forgetting sarah marshall
it was definatly a fun movie

7/10


6/10

Funny stuff.

fun fact: i actually saw snakes on a plane on a plane.

Were people scared??

I hope not, because that movie sicked balls.

horrible...
the movie
plus extra shit bonus for seeing it on a plane

haha... i guess i should add that it was on a small screen on the seat in front of me... and it was voluntary... on pacific flights, everybody gets their own tvs. so i was probably the only person watching it. and i was a little drunk and without sleep for a night, so that helped. it did still suck though

Ohhh yeah, I know the TVs you're talking about.

I watched Juno and Pleasantville when I was on a plane. Also, some BBC news.

Juno, by the way, wasn't as good and funny as I thought it would be.

Pleasantville never disappoints.

The honey and I went to Burn After Reading this weekend. Terrible.

my friend is a superfan of this.

I love this poster, I was a big fan when I was younger of the old trilogy.
and empire strikes back is the best of whole saga. from new trilogy
only attack of the clones speaks to me. rest is just meh.

ohnoh!
wanted to go and watch that next weekend...

I thought that movie was pretty hilarious. Of course beer helps, but still.

The preview trailer makes the movie look so good. But we were hugely disappointed. You know how Coen movies usually seem packed with stuff, full of twists, and sort of dense. This was like Coen brothers-lite. Let me put it this way--the one hour episode of Burn Notice on the USA channel I saw the night before was better written and more entertaining.

It has some bright moments, but not enough to add up to much of a movie.

At the same time, I've heard other people say they really like it. So go anyway and see what you think.

3:10 To Yuma - it surprised the hell out of me.


a guy from Australia and a guy from England playing cowboys - who woulda thunk that it'd be good.

^^ i was watching 3:10 to yuma and i got bored halfway.

i know a bunch of people who worked on it hee hee. i will not tell them this.

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i also was watching ichi the killer & i got bored after 1 hour. 2 hours long! who needs more gratuitous torture? but the cinematography was alright.

is miike the japanese guy ritchie? ha ha ha. (by this i mean "weak story, gimmicky films")

I watched Cloverfield.

It was so-so. Perhaps better on the big screen.

Cloverfield was pretty much Blair witch in the big city...

Last night, I watched:

thought it was really great, Malcolm Macdowell was fantastic.

v_a: Sums it up pretty well.

It was an entertaining enough 80 minutes.

I was disappointed at how much of a conventional monster film it was. All that made it different was the Blair Witch touch.

jimbrim: it's rare that Malcolm McDowell isn't fantastic.

I've never seen this but really want to check it out.

Re: Miike. He is kinda tough to categorize. He has a lot of straightforward films that he does to pay the bills and then he definitely gets oddly gimmicky. I personally love Ichi the Killer. There are some interesting changes that Kakihara goes through. I think that most people miss the point that it's comedy. My favorite Miike film is still pretty easily The Great Yokai War:

i actually like kakihara a lot as a character. it's that the other characters are not as interesing, and the middle of the movie is moving very slowly, and ichi himself gets on my balls ha ha. and then i don't understand 100% what is going on (watching in japanese w/ subtitles). in any case i'll finish watching & consider. another hour to go! :o

yeah, but better :D

10/10

incredible film. cinematography is A+. it has wonder/magic in it and Ana Torrent is the best child actor (and most adorable kid) i've ever seen.

I liked Clover, but prefer Blair.

I highly recommend you do.

Not a film, but I'm working my way through the three series of Black Books at the moment.

Rarely laugh-at-loud funny, but funny enough.

8/10

Also, regarding Miike, most of his films suck. I've seen every single one released in America and a few not released here. He has so many brilliant ideas in each film but most of his films are overlong and just a mess, overall (even though my personal favorite Miike film is one of his bigger messes actually). Even the films where he tries to cram in as many brilliant ideas as possible -- like Gozu -- aren't that great! I love Ichi the Killer, it's brilliant, and it's not nearly as violent or as crazy as most people make it sound... which is probably why I like it... the violence kind of comes out of nowhere. Great acting by Shinya Tsukamoto and Tadanobo Asano. Also, love how Ichi is brainwashed into associating violence with pleasure.

My Miike top 10:

1. Izo
2. Dead or Alive 2
3. Happiness of the Katakuris
4. Visitor Q
5. Deadly Outlaw Rekah
6. "Box" segment from 3... Extremes
7. Zebraman
8. Great Yokai War
9. Dead or Alive
10. Fudoh

la régle du jeu - fucking awesome, i thoroughly enjoyed this.

8.5/10 very well done

very nice

fun! not as fun as the movies, but eh, it's fucking cartoons!

kikujiro - 7/10

Exactly what you'd expect of a takeshi kitano family film.

1. I love horror.
2. I hate Miike.

You hate Miike eh? What does that have to do with horror anyway? Miike's not a horror director (despite having that shitty episode on Masters of Horror, which is just a terrible show period)... But I'm curious as to how many films you've seen by him then, considering he has somewhere in the range of 80 films.

I don't really like Audition or One Missed Call, and I find Gozu and Ichi the Killer decent. And most of his other films I can take or leave, but the 10 I listed above great.

But yeah, Izo is an amazing psychadelic samurai journey, the Dead or Alive series is a surreal yakuza epic with rocket launchers and robots, Happiness of the Katakuris is a family film with claymation and zombies and singing/dancing, etc. He's actually got a lot of great stuff. He just needs to be a better self-editor.