iconoclast wrote:
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Absolutely terrible. One of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Ha ha, why did you start with that one! Definitely an acquired taste, I can't blame someone for disliking it.
You should have followed the top list and the accessibility guide:
For Tsai-Ming Liang films, Rebels of the Neon God would definitely suit you better.
Last night I watched Midnight Express which I enjoyed a lot, although I felt it was over sensationalised in a few aspects that took away some of its impact.
Well, that's to be expected, the screenplay was written by Oliver Stone, I believe. The director is Alan Parker - the same guy from Pink Floyd's The Wall and the 80s Film Noir Angel Heart
Watched Whisper of the Heart last night--hadn't seen it in years. A really great Ghibli film that manages to be a lot more than the sum of its parts.
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Eugenics: you know it's right!
Absolutely awful. Shitty love story (the people I was watching it with actually said Twilight had a better love story, which makes me vomit a little bit), retardedly unrealistic (guy shoots a car's trunk twice and the entire thing explodes like it's full of jet fuel, and many many other examples), they couldn't seem to decide who or what was Chinese or Japanese (they constantly mixed the two, and it never made sense), all of the "asian" actors had horribly performed and racist accents, and a ton of other flaws. I don't recommend it.
Skykid wrote:Ha ha, why did you start with that one! Definitely an acquired taste, I can't blame someone for disliking it.
You should have followed the top list and the accessibility guide:
Skykid wrote:Ha ha, why did you start with that one! Definitely an acquired taste, I can't blame someone for disliking it.
You should have followed the top list and the accessibility guide:
Snow White and the Huntsman - 3/5. All around decent; never great and never bad. Felt more like another tie-in to the Avengers than a proper fairy tale... maybe the presence of Thor influenced that.
Chaser - 4/5. Korean serial killer flick starring a pimp looking for his hos. Main character's script and acting were phenomenal.
The Expendables - 2/5. Some pretty good John Woo-ish action. Script and acting were horrible, though. No chemistry at all b/w the members of the ensemble. Mickey Rourke has an excellent soliloquy, though. Despite his outward appearance, he really doesn't belong in such schlop.
The Housemaid - 4/5. Slow-roasted quasi-thriller about the effect of class on basic human nature.
Cold Fish - 3/5. Japanese serial killer flick very loosely based on a true story. Well-done overall; had sort of a Natural Born Killers vibe. Nothing particularly special, though, and some of the emotional reactions rang false. Especially when compared to...
I Saw the Devil - 5/5 - Cinematography is pure brilliance, over-the-top violence is fine-tuned for emotional impact. Not so much a serial-killer movie as a vivid metaphor for desperate grief. First Korean flick that beats Oldboy in my book.
Moniker wrote:
I Saw the Devil - 5/5 - Cinematography is pure brilliance, over-the-top violence is fine-tuned for emotional impact. Not so much a serial-killer movie as a vivid metaphor for desperate grief. First Korean flick that beats Oldboy in my book.
Bleurgh, not a chance. It's such a piece of shit movie, I have no idea why anyone thinks it's anything except ludicrously plotted sensationalism. Crap. D:
I didn't rent this thing and I only lasted as far as the titles when I saw the name "zoey deschanel" listed... which made me involuntarily shudder. I bailed on that s*** and went to play Akai Katana Shin
xbl0x180 wrote:500 Days Of Summer.
I saw the name "zoey deschanel" listed... which made me involuntarily shudder. I bailed on that s*** and went to play Akai Katana Shin
Ugh, yes. Every time I see her I die a little inside. Not to say I wouldn't, ya know, with her, but everything her name is branded on his absolute rubbish.
BIL wrote:
"Small sack, LOTS OF CUM" - Nikola Tesla
The fact that I'd do her doesn't say much about the quality of the movies she's cast in and her acting... and even her looks [when compared to cute, pretty, and hot actresses]
I didn't rent this thing and I only lasted as far as the titles when I saw the name "zoey deschanel" listed... which made me involuntarily shudder. I bailed on that s*** and went to play Akai Katana Shin
BUT SHE LOVES THE SMITHS D:
I really don't understand how someone as ostensibly lovely as Zooey Daschenel can be so resolutely repugnant in EVERYTHING SHE IS IN. I'd love to see her playing something other than 'The Manic Pixie Dream Girl', but at least she's certainly carved a niche. I've seen some vile shit in my time, but I'd sooner watch Masami Akita's gruelling shot on video seppuku porn film Lost Paradise with my mum than sit through another episode of New Girl.
