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under the skin was a creepy cool flick
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anyone else get a chance to see the new movie, "I Called Him Morgan"?
excellent. Really nice music, the Art Blakey sets are just the coolest and most adventurous stuff imaginable. Some fine still photos most people have never seen and some great interviews of, among others, Wayne Shorter and Bennie Maupin. A very sensitive bio. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/m...view.html?_r=0 |
Watched Amy Schumer's latest special on Netflix. I'd never seen her and heard a few people saying how bad it is. How she's gotten popular is beyond. So bad, just so bad.
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![]() Ghost in the Shell I'll watch the remake cos I'm genuinely curious how Hollywood deals with it. I hope they don't just go too overboard with the action though, cos the brilliance of the original was totally down to its sombre introspection. Whatever they do, the original will always be one of those perfectly formed things that only gets better the more times you watch it and if the remake only leads people who haven't seen it to give it a look, then all the better. ![]() |
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I went to see it on Thursday. I'll be interested to see what you think of it. |
I'm seeing it next week. I'll go with an open mind and like I said, more out of curiosity than anything.
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i started watching boondock saints and it was soooooo bad ha ha ha ha
so bad it's good kinda but not really. just ridiculous. but yeah i'll finish it. it's not hateable yet--it just relies so much on its campiness that it offers little (nothing?) else--- so that the camp itself soon loses its edge this is exactly what didn't happen in pulp fiction, which had a little bit of everything for everyone so that you can read in multiple ways. but this one is a one-trick pony at halftime, which is when i stopped. but yeah i'll finish it... maybe... |
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i used to dislike ferris more because of his apparent sociopathy. but after rewatches at different ages i realized that he's totally necessary for cameron not to be crushed under the weight of everything that's been loaded upon him. on his own he'd be a monster, but as counterbalance to his depressed and joyless friend he's a necessary evil/not evil. fucking high school was a prison. i went bananas much later. |
When Boondock Saints came out everyone I knew was sucking it's limp dick, and I fucking found that shit so BORING. That movie sucks so fucking much.
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I saw a documentary with John Hughes where he says he had to be really careful casting for Ferris because of how easy it would be for audiences to lose sympathy for a character like that. Matthew Broderick just about manages to pull it off but even so, I LOVE Cameron's character. There's a weird theory going around that actually Ferris is only a figment of Cameron's imagination. It doesn't quite work in terms of the film itself but it's still a nice idea that, with a few script adjustments, could've made perfect sense. Also nice is that Hollywood never tried to turn it into a franchise or attempt a remake (so far at least). |
oh those "figment" theories, yeah... no, those are misunderstandings about how art works. if fiction is a poetic interpretation of reality then they're obviously all figments of the writer's imagination and that's that. this is not fight club. if one is a figment then both are. and yeah i see it that way.
so yeah i realize i'm psychologizing the characters rather than giving them a full personal reality, but i don't think it's the same sort of crime as trying to invent some hidden plot. i think a psychological reading is valid here. i never liked cameron, he seemed to me a huge killjoy, but at the same time for me (for me at a personal level, i'm not claiming that this is the key to the whole thing) the central moment of the move is when they're at the art museum and he sees the seurat painting and realizes how it works. and how it all works, in a way, that reality is an illusion constructed by our senses and interpretation. that for me is the greatest moment of the whole thing. so while ferris is good at manipulation those illusions, and cameron is oppressed by them, cameron learns something from it and eventually "wakes up." i only like him at the end, once he's "cured" or whatever, of his terrible funk. but before that-- man, i wanted to kick him on the head. it's neither one nor the other that i like, it's the combination of both that clicks for me. same thing btw with the sister-- she's a more extreme form of killjoy and resentment that eventually finds her match/complement in charlie sheen at the police station and also finds her own balance, or what do you call that. she's cool at the end. the teacher though haaaa haaaa haaaa haaaa haaaa haaaaa fuck him. |
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Not sure I get what you're saying there. Fight Club was a figment of its creator's imagination. That doesn't mean that because Tyler Durden doesn't exist then none of the others do. Unless you're arguing that they're all just characters in a movie and not actual people, in which case yeah, obviously. But even then we can stlll have illusions within illusions. Bottom line though, I don't think this theory reflects what John Hughes was doing (not that we'll ever know for sure now). I just think it's a fun way of watching the film. Most of these imaginary interpretations of Hollywood films (like the Back to the Future-9/11 one) are just bullshit that really add nothing to the movie but the 'imaginary Ferris' one is pretty cool, even if personally I don't buy it. |
HARD BOILED baby. John Woo!! I remember first watching this at the art house theater and being blown away by how the bad guys shot cop[s right and left, shot innocents, killed sick people in the hospital, brutal. in 1992 Hollywood bad guys were not allowed to be so "evil."
