A few films recently watched.

  On 7/19/2011 at 12:21 PM, Awepittance said:

Workaholics>AlwaysSunny

totally.

adam is just pure id and i love it.

I'm on the verge of falling asleep.

Someone recommend me a hidden gem for me to watch

see post above.

i just rewatched ariel.

definitely the funniest of kaurismaki's proletariat trilogy. Pelonpaa gives a great performance as usual. It's almost like a screwball comedy done finnish style. which means there's no screwball part. I don't know what i'm talking about lol but it;s great fun and it;s only like an hour

jason sudeikis

is great in this:

I still don't even know who that is.

Am I just getting old? Why is the guy from Good Burger all dressed up?

SNL is a complete shitshow save for maybe one skit a week, if we are lucky.

by no means does that make him talented...hes a writer for SNL too

finally saw Fargo....ill give it a 7.5/10, enjoyable, but felt hurried, like the tension could have been built longer, 90 minutes seemed way too short for this movie...but Buscemi was great as usual, and I fucking loved the cop/househusband couple...best part of the movie was their interactions.

yeah it's norm and mike yanagita that make fargo totally brilliant, scenes and dialog that isn't even considered for your average murder thriller. Makes it such a more real experience. love that movie. defo a 8 or a 9 for me.

I've just sat through Stanley Kubrick's final film, 'Eyes Wide Shut'.

I can now empathize with the many paedophiles who were grossly disappointed with his earlier film, 'Lolita'. Eyes Wide Shut has no climax at all. Thirty minutes or so of boredom opens the film to a magnificent, captivating scene involving mystery and sexual adventure. The rest of the film is the story of the main character's frustratingly futile attempts at finding an explanation for this mystery. Between tedious filler shots of Tom Cruise wandering through the city and grating, repetitive piano riffs dominating whatever little atmosphere the film has, we see nothing but a pathetic, watered-down story that goes absolutely nowhere. Each turn of events leads you to believe that something interesting will happen next, but it doesn't. You try to tell yourself, "They must be saving it for the end-of-film climax", and then you find that it doesn't exist. There is one good scene in this film. But if you expect anything remotely like it to happen again, you'd be mistaken.

What was Stanley Kubrick thinking? Was he going senile? Was this just his excuse to see a whole bunch of tits before he died? Let me just make a point here:

Here is a picture of a masked woman with her tits out, hidden behind a spoiler tag:

And here is a picture of someone wandering around a city:

If I end this post with the word 'Fuck', it will capture everything that makes the film Eyes Wide Shut worth watching, and more.

So, in summary, if you want to watch this film, that's fine. But whether you're watching it for cinematic beauty, atmosphere, or fucking, please note that these things are only present for about a few minutes of the film.

  On 7/19/2011 at 10:07 PM, Squee said:

I'm on the verge of falling asleep.

Someone recommend me a hidden gem for me to watch

Secret Sunshine what i posted above. i know you like korean gems.

also can we stop talkin about mediocre TV shows please this thread is about flims

  On 7/20/2011 at 4:05 AM, Rhombix said:

 

 

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Those are quite lovely.

  On 7/20/2011 at 4:50 AM, Al Hounos said:

  On 7/19/2011 at 10:07 PM, Squee said:

I'm on the verge of falling asleep.

Someone recommend me a hidden gem for me to watch

Secret Sunshine what i posted above. i know you like korean gems.

 

also can we stop talkin about mediocre TV shows please this thread is about flims

i speak only of SNL and Sunny to warn those away from the horrid film i had dared to view

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8.75/10

would have given it 9 but the music was annoying

i LIKED the ending.

I watched transformers 3 in 3D, could've been alright if it was edited down to 30 minutes. I wanted a stupid action flick, got a retarded comedy. 2/10

  On 7/20/2011 at 4:50 AM, Al Hounos said:

  On 7/19/2011 at 10:07 PM, Squee said:

I'm on the verge of falling asleep.

