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Yes, FARAWAY, SO CLOSE! is a great movie! Love it.
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ha ha the first time i watched it i remember i though he was some sort of satan, he has the green goblin face anyway and he played jesus too so it made sense but i forget (it's been a ton of years) how i figured it wasnt that exactly. |
I'm getting good ideas for my Netflix queue. Thanks, everyone.
We don't have TV here in the new world. |
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![]() The Bank Dick Brilliant. One of the few comedies that makes me laugh out loud pretty much from beginning to end. |
Iron Man I'm trying to catch up with the tonnes of Hollywood superhero adaptations that've come out in the last few years. I've not seen many at all (I still haven't seen a single Batman or Spiderman film) but I just caught this on TV and liked it a lot more than I expected, at least until the full-on action took over, when it just turned into Transformers. Any recommendations of recent superhero movies would be really welcome. There's very little chance I'll have seen any you mention and, as I said, I'm just curious to see more. |
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iron man was pretty badass! and funny. hmphh thor, maybe? it was alright if i recall. i gotta go. still at work :( booo hooo hooo.... |
Yes, it was very funny in parts. Robert Downey Jnr was great and even Gwyneth Paltrow managed to be really funny at times.
Haha, sods law means that Thor is one of the very few I have seen. I did really like it. |
Can't go wrong with "Superman". The first one, with Christopher Reeve
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Haha, another one I've seen. So what I suppose I meant was superhero movies made after Tim Burton's Batman, besides Thor and (off the top of my head) Fantastic Four and Watchmen.
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i think they made a green lantern but i havent seen it also hm watchmen which was reportedly shit oh wait you didn't see the batman movies? dark night? and batman begins?? oh wait wait look, i found this poo: http://www.filmjabber.com/movie-blog...-21st-century/ oh also CAPTAIN AMERICA which i heard wasnt bad. okay i go die now. aneurysm imminent. |
![]() Keystone Comedies DVD A collection of Keystone shorts that I picked up out of curiosity. I was most interested in seeing some Keystone Cops footage but they actually don't feature much. Comedy wise it's really not that funny. |
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Definitely the weirdest I've seen James Mason act in a movie. He's hysterical. ![]() Parents is a nice bizarre kind of picture. The sets and decor are amazing. I love the furniture. The acting is pretty great on all parts, though at times I was bummed out that Randy Quaid and Sandy Dennis were in the film. Not because they were bad, but because I recognized them that it took me out of the moment of it trying to maintain that 60's vibe. Also, I'm a meat eater through and through, love steaks, burgers, and all that stuff. But man, could this movie make eating meat look gross. Which I thought was pretty cool. |
The Wild Beasts (1984) Uncut
When PCP gets into the water supply of a large zoo in Frankfurt, Germany, it soon becomes blood and gore galore as the zoo animals go crazy, break out of their cages, and go on a homicidal, nigh time rampage through the city killing any person they see starting with sewer rats killing a number of strangers, then tigers, cheetahs, lions and even elephants join in the killing spree. Zoo veterinarian Rupert Berner, his scientist girlfriend Laura, along with a local police officer, Inspector Braun, try to find a way to control the murderous animals and stop them before they decimate the entire city in this "nature strikes back" horror film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYRnOZGxGRU |
My fave Kubrick as well. And right up there in my top 10 favorite movies.
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The Innkeepers- another terrific little low fi horror experiment from Ti West The Silence of the Sea- Jean Pierre Melville debut film, a chamber piece about a morally conflicted Nazi Lieutenant. Features the hallmarks of later Melville such as economic editing and quick cuts to fleeting glances and eyes. Man I love this guy's films so much. The Night of the Generals- HUGELY underrated late 60's drama with Omar Sharif investigating a serial killer among the ranks of the Nazi elite. This and "The Silence of the Sea" would make for a great double bill! All the President's Men (Blu Ray)- One of my top ten faves of all time. I was a bit disappointed in the Hi-def transfer though. |
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5 stars for the poster! But Netflix gives the movie a rating of only 2.5. Sorry.
