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Watched House of 1000 Corpses for Halloween
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pfIJ6GW3kU Modern human society and everyone behaves like Apes. Very funny. 8.5/10 Fresh Dressed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ9LyiNrA-s Great addition to the canon of hiphop docs 8/10 |
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RAIN THE COLOR OF BLUE WITH A LITTLE RED IN IT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omzUAqfe8T0 It's a take off of Purple Rain set in Agadez, Niger in the Sahara desert. It's the first film made in the Tueareg language and stars the incredible Mdou Moctar in Prince's role. Mdou Moctar, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJGP0FBaT0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGDDO6mKzhg Mdou Moctar tours Europe and the US and if you get the chance to see him, then by god you should take it. |
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Seen several weeks earlier:
Gone girl - 4/10 First time I don't enjoy a David Fincher film. Full of plot inconsistencies. The first 45 minutes are soporific, the acting is just OK and the ending pretty terrible. |
I'd have given Gone Girl a 6/10 myself. Same as for the new Star Wars.
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I think it's definitely his schlockiest film in a long while. Played out a bit like a David Lynch directed soap opera. But I'm one of the few people who didn't go nuts for the source material. It was "meh" as far as I'm concerned. I just thought the film was enjoyable to watch. You're right, the performances were tepid (the female cop was probably the highlight of the movie, forget her name), and the story was only good while the suspense lasted. The soundtrack added to that a lot. I do like a David Fincher movie. But compared to Fight Club, which suited his style perfectly, or Benjamin Button, which was - oddly - one of the more emotionally poignant big budget films of the 00's, Gone Girl was just so-so. Still fun to watch things unravel, though. He definitely took a page from the Blue Velvet book of melodrama for this one, and I don't think enough people picked up on that. But whatever. Critically it was a flop compared to his last several films, most of which received butt-loads of Oscar nominations and became pop culture events. |
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The Revenant: Gritty, visceral and beautifully shot. Lubezki and Sakamato's work really shine in this one. The film does get a bit too pregnant with meaning every now and then though. I thought the whole Jesus-y vibe was a bit off-putting, but that might just be a petty personal gripe. The performances were great though and some of the quieter moments are really gripping. I'd say check it out.
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Tom Hardy was amazing in it. And yes, I loved the music. Was the last to leave the theater because I could not pull myself away from the closing credits music. Some really cool cello work in this I thought. |
Couple of docu dramas lately
Spotlight and The Big Short. Both were very good and recco'd. I had reservations about the Big Short due to not much caring for Steve Carell, but he was actually pretty good in it and overall, it was a good movie. Spotlight was EXCELLENT |
The documentary "Call Me Lucky" about a never really successful stand up comic named Barry Crimmins, who I'd never heard of before, but was doing stand up in the 80's in the vein of Bill Hicks. But the documentary is more than just about his career, as it goes into a traumatic incident in his childhood as a sexual abuse victim, and how that's affected the rest of his life. The film is at times very funny, as he is very funny, but delves into some dark stuff, and certainly not everyone wants to imagine. That said, the movie is very good.
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went to see Coen Bros latest, Hail Ceasar!, pretty good, has just about everything from cheesy 50's Hollywood, choreography, singing cowboys with rope tricks, crazy directors, H bombs, and Communists.
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saw the star wars in the movie theater, matinee last week. fucking awesome. good times., I loved how they did as little CGI as they had to.
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![]() Really enjoyed this, unsettling, eerie, and a great sense of dread, and doesn't rely on cheap scares. |
SPECTRE (007), which was... Well, not terrible... Not great either. I don't know how I felt about it. It was lazy, and had a ton of potential that it just wasted. Some nicely filmed scenes... specifically the "Hello James. What took you so long?" sequence.
But man. Something was off. I remember loving Casino Royale because at the time it was such a ferocious and unexpected new (old) vision of Bond, and because it played out like NOT a Bond film, but rather a really well made, well timed thriller. Quantum of Solace... I don't remember anything from that movie. Something about sand? Skyfall was excellent. It felt like the the "Dark Knight" to Casino's "Batman Begins." Javier Bardem was possibly the best Bond villain ever. SPECTRE, though, was a whole lot of build up for almost no payoff. Better than Quantum, but not good enough to be the Dark Knight Rises of the series. Unless you can't tell, I think it's quite obvious that the entire Daniel Craig Bond reboot was a pretty transparent attempt to mimic the style and success of Chris Nolan's Batman films. I used to just consider this a theory, but now that I know MGM originally went to Chris Nolan with Casino Royale and wanted him to cast Christian Bale as Bond, I think it's fact. Apparently they tried to get Nolan to do SPECTRE when Sam Mendes was hemming and hawing about it, but Nolan was busy making the best fucking movie of the last few years, Interstellar. I think they still want him to be part of the Bond world, and here's hoping he gets on board. He's one of the only directors in the world who can reliably belt out blockbusters that are both visually stunning and intelligent. |
When I heard that shit about Daniel Craig saying he'd rather slit his wrists than play Bond again, I thought, but WHY? He's the best Bond since Connery. But after watching his half assed performance in SPECTRE, I get it.
That series got a nice little reboot in 2005/6, and that made it fresh again. But that was a decade ago. It's not fresh anymore. That franchise needs a hard reset. The next Bond should definitely be either black or gay or a woman or ANYTHING other than a smooth talking Aryan sex addict. |
Oh, I actually saw Deadpool after that. Yeah. I forgot. Deadpool was fun. I always have at least a little bit of fun watching comic book movies, but because I'm not big on the whole Marvel cinematic universe thing, I never have more than a "meh" reaction. Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy were the exception. DP was really really stupid. The Naked Gun of superhero movies. But that's what was needed. And I appreciated the ultra violence.
