A few films recently watched.

while its certainly not the best film of all time, its still a great film. that scene near the end where orson welles loses it and destroys the room is really great. 'touch of evil' is a better film than kane, id say.

  On 12/11/2009 at 1:57 AM, Z_B_Z said:

while its certainly not the best film of all time, its still a great film. that scene nears the end where orson welles loses it and destroys the room is really great. 'touch of evil' is a better film than kane, id say.

the american film institute rates it as the number one film of all time. that scene really is great though, i agree. it's just the ending... i would've liked welles to revisit the death scene, it would've wrapped it up much better imo. actually, i'm not a director or anything, so who am i to question genius? it's a great movie. the ending just felt unfinished.

anyone heard of this new herzog film? the cast looks great

and holy shit its produced by david lynch too.

looks awesome

  On 12/11/2009 at 5:39 AM, Z_B_Z said:

anyone heard of this new herzog film? the cast looks great

HOLY SHIT!

wow! It may end up stinking (for one thing I'm not a fan of Grace Zabriskie) but it's hard to beat that story or lineup of talent. Herzog plus Lynch plus Defoe plus Udo Kier? Dayum.

  On 12/11/2009 at 5:39 AM, Z_B_Z said:

anyone heard of this new herzog film? the cast looks great

I wish Klaus Kinski could be in this...

the road 7/10

music not too jarring, a little much in places. the death scene was a little overdone. and then guy pierce shows up. i dislike the ending to the book so i dislike it in the film too.

i went by myself. only the 2nd time ever. 1st time was inland empire.

the scene in the cannibal house was really scary.

better as a book but needed a better ending as a movie

Family Guy - Something Something Something Dark Side

8/10

im especially looking forward to seeing michael shannon playing the lead in that new herzog film. he has a genuinely intense presence. he was great in 'bug' and fantastic in 'shotgun stories'. probably one of the best american films of the past five years and no one seems to have seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZh6PrFW2lM

he was in the new Bad Lieutenant movie too but I didn't notice him until the end credits. wtf? Michael Shannon indeed a great actor.

The Baader-Meinhof Complex - 8.5/10

up in the air

really good. more thank you for smoking than juno. i thought it was going to turn into a run of the mill romantic drama but it ended really well.

also, i want to fuck the living shit out of vera farmiga.

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - 7/10 - A very well paced, no bullshit, heist film.

  On 12/12/2009 at 11:20 AM, goffer said:

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - 7/10 - A very well paced, no bullshit, heist film.

A mate of mine described the remake as the worst film he's ever seen.

  On 12/11/2009 at 9:41 PM, Z_B_Z said:

im especially looking forward to seeing michael shannon playing the lead in that new herzog film. he has a genuinely intense presence. he was great in 'bug' and fantastic in 'shotgun stories'. probably one of the best american films of the past five years and no one seems to have seen it.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZh6PrFW2lM

Sweet jesus, Michael Shannon could stare a hole through a bank vault

  On 12/12/2009 at 2:25 PM, Obel said:

  On 12/12/2009 at 11:20 AM, goffer said:

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - 7/10 - A very well paced, no bullshit, heist film.

 

A mate of mine described the remake as the worst film he's ever seen.

Yeah... I just pretend it doesn't exist

  On 12/12/2009 at 2:25 PM, Obel said:

  On 12/12/2009 at 11:20 AM, goffer said:

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - 7/10 - A very well paced, no bullshit, heist film.

 

A mate of mine described the remake as the worst film he's ever seen.

the Tony Scott remake was embarrassing to watch

it's not the only remake though, there's another one with edward james olmos and vincent d'onofrio

eastern promises - excellent

  On 12/12/2009 at 10:32 PM, LUDD said:

eastern promises - excellent

Yeah amn I watched this 3 times last week. The naked fight scene is wtf cringeworthy.

more like fap worthy

  On 12/12/2009 at 11:20 AM, goffer said:

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - 7/10 - A very well paced, no bullshit, heist film.

i just saw that one. cool beans! reckoned it needed more harry callahan tho

Aragorn Penis FTW

I'm in an extremely foul and depressed mood and spent a night drinking and watching a few films. Tried watching the Herzog Bad Lieutenant but stopped it about 10 min in when Cage starts sucking face and smoking crack with the girl. So I put on 2012 instead. It was actually pretty much the perfect disaster movie. Thought it was much better than Independence Day or Day After Tomorrow. Only prob was John Cusack, he gave the very definition of a phoned-in performance. Emmerich's first solid film. 9/10.