the long, subdued, nearly action-free "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"

This is one of the great american folk tales, famous in song and penny dreadfuls the films seems like such a missed opportunity.

jesus christ - why not throw in a couple of will oldham tracks while they're at it

This is one of the great american folk tales, famous in song and penny dreadfuls the films seems like such a missed opportunity.

yeah it could have been as good as

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Young_guns.jpg/200px-Young_guns.jpg

xpost Especially when there is the fantastic Bruce Springsteen version of the Seegar collected ballad from a few years back.

now that's a soundtrack right there

xpost

WTF this movie wasn't even boring, there was tons of tension and intrigue.

This is one of the great american folk tales, famous in song and penny dreadfuls the films seems like such a missed opportunity.

yeah but the movie makers made it the way they wanted to, they didn't view the material in the same way you did--i think a lot of people enjoyed the slanted take on the western, i know i sure did

Lookit all those dreadful pennies (xxxxpost)

netflix of dead man has been sitting on my desk, staring at me, for three months now. i never seem to be in the right mood :-/

me too kinda, i like long slow burn type movies. not every movie has to be as action-packed as star trek, dr morbius!

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slow "burn" no pun intended

if i wasnt clear--i like to "burn" marijuana cigarettes and watch movies like this

I liked what they were aiming for, I think they went way off target, however I might add it to netflix and re-watch.

i think you mean "rescreen"

I like to reburn when I rescreen.

re-burn

xp haha

man tombstone was a really great movie

it's also really great pizza

and a really great way to remember who's buried where

great creedence song

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/tombstone_tombstone.jpg

do you see what i did there

lol @ andrew g. vajna

Finally watching it, after my dad mentioned it a while ago. One fucking great movie. I like Brad Pitt's "bad" acting in it. Ben A is just perfect. But most of all I like the cinematography. The way they portray the scenery is just so beautiful

BTW should I read the book?

Just convinced my wife to watch this, and she really liked it, though she wasn't quite as impressed as I was. Sometimes I suspect existential westerns in particular appeal more to guys than gals, at least as far as genre films go, but maybe I'm wrong.

I guess I'm the exception to the rule then? I absolutely love existential westerns (because of the existentialism; not so much the western part). That said, I hated Dead Man so much. Maybe I should try it again?

I think what I like most, are American films: from your typical LA film to, well, whatever incorporates/depicts the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6w0r-ScEG4&feature=player_embedded

That's some great animation. Possibly the most esoteric satire ever, too.

it's the actual yogi bear guys who did it

actually, turns out it's just a guy who saw the trailer and decided to do a parody:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/13/yogi-bear-alternate-ending-booboo-kills-yogi-parody-video-creator-speaks/?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=48

Is there a thread for Killing Them Softly? The best-directed ideological con of the year. Seriously, I feel like Morbs did script-doctoring on this one, what with all the long ironic interludes of Obama hollowly speechifying amid the killings.

Scoot McNairy, however, has emerged as my #1 new celeb crush of the year. Not bad for someone who looked like Kip Dynamite in his last movie.

Dominik is obv is better identifying real-life psycho killers than dramatizing them.

"America is just a business" seems way less toxic and/or challenging a thesis to me than, say, "There's no place like home."

If you're named "Scoot McNairy" you look like one.

"America is just a business" seems way less toxic and/or challenging a thesis to me than, say, "There's no place like home."

That's because you're always welcome to vote with your dollar, but you're not welcome in a lot of homes.

That you're going to mount an argument that this movie's heart (sic) is in the right place, Morbs, is going to be downright delish.

I'm not going to make it as I have no plans to see it.

Look for Obama's heart while you're at it tho

You can always put Obama's heart where yours ought to be.

thought about that one, thought u guys shd keep yr shtick going.

I wouldn't worry about our shtick. You can always put our shtick where your fart ought to be.

burrito + Metamucil = no shortage there

I'm not going to make it as I have no plans to see it.

Was your new years' resolution to start praising movies you haven't seen in addition to trashing them?

I didn't praise shit. Foisting an unimportant deathdrone like Barry O on a cinema audience sounds like a misjudgment anyhoo.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/killing-them-softly/6680

"The film doesn't exactly pride itself on subtlety."

this is awesome

best opening credits of the year, great jimmy gandolf scenes, great Higgins dialogue.... surprised more people arent liking this. the on the noseness of it is really a virtue tbh.

It's a massive debit.

it owns