Films Recently Watched

they should make a reality tvshow called Fracking Dynasty with sheath

Delivery Man - 5/10 completely asinine Vince Vaughn "dramedy" that wasn't satisfied until it made you cry. my lady picked this one.

the rover - this was just too bare bones for me. it's kinda like coming up with a good thread idea and just starting it with the post that simply reads "discuss". i mean you can't leave it all to the imagination and contemplation of the viewer, you have to provide some content by yourself as a director. watching guy pearce being super intense for no clear reasons for the majority of the movie, while well acted, is just frustrating, and then the final punchline isn't too fulfilling either and tbh kinda lame as a narrative device. it's really good aesthetically though, a couple of tortoise tracks seemed nice (though maybe a little too chill thematically to fit in with the tone of the film, but well desert-y). 5/10 i guess.

Army of Darkness. Sequel to Evil Dead 2. Now I know the source of the DooM Chainsaw revving-up sample.

Groovy/10

Lucy

3/10

watch only if you must

Zero Theorem - 30/10

Lucy 20/10

Lego Movie 20/10

hicks in arizona are abducted by a ufo then come back as maniacally and emotionally unstable characters who are also super sensitive. pretty much a film version of x-files without the main characters taken to the nth degree

Godzilla (2014) - worth a watch, keeps moving, doesn't get too annoying. They even didn't finish with the trope that i thought that they would when they started it, was pleased when that was derailed.

Musical Minds

8/10

A documentary about two guys who are autistic and host a local TV music review show called Hot Tracks. Vice have just written an article about them http://www.vice.com/read/monica-heisey-musical-minds-123/

Think Wayne's World mixed with Napoleon Dynamite. The show is hilarious, and the documentary really interesting. It's free to watch here:

Documentary -

Hot Tracks youtube clips - https://www.youtube.com/user/Aceinyourface

  On 9/1/2014 at 12:33 AM, jhonny said:

Musical Minds

 

oo enjoyed this

thanks for postin''

Godzilla

Visuals are beautiful, solid blockbuster but the writers haven't got a clue what subtlety is, plot turned downright brain damaged at times and the acting was just okay, even from Bryan Cranston

Cobra

Whoa! How is this so poorly received? It's great! I mean, it's terrible, but terribly great! It's really grindhouse for such a mainstream man as Stallone. Great brooding cinematography and editing - sweeeeet tense sound track. A bit too much cheese here and there, but it has it's place in relieving the tension from scene to scene....which can get quite intense!

^^ my favorite scene in that film is when he's driving and some guy behind him is shooting at him, so he turns the car around so he can shoot that sucker then swings back to going forwards and drives on

this is a jewish documentary where the filmmakers have managed to track down the grandchildren (or great grandchildren or grandnieces) of famous nazi officials such as hermann goering, heinrich himmler, rudolf hoess, amon goeth and ludwig beck. after that, they flesh out the guilt out of them although it seems a little too futile after a while; as one guy puts it "the only way we as jews can put this behind us is by accepting these people"

Obvious child - Is this really where we are now?

in 1976, a film crew working for abc news follows the south bronx 44th precinct beat cops on what was (then) the borough with the highest crime rate. today, this would seem like just another episode of cops albeit the cops are much more introspective, philosophical and actually helping people- in fact, the police chief likens the situation similar to a clockwork orange where he summizes that "america only attacks the problems it sees" by "ignoring the poor more than they ever have been.... we're manufacturing criminals"

the sad part is that almost every problem addressed in this documentary is still happening today. nothing has changed 38 years later.

p.s. according to the back, this documentary influenced a whole slew of cop dramas of the 70s like hill street blues, fort apache, the bronx, cops the tv show, scorsese's mean streets and the warriors (matter of fact, there's a gang war in this). the summer after this documentary aired (in 77), hiphop music was born

bbc's horizon: inside the dark web- a documentary about tor, cryptography, and the silk road. skims all these subjects in under 1hr whilst attempting to urge viewers to educate themselves on cryptography and anonymity. #realtalk

you guys watch some depressing shit

chef - it's got a nice and pleasant friendly vibe going throughout but it's just so plain and tensionless most of the time, it's like the movie constantly tells you "don't worry, it's all gonna be alright" and it delivers just that - constantly uplifting "alrightness". it's kinda disingenuous in a way too, the dialogues and people feel very real but there's absolutely no danger or violence in the world of the movie.

  On 9/5/2014 at 1:41 PM, eugene said:

chef - it's got a nice and pleasant friendly vibe going throughout but it's just so plain and tensionless most of the time, it's like the movie constantly tells you "don't worry, it's all gonna be alright" and it delivers just that - constantly uplifting "alrightness". it's kinda disingenuous in a way too, the dialogues and people feel very real but there's absolutely no danger or violence in the world of the movie.

Right! Thats exactly how I feel about Obvious Child and Begin Again - do you think like I do that it's a sign of the times?

Just watching Lost Highway, 7/10 so far

  On 9/5/2014 at 1:41 PM, eugene said:

chef - it's got a nice and pleasant friendly vibe going throughout but it's just so plain and tensionless most of the time, it's like the movie constantly tells you "don't worry, it's all gonna be alright" and it delivers just that - constantly uplifting "alrightness". it's kinda disingenuous in a way too, the dialogues and people feel very real but there's absolutely no danger or violence in the world of the movie.

excellent sort of film for a brutal comedown by the sound of things.

maleficent - there are some very meaningful, dark and even subversive underlying themes covered by this tired shell of "disney film for family entertainment" with all its overwrought cgi and shallow supporting characters and dull jokes, quite pleasantly surprising really.

this film is like david fincher's zodiac in that, you know the ending, but it's still really brilliant how it manages to make it seem like you're watching an entirely new story.

for me, this is the most impressive film (documentary or fiction) about the manson family killings i've ever seen. it's even better than all the documentaries i've seen concerning the case/incident etc. towards the end, it goes into peter watkins very similitude alternate dimension of reality. amazing stuff

sin city 2 was garbage