well, i mean it wasn't bad.
it's just such a sick and almost unreal situation, especially on the father's side. who the fuck is gonna write a novel based on his daughter's maniacal depression. it's a family relationship taken to the kind of extreme that's kind of hard to relate for myself. and then it all ends up with everyone accepting god and such.
i liked "cries and whispers" much more. i think i prefer bergman's examination of psychology as in "persona" and "cries and whispers" as opposed to family/god relationships like in "through a glass darkly". "wild strawberies" kind of stands in the middle though, i suppose. but it doesn't have much god themes in it.
i'm gonna pick up some more bergman's films from the library tomorrow. i'll see if they have any other films from the "trilogy". and i really want to see "the seventh seal". i think i'm gonna like it.
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I suppose my praise for the film is based on incidents that happened a few days prior watching Through a Glass Darkly. I was a victim of a hit and run accident, and while I was not injured to the point of hospitalization, I did developed some depression. Watching this film brought matters and ideas I've had had for almost my entire life into perspective. The love of a family unifying an idea of a God, kindness I suppose. For the most part, it was seeing my brother in a new state of mind. We hadn't really gotten along in years, and watching him worry about me was as surreal as Karin's fascination towards the stain on the wall.
While Bergman's films might not have specific God themes, they are very present.
While Bergman's films might not have specific God themes, they are very present.
yeah, i suppose i was wrong to suggest that some bergman's films (at least the ones that i saw) are totally void of the notions of god.
Yet another reason why you should only buy a region-free DVD player. I've been waiting a looooong time to see this movie, and it's only available as a German import:
Until the End of the World - Original Director's Cut by Wim Wenders
Wow. I was always intrigued with the American edit, but you can see there are huge gaping sections missing from the story - especially considering they literally chopped the film in half. Yes - the original edit is 5 hours long. So I'll be spreading this one out over a couple of days, I think.
So far, I'm really loving the smooth pacing, the added character development, the story details, the photography - it's just great. Even the performances are more accessible now that the missing scenes explain their personalities.
Until the End of the World - Original Director's Cut by Wim Wenders
Wow. I was always intrigued with the American edit, but you can see there are huge gaping sections missing from the story - especially considering they literally chopped the film in half. Yes - the original edit is 5 hours long. So I'll be spreading this one out over a couple of days, I think.
So far, I'm really loving the smooth pacing, the added character development, the story details, the photography - it's just great. Even the performances are more accessible now that the missing scenes explain their personalities.
Wanna know something Jack? I like a guy who can use his head for something beside a hatrack!
st valentine's day massacre (1967)
eh. I somehow had this idea in my head that William Friedkin directed this but that's 'The Night They Raided Minsky's' and Roger Corman did this flick. it's OK I guess but some of it's just over the top and while that might be for some people's liking. I just thought it made it goofy. Jack Nicholson's cameo was cool. Wish he might have had a line though.
other interesting fact:
The real garage where the massacre took place (2122 N. Clark St, Chicago) was torn down three months after the movie was released.
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st valentine's day massacre (1967)
eh. I somehow had this idea in my head that William Friedkin directed this but ... Roger Corman did this flick.
Heh - that's must've come as a bit of a shock. Ain't nobody like Corman!eh. I somehow had this idea in my head that William Friedkin directed this but ... Roger Corman did this flick.
Paging agrimorfee:
Oskar Fischinger - 10 Films
All I can say is - PHENOMENAL! Ground-breaking work in early animated cinema.
You can see why Dinsey tapped into this guy to design the original visual concepts for Fantasia.
Oskar Fischinger - 10 Films
All I can say is - PHENOMENAL! Ground-breaking work in early animated cinema.
You can see why Dinsey tapped into this guy to design the original visual concepts for Fantasia.
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Thanks for this, I think I've laughed about five times just thinking about it today.
I saw 300 in IMAX last night, and while I thought it was a cool movie, I'm not sure I'd call it a great movie. I certainly wouldn't buy the DVD, but was it worth seeing one time on the big screen? Yeah, I'd say so. Could've done with less poorly-rendered beasts, but eh... I suppose that's nitpicking.
Anywho, this was my first experience seeing a major motion picture in IMAX, and I plan on doing it again with the next monster flick: Spidey 3.
