oh, come on! don't be like the pope!


did you notice my post to demonrail where i said i LOVED midnight in paris? cuz i do. i mentioned to evollove that yeah was a bit sentimental but "Eh!" by "eh!" i mean "whatever" or "i don't care" or "it doesn't kill the movie." plus, wasn't ellen page great in it? horrible character, great performance.

anyway evollove seems to prefer colder/more analytical movies-- for me midnight in paris was 100 times better than celebrity-- but i still liked celebrity.

I do not enjoy most woody allen movies. Just don't. I find them boring and inconsequential. even the "funny" ones.

Maybe now, but I remember all kinds of fuss and excitement about it when it originally came out. It didn't do much for me but plenty of people considered it a masterpiece at the time. Personally I preferred Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

i just realized that due to a brain inFARTction i mixed up the stories/casts of midnight in paris and to rome with love and i threw in the name "celebrity" that had nothing to do with nothing. busy fucking day!

because to rome with love is a bunch of stories i mixed up the ellen page /jesse whatever story with the midnight in paris story. well, both involve some sort of time travel, right? hA! but midnight in paris is standalone (and great!).

then i was thinking about the roberto begnini storyline from "to rome with love" and called it "celebrity!' because, fuck, it's about being famous for the fuck of it (that's what i called "too telegraphed"). i did place the opera story correctly. i totally forgot the penelope story which is kinda like bullets over broadway in that the male protagonist decides the city is too much and goes back home (and there's criminals).

anyway, way to fuck it all up. yay me! haa haaa haaa.

Not a movie, but my wife and I finished this yesterday. Man, I did not know if I would like it when I saw the first 3 episode,s but it is sooooooo good.

The Fast and the Furious

I try to find the good in most films but this really was awful.

and if you excuse
i'm going to continue now to watch the rest of the movie of the planet of the walking apes

where 3 things are for sure
1. it is a walking ape
2. it is mortal
3. what is going to happen before death is the unknown

i borrowed this from the library the other day




damn, gorgeous cinematography and great use of camera but holy shit this is longer than the amazon. i haven't finished and i doubt i will.

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EDIT: THIS MOVIE ISN'T THAT LONG! MY NETFLIX ENVELOPE CLAIMED 3H25M BUT IT'S ONLY 100M. FUCK

^^ i read that book
great nature peoples
natures people you never need to fear them

American Gangster

Wears its Scorsese influences a bit too loudly but Russell Crowe is excellent.



Charley Varrick

Bit of a forgotten gem, this. Feels a bit like it was made for TV but no worse for that. Lots of cliched 70s bank robber types in cheap brown suits driving around 70s Reno trying to escape the Mob. No masterpiece but a great film to watch laying on the sofa with a massive sandwich when everyone's out.

wtf up with trama's self-destruct poAsts?

The French Connection

^^ oh man that is good stuff. popeye is such an asshole too.

I said Emmanuelle Seigner looks stunning in that movie.

yes and then you deleted it and i wondered why

Popeye Doyle, Dirty Harry, Mad Max. Who needs superheroes?

backdoor sluts 9.

Another one I rewatched



Shaft

Seriously overrated. Take away the black angle and this is as forgettable as fuck. There's far better and more entertaining blaxploitation movies than this one, making it hard to see how Shaft remains the most well known.



Foxy Brown

This is much more like it. Shafts problem may be that Richard Roundtree just wasn't interesting or charismatic enough to carry a whole film (never mind the sequels), at least compared with Pam Grier.

I think it's because of the theme song....

it is the music

Shaft is insanely dull. a stupid generic detective yarn.

My faves are Superfly and Truck Turner.

I still haven't seen Truck Turner but it's on my list. I dunno, I can't even say I'm that huge a fan of the theme song from Shaft, although it is definitely the best thing about the movie.

have you ever watched WATTSTAX? you gotta see that. best concert movie ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OctVizcgBcY

WATTSTAX rules. The Bar Kays bring it!! SON OF SHAFT. better than SHAFT

I love back when funk bands were from outer space
http://youtu.be/34fwGEzWDm4

Truck Turner has some of my favorite celluloid scenes ever.

Nichele Nichols as the madam!

Truck Turner getting his lady out of prison and then feeding her a bucket of chicken in the car and then making out with her with a mouthful of chicken!

TWO WORDS - PIMP FUNERAL!!!!!!!!

DO THE FUNKY CHICKEN NOW

nice. enjoyed seeing qpr's ascent. that flavio guy, what an asshole-- amit, on the other hand, did right by the team (at least from what i see here since i don't follow the english press).

That documentary is classic. Funny and depressing at the same time.

truck turner is second tier, shaft is classic

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Awesome.

Eww, I've not seen that but the clip definitely makes me want to.

That film is so grimy. You gotta love a bit of Peckinpah.

^

I heard a rumor of a scene shot but cut where Warren Oates fucks the head. Not sure if that's true or if I heard the rumor right.

But it COULD be true, which is the fucked up thing.

peckinpah is awesome

i don't think he'd fuck the head cuz it was already rotten.

anyway, gotta publish a correction

CORRECTION

my fucking netflix envelope claimed that walkabout was "3h25min". which terrified me after 1 hour of movie.

then yesterday i start playing some more, and surprise! movie ended at 100 minutes.

NETFLIX, YOU IGNORANT FUCK. okay maybe it's just an error. but 3h 25 min! it's not fanny & alexander.

anyway, it a was fucking great movie. the opening sequence is pretty awesome. i mean it's all great. if you like, i dont know how to call this, cinematography-based movies like we were talking about the other day, this shit is gorgeous.




watch if possible in bluray.

Yeah, I thought your talking about it being so long was odd. A great film. Slow but more dreamy than anything.

Never heard of the head fucking rumour in Alfredo Garcia but it's something I imagine Warren Oates might've drunkenly suggested.

And another Warren Oates ...



Dillinger

One of my favourite gangster movies.

I thought the Depp version was better, and I've seen them both fairly recently.

Really? I saw the Depp version about a year ago and it didn't do anything for me, but then I'm really not a Johnny Depp fan at all. I might watch it again tonight, just to refresh my memory.

secrets of the tribe, one of the best documentaries i've seen in a long time http://vimeo.com/29807445

Blue Collar

The Depp dillinger was so fucking boring!!!!!