MOVIES!

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

eastern promises
no country for old men
the warriors
first 20 minutes of labyrinth god wtf jennifer connelly is a bitch in this

YOU GUYS BULLITT WAS AWESOME.

I also added The Warriors to my queue today cos I've never seen it.

bullitt is SO fucking awesome

Bullitt rocks

Last few days:
The Blue Gardenia
Andrei Rublev
Veruschka (in Italian but visually awesoem)
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh. this was GOOD)

Also The Big Sleep (1946) where Dorothy Malone plays the world's sexiest bookstore employee. No, really. Also, the plot is friggin' exhausting and I love R. Chandler. And Lauren Bacall is scary looking in this

Exhausting is like a lot of the v best noir to me.

Taped and watched: 'The Lady of Deceit', which is decent enough late40s noir.

Zodiac was my recent library borrow. Mostly excellent, now I might have to read the ILE thread.

Bought an on sale copy of Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse (from '76). This was kinda noise, therefore good.

Away From Her - julie christie is "good" in this I guess but it plays out like a lifetime / we network disease-of-the-week movie, turned it off halfway

margot at the wedding*
the man who shot liberty valance
the apartment
the wind that shakes the barley*

*had not seen before; excellent.

just watched camille 2000..well, it was on i got bored..but let it run to break in bro's new tv for a bit...

silly italian erotica..i got it cause i like the soundtrack...i have learned a lesson.

Andrei Rublev
is awesome, is my favorite movie evevevev

the wind that shakes the barley
ive heard is rad, will have to investigate

Camille 2000 is totally charming.

thats true..but, its thin...the costumes and sets are fantastic!

Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse

I LOVE THAT FILM, Love is Alive

Valerie and her Week of Wonders (liked it! some people said they were thrown by budget production but psychedelic Czech 1971 children's fable = automatically engaging for me and I liked the dreamy weasel vampire legions. also seemed honestly from the girl's perspective, innocently wandering through forest orgies, just trying to get some sleep as the scary world of adults keeps beckoning her to grow up)

Seconds (hard to believe this film even exists)

RAMBO (CGI is now capable of depicting bodies crumbling into pulped bits under machine-gun fire with heretofore unknown degrees of realism)

julie christie is "good" in this I guess but it plays out like a lifetime / we network disease-of-the-week movie, turned it off halfway

This is so OPPOSITE of the case that I am dumbstruck. You missed when she went homicidal in a bowling alley at the end. Gordon Pinsent is just as GOOD tho not famous.

The Witnesses (splendid French AIDS drama)
Year of the Dog (woefully misjudged, but Peter Sarsgaard is creepily spot-on as gay vegan animal-shelter guy)

thanks for the spoiler warning, morbsius

elmo punk'd!

Seconds is awesome.

dumbstruck! what can I say, I was bored by it. too many touching, wry meaning-of-life chats with the nurse.

ok, those were the most routine, purely expository scenes, but there were some great Alzheimers jokes, and I found Christie and Pinsent totally made for a lifelong couple.