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Morbius, you don't like Cassavetes? You're like the Geir of film opinion these days.

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Woman Under the Influence and dislike opening Night. Thje others I've seen are Ok to very good.

(I don't get ILM refs)

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Cassavetes films fail to entertain at the most basic level.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

fail to entertain?

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Reviewing Husbands Pauline Kael wrote this great passage in which she analyzes the diminshing effect of Cassavetes' improvisatory exercises. For the first two minutes the actors come up with marvelous bits that you couldn't provoke in a normal setting; then the actors' mannerisms begin asserting themselves, and you're stuck watching the likes of Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk acting like the drunken boors they probably were in real life.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

real life, exactly

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

yes, art SHOULDN'T be real life.

I've been hit on the street by unmedicated folks, I don't need to see Gena Rowlands babble like one for 2-1/2 hours.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see how entertainment should be a requirement

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps it's not a distinction btwn art & entertainment, but both and Method wanking.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see how entertainment should be a requirement

Movies should be EDUCATIONAL.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

hmm

― sleep, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

how does Casino Royale (remake) end?

i fell asleep last night at my friends house.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

why did you bother to see any of his pictures if you don't like Method? Are you fishing for "stunt opinion"

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sotosyn fails to troll at the most basic level.

― Steve Shasta, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm fine w/ Method as a tool, I suppose, not when it's all that's on display.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

heterophobe

― sexyDancer, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

shasta there is a world series of poker, some torture, then M makes an appearance, and some other stuff I forgot, the end

― dmr, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'd appreciate Cassavetes if he'd given his scripts to Elia Kazan.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

gtfo husbands is gr8

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

Maude: Season One ... since everyone else also lists TV shows.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

Alfred, Li'l Morbius Jr.

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

yes, art SHOULDN'T be real life.

that's it? so "art" can be anything but "real life"?

I've been hit on the street by unmedicated folks, blah blah...'

not hard enough obv.

lol, trollbait

― am0n, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

am so affected by blood diamond
so intense. and then it got into my dreams.

― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=739770838666197366

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

thanks dmr,

i fell asleep when Bond was getting his balls busted. not sure what happened after that.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/the7thart/pictures/7thseal2.jpg

― ian, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

You're like the Geir of film opinion these days.

"these days"

― chaki, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

The Wind That Shakes The Barley - mixed feelings. Well-done, but not particularly effective as a piece of storytelling (the train driver was the only character with any dimension really, the brothers/civil war plot is as old as time itself, the love plot was whatever). It's nice that Loach wants to lecture us on Irish socialism (bravo) but there was no real heart to the movie.

― milo z, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

If it takes you 3 days to see TNW, you haven't seen it.

i would've watched it all at once but it kept exceeding my daily recommended dosage of poncy nature-poet balderdash. (i did make it through thin red line in one go, but w/gritted teeth. malick's an airhead.)

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

anyway last night i watched sonatine, which was great.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

milo and Armond White both off-the-money on The Wind That Shakes The Barley

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love the accusation that films that turn on ideology are too "didactic," that the characters aren't "real." Have any of these critics known any politically engaged people?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Vamp (as bad as it looks)
Carnosaur (awesome)

― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Monkey Business (Marx Bros, not Cary Grant)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

i need to watch Carnosaur again

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

based on armond white's writing lately, i don't want to know which sort of politically engaged people he's been hanging out with.

― rps, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what White said, but there are moments when Loach's politics intrude (the abbreviated dig at Catholic complicity with the capitalists) and times when they feel native (Dan and Damien talk about seeing James Connolly speak).

Damien, at least, is too blank to engender much feeling as a character - partially this is just the scope that Loach went with, a dozen 'main' characters usually shot in large groups with little time to develop as individuals. Can't really say that's a fault of the movie, just a deliberate choice.

― milo z, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

the Jonestown American Experience documentary was amazing.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

damn I wanted to see that.

― m coleman, Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

how does the wind that shakes have no "heart"?? (sorry but that's my least favourite criticism ever). because it's naturalistic and doesn't shove the human drama down your throat? that's why it's so good!

― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Armond sees every film as a "US out of Iraq" screed these days. I've never said he hasn't gone sorta nuts.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Payback: Straight Up - director's cut. Looks very '70s now, bleaker in parts, less comic relief, but the comic parts don't fit as well now. No better or worse than the theatrical (which is pretty good)

― milo z, Sunday, 15 April 2007 05:46 (nineteen years ago)

slocki totally otm

― 冷明, Sunday, 15 April 2007 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

the good shepherd -- tedious & confusing and I LIKE spy movies. wtf @ angie jolie as WASP wife named margaret

― m coleman, Sunday, 15 April 2007 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

v for vendetta - maybe victim of low expectations since I disliked all the matrix films but I dug it. even without viewing it through a post-9/11 lens I think it works.

― Edward III, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

TWTSTB isn't really naturalistic, there are a ton of digressions that exist just to get a political point across. It had little (or no) heart because the human drama didn't feel like human drama. It felt like political drama given a human facade (which is fine but rather different).

― milo z, Sunday, 15 April 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hentai-vital.com/audiotionbig3.jpg

― JW, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

THE FOUNTAIN SUCKED

― BLASTOCYST, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

i am seeing the new TMNT this week!

― artdamages, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

[i]Peeping Tom
The Good Shepherd
Aliens

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

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