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Kim Gordon is in it but I'd probably agree with Netflix's rating. It wasn't great... |
Married to the Mob.
Jonathan Demme used Q Lazzarus' Goodbye Horses in that film too, and I couldn't help thinking of the Buffalo Bill dance in Silence of the Lambs, which has become quite a big movie in my book, as it doesn't falter in making an impression, no matter how many times I've seen it. |
Unbreakable, for like the tenth time! :)
Still great, but a little simple. Needs expansion. That movie could have used another hour, easy. |
Kill List
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSaNp...feature=relmfu I think almost as good as Down Terrace |
![]() Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen I caught this on TV. I dunno. Even by Michael Bay's standards it's pretty bad. Although there's one bit when Isabel Lucas goes a bit Legend of the Overfiend. I was hoping that might be a sign of things to come but it seems that even when Bay gets things right, he fucks up by not realising. She's killed in the very next scene. Twat. |
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That's probably my favourite of his early (ie pre Annie Hall) movies but like all his early stuff I think it's a bit hit and miss. |
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![]() Iron Man 2 I liked the first one mainly for its humour, which is still in evidence here, but the whole thing seems like an excuse to shoehorn even more slumming big name stars into silly roles. I think I'm gonna give up on seeing anymore superhero movies for a while. And happy birthday Sonic Sphere! I couldn't find an appropriately birthday-like image so here's a motivation poster of Peter Cushing. ![]() |
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Thanks for the recommendations. It's weird that I've still not seen a single Batman film. It's not that I've been avoiding them, just that I never seem to be around when they're on or ever feel motivated enough to seek them out, but I really do need to see at least a few. Quote:
I have a real fascination with that whole Hollywood gothic thing and I'd say Sunset Boulevard and Mullholland Dr as perhaps its two most perfect expressions. The dreamlike quality you mention is spot on, and seems to tie in with a sense held both by Wilder and Lynch of Hollywood as an idea or state of mind, as much as a place. Never having been to Hollywood myself, I can really relate to that whole 'Hollywood state of mind' thing. It's street names, etc, have a real mystery for me that obviously transcend their actual reality. But it's not simply a rose tinted mystique. It's hard to explain. More like a massively bittersweet and perverse affection for a place I only know about through watching movies and reading books about it. I see you're from Death Valley, so I imagine you must have a slightly more grounded take on the whole thing. |
The Bourne Identity
yeah, yeah, give me a break. I enjoyed it. So what. |
Something I find fascinating about the whole 'Hollywood as a state of mind' thing is its sense of people reinventing themselves or fading away in a kind of reclusive luxury. I love that idea, for some reason.
As for Billy Wilder, yes I like pretty much all that I've seen by him but have a certain love/hate relationship with his dialogue, which I sometimes find comes across as being perhaps a bit too clever for its own good. But when it works (or I'm in the right mood for it) I love it. I don't know what you've seen but alongside Sunset Boulevard, I'd definitely recommend Some Like it Hot and Double Indemnity. |
yeah, some like it hot, sunset BLVD and double indemnity are all amazing. i really like Ace in the Hole as Well, very great film. a Foreign Affair wasn't so great though.
and i recently saw the black power mixtape which was very good: and halloween II which was also good, but for completely different reasons. |
I've always wanted to check this one out. I hope Netflix has it.
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comanche station: 7/10
woh kaun thi: 7/10 his name was king: 6/10 daydream nation: 5/10 i really need to see rosemarys baby already, i just threw on the soundtrack, pretty cool stuff on it |
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Yes, I loved it too. Now you need to see Faraway, So Close! |
We watched Faraway, So Near last night. We both thought it was awful. What a boring load of crap.
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must spread more rep.... that film is great, and it has my favorite morricone soundtrack. |
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I normally do too. This was beyond boring. |
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