MOVIES!

yeah I mean why you think the swiss got such a leg up on shit man it's cause they all from the future

though I like the notion that time travel is proven impossible by the simple fact we have not been overrun by tourists from the future

it is possible the swiss have cleverly disguised their time tourist status

the time travel in flight of the navigator IS pretty scary ... in the 4th dimension there's scary purple clouds, and loud bass rumbles, and lightning strikes that go upside down!

I think he was more scared of the scene where the boy went to his house and his family didn't live there anymore, and the trip to the hospital. he was cool with the purple clouds and upside down lightning strikes.

i was always unsettled by the creepy NASA technocracy / STAR MAPS in your BRANE parts

but oh, that movie is so full of wonders

"Flight of the Navigator" v v entertaining.

I like to contemplate the possibility that time-travellers from the future, the most secretive motherfukers that ever lived, actually walk among us, and we are unaware of this.

Young Sarah Jessica Parker == way hot

^^^ truth-bomb bait.

was always unsettled by the creepy NASA technocracy / STAR MAPS in your BRANE parts

o yea that was another I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared moment

which was soon offset by his realization that the kid was the smartest person in a room full of grownups and we were back to THIS IS AWESOME

also young sjp dying her hair purple for twisted sister concert roffles

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor

We actually had a "John Titor" register last year sometime. He never posted though that I saw, which was dissapointing. Probably just some IRE dude anyway, but still, I wanted to believe and all that.

the prestige yeesh

(bowie as tesla was funny though)

both of those magician movies blew (prestige and illusionist)

born yesterday again. judy holliday in this is really one of my favorite performances ever.

First chunk of astonishingly good KG haul that's been watched:

Big Man Japan
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe (s.3)
Christmas in July (Preston Sturges gem!)
Mind Game
Nekojiru-So (Cat Soup)
Three short films by Osamu Tezuka

also, the stunningly boring bad Tales from Earthsea, the first Ghibli I ever walked away from.

In the wings:
Ben X
Black Limelight
K Terror
Kakurenbo
Sang Sattawat (yay new Weeraseethakul!)
The Dragon Painter (silent 1919 Japanese neatness)
Before the Nickelodeon (documentary on Edwin S. Porter)
Cowboy and the Lady
Nel Nome Del Padre
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Noiseman Sound Insect
Glassy Ocean
She and Her Cat
Bagi the Monster of Mighty Nature

had a rad movie weekend!

mirror - amazing, cant wait to watch it again and again. started a whole nother thread about tarkovsky so...

the swimmer - maybe a lil too ham-handed w the high-society satirrre, but wvs. really good-looking, and burt lancaster rules, and the existenti-o element is awes

cockfighter - TOTAL GAG MOVIE. amazing how many times the can say cock, and the fighting footage is pretty wild and brutal, but sort of totally falls short of two-lane blacktop for desolation/oblivion (LOL movie tag: he came to town with his cock in his hand, and what he did was illegal in 49 states)

the grateful dead movie - watching now, deadhead footage is awesome. donna/keith being in the band makes me a lil less psyched abt the concert recording though

mister lonely
the counterfeiters
6ixtynin9

the swimmer is classic - used to be on TV all the time pre-cable - so weird.

"swimming across connecticut"

Live Free or Die Hard

Talladega Nights is not as awful as I had expected

the mist - blah, watch the host instead.

the ending was interesting tho. it was problematic in that the director didn't earn the moment (probably why people react so negatively to it). on paper the ending's in line with the rest of the movie's concerns; faith, tenacity, how people act under pressure. but this is stephen king here, not arthur miller. if the rest of the movie didn't burn so many cycles on its facile social commentary I might actually watch the black & white version - maybe the cgi doesn't look so crap in that one.

Yoshiwara: The Pleasure Quarter
The Naked Jungle (Heston vs army of soldier ants)
Sitcom
Paranoid Park
The Secret of the Grain

bourne ultimatum -- snappy. the less realistic matt damon cia movies are, the better they get.
inland empire -- liked it even better the second time.

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in 1932 the singer directly addressing the audience was normal on Broadway, but in an early talky Chevalier directly addressing the audience is so hyper-modern it is bizarre. pre-code, every line pretty scandalous, he ends up spending more than an hour with her

That looks totally awesome; I need more more more lubitsch in my life.

Planet of the Apes '68
Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Pickup on South Street
Trumbo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/One_Hour_With_You.jpg

in 1932 the singer directly addressing the audience was normal on Broadway, but in an early talky Chevalier directly addressing the audience is so hyper-modern it is bizarre. pre-code, every line pretty scandalous, he ends up spending more than an hour with her

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Is this on that 4-movie Lubitsch set that's recently come out? That's next on my list after the 2 Forbidden hollywood" sets, it looks awesome.

how much of charlie brooker's schtick is lost in translation for you, forks?

Iron Man was quite a thing

The bit after the credits was good

if you are a NERD

god told me to
i know where i'm going

john adams ep 1-5

im enjoying the shit out of this - tho it just dawned on me that i absolutely hate everyone in it - especially motherfucking john adams (ben franklin and george washington excepted)

thwn you shd follow up with 1776! singing John Adams!

terrifying!

im enjoying the shit out of this - tho it just dawned on me that i absolutely hate everyone in it - especially motherfucking john adams (ben franklin and george washington excepted)

yeah i like that they don't go out of their way to make him likable (although it gets more sentimental toward the end). i love those early scenes in the senate, where it's just like 30 guys insulting each other in a drab drafty room. nicely de-mythological.

yah i was just admiring how ordinary the senate chambers were last night

before the devil knows you're dead - what a stinker, how did this get good reviews? a+ for marisa tomei's tittays and d- for the rest

sunshine is not as horrible as people said.

i liked sunshine until the last half-hour or so. i thought it did a good job of the whole lonely-remoteness-of-space thing.

watching rosemary's baby right now

haha, happy mother's day everyone

i thought sunshine was alright up until ---SPOILER--- they decided that the technological and psychological suspense of a suicidal deep space mission wasn't sufficient to make the film scary and they shoe-horned that meltyface monster russian crap into it.

yeah, especially odd b/c it was working so well until that crap. if spoiler would have been just what they initially found, that'd been plenty to get across the point.

the magic christian - mad silly. but worth it for the strobelight scene on the train

quatermass and the pit
robocop 2

before the devil knows you're dead - what a stinker, how did this get good reviews?

Sidney Lumet must practice black magic.

I also like first 2/3 of Sunshine.