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Until the End of the World - Original Director's Cut by Wim Wenders
Oh wow didn't know this was out there. The movie sucks you into its world, and masticates slowly. Despite watching the American cut in a couple of shifts, I'll need to give this DVD a look.
This was hilarious. Sort of cool to look at, though. I can't take this shit seriously. It felt like I was playing some dumbass video game like "Harvest Moon" or "Conker's Bad Fur Day."
Much better.
"That doesn't sound much like 'Satisfaction.'"
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SO underrated.
Fahrenheit 451
pretty dated and preditable movie it was just alright
lolz at the 60's ideas of future technology
over the weekend:
"white sheik" was ok. amazing how strongly masina's presence was felt in such a short episodic role.
"winter light" was very complicated. i'll definitely need to watch it again, and possibly with somebody else.
"magic flute"
didn't have enough patience for the whole opera.
"white sheik" was ok. amazing how strongly masina's presence was felt in such a short episodic role.
"winter light" was very complicated. i'll definitely need to watch it again, and possibly with somebody else.
"magic flute"
didn't have enough patience for the whole opera.
Casino Royale
some really great moments in this flick, but god damn that poker playing went on for days. I got completely disinterested with the poker and they just barley managed to pull me back in when it go to Venice.
The new Bond is good for the role. I like the idea of restarting the franchise, hopefully the next one will build on the good points of this one.
Hud
Never saw this one before and now I'm mad at myself for not seeing it years ago. Some stellar work from this cast. Everyone should see this movie.
The Slog Movie
Old School West Side LA Punk from '80-'81. I haven't seen most of these bands in 20+ years and this was a like an adrenaline laced trip down a badly alcohol hazed Memory Lane.
God Save the Queen, a Punk Rock Anthology
I'm sorry, but any collection that has "Anthology" in the title isn't Punk Rock. It was nice seeing Johnny Thunders in good shape playing "Born To Lose," and the new version of The Stooges playing "I Wanna be Your Dog," but there's too much mid-'80s-'90s British Crap here (Chelsea, GBH, Toy Dolls, SUBHUMANS) for me to really enjoy this.
It's spring break so I went to the library and rented all three Lord of the Rings movies. I've never seen them, and I've never read any of the books. I tried: found it too dry and tedious, plus a lot of other issues with it I'm not going into.
Okay I'm really really behind on these, and I know they were talked to death about 5 years ago...
But I'm really enjoying the movies. I'm not usually impressed by CGI things, at all, but they really take it to a visually sublime point, like the humanized trees and the battle scenes. I dig epic battle scenes, especially against the totally evil. I can't read Tolkein, but I'm taking smug and giddy pleasure in his grand--somewhat racialized--civilization-oriented view of the world, fictional it may be!
I also know that if I were a Middle Earth being, I would most definately be one of those trees.
On to number 3!
Okay I'm really really behind on these, and I know they were talked to death about 5 years ago...
But I'm really enjoying the movies. I'm not usually impressed by CGI things, at all, but they really take it to a visually sublime point, like the humanized trees and the battle scenes. I dig epic battle scenes, especially against the totally evil. I can't read Tolkein, but I'm taking smug and giddy pleasure in his grand--somewhat racialized--civilization-oriented view of the world, fictional it may be!
I also know that if I were a Middle Earth being, I would most definately be one of those trees.
On to number 3!
The Quiet Family(1998): Finally saw this after being interested in it for a couple of years (Obviously not interested enough to own it but you know...). The story is a family buys a small lodge, gets absolutely no business and when they finally do get a customer, he up and kills himself during the night. At this point, the father of the family makes the decision to bury the body and cover up the death, so as to not ruin the lodge's reputation. If this sounds familiar, that's because it was remade by insane Japanese visionary director Takashi Miike as Happiness of the Katakuris. The Quiet Family is a fun, dark, dark comedy, but I gotta say, I prefer the musical numbers, and out and out insanity of the remake to the stylized, semi-serious original.
