A few films recently watched.

  On 10/2/2012 at 9:30 AM, kinski said:

WEIRD SCIENCE - two teenagers make a perfect girl and NOT use her as a sex slave? come on now. plus, again, the teenagers are so fucking sad and lonely THEY MAKE UP A WOMAN TO HAVE SOMEONE TO HANG OUT WITH. this is so depressing and in no way funny.

lol?

I'm Still Here - flol/10. I have no idea what this is. Lots of funny uncomfortable scenes and lots of dick shots.

Drive - 6/10. Overrated imo. Good soundtrack, Albert Brooks was good, as was Cranston and Gosling [though the character he was given was very strange (possibly autistic? didn't really make sense)]. Lots of style and flash and not enough thought put into the characters and their motivations. Violence was way too jarring. I can understand that they were going for a stark contrast kind of thing, but I just thought it was cartoonishly violent.

  On 10/2/2012 at 9:30 AM, kinski said:

PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES - another sad-o-rama trying to be funny. and steve martin and john candy are probably the least funny people on the planet so they ruined his movie for me from the start, so they're no helping.

Why bother seeing it when the only people in it are "probably the least funny people on the planet"?

  On 10/2/2012 at 4:11 PM, spratters said:

  On 10/2/2012 at 9:30 AM, kinski said:

PLANES TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES - another sad-o-rama trying to be funny. and steve martin and john candy are probably the least funny people on the planet so they ruined his movie for me from the start, so they're no helping.

 

Why bother seeing it when the only people in it are "probably the least funny people on the planet"?

well, as i said, i was catching up with john hughes.

  On 10/2/2012 at 8:06 AM, chaosmachine said:

chronicle

 

the cgi isn't totally convincing at points, but who cares. the concept is great, and i liked the story.

 

best thing since primer / 10

What the hell, Chaos liked Chronicle too?

  On 10/2/2012 at 9:30 AM, kinski said:

 

THE JEDI TRYLOGY- so i kinda avoided it ever since seing it in the 90s as a kid, but started to feeling like a popculture retard. and i gave it a shot and holy lightsaber batman, this is some great stuff. i can't think of more consistent film trilogy ever. first one is less flashy but more witty and funny so it all levels out. great piece of cinema.

wth are you talking about I don't even...I'm going to imagine you're talking about some parodies that stand in the same relationship to Star Wars as Meet the Feebles stands in relationship to the Muppet Show...

Miller's Crossing 10/10

Man Who Wasn't There 8.7/10

These movies are both about repressed homosexuality. Look it up.

  On 10/1/2012 at 8:40 PM, lifeforce said:

  On 9/30/2012 at 5:32 PM, vamos scorcho said:

snowtown -

 

kind of wish i hadn't watched this. it's extremely unpleasant. frankly it just seems like a more well made version of August Underground, the Guinea Pig movies, or any of those faux snuff films. not recommended.

 

it's time you won't get back, and when it's over all you're left with is a really deep feeling of depression. it's like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer or Gummo mixed with Cannibal Holocaust. No redeeming qualities, really. Just disturbing, depraved crap (at its core). Really well made disturbing depraved crap. But not recommended unless you like any of the movies I mentioned.

 

I felt like that after watching an Austrian (I think) film called 'Funny Games' a few years back. Terribly disturbing and upsetting.

Funny Games is one of my favorite movies. It was a bit more philosophical, and the directing style was nearly at Hitchcock levels of control. But yeah, it was fucked up. Though imo nowhere near Snowtown, because Funny Games had a lot of winks to the camera. In some ways that movie was almost a really, really black comedy.

Not to mention that part of the reason I disliked Snowtown was the thought I put into the topic of "violence in films" after watching Funny Games.

Looper - 7/10 pretty entertaining but could have been better.

American Reunion - 1/10 nuff said

J. Edgar - 8/10 Clint Eastwood tries to be Oliver Stone

  On 10/2/2012 at 6:18 PM, vamos scorcho said:

 

Funny Games is one of my favorite movies.

oh and btw, have you seen this?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459387/

  On 10/2/2012 at 11:09 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 10/2/2012 at 6:18 PM, vamos scorcho said:

Funny Games is one of my favorite movies.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/

 

 

oh and btw, have you seen this?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459387/

piano teacher is a classic imo. i like all his movies to very high levels except Benny's video. my favorite is Code Unknown with 70 fragments close behind.

I have not seen The Great Ecstasy. the cover looks good.

HANCOCK - surprisingly watchable, but so so for noone at all in the universe. it's way too sad in an unconvential way for average joes and way too underdeveloped to satisfy movie buffs. but it's just so sad. like, it ends on such a down note. very basic, tragic story but in a surprise setting. in 50 years someone will rewrite it to fix all plot holes and make a decent movie out of it,i tell you.

good job

  On 10/3/2012 at 4:32 PM, kinski said:

HANCOCK - surprisingly watchable, but so so for noone at all in the universe. it's way too sad in an unconvential way for average joes and way too underdeveloped to satisfy movie buffs. but it's just so sad. like, it ends on such a down note. very basic, tragic story but in a surprise setting. in 50 years someone will rewrite it to fix all plot holes and make a decent movie out of it,i tell you.

written by Vince Gilligan the creator of Breaking Bad. I feel bad that the movie was sort of a misfire. Hopefully if he is involved in another movie it will turn out better

What the bugger is that?

Snowtown is actually a really potent metaphor for the current political system.

  On 10/3/2012 at 8:44 PM, Awepittance said:

  On 10/3/2012 at 4:32 PM, kinski said:

HANCOCK - surprisingly watchable, but so so for noone at all in the universe. it's way too sad in an unconvential way for average joes and way too underdeveloped to satisfy movie buffs. but it's just so sad. like, it ends on such a down note. very basic, tragic story but in a surprise setting. in 50 years someone will rewrite it to fix all plot holes and make a decent movie out of it,i tell you.

 

written by Vince Gilligan the creator of Breaking Bad. I feel bad that the movie was sort of a misfire. Hopefully if he is involved in another movie it will turn out better

did not know that, cool. and a bit weird as i got into breaking bad two weeks ago.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - 5/10 - i expected to be at least be entertained. The showdown scene in SF was extremely anti climatic. Why would they send in a few police on horses to confront a golden gate bridge full of angry primates? In Occupy oakland there was a bigger presence of militarized police to fight normal people.

the house of the devil - 8/10 proper solid horror movie, great soundtrack too.

also just saw in the credits there is a special thanks to goatse & tubgirl haha

^^ yeah house of the devil is good on first view, but it doesn't hold up well mainly due to the finale which is really a big let down

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