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but i do see that this fanfic reading comes from looking at ferris as how cameron would like to be: loved by his parents, free to do as he likes, etc. sure, ferris could be seen as an "imaginary" friend, alter ego, jungian shadow, etc. what im saying though is that the reason that it fits this explanation is because they're meant to be that way, a complimentary pair, just like the sister and teh charlie sheen character-- created by the writer's imagination. so of course the features that make this possible are there--but it's because they're imaginary creations that are meant to fit each other in a fiction, not because cameron in the story suffers from dissociation and hallucinations. it's kinda like saying that superman is a dream of lex luthor and romeo was invented by a kooky suicidal juliet. i mean, sure, "it could be". but no. the locus of invention was elsewhere. then again, don quijote might have invented sancho. or maybe it was the other way around. |
I Ferris Bueller was black/hispanic he would have been killed/incarcerated by 10 AM.
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besides, the only real reason to watch Ferris Bueller is to see Richard Edson joyride in Cameron's dad's sweet car.
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ha ha ha! yes he'd be labeled a "thug" and shot while his hands were up and one of the reasons i disliked him before was because of his race and class privilege. but now.. i see him as just a kid trying to GTFO of the edu-prison to which he's been confined. i don't blame him. use everything you've got. o man i hated high school so much. college was awesome though. |
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Shitty drinking game: take a swig every time someone gets shot. No will be conscious after five minutes. Dude! When he's in the kitchen! Rolls over flour, shoots bad guy in the head, gets his white face splattered with blood, then spits out his toothpick! Love that part. |
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Oh my god it's so bad. It's so poorly done and kitschy and deliberately culty but in all the wrong ways. I was expecting to see Pulp Fiction as directed by Sam Raimi and instead it was just shit directed by an arsehole. Embarrassingly bad. And actually quite offensive. That "lesbian" scene makes me sick. Says a lot about the director that he wanted us to sympathize with the main characters. He's probably never been laid in his life and is projecting his insecurities all over the world like so much jizz backed up over a wasted lifetime. I used to hear people talk about Boondocks Saints in the context of Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, and even Fargo... between bong hits that is, and while peering though dreadlocks in dorm rooms.... but those people were idiots and the movie is shit times a billion. The shittiest shit ever shat. |
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Fun fact.. Under the Skin was directed by the dude who directed Radiohead's "Karma Police" video. Jonathan Glazer. Yup yup! I think that either he (Glazer) or Dennis Villeneuve, would both be well-suited to direct a Batman film that, y'know, isn't shit. Like, if that ever becomes something D.C./Warner Bros. is interested in making again. After the Batfleck goes the way of the rubber-nippled Bat-Clooney. Baha! |
just finished watching STARLET
slow moody indie film featuring ernest hemingway's granddauther dree (daughter of mariel) who plays a san fernando valley pornetta who meets a very old lady (without enormous wings) at a yard sale and then... ha ha that isn't much of a premise, i know, but it turned out to be a nice flick in a "white people indie" kind of way. nice photography/palette, a bit of nothing happens, dree hemingway is easy on the eye, the porn is disturbing but does fit the story. tldr; i liked it okay |
![]() Red Dawn In which Patrick Swayze, Emilio Estevez and some other high schoolers take on and (obviously) defeat a Soviet invasion of Colorado. It's sort of like a South Park episode but played totally straight. I have a bit of a soft spot for self proclaimed 'zen fascist' John Milius. As absurd as his films invariably are they're utterly unique. I'm curious to see the recent remake but I doubt that it'll be anywhere near as out-there as the original. ![]() |
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It's been eons since I've seen the original, but the remake is utterly generic and, for some fucking reason, very self-serious. You'd think this movie would best work as a sort of knowingly comedic thing like ... I don't know, the Addams Family or Brady Bunch movies. But no... it's super dramatic and predictably "high-octane" bullshit. I didn't even finish it. It's weird to me that you feel like you have to explain the plot of Red Dawn. I was under the impression that this was a cult classic for the snarks among us, and the stuff of biblical legend for rural survivalists and militia members. |
