MOVIES!

hahaha

Flight plan Budget: $ 55,000,000
Flightplan grossed $89,602,378 at the box office and over $223,000,000 worldwide. It also grossed $49,270,000 on DVD rentals.
they laughin it up now

i watched caligula last night. i knew it would be bad, but i had no idea how bad it would be. it was one of the least erotic, ugliest, most gratuitious and inept things i have ever seen. guccione failed me.

also: malcolm mcdowell's taint

I would describe 75% of Italian cinema I've seen just as you have described Caligula.

i want to see the spanish horror movie slocki wrote abt in wkly paper this wk - looks good/scary!

called the orphanage

i am already scared by its italicized name!

i want to see that, too.

BOURNE ULTIMATUM

sherrybaby
no country for old men
the departed (which made me even more sad about the terrible, cheap, ugly renovation of the park luncheonette)

Liebelei
Charlie Wilson's War
Caught ('49 Ophuls)
Emitai

"The Phantom Carriage". Glooooomy.

Charlie Wilson's War <–- &?

the NY Post said it best: AFGHANISHTAR

(not as funny tho)

maggie cheung just hit jackie chan in the face withe a cake ^_^

SHE HIT HIM AGAIN

Suburbia
Margot at the wedding
George Washington
Wonderwall

wts There Will Be Blood v. badly

fell asleep halfway thru Hitchcock's "Lifeboat"

probably see Juno next ... and There Will Be Blood once it opens

The Yards
Into the Wild
In the Year of the Pig
Billy the Kid

Fitzcarraldo
Night at the Roxbury

Wait Until Dark - audrey is decent but alan arkin wtf

re-watching Barbarella lolz re: TEH MATMOS

how was billy the kid?

it's OK, but sorry, seemed kinda "set up" a lot of time (ie, camera can't be a fly-on-the-wall). Also, aspie kid likes too much bad '70s rock -- he'll be on ILX any day now.

while i'm at it, how was the yards? i liked little odessa well enough but we own the night was so bad that i deleted the yards from my netflix queue in a fit of pique.

Elevator To The Gallows
The War Game
Spirit Of The Beehive
Tristana

i'm not dr. morbs but i liked the yards, in a blue-collar-drama sort of way. (besides wahlberg doing his usual reglar-guy thing, it was the movie where i realized charlize theron could act.)

that's ok. your input is appreciated.

I'd seen The Yards when it came out and liked it w/ reservations, which are still there. The milieu is really spot-on, but it looks too much like The Godfather (even when J Caan is not on screen), and the contrived operatic seams show. Wahlberg is fine, but he's basically doing Brando in On the Waterfront. He and Joaquin Phoenix have one of the more convincing street brawls on film.

I also forgot that was Theron til it was over, and til midway that the scarily Faustian Queens frau was Faye Dunaway. (still amazing: Steve Lawrence chilling as corrupt Queens boro prez -- that's as in Steve & Eydie)

Just watched "The Andromeda Strain" because I had been enjoying the Gil Mellé score that Creel Pone reissued and whoah, that movie is righteous. So weird that this the guy that directed The Sound of Music. Sheesh. I would love to see the weird Ann McGuire video piece "Strain, Andromeda, The" which is just the entire movie re-edited so that each scene plays forward but in a shot-by-shot reverse order from that of the film. That sounds really good. Milton, do you have that piece by any chance?

I watched Andromeda Strain for the first time earlier this year, it was great!

arlington road unexpectedly awesome

don't look back - good
manufactured landscapes - kinda boring, but good

Day of the Jackal
Yunnan Colorfree
2 Fast 2 Furious
Oceans 11

arlington road unexpectedly awesome

-- tipsy mothra, Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:07 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

RONG

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/teeth/trailer/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wizardishungry/sets/72157603535345883/

Teeth: What. the. fuck.

RONG

no! i thought it was probably horrible because why wouldn't it be, but it's more or less a twlight zone episode. or maybe a tales from the darkside, it even did that spooky-negative thing in the credits. or what it really is is a 50s cold war paranoia movie, updated for terrorism. anyway i liked it even as it got more ludicrous. and they didn't wimp out on the ending.

PLUS the opening sequence w the kid staggering down the road and jeff bridges in the car is great.

RONG

the old "oh noes!" dark twist ending shit is kind of a pussy move imo, as if it's the easiest way to impress people ("oh it's uncompromising!") and make them forget they're watching an overdirected, overacted film which contains not one whit of true suspense or understanding of how people actually act and operate in real life.

it's the 'mr brooks' of the mad bomber genre.

mr brooks is hilarious though

plus Dane Cook gets pwn3d with a shovel

well i did like that scene.

also arlington rd is interesting to see several years post-9/11, its ideas of terrorism mostly shaped by okla. city.

and yes it's a ridiculous movie, i'm not concerned with its plausibility. twilight zone stories are mostly ridiculous too, fables or whatever you want to call them.

i liked the yards until joaquin phoenix started crying

Jodorowsky box set for xmas woohoo.

under my tree:

Marx Bros Paramount box
Dr Strangelove
early Hitchcock (Juno & the Paycock, Number 17)