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The last 10 minutes of L.A. Confidential are quite hideous.

-- Dr Morbius

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

just finished Bubba Ho-Tep. pretty great. hated Art School Confidential. thought Talledega Nights was pointless and loved Children of Men

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Thin

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

??? someone explain me bubba ho-tep. least funny hour and a half i've ever spent.

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Watched that Wm. S. Hoffman Capote biopic last night. Boringest thing in the world. Incomparably dreary. Like trying to read In Cold Blood.

Earlier this week, Chunking Express, Breathless and Band of Outsiders were all GREAT, though that's kinda cheating, 'cuz I'd seen 'em all before.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

marie antoinette. WEAK.

kith: brain candy not as funny as i remembered. :(

xpost i saw bubba ho-tep when it came out, & geoff OTM -- i cannot understand the appeal to anyone beside schlocky troma fanboys.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

bubba ho-tep is weird. it's not a comedy, but it marketed itself as one. it's a saddo drama about old people, wtf

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, where did you get/see chungking express? b/c i was told it wasn't on video/dvd - but i have not inquired for a while

marie antoinette is awesome

i am seeing children of men tonight!

shopgirl - kinda boring but some pretty scenes. steve martin does a nice job of making LA seem not so weird, appealing even

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i own chungking express on dvd, it's pretty widely available. i think you can find it at best buy for ten bucks.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i need to maybe go into stores more :/

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i think all of wkw's films are now domestically available. i need to pick up 'days of being wild' at some point. and i need to get 'fallen angels' back from someone who borrowed it a year ago.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

bubba hotep was hardly troma besides 5 minutes of mummy action and bruce campbell staring in it. i thought it was pretty funny and pretty subtle. you just wouldn't get it

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

jaxon's on it

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Existenz: momentarily diverting, but I think I did my nails while I watched it. I wouldn't have believed it was possible to make Jude Law look THAT BAD.
Ek Hasina Thi: pretty dumb, but classic for the plot development where she leaves him to be gnawed to death by rats and he's gradually overrun by squeaking fleshy things.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i find 5 minute soliloquies about pustulent ass-boils to be about as subtle as falling anvils.

and the troma dig was more about it being a zany concept executed very poorly and with intentionally awful writing. my loss, i guess?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I got Chunking Express from Netflix. Think in the wake of In the Mood for Love/2046, all the WKW stuff stays pretty available.

Bubba Ho-Tep is ... okay. Kinda charming, more than a little annoying. Liked it more than Geoff and Elmo, apparently, but I don't feel I ever need to see it again.

Laurel: WTF is Ek Hasinia Thi?

"...classic for the plot development where she leaves him to be gnawed to death by rats and he's gradually overrun by squeaking fleshy things."

Must see this!

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

No no, you really don't need to see it. It's like...what's it like. It's like the J-Lo movie where she kills her abusive husband, if it were made by Bollywood but without any dance scenes so what's the point, really?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

omg the j-lo movie was ENOUGH.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

LOTS OF MVIES SEENERED!

ILLUSIONIST - SUCKED
FACTORY GIRL - SUCKED
APOCALYPTICO - SUCKED
WICKERMAN REMAKE - FUCKING SUCKED
CHILDREN OF MEN - ENJOYED
CRANK - FUCKING AMAZING!!!!! MUST BUY DVD!
SNAKES ON A PLANE - AMAZING
SCANNER DARKLY - AWESOME
LAST KISS - EMO TRIPE...HOT CHICKS THO

― BONERTIME! (ddb1), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

oh dude. did you fly somewhere too? i saw wickerman and last kiss on a plane recently. so awful. the worst part about Last Kiss was even though it was the worst piece of shit i've ever seen, my mom and stepdad are splitting up and i had to turn the movie off for a while because i got all sadface.

also watched My Super Ex Girlfriend on plane and LOVED IT!

