no way. don't betray your instincts! you know avengers was better, batman was just more expensive.

this writer also picks avengers as the overall winner of the 3-way deathmatch w/ spidey

http://crushable.com/entertainment/what-was-the-best-superhero-movie-of-2012-the-avengers-the-dark-knight-rises-the-amazing-spider-man-857/

after this i gotta go see spiderman anyway

I love Takeshi Kitano, so I'm trying watch all his films he has directed/written.



Cross Zatoichi off that list. Maybe not the strongest Kitano film, but still a solid outing, it just didn't grab me like the rest of Kitano's films, he should stick to what he's good at, slice of life/yakuza set in current time, Kurosawa set the standard for samurai films, if one should want to do a samurai film it should really push the borders. All in all, love it and one cannot not help but bask in the glory of its 15 minute tap dance routine set in Edo era Japan, found at the end of film. Brilliant. lol

I dunno, the more i think about DKR, the better I think it is. But I think Nolan and Whedon are such different directors that it only ends up coming down to personal preference. Avengers is brilliantly cool and fun , DKR is brilliantly clever and awesome.

ha haa haaa... yes! in the end i liked avengers more because i love whedon's snappy dialogue. but could i say it's "better"? dark night has a much deeper plot and character development, so.. yes, you're completely right.

I saw this sci-fi film called Monsters. It was pretty good. I've yet to see The Dark Knight Rises : (

Please keep the discourse going in my thread. You have a lot of good insights.

I was impressed and even a little unsettled by the Bane fight scene (pt. 1). You're right that it was a first. For once, our hero was not on control at all, and that made for a tense and even hard to watch viewing experience.

Thanks! Kitano is such an amazing man. Sonatine is a perfect film, I like it just a little bit better than Hana-Bi (Fireworks). I haven't seen A Scene at the Sea but its on my watch list! I'd like recommend his most challenging, unique and strange endeavour in film, Takeshis. The story is wild trip into Kitano's mind of delusions and abstract dreams. Stars Kitano as himself and as Akihiro Miwa and blonde lookalike trying to make his way in the film industry. People in this world are are extremely downtrodden on this lookalike, and finally he's had his fill, violence, death, and lots of laughter ensues.


Recently been on a French film trip...


Amélie.
I know its nothing new or original to absolutely love this film. But I fucking love this film. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audery Tautou own my heart. Bought it on Blu-Ray for $5.99. *hugs*


Breathless
Somebody watched this film recently on here I think, well... Jean Seberg looks just jumped out at me, she was way ahead of her time, a look many talented actors and actresses in the 60's had, a certain charisma and fashion that just make the individual pop out from the picture and people around them. People like, Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini's 8½, and Monica Vitti in the Antonioni's films, these people were ahead of there time in the scope of being sexy and cool. Its a shame and disgusting to think that a wonderful woman like Jean Seberg was a target of FBI lies and illegal activities all stemming from her activities and support for the NAACP and various other civil rights groups, that probably lead to 'apparent' suicide. Fuck them.


La Haine
The end... with the closing scene I was like "Yep. This film is amazing". A great snapshot of slice of life in the everyday French ghetto circa the early 90's. Adventure through the streets of France of how to put a loaded .44 magnum to good use. Also awesome use of Beastie Boys tracks will always go a long ways in my books! Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, who plays Amélie's long lost love! Just made that connection! I love finding links between great material... film, music, and art.

Mulholland Drive with a friend. We didn't know what the fuck was going on so we just stopped watching and played video games.

Oh? Well I'll give it a second try then. Thanks.

I just recently got "Blue Velvet" on blu. Ready to fall in love with it all over again.

Watched Brick with a friend. I've seen it a lot, but I've been meaning to show it to him.

Paul Metzger's old band TVBC did a great soundtrack for that film; got to see them perform it twice. They released it a few years back. Great film.

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant.

Even by Fassbinder's standards this is full on gayness. Paul Morrissey with a professional cast. It's basically a remake of All About Eve and there's a bit when Margit Carstensen tries to walk across the screen in an impossibly tight dress that I swear is one of my favourite moments in film ever. My cultural life would be so much more straightforward if I had a thing for cock.

Ken Park

Lots of penis. Majority of penises are erect.

Much better than KIDS.

