A few films recently watched.

well ballard is dead so his learning is over

also, harris can be just as intense as hopper

holy shit i forgot the jewel of my recent film watching.

the paperboy 9/10

how i love this film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckK97wpW8rc

2010 best fucking sequel to a film ever. 10/10.

  On 12/10/2009 at 5:33 AM, Z_B_Z said:

holy shit i forgot the jewel of my recent film watching.

 

the paperboy 9/10

 

how i love this film

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckK97wpW8rc

lol this looks like a must for my "b" collection

it wont disappoint, trust me.

I watched Dean Spanley again. Very rarely do I watch the same film back to back but it is really a great film... bloody awful ending though. They should have cut it off at an even hour 30.

The Evil Dead (9/10).

Watched it for the first time on DVD. Lost a bit of the charme, the VHS had.

Bad ass camera though!

big river man - ?/10... i'm not sure, but i think it's waaay below 5/10. i want to know how there are people on this planet that really think this is good in any way.

big river man 9/10 or 4/10. I still can't tell whether some things were a coincidence or intentional in there.

They Live - Cheesy and heavy-handed, but those are its charms. However, the ridiculous never-ending fight in the alley had me wondering if the scene was some sort of parody. 7/10

Barry Lyndon - A film made with the same refinement, restraint and calm beauty of the period it documents. 8.6/10

  On 12/10/2009 at 5:21 PM, Al Hounos said:

They Live - Cheesy and heavy-handed, but those are its charms. However, the ridiculous never-ending fight in the alley had me wondering if the scene was some sort of parody. 7/10

man that fight scene had me ROLLING the 1st time I saw that.

love, honour and obey -50/10

oh god oh god oh god. turned it off after 25mins.

yeah the fight scene in they live is a classic. "put the glasses on! put em on!"

District 9: I should stay clear of these sort of movies. What a load of bollocks.

The Limits of Control: Rather liked this. Will surely watch it again soon.

  On 12/10/2009 at 2:56 AM, Z_B_Z said:

jg ballard had an excellent take on it, worth reading if you have the time - link

if by excellent take you mean he tenuously connects all previous cronenburg movies to meet his flimsy interpretation then just basically lazily runs through the sequence of events that take place in this film then yeah.... excellent...

that is one pointless review, that has the bonus of pretty much telling the potential viewer exactly what happens before they watch it..

  On 12/10/2009 at 9:08 PM, Ego said:

The Limits of Control: Rather liked this. Will surely watch it again soon.

can't wait to see this

  On 12/10/2009 at 9:22 PM, LUDD said:

  On 12/10/2009 at 2:56 AM, Z_B_Z said:

jg ballard had an excellent take on it, worth reading if you have the time - link

 

 

 

if by excellent take you mean he tenuously connects all previous cronenburg movies to meet his flimsy interpretation then just basically lazily runs through the sequence of events that take place in this film then yeah.... excellent...

 

that is one pointless review, that has the bonus of pretty much telling the potential viewer exactly what happens before they watch it..

well i enjoyed reading it. and id hardly call his interpretation flimsy. how is it flimsy? im sure cronenberg himself would agree with most of ballards interpretation.

Le Mépris - 8/10 - An excellent film of typical ironic Godard fashion. I definitely need to watch it a few more time before I come to any real consensus.

Romeo+Juliet is on the TV now, it's been about 6 years since I had to watch this.

Holy LOL at seeing an early 20s Paul Rudd.

  On 12/11/2009 at 1:14 AM, goffer said:

Le Mépris - 8/10 - An excellent film of typical ironic Godard fashion. I definitely need to watch it a few more time before I come to any real consensus.

its been ages since ive seen it but the end shot still stays with me.

Indeed... it cuts even deeper in HD

ahh im jealous. ill be getting a blu ray player quite soon tho. my hdtv is only 22 inches but im going to start a massive blu ray collection :)

It's a good time to start... I'm finding a lot of my Blu Rays cheaper then DVD thanks to Amazon. I grabbed Raging Bull, Bullitt, The Getaway, and Casino all for $7-9 a piece on my last rampage. It's ridiculous.... not to mention a bunch of Criterion Collections for $17.

Though Le Mépris was an 720 HD rip that I downloaded. I know Criterion said that it was going to be one of the first films they were releasing on Blu Ray which I will buy when they do eventually release it, but I guess priorities were reexamined.

damn, i had no idea they were that cheap.

i watched citizen kane yesterday for the first time. i don't see why it's the top movie of all time, but it is very good in terms of cinematography, set design, acting... pretty much everything. i hated the ending.