I saw Prometheus last weekend, it was all right, nothing like Alien or Aliens at all, but interesting little sci-fi movie. There were some plot holes, but nothing serious. Enjoyable.
Just got back from The Avengers. I was one of about four people in the auditorium, which is always good (I know cinema is supposed to be a communal experience, but it's usually ruined by twats, no?), and it wasn't in 3D, bless 'em. It was pretty good! Although, all I can think right now is "Fuck my hat, did Loki really call Black Widow a 'mewling quim'?" I suspect they just thought it was some archaism for "wuss" and didn't bother to look up "quim"...
I might be going twice in one day, too! My dad and brother want to see Prometheus later.
I went and saw The Sound of My Voice in the theater today. I liked this way more than I should have - a slow moving drama with a subtle scifi theme, written and starring the chick that wrote (and starred in) Another Earth.
This was a great look at cults, and had some of the best acting I've seen in awhile. The final scene fucking delivered! I say this because there was another new movie that I watched recently, Beyond the Black Rainbow, that had much of the same bored, yet fascinating, slow moving, drama based scifi, with a small cast and tight sets, without any action or 'splosions. But, Beyond the Black Rainbow was ruined by the final scene.
I haven't seen Another Earth yet, but it just got bumped to the top of the list based on the strength on Sound of My Voice. It was really, really good.
Lol, I just watched 500 Days of Summer for the first time last week. I hated it. The story structer sucked, the way it jumped around chronically was terrible. And the story was painful on a personal element. I've been there, dated her, broke up, then she got married very quickly. There was no happy ending, she's divorced, I've gone from shitty relationship to shitty relationship.
Avengers was fun.
John Carter was okay, would have been better if I was 12.
Cabin in the Woods was great, but didn't hold up well to repeated viewings.
Raid Redemption was the shit! Saw it at the same Little Theater that I saw Sound of My Voice at. Wow, this was violent! Like, really violent. Some dope ass long shot choreography that is truly impressive - cant wait to watch some kind of behind the scenes on this.
I dunno, there's been a bunch of other movies, but it's all stuff I had seen before anyway.
xris wrote:Beyond the Black Rainbow was ruined by the final scene.
I can see how some would be disappointed by the climax in BtBR but I found it to be kind of ballsy, unexpected, sudden and different. I've watched the the movie 3 or 4 times now and it grew on me. The 2 characters introduced before the end totally suck though.
I didn't rent this thing and I only lasted as far as the titles when I saw the name "zoey deschanel" listed... which made me involuntarily shudder. I bailed on that s*** and went to play Akai Katana Shin
BUT SHE LOVES THE SMITHS D:
I really don't understand how someone as ostensibly lovely as Zooey Daschenel can be so resolutely repugnant in EVERYTHING SHE IS IN. I'd love to see her playing something other than 'The Manic Pixie Dream Girl', but at least she's certainly carved a niche. I've seen some vile shit in my time, but I'd sooner watch Masami Akita's gruelling shot on video seppuku porn film Lost Paradise with my mum than sit through another episode of New Girl.
That's the thing. She's not the kind of person I'd find attractive (ESPECIALLY FOR MOVIES AND TELEVISION); she looks waaaay too pale: either "veiny" white or "pasty" white. She's borderline albino! Ew. And, yeah, the roles she's cast in don't help at aaaaaall. Basically, she's limited to "hipster airhead"
The Raid - ta to Skykid for the writeup, watched it and wasn't disappointed. Fuck Mortal Kombat, this is a Videogame Movie. It's actually the best Donkey Kong adaptation possible. "Here is a tower block full of AK47-wielding crackheads. How high can you get?" Daft story (not a problem) and a few too many minutes' exposition at one point (minor problem), but the staggeringly violent action makes up for it. Whole lotta throats and tendons getting slashed up in here!
Microcosmos - Cool documentary about insects with some amazing photography.
blackoak wrote:Fuck yeah, The Shield. It was always kind of cheezy in its amped up race/gang stuff (especially when compared to the sobriety/realism of say, The Wire), but it just turned into this awesome Shakespearean drama. Great writing. One of the few shows where shaky cam didn't bother me either.
