four hours, 63 songs, $15. Thank you Tower Records for being forced to lower all your prices so significantly. This is wonderful.

Yes it is.




Saw the first hour of this - twice - while stuck on a plane for 12 hours, trying to get back home to Chicago last Friday. It was better than I expected. I'd love to see how it turns out sometime.

Plotwise - it's exactly the same. But stylistically, it's incredible. There's a sense of manic humor added to the whole thing which really pushes the sequel into a more "psychedelic Python-esque" direction. You're gonna love it.

Yeah, it's a classic.
If you get a chance listen to the commentary from Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. They're great because they don't take themselves seriously at all, and point out a bunch of mistakes, little anecdotes, etc.

And, if you're going that way, then read the first installment in Bruce Campbell's memoirs. The stories from the Evil Dead and Evil Dead II movies are hysterical.

So French!

I'd love to give Ron Howard a pass simply based on the Arrested Development goodwill, but the guy's a miserable hack. Hanks is fairly lousy in a mostly thankless role, though Audrey Tatou is surprisingly charming in English. Still, this is a plodding, remarkably boring, and relentlessly murky-though-milquetoast ride.

Pain meds no help, huh?

the ice harvest

well, well, well.. isn't this a funny comedy-not. Sure Oliver Platt plays a good drunk but I've seen him do more with better material and the idea that the running time for this was 88 minutes certainly does raise a couple questions in my mind. I'm not familiar with the book but it doesn't seem to me like Benton & Russo are apt to writing a shorter script on purpose. I sense there was more here but it just wasn't 'funny' so they cut it out perhaps? No ones performance was particularly bad but this just sort of went along the parameters of yer average modern noir. btw. is there really a mob in Wichitaw?

So I didn't like this anywhere near as much as I liked The Grand Illusion. Shame.

...Well, I just haven't had any time for a full-length movie these days. Altho I did finally get to see Cars and the Prestige.

Craptastic!

Scene after scene of nothing but expository dialogue

I'm thinking of seeing 49 Up...wondering if it takes to much away from the film if you haven't already seen the prequels?? Has anyone seen the whole series?

Mindfuck madness. Pretty unwatchable.
Although Crispin Glover presented his "Big Slide Show" in person, which made the evening a bit more worthwhile.


Surprisingly entertaining. I didn't enjoy Guest's last film too much.

I stayed up 'til 4 am Saturday night watching Rollerball on TV for no apparent reason.



WTF

Yeah, Evil Dead 2 is my favorite installment of the Evil Dead trilogy. It meshes horror and comedy so flawlessly toegether that it makes for a solid flick.

and yeah, definitely watch the commentaries. they are hilarious just because Campbell and Raimi will just laugh at each other and their shortcomings. It's like a seperate movie in itself.


WTF indeed.




this thread reminds me I want to sign up for Netflix.

I gave in last night (I hate buying DVDs) and bought The Constant Gardener, on Amazon. I'm so excited to watch it every night before going to bed and wrap myself in a soft blanket of white guilt. Okay that's all.

Movie takes place in the late 50's in which an acting troupe go to a small village and get "stuck" there. Not much action but the story and the way it is filmed is beautiful. This would be the 3rd Ozu film I have seen and I consider him a master of emotion for the screen. I would also Highly reccomend "Good Morning".

Things that have changed my life: (1) TIVO. (2) Directv. (3) Netflix.

Changed how, belt size?

Probably that too, but I meant in terms of freeing me up to do other things by not having to worry about (a) being home for a tv show, (b) having access to more quality programs, and © not having to watch a rented video asap and immediately run back to the video store.

All the above are true. Worse for me though is the collective lazy man's 'record it now to watch later' aspect of it. I've filled nearly the entire capacity of my hard drive with flicks & programs that I've yet to watch. It tends to instill this new necessity to hold onto these and adds this additional pressure to watch them.

Bizarrely enough, I caught maybe the last 30 minutes of a doc about Minnesota slo-core band Low last night on Starz. WTF? In any event, they're great and all but the film not so much.

I love the original Rollerball. It's slow, and has way too much of that 70's zoom lens effect, but I still love the film. Who knew you could combine Orwellian politics with absurd sporting events?

Just re-watched:


Better than I remembered.


Worse than I remembered.

It's bizarrely fascinating, in a low-rent Kubrick kind of way. That scene with the black tie ball meets swinger party is like Eyes Wide Shut filmed on the set of AI starring the cast of an upscale '70s porno. Glorious!

