A few films recently watched.

it's screening on a loop in hell. waterloo sunset plays over a montage of bill murray staring wistfully into space while masturbating in various children's hospitals..

Furry Vengeance. Chubby Brendan Frasier spazzing out, bad CG forest animals up to no good, highly forced one-liners, typical children's movie story arch, and a vague message about preserving the earth. What's not to love.

Reflections in a Golden Eye - 8/10

  On 5/29/2012 at 8:51 PM, zaphod said:

it's screening on a loop in hell. waterloo sunset plays over a montage of bill murray staring wistfully into space while masturbating in various children's hospitals..

i really fucking hated that scene from aquatic adventures of steve zissou where he set an underwater feel-goody scene to that sigur ros song from takk.

i liked that song so much, and it was definitely diminished (if just temporarily) by its inclusion and association with that awful cheese.

edit: i should add that's the last time i saw a wes anderson flick, so at least i'm not a masochist.

  On 5/30/2012 at 2:22 AM, Deep Fried Everything said:

edit: i should add that's the last time i saw a wes anderson flick, so at least i'm not a masochist.

Ditto. I was in a theater, too, so having paid $8 to endure that dogshit, I vowed never to do so again.

The wife tried to lure me into Mr. Fox and after 20 minutes of it, I vowed once again to never revisit Wes Anderson. Until the next time, that is.

  On 5/29/2012 at 8:34 PM, zaphod said:

battleship - i was driving down a particularly awful strip of highway in northern virginia and my car started to overheat. it was disgusting out and from the road i could see what appeared to be a marquee for a movie theater. i pulled into the empty parking lot and decided to watch whatever was showing at that time (around noon). battleship was the only thing playing so i bought a six dollar matinee ticket and a six dollar small coke and sat down in what might have been the shittiest multiplex i've ever been in. there was no usher to take my ticket and i realized i could have just walked into the theater, but one does not simply do this. before the film began i was treated to rave cinema's "crave" reel where frozen up photos of people eating hamburgers (not available in that particular theater) enticed me to leave and purchase more food. i didn't. then i was taken on a ride in some kind of rollercoaster from an eighties computer graphics demo reel and shot out into space where i saw "the future of cinema". this was the rave experience. my seat began to creak as i adjusted my boxer briefs which had stuffed themselves into my asscrack. sweat was dripping down my back and onto the floor, mixing with dead skin particles and crushed m&ms. a trailer began that consisted of subsonic bass tones and vague images where the most important emotional beats were the production company logos. why was i doing this? what did i stand to gain from watching taylor kitsch's premature ejaculation of a career stain the soft, perfumed linens of another summer? i couldn't do this anymore. it was time to make a change. i felt the skin on my back stretch and rip off as i tore myself from the seat, made my way out of the theater and back to my car. i would rather sit in mid day sweltering midatlantic heat and humidity in a car that doesn't run than watch another "fun" "explosive" "blockbuster" "entertainment" that i can complain about later for the approval of people on the internet. i rolled the windows up in my car and let the heat overtake me. eventually, my body gave in and i succumbed to dehydration and heatstroke. my corpse was found two days later by a landscaping crew. i am writing this post from a wifi connection in hell.

Fucking bravo, that was well done. lol.

So much Wes Anderson hate. Guess he falls into the realm of too hipster for watmm's ultra left-of-field standards.

I for one am excited to see Moonrise Kingdom. I wager it won't disappoint.

Some wonderful tension in that piece of prose zaphod, Great Job!

Morvern Callar - 8.5/10

I read the book a few years ago - it was fairly ok I think - but have only recently got around to watching the adaptation. To be honest, I can't recall enough about the book to compare the two so I don't even know why I brought that up, except to say, 'hey, look at me! I read a book!'. My memory's shit. Anyway, I really liked the film and the soundtrack was perfect.