My pick for #1 TV show of all time. It doesn't seem to get the respect it deserves. Chiklis and Walton Goggins are amazing and Mackey is the pretty much ultimate anti-hero.
Acid King wrote:Microcosmos - Cool documentary about insects with some amazing photography.
Also check out Winged Migration from the same director.
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Just watched the blu ray of Secret World of Arrietty and can finally give a failing mark to a Disney dub. I knew that Disney had added an over-dub that created fake closure/resolution, but there's yet another sequence omitted from the dub. About half way through the film, the boy (Sho) almost accidentally draws comparison between the borrowers and extinct/endangered species. With a certain sadness, he mentions how many humans there are, and how there are so many animals he has only seen in books, but are gone now. It seems clear (to me anyway) that this sequence was meant to draw analogy between the struggles of Arrietty and her family and the struggle of all small things to survive in an ever-shrinking and degraded habitat. Perhaps Norton's Borrowers have actually been high-jacked to remake Pom Poko? Apparently, Disney thought this message irrelevant (or too pointed) and dropped it.
What confuses me is that Disney has been so faithful to everything else. I'm sure there's a few dozen lines in Mononoke (I know, miramax, but whatever) and Spirited Away they'd have loved to axe. I'm sure they'd love to have taken out the Totoro bathing scene if they could have; but to make such wholesale changes to such a minor film like Arrietty makes no sense to me at all. Perhaps it is because it was a minor film? Perhaps there was a change of agenda? Either way, this is the first dub from Disney where I felt I truly didn't grasp the films intention until watching it subtitled. That makes it a failing dub in my book. Why Disney?
Randorama wrote:ban CMoon for being a closet Jerry Falwell cockmonster/Ann Coulter fan, Nijska a bronie (ack! The horror!), and Ed Oscuro being unable to post 100-word arguments without writing 3-pages posts.
Eugenics: you know it's right!
I saw Killer of Sheep and all the short films on the first disc of the two disc set recently. KoS is great. The shorts were very original for their time, though they don't have as much of a clear narrative.
Perfect Sense - (Ewan Mcgregor & Eva Green): A love story set in the midst of the apocalypse. Pretty damn intense, though overly artsy, but I didn't mind. Some very heavy themes I don't think the mainstream would be too fond of, and ultimately depressing in a beautiful kinda way (similar to Melencholia in that regard). Hard to recommend, but highly enjoyable for the right kinda viewer.
Coriolanus - I can't deal with Shakespeare, even when modernized and covered with blood. Would not have rented if I'd known...
About to watch My Week With Marilyn, which I'm garaunteed to like because it's about M.M.
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The original unedited verson of the 1990 sci-fi flick, Total Recall, that was submitted to the MPAA by director Paul Verhoeven, was given an "X" rating (and vice versa with the original unedited version of the 1987 Robocop film given an "X" rating by the MPAA upon initial viewing). It was deemed too ultra violent with the body count tagged at about 50-60 people dying in the film. In order to get a more manageable and acceptable "R" rating to be shown nationwide that summer of '90, Verhoeven had to make some hard decisions to cut scenes out in order to appease the MPAA board. It'd be interesting to see the original and unedited version of the 1990 TR flick just for kicks. It's one of the very last big-budgeted sci-fi flicks to make extensive usage of minature diorama set pieces and real-time animatronic puppetry EFX.
There's supposed to be a 2012 remake of TR out this summer as well.
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PC Engine Fan X! wrote:The original unedited verson of the 1990 sci-fi flick, Total Recall, that was submitted to the MPAA by director Paul Verhoeven, was given an "X" rating (and vice versa with the original unedited version of the 1987 Robocop film given an "X" rating by the MPAA upon initial viewing). It was deemed too ultra violent with the body count tagged at about 50-60 people dying in the film. In order to get a more manageable and acceptable "R" rating to be shown nationwide that summer of '90, Verhoeven had to make some hard decisions to cut scenes out in order to appease the MPAA board. It'd be interesting to see the original and unedited version of the 1990 TR flick just for kicks. It's one of the very last big-budgeted sci-fi flicks to make extensive usage of minature diorama set pieces and real-time animatronic puppetry EFX.
There's supposed to be a 2012 remake of TR out this summer as well.
PC Engine Fan X! ^_~
TOTAL RECALL is such a great film. Just a classic.
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