A few films recently watched.

  On 3/5/2012 at 8:24 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

Heat

I had a good memory of this film but it didnt hold up well in 2012. the story was weak, pacino was awful. and it was 2 hours and 40 minutes. i could not remember a time when I was not watching this film. ugh. some good parts but overall not good.

Pacino has been so terrible since, like, 1979, that all I want to do whenever I see Pacino is kick him in the nuts.

I'm forcibly including Scarface in the Terrible Pacino Era because unlike De Niro, Pacino doesn't seem to be in on his own joke, even though the joke can be occasionally amusing, as in Scarface.

The sound design in Heat is still amazing, the weapons sound so heavy and powerful, for those scenes alone it's worth to watch the movie.

mann is a fantastic director from technological point of view, his 00's movies especially look and sound amazing.

I think heat suffers by being kinda obvious where its going. maybe when it came out we didnt EXPECT twists and turns in movies like we do now.

I was trying to think of pacino's best work aside from godfather what else do we have? i can't remember scareface at all.

i read that in heat his character was supposed to have a coke addiction but it got cut out. might explain why he played it that way

looking at michael mann;s imdb directorial list i can also see I am not a fan of his work either so maybe heat was just a bad choice for me. last one i saw was public enemies which wasn't much good

  On 3/5/2012 at 8:24 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

Night

I had a good memory of this film but it didnt hold up well in 2012. the story was weak, pacino was awful. and it was 2 hours and 40 minutes. i could not remember a time when I was not watching this film. ugh. some good parts but overall not good.

 

hard candy - watched it because it's on iplayer. it was alright but not my kind of thing (listening to two people shout and stuff for 90 minutes). but i was kind of satisfied with where it went after the uneasy intro.

finally saw Drive....really great film...straightforward but still feels noirish....the soundtrk is fucking amazing, huge scarface tribute (and i never thought I could say that as a compliment). beautiful cinematography....Gosling is fantastic....did not expect this performance....the way he cracks some of his words under pressure...great stuff.

8/10

  On 3/6/2012 at 12:05 AM, Obel said:

  On 3/5/2012 at 8:24 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

Night

I had a good memory of this film but it didnt hold up well in 2012. the story was weak, pacino was awful. and it was 2 hours and 40 minutes. i could not remember a time when I was not watching this film. ugh. some good parts but overall not good.

 

lol

I love Heat. I just love the shit out of it and if that's wrong, I don't wanna be right.

  On 3/3/2012 at 5:42 AM, eugene said:

young adult - 8/10 - really liked this one,

 

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it's basically charlize theron being a hot, obnoxious, superficial cunt for 90 minutes and there's not even a resolve or a "moral of the story is..", just fucking irl misery and bleakness, great.

 

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Hahaha :D

Just finished watching Twin Peaks after so long trying to get through it. Hurray for unemployment.

Jesus christ, I loved it. Even though some of the '92 special effects had laughing.

The last episode might be the most unnerving thing I've ever watched. Fucking loved it.

  On 3/6/2012 at 9:53 AM, impakt said:

  On 3/3/2012 at 5:42 AM, eugene said:

young adult - 8/10 - really liked this one,

 

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it's basically charlize theron being a hot, obnoxious, superficial cunt for 90 minutes and there's not even a resolve or a "moral of the story is..", just fucking irl misery and bleakness, great.

 

 

 

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Wouldn't you say there's a resolve when we find out about the post-abortion depression which has lead her into a state of psychosis? It was pretty obvious from early in the film with the hair pulling, alcoholism, dreaming away in her books etc.

 

yeah, exactly!

I think Ides of March and Margin Call were very underated last year

more like underexposed, everyone who has seen those really liked them both i think

i keep considering watching them but then think, i can't be bothered with US politics and $$$

underexposed is correct. no oscar noms for either though and I think they were both very much of the year they were made and relevant. but instead they concentrate on movies about the past. not that the oscars are relevant but you know it'd be nice if they were

ides of march was the better of the two. interesting look at how good politicians get corrupted. it seemed realistic too - something that boss failed at by making tom kane a monster.

considering rewatching the west wing - think it'll hold up and still be relevant?

  On 3/6/2012 at 8:15 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

I think Ides of March and Margin Call were very underated last year

i tried to watch Margin Call but fell asleep, given that it's inexplicably Rush Limbaugh's favorite movie of 2011 i will watch it one of these days just out of sheer curiosity

well it is full of sluts

The Secret World of Arriety - 5/10 - I never read the book it's based on but it felt like the story had just started to get interesting when the movie ended. The beginning of the film felt very slow, so much that it felt a bit disconnected from the rest. There are also a few other things (disappearing and reappearing characters, unclear motivations) that make me think maybe the American version was truncated. But one of the biggest offences in the film is the music. There's a theme song that plays throughout the film that is just such awful treacle, sung by a twelve year old. Made me miss Joe Hisaishi's scores for Miyazaki's films. Also, it could be me but the animation at the beginning seemed noticeably sloppier than the rest of the film.

the postman - whoa this was really bad

landscape in the mist - 8/10

"Jeg er Levende"/"I am Alive"

A short, 40 minute portrait of danish poet Søren Ulrik Thomsen directed by Jørgen Leth.

Very, very enjoyable. Insightful, subtle portrait and the jazzy music and poetic, melancholic imagery was so god damn good.

So good that I even ordered the record by the artists right away. Tomasz Stánko - Litania: The Music of Krysztof Komeda.

  On 3/7/2012 at 9:10 PM, takeshi said:

The Secret World of Arriety - 5/10 - I never read the book it's based on but it felt like the story had just started to get interesting when the movie ended. The beginning of the film felt very slow, so much that it felt a bit disconnected from the rest. There are also a few other things (disappearing and reappearing characters, unclear motivations) that make me think maybe the American version was truncated. But one of the biggest offences in the film is the music. There's a theme song that plays throughout the film that is just such awful treacle, sung by a twelve year old. Made me miss Joe Hisaishi's scores for Miyazaki's films. Also, it could be me but the animation at the beginning seemed noticeably sloppier than the rest of the film.

oh and, little people can jump off a table without hurting themselves, they didn't need all that "technology" lol

thought i'm not really sure if i'm right, gravity, weight and stuff...