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

wife thought it was for 10 yr olds and sucked though (prolly why i liked it)

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

all i've been doing is catching up on the wire. one trip to the cinema to see volver, which i loved. tears of the black tiger or whatever it's called will probably get me out of the house again.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

yr point, ‘•’u ? LAC is the only one I've seen, and he removed all doubt since then. But I'm glad you had time to look for that, champ.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah i just remembered you bitching about "l.a. C" at some point, it took about 30 secs. you don't want to see the black dahlia. that's not a question, a statement.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

tears of the black tiger or whatever it's called

yeah that looks interesting

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

how is he a racist, morbs?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I've not read any of the guy's books -- I rarely read contemp fiction, especially not crime stuff -- but a print interview around the time of that docu-film about JE satisfied me on that score... It was his comments on racial profiling in the Terror Age and his enthusiasm for it. Sorry, I can't find quotes.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The Chungking Express DVD was part of the QUENTIN TARANTINO PRESENTS series along with all the other Azn Miramax releases.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

By the way, all y'all aren't missing anything, these comments are basically exactly the same as my Netflix notes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

chrishellfaucet: JUST WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT YOU CAN CURRENTLY PRE-ORDER TWIN PEAKS: SEASON 2 ON DVD FROM AMAZON.COM RIGHT NOW FOR THE SHOCKINGLY LOW PRICE OF 36.99. IT HAS FINALLY COME.

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

bubba ho-tep is weird. it's not a comedy, but it marketed itself as one. it's a saddo drama about old people, wtf

OTM. nothing funny about cancer on yr dick. I like it for reasons I can't actually explain. I think because the mummy is dressed like a cowboy.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

ellroy: rodney king blown out of proportion, rampart no big deal, etc.

http://www.nationalreview.com/dunphy/dunphy200511150827.asp

I think he is more pro-law-enforcement than out-and-out racist, but when the law enforcement in question is the LAPD .....

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

(I still read his books / see the movies though)

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the charm of Bubba Ho-Tep is that we all know Bruce Campbell is going to be the most awesome old dude ever.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

People who h8 Bubba Ho-Tep can fucking DIE

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

rrrobyn what screening are you going to?? i'll probably see you there!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

custosishungry

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

friend i was going to go with has to stay late at work :/ and i just got a thesis-writing pep talk from a friend, so really this is for the best, as i am going to write tonight, and go see children of men on the wkend! tho i really want to see the movie *now*...
xpost

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

james ellroy is probably certifiably insane and definitely has some politics i disagree with, but i don't think he's a racist. when i saw him read a few months back he kept going on about how he was going to write six more books, each one better than the previous, and then DIE.

― ‘•’u (gear), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Children of Men

pretty great!

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:51 (seventeen years ago) link

tonight: Criterion Mouchette (case is uggggggly)

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 13 January 2007 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link

crank
narc

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Mi Viaggio en Italia
Venus
Tucker: The Man and His Dream

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link

The Great Yokai War

Like an hour too long, BUT ultra-cool monsters and demons and shit! I mean ULTRA-COOL. Also Chiaki Kuriyama panty shots. Rowr.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

SUSPIRIA

so great, amazing colors. and Goblin of course. been wanting to see this for a while.

http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/Suspiria/SUSPIRIA%2010.jpg

http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/Suspiria/SUSPIRIA%2011.jpg

― dmr (Renard), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

just saw children of men!
i liked it but am feeling kind of overwhelmed
it was very blue and grey. and reminded me a bit of 28 days later, in certain ways (aesthetically and thematically), but not in other ways

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

as tears go by, for wong completism. so '80s! it's like hong kong vice or something. i love how so much of his style and themes are already obvious, even with all the linn drums.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link

amazing colors indeed! i envy someone seeing suspiria for the first time. color-wise, he learned from the master (bava):

http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/images/131karloff.jpg

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:35 (seventeen years ago) link

hey that almost looks like it could be a still from pan's labyrinth

which I saw tonight

It was okay ... pretty cool I guess ... wished there was more underworld stuff! It was closer to Devil's Backbone than I expected ...

― dmr (Renard), Sunday, 14 January 2007 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Marie Antoinette
The Warriors (again)

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 January 2007 08:32 (seventeen years ago) link

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