A few films recently watched.

im tryin really hard to watch JFK..but Costner is just so, so, awful

  On 3/14/2011 at 2:17 AM, futuregirlfriend said:

  On 3/14/2011 at 2:04 AM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

straw dogs - home alone for 70's grown up retards /10

 

Wacko Jacko. Watch it again in a month or two. Grab The Osterman Weekend too. I just did a search and the only mention of that film in this thread seems to be by me in '09. Still haven't checked any more Peckinpah.

'pat garrett and billy the kid' is probably his best. great score by bob dylan, plus hes in it as well.

i like straw dogs. boundary pushing in its time.

fun pointless fact - i was born the day sam peckinpah died

anyways, was forced to sit through "love and other drugs" which was pretty terribly cheesy. i can't decide if i should rate it jake gyllenhal's ass/10 or anne hathaway's tits/10. choices, choices.

Splice: profoundly irritating, boring, wrong and wrong/10

Oh, and Into Eternity: 7.5/10

Puts things in perspective if a little repetitive.

batlle los angeles

1.5/10

exit through the gift shop

8/10

.. really ?? .. that terrible .. ar well.. i'll watch it anyway. It's computer graphics with shooting and aliens.

better than an art instillation with a meat packet dripping from someone's clanger.

i've been watching caillou all day today. the kid i watch is incredibly cranky and if i turn caillou off he throws a fit and whacks his head against the hardwood floor. he's uhhh... i think he's a little slow. but good lord caillou drives me bonkers.

nic cage was also great in bad lieutenant new orleans.

i also liked adaptation but not recently enough to argue for it. i know cage was great in it though.

  On 3/14/2011 at 8:00 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

nic cage was also great in bad lieutenant new orleans.

 

 

i also liked adaptation but not recently enough to argue for it. i know cage was great in it though.

Same here. I watched in 2002. If I watched it now, I might turn on it. Then I'd have no Kaufman films to defend and that might get me murdered here at good ole We Are the Kaufman Fellaters.

  On 3/14/2011 at 2:06 AM, The Overlook said:

  On 3/13/2011 at 7:34 PM, Awepittance said:

i couldn't even get past the 50% mark on Midnight Run. Didn't find it engaging in the least, but i'll say one good thing about it it was at least partially watchable unlike Scent of a Woman

Did you have your panties in an extra tight knot while watching or what? WTF.

lol yes i must be wearing panties to be unable to finish a buddy movie starring as lead actor........ Charles Grodin

haha you sure can dish it but you can't take it

ok, so I am about two hours into JFK extended cut...I really like this...the use of black and white/still photos to explain the very complex/complicated backstory is an excellent storytelling technique...especially for the JFK assassination...whenever I tried getting "the gist" of the conspiracies I could never wrap my head around the hundreds of theories involved/little nuances, etc.

  On 3/14/2011 at 8:10 PM, Awepittance said:

lol yes i must be wearing panties to be unable to finish a buddy movie starring as lead actor........ Charles Grodin

 

haha you sure can dish it but you can't take it

Well, it's not like I was breaking out hard-core critic mode on it.

Just watched Death At A (Chris Rock) Funeral: really awful. Funny for about ten minutes, nauseating for the remaining 90.

  On 3/14/2011 at 8:22 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 3/14/2011 at 8:10 PM, Awepittance said:

lol yes i must be wearing panties to be unable to finish a buddy movie starring as lead actor........ Charles Grodin

 

haha you sure can dish it but you can't take it

Well, it's not like I was breaking out hard-core critic mode on it.

 

Just watched Death At A (Chris Rock) Funeral: really awful. Funny for about ten minutes, nauseating for the remaining 90.

really? i tend to hate most of those weird comedy movies, but i thought that one was hilarious....Danny Glover as a cranky old man is gold.

  On 3/14/2011 at 8:30 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

really? i tend to hate most of those weird comedy movies, but i thought that one was hilarious....Danny Glover as a cranky old man is gold.

