MOVIES!

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)

juno & the paycock is what "juno" was based on, right?

i got a herzog box set for xmas
later we are watching (morbius fave) ratatouille

serious family crisis when the grinch wasn't on last night, sister freaked out.
yogi bear christmas was pretty good.

i got a herzog box set for xmas
awes gift

i watched half of xmen 3 and got pretty bored

'for a few dollars more' - kinski cameo

Ratatouille is OK despite racial chef caricature, I liked Simpsons Movie more

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

oh maaaaan, was this bad.

i enjoyed it.

i wanna see it so bad
no spoilers

i was talking morbs' ear off about AVP:R the other night at the bar and he didn't seem very interested. I AM SO EXCITED

elmo suggested tila tequila: alien versus predator

hahaha

SURPRISE!!!! I LIKE ALIENS *AND* PREDATORS

the first a.v.p. barely delivered on the premise (which should be a sort of infallible premise). new one looks more fun.

it's almost comically bad when it comes to the humans but there's much more alien/predator carnage.

I Am Legend - what is this shit...why go to so much effort to make it not a vampire movie when it was such a great vampire story!?

I know! So frustrating and baffling.

just sawr it - so sweet - who care abt vampires - not me

I grew to like the dog subplot but then they killed the fucking dog! Fuck that movie.

I am going to watch The Last Man On Earth (starring Vincent Price!) later - according to my dad a far superior adaptation.

The whole movie (I Am Legend) was like that scene in Shawn of the Dead where Shawn's like "don't say the Z word!" only it's the V word instead of the Z word.

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0758730/Ss/0758730/434.jpg

i mean come on, how can this movie not kick ass.