A few films recently watched.

cheesy 80's comedy + bill murray / 10

The Lovely Bones.

Not sure if that worked at all. Even if I didn't know there was a book of this I think I would be able to tell because it feels like a jumbled book adaptation from the start. The murderer guy is excellent though, really perfect balance of seeming nice but having something slightly off. I'm not sure what even happened, everyone was upset as you would expect, and then it ended as if something had been resolved, but it hadn't. Plus some weird scenes with the girl dancing on a record player in a magical death land and Susan Sarandon carousing around for no apparent reason. Still it was kind of watchable and unique. Whatever. Kind of annoying but alright really, wish I'd read the book instead.

I changed my mind. The Tree of Life = Root of All Evil

  On 10/1/2011 at 7:43 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 10/1/2011 at 7:31 PM, beatfanatic said:

  On 10/1/2011 at 7:17 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

i watched a dvdscr of driver and angelo badalamenti was on the soundtrack credits wtf

i also read that this version of the movie is missing some scenes and doesn't have the same sound editing...

 

apparently its a work print. yeah the sound is off which is a shame because the music in some of the scenes is so perfect.

Wait untill there is a good rip out...

spaceballs - turned it off after 10 minutes/10 just didnt find it funny, and the only bits ive seen which were cleaver was the renting spaceballs before it was released.. which i saw on youtube.

L.A Confidential - 10/10 - no idea why i always put this film off since i remember, thinking it'll be crap, Boy was i wrong. awesome film.. L.A Noire borrowed so much from it, but thats good.

tonight i'll watch tree of life and meloncolia

i have the same screener and im holding off, the giant blur at the top of the screen is just a huge eyesore in what is very obviously a well shot film.

  On 10/3/2011 at 2:40 AM, m u st co n t r ol t h o 4 said:

The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick)

Sean Penn remembers his childhood + history of planet Earth. The editing in this movie is next level, I guess I respect the religious stuff but eh...

i read somewhere that it was all edited "in camera" which sounds hard...

going to see it this week. excited!

Perfume 7/10 = a very well made adaption of the book (which I haven't read) however I found the ending a little too 'fantastic' for the setting of the rest of the film but that's just me. If you've read the book then maybe you'll be able to swallow the ending a little better.

Ninja Assassin 7.5/10 = exactly what it says on the tin with amazing blood soaked action sequences akin to the old Shogun Assassin although I felt it was lacking a little something to make it a classic. One to appreciate on blu-ray I think as AVI didn't do it any justice.

  On 10/3/2011 at 11:03 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

i read somewhere that it was all edited "in camera" which sounds hard...

 

going to see it this week. excited!

hmm Google doesn't know, maybe they meant some of the experimental sections? His cinematographer says they had 300 miles of footage and the first cut was eight hours long. I can't imagine doing this kind of work in camera?!

  On 10/3/2011 at 11:39 PM, soundwave said:

Perfume 7/10 = a very well made adaption of the book (which I haven't read) however I found the ending a little too 'fantastic' for the setting of the rest of the film but that's just me. If you've read the book then maybe you'll be able to swallow the ending a little better. Ninja Assassin 7.5/10 = exactly what it says on the tin with amazing blood soaked action sequences akin to the old Shogun Assassin although I felt it was lacking a little something to make it a classic. One to appreciate on blu-ray I think as AVI didn't do it any justice.

I liked it but it was way too Hollywood and the protagonist too pretty.

I guess people wouldn't have paid to see an ugly actor starring a high profile movie but this is still stupid.

Yeah. I just got back from Drive. I thought it was a great movie but hardly a 10. it was a stylistic movie in the best way possible but the plot was pretty boring. I loved it but objectively I cannot rate it as highly a, for example, ffc's The Conversation. A film I think is a good example of a story following a man who is good at his job but ends up getting caught in something he wasn't supposed to. I have more to say but I'm posting from my phone and it is a pain on the ass

Battle Los angeles

weak, just the most terrifically generic soldier characters and dialogue and essentially disappointing aliens. Shaky camera through the whole film, very very annoying. A lot of loud guns and explosions when I didn’t really know where or who anyone was, what they were doing etc.

tree of life - i didn't care for the higher brow stuff like creation of the world and how it relates to everything else and that's perhaps missing the whole point of the movie but the "story" itself was simple and beautifully shot and conceived, so in general i really liked it.

oh and brad pitt was pretty good in it.

yeah you can't separate the creation sequences from the family story, it's one and the same thing! I just noticed this from Film Quarterly and I think it's a brilliant twist on the pure evil behind this movie:

To be honest I am speechless, it's like when you watch Triumph of the Will and you feel like the spawn of Satan because you like it, it pushes certain buttons ... but at least you know the nazis were the bad guys, here it is so well disguised it's just too fucking scary. Like Obama or something.

should I get a subscription to Film Quarterly y/n ?

If The Tree of Life and Lubezki doesn't get best cinematography at the Oscars, something is wrong with the world (but I also said the same thing for a lot of other movies LOL). But then again he should have won it twice already.

The Wild Bunch (1969) - Brilliant

The Great Silence (1968) - Brilliant

Red State - Very shit / 10

  On 10/5/2011 at 11:13 PM, fenton said:

Red State - Very shit / 10

its getting good reviews from people who took a shit on 'cop out', mostly due to the fact that its not 'cop out'

has anyone here seen "The American"(2010)? Just wondering if it is worth watching. One of those movies with mixed reviews where half of the people are stupid or have bad taste but I cannot tell which half.

I have the same problem haha

ok I took another look and Senses of Cinema has 2800 words about it, this means I will watch The American in a day or two.

I wish I'd never discovered that Contact was directed by the same guy that did Forrest Gump.

MEN IN BLACK!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been thinking about this movie again for a few weeks. I loved it as a kid and I want to see it again. I have a feeling it's a legitimately good film that has been kind of forgotten.