2005) - 4/5

shaun of the dead for the 3rd time.

awesome / 10

forgetting sarah marshall. pretty typical love story

alright/10

Michelle Rodriguez didn't die/10