son of rambow looks amazing.

hana-bi/fireworks - 10/10

OH MAN I WANNA SEE THAT!!!!!


meanwhile im gonna watch the rest of ichi the killer that ive been procrastinating. ugh, feels like a chore!

Haha, yeah, see Fireworks!

Ichi's okay, but Miike's not even in my top 10 favorite Japanese film makers. He's just too damn inconsistent.




Takeshi Kitano, on the other hand, is my new favorite director and actor and writer and whatever else he does. I've only seen 4 of his movies but they've all been brilliant for completely different reasons...

...specifically the movie "Fireworks", which I just watched. Imagine a Charles Bronson "Death Wish" kind of movie that is devoid of any excess, trimmed of any fat, and instead focusing on only impulse, energy, beauty, and violence. Instead of excessive "character development" or boring plots with ridiculous twists, there are scenes of characters sitting around, deep in thought... and there are scenes showing us nothing but the beauty of the ocean or of dead flowers... Very slow and almost completely devoid of dialogue or action, things only happen when it's necessary for them to happen. There is one scene where a guy gets a pencil jammed in his eye, and it seriously lasts about 5 millaseconds. The version I saw isn't cut or anything -- it really lasts that long. Quick bursts of extreme and cruel violence offset by a very minimal but beautiful plot dealing with loss, redemption, death, and whatever else. Bizarre and unexpected humor and a main character (and his wife) who barely say more than 5 sentences the whole film. One of the best films I've ever seen!!! Blew my mind. It has everything I look for in a movie.

i LOOOOVE kitano's movies-- zatoichi, brother, dolls, even violent cop, which is kinda cheaply made. fireworks i haven't seen yet.

im actually making my eyes blurry for your review so i don't accidentally read any potential spoilers, ha ha ha. but im putting it on the top of my netflix queue!

Of the ones I've seen, VIOLENT COP is amazing... Kikijiro is a great avant-garde family film he did... and Takeshis' is very weird and awesome. I'm queueing all the rest.

Be careful, when I queued FIREWORKS on netflix, they sent me some weird disc called FIREWORKS! that was just a DVD of fireworks going off... I know it wasn't a mistake on my part, because I was queueing all Kitano movies at the same time off of his director page. They just sent me the wrong movie... so I said fuck it and just ordered a copy instead.

yeah-- i just added it. netflix predicts i'm gonna give it 5 stars-- fucking netflix knows me ha ha ha ha.

Hahah.

I am getting 8 films at a time from netflix now...

damn! i'm on 4 right now. i used to be on 8 at a time when i lived in this hellhole town.

by the way man, i recently bough a ROKU box. it's fucking AWESOME. all their downloadable movies pumped to your tv, for a one-time payment. LOVE IT.

WHAT!!!!

That's amazing.

My friend has netflix on his laptop that's hooked up to a projector and we watch cheesy streaming 80's action films on a fucking (small) THEATER SCREEN he has at his house with 4 HUGE speakers (one in every corner of the room) playing the sound. The most ridiculous setup ever to watch "Cobra" and "Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot".

But we watch good movies on it occassionally.

yeah. it's $100 for the box, $15 or $20 for the shipping.

it hooks up to your internet either wirelessly or via wire, and it hooks up to your tv/projector/whatever via rca or s-video or component or hdmi.

then it goes into the internet & reads your instant queue and displays it. it's very fucking simple. i fucking love it. no commercials whatsoever. it fucking rules.

of course they don't have EVERYTHING on download, but i foresee that more and more their service is going to end up being 100% online-- i mean, who the fuck wants to wait for a dvd in the mail when you can watch shit on instant demand?

That's amazing.... I may have to check into that when things slow down around here, haha..

yeah. enjoy:

http://www.roku.com/

how was it ✌➬ ?

Really good, I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

yep, it's smart, funny, ironic.

oh yeah, down by law rules too, have you enjoyed this movie?

roberto benigni with his talking is very funny :D

'I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream' if I remember it well.

I LOVE this movie. Tom Waits is cool as always. Roberto made it though.

so many great movies on this page.
i loved fireworks. much more than violent cop. i also saw brother wich was great. kitano is the #1 badass in my book. and he is probably the #1 anti hero. youy alkways root for him even though he is this horrible unpredictable pysocopath. and yet he has a very lovable personality.
house on the haunted hill and down by law are also fantastic movies.

closer.

