― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
I wasn't being sarcastic!
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
(the one thing i did laugh at was the kid called Tet, just because of his name. not that i didn't enjoy the film.)
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, a charcter has had a labial trim, so the film shows closeups of that and other disgusting surgical procedures at random points throughout the film. Don't repeat my mistake and buy popcorn.
Yes, well, so my story...chose to go see this at the Prince Chaz with my friends instead of getting into to the bowels of MPC (which I sorta wanted to do) to see a free test screening of The Descent (which I couldn't have cared less about). But as Moodysson got a good reception when we showed Together at the school, I figured it was worth a try. Didn't know anything about A Hole in My Heart really before going in.
So before all this, we're out doing some miscellaneous Super 8 shooting, and I'd been digging on going to this Eritrean place that I saw a review for this week. So we go out there and order this meal for two that is huge, but great. Needless to say, I'm fairly full for a bit - a lot of air from the bubbly bread...
Anyway, we go into town and along the way, my bud briefly mentions that Moodysson's films have been getting progressively darker, and that this should be fairly gritty and intense. But I've seen a shitload of films, many gritty and intense, so whatever. He gets some Haagen Daz from the shop around the corner from the theater, and we go in. We end up getting comp'ed bc a schoolmate is working there, which is nice. But when he hears that we want to see the film, he's like, "really? Are you sure you know what you're getting into?" Yeah, whatever, let us in. I figure the least I can do for the freebie is patronize the concessions, so I order a medium sweet popcorn and a small Coke.
BIG MISTAKE.
I really was fine with the shock tactics for the most part; I enjoyed the experimentalism of it, and I think I could see what was going on and clearly there was a point. I even jumped in my seat at several points, which I rarely have occasion to do even once within a film. But as it worked its way towards the ninth circle. Yes, having anything to eat was a big mistake. You could sorta tell what was coming along, so when the moment occurred, I did something I've never once had to do before in a film - I actually looked away. I'm fairly emetophobic, so I didn't want to take a chance of going over the edge - esp. what with all I had eaten. Anyway, I looked back a bit too soon and caught a good amount of the tail end of things. Luckily I made it through fine, but at that point, I think I just disconnected with the film.
I can see the merits of it, and just because something (finally) offended and shocked me utterly doesn't mean that I'm going to dismiss it outright, but I think it's going to be difficult for me to have anything positive to say in detail.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Honestly, maybe I would have been less overwhelmed if I had had spoilers. Which would have been a good thing.
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link
i just watched 'together' & liked it a lot. reminded me of fanny and alexander a bit
mammoth looks fucking great:
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 8 February 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
my variety twitter feed just now popped up with a notification that mammoth has been reviewed. weird.
― Gukbe, Sunday, 8 February 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lots of comparisons to 'babel' which makes sense.
3rd world problems (done pretty heavyhandedly) vs. 1st world ennui & lyfe/work balance (had some resonance for me)
well casted/acted as most of moodysson's stuff - the maid's son was great
michelle williams in the kitched in front of the row of knives made me think of jeanne dielman
too much ladytron & ipod playlist soundtrack generally
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 21 November 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
just finally watched show me love (after really liking together and lilya 4-ever.) it's pretty adorable, probably too adorable, buthard to resist. i'm not sure i want to see either of his two more recent movies, but i guess i will eventually. i just think he's turned toward material that's more loaded than he really needs. he's very good with family and social dynamics, i think he does his best work at small scales. but maybe that's hard for a filmmaker to accept.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 29 November 2009 06:46 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, i mean three most recent films (forgot about container, which i've heard nothing good about).
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 29 November 2009 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, "Together" was so goddamned charming!
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Friday, 29 January 2010 06:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Seeing the new punk teens movie tonight, hope the good word proves true.
http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/we-are-the-best
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 22 February 2014 17:45 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I've only heard good things from folk I trust.
― Simon H., Saturday, 22 February 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
cool def want to see this
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 February 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
screening cancelled due to DIGITAL FAILURE!!! First time for me.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 23 February 2014 07:16 (ten years ago) link
I saw the punk movie a couple nights ago: http://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/teenage-wasteland-we-are-the-best/
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
I saw it too, at a rescheduled screening. Hoping "Hate the Sport" becomes a hit.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
just wait till Miley Cyrus gets it
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
loved lilya 4ever back in the day but i have the feeling i'd find it corny and obvious now
― AIDS (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Hate the Sport has been a regular fixture in my head since I saw the film last year. I suspect it will take over the world.
― Alba, Monday, 24 March 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
its the best this movie
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 24 March 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
hate the sport!
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Saturday, 31 May 2014 19:16 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/strindberg-som-tortyr/brezhnev-reagan-fuck-off
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Saturday, 31 May 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
omg
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 31 May 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
it's so catchy
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Saturday, 31 May 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
excited to see this, but god knows if it'll play in my town
― display name changed. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 May 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
its so good.
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 31 May 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
i recently watched the experimental 1 he did w/ the jena malone voiceover 'container' - eh, kinda tough to engage w/ but she does get a nice trance enducing pace and tone going
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 1 June 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
hate the brody - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2014/06/the-shiny-happy-fake-sweden-of-we-are-the-best.html
― just sayin, Thursday, 5 June 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
" But Moodysson doesn’t have an aesthetic principle to match: there’s no cannily retro style to his view of the past, no idea of visual composition that suggests the inner glow of halcyon reminiscences"
???
― just sayin, Thursday, 5 June 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
This is my favorite movie of the year by a long shot - maybe of the last couple of years.
That review is preposterous
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 5 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
Also would buy a soundtrack SO FAST - I guess I need to check like Amazon.swe maybe
― Walter Galt, Thursday, 5 June 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
Someone wrote that it's an adorable "puppy" of a movie in mostly good ways, that's about the size of it.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 June 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
Brody is the absolute worst
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realize there was a director thread, so I posted about this on a general music-film thread last week. I liked it, maybe not quite as much as a couple of you. My favourite scene was the final show--all it needed was Hedvig clubbing one of the yokels on the head with her guitar, like Sid Vicious in Texas.
― clemenza, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
We Are the Best! now watchable at home
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
on the flix?
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
beats me, I only do discs
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
If you don't mind living amorally it is on the torrentosphere.
― xelab, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know about this thread but yeah We Are the Best! is the best
― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
Oh good I am watching it tonight.
― xelab, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
we are the best is one of the best new movie I saw this year
moodyson rulez!
― niels, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link