I think ryan's disappointment is a reaction to ILE doing the batshit-overpraise thing when anything of some quality appears in the multiplex that everyone can talk about instead of Haha Awful Nicolas Cage Movie So Grebt & Well Worth $11.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought this movie was anti-abortion or something? Sort of right-wing Christian fantasy except for the Virgin Mary being black and not a virgin.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
no.
but you shouldn't get riled up by "movie of the decade talk" in a decade as shitty as this one.
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
god forbid that ppl who enjoy something say they enjoy it, what is this world coming to
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
if there was only one pregnant woman left in the entire world I might get all anti-abortion too but it's not like I left the theater and went to go bomb a clinic
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS xp
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
but morbs, if it's been such a shitty decade are we not allowed to get psyched when something with half a brain comes to the multiplex?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry but i am one of those "spectrum of human experience" saddoes who demands a range of feeling in a movie
really not sure what you're talking about dude. CoM has a huge range. as s1ocki says upthread, there's a lot of humor, melancholy, joy in this. the whole michael caine character, "strawberry cough" pot, the ping pong joke, theo making the activist dude buy him 3 pints at the bar in exchange for travel visa. the friendship between caine's character & owens was great. lots of great scenes of melancholy, quiet sadness - the abandoned school, caine giving his wife and dog the suicide drug. all this shit made the action sequences 100x more intense b/c unlike so many other war/action-drama movies i actually gave a shit about the characters
― mark cl, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:10 (fifteen years ago) link
see that stuff didn't stick with me, except the abandoned school. the violence is just so OTT that it obliterated the rest of the movie in my memory.
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
really, though, s1ocki nailed it. it's a great movie and i'm an awful wuss.
THIS MOVIE IS TOO EXCITING
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
THIS MOVIE IS TOO EXCITING BRITISH
amirite
― Stop relegating Hull you miserable gits! (country matters), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
"get psyched" is fine, cad.
btw, my top 10 of '06, at the time...
Inland Empire (David Lynch)Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón)The Joy of Life (Jenni Olson)Kekexili (Mountain Patrol) (Chuan Lu)Battle in Heaven (Carlos Reygadas)Gabrielle (Patrice Chéreau)Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)My Country, My Country (Laura Poitras)4 (Ilya Khrjanovsky)Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
CoM, your typical merchant-ivory production
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
the only other movie on your list I saw (thought it was awesome)
― the call of the taint (HI DERE), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"the violence is just so OTT"
please watch "shoot em up" the pro-gun control bulletfest movie and report back with comparisons.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Jonathan Demme)
haha waht
― Roberto Mussolini (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, WAHT?
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't thought about this one in a while, but I think I remember the Michael Caine scenes, and the reveal of the pregnant girl, the refugee family that takes them in, etc. better than any of the action.
Yeah, the liberal humanist stuff.
― too many misters not enough sisters (milo z), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I need to see Heart of Gold in its entirety. Every once in a while I pick up a half hour here or there on Sundance/IFC but never get around to finding the DVD.
s1ocki i hear you too but that sounds sorta like the apologist defense of irreversible
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, March 24, 2009 2:41 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
weak
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, March 24, 2009 7:11 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
im sorry i resorted to wuss-calling dude that was lame of me
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
still stand behind the rest of my argument tho
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
still tho one of my favorite lines from this movie was "baby diego, c'mon the guy was a wanker"
― mark cl, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
ok so morbs can we agree that the line between 'batshit-overpraise' and 'get psyched' is a moving target most of the time.
i was totally pumped when i saw CoM (i would never think in 'movie of the decade' terms, but def one of my favs of that year) but admittedly haven't given it much thought since then. people tend to moderate their reactions w/time and distance and stuff.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
in fact I saw it twice in the theaters, very rare for me
― Past a Diving Jeter (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Along with all the Pink Floyd stuff, did anyone else notice the Magma reference? The bit where they're all staying w/ Michael Caine and Miriam sees Kee outside exercising and asks "Is she doing Udu Wudu?". I think I heard that bit right anyhow...
― Dom Cry For Me, Passantino (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
a lil hut covered in newspapers. newspapers. in the 2020s. hmmm.
― BIG GERTRUDE aka the steindriver (history mayne), Monday, 21 March 2011 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
wish i saw this in theaters, i blame the shitty trailers for keeping me away
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 21 March 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I never saw Erin Brockovich, but I did just have fun visiting our old thread for Master and Commander, still my ultimate mindblowing example of how films suck at telling stories:"Hello, doctor, we are passing the Galapagos Islands.""Oh! I never mentioned this before, but did you know that my character I am an avid naturalist, and would really like to see the Galapagos Islands?""I'm sorry, but we're in pursuit of a ship and can't stop.""Well then be advised that this is a very dramatic moment, and a conflict now exists between the two of us."
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:04 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark
heh, i like to imagine nabisco quit posting out of shame when he was decisively proven wrong about Master & Commander
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 21 March 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
don't you see nrq, once the earth's population got old they wanted ink on their hands again.
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Watched this for the second time last night. I must've REALLY not been concentrating the first time round because really, I don't remember half the stuff. If anything this film's improved with age because it predicts so much.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:01 (twelve years ago) link
If I were to change anything, I'd have left out some of the pop music in the first half. While the tracks were great, they felt crowbarred in and kind of detracted from what was going on. I realise Caine's character is supposed to be a sort-of sixties hippie equivalent, so there is a LOL element to him playing Radiohead and Roots Manuva in the same way some ageing dopesmoker might Grateful Dead, but still.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
<3 this movie. need to see it again.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't seen it since the theater. Time to revisit for sure.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
what is happening w/ this dudes other movie!
― just sayin, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
This movie is a masterpiece. I left the theatre way back when in a mix of awe an shock. Makes me want to be a better person.
It says so much about Hollywood that it took "The Dark Knight" getting snubbed to expand the Best Picture slate to 10 films, but not this one.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
The whole thing about the ceasefire and mouths agape thing was kinda clever imo. While it wasn't necessarily realistic, it did highlight an important point in that the fishes/army were only using the newborn as a macguffin - an excuse to blow the shit out of each other. This is highlighted by them continuing to fight as soon as Theo and co are a gnat's hair away from ground zero.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
One of the most disturbing bits was with the teenager on the invisible console - to start with it looks as though he's mentally disabled, or somehow wired into a computer that's controlling him, but then you realise he's just playing a game. The way his Dad shakes his head as if to say "the kids of today" but also "what's happened to my son?!".
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
http://jordan.thefilmstage.com/post/29062079674/seen-this-film-at-least-a-dozen-times-and-never
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
ha!
― Harvey Cartel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
amazing
― dmr, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
what year did london win the bid?
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
2005. He's not Nostradamus
― Number None, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
meh, coulda gambled if it was in preparation.
so... what's the big deal?
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
like if I was setting an apocalyptic film in 2027 I might have a guy wear a CUOMO/STABENOW 2016 shirt.
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's just a prelapsarian thing but yeah, i don't see why it's so amazing
― Number None, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
The shirt itself isn't what's amazing. It's the forethought (which i still wouldn't qualify as amazing, but really thorough).
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
i noticed it in real-time! no way he could have guessed the logo, which i remember pedantically thinking
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 August 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
just thought it was a cool detail
― dmr, Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link