MOVIES!

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING

"Look at the shize of that ruby!"

wall-e
phase iv
auto focus

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!

weird swings in tone & mood

welcome to korean cinema lol

I didn't dig kim ki-duk's early films, something too shrill and faux profound about them, but 3-iron I liked. it's got a unique premise but I guess you gotta be in the right mood for a movie where the two leads speak less then wall-e and eve.

Cross of Iron: seemed like Stransky changed half way through into a total unsympathetic bastard. enjoyed the russians' boobs

welcome to korean cinema lol

ha. yeah the tone/mood thing didn't bother me in, say, The Host but one particular incident in 3-Iron (don't wanna get spoilery) had me saying WTF.

enjoyed the russians' boobs

lol

La France (flummoxed)
The Man Who Lies (Robbe-Grillet; disappointing)
No Regret
Conflagration (Ichikawa)

steamboy

Def try and see Grillet's Trans-Europ-express, also eden and after I quite liked...

Also saw Conflagration last week. Ok but Actor's Revenge is something else.

Best of recent weeks = Oshima's Boy

batman begins
hellboy dc

(prepping for summer sequels obv)

didn't like batman begins much. not sure if this makes sense, but the combination of a heavy + bleak atmosphere with an almost campy attitude towards plausiblity rubbed me the wrong way.

still really like hellboy. it's not perfect but it doesn't overreach in any direction.

battle of the bulge
the dark knight

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.

oh yeah and the schnabel concert film of lou reed's berlin (a lot of the hauntingness of the album does get lost in live performance, but lou's delivery & facial expressions are A++++)

The Reckless Moment (Great Max Ophuls noir/woman-on-the-brink drama)
The Lineup (nasty and fun)
Desperate (pretty dope Anthony Mann noir)
La Chienne (Finally! One of my fave Renoirs now. DVD-r bootleg but there really needs to be a restored dvd of this baby.
It could be as awesome as...)
Nosferatu (new Kino restoration. wow. Looks amazing, score sounds incredible and add to that a bunch of scenes I had never, ever seen before that just really add to the classicness. Best dvd purchase this year.)

prepping for summer sequels obv

It's a full life!

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (pretty good until Friday shows up)
ANDRE TECHINE:
Hotel America
I Don't Kiss
Ma Saison Preferee
Wild Reeds

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.

-- get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:59 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

This? http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/322659/Made-in-Sheffield-The-Birth-of-Electronic-Pop/overview

In Search of a Midnight Kiss - good
The Man Who Fell To Earth - too long but good
Saving Private Ryan - it is a film
Papillon - waaay tooo long
Elephant - brilliant

just watched a not-great docu about sheffield postpunk.

-- get bent, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:59 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

This? http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/322659/Made-in-Sheffield-The-Birth-of-Electronic-Pop/overview

-- caek, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 12:43 PM (1 hour ago)

that's the one. it just focused on too many bands and was too short to deliver adequate insight on any one of them. peel's appearance was nice; he was talking about a band called artery.

IN HARM'S WAY - John Wayne Pacific theatre shit

^ basically I'd rip this off 100% if Theresa and my dreams of a live action Macross could ever be realized.

Wall-E (haven't seen a film in theatre this many times since Heavenly Creatures)
Demon Seed (only saw this on TV growing up, uncut version is much more sadistic & gratuitous & hilarious)
Films of Kenneth Anger Volume I (hadn't seen these early ones. watching 'Rabbit's Moon' feels like opiates in the bloodstream. shouldn't have rented this, should have just bought it)

Saving Private Ryan - it is a film

haha