A few films recently watched.

  On 7/14/2011 at 12:22 PM, keltoi said:

  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'.

It was Postponed... on the day. Fucking had to drive home early from camping to find out that it was cancelled. Hopefully they'll reschedule it soon

Anyway here's some films watched recently:

Xmen First Class - 1/10

Transformers 3D - 3/10

The Birds - 8/10 (pretty cool, full of clever camera innovation, some a bit dated but most stood the test of time. I think Vertigo tops it in terms of screenplay)

Fargo - 8/10 (bouts time I've seen this one)

Ren & Stimpy season 1&2 - pectoral muscles/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT4YbO_1mvA&NR=1

  On 7/21/2011 at 5:21 AM, iep said:

  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

Mansell did not do the score to Solaris. It was Cliff Martinez.

Winnie the Pooh (film) - worth a watch ??

the trend in movies for younger and younger stars is troubling. spiderman appears to be prepubescent now. old age is becoming very uncool (as i age)

LOL this is fantastic

I love Pooh.

  On 7/22/2011 at 5:11 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

(as i age)

this is the crux of the matter. i see teenage policemen ffs!

  On 7/22/2011 at 5:13 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

LOL this is fantastic

 

 

I love Pooh.

LOL

  On 7/22/2011 at 5:48 PM, keltoi said:

  On 7/22/2011 at 5:11 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

(as i age)

 

this is the crux of the matter. i see teenage policemen ffs!

 

no i don't think so. its agism in general (societywise (caused by hollywood?)) not just because i am getting older (that is merely the kicker). if you watch movies from the 80's or even the 90's. the actors are much older playing roles that now would be 18 (and they have yellow teeth). this isn't news but the spiderman photos made me think of it.

i suppose it reflects the money spending audience of movies really: kids

Tranformers Dark of the Fallen　or whatev: some sort of new artform that transcends the medium of film. It's like attaining transcendence through masochism.

  On 7/18/2011 at 9:42 PM, Obel said:

  On 7/18/2011 at 8:05 PM, T35513R said:

whatever

 

I can highly vouch for Hellraiser Inferno. It's a triff film. And Hellseeker (I think that's the one with Kirsty from the first two) is surprisingly good as well.

Huh - well damn, this is good info - thanks obel, i know what i'm doin' tonight!

  On 7/22/2011 at 3:22 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 7/21/2011 at 5:21 AM, iep said:

  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.

 

  Quote

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:

 

 

  Quote

... 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

 

 

Mansell did not do the score to Solaris. It was Cliff Martinez.

i said Artemiev bump, dammit!

you're firing truth bullets from yr truth gun btw. i always mix them up, not only because of their similar surnames, & sappy style, but mainly because i've been mixing them up for so long alrdy :]

not strictly speaking a film but the 4 part channel 4 adaptation of william boyd's "any human heart" is very very enjoyable

watch it on 4od

Tree of Life - God damn. Maybe a bit too religious from time to time but I liked it.

fargo

8/10

no idea why i haven't seen it before. anyway, what's up with those accents? and all the scandinavian / swedish sounding last names? do they really talk like that

up there? ya, yaya, yaaa? yaa. i kinda liked it though, except for peter stormare who's got an authentic swedish accent and sounded like a moron, even though he had

like 5 lines in the entire movie.

  On 7/23/2011 at 5:24 PM, data said:

fargo

 

8/10

 

no idea why i haven't seen it before. anyway, what's up with those accents? and all the scandinavian / swedish sounding last names? do they really talk like that

up there? ya, yaya, yaaa? yaa. i kinda liked it though, except for peter stormare who's got an authentic swedish accent and sounded like a moron, even though he had

like 5 lines in the entire movie.

Yep - people really talk like that there.

I met someone from South Africa once and she said 'Yah' as well. Apparantly it was an Afrikaans thing.

Anyway, Fargo is a great movie. I was actually thinking about watching Barton Fink tonight. I think it's the only Coen Brothers movie I have yet to watach and I hear a lot of great things about it.

  On 7/23/2011 at 5:24 PM, data said:

fargo

 

8/10

 

no idea why i haven't seen it before. anyway, what's up with those accents? and all the scandinavian / swedish sounding last names? do they really talk like that

up there? ya, yaya, yaaa? yaa. i kinda liked it though, except for peter stormare who's got an authentic swedish accent and sounded like a moron, even though he had

like 5 lines in the entire movie.

all the swedes and norwegians moved up there, dont cha know?? yes that is about as realistic as i've ever seen the north midwest portrayed in a movie. It really really really truly is like that. Darn tootin! I love that movie.

  On 7/23/2011 at 4:16 AM, LUDD said:

not strictly speaking a film but the 4 part channel 4 adaptation of william boyd's "any human heart" is very very enjoyable

 

watch it on 4od

i was really enjoying that but missed the final episode. guess i can watch it now, on 4od. cool.

Super - Super/10

I'll never like Ellen Page (she's fucking creepy) and her fake laughter in this movie really bummed me out but apart from that I loved it. Rainn Wilson has a GREAT voice! Really deep and rusty. Oh, and Liv Tyler just keeps getting more and more beautiful.

Alphaville 9/10

this was eye opening. approaches film in a forward thinking way. probably way ahead of its time. i look forward to seeing more godard and basically just immersing myself in the 'art house' genre. anything abstract is good - not surreal. artistically, structurally abstract film.

anyway

microcosmos - 10/10

i took an ambien and was sitting there half asleep and this movie was really freaking me out. always good.

  On 7/24/2011 at 12:43 AM, Squee said:

Super - Super/10

 

I'll never like Ellen Page (she's fucking creepy) and her fake laughter in this movie really bummed me out but apart from that I loved it. Rainn Wilson has a GREAT voice! Really deep and rusty. Oh, and Liv Tyler just keeps getting more and more beautiful.

Page really, really fuckin pisses me off.

her whole "im a faux-feminist" in Juno was so fucking nonsensical and ridiculous (who the fuck in their early teens is a huge fan of Dario Argento? fucking bullshit fuck this shit fucking teenagers written as adults fucking retarded

  On 7/24/2011 at 6:39 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 7/24/2011 at 12:43 AM, Squee said:

Super - Super/10

 

I'll never like Ellen Page (she's fucking creepy) and her fake laughter in this movie really bummed me out but apart from that I loved it. Rainn Wilson has a GREAT voice! Really deep and rusty. Oh, and Liv Tyler just keeps getting more and more beautiful.

 

 

Page really, really fuckin pisses me off.

 

 

her whole "im a faux-feminist" in Juno was so fucking nonsensical and ridiculous (who the fuck in their early teens is a huge fan of Dario Argento? fucking bullshit fuck this shit fucking teenagers written as adults fucking retarded

I think you mean "Diablo Cody really, really fuckin pisses me off."

lol she is rather creepy with her immaculate round forehead and all, but if you feel that way the climax of Super must have been extra satisfying - take a still and make it your desktop.

16 and a fan of Dario Argento is ttly plausible. I was, anyway.

the name "Juno MacGuff" is entirely less plausible.

the way she talked was fucking ludicrous.

I was also an argento fan in my teens, it's not implausable at all.

  On 7/24/2011 at 8:07 AM, lumpenprol said:

lol she is rather creepy with her immaculate round forehead and all, but if you feel that way the climax of Super must have been extra satisfying - take a still and make it your desktop.

Hahaha - aw yeah.