― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 July 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
N_RQ right about Woody largely being filmed theater, tho beginning around "Manhattan" he started to move the camera nicely.
(I refuse to use "OTM" now that I'm picturing it tattooed on some of your rumps)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
The last shot was pulling back from the hospital bed revealing his missing arm, wasn't it? That's almost Spielbergian in its lack of subtlety. Or Lucasian, had he screamed NOOOOOO.
The shoot-up montages didn't seem like much until I saw part of that Jason Schwartmann speedfreak movie and realized how much worse they could have been.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Cause "movies" originally meant "moving pictures." God...
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost for fuck's sake
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
This is completely awesome if you imagine it being said by Napolean Dynamite.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
OK, Jared Leto gettin his face pulped in Fight Club DID get me hard, and bye!
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 July 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
I saw RFAD in a mostly empty theater, but there was a group of goth kids up in the front row, and at the end of the movie as they were walking out one of the girls was sobbing and going "That was SO wrong!" and one of the guys was like, "That movie must have been made by the Christian Coalition, man."
And re: the white girl/black guy blowjob-for-drugs encounter in that movie, I agree it's just one of several degradations the characters go through. It mostly stuck with me because I had recently seen Traffic, and it didn't seem quite a coincidence that both films went for that same reefer-madness cliche (YOUR GIRLS WILL FALL INTO THE CLUTCHES OF DARK-SKINNED MEN, O NO).
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link
But, like, that's yr thang so it's be cool.
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 29 July 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah I like it. Frankly I probably like Spielberg more often than I like Scorcese now.
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 29 July 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 July 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 July 2005 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I really want to see Duel, and maybe also Sugarland Express. A guy I lived with all 4 years of college was in Amistad, and I still haven't seen it. Some day.
also, for context...Barton Fink = C+Lebowski = B-Sex, Lies and Videotape = B+Erin Brockovich = **Traffic = *Ocean's Eleven = BDo the Right Thing = A+Mo' Better Blues = ***Jungle Fever = *Crooklyn = **Pi = **Requiem for a Dream = F
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 July 2005 23:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 30 July 2005 03:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 30 July 2005 03:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 30 July 2005 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 30 July 2005 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link
It's got a marvelous rapt quality. There are scenes that defy description (E.T.'s ravaged corpse being chewed on by raccoons; Elliott in the backyard waiting for the alien to appear); others approach comic bliss, like the biology class sequence, with a drunk Elliott kissing his crush in the manner of John Wayne in The Quiet Man.
Henry Thomas gives one of the most intelligent child performances in film history; it's unlikely that Drew Barrymore will ever top her sassy, slattern-in-making Gertie.
Great one-liners too ("How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?").
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 23 July 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway--classic with dudly moments. i've argued for him all over ilx tho so i'll leave it at that.
― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 23 July 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 24 July 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I need to see E.T. again too.
― GILLY'S BAGG'EAR VANCE OF COUPARI (Ex Leon), Monday, 24 July 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 July 2006 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link