MOVIES!

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.

i liked the "mountains of madness" theme in the first AVP
the parts with humans were stupid tho

AvPR is so brainless it's almost sublime.

Two of the main characters disagreeing on which rescue plan of theirs will succeed:

"I hope we're both wrong."

Elf - I had no idea it was so dull

the cgi vampires were the worst part of I Am Legend. also awful: what happens to the movie in the last 30 minutes. good: will smith + nyc streets gone feral.

Eastern Promises - pretty good. could have done w/out 10 minutes of Vigo's schlong though.

The Kingdom - the attempts to make this anything other then a 'revenge on dem Arabs' flick are so muddled and dumb.

http://mgrsti3030s.seamlesstech.biz/Merchant/alien_predator_shop.jpg

AWWW

it's weird, they filmed some of i am legend outside my work and just put a bunch of shrubs around on the steps and it looked so cheesy.

i saw "juno" and it sucked more than i ever could have believed possible

persepolis is A+++, def in my top 5 of the year; actually that, the savages, and right at your door ('07 US release) could be my top 3.

maid in manhattan
christmas story
searchers

persepolis was awesome.

i wish my marxist parents would send me to a lycée français in vienna to escape the perils of my war-torn homeland!

TV: Red River, Elf, Inspector Gadget

DVD: Watching Ritwik Ghatak's "A River Called Titas". Nice change of pace to say the least.

i wish my marxist parents would send me to a lycée français in vienna to escape the perils of my war-torn homeland!

-- get bent, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:16 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

haha!

i interviewed her in toronto. she was an awesome lady. she was basically sitting on a hotel patio humiliating one clueless interviewer after another.

the savages was great. bonus: chris from the wire as a supporting character. i've entered a new phase in which i cry at EVERYTHING, though, so i spent much of the last 20 minutes snuffling into scratchy napkins from the concession counter.

Over the Xmas and today:

Boudou Saved From Drowning (my hero, that Boudou)
El Bruto (ok Mexican Bunuel)
Rob Zombie "Halloween" (garbage. Such shit. Out of the DVD player after 45 mins.
Poor Malcolm McDowell. Is he that hard up for $$?)
Raiders Of The Lost Ark (3 Stars)
Les Carabiniers (Go Go Godard. "Venus" was hot)

The Fury
Juno
Spider-Man 3

I watched two movie about hbigh school

Klass: good
Elephant: bad

Darjeeling Ltd. (better than Hotel Chevalier, at any rate)

diving bell & the butterfly - brilliant imo but maybe not for everybody

schnabel as film director >>>>> schnabel as painter but I havent seen his art since the 80s.

white christmas

rosemary clooney singing 'i want to wash my hands, my face, and hair with snooooooow' inexplicably hilarious

also, eastern promises