MOVIES!

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.

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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!!

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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

Hulu.com is pretty dope this summer if you like really long war movies

Decline is not on official DVD, I got a bootleg a couple of years back.

I Am a Cat (Ichikawa, kinda nuts)
Chris & Don: A Love Story
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (pretty hard-edged studio war film for '54)
Black River (Kobayashi)

Vexille - if you can stomach anime, this is pretty solid sci-fi

United Red Army - Sort of scattered and formless and never seems to find a real focus. The long Asama incident scene is great, but the preceding two and a half hours are pretty dull. The Jim O'Rourke score is used indiscriminately and leads to a number of flat montages.

My blueberry nights. actually not as bad as i expected.
Wall-E. Decent
In Vanda's Room. More heroin than the previous two.

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

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is that the Hackman/Owen W double-paycheck movie? y wd i have seen?

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

"Look at the shize of that ruby!"

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i kind of want to go see 'journey to the center of the earth' :/

I saw a review that described it as one long trailer for a movie that never transpires

this was a pejorative statement

picked up a shit-ton of dvds recently, what should I watch tonight?

the long good friday
brother
don't come knocking
3-iron
bubba ho-tep
paths of glory
burnt offerings
the dunwich horror
rollerball '75
the fog '80
the dead zone '83
the brood
class of 1984

or maybe I will just go to a show

I'd vote paths of glory

did not like 3-iron

i kind of want to go see 'journey to the center of the earth' :/

-- rrrobyn, Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:02 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

have you seen the promo youtubes?

I went to 3 shows tonight, no movie, I are tired

ok maybe just the fog

the dunwich horror is wild IIRC. pre-VCR late night TV crepe show

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM8EbSvNFqg

the simpsons movie -- i loved the south park movie and was even ok with the beavis and butthead movie, but this really really is just like a long tv episode. and a mediocre one.

The Long Good Friday, every time

hellboy 2. so much fun!

Trafic (Tati)

yeah, dunwich horror is a treat, especially if you only saw it as a kid on broadcast tv. it has the dopey acting + script of a late 50s horror flick but spices it up with 60s sex, psychedelia, and hippie fear.

the conclusion features sandra dee moaning orgasmically half nude while dean stockwell gets his aleister crowley steez on and recites from a necronomicon wedged snugly in her crotch...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Opr4tQDq0

in this scene if you can wait 3 minutes for the sacrificial actress to make her way up a flight of stairs you'll be treated to the sight of a psychedelic tentacle monster stripping her naked + eating her. fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkhDCeLvVx4

too bad youtube doesn't have the scene where sandra dee goes into a hallucinatory trance and gets mauled by the members of a hippie orgy. quality!

also if there's a big lots store near you, check it out. they're selling dvds for $3, that's where I picked up most of what's on that list above.

dmr why you no like 3-iron?

has anyone seen mother of tears? is it worth going to for a midnight movie or should i just get a six pack and hope there's a ball game on somewhere?

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

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

-- moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 6 July 2008

oops, looks like i got the name wrong. it was THAT bad.

i'm into that sort of thing, too. i don't have very high standards to begin with. but it was bad.

"encounters at the end of the world" was tremendous, though. i am buying this the day it comes out on DVD and watching again.

don't want to drop any spoilers but the thing w/ the penguins was the most amazing moment of classic herzog, up there w/ his "breakdown in the jungle" monologue during the doc about fitzcarraldo.

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

yeah, that seemed to be the consensus so we stayed in and watched this instead.

dmr why you no like 3-iron?

I dunno, repetitive, weird swings in tone & mood, got bored by the end and watched the last 20 mins or so in fast forward

Nathalie - eh. Emmanuelle Beart is a total babe.
Happy Go Lucky - I liked it! Chick is a total babe.

the bridge - good! also sad, shocker

sweeney todd. bunch of crap, but it made me shave

oh you kid

the tv set -- not bad. sigourney weaver as rampaging network chief was pretty funny. fat beardo david duchovny too.

via a friend:

fun fact: Sean Connery had no idea what League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was about
he read his lines in much the same way Bela Lugosi did: word by word, with no grasp of the context

Ghostbusters -- there's like 3 effect shots in this whole movie!