MOVIES!

has anyone seen control? thinking about going at nyff after work today.

Gone Baby Gone - good + Michelle Monaghan is v. v. pretty
30 Days of Night - not so good + Josh Harnett is v. v. pretty

Hartnett

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Michelle Monaghan is v. v. pretty

There seem to be two Michelle Monaghans...

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
ROMAN HOLIDAY

The Son
12:08 East of Bucharest
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
more Warhol (tomorrow) incl Vinyl

how was 12:08?

i wanted to see that.

american gangster leaked - im psyched to see denzel shoot some dudes in the face like no big deal

it sucks

saw The Warriors for the first time. David Patrick Kelly wins again. Pretty great watching it with the windows open and not being able to tell between sound effects and reality. Sad to find out 321 Contact guy in the flick died of AIDS.

12:08 was very wry, dry and funny about history and hypocrisy the first time, I'm watching it again tonight to write about it cuz I can't remember anything after 5 months.

I saw Verhoeven's Black Book, which was very good and had excellent boobs in it.

it sucks

-- s1ocki, Friday, October 26, 2007 11:07 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

it did suxd :(

The Birds
The Sopranos: Season Six, Part Two
The American Friend

au hasard balthazar not my favorite bresson

why do you hate donkeys?

squid and the whale

xp - no the girl's martyrdom didnt come across to me as really necessary, so she just seems depressed and self-destructive, when i wanna be like DUDE RUN AWAY WTF

we own the night. v bad.

so im left just feeling for the donkey

i liked squid&whale

shaun of the dead

310 to yuma

dude i was supposed to watch shaun of the dead last night, but instead watched au hasard balthazar

shaun of the dead is the fucking woooorst

no its fun!

BAD MOVE xxpost
shaun of the dead was funny and i am going to watch hot fuzz tonight i think

balthazar didn't do a lot for me outside of the closing shot, but i want to give it another chance sometime

no its so annoying and schlocky and lame and i hate it

is eva mendes purely decorative? she was so incredibly bad in wotn, but the script was so rotten that even robert duvall was awful. i haven't seen her in anything else that i can recall.

balthazar didn't do a lot for me outside of the closing shot, but i want to give it another chance sometime

-- sleep, Monday, October 29, 2007 3:01 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

yeah whole closing seq was awes

shes really funny and charming in that shitty movie where matt damon is stuck to greg kinnear. also: wicked hawt. xp

pulp fiction
the fat camp documentary on mtv

Control (makes Ian Curtis boring)
who in NY want to see Night of the Living Dead @MoMA on Halloween night?

American Gangster was so freaking boring, I fell asleep like 10 minutes after the opening round of spot-the-rapper-in-a-bit-part. This was the first movie I'd watched in nearly a month.

e.m. is so hot that it verges on being a distraction. sadly, nothing could distract from movie's awfulness.

oh, right - control. saw that last week and loved it, for the most part. fwiw, i suspect that ian curtis WAS boring.

morbs how come biopics always suck and make their subjects just seem boring and miserable huh? you got a theory?

ROCKERS

zigeunerwisen seijun suzuki he crazy. liked!

hose, because condensing the events of someone's whole life into 2 hours doesn't work if they're worth thinking about? btw, I'm Not There is a (frequently) successful antidote to this.

There isn't much in Control about why IC's fans were drawn to him, how JD's music evolved, or even an acknowledgment that their name was controversial! The last half is all about the downward spiral of the last weeks of his life, and his (not at all interesting) wife and mistress.

im fuckin glad they didnt do the cliff notes version of IC's life

how does Control stack up against 24 Hour Party People? or is that apples & oranges

as & os

they did the cliff notes version of IC's DEATH

24HPP had the media circus aspect (actual entertainment) and gave Curtis a third of a movie, which is about right.

aren't you guys a little too old to care about Ian Curtis?

haha!

i'm not that invested in ian curtis. i am finding that morbius aside, teh split seems to be: film ppl like the movie, music bloggers dont.

yeah i am more just trying to figure out if I should see the movie or not, I'm not that worried abt whether they are DISRESPECTING TEH CRUTIS LEGEND

I am no believer in his legend, but I certainly liked JD plenty when I came to their stuff 2-3 years after his death. The film just does its own version of the "tortured artist" cliche and dotes morbidly on why Curtis was suicidal (torn btwn two women, dissatisfaction of fame, epilepsy) and doesn't even provide a coherent answer or non-answer to that. I'd rather watch Kirk Douglas as van Gogh roaring through his madness in Arles again.

ALL OUR MOTHERS MADE US FEEL IRRECONCILABLE GUILT
TRANSFERENCE IS THE REASON WHY WE HAVE TO SCREAMSCREEN THIS FILTH

-- El Tomboto, Monday, October 29, 2007 4:46 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link