Looking For Eric,
really loved it, the "mix" of different emotions/storylines (kinda) is pretty neat.

Shock Corridor is a really good movie.

"I rymden finns inga känslor" some swedish movie about a guy with asbergers syndrome who lives with his brother and tries to find him a new girlfriend. I liked it.

Inception......

TAPE.

2001.

Linklater film with 3 actors in one room. Pretty interesting for what it is, couldn't see myself ever watching it again. 5/10

It started out like it might be pretty good, but it went downhill fast.

It was good. Nothing spectacular.

"winter's bone" was really cool. cooler than i thought itd be admittedly.

just watched "mesrine: killer instinct", the first of three films with vincent cassel playing jacques mesrine, internationally famous criminal. fucking awesome. some people have compared it to "scarface" but i dont see that at all, other than the protagonist being a violent sociopath scumbag. vincent is just amazing in this role, in every scene. the style is fairly michael mann-ish, less excess maybe. anyways, cassel is easily one of the best actors working. he is so good at making the character likeable without making him sympathetic. i cant wait to see the next two parts.

Man's Voice: Hello mother leopard, I have your cub. You must protect her...but that will be expensive. 10 thousand cola nuts wrapped in brown paper. Midnight, behind the box. I'll be the Hyena...you'll see...

I love that "I'll be the Hyena" part..because...(what i think) is that when she sees him or he sees her. he'll be the one laughing...as hyena's have a tendancy to "sound" like they are laughing while they eat...or in this matter the guy has done something horribly wrong to the cub..or he has some devious plot and is snickering about it

Memento



7/10 Joey Pants and Carrie Moss are pretty good in this one.

weird, rewatched that one with old lady last week. 7/10 sounds about right. Certainly thinks it's more clever than it actually is. The part where he puts on the guy's suit is stupid.
(SPOILER"I'd rather be mistaken for a dead guy than a murderer.. so I'm just going to start wearing this dead drug dealer's clothes and his car for no apparent reason except to drive the plot forward"END SPOILER)

On the other hand, Nolan's "Following" is a 9/10 great film. His "Insomnia" remake is -- gasp -- probably a wee bit better than the original.


We watched:

TIME COP - 5/10
BLOODSPORT - 8/10
PERFUME - 7/10

and rewatched the Banksy doc, EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP, which is up there with AMERICAN MOVIE and STREETWISE and BURROUGHS as the best documentaries I've EVER seen. Check out EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP even if you're not into street art or graffiti or whatever. You'll be shocked at how amazing it is.

We also went to a pawn shop and I got SHINOBI and YAKUZA and WIPEOUT FUSION and another copy of LUMINES (like with Puzzle Fighter and Tetris Attack, I own multiple copies cuz the games are so good that I don't want to ever NOT have a copy). All for PS2. I bought her Pikmin for the WIi. I spent $22. Not a bad haul.

other great stuff i watched recently:

monkey dust


had never heard of this weird, awesome show.




tom green show (mtv version). Okay, I have had the canadian version of the show for 4 years, but I'm a completionist so I had to have the mtv show. Now, the first 3 or 4 episodes mostly recycle some of his Canadian skits -- mainly the less bizarre ones and moreso the antagonistic ones (you know, generally seeming to piss people off). He recycles skits in New yrok he originally filmed in Canada in some spots; other spots, he just shows the Canadian footage (his hair changes 20 times per episode -- strange I never noticed that before!). Eventually, the show becomes completely different and just as good as the Canadian stuff, especially the Monica Lewinsky stuff, the Cancer special (the guy sent me 2 copies of this episode for sme reason, one on a separate disc...?!), the Spring Break stuff, and so on. For some reason, he didn't edit out commercials from the original airings, which is AWESOME.


CHARLES MANSON SUPERSTAR... look, this is 2 hours of Manson ranting to Anton LaVey's son-in-law. Manson makes fun of the prison guards that are standing right htere. Manson impromptu dances and sings songs while beating on a trash can. Manson contradicts himself, interrupts himself (?!), and just generally acts like a fucking nutcase. A lot of what he says is dead-on, most of it is pretty obvious, and he just comes across as missing quite a few brain cells, but what can you do? Most Manson documentaries only offer a fleeting glimpse of the man himself, or don't really seem to be ABOUT Manson, moreso about the "mythical" nature of the killings. I still contend MANSON (1973) is the best Manson doc, you gotta get that one. but if you want to see a pretty much unfiltered 2 hours of the guy ranting, here ya go. Fascinating stuff, strangely not been seen by many people, if you believe imdb and netflix.... PENDERECKI on the soundtrack, btw.


OJ SIMPSON: THE INTERVIEW

Another strangely little-seen 3 hour film that is extremely EXTREEMYL fascinating. Simpson is grilled about the murders. Simspon ends up looking a looooooooooooooooooot more guilty than he already looked. Wow. I highly reccomend this one. It's all done in real time. Fascinating as hell stuff right here, and it wa spulled from the market pretty damn quickly. I have it on dVD now... after it not being available for a long long time.

Great madtv parody of the whole thing.. surprisingly dead on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0aAE6ie7bM

Think i'm going to read the book first, looks good.

Classic albums : Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Good.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Michel Gondry is a true visionary, love the man's work. Just another film of the thousands of films I've should of watched A LONG time ago already. Great script and premise. Flawless. A perfect film to watch when this end of winter's grasp still clings to the world in many parts. The cold, dark, grey feeling still looms over you, and the depression that is felt on many days. You must remember that the light is still out there, the brightness and aura that can be contained in finding that long lost love.

I have been doing TV series instead of movies for the past year or so. Just finished Terminator/ The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It was wonderful. Why the fuck was it cancelled???

