A few films recently watched.

The Experiment

7/10

Enjoyable

  On 7/14/2011 at 2:05 AM, Billov said:

Next monday gonna see Solaris (1972) in the same cinema, can't wait :)

just watched it for the 2nd time and had a better idea of what was going on in the space station. i'd love to see it on a big screen! someone was telling me the remake with clooney is actually pretty decent? anyone seen it to confirm or otherwise?

  On 7/14/2011 at 10:57 AM, keltoi said:

  On 7/14/2011 at 2:05 AM, Billov said:

Next monday gonna see Solaris (1972) in the same cinema, can't wait :)

 

just watched it for the 2nd time and had a better idea of what was going on in the space station. i'd love to see it on a big screen! someone was telling me the remake with clooney is actually pretty decent? anyone seen it to confirm or otherwise?

yea def watch the remake if you like the original.

  On 7/14/2011 at 12:11 PM, iep said:

  On 7/14/2011 at 10:57 AM, keltoi said:

  On 7/14/2011 at 2:05 AM, Billov said:

Next monday gonna see Solaris (1972) in the same cinema, can't wait :)

 

just watched it for the 2nd time and had a better idea of what was going on in the space station. i'd love to see it on a big screen! someone was telling me the remake with clooney is actually pretty decent? anyone seen it to confirm or otherwise?

 

yea def watch the remake if you like the original.

just ordered it and 'stalker'.

I didn't like the remake very much, chick's acting was annoying, and the people's vices were made tamer. I think people on watmm mostly jizz over the remake's soundtrack, but I didn't even like it as much as the original's sound design. So...

Stalker will blow your socks off (if you don't mind low-budget)

  On 7/14/2011 at 1:46 PM, lumpenprol said:

I think people on watmm mostly jizz over the remake's soundtrack, but I didn't even like it as much as the original's sound design.

i thought that the soundtrack was the weakest aspect of the Solaris remake tbh, way too sappy...

imo the original soundtrack is brilliant, as is most everything everything else that Edward Artemiev wrote for Tarkovsky. he's a much more interesting & much more IDM (!) composer than Mansell is, if you'd ask me.

here is a nice interview with Artmiev on his Tarkovsky soundtracks: http://crab.wordpress.com/tag/edward-artmiev/

with some cool tidbits like how he used a Synthi-100 for the stalker soundtrack and the obscure ancient soviet ANS synthesizer for solaris.

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The first important cinematic work for which I used the [ANS] synthesizer, however, was “Solaris “, almost ten years later [in 1971]. And although we also used an orchestra in that score, it too basically functioned as one gigantic synthesizer. Then, in the mixing, we combined the sounds of these two different elements-acoustic and electronic-to achieve a seamless musical texture.

  On 7/13/2011 at 10:38 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

Probably gonna go see this and Tree Of Life at my local art house theater now. Sorry about your parents dude, it's not easy dealing with that shit. My sister is going to die in the next couple of months from it, my mother has something bad and my dad keeps fighting it with much luck. Life is ruff tuff cookies

Thanks, dude...how old is your sister?

I lost my mother at 12 and my father at 30. Both were lifetime alcoholics/smokers. I pray it's not genetic because if I ever get cancer, I'm headed to Portland to Kevorkian my way out. Failing that, it'll be Gonzo style.

Anyway, comparing Innaritu's efforts in Biutiful to Bergman is probably hyperbolic, but all the poetic and beautiful preoccupations with death resonated with me deeply. It's certainly the best tearjerker since Shadowlands!

artemiev (and/or tarkovsky-soundtrack) appreciation post 1.1:

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... to enter a qualitatively different acoustical world, sound colour and timbre became the field where a search for new musical laws and relationship could be undertaken. "Sound is a palette with most subtle and lavish nuances of colours. Electronics lends some new qualities to it: peculiar acoustical sounding, unlimited duration, abundance of timbres". It is in electronics that Artemiev finds what most appeals to his gift. For him the synthesiser is a possibility to compose sound, timbre, to sculpt it, to lend form, "colour", energy, duration. A most fascinating task for the musician with a creator's imagination, a colourist's talent and an inventor's intuition!

  On 7/14/2011 at 1:46 PM, lumpenprol said:

I didn't like the remake very much, chick's acting was annoying, and the people's vices were made tamer. I think people on watmm mostly jizz over the remake's soundtrack, but I didn't even like it as much as the original's sound design. So...

 

Stalker will blow your socks off (if you don't mind low-budget)

I loved some of the remake's aesthetic and I actually think Natasha McElhone was the most successful casting choice. Nonetheless, I watched it a couple months ago and didn't think it was anywhere near as good as I did in 2002. I do confess the soundtrack made a strong impression originally but it too seems a bit cheeseball now.

JFK

Fantastic, for DONALD OK? FUCK Sutherland's bit alone.

Donald*

  On 7/14/2011 at 5:05 PM, kaen said:

Donald*

Fucking lol, thanks for that.

I read Wisp's post earlier and I was like, "yeah, Kiefer was good, eh? wait...hmm...who was Kiefer in JFK? *confused*..."

that bro too

I think I mixed them up because I am still in awe of Kiefer's performance in Phone Booth.

....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qEHKEKvds

  On 7/14/2011 at 3:19 PM, thanks robert moses said:

JFK

 

Fantastic, for DONALD OK? FUCK Sutherland's bit alone.

Harry Potter and the Fuckall: Glad it's over/10

I couldn't be arsed to read the book (even though I read the others), but basically everything I expected. Lots of spells flying around, bad editing in one or two spots, Helena Bonham and Emma Watson were hot, great special effects and just enough deviation from the book to piss off my obsessed brother. I'm glad I didn't pay to see it (my brother had bought tickets with friends but one dropped out, so I filled in), but it was entertaining.

did you get the potter 3d glasses?

i want to see this in 2D but it seems i cannot

Oliver Stone bites hard dicks.

  On 7/15/2011 at 7:16 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

did you get the potter 3d glasses?

 

 

 

i want to see this in 2D but it seems i cannot

Unfortunately it was in 3d. It seemed that the first half hour or so was full of ridiculous effects shots specifically made for 3d presentation, and after that it got quite a bit more subtle and tolerable.

Just watched V for Vendetta.

I didn't know if it was more entertaining or more bull shit until the last quarter. Damn, I hate movies like this, trying to be smart and deep, but all the while using all the cheap tricks in the book to make thinks watchable. Just stupid. But ok, kinda well produced so I'll give it 7/10.

harry potter

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7

pretty good

I just watched Essential Killing. I still don't know what to think of it.

The next three days - 5/10 clearly she is off her fucking trolley, i would have left her in prison

started watching the thing but had promised my wife it wouldnt be too scary or have aliens with big alien eyes. had to turn it off when the wolfs head split in two.

then we watched escape from new york. great music. kurt russel is bad ass but damn it was slow. my adhd brain was wondering what was happening on twitter during the fight in the ring scene. chandeliers on a car! pimpd!

aliens

extended cut

on blu ray

/10