Films Recently Watched

  On 1/9/2013 at 1:11 AM, tec said:

Sinister - WTF BoC?!/10

and ample obscure black metal/noise rock including Boris and many other Pitchfork faves, odd movie for having such an awesome soundtrack but being so blatantly terrible at the same time

hey Overlook, have you seen Compliance? I don't know if you'll love it or hate it but it reminded me kind of (conceptually) of the short film you did about the sword dude. It's pretty much a historical document of the 'prank' caller who was able to manipulate people at a McDonalds into raping someone by pretending to be a cop. The story in the movie seems unbelievable but it's almost exactly the way it actually happened, they just couldn't do a McDonalds of course .

I'd give a solid 8/10 , sort of reminded me of the movie Bubble but a little more conventional. I'd call it an unintentional noirish white trash thriller movie but much more naturalistic and straight forward than most movies in this vein (killer joe, etc)

Piano no Mori (The Piano Forest): Good anime movie. Great story and soundtrack. Though, really not that "powerful" like others I've seen. Also, what I learnt is that there will be always people better than you and you must admit you suck. 8/10

  On 1/9/2013 at 2:05 AM, Awepittance said:

hey Overlook, have you seen Compliance? I don't know if you'll love it or hate it but it reminded me kind of (conceptually) of the short film you did about the sword dude. It's pretty much a historical document of the 'prank' caller who was able to manipulate people at a McDonalds into raping someone by pretending to be a cop. The story in the movie seems unbelievable but it's almost exactly the way it actually happened, they just couldn't do a McDonalds of course .

It's the Milgram experiment performed outside the lab. Pretty fucked up shit. To a much lesser extent it reminds of the David Peace book 'Occupied City', based on real events. A guy walks into a bank pretending to be a doctor and gets all the employees to drink poison, claiming it's to protect them from a potential dyssentry (I think) outbreak. He then robs the bank. Vastly different circumstances which garner the bank workers a hell of a lot more sympathy than the McDonalds lot but still the same idea: people are only dying to be unquestionably obedient to a perceived authority figure.

The Road - 6.5/10 - just read the book and it was pretty much exactly what I expected.

The Hobbit - 3/10 - zzzzzz

Great Expectations (new one) - 3.5/10 - also zzzzzzz. Not even as good as the average BBC adaptation from a year ago.

Bridesmaids - 9/10 - I had no idea what it was before watching (or that it was an Apatow film), I thought it looked terrible but my gf persuaded me to watch it. Fucking hilarious. Well worth it.

The Road is really underrated IMO, one of Viggo's best performances, next to Eastern Promises.

I thought The Road did very little justice to the book. Too soporific and melodramatic. The book was spartan and restrained. Hillcoat went for the throat at every turn and Viggo often seemed like Aragorn crying over Boromir.

Awepittance - I haven't seen Compliance but I'm definitely intrigued.

Aribtrage - Probably my favorite American release of 2012. I will write about it later, but I can't recommend it enough.

lol, can't wait compliance review !

Seven Psychopaths - Better than expected. Sam Rockwell completely steals the show.

i really like Sam Rockwell, any time he's in a movie where he's allowed to be unhinged he usually steals the show. He needs to be given a role where he plays an insane psychopath

just FYI since the Academy awards are being decided on right now (high quality ) screener copies of almost every major movie that hasn't been to DVD yet have leaked on the net including Django and the Hobbit. I'd imagine Lincoln and the Master are too although i haven't checked

  On 1/9/2013 at 6:05 PM, The Overlook said:

 

Aribtrage - Probably my favorite American release of 2012. I will write about it later, but I can't recommend it enough.

i dont usually enjoy your recommendations but this was an amazing film. 9/10

also, buying a HD projector was my best purchase all year, im really enjoying films so much more again now that they are 9 feet wide and 6 feet high, i would recommend it to all you guys

  On 1/10/2013 at 6:10 AM, Awepittance said:

just FYI since the Academy awards are being decided on right now (high quality ) screener copies of almost every major movie that hasn't been to DVD yet have leaked on the net including Django and the Hobbit. I'd imagine Lincoln and the Master are too although i haven't checked

ha...Yeah, I've seen really good copies of Django and the Hobbit recently as well as Jack Reacher, Seven Psychopaths, and Total Recall.

Chris Nolan confirmed his next film will be Interstellar, the long delayed Speilberg time travel/wormhole/2001/existential sci fi epic I've been waiting to see for years.

Would have preferred Spielberg to do it than Nolan.

Fuck.

Oscar nominations are also laughable. Hollywood sometimes you are so dumb.

*talks about how stupid The Academy Award Show and the awards are*

They are pretty stupid.

  On 1/10/2013 at 11:42 AM, messiaen said:

  On 1/9/2013 at 6:05 PM, The Overlook said:

 

Aribtrage - Probably my favorite American release of 2012. I will write about it later, but I can't recommend it enough.

 

i dont usually enjoy your recommendations but this was an amazing film. 9/10

lol, fair enough. Just out of curiosity, which recommendations of mine haven't you enjoyed?

Tropic Thunder?

Bourne Ultimatum?

Big Juicy Black Cock -n- Tiny White Pussy Vol. 6?

Lincoln - Daniel Day-Lewis is beyond perfect in the role. But I would have enjoyed this alot more if it didn't remind me of that movie Mel Gibson screened in the old simpsons episode.

Anaconda

awesome bad movie

can anyone recommend an alternative reality film, kinda like Inception (but better) or Looper? pretty much present day, except some things are different. hard to explain but yeah

The Swimmer, The Machinist, Back to the Future 2, Jacob's Ladder, Holy Motors, The Box, Brazil, The Holy Mountain, A Scanner Darkly

  On 1/11/2013 at 7:09 PM, isaki said:

can anyone recommend an alternative reality film, kinda like Inception (but better) or Looper? pretty much present day, except some things are different. hard to explain but yeah

The Girl

The other Hitchcock film that came out recently. This is the Toby Jones/sienna miller TV one. It was well made and toby jones looks a bit like hitchcock and sounds like a cross between toby jones and hitchock, but looks tiny. Not sure on the truth behind this story but it's an interesting tale.

  On 1/11/2013 at 7:09 PM, isaki said:

can anyone recommend an alternative reality film, kinda like Inception (but better) or Looper? pretty much present day, except some things are different. hard to explain but yeah