MOVIES!

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.

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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

black mama, white mama
the stepford wives (1975)

there will be blood - pretty awesome. preacher kid was great, and daniel day lewis of course ... very different from anything else pt anderson has done .... can't think of another movie like it, really.

the diving bell and the butterfly
the landlord
im not there
i am legend

liked them all (in that order)

didn't make it through Sweet Sweetback's Bad Asssssssss Song with Mrs. Dancer...
Strike one: extralong underage sex scene
Strike two: extralong stabbing sequence
Strike out: taking a shit on camera

my modernism-is-not-pornography argument did not hold!

id guess that argument gets threatened rather constantly...

it does complement my "i am very very bored by other people's sex" perspective

i may watch zodiac today...as my head doesnt seem to be working right so far

its good for napping! (zodiac)

wake up after a bit, it gets better in the 2nd half

The Savages
The Last Winter
Charlie Wilson's War

The Savages was so sad and bleak it took me a few days to get over it. Really affecting.

See CWW for the sheer pleasure of hearing Philip Seymour Hoffman say "Excuse me, what the fuck?"

im thinkin this might be a watch someting silly on netflix insta-view, then read for a bit day..might save very ehh killer thriller for tonight, as plans have gone very nowhere-fast.

mr herzog, here i come

booya!

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Don't bother with The Orphanage unless you've decided that replacing Roman Catholicism with Psychology is a major step forward.

ill take virgins, whores, and redemption over lacan anyday

what's Lacan's big deal again? The Mirror Phase? I know what. In my film I'll represent this by showing my character looking at herself in the mirror.

fitzcarraldo

Cinema: I'm not There

DVD: South Park Bigger, Louder, Uncut

TV: The Harder They Come, Claire's Knee (Rohmer early 70s flick), Stranger on the Third Floor (ho-hum noir).

Should be going to see Kings of the Road, part of the Wenders season going on over here.

9th configuration

Barton Fink

SUPERVOLCANO: BBC's idea of a disaster movie. Yellowstone blows the fuck up and... there's a lot of ash. And dead people that you never see.

painted veil
little children