Goon - 8/10 - the mother fucking Rocky of hockey. Sean William Scott owns the role like Hugh Hefner owns smoking jackets. Great sports film.

lol zaphod

we need to talk about kevin - so grim, nightmarish (especially for a newish dad) that a child could hate their mother so much... really not sure the point this movie's trying to make though*... it felt rushed and overly long at the same time if that's possible - maybe since i know it's an adaptation of a novel and even though i haven't read it, i felt like a lot must have been missed out in terms of character and plot development... tilda swinton was amazing but i found it hard to take john c. reilly seriously as a straight actor.

* kind of spoiler -

dunno... 6.5/10

Winters Bone 10/10

Great movie with very real violence.

Mission Impossible 6,7/10

Better than expected but far from epic. its ok

  On 5/29/2012 at 8:41 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

anyone seen moonrise kingdom yet? is it playign in hell zaphid?

This looks really great. I hope I just didn't read one of the major spoilers

ed norton and (to a lesser extent) bruce willis looks so out of place in that film. surely owen wilson was busy

I don't know if I can subject myself to post-1990s Ed Norton anymore.

Speaking of, saw the Avengers this weekend without seeing any of the recent Marvel movies (aside from the first Iron Man). Enjoyed the Avengers thoroughly for what it is.

My Weekend with Marilyn - 4/10 - I guess I didn't know that some people consider(ed) Marilyn Monroe a good actress. So, right off the bat, I can't really get behind the premise of this film. Mostly she just comes across as a beautiful, immature woman that needed constant attention and because of this naturally gravitated towards the film industry. Michelle Williams is good enough I guess but there are scenes where Monroe is supposed to be "figuring out her character" that are truly laughable. Even though, I don't think this was the intention. Maybe the dumb blonde/bimbo wasn't such a stereotype then? By the end of the film, I could only think about how actual actresses must have felt about the lack of significant roles during the era that this film portrays (late fifties).

Sleeping Dogs Lie - 3/10 - This was a lot broader than I expected. Which is saying a lot when the central point of the film is the main character blowing a dog. It also looks like a tv movie.

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone - I'm reluctant to rate this yet. I've only made it 20 minutes into this before I had to turn it off. I love me some Fishbone but this documentary is subpar. The opening credits look like a powerpoint presentation and the editing is just... The clips of interviews look decent so I know there are things worth watching in this. Gonna have to try to finish this sometime soon.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Competent. No more or less. Fincher for Hire™. I enjoyed certain aspects of the sound design more than anything else. The romance was laughably implausible unless you're down with pedophilia.

the ass rape scene was the only part i enjoyed

i bought a vampire motorcycle - being the man of sophisticated taste, my dad show me this when i was 7 or so (my frst ever memories of movies are return of the living dead and cat's eye, all dad's picks as well). watching this again all those years later i must say that it's not living up to the title, sadly. really boring and half assed.

  On 5/30/2012 at 11:20 PM, The Overlook said:

The romance was laughably implausible unless you're down with pedophilia.

The Martin/Lisbeth romance? Not saying it wasn't implausible, but where you get that pedophilia thing. Both were adults. The age difference?

yeah lisbeth was like 25, no? just skinny and small.

i dont know though, ive only read the books, the romance worked ok in them.

  On 5/30/2012 at 11:44 PM, azatoth said:

  On 5/30/2012 at 11:20 PM, The Overlook said:

The romance was laughably implausible unless you're down with pedophilia.

 

The Martin/Lisbeth romance? Not saying it wasn't implausible, but where you get that pedophilia thing. Both were adults. The age difference?

I'm saying she looked 13 and had the mental age of a 12 year-old.

I'm not being altogether serious, it just fell flat for me and took me completely out of the already genre-zzzz narrative.

Overlook, are some kind of insane manatee?

First of all, she doesn't look 13 at all, second of all..well there is no second of all, my first point destroys your argument. I think you are projecting your own fantasies, you are a sick man Overlook.

  Quote

I'm saying she looked 13 and had the mental age of a 12 year-old.

What is this sentence? doesn't make a lick of sense.

every girl secretly dreams of fucking Daniel Craig

  On 5/31/2012 at 1:11 AM, YO303 said:

Overlook, are some kind of insane manatee?

OBVIOUSLY he's an insane manatee