A few films recently watched.

but cube was a 0

21 Jump Street - Wow. I had no idea going in that this was going to be like the Starsky & Hutch send-up. Nonetheless, I lol'd a LOT and developed newfound respect for Jonah Hill. Between his excellent performance in Moneyball and the lols he delivered as an actor/writer with 21 Jump Street, he's earned some love.

Tyrannosaur - Heartbreaking. Beautiful. Horrifying. Brutal. Unforgettable. It was very much reminiscent of My Name Is Joe and it's hard to imagine Paddy Considine not being intimately familiar with Ken Loach. Still, I was floored by not only the performances, but the elegance of the script and the photography. I hope Considine makes many more films. A few months ago, I wrote about another film, Biutiful, which for personal reasons made me cry like a little girl. With far more economy, Tyrannosaur is another film that proves you can write narratives that are fair enough to their audiences to deliver cringe-inducing horror and painful uplifting honesty all in the same two hour window.

  On 6/27/2012 at 6:27 PM, The Overlook said:

21 Jump Street - Wow. I had no idea going in that this was going to be like the Starsky & Hutch send-up. Nonetheless, I lol'd a LOT and developed newfound respect for Jonah Hill. Between his excellent performance in Moneyball and the lols he delivered as an actor/writer with 21 Jump Street, he's earned some love.

Channing Tatum was surprisingly funny as well.

Le quattro volte - 10/10 - simply. beautiful.

  On 6/27/2012 at 6:27 PM, The Overlook said:

Tyrannosaur - Heartbreaking. Beautiful. Horrifying. Brutal. Unforgettable. It was very much reminiscent of My Name Is Joe and it's hard to imagine Paddy Considine not being intimately familiar with Ken Loach. Still, I was floored by not only the performances, but the elegance of the script and the photography. I hope Considine makes many more films. A few months ago, I wrote about another film, Biutiful, which for personal reasons made me cry like a little girl. With far more economy, Tyrannosaur is another film that proves you can write narratives that are fair enough to their audiences to deliver cringe-inducing horror and painful uplifting honesty all in the same two hour window.

spot on. i thought tyrannosaur was an outstanding first full-length from considine and can't wait to see more from him... and i think i might have watched biutiful on your recommendation and loved it!

have you seen dogtooth? it had a similarly unsettling effect on me.

Dogtooth is a great film.

completely fucked.

Yet great.

martha marcy may marlene also had that similar cringeworthy, recoiling feeling but it lost momentum for me somehow, the tension just fizzled out.

but these films made me feel like i was watching real people, often in or on the verge of complete meltdown, in extremely believable and heartbreaking situations.

remembered another one recently watched which did the same... danish film - in a better world. really beautifully made and compelling, young lead characters.

  On 6/27/2012 at 6:27 PM, The Overlook said:

21 Jump Street - Wow. I had no idea going in that this was going to be like the Starsky & Hutch send-up. Nonetheless, I lol'd a LOT and developed newfound respect for Jonah Hill. Between his excellent performance in Moneyball and the lols he delivered as an actor/writer with 21 Jump Street, he's earned some love.

Agreed. My wife and I lol'd muchly.

  On 6/28/2012 at 12:31 PM, keltoi said:

spot on. i thought tyrannosaur was an outstanding first full-length from considine and can't wait to see more from him... and i think i might have watched biutiful on your recommendation and loved it!

^5, sweetheart.

Apparently, the half-Scotch in my veins runs deep, as my appetite and tolerance for bleak films is quite formidable.

biutiful was pitiful. a plot driven on coincidence, emotionally manipulative. inarritu by numbers.

strange, i found 21 jump street boring and unfunny, turned it off after an hour. interesting how opinions differ

  On 6/28/2012 at 8:39 PM, zaphod said:

biutiful was pitiful. a plot driven on coincidence, emotionally manipulative. inarritu by numbers.

Every other film of his, I'd agree (and have here on this very thread). Biutiful worked for me...intensely so.

  On 6/27/2012 at 6:37 PM, Squee said:

  On 6/27/2012 at 6:27 PM, The Overlook said:

21 Jump Street - Wow. I had no idea going in that this was going to be like the Starsky & Hutch send-up. Nonetheless, I lol'd a LOT and developed newfound respect for Jonah Hill. Between his excellent performance in Moneyball and the lols he delivered as an actor/writer with 21 Jump Street, he's earned some love.

 

Channing Tatum was surprisingly funny as well.

I thought 21 Jump Street was almost perfect for about 1/2 its running time, then it got both a bit too cartoonish (the car chase) and a bit too violent. I wish they could have ended it without a bunch of squibs squirting blood. Up until that point, all the physical comedy and high-school stuff stayed lighthearted and somewhat within the bounds of reality, which made it funnier. Still worth a watch.