There were like three funny gags. I dunno, I just wonder WTF ever happened to Neil Labute...

holy shit, yeah really what did happen to him he even got Nic Cage to go out and embarrassingly proclaim that 'wicker man was a joke on purpose' really? really? i guess just another one that got sucked into the hollywood machine

  On 3/14/2011 at 8:17 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

ok, so I am about two hours into JFK extended cut...I really like this...the use of black and white/still photos to explain the very complex/complicated backstory is an excellent storytelling technique...especially for the JFK assassination...whenever I tried getting "the gist" of the conspiracies I could never wrap my head around the hundreds of theories involved/little nuances, etc.

yeah the black and white stock footage mixed together with original shot b&w footage is beautifully played in my opinion. Gary Oldman as Oswald is also top tier, 'i am not resisting arrest!' The cast of JFK is one of the best i've seen, and i dont even mean the main characters mainly just the supporting roles. Laurie Metcalf, John Candy, Frank Whaley, Joe Pesci, Wayne Knight, Tommy Lee Jones playing a CIA recruiter southern gay, Donald Sutherland, etc

too bad Stone also slipped a lot, his last 'good' film was Nixon. 1997's U Turn, was a big sign to me he was never going to get back on top again

  On 3/14/2011 at 8:22 PM, The Overlook said:

Just watched Death At A (Chris Rock) Funeral: really awful. Funny for about ten minutes, nauseating for the remaining 90.

you're doing it wrong dude

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795368/

yeah, Costner sucks as always, but the cast is fantastic....i really love Sutherland's part (does he come in again later? i havent finished it), and Oldman is almost a dead-ringer for LHO...its creepily perfect...once again I state that Gary Oldman is one of the most underrated modern actors..that man has amazing range. I also LOLed at John Candy's cameos..his accent was off, but the attitude was what really made the character...i was surprised it was him for a second.

when you mentioned the Mr.X stuff based off of real-life, does Lyndon Johnson play into that? I mean, Im willing to buy most inconsistencies with the Warren Commission findings (from what i know, tbh i havent read but a few excerpts and summaries), but the Lyndon Johnson thing seems like it was conjured up by Stone and the writers.

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:05 PM, Awepittance said:

1997's U Turn...

Fucking TERRIBLE, and yeah, I had the same general reaction even back then. "Welp, that's all for Oliver."

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:34 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

you're doing it wrong dude

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795368/

Yeah, is the original good?

Re: JFK - people can say what they want about its theories and ideologies. It was a damned well made movie.

  On 3/14/2011 at 6:20 PM, delet... said:

.. really ?? .. that terrible .. ar well.. i'll watch it anyway. It's computer graphics with shooting and aliens.

 

better than an art instillation with a meat packet dripping from someone's clanger.

1.5 may be a little harsh, but i just stopped the vid after 40 minutes. Was waiting for some kind of story or somehting to develop but it was just retarded shooting and explosions.

was a cam version so couldnt really enjoy the graphics either :p

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:57 PM, The Overlook said:

Yeah, is the original good?

haven't seen the chris rock one but i bet the original is way better, just look at the cover

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:57 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:05 PM, Awepittance said:

1997's U Turn...

Fucking TERRIBLE, and yeah, I had the same general reaction even back then. "Welp, that's all for Oliver."

 

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:34 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

you're doing it wrong dude

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795368/

Yeah, is the original good?

 

Re: JFK - people can say what they want about its theories and ideologies. It was a damned well made movie.

im not debating the movie, its excellent so far...im just curious as to whether the Lyndon Johnson part of it is part of the more popular conspiracy theories or if it was a plot device on the part of Stone and the writers.

although Costner is still fucking atrocious.

  On 3/13/2011 at 10:40 PM, tontonz said:

imagine the virgin suicides but ten times sicker/10

yeah I really enjoy Dogtooth...what does that say about me?

  On 3/14/2011 at 10:34 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

but the Lyndon Johnson thing seems like it was conjured up by Stone and the writers.

the movie JFK is based on the story about Jim Garrison by Jim Marrs called Crossfire. Oliver Stone i'm sure came up with some stuff on his own but im not sure if any of the theories were his own invention. i'm not sure which part you're talking about exactly. I do know that the Australian newspaper part in the Mr X part is true, you can find scanned copies of it online.