MOVIES!

if you were a kid in the 70s pre-star wars you had two choices: planet of the apes and star trek. I went through my pota phase early on. I even had the treehouse! and yes I had the same expression as the kid on the box when I got it...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/potagift.jpg

probably the same haircut, too

that treehouse is worth smiling about!
i think i have seen grown adults with that haircut these days :/

3 control sticks AND 3 rifles AND a detention pen!

children today have been cheated of such simple pleasures

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/e/ea/200px-Performance_VHS_cover.jpg

i think i have seen grown adults with that haircut these days :/

-- rrrobyn, Sunday, November 18, 2007 2:25 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

have u seen no country for old men yet

haha

I'm Not There - pretty great

The Green Mile - worse than I was expecting.

I'm surprised that a lot of the reviews (even the positive ones) have been panning the Ricard Gere / Billy the Kid / Basement Tapes segment ... that was my favorite part! (xp to myself)

Holy fuck, Paul Williams.

ha, I was wondering if anyone would notice that!

watched tout va bien tonight... it was kind of like conquest of the planet of the apes, except without the cool makeup.

I'm surprised that a lot of the reviews (even the positive ones) have been panning the Ricard Gere / Billy the Kid / Basement Tapes segment

i know, i liked that. it was like the embodiment of that whole back-to-nature weird-america basement-tapes thing. so many reviews say "peckinpah" about that part, but it's not peckinpah at all.

i didnt know paul williams played an ape!

Sal Mineo too... (and John Huston w/ gratuitous makeup)

I did BOTH Star Trek and Apes in the '70s! I have a socio-study book of the Apes series that reveals the filmmakers very consciously based the visuals of the rebellion sequence on the Watts riots footage.

Zardoz is dreck, btw, and not even fun dreck. Maybe if Connery in a loincloth was more my type.

Divorce - Italian Style
Such is Life... (a Mexican Medea)
Away from Her
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (overrated pretentious bilge)
Southland Tales (at least funnier than Zardoz, barely)
Dont Look Back / 65 Revisited
Summer with Monika (Bergman)
Gone Baby Gone
Green for Danger

it's not peckinpah at all

is it just that critics haven't heard the basement tapes so they don't get the references as much as the '60s segment? e.g. New Yorker review said something like "at this point we've wandered so far off tangent from Dylan's art ..." but half the dialogue is straight outta the lyrics. dude from My Morning Jacket singing Going to Acapulco in the bandshell was A+ scene.

I really hate My Morning Jacket, so that was the nadir for me.

It is unfortunate they interpret that 'act' as being solely Peckinpah-related bcuz Gere is playing "Billy", when clearly Gere-Dylan look over the horizon at the start of the segment and 'hears' Woodstock. (I haven't heard The Basement Tapes tho.)

Planet.Of.The.Apes.Quadrilogy http://www.2torrent.com/tor.php?id=455236

how come im not there is only playing at shitty little screens

I was shocked it didn't just open in 2 NYC theaters as orig planned last summer; I think the Weinsteins did a 'last-minute' expansion that didn't give them much of a choice on where to book it.

A huge holiday "weekend" (from Tues - Sun) + my parents' house's 60-ish movie channels =

Night at the Museum - not bad, far better than I expected
Wild at Heart - remember when Nicolas Cage was awesome?
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The Princess and the Warrior) - mostly unsettling but ultimately pleasing; Franke Potante is the best

Also thanks to the internet =

Futurama: Bender's Big Score - hahahaha hooray!!!!
BBC special GALAPAGOS - cute little lizards + tectonic plates etc!

No Country For Old Men STILL not playing here.

BUT it starts this week.

(I haven't heard The Basement Tapes tho.)

and I havent seen Peckinpah's Billy the Kid movie so I don't know how much of that is in there .... but check out the album art

http://www.maggiesfarm.it/testivariquater.jpg

where's the giraffe?

hear the basement tapes ffs

the only one of those songs I know is "Wheel's on Fire" from the AbFab theme, haha

'70-76 is my least fave rock period. My slightly younger sister was a big Dylan fanatic -- when she was, like 13 -- so I would do braying impressions of "Hard Rain" and stuff to irk her.

byrds version of wheel's on fire is teh best of all versions.
dr. byrds & mr. hyde is so underrated.

last night some crappy harrison ford movie was on My9 instead of Star Trek and I was PISSED.

'70-76 is my least fave rock period.

just for the record, basement tapes is '67-'68. it just wasn't released til '75.

The Mist - I have never seen a movie fuck up the ending this badly. Jesus.

gonna watch Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman tonight

i keep hearing that about the mist ending ;_; i still want to see tho

seriously i was half expecting "that was a bit depressing, let's do the scooby-doo ending"

Robin and Marian
Casino Royale '06
The Holy Modal Rounders ... Bound to Lose
Pigpen
Letter from an Unknown Woman (great great great)

what think you neu Bond?

Daisies
American Grafitti
Bug

Hour of the Wolf.

boy, that's one of Bergman's clear failures in that period.

sD, I liked it fine -- it's probably the best one since at least, oh, Octopussy? (I skipped the entire Brosnan Era) -- and wouldn't even argue that Craig might be the best actor ever for the role, incl Connery. But "gritty," extending to a semi-realistic torture scene, is just not what I need from a 007 film. As stinko as the spoof version of Royale was, I'm glad we didn't see Orson Welles whacking on naked Peter Sellers' balls.

Also, I don't understand poker.

^wdn't even argue against Craig being etc^

yeah, Craig has the charisma and physicality for the role. And I agree the torture scene was out of place (PG-13??? Vat Hast Spielberg Wrot?)
if only that the "realism" detracted from the trademark Bond preposterousness (ridiculous climax sceme).

oh I also saw Bergman's Magic Flute, but feel alseep in the middle, waking up to find myself in stylized Swedish Hell.

I'm glad we didn't see Orson Welles whacking on naked Peter Sellers' balls

.............

daisies is great.

Golden Eye spawned a good video game.

naw dudes craig is all brutish and emo not suave and sociopathic - he totally had the dude who never wears a suit wearing a suit vibe going the whole time - dud!

license to kill, yo

The funny thing is, all these attempts to make a "feminist James Bond" are now out-of-date. I would think a more ruthless misogyny would be respected by the modern cineaste.

yah totes

well, given that he's only "Bond...James Bond" at the very end, doesn't that promise nothing but brutish misogyny to come in the next 4 films?

also, I couldn't believe all Jeffrey Wright's Felix Leiter got to do was lose at cards.