Real Fiction (2000): When he is on, Korea's Ki-duk Kim is as exciting of a filmmaker as anyone on the planet. His 3-Iron was as good a movie as I saw in 2005, and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring was a beautiful meditation on life. Real Fiction, though, was plodding and just not very good. It's an experimental movie, filmed in three hours in real-time with 4 cameras and no re-shoots, which sounds exciting. But the story, itself, about a shy artist who goes on a murderous spree of vegeance is, frankly, kind of boring, and not helped by the wooden acting of the lead who, in the right hands, could be quite a captivating role.
Kinda overrated...
Pros:
1. Interesting idea for a story
2. David Morse ruled the screen, seriously - he's awesome here
3. Great makeup on Willis.
Cons:
1. Wayyyyyy too many cliches from just about every cop/buddy/chase movie released in the past 25 years
2. Mos Def could've handled that gig much better if he didn't try so hard
3. Not enough action, and far too many scenes that would just. Stop. To. Watch. Characters. Mope.
Kung Fu Hustle
Waiting for Guffman
L'Enfant (The Child)
Stranger Than Fiction
Rushmore
Waiting for Guffman
L'Enfant (The Child)
Stranger Than Fiction
Rushmore
"I've made a career of playing sons of bitches."
the detective story (1951)
another kirk douglas flick with a superb performance playing a straight and narrow cop who doesn't cut anyone any breaks. this turns out to be his own undoing as he's faced with a dilemma when a case turns out to have more to do with his own personal life than he was aware of.
directed by william wyler and based on a play (which you can see pretty easily as the setting for the most part is staged in one location)
this was also lee grant's first flick too.
additionally, douglas was divorcing his first wife and still harbouring a three pack a day habit.
the detective story (1951)
another kirk douglas flick with a superb performance playing a straight and narrow cop who doesn't cut anyone any breaks. this turns out to be his own undoing as he's faced with a dilemma when a case turns out to have more to do with his own personal life than he was aware of.
directed by william wyler and based on a play (which you can see pretty easily as the setting for the most part is staged in one location)
this was also lee grant's first flick too.
additionally, douglas was divorcing his first wife and still harbouring a three pack a day habit.
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The Slog Movie
Old School West Side LA Punk from '80-'81. I haven't seen most of these bands in 20+ years and this was a like an adrenaline laced trip down a badly alcohol hazed Memory Lane.
Looks like something that I need to see.
Once again, Greg Ginn spoils the party, not allowing Black Flag footage. Seems like he turned into the biggest asshole!
'Zodiac' is real good. Who would have thought David Fincher would be the one to make a throwback 'All the President's Men' style crime procedural. It's a shame it isn't finding an audience though it's not surprising.
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The Slog Movie
Old School West Side LA Punk from '80-'81. I haven't seen most of these bands in 20+ years and this was a like an adrenaline laced trip down a badly alcohol hazed Memory Lane.
Looks like something that I need to see.
Once again, Greg Ginn spoils the party, not allowing Black Flag footage. Seems like he turned into the biggest asshole!
There's footage of the band, but all you can see is grainy B&W footage of Hank running around Chuck & Dez, while Chuck, Dez & Robo comment in Voice Over about Hank had just moved to LA from DC and had gotten his first Tattoo that day, the 4 Bars on his arm.
In the past couple of weeks i've seen...
Reno 911: Miami - this was only decently funny... the tv show is better.
The Number 23 - Oh god... Jim Carrey just make Eternal Sunshine 2 so I can love you again... god damnit this was awful.
Casino Royale: best bond in ages, that opening chase scene is incredible.
Pursuit of Happyness: A new appreciation for Will Smith (and his son, he was pretty damn good in this).
Eternal Sunshine: This is on Cinemax as i write this. I mean... wow one of my favorite films of all time.
Happy Feet: Yeah, pretty good... i don't know what i thought of the live action mixed in with the animation... decent though.
Reno 911: Miami - this was only decently funny... the tv show is better.
The Number 23 - Oh god... Jim Carrey just make Eternal Sunshine 2 so I can love you again... god damnit this was awful.
Casino Royale: best bond in ages, that opening chase scene is incredible.
Pursuit of Happyness: A new appreciation for Will Smith (and his son, he was pretty damn good in this).
Eternal Sunshine: This is on Cinemax as i write this. I mean... wow one of my favorite films of all time.
Happy Feet: Yeah, pretty good... i don't know what i thought of the live action mixed in with the animation... decent though.
