Squee Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 I'll wait right here. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1036944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 i'll do my best for the breast man :) Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide lumpenprol's signature Hide all signatures After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside. - lost cloud I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work! So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces. -organized confused project Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1036948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 tv_party said: yawn. vanity abounds in almost any exposition. doesn't negate the fact that he at least attempted (and succeeded I would argue) to provide a valuable service practically tempered/compromised with focus relevant to the masses. a dry egoless comprehensive treatment would have been straight to dvd and buried. that shit is a dime a dozen. Exposition or expose? Personally, I don't think being a smarmy asshole counts as a public service. The film isn't meant to convince Xtians/Muslims/Jews to go apostate, it just functions as an intellectual reach-around for other smug atheists. Plus, Maher using the exact same ridiculously editorialized strategies that people like televangelists use to ridicule atheists makes him lose all credibility in my book. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 lumpenprol said: the girl with 4 nipples Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 zaphod said: haven't seen any of those, but i guess this thread is for us to post films we recently watched? can't be arsed to elaborate but: watchmen : bloated mess chungking express (criterion blu ray) : beautiful the aviator : really great biopic, my favorite scorsese movie hostel 2 : lol it gives me a hard on to know you like the aviator. I just watched Big Trouble In Little China and Magnum Force the other day, both good films, Big Trouble being awesomely rediculous. I also watched Gran Torino. I really like this film. Sure the cheesey asides that Eastwoods' character makes every 20 minutes can be a bit much, but really, the whole bad assedness of it is epic. I found the movie to be fun as hell. so fuck you. tv_party said: the adventures of baron munchausen - 8/10 uma thurman looks really good here love this movie, never understood why it did so poorly. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide essines's signature Hide all signatures On 8/19/2011 at 11:51 PM, Luke Fucking Hazard said: Essines has, and always will remind me of MacReady. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 essines said: tv_party said: the adventures of baron munchausen - 8/10 uma thurman looks really good here love this movie, never understood why it did so poorly. yeah, great film. Even that stupid steven chow (sp?) kung fu movie cribbed from it. ok, so last night I chose to revisit My Own Private Idaho (criterion version, ripped and reproduced by some enterprising Chinaman). It was as good as I remember it being when I saw it in theaters, as a young sexually inexperienced and thus somewhat ambiguous teen. Great, great film, flaws and all. Anyone who hasn't seen it or who thinks Van Sant is shit due to later films should check it out. Then this morning I finally got around to watching... DOGVILLE! I owe Lars Von Trier an apology for skipping this in the theater, as when I heard the concept of it taking place on a stage with white lines to indicated houses and props I figured it'd be pretentious. I also figured that after Breaking the Waves and Dancer in the Dark I was tired of his depressing shtick. I was happily proven wrong - it only took a moment to get accustomed to the lack of an environment for the actors, and the lively camera work compensated for what otherwise could have been too stagey/waiting for godot-like. Though it could have been a bit shorter and I'm not sure the voice over added anything, the ending was fantastic - I burst out laughing and it left me with a spring in my step. The whole thing ends up being basically just a big FUCK YOU to America and hypocritical and narrow minded people in general, which is kind of funny to devote a (3 hr?) film to. As an American I loled - 9/10. Probably Trier's best film that I've seen, in the sense that his message and techniques don't seem to be at odds with each other. I found the detached irony in Breaking the Waves to be annoying, for example, but here it works in service to the punchline. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide lumpenprol's signature Hide all signatures After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside. - lost cloud I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work! So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces. -organized confused project Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 (edited) My Own Private Idaho is a great film, despite having Keanu Reeves in it. Have you seen Drugstore Cowboy, Lumpy? If you haven't I'd recommend that it. Speaking of Van Sant, what didn't you like about Milk? Also... Dude, you promised nipples. Edited May 10, 2009 by takeshi Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide takeshi's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 (edited) lol, i was making a valiant attempt to get the thread back on track. About the four nipple girl, it sounds better than the reality - the extra nips aren't that different from moles, and have no breast tissue behind them. Her actual breasts are pretty incredible though so I will try to get a snap at some point. I just don't like taking pictures of someone if they aren't into it (ethics of posting on the net aside). Edit; Ah you edited too. I did see Drugstore Cowboy but need to see it again, it's completely faded out of my memory. The extra disc for Idaho also mentioned Mala Noche, would like to see that. In regards to Milk, I'm pretty sure I didn't give it a fair shake, and I would have liked to have made it as far as Josh Brolin's portrayal of Dan White. It just seemed a little to hagiographic and not erotic enough for me - as good as Sean Penn was I didn't feel any eroticism and I guess I'm just not interested in a PC gay movie if it doesn't have something that puts me outside of my comfort zone in some way. Edited May 10, 2009 by lumpenprol Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide lumpenprol's signature Hide all signatures After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside. - lost cloud I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work! So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces. -organized confused project Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 i hope mirezzi and zapod weigh in on dogville. Also, if you haven't seen it and want to, don't read reviews as they may spoil the ending. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide lumpenprol's signature Hide all signatures After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside. - lost cloud I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work! So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces. -organized confused project Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest melotronic Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 dogville was interesting, if bloated Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 lumpenprol said: i hope mirezzi and zapod weigh in on dogville. Also, if you haven't seen it and want to, don't read reviews as they may spoil the ending. Yeah, I should. I actually have it lying around somewhere and just never feel like I'll be in the mood to watch it. That reminds me that I need to put Mala Noche on my Netflix queue. It just got the Criterion treatment and I've only heard good things about it. philia said: the good, the bad, the weird - 6 yama no anata - 7 ashes of time redux - 9 helpless - 6.5 onna no mizuumi - 6 okuribito - 8.5 Where are you renting your films from, Philia? Because I haven't been able to find half the movies you've recommended to me. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide takeshi's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037724 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 (edited) tv_party said: so no point in addressing every tom dick and harry religion out there. 2 very large religions Buddhism an Hinduism i would not classify as 'tom dick and harry' the fact that Maher stayed away from them shows his obvious intellectual weaknesses. Simply put he had too much angsty knee jerk anti judeo-christianity in him to even wrap his head around non monotheistic religions. and for this i think his movie is head first dive into a 15 year olds atheistic discovery Edited May 10, 2009 by Awepittance Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide awepittance's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted May 10, 2009 Report Share Posted May 10, 2009 (edited) tv_party said: doesn't negate the fact that he at least attempted (and succeeded I would argue) to provide a valuable service practically tempered/compromised with focus relevant to the masses relevant to only the masses that practice in monotheistic religions (jews christians and muslims) the guy pussied out and couldn't handle doing anything else, he took the easy way out. there are many critiques one can give of the very nature of believing in God, unfortunately Maher didn't focus on this generality very much instead going around discrediting figureheads from various organized religions Actually to be honest i came away from the movie thinking Bill Maher secretly does believe in God because he never once as far as i could tell made an argument against why humans like to believe in god, just specific popular gods. If the guy had made a 30 second statement in his film to the effect of 'all religion's central thesis is the belief in or faith in a higher power, but in reality this belief in god is the adult equivalent to a child's lullaby to go to sleep. but in this case with an adult sleep means death' i would have enjoyed the movie significantly more. Edited May 10, 2009 by Awepittance Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide awepittance's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1037904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 i watched Big Touble In Little China the other day and I watched Gran Torino again today. I really like that movie. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide essines's signature Hide all signatures On 8/19/2011 at 11:51 PM, Luke Fucking Hazard said: Essines has, and always will remind me of MacReady. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mirezzi Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 I'm a big fan of Dogville and Von Trier generally. I think Dancer In the Dark is one of the most flawed masterpieces ever made. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) i've never seen dogville but von trier has got one bizarre looking horror movie coming out: Edited May 11, 2009 by zaphod Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 yeah I'm not sure if I just found Dogville funny because I've moved on from Trier's viewpoint, or if he genuinely meant it as something of a pisstake. When I first saw Breaking the Waves years ago I felt gut-punched, it really moved me. With Dancer in the Dark I was less moved, and with Dogville I just burst out laughing at the end. Maybe I'm just a bit more desensitized now, but I can't help but think that was partially his intent - it sorts of seems like a better version of "Natural Born Killers" - experimental cinema posing as social commentary that really just wants to rip off your head and shit down your neck hole. But then I read some reviews on IMDB and everyone seems to take it so seriously so I don't know...I just feel like Von Trier is basically a misanthropic, sadistic, and misogynistic guy who happens to have a peculiar sense of manipulative humor. I didn't find Dogville got under my skin or made me rethink human nature, but it was exhilarating in the sense that it has the form of one of those classic gothic American tales, like "The Lottery" or something by Flannery O' Connor or Faulkner, but then the ending totally breaks form. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide lumpenprol's signature Hide all signatures After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside. - lost cloud I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work! So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces. -organized confused project Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 (edited) zaphod said: i've never seen dogville but von trier has got one bizarre looking horror movie coming out: Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg ftw esp. if they're fucking Edited May 11, 2009 by Yegg Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 lumpenprol said: Von Trier is basically a misanthropic, sadistic, and misogynistic guy who happens to have a peculiar sense of manipulative humor I always had that feeling, too. And after watching this film that belief was affirmed. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide takeshi's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 yeah i get the feeling von trier is a complete prick who i would probably want to punch if i ever met him. unfortunately, like hitchcock before him, he's also the greatest living filmmaker. i hope you all have seen the kingdom. holy shit. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Yegg Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Von Trier is not a prick. Evidence. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abracadabra Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Just saw Holy Mountain. Hated it Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038312 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest analogue wings Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Yegg said: Von Trier is not a prick. yes but have you seen The Kingdom? Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 I can't see those youtube clips in china :( Apparently there's a doc called Dogville Confessions about how much of a prick (or choose your term) Von Trier is to actors: from imdb: "We discover that director Lars Von Trier doesn't get along with actors so well. And it really comes out in Confessions when we get to see first-hand how ineffectively he interacts with the actors, in particular with Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany and Stellan Skarsgard. We see tempers flare on set. There are tears, arguments, confusion." Apparently Paul Bettany was so intimidated by Von Trier he moved his bed away from where Von Trier slept. Given Bettany's fairly cold onscreen persona, I find that interesting if true. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide lumpenprol's signature Hide all signatures After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside. - lost cloud I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work! So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces. -organized confused project Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squee Posted May 11, 2009 Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Imagine growing up with this every friday night at the age 9-11: I both loved and hated it. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/43385-a-few-films-recently-watched/page/5/#findComment-1038463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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