MOVIES!

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.)

12 monkeys is great, you grumpus

time bandits is classicest

fisher king

i like him. i skipped bros grimm though.

pretty bad. i recall heath ledger being passable, matt damon was really awful in it though.

it was all downhill after Brazil (Fisher King is treacle); Time Bandits and the Python movies were his least pretentious, and the first half-hour of the Hunter Thompson movie.

12 Monkeys worked way better as a half-hour of still photos.

oh thx morbs you just reminded me to add some chris marker to netflix queue1

For some reason I feel The Bros Grimm is redeemed by the Gingerbread Man sequence. Gilliam flicks are best when you're home, sick.

The Ten - terrible, just god awful
Sweeney Todd - good times, would rather have re-watched Little Shop of Horrors though

Bros Grimm movie was not bad, Peter Stormare was hilarious, scene when Heath Ledger bro was on top of the tower looked nice.

the cell (lol)

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

yeah we had seen it before too. added it to netflix thinking "was this as weird as we remembered it?" (yes.) actually held up better than I thought, pretty good for post-"lambs" / pre-"saw" sick serial killer shit. love that scene with the timer and the horse (damien hirst amirite)

also toward the beginning j-lo burns one down and watches "la planete sauvage"

12 Monkeys worked way better as a half-hour of still photos.

you'd think I didn't bring this parallel to its own thread

mobs otm abt gilliam goin waaaay downhill (except 12 monkeys is awz) time bandits was my fav childhood movie

when i saw 12 monkeys in the theater my friend pete kept kicking the guy in front of hims chair cause hes a spaz when the movie ended the guy stood up and punched him in the face

it was pretty tremendous

General Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait
There Will Be Milkshake

310 to yuma is so much better than eastern promises

nuh uh

xpost: I was looking forward to a boilerplate western, but Mangold can't shoot an action sequence worth a damn, and the last 15 minutes are almost as shameful as Eastern Promises'.

diving bell and the butterfly

just started to watch MI3 and stopped

The Dead Pool

the past week or so:

berlin alexanderplatz (first seven episodes today, rest to follow tomorrow)
times and winds
bunny lake is missing
there will be blood
sweeney todd
charlie wilson's war
wayne's world
don't be a menace to south central etc etc

The Searchers
All About Eve
Bridge Over the River Kwai

Smiley face
One Missed call (Miike one)

watched blood diamonds last night and was actually sort of impressed with it? like, expected nothing from it, but dicaprio i thought was good! some preachiness but whatever, it's a movie about BLOOD DIAMONDS in AFRICA

next up:

I am Legend
Altered States

I keep watching Brainstorm.

Tales of Earthsea (Studio Ghibli) - better than I expected.

Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy
The Devils (did not like this as much as I did years ago, starting to think Lisztomania is his best film)
Sweeney Todd (loved the insane amounts of blood during the musical numbers, I'm more of a sucker for michel legrand than stephen sondheim but the film is fun)

oh man, Lisztomania is such a bonkers movie. I can really not understand that some people are like "yeah, serious good movie" abt it. Yer not the first, Milton. I had a professor during my brief time at college whose email was LISZTOMANIA at like yahoo or something. It just seems so whacky.

watched blood diamonds last night and was actually sort of impressed with it? like, expected nothing from it, but dicaprio i thought was good! some preachiness but whatever, it's a movie about BLOOD DIAMONDS in AFRICA

-- gbx, Sunday, January 13, 2008 11:08 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

the film is called BLOOD DIAMOND and it was filmed in montreal

okay just kidding about the montreal part, but the memes are attacking, invading our world, we must stop them

Out Of The Past (WOW. Now one of my fave noirs. Go Jacques Tourneur!)
Indiana Jones...Last Crusade (good except for: Cartoon Nazis/Grail Bit)
Eastern Promises (What's the big deal? It was...ehhh)

uhm no the films was called BLOOD DIAMONDS and it is the new respek knuckles

I have crush on 1940's Jane Greer

Just watched:

Favela Rising: hurrah!
Shopgirl: surprisingly weird and gross and off-putting.

BLOOD DIAMONDS is the new THE INFOTAINMENT SCAM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/

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JOE CURSES THE VOLCANO

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