Fuck yeah.
it was good. wasn't as funny as i thought it would, but still, mastroiani was awesome. loved how "la dolce vita" was featured in the film.
It's not said often enough: That Woodsy Allen is a comedic genius. With all respect to Mike Judge, Idiocracy wishes it was half as funny as this.
Munich
well done & well acted, but still I was just sorta meh about the whole thing. maybe it had something to do with all the cold medicine running through my body when I watched it.
NEVER watch a Spielberg movie while medicated.
(same goes for Oliver Stone, oddly.
)
(same goes for Oliver Stone, oddly.
)
QUOTE(cerebralcaustic @ Mar 19 2007, 11:33 PM) [snapback]340454[/snapback]
It's not said often enough: That Woodsy Allen is a comedic genius. With all respect to Mike Judge, Idiocracy wishes it was half as funny as this.
One of my all-time faves, and probably the funniest sci-fi slick of all time.
"I wanted to have sex, but there wasn't enough people!"
"Let's use the Orgasmotron!"
"Great idea!"
Incidentally saw Borat the other night. I have nothing to add about it that hasn't already been said here, except-- when you rent or buy it check out the design of the DVD itself. Niiice! 
I have nothing significant to add about The Departed either, except to say that it deserved everything it got on Oscar night, and now I want to see Infernal Affairs--and don't think a sequel should be made as much as Mark Wahlberg wants one (per wiki...)
I have nothing significant to add about The Departed either, except to say that it deserved everything it got on Oscar night, and now I want to see Infernal Affairs--and don't think a sequel should be made as much as Mark Wahlberg wants one (per wiki...)
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L'Enfant (The Child)
Such a superb movie.
wow!
this was damn good. wasn't expecting it at all.
i saw a few films with vincent cassel, and didn't like them that much. thought "la haine" was gonna be another of those crazy/violent films a la "doberman" or "irreversible". but it wasn't. very interesting account on the french culture/racism/politics in the mid-90s.
i think criterion is releasing it sometime soon, so i'd highly recommend it to any criterion fans.
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The film was a huge commercial success and provoked much debate in France over its unflinching presentation of urban and police violence. The then-prime minister Alain Juppé arranged a special screening and ordered his entire cabinet to watch the film; police guards at the screening at Cannes turned their backs on the director, cast and crew as they walked past in protest of its portrayal of police brutality. Kassovitz won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996 and the movie was nominated for the Palme d'Or; the film also picked up the César Award for Best Picture.
and here's some info on criterion release:
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Special Features
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SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
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New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mathieu Kassovitz
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New English-language audio commentary by Kassovitz
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Video introduction by Jodie Foster
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Optional Dolby Digital 5.1 track
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Ten Years of "La haine," a new documentary that brings together key cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release
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New video featurette on the film’s banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum
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Behind-the-scenes footage shot during the film’s production
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Deleted and extended scenes, each featuring a new video afterword by Kassovitz
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Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
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Theatrical trailers
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New and improved English subtitle translation
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PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and an appreciation by acclaimed filmmaker Costa-Gavras
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SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
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New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director Mathieu Kassovitz
#
New English-language audio commentary by Kassovitz
#
Video introduction by Jodie Foster
#
Optional Dolby Digital 5.1 track
#
Ten Years of "La haine," a new documentary that brings together key cast and crew a decade after the film’s landmark release
#
New video featurette on the film’s banlieue setting, including interviews with sociologists Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jeffrey Fagan, and William Kornblum
#
Behind-the-scenes footage shot during the film’s production
#
Deleted and extended scenes, each featuring a new video afterword by Kassovitz
#
Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos
#
Theatrical trailers
#
New and improved English subtitle translation
#
PLUS: A new essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau and an appreciation by acclaimed filmmaker Costa-Gavras
QUOTE(Artem @ Mar 23 2007, 09:43 AM) [snapback]342970[/snapback]
wow!
this was damn good. wasn't expecting it at all.
i saw a few films with vincent cassel, and didn't like them that much. thought "la haine" was gonna be another of those crazy/violent films a la "doberman" or "irreversible". but it wasn't. very interesting account on the french culture/racism/politics in the mid-90s.
