Awesome flick!

NOISEREDUX HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?

nope! Tried to -- but it's not available on netflix. :( I really wanna see it though. 80s sex comedy in an arcade? Yes please.

Bittorrent dude. GET WITH IT GUY

http://btjunkie.org/torrent/Joystick...0208506f79b0bf

I probably should get with it.

Tokyo!

viva mr. merde

I feel like I've seen this, but can't remember.

I cant tell you why I like this movie but I do. It's so poorly written and everything. But I find it fun

BIRTH

I expected more from Jonathan Glazer, pretty mediocre. The mood never really picked up, it kind of faded into nothing.

6/10

Battle: LA (5/10)

Was this based on a game? The whole thing felt like cutscenes from something like Gears of War. I liked its slightly disorienting, in your face style (a bit like the opening scenes from Saving Private Ryan) but these sorts of films ultimately only ever really work when they're outrageously epic, and this just wasn't epic enough.

Awesome poster, though.

It is horribly cliched, I agree. I can't stand all that military pathos thing. I do have a soft spot for massive alien invasion movies but Battle LA is more like Jarhead with a few spaceships and some robots.

Anyway, finally watched:



Monsters (6/10)

I really didn't know what to make of this. It completely wasn't what I expected: in some ways better; in some ways worse. Bits of it made me cringe but other bits are superb. I loved how they did the actual creatures.

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District 9 (8/10)

I love this. I love how it switches halfway through from a kind of Starship Troopers mockumentary thing, into more of a The Fly meets ET thing.

WEIRD SCIENCE

Ah.. one my favourites from John Hughes. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith work so well together, and Kelly LeBrock is quite a sight. Love the part when Gary gets drunk at the blues club and starts talking like he's black. He does it to a T, always laugh hard at that part. And who could forget when Lisa tells Gary's family about his constant masturbation in the washroom. "YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE COMBING YOUR HAIR!!!!!" "MOM!!!!! I WAS!!!!!!!"

A feel good Hughes classic.

Monsters Inc.

Grosse Pointe Blank. It was alright. John Cusack was good.

Independence Day (7/10)

As indefensible as it is, I do really like this film.

In all these years I never knew that was a John Hughes film.

"Sword of the Beast" Who knew there was such a plethora of samurai pictures in the 1960's? This one from director Hideo Gosha, whom I've never seen anything else from yet this was quite good. Perhaps not on the level of the best films from Kurosawa but its great to discover other directors making samurai pictures as well nearly the same time he was making his best stuff, and making good ones.

I feel like I did but it was a loooong time ago.

I have!

OUTSTANDING FILM :)

Fanny and Alexander is the shit. Persona is great but too fucking psychoanalytical and tortured for me to watch repeatedly. I prefer Bibi Anderson in Wild Strawberries. Yes, yes, I prefer a happy fucky muse than a tormented nurse. If you liked the tortured stuff look at his early early films, everyone suffering like a Russian novel. Shit like "Crisis" or "Torment" (he only did the screenplay). ANyway Winter Light is about some poor tortured fuck again, but the cinematography is the eye cum. Sven Nykvist was a fucking genius. Well he shot Persona too, which is why the cinematography is better than the story here. God damn his pictures are incredible. Winter Light was before Persona.

DO NOT watch scenes from a marriage until you've been living with someone for a while. The way the 70s were retarded is hilarious.

But Fanny and Alexander I cannot recommend enough. The long (TV) version if you can find it (Criterion has it).


i started but fell asleep. i wasn't in the mood for slooooow at the time. maybe another day.

salo.

It's great. Bergman's only horror film, as far as I know. It has a unique, rather surreal mood that I love. Overall not one of his best films perhaps, but it's worth seeing.

My favorites by Bergman are the TV version of Fanny and Alexander, Cries and Whispers, Persona and Through a Glass Darkly.

The word "disappointment" just got a new meaning. :(

Big Lebowski is one of those movies that EVERYONE seems to like, but I just don't get what's so great about it. Another one like that is Super Troopers. People swear that movie is funny, but I don't see it. Same with The Hangover. And how come people think The Crow is a good movie? Or Inception? Or Dogma?

My take...

Lebowski: GREAT!
Super Troopers: GREAT!
The Hangover: DOG SHIT!
The Crow: DOG SHIT!
Inception: DOG SHIT!
Dogma: GREAT!

I tend to agree. Hellraiser is a great idea and has some great moments but Clive Barker really is a fairly shit director. If ever a horror movie needed remaking, it's that one.

And while we're on the subject of films that everyone seems to like but which I just can't get the appeal of at all, it's Aliens, which just bores me senseless and is easily my least favourite in the Alien series which, just for the hell of it, I'd probably rank as:

1. Alien
2. Alien 3
3. Alien Ressurection
4. Aliens

I've not seen any of the Alien v Predator movies, if they count.

I disagree. The first Hellraiser to me is an absolutely perfect movie. I've watched it so many times. I love it.

perfect. There's nothing I dislike, or would change about Hellraiser.

ah yeah I kind of forget yr not a big horror fan. Anyway, I just always felt Hellraiser was really just crazy and awesome and had a really unique vibe about it. I've seen almost all of the sequels. None of them are that great. But the first movie, I don't konw. It just hits me the right way.

Well, I really enjoyed Yes Man, I love you Philip Morris, Bruce Almighty, etc..

I just think this was the totally wrong genre of movie for me...he can do so much better.

btw, my favourite JC movie overall is probably The cableguy or The Truman Show..;)

8.5/10

Red State

8/10

While I admittedly haven't seen that many Kevin Smith movies (seen Clerks, Mallrats, and Dogma), it's a little unusual for him to make something that's not supposed to be 100% funny. I usually don't like obvious allusions (the church/cult were a combination of the Branch Davidians at Waco and the Westboro Baptist Church), but in this case it works.. John Goodman was good, as always, (spoiler in black) though it would've been funnier if they'd shown him headbutt the church/cult leader than just talk about it.

ALSO

Natural Born Killers

9/10

Am I a bad person for having felt a bit sorry for Mallory? Of course no sane person would've supported her and Mickey going on a killing spree, but it's not like she wasn't messed up from being abused by her dad...speaking of her dad, I never thought Rodney Dangerfield could convincingly play a character the audience is supposed to hate, but he pulled it off. I like how the film satirized how violent American culture can be, and the weird cinematography in the first half....personally, I did not feel sorry for the talk show host...am I a bad person for that too?

Adjustment Bureau (6/10)

The Matrix meets It's a Wonderful Life. Nothing really to write home about but Matt Damon is quite good

rules.

Is it me or Emily Blunt has lost her left leg in that poster ? :o Thank you Photoshop I guess...