A few films recently watched.

  On 1/13/2012 at 12:34 PM, iep said:

  On 1/13/2012 at 12:28 PM, keltoi said:

  On 1/13/2012 at 11:23 AM, vasio said:

Logan's Run (1976) in HD

 

does HD actually transform old film stock into amazing hi-res? amazing!

 

"HD" haha. i suppose it's the best digital transfer, compared to video cassettes (no shit sherlock). i'm not a big fan of the film itself, although yes she looks pretty there..

 

jenny agutter is enough reason to watch that film but i always liked it regardless.

THE FOLLOWING IS NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFWATMM!!!

  On 1/13/2012 at 12:55 AM, kinski said:

got back to movie watching after a while. here's from last two days.

 

carnage!

loved every second of it.

everybody go see carnage now! or again.

it's too funny. minimal and classy, too.

 

mean girls was pretty good for a linday lohan movie, made me chuckle.

 

carnage looks like a rental

mean girls was written by tina fey. i rate it

  On 1/13/2012 at 4:26 AM, kinski said:

just saw 'we need to talk about kevin'. pretty boring remake of 'omen' with thom yorke in a drag as the female lead. not recommended.

i lol'd

  On 1/13/2012 at 11:32 AM, LUDD said:

the tree of life - Pretty looking, bloated, self obsessed, pretentious sixth form drivel with a big budget. Fuck off Terrence Malick - You owe me two and a half hours.

i really wanted to like it and it didnt make it easy. don't think i'll ever revisit either

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so I'm considering going to see meloncholia this weekend. or should i watch antichrist at home instead?

  On 1/13/2012 at 6:50 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

 

so I'm considering going to see meloncholia this weekend. or should i watch antichrist at home instead?

both. starting with antichrist, finishing with melancholia.

antichrist is great. could not sit through melancholia. dunst nudes are not enough.

and tina fey was the reason i got mean girls in the first place, ha.

not an 'antichrist' fan. the first time i watched it i thought it was pretty good then steadily lost interest

the second time my feelings were even more negative. i couldn't help but feel it was far more style than substance.

still, some pretty interesting scenes. i haven't liked any von trier i've seen other than dogville, which was great.

  On 1/13/2012 at 7:30 PM, kinski said:

antichrist is great. could not sit through melancholia. dunst nudes are not enough.

 

and tina fey was the reason i got mean girls in the first place, ha.

one of the most beautiful shots of the movie. bathing in melancholia's lighting...

shit keltoi, i'm gonna go and say that she looks better with that stunning dress on

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Yes. Can't wait.

  On 1/13/2012 at 7:39 PM, iep said:

shit keltoi, i'm gonna go and say that she looks better with that stunning dress on

way to come out bro

  On 1/13/2012 at 1:49 PM, keltoi said:

  On 1/13/2012 at 12:34 PM, iep said:

  On 1/13/2012 at 12:28 PM, keltoi said:

  On 1/13/2012 at 11:23 AM, vasio said:

Logan's Run (1976) in HD

 

does HD actually transform old film stock into amazing hi-res? amazing!

 

"HD" haha. i suppose it's the best digital transfer, compared to video cassettes (no shit sherlock). i'm not a big fan of the film itself, although yes she looks pretty there..

 

 

jenny agutter is enough reason to watch that film but i always liked it regardless.

The correct rating for Logan's Run has always been simply: A/10

where "A" is the subjective enjoyment of viewing Agutter. As a variable, A is dependent on a number of factors, including picture quality (where the picture includes Agutter) and the viewer's attraction to Agutter. So it's not a perfect system. But let's assume that my inherent, subjective enjoyment of Agutter is nontrivial, such that A/10 is usually approaching 1.

Does the digital transfer increase the picture quality sufficiently to give us a 2A or even a 1.2A if we clarify that A is the subjective enjoyment of viewing Agutter in standard definition?

This is really all I'm interested in knowing.

kthx

re: keloti, i think you'd be quite surprised just how goddam good some really old movies look in HD. Movies on 30mm, no matter how old they are will always be higher resolution than a standard old TV set

Agutter will always have a special place in my pants. 'An American Werewolf in London', 'Walkabout', and 'Logan's Run'...three films that I love and she is naked in all of them. She had talented boobs. And a lovely face.

LUDD YOU ARE SO CORRECT ABOUT 'THE TREE OF LIFE'.

Scares me to think that we agree on such matters.

Hold me mommy.

And to whomever was wondering about watching Von Trier films should watch them all.

except for manderlay. I made it through 15 agonizing minutes of that one.

