A few films recently watched.

Restrepo 9/10

Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary, gave me a great insight into how the war in Afghanistan is like. Really intense, I felt for those who lost friends during the film. Was blown away at how close the cameraman got to the action, must've been pretty stressful.

  On 3/31/2011 at 7:34 PM, Haldermaniac said:

  On 3/31/2011 at 9:19 AM, disparaissant said:

  On 3/31/2011 at 5:26 AM, futuregirlfriend said:

 

 

The Fog - 6.5/10

 

thought this was garbage right up until the very end, when it turned around some!

 

I quite liked the fog, watch the black and white version that's on the dvd -er, I thought you guys were talking about the mist. nevermind

actually i got them confused! the mist was the one i thought was garbage up until the end. the end kind of made it all worth it.

the 1980 "the fog" with adrienne barbeau is great, i grew up on that movie.

Every time I watch a shitty movie now I keep hoping to hear Dead Can Dance and see some suicide at the end BUT IT ONLY HAPPENED THE ONE TIME

edit: DCD + third world poverty montage would also be acceptable

  On 3/31/2011 at 9:25 PM, baph said:

Every time I watch a shitty movie now I keep hoping to hear Dead Can Dance and see some suicide at the end BUT IT ONLY HAPPENED THE ONE TIME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

edit: DCD + third world poverty montage would also be acceptable

wanna see this in a rob schneider flick

  On 3/31/2011 at 9:48 PM, disparaissant said:

  On 3/31/2011 at 9:25 PM, baph said:

Every time I watch a shitty movie now I keep hoping to hear Dead Can Dance and see some suicide at the end BUT IT ONLY HAPPENED THE ONE TIME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

edit: DCD + third world poverty montage would also be acceptable

wanna see this in a rob schneider flick

That... that would actually be amazing

  On 3/31/2011 at 2:49 AM, tontonz said:

Bruce Lee binge 2011

 

Way of the Dragon (Gay pimp, worlds best Hapkido fighter, a passive agressive mafia boss, italian boobies, and Bruce Lee eating 5 soups at one time = Best kung fu movie of all time ever)

Enter the Dragon (Definitely Bruce's best acting role(as in less cheesiness and mouth twitches) and buttfucks of fighting, you won't wanna stop watching this action packed extravaganza!)

Fist of Fury (Really loved the plot, lots of memorability and of course Bruce does an outstanding job of kicking the shit out of everyone, you will love this movie long time)

have you checked out Donnie Yen'e sequel to Fist of Fury?

a bit long in the tooth in parts but the fight scenes kick serious ass - 7/10

i'm really surprised Hitchcock didn't generate more controversy at the time with Rope or Strangers on a Train. The 'villain' characters by today's standards are obviously homosexual, but maybe back then it went under the radar. either way they are both really good films. Rope is a very impressive film.

  On 3/31/2011 at 9:19 AM, disparaissant said:

  On 3/31/2011 at 5:26 AM, futuregirlfriend said:

 

 

The Fog - 6.5/10

 

thought this was garbage right up until the very end, when it turned around some!

i beg to differ, the Fog has some of the best atmosphere in any horror movie i've seen.

  On 4/1/2011 at 1:25 AM, Awepittance said:

i'm really surprised Hitchcock didn't generate more controversy at the time with Rope or Strangers on a Train. The 'villain' characters by today's standards are obviously homosexual, but maybe back then it went under the radar. either way they are both really good films. Rope is a very impressive film.

Rope was inspired by these two guys who were widely rumored at the time to be gay, and everyone basically knew what Rope was based on, and it's a mystery how Hitchcock got it all past the Production Code; but still there were a lot of refusals to screen the movie, etc.

  On 4/1/2011 at 1:36 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 3/31/2011 at 9:19 AM, disparaissant said:

  On 3/31/2011 at 5:26 AM, futuregirlfriend said:

 

 

The Fog - 6.5/10

 

thought this was garbage right up until the very end, when it turned around some!

 

i beg to differ, the Fog has some of the best atmosphere in any horror movie i've seen.

yeah, I agree completely...

as i said, i had it confused with the mist.

The Mist was waaay weird. it started of cool and atmospheric like a more subtle horror film, then it turned into what I thought was supposed to be comedy or a fun splatter movie and I was disappointed, but then it got unexpectedly serious, unforgiving and violent, and the end was disturbing, altogether it was like a strange dream. King liked it apparently and thought it was very literal. Mh. I have no idea whether I like it or not.

