MOVIES!

NO CHRISTMAS STORY FOR JOHN QUAYS

WHERE IS SAMUEL L. JACKSON?
HEY THERE FUCKFACE! HEY THERE FUCKFACE!

Warning: on the off chance that somebody proposes that you watch the Japanese-Polish video-game sci fi movie "Avalon" - don't.

OPRAH WINFREY, SHE STUDIED BEE MOVIE

I have fallen into incredibly deep sleeps 3 times attempting to watch Avalon at my parents' house.

I kept trying again why because it look interstin based on the description and I figured it would eventually get good. I guess it didn't.

"kiss kiss bang bang" was essentially crap, but val kilmer and RDjr are never really boring

and Michelle Monaghan is cuet

PENELOPE CRUZ'S CREEK

Juno - not entirely terrible, the dad/stepmom were excellent. Michael Bluth was CREEPY though!

TMZ HASSLE SCHMUCK

I'm in the middle of Born to Fight a Thai action (but so far not muy thai-centric) movie, and it's pretty enjoyable. The PREVIEWS on the disc, however, make Seven Swords and Police Story 2 look AWESOME.

DVD: Kore-eda's "After Life", wanted to see this for a couple of years. Glad its as good as I thought it would be.

Cinema: Rivette's new one - s'ok, he doesn't do the things he's known (enough clock metaphors tho') for, but more than superior period adaptation. Must read Balzac this year. Maybe every year.

ATL
^ GOOD

just watched 3:10 to yuma last night. anyone seen the original?

Clash of the Titans - a little slow in the last scenes.

yes t. weiss, it is very dated.

jon, i used to watch HH's kids in the afternoons.

Born to Fight is TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE. I love dumm action movies and it's STILL terrible. ABORT ABORT

I have Bullitt at home and I'm starting The Wire: Seas 1.

we just started Wire Season 3

Everyone on this board MUST see the Hong Kong horror/boxing/monastic Buddhism/zombie blowout that is "The Boxer's Omen". I mean, wow. WOW. So good.

Netflix it and prepare to be amazed.

well im sold

when you see the cackling Thai black magicians cut the rectum off a live chicken, eat it with rotting bananas, then pass that repellent chicken banana mixture in and out of each other's mouths in a single uninterrupted shot, and then feed it to the sexy naked zombie lady covered in maggots that they have just ripped out of the inflatable corpse of a crocodile in order to hypnotize her into stabbing a photograph of the Abbot Qing Zhao in the eyes with her pointy metallic fingers, you will thank me for recommending this film to you.

NONSTOP BLOOD DIAMONDS

omg

Nooooooo wait I do not need to see this. CANCEL CANCEL

way to tell drew

i mean you DID say blood diamonds so ill see it

buddhist resurrection-from-crocodile sounds like a pretty uninspired rip of mayan death-in-centipede but I'm game

I don't see how it's going to be able to beat Ninja 3: The Domination

ha ha Milton good guess, "The Omen's Boxer" was also recommended to me by my cinema guru and wise teacher John Wi3s3

hey milton not to twitter here but I don't know enough about how to set up a Bmore show, we should talk about it soon I don't mean to be so slow on the draw but work is crazy lately and I've been dropping things

ATL
^ GOOD

i liked it. body doubles in skating scenes too obvious tho, t.i. should've gotten his skills up to speed.

did we ever figure out if that Ninja 3 DVD was actually transferred by Wi3s3 himself? we owe him one either way, callin' soon

for people who haven't seen Ninja 3, it's got Kelly from Breakin' 2 as a cute innocent LA girl trying to deal with a budding romance while dealing with the fact that she's been possessed by a vengeful NINJA. Alternately adorable and bloody and more 80's kitsch than your brain can process & Diamanda Galas provides music for the exorcism scene

Sunshine - mostly good, but the melty-man stuff was so stupid and unnecessary.

ACE IN THE HOLE! ACE IN THE HOLE!

there will be blood

Cloverfield - ain't that just some shit.

Babel - wow, hated it. Crash meets Amazing Race?

I liked Amores Perros but I think I'm done w/ this dude now

only good scene in Babel is the chicken beheading

I liked Amores Perros but I think I'm done w/ this dude now

this is what i said when i saw 21 grams

Just watched "Rhapsody in Blue" (ancient Gershwin biopic)
and "Robert Rauschenberg: Open Score" (performance piece from '66)

good times and great oldies

this is what i said when i saw 21 grams

u are smarter than me cause I hated that one too

babel is probably worse though, except for the chickens and some of the stuff w/ the japanese girl (nightclub scene etc)

The Ten -- basically the premise is a thin pretext for a bunch of skilly sketches but I lol'd hard.

silly sketches, lol

unknown pleasures: still good!
infernal affairs 3: WACK

ACE IN THE HOLE! ACE IN THE HOLE!

-- Tape Store, Sunday, 20 January 2008 18:15 (2 days ago) Link

so good

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SP-cMlpq-zM&feature=related

I have reserved "The Boxer's Omen" at the liberry.

No idea what remy means by the '57 original of 3:10 to Yuma being dated, but it's real good, esp Glenn Ford.

Fallen Angel
The Gospel Acc to St. Matthew
Army of Shadows (so overpraised)
These Earthly Days Go Rolling By
Apichatpong Weerasethakul shorts
Odds Against Tomorrow (good Robt Ryan-Belafonte perfs, disapp finish)
Woman on the Beach (yay)
Orthodox Stance
The Counterfeiters
Bug (3 acts: excellent, good, oh no)

Lacombe Lucien
Cat People (original)
The Lady In the Lake
Interstella 555
Toni

Cloverfield (didn't really catch any hype before seeing this, thought it was pretty effective & scared the shit out of me a few times)

Black Sheep (bad NZ creature feature, at least tried to be funny)

Octopus II (awful creature feature, foam tentacle wrestling & all, and apparent from the credits it was made ENTIRELY BY RUSSIANS)

Mosquito Coast (i love this movie)

The TV Set

first 5 minutes of Rush Hour 3