Someone recommend me a hidden gem for me to watch

Secret Sunshine what i posted above. i know you like korean gems.

Yes!

More Korean movies, please.

Have you watched The Yellow Sea?

I saw Watchmen (The Ultimate Cut) last night ... not sure what to think. I'm guessing the regular cut would have been better. I've never even heard of the comics before.

Toy Story 3 - think I teared up a little

By the way, why the fuck is there like 5 seconds of Eno's On Land used in Shutter Island? I noticed it the first time watching the film but thought I was imagining it.

annoyingly hipsterish (quirky, unrealisticly eloquent teens, polaroids, mentions of catcher in the rye, super 8 footage, etc etc) but still somewhat entertaining.

  On 7/14/2011 at 2:04 PM, iep said:

  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 7/14/2011 at 2:19 PM, iep said:

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!

artemiev bump

cedar rapids

funny part was the guy from the wire (shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite) talking about the wire and doing omar impression. otherwise the ed helms character was too pathetic to really care about. it was very easy to watch though and john c reilly was good as usual

the last three days

this movie could have been called anything. the last three days isn't even important in the film and is thus unmemorable. and probably why it didnt do very well in the cinema. that and the fact that i feel like i've seen it before. russel crowe is a normal guy who has to do extraordinary things. yeah seen that before.

it was the sort of film where one minute you are facpalming and the next you are suprised by how well he planned something out.

basically he helps elizabeth banks escape from prison. it was ok but felt long, which cant be a good sign.

  On 7/21/2011 at 7:24 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

the last three days

this movie could have been called anything. the last three days isn't even important in the film and is thus unmemorable. and probably why it didnt do very well in the cinema. that and the fact that i feel like i've seen it before. russel crowe is a normal guy who has to do extraordinary things. yeah seen that before.

it was the sort of film where one minute you are facpalming and the next you are suprised by how well he planned something out.

basically he helps elizabeth banks escape from prison. it was ok but felt long, which cant be a good sign.

yeah, i was glad to see them get away, and it was all the more entertaining if you are familiar with downtown pittsburgh; it would seriously be tough to get out of downtown if they shut the city down. you're surrounded on all sides by rivers and bridges, and lol the "subway".. yeah the t sucks.

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dirty rotten scoundrels - 8.5/10 - loved loved it, seen it a few times but it seemed it was high time after hearing about "the trip" and all of the michael caine impersonations. he manages to pull off a number of accents here, being german, french (?), british, and (roughly) aussie. hilarious, i love martin's ruprecht character, the alleged younger brother too. glenne headly was a real looker in it too!

  On 7/21/2011 at 7:41 PM, Deep Fried Everything said:

  On 7/21/2011 at 7:24 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

the last three days

this movie could have been called anything. the last three days isn't even important in the film and is thus unmemorable. and probably why it didnt do very well in the cinema. that and the fact that i feel like i've seen it before. russel crowe is a normal guy who has to do extraordinary things. yeah seen that before.

it was the sort of film where one minute you are facpalming and the next you are suprised by how well he planned something out.

basically he helps elizabeth banks escape from prison. it was ok but felt long, which cant be a good sign.

 

yeah, i was glad to see them get away, and it was all the more entertaining if you are familiar with downtown pittsburgh; it would seriously be tough to get out of downtown if they shut the city down. you're surrounded on all sides by rivers and bridges, and lol the "subway".. yeah the t sucks.

 

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am i remembering correctly that she actually confesses to him that she did commit the crime the last time they are together before he busts her out?

 

 

toy story 3

jesus christ man i put this on because i thought it would entertain a 2 year old and he's off in his own little world and i'm sitting here rapt and weeping. fuck you, pixar. fuck you.

Rango and Toy Story 3 destroyed me emotionally

Watched part of the teaser trailer for the next Spiderman movie. Stopped once it got to the whole bitten by the radioactive spider thing. Anyway, looked ok actually. Atmospherically, and act wise.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810165200/video/25992349