MOVIES!

the KU banter can be found on ILE, if yr not taking th' piss

i was only kinda takin the piss - i am actually curious what you thought

and superbad is way better - next level shit that

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I got "The Busby Berkeley Collection" 6xDVD for Christmas! Yeah, fuckers...

is Footlight Parade in that?

Yes! It's got "42nd Street", "Gold Diggers of 1933", "Footlight Parade", which are all A+, "Dames", which is B, "Gold Diggers of 1935", which is C, except for the "Lullaby of Broadway" bit, which is about as good as it gets. (the numbers in "Dames" - the title piece and "I only have eyes for you" are 2 of the best as well, the film is a bit hokey though), there's also a disc with just the routines, as well as a few from other films. The extra features are all very good as well - contemporary WB cartoons and shorts, a set of great little documentaries spread across each disc. It's the best xmas present I've ever had.

I have teh hotts for both Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell.

The Lives of Others - pretty good, I woulda lopped off the last 20 or 25 minutes after the fall of the wall tho. it felt long

I would have lopped off the parts where what's-his-name reads Rilke and is moved.

there will be blood is my new favorite movie ever

no country for old men -- kinda flat. story seems just as silly as it did in the book. (well made etc i know i know)

Yeah, it was pretty solid but not mindblowing. Not even as good as The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

I would have lopped off the parts where what's-his-name reads Rilke and is moved.

that whole movie felt that way to me. mystical-power-of-art stuff. i mean i guess the point of something like that domestically is to redeem old national sins and whatever, so it has a context where it makes sense. but outside that context it just seems to be trying awfully hard.

xpost: so many people i know like three burials. i guess i should see it. i like tommy lee jones.

Simpsons Movie <--- awful

Mean Streets
Blow Out

that whole movie felt that way to me. mystical-power-of-art stuff. i mean i guess the point of something like that domestically is to redeem old national sins and whatever, so it has a context where it makes sense. but outside that context it just seems to be trying awfully hard.

It stretches credulity to imagine a guy created by the Stasi would suddenly feel his soul expand.

oh that wasn't his soul expanding. (rimshot)

yeah, lots of things about the movie strain credulity.

I've stayed away from it cuz it looks like the German Mississippi Burning

I liked it in general, I just had some people tell me it was their favorite movie in a long time so my expectations were too high

I didn't think he was converted only by art .... more like if you monitor someone's daily life for a long time you might come to sympathize with them (kind of a reverse stockholm syndrome)

infernal affairs 2 - badass

°_°

TV:

The Red Shoes: Ballerina Drama, with a mad enough ending

A ton of noir thrillers and melodramas taped over Xmas week. 'The Narrow Margin' (mob informant escorted on train journey), plenty of double-crossing on 'Build my Gallows High', Humphrey's awesome monologue on 'Dead Reckoning', then playing the psycho writer on 'In a Lonely Pace'; an unlikey, unspoken, doomed-before-it-starts love affair in 'The Reckless Moment'. Plus 'The Third Man'

Cinema: '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days'. My one Romanian movie hoho, but it ws something. Might see Rivette's new one next weekend.

fully flared

^^^ oh SHIT

i'm really looking forward to 4 months.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (yes)
War (had potential but only fair)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (v. good)
Katelmacher (my guess is that all early fassbinder is like this?..meaning no real pt in seeing them??)

meaning no real pt in seeing them??

no. Different early Fassbinders are different.

i watched the perfect storm and i think it is actually the worst movie ever

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/chicago10/trailer/

discuususs

i bet dragon wars is worse than perfect storm

there will be blood - DARK and gr8

looks great am0n

yes ive heard bad things abt this dragon wars

terrible movies with dragons vs. terrible movies with no dragons

1. is the movie terrible? if yes, continue
2. does the movie have dragons? if yes, continue
3. the movie is better than terrible movies with no dragons

on a Preminger binge:

Bonjour Tristesse
Where the Sidewalk Sleeps
Exodus

Also:

3:10 to Yuma

I kind of liked 3:10 to Yuma.

I watched it right after Eastern Promises though which was very gnarly so I might have been hardcore-violenced out already.

Superbad (better 2nd time around cuz the fat kid becomes less obnoxious)
La Commune
Crime Wave
Decoy (a total "wtf?!?" noir)
Murnau's "Nosferatu"

mission impossible 3
babel
the cell (lol)

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planet of the apes (1968) - seen before, watched as a prelude cause i downloaded THE WHOLE PENTALOGY!

PLANET OF THE APES
BENEATH THE PLANTET OF THE APES
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

!!!

russell crowe's great in 3:10 to yuma. the story's just so stupid.

Crowe's sidekick (aka wispy Billy the Kid) is horrible. That guy is terrible in every single role.

rush hour 3

the cell (lol)

tarsem singh! i kind of love that movie. it's terrible but i saw it twice on the big screen anyway.

imdb says tarsem singh has an "uplifting epic fantasy" coming out soon.

there will be blood is my new favorite movie ever

-- jhøshea, Monday, 7 January 2008 01:36 (4 days ago) Link

yes. that shit blew my mind, no questions asked.

also can't wait to see apichatpong weerasethakul thingies (Syndromes and A Century (2006) (Jan. 13), Tropical Malady (2004) (Jan. 20) and Blissfully Yours (2002)). i finally saw 'tropical malady' on my tv and omg. big screen will be omgOMGomg

Atonement
Seduced and Abandoned (I'm not much for Germi comedies, it seems)
Beaufort (astoundingly dull Israeli combat film)
The Lookout
Loggerheads
The Clock (V. Minnelli/Garland)

tried & failed watching 3:10 to Yuma, awful awful

I watched that Bros Grimm movie, it sucked.

the Terry Gilliam one? quel surprise!

I don't know these filmy knowledge things, I just thought "Hell, it's about fairy tales, it can't be worse than a superhero movie (clearly I was repressing Elektra at the time), how bad can it be??"

You're right, they should have "Disowned by the Director" on the DVD box. (Gilliam is a stoner favorite, ie, hasn't made a good film in 20 years.)