Regarding Channing Tatum, I find it funny that the further his career goes, the more pronounced his gayface gets. When I saw him in GI Joe (yes I saw it) and The Eagle he looked like just another meathead, but now he's got that slightly puffy and warped look of too many nights on amyl nitrate face-down in the rug. He seems like a pretty cool dude, but I wonder about his shelf-life if he can't do the "heartthrob" thing.

  On 6/29/2012 at 12:51 AM, lumpenprol said:

  On 6/27/2012 at 6:37 PM, Squee said:

  On 6/27/2012 at 6:27 PM, The Overlook said:

21 Jump Street - Wow. I had no idea going in that this was going to be like the Starsky & Hutch send-up. Nonetheless, I lol'd a LOT and developed newfound respect for Jonah Hill. Between his excellent performance in Moneyball and the lols he delivered as an actor/writer with 21 Jump Street, he's earned some love.

 

Channing Tatum was surprisingly funny as well.

 

I thought 21 Jump Street was almost perfect for about 1/2 its running time, then it got both a bit too cartoonish (the car chase) and a bit too violent. I wish they could have ended it without a bunch of squibs squirting blood. Up until that point, all the physical comedy and high-school stuff stayed lighthearted and somewhat within the bounds of reality, which made it funnier. Still worth a watch.

 

Regarding Channing Tatum, I find it funny that the further his career goes, the more pronounced his gayface gets. When I saw him in GI Joe (yes I saw it) and The Eagle he looked like just another meathead, but now he's got that slightly puffy and warped look of too many nights on amyl nitrate face-down in the rug. He seems like a pretty cool dude, but I wonder about his shelf-life if he can't do the "heartthrob" thing.

Wow, totally agreed about the third act. It got very boring...car chase? Seriously? Guys with submachine guns, etc.? They sold themselves short there. The lols totally disappeared, too, and the cameo was A. boring and B. expected.

team america: world police - pupeteering work was great (made by guys of killer clowns from outer space fame!), but as a movie it's just bunch of poop jokes. not really buying the allegories (puppets, GET IT???!?) and all the hollywood beef trey parker has. but it wasn't bad or anything.

  On 6/29/2012 at 12:51 AM, lumpenprol said:

but now he's got that slightly puffy and warped look of too many nights on amyl nitrate face-down in the rug.

lol, wow

being flynn

7,5

Amadeus 8.9/10

  On 6/29/2012 at 12:51 AM, lumpenprol said:

his gayface

  On 6/28/2012 at 6:10 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 6/28/2012 at 12:31 PM, keltoi said:

spot on. i thought tyrannosaur was an outstanding first full-length from considine and can't wait to see more from him... and i think i might have watched biutiful on your recommendation and loved it!

 

^5, sweetheart.

 

Apparently, the half-Scotch in my veins runs deep, as my appetite and tolerance for bleak films is quite formidable.

about to watch TYRANnoSAUR

if it's anything like Dead Man's Shoes I'm guessing it will be entertaining and subtly humorous. as well as bleak.

  On 6/29/2012 at 4:11 AM, usagi said:

someday, I am going to trawl through this thread from page 1 and make a list and watch everything on that list.

 

  On 6/27/2012 at 4:16 AM, Bubba69 said:

cube 2 : Hypercube -- pretty awesome. If Cube is an 8, Cube 2 is a 7. Way better than I expected.

 

I'm actually watching Cube 3: Cube zero right now. Interesting so far.... We'll see how it holds up.

 

Cube has one of the best worst lines ever, the one about sticking your nose up other people's assholes and sniffing their business. My sister and I lol'd uncontrollably for five minutes.

 

 

Yeah lol. That movie has so many great lines. Cube 3 was fucking terrible though, it had some good ideas. So bad.

Whoever said cube was a 0 fuck you. I swear to god I will sniff your asshole if you say it again.

I've been meaning to watch Cube for like 15 years. I always used to see the box at Blockbuster, think "that looks cool." Then I'd see what the critics said and it was always negative so I'd let it go. I'll check it out now then.

  On 6/29/2012 at 4:51 AM, vamos scorcho said:

  On 6/28/2012 at 6:10 PM, The Overlook said:

  On 6/28/2012 at 12:31 PM, keltoi said:

spot on. i thought tyrannosaur was an outstanding first full-length from considine and can't wait to see more from him... and i think i might have watched biutiful on your recommendation and loved it!

 

^5, sweetheart.

 

Apparently, the half-Scotch in my veins runs deep, as my appetite and tolerance for bleak films is quite formidable.

 

about to watch TYRANnoSAUR

 

if it's anything like Dead Man's Shoes I'm guessing it will be entertaining and subtly humorous. as well as bleak.

Well, it wasn't entertaining, or humorous really. I like the characters the guy writes, and I like the actors (the guy who plays the Husband)

however I think the bleakness and "slowness" / "post-rock soundtrack" tends to water it down.

i think Considine should focus on Clint Eastwood classic imagery and extreme characterization, as well as faster pacing. I think this movie and many others like it have suffered from a slow pacing that tends to drag scenes out unnecessarily..

7/10. started off great then kind of meandered.