A few films recently watched.

  On 7/25/2011 at 8:13 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

 

the mechanic

kinda silly but statham

A decent mindless action flick. I really wish it ended about two minutes earlier though.

Getting caught up in this thread...

Cave of Forgotten Dreams 10/10

Insidious 5/10

Thor 6/10

The Trip 9/10

Bridesmaids 8/10

Midnight in Paris 8/10

Super 8 4/10

Tree of Life 8/10

x-men 1st class 5/10

Beginners 9/10

Transformers 3 1/10 (I wanted to give it zero, but the visuals were good)

Buck 9/10

Tabloid 9/10

Horrible Bosses 6/10

Harry Potter DH2 8/10

Another Earth 8/10

Captain America 5/10

whats wrong with super 8 you piece a poop

  On 7/25/2011 at 5:02 PM, dr lopez said:

  On 7/25/2011 at 4:50 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 7/25/2011 at 4:50 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

  On 7/24/2011 at 8:57 PM, Squee said:

Barton Fink - First time watching it. I liked it. John Goodman looks like such a wonderful humanbeing and John Turtorro's voice is fantastic.

I was really let down by this, I'd heard a lot of hype too. It felt too insular in a way, sort of self-congratulatory, a bit heavy-handed and really rather boring for quite a lot of it.

yeah seriously... wat.

note to self: ignore all movie advice from Coalbucket PI , and i am dissapoint Overlook you put Millers Crossing in your top 10, wtf

  On 7/26/2011 at 8:25 AM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

whats wrong with super 8 you piece a poop

It was meh.

  On 7/26/2011 at 8:57 AM, Awepittance said:

i am dissapoint Overlook you put Millers Crossing in your top 10, wtf

Do I really have to defend Miller's Crossing?

Yellow Sea/Hwanghae - Holy shit, Death by Axe: The Movie/10

I loved it. South Korea ftw.

Hell comes to Frogtown - Awesome, Roddy Piper is yet to let me down (perhaps because I have only seen two films where he stars).

TekWar, the Movie: TekWar, the Movie/10

I'm not sure why I decided to watch Nights of Cabiria but I'm so glad I did because this movie is pure perfection. Physical comedy and social critique that makes you cry with simultaneous sadness and joy. I thought this woman looked familiar for some reason and it turns that she's channeling a sort of female Chaplin spirit on the film!

Beautiful essay by Federico Fellini himself on the Criterion site

link

  On 7/26/2011 at 3:09 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 7/26/2011 at 8:57 AM, Awepittance said:

i am dissapoint Overlook you put Millers Crossing in your top 10, wtf

Do I really have to defend Miller's Crossing?

if i actually said that bit of incoherence, my apologies. what i meant was that if i understand from the snickering dog emoticon you aren't fond of Barton Fink. I think you ought to give it another chance. It's like a sister movie to Millers Crossing. bit of trivia: they wrote barton fink based on their experience trying to write a period piece gangster movie. Even though a studio didn't force the genre on them like in Barton fink, they didn't realize just how hard it would be and stayed up for days at a time not writing a single line of dialogue

had a friend visiting from canadaland, we got super drunk and watched UHF

then got super drunk again and she hadnt seen toy story 3 so we watched that

UHF gets an 8/10 for nostalgia and corniness

toy story 3 is like 9.5/10 oh man, emotional manipulation!

2001: A Space odyssey 9/10 - Long time coming, but this was the first time i have ever watched this film, great cinematography and for most of the shots i was sitting thinking "how the hell did they pull that off?"

Edit: Also with it being on Bluray it looked AMAZING

  On 7/27/2011 at 9:17 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 7/26/2011 at 3:09 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 7/26/2011 at 8:57 AM, Awepittance said:

i am dissapoint Overlook you put Millers Crossing in your top 10, wtf

Do I really have to defend Miller's Crossing?

 

if i actually said that bit of incoherence, my apologies. what i meant was that if i understand from the snickering dog emoticon you aren't fond of Barton Fink. I think you ought to give it another chance. It's like a sister movie to Millers Crossing. bit of trivia: they wrote barton fink based on their experience trying to write a period piece gangster movie. Even though a studio didn't force the genre on them like in Barton fink, they didn't realize just how hard it would be and stayed up for days at a time not writing a single line of dialogue

Oh, lol. My snickering dog was like incredulous disbelief / bombastic sarcasm. I.e. Barton Fink is fucking sublime.

It's been so long since I've seen both Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing. Time to rewatch.

Bronson - 8/10

Wow. Tom Hardy is brilliant! Lovely little film. I lost a bit of interest in it near the end but that's the only negative thing I have to say about it.

  On 7/27/2011 at 5:33 PM, Squee said:

Bronson - 8/10

 

Wow. Tom Hardy is brilliant! Lovely little film. I lost a bit of interest in it near the end but that's the only negative thing I have to say about it.

Yeah, I actually prefer it to Chopper, which I realize is probably blasphemy to most film nerds. Bronson is a much more interesting personality to me and Hardy's performance was every bit the quality of Bana's.

super - not that great/10

I just watched Frozen. About 3 people trapped on a ski lift. I'd say 5/10

It was alright. I like the plot and events and the suspense. But there's something about it that just left me feeling meh.

Oh was I supposed to pick a new movie?

  On 7/27/2011 at 5:55 PM, couch said:

Oh was I supposed to pick a new movie?

Nope, not necessarily.

  On 7/27/2011 at 5:55 PM, couch said:

I just watched Frozen. About 3 people trapped on a ski lift. I'd say 5/10

 

It was alright. I like the plot and events and the suspense. But there's something about it that just left me feeling meh.

 

Oh was I supposed to pick a new movie?

wolves will fuck you up

Wolves in the Ski Lift

  On 7/27/2011 at 12:24 AM, baph said:

TekWar, the Movie: TekWar, the Movie/10

lol, there's a movie? that game was awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vho7k1qON_w

with its "photorealistic graphics" and everything.

That's nigh-on indistinguishable from TekWar: the (TV) Movie.

I just watched the dreamers, great film.