Leaves one with that warm, special, "What the fuck did I just watch?" feeling.

Has anyone else seen it? Or was it all a dream?

Looking forward to the boxset release of season two of The Walking Dead.

Unfortunately, I've seen it. I do respect the seismic cultural change that Larry Clark's film "kids" had on cinema, but I just don't like his work. "ken park" is more of the same.... white kid suburban anomie with shock cuts and little sympathy for anyone. And yes, with the erect cocks and minor-on-milf-sex, it's no surprise this film will probably never see the light of day outside of bootleg versions.

The first Godard I watched, I found it at the same time horribly pretentious and visually amazing. The Raymond Devos scene is great.

Today I watched Dark Knight Rises and Total Recall back to back. DKR was really good, might be the best of the three. As for Total Recall, well, it's pretty sad when an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie is more profound and thought provoking.

Hey gang.... I need some help. I'm working on a blog article about bit torrent sites like KG, CG etc and am looking for some personal experiences. I write freelance and have been wanting to write about my (limited) experiences for awhile now.

I wouldn't use any names, screenames etc. Just curious in asking some questions. Email me at Henryhill51@aol.com and put in the subject line "sonic youth" if interested.

Cavallone's ''Spell'' or ''L'uomo, la donna e la bestia''.

An insane girl who eats her lunch in the toilet and drinks water from the toilet bowl, a man who gets his sexual kicks from dead animals'meat etc. Don't watch it if you don't like seeing a cow giving birth. A sort of druggy vision with not much of a plot. I enjoyed it.

Bridge on the River Kwai

Loved it.

IP man.

great movie, as for me

Yeah Ip Man was pretty cool. I wasn't tired yet...so I decided to watch Ip Man 2. That shit was atrocious.....like really fucking painful to watch.

Ever seen the French movie, "Baise-Moi" (Rape Me)? If you liked the above movie, I'm sure you'll enjoy it, though it received scathing reviews.

Awesome. It's a cliche to say so but Stagecoach is one of those films that definitely takes a few viewings to really appreciate. But either way, I love the characterisation in Stagecoach maybe more than I do in any other Ford Western. The whiskey salesman, the war veteran, Dallas, Ringo Kid, the driver with his Mexican wife. They're like Dickens characters transplanted to the wild west. The final shootout at the end between Ringo and the Plummers has a lovely old fashioned feel to it. But my favourite scenes are the ones where Ringo is the only one who'll sit with Dallas at the dinner table and then when they both agree at the end of the film to find a place to settle down together.

Try and see My Darling Clementine before you see The Searchers. Besides being (for me) Ford's greatest Western it further builds on ideas laid at in Stagecoach that'll eventually feed into The Searchers and Liberty Valence. In a sense, all the Ford Westerns are trying to examine the idea of the outlaw's place in the founding of a 'new' America. Ringo has to kill the Plummers because they represent the same old uncivillised West that Ringo (and Dallas) are a part of but where the Plummers represent the dead end of that world, Ringo and Dallas want to transcend it (just as Wayne has to kill Liberty Valence in order to make way for the civillisation represented by Jimmy Stewart and his wife - the wilderness/garden thing again.) It's the argument that figures like those played by Wayne weren't just obstacles to be overcome during that period (as is suggested in Valence when Wayne lets Stewart take credit for the killing) but were instrumental in creating a 'new world', which is solidified in MDC and then reaches epic, almost mythical proportions in The Searchers. It's all a bit cliched and deeply dubious from a historical/political standpoint but Ford was all about creating these mythical figures, doing mythical things for some mythical greater good. Sort of like Clash of the Titans (or even Nolan's Batman films).

Sorry, I tend to waffle a bit when it comes to Ford. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the rest of them.

i liked it!

no that was too short, no sense stopping talking about ford


wagon master is a fun one to watch with an ex-mormon

Yes, I've seen it a few years ago. I remember liking it and I am never patient enough until in ''rape and revenge'' movies the assailants have their balls chopped off but I can't remember it being the best thing in this genre I've watched. Thanks for reminding me about it though, I will give it another shot.

Talking about ''rape and revenge'' movies, I like Abel Ferrara's ''Ms. 45'' and I've never watched any of his other movies. Any recommendations are super welcome.