Just been watching random episodes from all 21 seasons of the Simpsons.

rewatched
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to live and die in la - 10/10

gettin' red



had seen this a while back, easy 10/10. just prank phone calls.

What'd you think?

Your sense of humor is unparalleled, Doc. :p

The Samurai Trilogy is really good. Toshiro Mifune for me is the best samurai. These movies are not a collection of action scenes like you'd probobly get in a movie like this nowadays. Its more about an inner journey that the character Musashi takes. As a trilogy of films I think this just as good as some of the other famous film trilogies. Not say its better but saying its one people should watch. Plus its great finding good samurai movies from the 50's that are not just Kurosawa. There seemed to have been a lot of directors making similar films during the 50's and 60's that get overlooked such as "Sword of Doom" and "Hara Kari" which I highly reccomend if you haven't seen them. I do need to see "Samurai Rebellion" though. Probobly see that soon.

It was an 8/10 for me.

EDIT: I hadn't read that post:

sink or swim - 6/10


floating weeds - 8/10

a-p a. niemi has been on a good movie run recently. Kudos to you.

Just borrowed El Topo and The Holy Mountain from a friend. I'll be back in this thread after I watch.

Simply epic.

Pistol Opera -- a 10/10 film from the director of 11/10 classic BRANDED TO KILL -- is online for free to watch at Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/86265/pistol-opera ..

enjoy!

anyway




factory girl - 5/10




affliction - 8/10




IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL... Amazing documentary you all have to see on outsider artist/novelist/etc Henry Darger, who created a 15000 page novel (single spaced, with a small font.. haha.. with hundreds and hundreds of drawings to accompany/illustrate the novel) and wrote long journal entries/made a weather diary on every single day of his life after a certain point. One of the most exciting, fascinating, insane stories ever. Read up on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger




In the middle of this right now


CLAIRE'S KNEE by Eric Rohmer; so far, it's absolutely amazing.

I also FINALLY got a perfect quality dvd rip of VIOLENT COP -- the widely released one is way way way too dark; this one is crystal clear.

BTW, since we've been talking about BROKEN FLOWERS lately, it's weird I came across this today:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/liv...tolen_flowers/

about how Jarmusch was accused of stealing some guy's script. Fascinating stuff... this quote kinda troubles me: "There were differences, to be sure, but there were also more than enough similarities to convince Martin that he'd been wronged." So, what's left after the changes? He said he came up with the plot and the characters... but since the script is a very very simple story, one that's been told many times before, and this movie is more about the look, the feel, the pacing, the music, and so on, rather than some groundbreaking, inventive script... I can sorta see why the judge didn't sympathize with the original writer.. also, since it is such a simple little story, I do find it a bit hard to believe that the writer "slaved over" the script (on the other hand, Jarmusch brags he did the whole script in 2 weeks.. weird).

Still, it's not surprising, I'm sure this kinda thing happens all the time.

can't believe I'll be saying this but in an hour I'll be watching TETSUO 3 in an hour

"Mother", cool fucked up flick.

Not too original plot-wise but the interesting animation makes it worth checking out. I enjoyed it.

Whoa, that film looks badass, and I generally like anything involving Gallo, so I'm getting that right now, thanks for the tip!

Fell asleep during Tetsuo, so I'll get back to you guys on that one.

tetsuo 3 - 5/10

Well, I just got done with it, and I don't really know what to think. It was certainly a well-made film, way more entertaining than those Nightmare Detective films, and I think I even like it better than Haze... but I dunno. It just didn't feel quite right -- I can't put my finger on it, exactly, but it just felt like something was missing. I found parts of it enjoyable and was glad it was only a little over an hour long; it was certainly strange and fucked-up and so on. The acting was hilariously bad yet really enjoyable (in a very very awkward way). I tried to keep an open mind about it and approach it as if I'd never seen another Tetsuo movie before, and tried to form an opinion based on its own merits.. but man, the previous two films, in my opinion, just blow this thing out of the water in almost every way, so I couldn't help but feel disappointed. I will say that I was surprised at how decent the effects looked (I'd read that the makeup was horrible, but it actually looked impressive), and Tsukamoto certainly got some interesting looking stuff with his HD camera.

I guess I felt the whole thing was sorta silly, and there are all sorts of homages to the other Tetsuo films -- and those are the best part of this film. So, really, I didn't feel that it brought anything new to the table, and it kinda felt unnecessary. But, really, I don't mean to be harsh: it was actually a really fun timewaster, and if any other person had made this movie, it would be regarded as a new, exciting, visually explosive technical masterpiece. It's just, again, that Tsukamoto has already made two Tetsuo films -- and some other great films, to boot -- and this didn't really live up to my expectations, as a fan, which isn't Tsukamoto's fault I guess. I just felt that, perhaps, shooting it in America wasn't the best idea -- Tsukamoto's overdubbed lines and all the American actors, again, jsut felt silly and completely ridiculous; as ridiculous as the Tetsuo films were before, I still managed to take them somewhat seriously. A drill dick is honestly kinda disturbing, no matter how you slice it, even if it's silly. I laughed through most of this film.

Part of me knows it's completely disappointing in every way, but most of me is just glad they kept it short and not completely embarassing.

Watched El Topo.

It was pretty awesome, silly at times, visually fun, and pretty fucking powerful at others.

I wish I could have seen it in it's day, as my generation is kind of used to some of the things that would have made it even more shocking...

Holy Mountain tomorrow.

I'd easily give both of those films 11/10. They're 30+ years old a piece and still feel so fresh, unique, energetic, visually explosive.. so much more so than 99% of films coming out nowadays.