I wouldn't mind seeing it again now that I've read the plot synopsis. Missing the first few minutes of it and trying to piece together the plot at 4 am really fucked with my brain.

That's true for me, too. Even after I've watched a program and think, "hey, that was pretty good," I'm hesitant to delete it. After reading your post, though, I'm challenging myself to delete the entire hard drive.

for your amusement, I'll try to jot down the details of my queue. we'll see if anyone can advise me on which to view/purge first.

The original short story was better, but the movie convinced me & my friends to try to recreate it with Bicycles, Bacci Balls, and Baseball Gloves. It was also part of the idea kernel, along with The Warriors and Road Warrior,for BasketBrawl, the favorite game of my High School.

I'd seen the first half of this at least three times on TV (Comedy Central used to show it Saturdays at midnight sometimes, maybe they still do) but was never able to stay awake for the second half. But I thought it was hilarious so I really can't imagine why I never made it all the way through. Watching it without commercials, obviously, remedies this problem.

Watching him say goodbye to his friends at the end, and then finally getting to heaven... it kind of choked me up a little.




"I called you because I wanted you to be present."

Who Killed The Electric Car?

Before yesterday, I didn't think I could dislike politicians, the oil companies and car companies any more than I already did. Boy was I wrong.

Buy it
Rent it
Wait for cable
Read a book

The above is my copyrighted new rating system for movies.

One outta two ain't bad.

Forbidden Planet is still a great movie. Monsters from the id.

I like this slightly less than the first Evil Dead. Still, the blood pouring out of the wall followed by the extended fit of maniacal laughter between Ash and various pieces of furniture was fucking awesome.

I'll watch it with the commentary track tonight.

I show all the Mr. Mackey scenes, including the "don't swear" song, on the first night of the school counseling classes I teach. It's part of a "media portrayals of school counselors" research project I'm working on.

GOOD SHIT.

This was really, really good. Highly recommended.

I've been watching the Discovery Times special today on outlaws. Pretty interesting, if a little repetitive, among the various shows.

I remember ElemenoPT being big on this too. Thanks for the reminder--I'm adding it to the queue.

Add me to the group. It was on my top 10 that year.

This was fucking awesome. Seriously. I laughed. A lot. And after it ended, I just couldn't stop smiling. If you're a long-time fan of the D, do not even think of passing this up. If you're not, then you might think it's just stupid. But it isn't. Eh???



I like how Tim Robbins went to see The Bicycle Thief. Since I watched that last night. I felt special during that scene.

Black Mama White Mama
If you like 70's Blackploitation and/or women in prison movies, then this is the movie for you!
Get a couple of friends have some beers and enjoy the weak script and bad editing.

Rent it!

The scenes with Brando are spectacular. They only cut him out to save money. Geez, studios! Anyway, as a movie I don't think "The Donner Cut" works. There's just too much that is incomplete; but if you are a fan, I'd rent it just to see the Brando stuff. Also, I should note that Margot Kidder is quite fetching in the Donner scenes and a lot spunkier.

Fantastic. Edward G Robinson steals every scene he's in

what a coincedence, this just arrived at my house yesterday. Looking forward to watching it.


Clerks II

I laughed outloud a lot. If you're a fan of Kevin Smith's movies you'll really like. If you aren't a fan, but you like a good donkey show then this is your movie.

The bit w/Wanda Sykes is especially funny, in light of recent events w/Michael Richards.

The scene w/Rosario Dawson dancing to the Jackson 5, damn does she look good.

Smith fan, buy it.
Non-fan, rent it.

i've gotten hooked on Six Feet Under again, now that the reruns are on Bravo. i had never started watching until the final season.

I saw this last night (Sly was there!) and it was awesome. Definitely not movie of the year, but great for what it is... another Rocky movie where he's 55 and fighting. I enjoyed it.

really?!?! honestly, I'm stunned. Rocky I & II are fantastic, after that he lost me.



does Sly look as bad as I think he does?

For some reason, I'm really looking forward to this movie.

He looked fine in real life. In the movie, he looked like an aging boxer, which is how he's supposed to look.

The thing with this movie is that Stallone's not trying to make it seem like he's invincable. He's not hiding the fact that he's 55+, not in the greatest shape, etc. Even the reason that he's fighting is not so much a tough guy thing, but more of "I've got to do this for myself". It's really not a bad film.

Saw the trailer for rocky a week ago at the theatre. It was met with much snickering and laughs. HA! Another one!