MOVIES!

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.

blank actor, blank role, blank movie

Paprika (wack & nice looking, what it was about I have no clue)

^^ love this movie

scientist develops device allowing you to enter a dreamer's dreams, multinational corporation tries to misuse, detective with guilty secret in past tries to help

dream sequences are a++++++++++++++++

I like the part when the godzilla-sized ichimatsu doll starts destroying the city

wikipedia plot summary, what about this is unclear? lol

In the near future, a revolutionary new psychotherapy treatment called PT has been invented. A device called the "DC Mini" allows the user to view people's dreams, exploring their unconscious thoughts. The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside the research facility, using her alter-ego "Paprika", a persona she assumes in the dream world. The movie opens with Paprika counseling Detective Konakawa Toshimi, who is victimized by a recurring dream, the incompleteness of which is a great source of personal anxiety for him. This type of counseling session is not officially sanctioned, so Doctor Atsuko Chiba and her associates must be cautious that word does not leak out to the press regarding the nature of the DC Mini and the existence of Paprika. Her closest ally is Doctor Kōsaku Tokita, a morbidly obese child-at-heart genius and the inventor of the DC Mini. Unfortunately, before the government can pass a law authorizing the use of the device, three of the prototypes are stolen. Because of their unfinished nature, the DC Minis can allow anyone to enter another person's dreams, giving the culprit an opportunity to get away with all sorts of malicious deeds. Almost immediately, the chief of the department, Doctor Toratarō Shima, goes on a nonsensical tirade and jumps through a window, nearly killing himself.

Upon examining Shima's dream (which consists of a lively parade of inanimate objects, instrument-playing animals, and various cultural icons), Tokita recognizes his assistant, Kei Himuro, which confirms their suspicion that the theft was an inside job. After two other scientists fall victim to the DC Mini, the Chairman of the company, who was against the project to begin with, bans the use of the device completely. This fails to hinder the crazed parade, which manages to claim Tokita and intrude Konakawa's dream. Paprika and Shima take matters into their own hands, and find that Himuro is only an empty shell. Tracing the "roots" that controlled him, Paprika confronts the Chairman, who claims that he is in fact the "protector of the dreamworld", guarding this last haven against the inhumane horrors of reality and technology. Again, she is chased by the Chairman but also finds out that the researcher, Doctor Morio Osanai, agreed to give the Chairman his body and become the Chairman's lackey as long as he got to have equal powers over his own dreams. Chiba/Paprika is eventually captured by the pair after an exhausting chase. Paprika wakes as a butterfly pinned to a table in a room surrounded by pinned butterflies. There, Osanai admits his love for Chiba, and attempts to peel away her Paprika disguise. However, he is interrupted by the Chairman, whose head sprouts on his shoulder (the two share Osanai's body, housing the Chairman's spirit). As the two argue over Chiba's fate, Konakawa bursts through the wall from his cinema dream, snatching the naked Chiba away from the bickering antagonists. After a chase through Konakawa's cinema dream, Osanai attempts to flee from Konakawa's homicide dream. It is there that Konakawa realizes that his recurring nightmare and anxiety result from his guilt that he never finished the film he was making with a friend. He decides to finish the film and shoot the escaping Osanai, finishing with the memorable phrase "I am justice!" as he poses proudly. This kills Osanai and supposedly the Chairman in one fell swoop. All seems well.

Chiba, believing the dream is finally over, runs through the research facility with Shima only to find that dreams and reality have merged. Amidst the chaos, Tokita, in the form of a giant robot, eats Chiba and prepares to do the same for Paprika, but is thwarted in his efforts by two bartenders from Paprika's website. A ghostly apparition of Chiba appears and reveals that she has in fact been in love with Tokita this whole time and has simply been repressing these emotions. She comes to terms with her own repressed desires, reconciles herself with that part of her that is Paprika, and is thus reborn in the dream world. The Chairman, in the form of a dark colossus, reveals his twisted dreams of omnipotence, and threatens to darken the world with his delusions. Realizing that everything has its opposite, Paprika returns to Tokita, throwing herself into his body. A ghostly apparition of a baby emerges from the robotic shell, like a womb. Sucking in the wind, the child grows until she sucks up the Chairman himself, becoming a full grown beautiful combination of both Chiba and Paprika. In this new form, she is able to consume the Chairman's dream form and end the nightmare he created.