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Michael Douglas, no question. James Woods is super goddamn creepy, but more in a Videodrone kind of way than in a drugs and power kind of way. Michael Douglas ftw. |
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El Topo. Wow. What a ride.
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My wife and I have been on a movie watching tear lately.
![]() I enjoyed it a lot. ![]() Creepy and weird in a sexy 70's manner... ![]() Not as good as his Mission Impossible flicks but I enjoyed this sci fi war take on Groundhog's Day. ![]() I dug it a lot. It was a fun flick. I never read these comic books so it was fun to go into a Marvel movie not knowing what was gonna happen. |
![]() Much better than the TV show with the old dude, although that one had its moments. It was not great, but it did not suck either.... ![]() I enjoyed this a lot. Much better than the Thor movies, or the Hulk movies. |
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Still haven't seen Ant-Man. I couldn't really believe it was a hit. I was sure it would be awful. But after I realized Hank Pym wasn't going to be the main character, and started reading the reviews, I got at least a little bit interested. But I'm sure it's better than the Thor and Hulk films. The only MCU related films that I believe are actually good are Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool, and perhaps the Captain America flicks. Everything else is really tepid and so-so. And those Hulk films are fucking awful. That character deserves a proper MCU timeline solo film. |
Sayin'......
Ant Man was good because it was not about aliens or world cataclysms or the "Hero's Journey" that we have seen so much in comic book flicks. It was FUN, like reading a good comic book! Guardians of the Galaxy was good, but I am not invetsed in those characters. that comic came out when I was 35 yrs old and no longer reading monthly Marvel output. I grew up reading the Hulk and there is so much they could do in a film with that character..... The Thor films have the problem that the big $$$ has to be spent on FX creating Asgard and all that mystical bullshit. |
As far as Marvel films go, these were my faves
Iron Man Avengers Captain American First Avenger Ant Man |
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Recently i watched Michael Jackson from Mo Town to Off the Wall Mulholand Drive Hollywoodland The Terminator The Departed Boyz n The Hood And much to my delight The Crow |
I tried to re-watch the Crow a few years back and I couldn't believe how awful it was. Why do I remember it being the very picture of badassery in my youth?
Terminator holds up like a motherfucker though. Departed too. Just rewatched that a while ago. If anything it's better than it was initially. |
Hey, wasn't someone here talking about Jonathan Glazer's UNDER THE SKIN? The sci-fi Art-horror film starring Scarlet Johannsen?
The girlfriend and I just watched an absolutely stunning series of trailers, and we're thinking about watching it. I've heard many good things (and the drone/synth heavy Mica Levi soundtrack on Rough Trade is out of this fucking world), but Amazon has like 5,000 reviews and almost all of them are one star. Wasn't she up for an Oscar for this? Also, it came in at #2 on Playlist's best horror films list, ranking above such brutal terrors as Anti-Christ and Audition. So I'm torn. Anyone want to weigh in? It's either this or we're gonna watch Krampus, because we're fucking bored and it's freezing out. Thanks! |
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The Guardians of the Galaxy first appeared in 1968 or 69, I think. The franchise was something of a cult classic, and had spanned multiple universes, time periods, and other Marvel characters' storylines, long before the 2008 reboot that the film was based mostly based on. Because the Guardians are, somewhat by design, in a perpetual state of flux, bevause of alterations to the past or future, I think of the 2008 version as a continuation of the original. Kind of like how Neil Gaiman resurrected the Eternals for that stellar run in the mid '00s. Anyway I take your meaning though. It's hard to get into brand new characters when you're an adult. It's almost pointless. For me, Superman is etched into my soul like Catholic guilt, and Batman is singed into my psyche like a trauma. It would be very hard, and it would take a lot of time, for me to form connections like that to new comic book characters. Especially since I'm so goddamn old and cranky now. |
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And yes. Indeed the Terminator seems to age like cognac and only get better and more indulgent. It also becomes more relevant |
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When the Crow came out, I was just desperate for more "dark hero" films after being inspired by Tim Burton's Batman. Totally different films, I know, but the fact that it was "dark" and featured a violent avenger is probably all my little adolescent brain needed to go nuts on it. I also went nuts for Darkman (which, holy wow, is fucking awful... even for a non Evil Dead Raimi film... Jesus it was bad), and even (sighs) The Shadow, with Alec Baldwin. Yes, I was desperate. All of those films are terrible, and even Tim Burton's Batman films basically feel kitschy and more stupid, with an excellent score, some nice cinematography, and possibly the most child-inappropriate comic book villain portrayal in history courtesy of Danny Devito's nightmarish Penguin. Apart from that, and the figure Michael Keaton cut in the Bat suit, it was style over substance, and only qualifies as the second best Batman adaptations because every single other film aside from the #1 Nolan trilogy has been complete shit through and through. :) |
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Let's see. As far as Marvel's concerned... I'd probably have to say: 1. Guardians of the Galaxy 2. Deadpool 3. Captain America: Winter Soldier 4. Captain America: the First Avenger 5. Ah... Fuck... maybe X-Men: First Class? The only X-film not to totally suck. Overall (of the post-'90s era 1. The Dark Knight 2. Man of Steel 3. Batman Begins 4. The Dark Knight Rises 5. Guardians Looking forward to Dawn of Justice, but I'm pretty sure it will be more "fun" than good. |
Spotlight.
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