MOVIES!

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

i read magic christian in hs and thought it was funny. i'm not sure if that's a recommendation. (i also read candy and liked it, but that was mostly because it was dirty. i don't imagine that book has aged very well.)

first movie i've seen in awhile: katyn (really weirdly paced/plotted, friend says it's "very spielberg" and i think he's right tho i'd be at a loss to explain that more fully)

Death Bed - The Bed That Eats
Chinese Roulette (saw this with friend. I think out of all Fassbinder, this might be the best one to start with, non-stop action)
My Winnipeg (GREAT)

seriously you guys, Death Bed

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2088/2088630670_284262d981_o.jpg

Chinese Roulette (saw this with friend. I think out of all Fassbinder, this might be the best one to start with, non-stop action)

and bonus anna karina. it's too bad a lot of the fassbinder dvds seem to be going out of print.

on a California streak:

Night of the Comet
The Long Goodbye
Chinatown
Suburbia
Some Kind of Monster

up next:
Miracle Mile

repo man after that?

or maybe safe

I watched the director's cut of rob zombie's halloween. michael meyers emo!

xp: probably both!
...so far Some Kind Of Monster has the bleakest vision.

Robinson in Space
Bigger, Stronger, Faster*
Gone to Earth (a wack Archers film)
The Edge of Heaven

this is the story of how the little people answer the big questions

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UT4uVAjaq7U

^ nsfw

ok was that trailer custom made for me? YES

metallica: bleaker than polanski

watching the therapist contribute lyrics to st anger is a pretty fucking bleak experience

a hilarious experience, as well

sure sounds like polanski

Robinson in Space

I love this movie. Was it screening somewhere or did you just watch it on DVD?

DVD. I thought you hadda be British to really get into it. I know what they were going for but it just didn't grab me.