MOVIES!

Paranoid Park - not bad, not great either ... I'm not really a GVS fan but was curious enough to see this.

Took the kid to see "spiderwick chronicles", not expecting much, it was pretty corny, but there were a few good bits and a couple of laffs. Reasonably enjoyable, if you have to take yr kid/s to see it.

But, you know, don't go out of yr way otherwise.

Repo Man - still the best movie evah

lol showed that to my sisters (they'd never seen it) the other night - 'still the best movie evah' heavily seconded.

good lord Time After Time is a piece of crap

Repo Man is so good, one of the perfect films, I can't imagine how they could possibly have made it any better. Weirdly it doesn't seem to date either, watching it, I forget how long ago it was made. I think I'll pull it off the shelf and watch it tonight, it's been about a year since I last saw it.

that punk chick is soooooo hot

I remember really clearly looking at the Repo Man box before my dad made me watch it and saying "this looks lame"...and my dad just laughed and laughed. And then I watched it and loved the SHIT out of it. I think I was 13.

Ended up watching a big chunk of WATERWORLD this weekend. It is hilarious. There's this part where Dennis Hopper's goons are all sliding down these big polls to row they're big stupid boat and one guy just LEAPT down the whole. I DON'T NEED NO POOOOOOLL!!!

Also at least 3 times Kevin Costner's fancy curved knife got knocked out of his hand/mouth and reappeared magically in his scabbard in the following frame.

They have to have known how ridiculous all this was, right?

one thing that i liked was the appearance of that freaky shark that kevin costner wrestles and then serves for dinner. i really would've liked to see more of that kind of thing, seeing how the ocean's fauna evolved to adapt to the ecosystem. and why the dude had gills to begin with.

but that is because i am a total fucking nerd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0JUVCMIRwA

haha

the man who never was

stranger than paradise - great. eva is a traet

"i am the winner."

<3 aunt lotte

taxi driver

poseidon adventure
beneath the planet of the apes
kiss me deadly

i XOXO shelley winters

even after place in the sun and night of the hunter?

not so much. still:

http://www.handbagproductions.org/history/poseidon/images/dolls-belle.jpg

awesome

Anne of the Thousand Days
No Country for Old Men
Street Kings (Keanu as Dirty Harry/Serpico)

The Orphanage - sucked balls
Lions for Lambs - Tom Cruise and Robert Redford giving each other hand jobs. Makes me dread to think what's going to happen when Cruise directs.
The English Patient - lame, colin farrell is so shit in everything
Behind Enemy Lines - kept thinking of tombot during this
The Verdict - awesome, slightly unbelievable big finish
The Illusionist - terrible, predictable. Horribly over-graded.

colin firth that is. farrell is awesome in everything.

fever pitch - lolol
meet joe black - the sex scene was totally filmed by different people at tacked on post production i think

er whatever "post production" -- after the movie was done essentially

oh is that what you meant

cloverfield

Tom, I didn't want to get all the film dorks to correct me for using a wrong term.

Westworld - man lol love crichton

tried to watch Sans Soleil, but it was boring and Momus-y so I had to turn it off.

Cinema: The all Reduced Personality, from the late 70s (by Helke Zander, who plays the main role) about a single-mother and freelance photographer in Berlin who is trying to put a show together with her fellow colleagues...love the way it was shot, framed, with an absolute ton of material about the feminist movement, the lameness at the heart of '68...you can easily get lost, and I did at many points. Need to watch it again.

Def a counterpart to 'Jeanne Dielman', and as good.

'The Awakening of Christina Klages' by Margueritte Von Trotta, the title is a bit of a mislead, its more to do with her actions awakening two other women (and hopefully the audience).

DVD sale: L' Eclisse.

DVD library borrow: the first two seasons of 'The wire', finishing the 2nd season today. I think they have the 3rd season as well so I'll crack on with that.

friday night, saw the midnight showing of cannibal holocaust at the nuart.

fresh turtle anyone?

the ruins. eh.

my fucking postman keeps stealing my netflix; have fun watching Stalker and Silent Running bro

lol

leatherheads - mediocre but pleasant enough i guess. it was neat seeing greenville locations being used.

the ruins - not terrible but it's really hard to make plants scary

the band's visit (a+)
california split (a+++++++++++++++++++++++++++)
the woman in the window (didn't enjoy it as much as i was expecting to)

just got parallels working with netflix watch online :)

it's really hard to make plants scary

did you see last night's snl w/ christopher walken?

i watched california split this wkend too & agree w/ the a++++++++++++

it's really hard to make plants scary

yeah it worked better in the book. hard to do it in a movie without looking like little shop of horrors.

Jules & Jim

the patriot
barton fink

tried to watch Sans Soleil, but it was boring and Momus-y so I had to turn it off.

-- Dan I., Sunday, 6 April 2008 09:01 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Boring and Momus-y!!

Paprika (wack & nice looking, what it was about I have no clue)
The Good Shepherd (not worthless depite the zzzzzzzzs)

hey morbs street kings looks like the worst ever whatd u think?

The Good Shepherd (not worthless depite the zzzzzzzzs)

i thought it was pretty drab, but its drabness was kind of conceptually interesting -- felt more like a dour bbc drama than a big-star hollywood movie. if the goal was to make intelligence work seem crabbed and dull, it succeeded.

Damon's is a very weird figure to put at the center of a big-budget film. also, needed at least another minute of Skull&Bones mud wrestling.

Street Kings is pretty ridiculous mating of Lethal Weapon crap and Ellroy crap, but I find Keanu sort of touchingly mournful and middle-aged in it.

No Way Out (1950). Way, way better than the thought of giving Joseph L. Mankiewicz an uneasy collision of agitprop and film noir has any right to be.

i thought it was pretty drab, but its drabness was kind of conceptually interesting -- felt more like a dour bbc drama than a big-star hollywood movie.

^^^ this. Matt Damon's perfectly cast too. He looked like he'd waited his entire professional life to utter that xenophobic one-liner.