A few films recently watched.

Life Aquatic

Still one of my favorite movies ever made. That tiger shark scene with the Sigur Ros song gets me every time.

'inside job' - profoundly depressing. made me really fucking angry.

limitless - fuckingterrible/whatever

  On 3/27/2011 at 1:07 AM, Capsaicin said:

Life Aquatic

 

Still one of my favorite movies ever made. That tiger shark scene with the Sigur Ros song gets me every time.

man that is one of the best scenes in any movie ever. the look on bill murray's face, "do you think it recognizes me?" oh god tears tears tears.

best wes anderson flick.

oh man i just started watching spaced again.

it really is the best sitcom ever made ever ever ever ever EVER.

limitless - 8/10

didn't expect to enjoy it but ya, Fun.

the scientist - 10/10

i LOVE slow films like this, its all about the atmosphere, not sure why it got such a low score on imdb - really hit a chord with me and i will def be going back to watch it more times.

The warriors way - 6/10

started off really well, the bringing together of western/eastern was interesting, i also started to connect with the characters but as soon as the second half of the movie kicks in and the action starts, i got bored (too much slo-mo) - also the guy with the burnt face was the best part of the story imo. anyway, it was a pretty film visually but could of been great.

Fourteenth floor - 10/10

never heard of it, put it on as a punt. LOVED pretty much everything about it. reminded me of so many different parts of pkd books. the lead guy should get more work, i like him.

the next three days - 7/10

felt longer than it was. but im glad it was done pretty much half cocked, if you were an avg man, things would fuck up, you wouldn't be some super hero instantly, although i just wanted more liam neeson playing a bad-ass ex-con tbh, ahah - also the police side of it was pretty poor.

the scientist got a low score because it's chrizzo propaganda

  On 3/27/2011 at 1:57 PM, analogue wings said:

the scientist got a low score because it's chrizzo propaganda

didn't see it that way at all and im pro-choice/without-god. thinking back on it yeah ok maybe that part could be seen as christian propaganda but tbh i dont think that was the point and if it was, it failed on me entirely. was more interested in the collective conciousness and multi-verse aspect of it and i empathised with the guys loss and wanting, more than anything else.

i havent seen the thing but literally every review i've seen except the one that called propaganda on it was an obvious plant. so yeah

dammit

  On 3/27/2011 at 1:54 PM, kaen said:

limitless - 8/10

didn't expect to enjoy it but ya, Fun.

 

the scientist - 10/10

i LOVE slow films like this, its all about the atmosphere, not sure why it got such a low score on imdb - really hit a chord with me and i will def be going back to watch it more times.

 

The warriors way - 6/10

started off really well, the bringing together of western/eastern was interesting, i also started to connect with the characters but as soon as the second half of the movie kicks in and the action starts, i got bored (too much slo-mo) - also the guy with the burnt face was the best part of the story imo. anyway, it was a pretty film visually but could of been great.

Fourteenth floor - 10/10

never heard of it, put it on as a punt. LOVED pretty much everything about it. reminded me of so many different parts of pkd books. the lead guy should get more work, i like him.

 

the next three days - 7/10

felt longer than it was. but im glad it was done pretty much half cocked, if you were an avg man, things would fuck up, you wouldn't be some super hero instantly, although i just wanted more liam neeson playing a bad-ass ex-con tbh, ahah - also the police side of it was pretty poor.

lol you just watched a whole bunch of shitty movies and your least favorite was the warriors way? it wasn't a good movie but it was heads above the others you mentioned.

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I'll see you in Hell, little girl, and wear something nasty

So awesome.

Little Fockers - No idea why I downloaded this rubbish.

Manhunter - Looked great, story so-so, Dollarhyde was class. Any suggestions for more with a similar vibe to this and To Live and Die in L.A?

Dawn of the Dead (original) - 8/10 enjoyable, with some hilarious flesh eating effects, silly blood spurtings and interesting soundtrack. I don't know if it beats Night of the Living Dead though...

anything less than a 10/10 for the original dawn of the dead is blasphemy.

taxi driver

amazing

Tombstone - Wonderfully entertaining modern Western. Wyatt Earp was a bit dull but Kilmer's Doc Holliday more than made up for him. A touch too long though. 9/10

Crumb - Fascinating, funny. 10/10

Tokyo Gore Police - Not the type of movie I usually go for, but it was imaginative, funny, and cool. Got a bit lost in itself towards the end. 8.5/10

Locked down

-10/10

Probably the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life. Acting was a fucking joke. The story is SO PREDICTABLE. And the fight scenes are just awful.. still surprised I watched it to the end.

Such an awful movie haha

The fucking prison guards walk around holding M4s with one arm.

  On 3/25/2011 at 11:49 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

Oh maaan ... my best friend has another friend over and she wants to watch a movie. He borrowed the DVD of The Fall (by Tarsem-guy) from someone and he's about to watch it for the first time but she only wants to watch the German dub and he says it doesn't matter whether original or dub so he's probably gonna do it and then hate the film because of it and I can't stop him!

Here's what they did:

They started watching the English version, then got annoyed by the 5.1 volume fluctuation between language and sfx (common thing with DVD's sold in Germany) so they went for the dub version about a third into the movie, then they BOTH fell asleep, woke up right before the end, then read the plot on wikipedia and hated it.