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it's from the 80s, at the height of the red/nuclear scare-- war games, the day after, etc. militaristic shit shifted from ww2 stuff to the then-present like top gun. rah rah america people really were afraid they'd die in a mushroom cloud or from radiation poisoning. not like in the 60s when they'd tell you to hide under a desk, but this time you knew you'd be obliterated by ICBMs. no need for cuba. there was also the neutron bomb (see: repo man), and ronnie raygun wanted star wars. the soviets were in afghanistan. a kgb man became soviet prime minister. the soviet union was crumbling from within, but they didn't want you to know that-- they wanted you to be scared of the "evil empire" instead. 9/11 type "terrorism" doesn't hold a candle to the existential dread of the 80s and gorbachev came as a huuuuuuuuuge relief incidentally, i'm watching season 5 of "the americans" on tv which illustrates much of this |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about John Milius in his autobiography a bit. Then guy was clearly mental in one way or another. |
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Yeah, I suppose it has less of a cult following, or any following at all, really, in Britain. Even those here in sympathy with its politics would inevitably look for a British equivalent, although even then I can't think of anything that would really fit the bill. Maybe a vigilante film like Harry Brown but it's not quite the same thing. |
Green Room, pretty good, too bad about Anton, what a loss, fucking Chrysler products anyways. Macon Blair very good in it, Captain Picard is a NASTI NAZI and Amber is bad-ass in it. Recco's
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I really liked this one up until the end, at which point I was kind of like, "Uh. Ok." Patrick Stewart is sooo much cooler than the X-Men films would have you believe. He's a damn good actor with splendid range. Ever see his likeness/voice acting on American Dad? Dude is genuinely fucking funny, with great timing. Yes I like American Dad. Family Guy I tolerate because it makes me laugh sometimes despite its soullessness, but American Dad is dope. Good movie, Green Room. Nice and refreshing for the horror genre. |
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I remember a bit of this, though I was pretty young. But I do recall "red scare" topical plot lines taking over a lot of cinema. Like Rocky IV or Superman IV -- not rife with Cold War analogies. Not very subtle in Rocky's case... more like a blunt force blow to the head. |
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ha! i just watched harry brown the other day dirty harry half a century later and in another continent i liked it though, for an action film WAIT red dawn is a walter sobchak film?? holy shit!! |
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That film really depressed me. I wasn't around San Francisco in the 70s but Dirty Harry seemed far more removed from reality than some of the scenes in Harry Brown. |
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like, the russians were faithfully following the arms reduction treaties but ronnie ratcheded up the rhetoric + armament production and the country & the media followed and/or responded with demonizations (not that the soviets were saints, but... ) turns out after the cold war ended it came out that we had gotten so good at spying on them it was easy to predict their demise but politicians work through fear. especially the right wing ones. |
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Fuck, with Michael Caine? Damn, I really want to watch that, but not if it's depressing. :( |
Sev I don't remember did you see Logan yet?
Anyway didn't know the Under The Skin Karma Police connection, but it adds up. |
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a bit like clockwork orange but updated (that kind of neighborhood) it's a sad movie though but it has also its satisfactions plus that pretty girl who looks a bit like a puppet what's her name emily mortimer who was in the newsroom with the same accent it's watchable. it's not a masterpiece. it's an action movie mostly-- geezer action movie not like the disposables or what is their name. more serious. but also eh fantastic. dirty harry at 85. |
The best description I can think of is Death Wish meets Nil By Mouth
Anyway, far less depressing, I just rewatched: ![]() Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift I love the 1st few films in this franchise, when it was basically just about racing. This isn't my favourite of those ones but it has Han, easily the coolest character in the series. ![]() [ |
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I cannot believe this is still a thing. It boggles my mind. They just released film number FUCKING EIGHT. And apparently films NINE AND TEN are already a go. What (as the kids say) the actual fuck. |
Hell or High Water. West Texas bank robberies. Not bad, but Jeff Bridges, damn he was awful in it.
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