MOVIES!

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.

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

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

-- Milton Parker, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 02:08 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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.

cillian murphy has serious DSLs, like woah

Digital subscriber lines?

I'd consider flying into the sun w/ him & Chris Evans.

d-ck s-ck-ng l-ps

you can't take it with you (classic capra corn)
taste of tea (awesome)

The End of Summer (middling but still good late Ozu)

SPEED RACER - IT WAS A MOVIE A BOUT A KID NAMED SPEED RACER

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

-- dmr, Monday, May 12, 2008 12:39 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark Link

<3<3<3 magic christian

some of the satire is a little too on the nose (but then again at one point sellers turns to ringo and goes "hmmm that one is a little too on the nose wot wot?")

Daft Punk Electroma

i like! it's sad though. not what I expected. but, good. some ppl seemed irritated by the long tracking shots which didn't seem all that long in fact?

dave, have you read the Southern book? It's on my shelf, havent gotten to it.

I Served the King of England
It's Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, but the Situation in Which He Lives (Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt)
Deserted Station
Spartacus

haven't read it but I do like terry southern, him + sellers is pretty much why I rented it

huh, magic xian convinced me I don't like southern or sellers

omg fite

same reason I don't like zappa

so i dont like zappa either - you cant not love peter sellers tho - its against the law

well, Sellers' films are all over the quality map. I never cared for Clouseau (aside from A Shot in the Dark), but in I'm All Right Jack, Kubricks, omg.

(not to mention his record parody of Olivier declaiming "A Hard Day's Night")

also the party i love you alex b toklas and being there!

antonio gaudi
in the name of the king ;_;

didn't like "being there" ... haven't seen those other two

so yeah I guess sellers is hit or miss and magic xian is somewhere in the middle for me