Yeah ... It's not like it's my favourite film or anything, but sometimes I do wonder how two people who are both actors (!), on stage and in films, don't grasp the concept of watching a film. I tried to make it simple for them - either you watch a film properly or you don't watch it at all. If you watch a dubbed film, you simply haven't seen the film, end of story. But apparently I'm eccentric.

  On 3/28/2011 at 6:38 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 3/25/2011 at 11:49 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

Oh maaan ... my best friend has another friend over and she wants to watch a movie. He borrowed the DVD of The Fall (by Tarsem-guy) from someone and he's about to watch it for the first time but she only wants to watch the German dub and he says it doesn't matter whether original or dub so he's probably gonna do it and then hate the film because of it and I can't stop him!

 

Here's what they did:

 

They started watching the English version, then got annoyed by the 5.1 volume fluctuation between language and sfx (common thing with DVD's sold in Germany) so they went for the dub version about a third into the movie, then they BOTH fell asleep, woke up right before the end, then read the plot on wikipedia and hated it.

 

Ahhhh I have a friend who does this quite often.

Actually, she's worse, she will decide whether she likes a film or not before she even sees it, falls asleep during it, and waks up and says whether she "liked" it or not despite only seeing ~5 minutes of the beginning. It's enraging.

She did that with Blade Runner. and she said it was stupid.

then she made me watch love and other drugs.

and fell asleep.

and woke up at the end and said it was GREAT.

i don't even know why i'm friends with her sometimes.

  On 3/28/2011 at 6:38 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

 

 

They started watching the English version, then got annoyed by the 5.1 volume fluctuation between language and sfx

I have to watch alot of stuff with subtitles because the disparity in volume between language and soundtrack/fx is so great and I live in an apt and cant have it too loud. I find myself constantly turning the volume up and down.

9/10

Rare Exports - FTW?????/10 - a nutty nutty film, really enjoyed it even if I did not 'get' all of it, wish I spoke Finnish, will watch again for more comprehension retension.

is rare exports a full feature film? I thought I saw it about six years ago, it was maybe 15 minutes, but was that the whole film or is there even more to it?

  On 3/28/2011 at 8:12 PM, disparaissant said:

  On 3/28/2011 at 6:38 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 3/25/2011 at 11:49 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

Oh maaan ... my best friend has another friend over and she wants to watch a movie. He borrowed the DVD of The Fall (by Tarsem-guy) from someone and he's about to watch it for the first time but she only wants to watch the German dub and he says it doesn't matter whether original or dub so he's probably gonna do it and then hate the film because of it and I can't stop him!

 

Here's what they did:

 

They started watching the English version, then got annoyed by the 5.1 volume fluctuation between language and sfx (common thing with DVD's sold in Germany) so they went for the dub version about a third into the movie, then they BOTH fell asleep, woke up right before the end, then read the plot on wikipedia and hated it.

 

Ahhhh I have a friend who does this quite often.

Actually, she's worse, she will decide whether she likes a film or not before she even sees it, falls asleep during it, and waks up and says whether she "liked" it or not despite only seeing ~5 minutes of the beginning. It's enraging.

She did that with Blade Runner. and she said it was stupid.

then she made me watch love and other drugs.

and fell asleep.

and woke up at the end and said it was GREAT.

i don't even know why i'm friends with her sometimes.

yeah that's what my friend tends to do too - if he decides he's gonna like something he'll find tons of arguments in favor of the thing, otherwise he'll do the exact opposite. He even said it was "the worst movie he had ever seen", and I was like "really? what about Langoliers? What about that shitty Norwegian film with the exploding cellphones we saw the other night?" and he insisted that those were better.

And the dub thing is just a constant dilemma - if he watches English, the he won't feel connected to the characters and story cause he can't relate to American/British culture and way of talking as much, and if he watches German, he'll hate it cause of the bad quality of the dub but not realize the bad dub is the reason why he hates it.

The biggest annoyance is, like I said, that he does have a good taste in things, very similar to me most of the time, and pretty much all the films and projects I do, I do with him! But he's so dependent on circumstances or some other random things currently going on in his life that his judgement can get seriously flawed. I'm guessing at the moment he's very much into all that theater/play/musical kinda stuff again so he absolutely loved Black Swan and was "overwhelmed" by it. And once he made up his mind there's no way it's ever gonna change. He's like the funnest guy and most talented artist in the world, and I guess that's exactly why this shit annoys me so much.

Oh, I forgot to mention that, even though they could have watched it on the big wall by using their buddy's projector, they watched the film on his computer screen while lying on the bed, and with the shitty speakers that completely omit anything between 400 and 12.000 Hz for some sick reason.

  On 3/28/2011 at 8:31 PM, Haldermaniac said:

I have to watch alot of stuff with subtitles because the disparity in volume between language and soundtrack/fx is so great and I live in an apt and cant have it too loud. I find myself constantly turning the volume up and down.

yeah it sucks. last film I remember where it was REALLY bad was The Fountain. The problem in Germany is that they only put the English 5.1 version on the DVD and don't include a regular stereo version. I live in a house and I watch stuff loud anyways, but sometimes the difference is so big that I start to worry about the speakers/my ears.

The film I saw is an hour and 20 minutes long.