A few films recently watched.

Antichrist - 7/10

  On 11/23/2009 at 9:34 PM, Atop said:

OPINION!

I wasn't saying you were wrong! I just really hated Die Hard 4 :(

moon - rather good this. wasn't expecting much. didn't know anything about the plot/scenario going into it (which is how i like to watch a film). immediately creates a feeling of the incomprehensibly horrific sadness of being alone in space. interesting parallels between sam and gertie's situations. nicely unpredictable and thoroughly watchable. left me feeling really depressed and empty inside. good times. would recommend - 7.5/10

le donk and scorzayzee - plenty lols. considine starts off brilliantly. he's a funny cunt. at times (the intimate scene in the van with the berni inn reference) he was a bit too Alan Partridge. bursts of uncomfortably crap American accent perfect... i know someone EXACTLY like le donk. scorzayzee great. thought at first he was probably some mate of Meadows playing a shit rapper, but it soon became clear he is a genuinely decent rapper IRL with intelligent lyrics (compared to 99% of mcs... googled him straight after the film.... check his track Great Britain from 2003) the typical Meadows folky soundtrack didn't really work for me on this particular film as opposed to his brilliant use of will oldham / calexico / etc in dead man's shoes. calm down hilda ogden. will probably only appeal to an English audience although international boards of canada fans will no doubt spontaneously ejaculate when Mark Herbert form warpfilms appears in his boc shirt.

Deadgirl - 5/10. A supposedly shocking premise ruined by bad directing, acting and dialogue. Way too many scenes

of two guys mumbling and filling up running time.

The Naked City - 8/10 - An interesting little thriller... I wanted to call it film noir but it isn't for it was too bright, too lively, too warm. This was a film going for realistic documentary-ish look at New York City in the heat of summer and I think it did it quite well for the time.

Raging Bull 9/10

What a fucking movie.

  On 11/25/2009 at 6:33 AM, abusivegeorge said:

Raging Bull 9/10

 

What a fucking movie.

Welcome to manhood... now go watch mean streets :)

  On 11/25/2009 at 7:41 AM, goffer said:

  On 11/25/2009 at 6:33 AM, abusivegeorge said:

Raging Bull 9/10

 

What a fucking movie.

Welcome to manhood... now go watch mean streets :)

Seen that one a long time ago :). Love it.

I actually studied Raging Bull and passed an entire unit on it at college for film Studies, but unfortunately, that is all I did "study" it. I never actually watched it, excellent film :).

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

10/10

It has a hugely awesome cast, and yet it's pretty obviously a low budget movie, or at least they only had the money for the big opening shot. I don't understand why this is not in the Watmm pantheon along with the Big Lebowski.

Up- I cried a little. 9/10

GI Joe- campy as fuck. 7/10

From Within- Lindsay Lohan/Juno gets cursed by Satanists or something, but who cares? 5/10

to Paul Atreides:

Indeed....

changed my young impressionable life forever.......

multidimensional vehicles rule!

gravitational manipulation devices!

Explorers!

Monster Squad!

Saturday the 14th!

childhood.....

Monster Squad! That's the one where all the classic horror monsters from the 50s meet up and terrorize the shit out of people, right?

  On 11/25/2009 at 8:04 AM, Great Maker ShaiHulud said:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

 

 

10/10

 

It has a hugely awesome cast, and yet it's pretty obviously a low budget movie, or at least they only had the money for the big opening shot. I don't understand why this is not in the Watmm pantheon along with the Big Lebowski.

excellent film

  On 11/25/2009 at 11:35 AM, Squee said:

Monster Squad! That's the one where all the classic horror monsters from the 50s meet up and terrorize the shit out of people, right?

YES!

actually just three short films strung together exploring the underbelly of suburban america. i know, i know, this sort of thing has been done to death but these films really have a true haunting power. the last film, "prologue" still gives me goosebumps. also, some pretty serious gore in the first one, "cutting moments". the second effort, "home", is the weak link in the trilogy but still stands as a solid film. i wholeheartedly recommend netflixing or downloading this dvd.

the blurb from gaspar noe on the covers sums it up - "Buck's films are desperate, dry and cruel as life often is, and movies never are"

Gaspar Noe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7reBJ1_tSa0

  On 11/22/2009 at 7:51 PM, sneaksta303 said:

Eli just likes gross out horror.

what a cutie

seems like he really beefed up for that tarantino movie

I watched Full Metal Jacket for the first time. I really liked the first half and then it was just down hill from there on.

6/10

thats pretty much what everyone thinks.

Everyone I know seem to be spreading legs every single time it's mentioned

Are these leg spreaders film connoisseurs? It's an amazing film if you have never seen anything like it... but from an analytical standpoint it's only half decent. It all depends on the crowd.

Wouldn't call them feinschmeckers, but you know, there will always be those who go: "It's good but it's no Citizen Kane" because they know it'll make them sound like film-intellectuals.

lol referencing citizen kane does not make someone sound like a film intellectual.

wtf everyone thinks full metal jacket gets bad after the second half? you have to be fucking kidding me. both 'parts' are equally great in my opinion. I tend to like Kubrick's war movies a a shit load, Paths of Glory, Spartacus, Barry Lyndon, Full Metal Jacket <--- probably my favorite kubrick movies. I can't think of many other movies that show the apathy and dark side of war that well besides maybe Platoon and i think FMJ is a superior movie. If you haven't seen Paths of Glory....... what are you waiting for?