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....