Dream House - Everyone involved with this film should be fired from their jobs and force to clean horse shit at stables.

SENNA - 8/10 - good documentary interesting + entertaining. spooky sense of inevitablity to it (maybe reading too much into it) but really did look like he knew he was about to check out in that footage of him sitting in his car before he read some weird bible passage about going to meet god or something. also was interesting seeing the backdoor politics/favouritism that goes on in that kind of sport

Kill list - 3/10 - british movie looked like a tv show (maybe because of low budget but still). was entertaining enough till it got stupid towards the end (even tho it was obviously leading up to something it was still stupid and seemed like a different film tacked on) also was confused by the laugh at the end? some of the violence was trying to hard to be shocking too (bit with hammer particularly) + the editing seemed weird/jumpy probably intentionaly but actually thought it was broke at first.

Treasure of the Sierra Madre - 8/10 - good old movie, was entertaining and had an original story and the characters were kind of unsympathetic without being unlikeable and you could see why they acted the way they did even if they were being dicks + ruining their chances of making off with the gold

submarine - 5/10 - nother british movie but this one actually did mostly seem like a film and not tv for once. was pretty entertaining at first but would maybe have been a better short film cos it got really boring/pointless in the middle . bit too quirky for its own good + i really hated most of the people in it but was basically ok overall

Poltergeist - 7/10 - hadnt watched all this before. Read somewhere that spielberg actually directed this movie but couldnt take credit for some technical reasons or something. if so its one of his better/ less sentimentalised films and was good top quality bumper entertainment in a slightly cheesy 80s family ghost story style. weird that both the daughters died after making the film too

after watching The Bedford Incident twice last week, i saw Dr Strangelove again. best ever? maybe.

  On 1/13/2012 at 8:39 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

 

way to come out bro

i'm not your bro, pal

Watched Mistérios de Lisboa (something like Mysteries of Lisbon when translated)yesterday. It surprised me because it's darker that what i was expecting, but it is really wonderfuly crafted. I noticed how one doesn't get to see a wide shot of Lisbon, or any other location during the 4 and half hours of the fim. There are always only close up shots of the locations, and then the interiors, which kind of adds a bit of mystery to the whole thing. The color pallette is beautiful too - lots of gold, dark green and grey tones. Also it is filmed in Portugal with Portuguese actors, which one doesn't get to see that often. Recommended.

  On 1/14/2012 at 8:47 PM, ruiagnelo said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj3BDpBmgKU&hd=1

 

Watched Mistérios de Lisboa (something like Mysteries of Lisbon when translated)yesterday. It surprised me because it's darker that what i was expecting, but it is really wonderfuly crafted. I noticed how one doesn't get to see a wide shot of Lisbon, or any other location during the 4 and half hours of the fim. There are always only close up shots of the locations, and then the interiors, which kind of adds a bit of mystery to the whole thing. The color pallette is beautiful too - lots of gold, dark green and grey tones. Also it is filmed in Portugal with Portuguese actors, which one doesn't get to see that often. Recommended.

lol fuck off.

  On 1/14/2012 at 8:48 PM, YO303 said:

  On 1/14/2012 at 8:47 PM, ruiagnelo said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj3BDpBmgKU&hd=1

 

Watched Mistérios de Lisboa (something like Mysteries of Lisbon when translated)yesterday. It surprised me because it's darker that what i was expecting, but it is really wonderfuly crafted. I noticed how one doesn't get to see a wide shot of Lisbon, or any other location during the 4 and half hours of the fim. There are always only close up shots of the locations, and then the interiors, which kind of adds a bit of mystery to the whole thing. The color pallette is beautiful too - lots of gold, dark green and grey tones. Also it is filmed in Portugal with Portuguese actors, which one doesn't get to see that often. Recommended.

 

lol fuck off.

you don't even need to give any explanation

There is no way i'm watching a 4 and a half hours film, thats a whole Adderall wasted.

of course you wouldn't, you rather watch 10 episodes of inbeetweeners crap LOL peace

  On 1/14/2012 at 8:50 PM, YO303 said:

There is no way i'm watching a 4 and a half hours film, thats a whole Adderall wasted.

mute the film and watch it with drukqs playing from start to end

yeah, I didn't watch the inbeetweeners series back to back. If you want to make a four and a half hour film make it a mini-series on HBO it would work better that way, the only people that would invest in such a film in one sitting are snobs that stare at weird art for hours and pretend to analyse the artists with pseudo psychology.

  On 1/14/2012 at 8:56 PM, YO303 said:

snobs that stare at weird art for hours and pretend to analyse the artists with pseudo psychology.

this is you