MOVIES!

^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The funny thing is, all these attempts to make a "feminist James Bond" are now out-of-date.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.

maybe they'll remake "Live at Let Die" next and Wright will get to tap dance around all sorts of racist bugaboos.

when is Judi Dench getting a lesbian love scene?

it depends on when they cast a Miss Moneypenny.

Toni Colette?

I liked that we saw Mr. M in bed next to her, but no glimpse of her bedside reading. The Sensuous Spook?

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

yes wtf

Cinema: Rescue Dawn, Rules of the Game

TV: Zaitoichi, North by Northwest

DVD: La Captive

what the hell does felix leiter ever do except give bond some intel or get eaten by sharks?

bottle rocket -- thumbs up!
live free or die hard -- solid, i s'pose, but this movie was really kind of weird and i wish hateable evil emo hacker had received a less throwaway death scene
perfume: the story of a murderer -- it started out gross, then got interesting (love the stuff with dustin hoffman and what's his face learning the trade), then it fell off the rails. too long, too 'who gives a shit?'

i rewatched bottle rocket the other day also - thumbs still up!

rescue dawn was yes!

cinema: I'm Not There, The Holy Mountain
DVD: Lacombe Lucien, Helvetica

drunken viewing of superbad

best way

Bottle Rocket is still the only Wes Anderson I really like

No Country For Old Men

^good movie 5/5

3:10 to Yuma: 3/5
30 Days of Night: 3/5
The Prestige: 3/5
Aftermath: 1/5
Rob Zombie Halloween remake: 1/5
Salo/120 Days of Sodom: 1/5
You're Gonna Miss Me: 4/5
Superstar, the Karen Carpenter Story: 4/5

come and see - first half brilliant, poetic and absurdly comic yet terrifying. the last sequence, while entirely necessary, didn't stand up execution-wise (no pun intended). also, film ends with ill-advised bush league montage of WWII footage run backwards wtf.

I don't remember that last; did you have a jokey projectionist?

Opinons are divided on the film's penultimate scene. Flyora comes upon a portrait of "Hitler the Liberator." He shoots it. After each shot, we see war footage run backwards: We see concentration camps liberated and Pearl Harbor bombed; we see Paris fall and Hitler's willful Triumph. Then we loose sight of WWII. Weimar is marred by riots. Those crowds scurry exactly like the men hurtling out of WWI trenches. Finally we are faced by a portrait of Adolf Hitler as a baby. Flyora stops shooting.

http://logomorphoses.blogspot.com/2007/03/come-and-see.html

just watched ecstasy of sculptor steiner/how much wood would a woodchuck chuck.../la soufriere - SO AWESOME.

HMWWAWC has this one segment where they go to PA, and theres this version of "take me home, country roads" that is just like THE most beautiful thing ever.

all three docs just great. the shit WH says in his narration in the beginning of la soufriere is ridiculous and great.

I watched "Joe" last night for the first time. Maybe it was partly my frame of mind at the time, but shit, that was a seriously fucking grim movie.

but I highly recommend it to anyone who's not seen it...

Elizabethtown - surprisingly not the worst movie I've ever seen

The Brood

day after tomorrow ok this was horrible but where did the wolves come from? the zoo? the 8 wolves or whatever in ny zoos somehow escaped and broke into the exact same cvs as jake gyllenhaal?

stranger things have happened

I saw "Dig!" for the first time recently, as well. Shockingly entertaining, all things considered.

"I WRITE ALL THE SONGS."

"ALL THE SONGS!"

really? as Cosloy wrote, behind the music with 2 crappy bands?

Lola Montes

really? as Cosloy wrote, behind the music with 2 crappy bands?

Yeah, that's not a completely off-the-mark comparison. I don't know, maybe it helps if you have a fascination with psychopathology, nineties west coast indie rock culture, and have known people in your personal life who remind you of some of the people in the film.

I watched it and "Joe" on the same night, and it's kinda funny-- in the same way that one ends up sympathizing with Joe at times even though he is a pretty jerky guy, at certain points in "Dig!" I was astonished to find myself sympathizing with Anton, who otherwise came across as being quite repellent. I think that's in large part due to the fact that Courtney Taylor and some of the other Dandy guys are so incredibly annoying in the film.

I'm Not There
Don't Look Back
Through a Glass Darkly

Severance - kinda dumb

man, through a glass darkly is INSANE. i was watching that this summer when i was real tired, and i drifted to sleep, then woke up when the daughter is SCREAMING about god as a spider. v v harrowing

yeah what was really funny is i watched all those movies yesterday, in the order i placed them. so they're all black and white and the first two have a lot of dylan with those ray bans on. and then in one of the last scenes of through a glass darkly the daughter puts on ray bans just like dylan's. spooky.

how was im not there?

Disappointing. I liked the first hour or so okay. The kid was great, Cate Blanchette was great, but the Heather Ledger/Charlotte Gainsbourg and Christian Bale stuff was too confusing. And then parts of it were almost Mighty Wind-ish? I didn't like any of the Richard Gere stuff except for the version of Going To Acapulco, which was lovely.

yeah christian said the gere part was sorta shitty