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To be honest, my "brand new fascination" ended pretty much immediately after mentioning it. As for the 'New French Extremity', a bit like your preference for eternal peace and well-being, I've really lost my appetite for almost any movie that's likely to make me fell worse after watching it than I felt before. |
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Oh did anyone see what chief executive Steve Burke said at a Universal media conference "the studio would focus more on film franchises in future". And
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Jesus wept. I always thought it was just over blown bull saying that creativity is dead in Hollywood. That there's always been shit blockbuster films which disappear into the ether and that quality last (I guess I still believe that last comment). But to focus solely on franchises say it all. What we're seeing as every year goes on is studios less and less willing to take risks with big budget movies. And small budget for that matter. Dull days are coming. Or here depending on your views of American film. |
Actually watched Cube for the first time last night
It was good but not so much happened during the movie and some of the actors kinda sucked...gonna watch the rest of em cause I like it, let's just hope the others are better.. |
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"The Master" is very good. Great performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Its not an easy movie to sum up, as is the case with a lot of recent PT Anderson films like "There Will Be Blood" or "Magnolia", and its probably a movie that deserves a second viewing to really take in fully. If you are a fan of his recent work I would be surprised if you would flat out hate "The Master". Is it as good or better then "There Will Be Blood"? TWBB probably has the edge for the simple fact of Daniel-Day Lewis' performance.
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 Miami Vice Nothing to watch so I stuck this on again? Pure midlife crisis porn. |
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I love Bigger than Life. Have you seen any of Douglas Sirk's stuff? Sort of similar. All that Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind. Really good stuff. In many ways more polite precursors to movies like American Beauty and Happiness and in some ways even Blue Velvet and John Water's Desperate Living. That whole thing of there being a core ugliness beneath middle America's 'perfect' self-image. I can't recommend Douglas Sirk enough.
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I read the script for this about a year ago and it was the most sloppy, incoherent thing I've read in awhile. I can't wait to see it. Seriously. |
 finland? more like funland |
had a movie-intensive weekend
highbrow:  [insert picture of jiro dreams of sushi here] fantastic! loved this movie so hard. middle brow  [insert picture of the rum diary here] lots & lots of fun lowbrow:  [insert picture of red tails here] not enough fancy action and not enough drama. the first tuskegee airmen movie was way better-- this was like, boring. also in the lowbrow department:  [insert picture of the hunger games here] meh. a wasted opportunity. she is pretty great actress though, but was better in winter's bone. |
 Intolerable Cruelty I had no idea this was a Coen Bros film till it started and while I'm generally a fan of theirs the worst aspects of this movie were definitely the most CB-esque moments. Still, it's a far better tribute to the classic Screwball comedy than The Hudsucker Proxy was, and it's got George Clooney doing a great Cary Grant impression and Catherine Zeta Jones being about as sexy as I think it's possible to be. |
 this was some heavy shit. 8/10 |
The picture isn't showing up, what was the movie?
Just watched ...  Melancholia |
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How does anyone know which ones they can hotlink and which ones they can't. I just do a google image search and pick the one that's most suitably sized.
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the one i would wholeheartedly recommend (from above) is jiro's. rum diary is cool and fun and all but not as good as fear & loathing-- still, watch if you can. |
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I really can't stand Johnny Depp for some reason. Whenever I find out he's associated with a movie, I immediately think that I probably won't like it. I can't put my finger on why; he just aggravates the fuck out of me. |
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In the same boat. For me, part of it comes from the fact that he's generally regarded as a "great" actor, but in actual fact the crap-to-good ratio says otherwise. Also, he thinks he's so cool. But he's not. |
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i would agree, although that is like saying the shawshank redemption isn't as good as the shining.(in the sense that they are based on books by the same author but are completely different) |
 Collateral This is just brilliant. I'm becoming a total Michael Mann fanboy. |
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 terrorist immigrants are trying to kill us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E-81m4ZnRM long live bruce willis  watch it, varda rules |
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i'm not a fan, but i think he's alright. |
I was watching The dice of death and also Piss fingers......or was that made up?
While i'm ON IT i think i watched Paranormal Activity 3. I have nothing to say about it other than Nandos and Chicken Kebabs..... |
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he plays the same dude as fear & loathing, down to every speech inflection |
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