I liked it a fair bit. It was funny and cute.

what you think? my g/f loved this movie and wants em to watch it but I could give a flying fuck about these people and their bullshit personal lives.

@Rob: I think it's a good movie, Natalie Portman as a whore in night club, is looking very good :p story is little (but very little) complicated, and they just exchange they girls, sex, egoism, love, happiness, lonliness in relationships - this is what is all about. watch it, you won't be bored.

I've watched it for the second time, so you know.

thanks for the description. it sounds exactkly like the kind of movie I cannot stand watching. sorry. I will be avoiding it like the plague.

I cannot stand movies about people's personal romantic problems. I could care less about ANYone's "girls, sex, egoism, love, happiness, lonliness in relationships "

soap opera

well sometimes I like this kind of movies :p

my fav movies for now are :

Pi, The Fountain, Mulholland Drive, Vanilla Sky, Trainspotting, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Scanner Darkly, Big Lebowski, Heat, Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Lost In Translation, The Darjeeling Limited

I am down with all these movies except for the mulhollan drive
I saw it twice, each time left me like I had been forced to endure a three hours Jonas Bros concert while watching carrot Top fuck my dream girl Kim Karadashian.

Mulholland Drive is genius.


my favorite movies are:

taxi driver, el topo, hana-bi, blow out, videodrome, the holy mountain, izo, wild at heart, tetsuo: the iron man, pinnochio 964, strange circus, visions of suffering, once uon a time in the west, organ, deep red, the gates of hell, maniac, tenebre, the dead zone, tokyo fist, death powder, body double, mulholland drive, rampo noir

My favorite movies are

Dead Man, Fear & Loathing in las Vegas, Bridge on River Kwai, Good The Bad & The Ugly, Jacob's Ladder, Glengarry Glenn Ross, Up In Smoke, Manchurian Candidate (original), Fifth Element, This is Spinal Tap, The Maltese Falcon, Fargo, Big Lebowski, Dune.

My favourite movies would probably look something like atsonicpark's.

yes I agree. atsonicparks list is pretty good

gmku's list:

The Graduate
Notorious
North by Northwest
Casino Royale
the first Mission Impossible movie
Vanilla Sky
Groundhog Day
Bottle Rocket
Blow Up
Gimme Shelter
2001: A Space Odyssey
Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Eyes Wide Shut
A Scanner Darkly
Waking Life
The Conversation
Apocalypse Now
Cabaret
Fargo
The Maltese Falcon
Pulp Fiction
Lost in Translation
Blade Runner
Several Kitano movies that I'm not sure the names of
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
Max
12 Monkeys
Charlies Angels
Lolita (the original)
No Country for Old Men
Kill Bill (1 & 2)
Last Tango in Paris
Casablanca
Rebel Without A Cause

clint is baller.

7/10

hmmm, fave movies list is tough... some definite ones :

Taxi Driver
There Will Be Blood
City of God
Lost in Translation
The Royal Tenenbaums
Big Lebowski
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Life Aquatic
Gattaca
The Passion of the Christ
Pulp Fiction
Gangs of New York
The Godfather
Apocolypse Now : Redux
8 1/2
La Dolce Vita
Last Tango in Paris
Casablanca

likely on the list:
The Thing
Videodrome
A History of Violence
Inland Empire
Silence of the Lambs
Kill Bill 1/2
The Spirit of the Beehive
Spinal Tap
The Virgin Spring
Fight Club
Easy Rider
Chinatown
Blue Velvet
Dark City
Minority Report
Badlands
Ed Wood
Fear and Loathing
No Country for Old Men
The Thin Red Line
The Dark Knight
Adaptation
Being John Malkovich
Finding Neverland

some old faves that i have seen many times and should be mentioned just because of sentimental reasons:
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
A League of Their Own
Jurassic Park
The Matrix
Truman Show
Gladiator

Oh yeah! Last Tango! How could I forget about that one.

I also forgot about Rebel Without a Cause!!! Rebel's probably up in my top 10 somewhere.

and I forgot about LA Confidential... definitely on my definites list

seen that gmku? based on your tastes, i would highly recommend it to you, but i'm sure you've seen it before

I saw it once and remember liking it. But I can't remember it well. I'll have to re-watch.

i think it might be my favorite noir... even though it was made in the 90s... all apologies to Hitchcock and Bogey and John Huston... Chinatown is a close 2nd