  On 4/1/2011 at 3:36 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

The Mist was waaay weird. it started of cool and atmospheric like a more subtle horror film, then it turned into what I thought was supposed to be comedy or a fun splatter movie and I was disappointed, but then it got unexpectedly serious, unforgiving and violent, and the end was disturbing, altogether it was like a strange dream. King liked it apparently and thought it was very literal. Mh. I have no idea whether I like it or not.

i really despised it until the whoops surprise ending, that really made it all worth it. i hated all the characters, esp. the main dude so it was super cathartic in a weird sadistic way.

and re: king, dude has fucking terrible taste in films. he hated kubrick's take on the shining so much he ended up making langoliers lolol.

How can you guys even be debating whether The Mist was good or not?

Squee, I need a definite answer as to whether I should add it to my download queue.

  On 3/28/2011 at 3:14 AM, data said:

taxi driver

 

amazing

I've scheduled this for a rewatch over the weekend and oh hey, didn't you recently post that you started driving taxis?

watch the black and white version like I said earlier.

william s burroughs: a man within - solid documentary. awesome list of interviewees and a ton of interesting anecdotes. its safe to say the cultural landscape would have been quite different without him..

  On 4/1/2011 at 6:32 PM, futuregirlfriend said:

Squee, I need a definite answer as to whether I should add it to my download queue.

 

  On 3/28/2011 at 3:14 AM, data said:

taxi driver

 

amazing

 

I've scheduled this for a rewatch over the weekend and oh hey, didn't you recently post that you started driving taxis?

haha, i don't remember posting about it, but yeah, i watched that movie the night before my first day as a taxi driver.

  On 4/1/2011 at 4:29 PM, disparaissant said:

 

i really despised it until the whoops surprise ending, that really made it all worth it. i hated all the characters, esp. the main dude so it was super cathartic in a weird sadistic way.

 

and re: king, dude has fucking terrible taste in films. he hated kubrick's take on the shining so much he ended up making langoliers lolol.

I only saw it on German tv, so I didn't really get an impression of the characters cause someone had removed their voices and put German over it. Maybe I imagined them better than they were.

I know King is fucking silly, I didn't mean that as a compliment to the movie, I don't even like most of his stuff, and he's crazy for disliking the Kubrick Shining. Apparently he likes the tv 2 parter they made in the 90's that had cgi lions made from hedges.

the mist is a piece of shit no matter what ending you put on it and frank darabont is a sentimental hack.

black swan - lol great film

due date - 4/10. a few lols.

Been watching quite a few flicks lately -

conan the barbarian: haven't watched this since I saw it in theaters as a kid, they truly don't make them like this anymore. Misogynistic and macho in a bygone, innocent way. Plus arnold KOs a camel. Oily pecs/10

127 hrs (?): did as much with the story as anyone could I guess. 7/10

Restropo: Thanks watmm, pretty good. Vastly preferable to the hurt locker in my book 8/10

Buried: couldn't make it more than 20 minutes in, something about Ryan Reynolds annoys the hell out of me.

Shaun of the Dead: I was really looking forward to this as I heard it was better than Hot Fuzz, and I really liked Hot Fuzz. But I thought it wasn't quite as good. 7/10

Valhalla Rising: Trying hard to be Herzog or Black Robe but falling short. Also, digital blood. Still, kind of ok. 7/10

Never let me go:　Man this is terrible. Are all English films about boarding school love triangles? Jesus this film made me want to "complete" before it finished. The sci-fi element made no sense, why did they let the people travel wherever they wanted - free range organs? And none of them are even remotely pissed off? It seemed the sci-fi element was only there to up the emo factor. Practically every emotional reaction seemed implausible. Also Keira Knightly is a pretty good actress but she looks distractingly anorexic here. crap/10

  On 4/2/2011 at 5:14 PM, lumpenprol said:

Shaun of the Dead: I was really looking forward to this as I heard it was better than Hot Fuzz, and I really liked Hot Fuzz. But I thought it wasn't quite as good. 7/10

no wai...but i guess it depends on which you see first.

shaun of the dead is a modern comedy/zombie masterpiece, it's infinitely rewatchable.

Black swan: 8/10, Nicely done, I never liked Portman better