A few films recently watched.

inside job (the documentry)

Brilliant, it made why the crash happen so clear. the graphics were superb as well, all the graphs etc, and there some beautiful shots in it as well. they sometimes used music very well to create a interesting a contrast between the song and subject.

plan to rewatch come and see next, beautifully made film and utterly disturbing. you can tell it was a big influence on spielberg while he was making saving private ryan. if i remember correctly i sometimes found the film borderline naff/cheesy.

  On 3/17/2011 at 10:55 AM, Awepittance said:

my biggest problem with Slaughterhouse 5 was the unstuck in time part just seemed like flashbacks, they weren't emphasized in a way to convey what was happening to him int he book. Also it tried to mostly play on the humorous aspects of the book too often. but it's not a bad movie

I recently read Slaughterhouse 5 for the first time, really loved it. Didn't even realise there was a film adaptation! Might have to check it out.. Maybe...

Inside Job just made me depressed, knowing that everyone responsible got away with it and made 100s of millions and Wall Street will cause another economic crash and the few will get richer as the masses suffer and get poorer.

  On 3/17/2011 at 4:04 PM, azatoth said:

Inside Job just made me depressed, knowing that everyone responsible got away with it and made 100s of millions and Wall Street will cause another economic crash and the few will get richer as the masses suffer and get poorer.

I've stayed away from Inside Job for this very reason. I was very recently going through short-sale proceedings on a condo (with Wells Fargo) while reading about the growth of banks since the 'crash'. Wells Fargo, in particular, is now at 155% of their strength since all of this started.

It is seriously disturbing that there's no one held accountable for it at all and there doesn't even seem to be any proper plans to do so. All involved are now either running big companies in the finance industry, holding important positions in academia or influential positions in the government. And they are all scheming on new ways to earn a quick buck no matter the real world consequences, it's all numbers on a screen for them. It's absolutely sickening that this shit is still going on, but yay capitalism, I guess.

aye its a very disturbing film, no one has got into trouble for it, the overlook you must see it! OPEN YOUR EYEZ MAN!

sometimes knowledge hurts

and by knowledge i mean brains

and by brains i mean head

Dogtooth.

All around good film. Am I wrong in thinking it shared some themes with Salo? Or is it merely a story of parents not being able to let go of their children.

It was creepy how you couldn't really tell how old those "teenagers" actually were, imo they could have been anything between 19 and 35. Overgrown children.

need i say more?

  On 3/17/2011 at 9:25 PM, funkaholic said:

need i say more?

please need yes

  On 3/17/2011 at 8:02 PM, AJW said:

Dogtooth.

All around good film. Am I wrong in thinking it shared some themes with Salo? Or is it merely a story of parents not being able to let go of their children.

 

It was creepy how you couldn't really tell how old those "teenagers" actually were, imo they could have been anything between 19 and 35. Overgrown children.

virgin suicides

will i watch salo?? do i really want to see kids eating shit??? MANJA LA MIERDA!!!

I still find salo to be a fascinating film. pasolini was such a weird, confounding figure. I understand salo and his Intentions behind making it, but the man largely remains a mystery to me. perhaps I should finally read that giant fucking biography thats been been sitting on my shelf collecting dust for years...

  On 3/17/2011 at 10:21 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 9:25 PM, funkaholic said:

need i say more?

please need yes

i dont know what film it is, i was just pretending i've seen it

  On 3/13/2011 at 9:48 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 3/13/2011 at 7:54 PM, Z_B_Z said:

entertaining movie despite costner. pure delusional fantasy, but we're talking about oliver stone here.

 

not quite, Fletcher Prowdy aka Mr. X is a real person and still to this day proclaims most of the things his Donald Sutherland version says in the movie. There are some things in the movie blatantly not true but a good portion of it is.

 

if you like JFK you absolutely must see the directors cut, tons of new stuff added in and the movie Nixon, Stone's spiritual sequel to JFK. Nixon is a very underrated movie in my mind, probably my favorite Stone movie besides Platoon and JFK

i went through a period, spurned on by watching jfk (directors cut) and listening to stones commentary, where i was really into reading a lot about jfk conspiracy theories.. i suppose "pure delusional fantasy" is a bit much, but a lot of it is wild speculation.

been a long time since ive seen nixon. i'll revisit that one..

  On 3/16/2011 at 9:40 AM, Awepittance said:

Fright Night is a favorite from my child hood as well, it's too bad they don't make movies like that anymore. I see it in a canon of 80s horror/comedies that strike a good balance between the two similar to Gremlins

 

the 2nd Fright night was a let down though. Guy who plays the Vampire in part 1 practically makes the movie, without him it's a little tiring

charlies friend evil kind of makes it for me. that fucking voice.. i know he died in the first one, but fuck it, they shouldve worked him in. ive tried more than once to make it through the second film but cant. horrible piece of shit. not even in a campy way.

  On 3/16/2011 at 7:39 AM, Atop said:

  On 3/16/2011 at 4:01 AM, Z_B_Z said:

i tried watching dogtooth but it just screamed "I AM A CUTTING EDGE ART FILM" so i shut it off.

your loss, a wonderfully twisted film that one.........

i was feeling cynical. odds are ill end up checking it out.

morning glory - i actually had a few laughs, what does that say about me???/10

  On 3/17/2011 at 11:15 PM, funkaholic said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 10:21 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 3/17/2011 at 9:25 PM, funkaholic said:

need i say more?

please need yes

 

i dont know what film it is, i was just pretending i've seen it

ToTARL R3LOL

TEEEEOOh WEEEKZ!

Waltz With Bashir. 6/10

I've been excited about this movie for ages it feels like, finally got around to buy it, and watch it for the first time (mostly because Tomer Hanuka did the visuals, and Max Richter did the soundtrack)

But I didn't like it at all. Maybe i just had too high expectations or something.

A six out of ten is you not liking something at all?

I probaly didn't use the right words, i'm no movie critic. I was just really disappointed by it.

  On 3/18/2011 at 11:25 PM, Dropp said:

But I didn't like it at all. Maybe i just had too high expectations or something.

or maybe it was because the movie was all "waah waah I'm Jewish and was traumatized when I cracked a fingernail while killing Lebanese subhumans".

(of course I'm overstating it, but I did think that while it was a visually great film it had a whiff of "poor me, the entitled Jewish dude" about it...more concerned with how any atrocities committed by the Jews reflected on the Jews as a people, rather than on the actual victims...very self-referential).

So I watched Come and See tonight... sort-of. I bought some cheap Chinese version from ebay which is supposed to be fully functional etc etc, but it turns out that on the second disc the normal Russian audiotrack is completely nonexistant, and I'm refusing to watch it with English overdubs. The first half of the movie was 9.4 or so/10. I am so disappointed that I can't watch the rest of the movie. At least for now.

9/10

  On 3/19/2011 at 6:28 AM, Capsaicin said:

So I watched Come and See tonight... sort-of. I bought some cheap Chinese version from ebay which is supposed to be fully functional etc etc, but it turns out that on the second disc the normal Russian audiotrack is completely nonexistant, and I'm refusing to watch it with English overdubs. The first half of the movie was 9.4 or so/10. I am so disappointed that I can't watch the rest of the movie. At least for now.