Films Recently Watched

^ That was a p weak documentary. None of these anti-porn docs really manage to explain what, if anything, makes it any worse than the entertainment industry as whole.

Wild Tales - Like all anthology films the strength varies but great on the whole, almost worth it for the road rage segment alone.

Compliance. this movie made me angry.

  On 1/28/2016 at 11:05 AM, usagi said:

Compliance. this movie made me angry.

yeah, good film, great acting, especially Anne Dowd, the manager. incredible how dumb some people are.

it's easy to put down the people who were manipulated in the irl events that inspired this movie but you're missing the bigger picture if you think this isn't an area of human weakness that affects us all.

  On 1/28/2016 at 11:21 AM, usagi said:

it's easy to put down the people who were manipulated in the irl events that inspired this movie but you're missing the bigger picture if you think this isn't an area of human weakness that affects us all.

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incredible how dumb some most people are.

not you though.

that's While My Guitar Gently Weeps playing in the background

http://youtu.be/p4-6qJzeb3A

  On 1/28/2016 at 11:23 AM, caze said:

 

  On 1/28/2016 at 11:21 AM, usagi said:

it's easy to put down the people who were manipulated in the irl events that inspired this movie but you're missing the bigger picture if you think this isn't an area of human weakness that affects us all.

 

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incredible how dumb some most people are.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimenter_%28film%29

I got that recently actually, not got around to it yet. Peter Sarsgaard is usually pretty good.

Jeruzalem. I have a soft spot for horror films based around the myths of gates to hell and other dimensions. Being filmed in Jerusalem I figured at least it would have an interesting setting, which I guess it did. Everything else was shit. Annoying as fuck characters, stupid Google glass found footage gimmick. No scares. Ugh. Why? I don't think this could've been handled much worse. 2/10 curse you above mediocre reviews.

The idea of found footage was the worst thing to ever happen to cinema.

^You might be onto something there.

crimson peak. crimson poop.

poop.

2 Werner Herzog's out/imminent, Queen of the Desert (factual fiction) and Lo & Behold, Reveries at the End of the World

gotta splash the cash for these big screen styles for a bloke who is still an outstanding film maker

Cosmopolis is wank. that's two bum notes in a row now for Cronenberg, it's worrying me.

also Stake Land is a well decent B-movie, recommended.

whoa, this was boring. the acting is all good but the pacing of the movie is very plodding, not to mention how distracting johnny depp's makeup is.

didn't finish

yes, those fucking abnormally huge eyes were too distracting.

watched some shit lately:

crimson peak - starts out ok, and is nice visually but when it starts advancing the plot and all those revelations begin to unravel in such a predictable manner that it just becomes another one of those template on-rails thriller-horror-mystery-whatever that you don't really need in your life.

the hallow - shift+delete after 3 idiotic jump scares.

in the basement (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3962828/) - just banal, stagey, exploitative and pretentious garbage of a doc. "oooh look at those old people talking shit about migrants and shooting guns" "oooh, look at that fucked up lady with a doll" "oh look at those ugly bdsmers"...fuck off.

just bought and watched ghost in the shell for the first time tonight, and i really liked it. seems like a classic and it might get better the more watches

In the basement sounds pretty fun to me.

i've been watching some stuff from this list and i haven't been disappointed... i aimed for movies from 2000 onward, most of the classic stuff i already knew...

http://366weirdmovies.com/

The Bothersome Man (2006) - sterile, surreal dark comedy major influenced by roy anderson, one of my favorites from this whole batch...

Der Samurai (2014) - can't make too much of this one, cool imagery with a surreal feeling of paranoia and a bit too much of silliness...

Calvaire (2004) - for horror fans

I Can See You (2008) - if you make trough this one i salute you lol imagine tim&eric plus lynch plus ben weathley, what kept me watching was the fact that i was constantly pleased by some nice shots/ideas that kept popping up in the middle of all hat "crap"... fantastic psy imagery at the final end sequences...

Kaboom (2010) - first time i tried to watch this araki movie i turned it off in about 10 minutes or so, its cinematography is very amateur looking and the atmosphere was a bit contrived... but now that i made it i'm not disappointed at all, great fun, nice that it doesn't take itself very serious...

The Double Hour (2009) - lynchian with some giallo aesthetics, i guess it fails a bit because it doesn't really decide where it's aiming for...

holy shit, this was great. a bit messy but original and thrilling, and much more confrontational and darkly funny than I thought it would be. I can only imagine how many people went to see this on a date night thinking it was a rom-com before the sudden switch of mood 20 mins in.

The Revenant 100/10

macbeth - i don't know why they keep trying to do something with that ancient shakespeare shit. it's irrelevant, incomprehensible and unworkable in movies. i can barely identify with movies from before 1970s on some deeper level, as they often feel like they came from another world, let alone this shakespear shit from 3000 years ago.

  On 1/30/2016 at 4:51 PM, eugene said:

macbeth - i don't know why they keep trying to do something with that ancient shakespeare shit. it's irrelevant, incomprehensible and unworkable in movies. i can barely identify with movies from before 1970s on some deeper level, as they often feel like they came from another world, let alone this shakespear shit from 3000 years ago.

couldn't take it more than 30 minutes...