MOVIES!

t/s long, detailed mech-building montage vs long, detailed mech-repairing montage vs apprx 80 mecha smashing thru walls scenes

TEKKON KINKREET IS PRETTY GOOD GUYS

White is 69 and Black is pretzel walrus + I claim my $5

donald sutherland is KLUTE
jane fonda is SEX ON FILM
her wardrobe/hair is HIPSTERIFFIC A++
the score is SPOOKY AS SHIT
the line deliveries are READY AIM SAMPLER
ROY SCHEIDER IS A PIMP NAMED FRANK

seven days in may was pretty good too. could use a remake?

bought science of sleep, i heart huckabees (lol indie) and jarhead on special.

currently up to III in my rewatching of the star trek movies. III sucked, II was awesome and I was fine.

elizabeth golden age is EXTREMELY boring. battle scenes are pathetic.

what kind of prez would the crazed militarists want to take out in the Seven Days in May remake, Tom? Chiwetel Ejiofor as Obama?

part of the dirty dozen

about to watch The Conversation once the ramen is done

Last week: Blade II. Hhhooo boy was it bad. I can't say I wasn't warned...but I want to see the third one, so I slogged through.

This weekend:

The Island: starring ScarJo and Scottish Bloke McGregor
Evil: Swedish movie about boys' school bullying

i just downloaded this

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this

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last weekend:

the girl from monday ok. its hal lartley, what did i expect
the monkees head: was told to actually see it. saw it. whatever
a roxy music doc. some sort of critical look into 1st 4 records. critics were idiots. footage was sparse...basicly a waste

hospital, rififi, and something else coming today...mismanaged queue again

^^looks better than the clash film of the same name..though strummer hamfisting "let the goodtimes roll" is priceless..in the way that he can be

Uggggg I have tried to watch The Girl from Monday twice. Can't work up much enthusiasm...?

yeah, thats about it...started it on sat...watched the rest on tues due to lack of other options

hal hartley should team up with george lucas.

morbius, I guess I wasn't really thinking about the presidential character as much as I was thinking of all our latter-day lancasters and douglases (cf departed etc) in the other roles, and patented "which of these people who all look alike is double crossing me" moments. anyway obviously the answer is martin sheen.

JOHNNY GUITAR (a little too much kitsch-factor)
NEVER CRY WOLF (i love carroll ballard, even if he's an ass)
ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
MICHAEL CLAYTON
BREACH

IT"S NOT KITSCH, remy. Drink yr milkshake.

xp: I have the novel somewhere in my house... seemed like Freddy March was Adlai Stevenson (just like Sellers!), at least Serling's script made it so. Lancaster played another rebelling general (this time sympathetic?) in Twilight's Last Gleaming, which I've never seen.

no kitsch in johnny guitar

"The Gang's all Here" phantasmagorical alice faye/carmen miranda musical from 1943. Terrible, really but very enjoyable for all that. Always weird to see blatant political propaganda in Hollywood musicals "Here's your good neighbor" and all that.

HMV has "That Night in Rio" which appears to be the same cast, playing the same roles, only made 2yrs earlier, on sale. I might pick it up tonight.

Stalag 17
The Great Escape
Champion (Kirk Douglas) - on TCM now

Oscar month is awesome

i know the movie is not kitch, and i really liked it.

but i was watching it with two friends who just oozed over every goddamn thing joan crawford did, and every clowny melodramatic nick ray moment like it was the best goddamn piece they'd ever seen. sorta emphasized by counterpoint exactly what it is that irritates me about his movies. something about the theatricality and exaggeration that i think was handled much better by someone like vincinte minelli without verging so close to campiness.

honestly, i am not now (nor have i ever been) all that taken with any of ray -- but i love sterling hayden, so this was an enjoyable pic

I thought Blade II was supposed to be the best one. or at least "the one guillermo del toro did." I didn't like it enough to fuck with blade 3 at all

on dangerous ground
secretary
the king of kong

that is a hat-trick of awesome

Elena And Her Men
The Lower Depths (Renoir)
Prenom:Carmen
" The War " Episode 1 (still on the fence about Ken Burns. Is that Nora Jones singing over war footage somewhere on here? Sheeesh)

wow tekkon kinkreet rules good call mr tomboto

and every clowny melodramatic nick ray moment like it was the best goddamn piece they'd ever seen. sorta emphasized by counterpoint exactly what it is that irritates me about his movies. something about the theatricality and exaggeration that i think was handled much better by someone like vincinte minelli without verging so close to campiness.

Yup, although I've never minded In a Lonely Place.

a boy and his dog (crazzzzzzy)
superbad (though i missed the last 20 minutes)
and last night i watched the law & order CI marathon instead of the oscars, because the oscars are boring.

hmmmm, not as boring as cop shows

I finally watched Pan's Labyrinth. Maybe it was having to take five breaks to check on the crying cat, but I feel like I sort of missed something. Maybe the movie was just so punishing that I sort of checked out, emotionally.

punishing, indeed. (did you get my Boleyn webmail?)

Oh sorry! No, I'll check it now.

Charlie Bartlett - I'm a complete sucker for rich kid-public school or poor kid-private school movies, and there's a lot of good here, but it's the most haphazardly written movie I've ever seen.

Who Killed The Electric Car made me cuss at a teevee

(not because it sucked, because of subj matter)

it is effing infuriating, esp. the bits where all the cars are just sitting on the far side of the chain-link fence turning to shit and rot.

vantage point - ugh avoid avoid

saw it in times square, people were heckling the screen and I was enjoying the heckling

were you transported back to 1981 Times Square?

Mandingo (not at all bad, and far more honest than GWTW & other antebellum South potboilers)
10 Rillington Place
In Harm's Way (surprisingly anonymous Preminger WW2 Navy epic)
Backstage

Pet Sematary - So unfrightening, so many poor decisions ...

In the Valley of Elah (frustrating)
Be Kind Rewind (meh)
Star Trek IV (awesome)
Star Trek V (terrible)
Golden Compass (terrible)

tried to watch Infernal Affairs 3 (disc scratched)
saw I am Legend

My *mom* likes Star Trek IV

if you actively dislike star trek iv then I can never respect anything you have to say about anything

the Whale one? that launched Nimoy's sterling career as a film director?

yeah 4 is the whale one and it's the best

Nimoy wrote it too

well, shared the "Story" credit