MOVIES!

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Mr. David Lo Pan wishes these fools to be dropped into The Hell of Being Skinned Alive

but dudes sometimes movies are funny!

It's the laughing-at/laughing-with distinction

does it count if i laughed when julianne moore popped up as joan baez? cuz that was funny, but it was totally in an i-get-it way (if you didn't get it, it wasn't funny).

anyway all i really require of other people in the theater is for me not to notice them too much for any reason. anything that makes me notice them is bad.

reprise -- norwegian cinema eh? though this would be boring -- too "literary" -- but I liked.

really? I thought it was pretty crap

well I could certainly see people thinking it was too sentimental or self-conscious about the crazy guy

but I liked the way the guys partied & hung out w/their friends, that seemed credible. norwegian bros.

anyway all i really require of other people in the theater is for me not to notice them too much for any reason. anything that makes me notice them is bad.

qft

King of Kong was freaking touching! I want to buy Wiebe a beer so bad.

I too was somewhat underwhelmed by Reprise's crisis-laden 20somethings, cute blond buzzcuts notwithstanding.

Soylent Green

apparently neckscarf is the height of 2022 fashion

also lols at future videogames looking like original Asteroids but in a molded white plastic case

The Silent Partner (1978) must have been discussed on here somewhere, due to ILX Elliott Gould love. It's really good! Lots of nice twists

Fox and His Friends -- Wow. I can't believe I put off seeing all these Fassbinders for so long.

Just Friends - not so bad w/ plenty of merlot-in-a-box

10 hours on a train today:

Tootsie
Ronin
Threads (Yaow. Ruined my day.)

'never too young to die' starring john stamos, gene simmons, and vanity

The Pursuit of Happyness. Y'know, I'm as annoyed by the film as Will Smith's character with the letter Y. What a crock of shit.

Running Scared with Paul - I'm a pretty prat and I know it - Walker. Well, just the first ten minutes cause I didn't want to sit through that shit again.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - much hard one @ naked Marisa Tormei, movie was pretty weak overall though.

Citizen Kane - omg guys ROSEBUD was his SLED!

I'd never seen it before - it was touching and Orson Wells was very charming in it.

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WALKABOUT DOGGZ

Enchanted
Freaky Friday
The Furies (Walter Huston overrated, Wendell Corey underrated)

anvil: the story of anvil
bay of angels
model shop
wall-e

and i bought 2 dvds from the amoeba clearance section:

someone to love (1987 jaglom w/ orson welles and sally kellerman)
forever lulu (1986 desperately seeking susan ripoff with deborah harry and alec baldwin)

'never too young to die' starring john stamos, gene simmons, and vanity

gah, i've seen this

Hot Fuzz - kinda slept through, but woke up for WTF scene where dude gets head shoved into torso by falling castle ledge, lives to stumble around a bit. special effects fu.

ref @ 2:27
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pYzliklaMug

River of Grass
Privilege (Rainer) - Truly awful. Condescending, boring, and stupidly structured.
Careful - Really liked this, maybe more than any of the other Maddins I've seen.

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion <-- guess this was a big inspiration for Kill Bill (didn't see it); lots of ( . )( . ) ; any idea who did sntrk?

battles without honor and humanity

somehow watched almost half of running with scissors before i snapped out of it. awful acting and script. the plot also sucked. i think that about covers it.

tell no one - fun!

on a plane home to the USA, British Airways permitted me to select:

The Other Boleyn Girl (Bana beefcake action as Henry VIII)
The Oxford Murders (oh my god, so so so bad)
Cloverfield (Blair Witch does 9/11 ala War of the Worlds starring models)
Annie Hall (has aged in weird places)
21,000 B.C. (the racial politics of the casting/plot are so insane)

WALKABOUT DOGGZ
The local indie theater showed a print of this a few weeks ago and I'm really glad I caught it. There were maybe seven people in the theatre. There was a trailer for THE FALL and I think I want to see that. They are showing Plan 9 on Saturday night.

WALL-E
Werckmeister Harmonies

ganja queen -- part of that hbo documentary series. about an australian girl locked up (probably framed) for marijuana smuggling in indonesia. not a slick production, and pretty grim, but pretty hard to stop watching.

battles without honor and humanity

what did u think?

No Direction Home - four hours of Dylan and you only get up to 1966?? liked disc 1 but the second half spent too much time on the one period everybody already knows about. I wanted interviews with the Band about making the Basement Tapes and Dylan talking about going Christian, instead his whole career 1966-2006 is summed up with the title card "after the motorcycle crash, Dylan continued to write and record music." lame!

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pretty awesome imo. loved the endless bloodletting, docu-style, and the yakuza-as-vindictive creeps and/or blubbering weaklings.

yeah i pretty well loved that series. one of my friends noted how chaotic and dumb and at best half-competent most of the violence was -- not all coolly efficient like in a lot of gangster stuff, mostly just young asshole hotheads starting stupid fights.

talladega nights -- dragged on a bit, but plenty of funny stuff.
breach -- worth seeing for chris cooper, but kind of a nothing movie.

wall-e

encounters at the end of the world (loved this)

dario argento's "third mother" ... was awful

"encounters at the end of the world" opens here next saturday!!

wall-e

Another State of Mind - favorite part is the interview with the rich-kid OC punks who have a super nice pool in which to practice their stage-diving
Decline of Western Civilization

started too late to get to Suburbia

Decline of Western Civilization

^^
is this available on DVD yet?!?

tora tora tora
ronin
behind enemy lines <-- want to know what morbz thinks

ganja queen - yeah I saw this too. kinda thought she and her whole family was guilty ... of something at least.

also:
The Corporation
Suspicion
The Wanderers