I don't understand TV executives. When someone makes a great show they almost always find a way to kill it. It's like their job titles are "Creativity Killer Demon, Prime Time Division." Shit like Buffy makes it past the 3rd year only by great feats of contortion. What is wrong with these people?

Anyway, great fucking show; in spite of the TV-style flaws (lack of continuity, cheesy credits at the start of 2nd season, switch from long plot to one-episode mini-plots, etc), very good shit.

Note to self: rewatch Berlin Alexanderplatz.

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Ghostchase: Do you think Eternal Sunshine owes more to Gondry or to Charlie Kaufmann? You seem to think Gondry, can you tell me why? To me this is 80% Charlie Kaufman and the visual tricks are the only Gondry watermark I notice. In other words, beautifully shot as this might have been, it could have been shot by other people, but it could only have been written by Charlie Kaufman. Yes? No? Maybe?

Haha. Yup!

It happens a lot in the Canadian box-set too. Specifically when he has a shaved head and the prosthetics on his face. I'm not entirely sure that those episodes are all in the proper order. I even remember there being a reference to "the lobster skit" in an episode placed before the episode with the actual skit. It may just be a case of recording-dates vs. airing-dates though. Which is the same way that the episode order on some of the X-Files DVDs are fucked up, if you pay close enough attention.

But yeah, they show a lot of old clips in the MTV version. Did you watch the spring break special yet? Where he upsets the cruise ship kitchen? Hahaha

Note to all: Fassbinder is god.

Meh. It was alright. The part about how Tierry conned so many into believing his brilliance, was neat. It's funny, he treated his art show almost as if he were running a film set - with so many (far more talented) artists working beneath him. Completely capitalizing on the snobbery of others - that's the aspect about the film that I enjoyed. But was it really a con if people truly enjoyed his work?

The only thing that the film really proved was just how dumb and materialistic the art world can be. To which, I say "No shit".

See, it's a Banksy prankumentary. Why would Banksy make a film about some other artist? Because it's a creation OF Banksy!...Thierry -- MR. BRIANWASH -- isn't real, that's all part of the prank too. Oh, he's a real person, but he's not a real "artist", at least not in the absurd way portrayed in the film; it's simple Banksy making the absolute biggest mass marketed garbage. Get enough people to "like" it and people can't distinguish what's art and what's not. It goes far beyond peopel being full of shit, it goes into "MARILYN MANSON WITH A MARILYN MONROE WIG MAKING A MILLION DOLLARS". Anyone can do that, anyone with Photoshop at least.

It was all a hoax, hence the title. It was all about how street art is commercial now. Everything is commercial. Genius doc, because on one hand it really has a lot of awesome footage of grafitti and street artists. But by the end it's obviously all a big joke, and a hilarious one at that, especially if you've ever been around a bunch of snobby "artists".

The scene with Thierry in the wheelbarrow after "breaking his leg" sold it for me and from then on out is when it started getting more and more absurd, and hilariously so. Genius doc.

So, Banksy -- one of the most hilarious and brilliant artists of all time -- made a con, make a hoax, made "art" out of another person and sold it right back to the "art world" he despises. Brilliant.

It works on SO MANY levels. Banksy is such an amazing artist, period. Though it's easy to dismiss it as "occasionally clever stencil crap". Just like I'm sure it's easy for some people to dismiss this doc. Still, it is a brilliantly layered work where the less you know going in, the better.

If you just want a simple documentary about art being bullshit, watch MY KID COULD PAINT THAT.

It was pretty good. Bill was a little under/mis-used for my taste. Great performance by Duvall.

I have every episode of MST3K ever, and I always thought the "movie" was the worst thing they ever produced. Hell, THIS ISLAND EARTH is actually a pretty cool movie!

haha the movie wasn't that bad at all. it could have been a lot worse. the show was better though i agree

Lately, whenever I try to watch an episode of MST3K, I just want everyone to shut up, so I can watch the movie for what it is. The running commentary grates against my nerves now, and I find it more aggravating than amusing.

..?!



Well, you're in luck, many of the official MST3K movies can be flipped over and you can watch the original film versions without those "aggravating" commentaries! Have fun with EEGAH!!!!!!!!!!

...in all seriousness, though, am I the only person who thinks MANOS is actually an awesoem film? It's creepy as HELL.

Accepted - crappy american college-comedy, bla bla bla...
i laughed sometimes...but nothing to "hang in the tree" so to speak...

The Banksy movie was great fun but the Thierry "character" was a complete fabrication. he was always just a paid crew member of Banksy's street crew. Most big modern artists work the exact same way, with a crew of younger artists essentially fabricating the art and the artists just comes up with ideas. it is bullshit way to make art IMO but so what? My hated enemy Thomas KInkaid does the same shit and makes millions.

Haha I used to love the show when I'd catch it on SciFi Channel as a kid, but now it just reminds me of watching a movie with someone who won't shut the fuck up. Something in me goes "Shut up guys! Won't you just give the movie a chance?"

It is a cool blast from the past, and the theme song still makes me laugh. I'm just a cranky old man now. And for the record, I too love Manos.

not anymore brother! celebrate!!!!

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/22/131517...thomas-kinkade

the cunt is in DEEP SHIT.

his store in my neighborhood shut down months ago. w00t!

soon you'll be able to piss on your enemy's grave.

(well ok, reading further, not so soon, but his albuquerque store is no more. i thought you'd enjoy hearing that)

ps- i think this system of younger students working for the master was already in place in the renaissance though.

Most busy in demand artists have indeed always had a stable of art biotches

I will -fuppet- the shit out of the kinkaid empire erosion!