In the final scene, Chiba sits at Tokita's bedside. Konakawa and Shima leave the two as Chiba puts her hand in Tokita's. As Konakawa and Shima walk down the street, Shima asks if Konakawa ever figured out the meaning to all this. Konakawa, turning to his reflection and seeing the figure of his film friend, realizes that he in fact became the character from their original film, the cop. Konakawa visits the bar-website one last time, and the bartenders give him a message from Paprika: "Atsuko will change her surname to Tokita... and I suggest watching the movie Dreaming Kids." The film ends as Konakawa purchases a ticket for the movie.

for a really good time, try watching it with poorly translated subs like on the bootleg dvd I bought in mainland china

Dewey Cox - one laugh per 20 minutes for 2.5 hours = not fucking good enough
Until the End of the World - boring and Momusy

xp: yeah, I know what HAPPENED (most of it), I just don't know what it was ABOUT.

for a really good time, try watching it with poorly translated subs like on the bootleg dvd I bought in mainland china

-- Edward III, Monday, April 7, 2008 1:17 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Shine A Light

THE MIST --> marcia gay harden == scariest monster, loved her, rest of the movie sucked

btw guys

http://www.karcreat.com/TheMistGame.ZIP

^^^ the mist txt adventure game just like you remember

oh Lord: Chapter 27

re: The Good Shepherd - I spent the entire movie waiting for everyone to gay it up.

Conspirators of Pleasure......

flight of the red balloon pretty great.

bicycle thieves
shivers
the water horse

Margot at the Wedding - pretty awful
Mad Max - not great
Mad Max 2 - AWESOME. recommend me more movies about sieges!

ROLLERBALL
MAD MAX 2

its called the road warrior u guys

BEYOND THUNDERDOME EPISODE ZERO

not the road warrior where i'm from

Juno. Just as annoying as it looks.

almanac of fall
kaspar hauser

the omega man

zardoz!! <- awesome

parents

^^crepey

In The Heat of the Night (slap!SLAP!)
where eagles dare
sleuth

I saw those last two before. where eagles dare holds up to RESCREENING cause of all the explosions, but Sleuth is only really good the first time (but it's really good the first time)

The Business of Being Born -- pretty amazing documentary on just how fucked up & systematized hospital births have become, terrifying statistics like 1 out of 3 american women end up having C-sections, not because they need them, but for economic / scheduling reasons, hospitals = factories. Film is very pro midwife and at first cames off like propaganda but near the end when the filmmaker has her own child, you really get a very big picture. five onscreen births, one in hospital, four with a midwife (including Ricki Lake who I am now a 100% fan of)

also The 49th Parallel, crazy Powell / Pressburger film about 6 Germans who escape a bombed U-Boat in 1941 and trek across Canada, getting picked off one by one. WWII films actually shot during WWII = intense

also watched Possession again, my favorite divorce film

Possession the Andrzej Żuławski film, not Possession the Byatt adaptation, right? I've seen neither, but I like divorce films.

Mad Max 3: so awesome.

http://www.andrzej-zulawski.com/

Going back a few months:

Pash, you know all those songs in SitR are from the '20s or '30s (except one, maybe), right? It was a nostalgic piece in its time. Its Greatest Musical Ever partisans are totally daft, but a lot of the songs are funny and the numbers exuberant, especially when O'Connor is involved.

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 14:32 (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

Well how about this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94QR4v3zsnc&NR=1

The finale from "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" is a whole crowd of silent-era actors and actresses singing "Singin' in The Rain" itself! Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Buster Keaton and John Gilbert all there, plus a bunch of other people I don't recognise. There's a whole bunch of these 2-strip technicolor musical numbers on youtube, and I think I've seen like one bad one out of the lot of them. I thought all the musicals from this era were supposed to be really crappy & shit? they look great to me (OK maybe the rest of the films were bad, how would I ever find out though)

Solo performance of the song from earlier in the film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZFVQd5t5k&NR=1

my netflix this weekend are MIRROR and THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE

terminator 3 w/rifftrax (easily the best one i've heard yet)
forgetting sarah marshall (pretty funny!)

the sentinel - wasn't too into this. scary christians will save us all.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall may be the best movie about a chubby guy dating way out of his league yet

Glass
Becoming Jane
Be Kind Rewind
The Puffy Chair
Baghead
The First Saturday in May
Alexandra
Night and the City (Dassin/Widmark)
TRIBECA:
My Winnipeg
Baghdad High
57000 Km Between Us
Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha (Melvin Van Peebles, fun)

"The Garden of Eden" (1928) romantic comedy/farce, very sub-Lubitsch (dir Lewis Milestone, who I think did "All quiet on the Western Front"?), very very good, one of the best silent films I've seen. The lead actress, Corrine (or maybe Corinne, I've seen it spelled both ways) Griffith, is unbelievably hott:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2054/2432691802_4df1f86db4.jpg?v=0

Forgetting Sarah Marshall may be the best movie about a chubby guy dating way out of his league yet

-- AJ Styles, Monday, April 21, 2008 8:17 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

dude was not chubby

cary ewes is pretty funny in liar liar