A few films recently watched.

The Artist: -very enjoyable "bring your mom for the ride"/10

marathoned thru games of thrones in 2 days. often hilariously retarded and yet quite captivating and interesting. the production is top notch, must be the one of the most expensive tv shows.. and yet the sword-fighting looked disappointingly limp. the best part was how they treated the unnatural and all that jazz regarding "north of the wall", i really liked that tension. shame that they kinda broke it with that zombie with poor makeup and a hottie with 3 dragons, though the latter was still pretty awesome. the amounts of tits and butts and even a few penises, while obviously catering to the d&d virgins, adds something refreshing to the show. many, in fact even most characters are quite interesting, especially the dwarf, so it was really fun following them from episode to episode. 8/10

those who have liked this one should definitely check out paul verhoeven's "flesh+blood".

  On 2/25/2012 at 5:58 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 2/25/2012 at 6:02 AM, Atop said:

'A Dangerous Method' is Cronenberg sexy, i.e. repressed, angry, and naughty.

compared to what? lion king?

No, compared to Crash, Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers, Videodrome, History of Violence, and The Brood. Have you never seen a Cronenberg film? There were no sexually-charged whippings in the Lion King from what I can recall, you punk.

Naqoyqatsi: 6/10 Visually and musically too inferior to Powaaqatsi and especially Koyaasqatsi. Also I kinda failed to get it's "point" even though I really tried.

  On 2/25/2012 at 10:08 PM, Atop said:

  On 2/25/2012 at 5:58 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 2/25/2012 at 6:02 AM, Atop said:

'A Dangerous Method' is Cronenberg sexy, i.e. repressed, angry, and naughty.

compared to what? lion king?

 

No, compared to Crash, Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers, Videodrome, History of Violence, and The Brood. Have you never seen a Cronenberg film? There were no sexually-charged whippings in the Lion King from what I can recall, you punk.

i've seen all those films except the brood and dead ringers, the distance between those movies and a dangerous method is the same between a dangerous method and lion king...

IMFO

  On 2/25/2012 at 6:02 AM, Atop said:

especially the alien bits that had to be cgi'd because we are not sure what a formless creature looks like.......erm

 

I enjoyed the remake way more than I thought I would....but apparently I am in the minority here on many of my opinions.

 

what they should have done was use actually props and then make them look better with cgi, and not just use total cgi which looked way too cartoonish

The Artist - Beautiful!

not gimmicky Squee??? Sound editors can still have jobs?

and to Michael Jackson, you need to drink more of your Jesus juice to know

that there is not one ounce of sex in the Lion King.

Thanks for loving my temper as much as Macauly Culkin.

  On 2/26/2012 at 5:44 AM, Atop said:

not gimmicky Squee??? Sound editors can still have jobs?

Nah, I really liked it. Jean Dujardin was a really charismatic fella. Actually, the whole movie was extremely charismatic. I enjoyed every moment of it and I just want to eat Uggie the Dog up! Look at him! He's adorable!

'Gummo'

Can't say I didn't love it. Because I did. Korine is an... odd dude.

  On 2/26/2012 at 5:44 AM, Atop said:

and to Michael Jackson, you need to drink more of your Jesus juice to know

that there is not one ounce of sex in the Lion King.

that's exactly the point!

ffs did you really thought that i meant that there's sexual references on lion king?

  On 2/26/2012 at 5:44 AM, Atop said:

and to Michael Jackson, you need to drink more of your Jesus juice to know

that there is not one ounce of sex in the Lion King.

well, my my , that is one sexy stare...so yes MJ I thought you were being literal.

The Way Back - 7/10

Paprika- typical japanese animated film... 8.2/10

  On 2/26/2012 at 9:59 PM, logakght said:

Paprika- typical japanese animated film... 8.2/10

no, it's not actually. Highly untypical for japanese anime and an interesting story that christopher nolan stole and made less interesting

hanna - 7/10 loads more enjoyable than i was expecting. good looking film with tense atmosphere. chem bros soundtrack was ok in parts but mostly forgettable.

gosford park - Couldn't work out whether this was too easy to solve as a murder mystery or whether it was because I'd seen it before (10 years ago). I don't see how I didn't figure out the murder immediately the first time around. Either way (as with any Altman film) it's so much more than the sum of its parts. Brilliant. Altman is a Genius. Also Kelly McDonald .8.25 / 10

  On 2/25/2012 at 2:35 AM, tauboo said:

  On 2/24/2012 at 11:01 PM, chris moss acid said:

i bought some films to watch over this weekend, most i've seen before but i bought them due to the extras. but there is one film i got which got reccomended to me by a lovely french girl: Latcho Drom

 

DVD's i got are:

 

zoolander

and 3 disc SE of black hawk down.

also going to finish off this ken burns baseball documentary this weekend. what a epic documentary!

+ eight men down

still watching that documentary? hahaha

yeah in the bottom 10th innings at the moment. up to just after the diamondbacks won the world series in 2001/barry bonds beating mcguires / like like 24 hours long! anf beautifully put together

  On 2/25/2012 at 12:32 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

American Psycho 10/10

i watched it for like the 8time and it just feels like a classic to me

Christian Bale rocks it, and who wouldn't wanna ram an axe in Jared Leto's head

absolute classic. agree on your score

  On 2/27/2012 at 7:47 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 2/25/2012 at 12:32 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

American Psycho 10/10

i watched it for like the 8time and it just feels like a classic to me

Christian Bale rocks it, and who wouldn't wanna ram an axe in Jared Leto's head

 

absolute classic. agree on your score

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsjgoPM977E

God damn, I love that movie.

I should really read the book again.

  On 2/27/2012 at 2:24 AM, dr lopez said:

  On 2/26/2012 at 9:59 PM, logakght said:

Paprika- typical japanese animated film... 8.2/10

no, it's not actually. Highly untypical for japanese anime and an interesting story that christopher nolan stole and made less interesting

i guess you havent seen Nightmare on Elm St 3 The Dream Warriors or Dreamscape starring Dennis quaid which both came out almost 2 decades before Paprika?

  On 2/25/2012 at 10:09 PM, gaarg said:

Naqoyqatsi: 6/10 Visually and musically too inferior to Powaaqatsi and especially Koyaasqatsi. Also I kinda failed to get it's "point" even though I really tried.

yeah, the director of the trilogy screwed the pooch on that one. Not only does it visually look like a lot of cheesy stock footage we've all seen before, it's processed in an already very dated way.

I also thought the music was the weakest of the trilogy, letting Yo-Yo ma steamroll over/overshadow with his gregarious playing what might have been a very good Philip Glass score

  On 2/27/2012 at 11:33 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 2/25/2012 at 10:09 PM, gaarg said:

Naqoyqatsi: 6/10 Visually and musically too inferior to Powaaqatsi and especially Koyaasqatsi. Also I kinda failed to get it's "point" even though I really tried.

 

yeah, the director of the trilogy screwed the pooch on that one. Not only does it visually look like a lot of cheesy stock footage we've all seen before, it's processed in an already very dated way.

I also thought the music was the weakest of the trilogy, letting Yo-Yo ma steamroll over/overshadow with his gregarious playing what might have been a very good Philip Glass score

I still feel good about having watched all three movies so now I can only watch Koyaanisqatsi for 140 more times and a few Powas now and then...

i am reading Glamorama currently. Patrick Bateman and Christian Bale both made appearances.

and no i haven't seen zoolander