I agree. this one was a pleasant surprise. Oddly enough it's also very true. The poor sections of Paris are outside the pretty and quaint city center so no tourists would ever know or see them. You'd have to go to the outlying areas of the city to find the larger segments of ethnic neighborhoods. Kassovitz also did 'Crimson Rivers' with Cassel and now he's doing 'Babylon AD'
with Vin Diesel. (ugh)
also,do you know Vincent Cassel is married to Monica Belluci?
from the GBV torrents site:
I missed this show - my flight was delayed coming back from Santa Monica - which was a bummer, but this is the next best thing. This band is (was?) unbelievably tight.
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ROBERT POLLARD and THE ASCENDED MASTERS
LIVE AT THE ABBEY PUB 2xDVD
Chicago, IL - November 10th, 2006
http://bt.needmoresongs.org/details.php?id=86
Shot and Transferred by Bryan Seitz
Assisted by Christena Green and Michael Beach
DVD and Audio Mastering by Robert Gray
Photos courtesy Terri Nelles and erin leah pryde
Additional footage shot by Joe Stopa
Artwork by David Crunelle, Rene de Haan and Mike Jueneman
First torrented by robgrayert at bt.needmoresongs.org 2007-03-15
GBVDB Reference:
http://www.gbvdb.com/album.asp?albumid=2531
DVD1:
01. (Intro)
02. Heaven's Gate
03. Father Is Good
04. Accidental Texas Who
05. Piss Along You Bird
06. Drag Days
07. Fairly Blacking Out
08. Boxing About
09. Whispering Whip
10. I Get Rid Of You
11. Met Her At A Seance
12. Supernatural Car Lover
13. Circle Saw Boys Club
14. Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love
15. Get A Faceful
16. The Killers
17. Death Of The Party
18. No Sky
19. Tower And Landslides
20. Give Up The Grape
21. Pegasus Glue Factory
22. Life Of A Wife
23. Ghosts Of A Different Dream
Bonus Features: Nassau's "Captain", "Drag Days" dual-angle split-screen presentation
DVD2:
01. Touched To Be Sure
02. Blessed In An Open Head
03. The Right Thing
04. Gasoline Ragtime
05. Rhoda Rhoda
06. Dancing Girls And Dancing Men
07. Conqueror Of The Moon
08. Wrinkled Ghost
09. Serious Birdwoman (You Turn Me On)
10. Tomorrow Will Not Be Another Day
11. I Feel Gone Again
12. Gold
13. Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft
14. Top Of My Game
15. Full Sun (Dig The Slowness)
16. (Tommy's Got Pedal Rage)
17. Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
18. Much Better Mr. Buckles
19. Subspace Biographies
20. Motor Away
21. Game Of Pricks
22. Recovering
23. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Bonus Features: photo slideshow, "Subspace Biographies" dual-angle split-screen presentation
LIVE AT THE ABBEY PUB 2xDVD
Chicago, IL - November 10th, 2006
http://bt.needmoresongs.org/details.php?id=86
Shot and Transferred by Bryan Seitz
Assisted by Christena Green and Michael Beach
DVD and Audio Mastering by Robert Gray
Photos courtesy Terri Nelles and erin leah pryde
Additional footage shot by Joe Stopa
Artwork by David Crunelle, Rene de Haan and Mike Jueneman
First torrented by robgrayert at bt.needmoresongs.org 2007-03-15
GBVDB Reference:
http://www.gbvdb.com/album.asp?albumid=2531
DVD1:
01. (Intro)
02. Heaven's Gate
03. Father Is Good
04. Accidental Texas Who
05. Piss Along You Bird
06. Drag Days
07. Fairly Blacking Out
08. Boxing About
09. Whispering Whip
10. I Get Rid Of You
11. Met Her At A Seance
12. Supernatural Car Lover
13. Circle Saw Boys Club
14. Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love
15. Get A Faceful
16. The Killers
17. Death Of The Party
18. No Sky
19. Tower And Landslides
20. Give Up The Grape
21. Pegasus Glue Factory
22. Life Of A Wife
23. Ghosts Of A Different Dream
Bonus Features: Nassau's "Captain", "Drag Days" dual-angle split-screen presentation
DVD2:
01. Touched To Be Sure
02. Blessed In An Open Head
03. The Right Thing
04. Gasoline Ragtime
05. Rhoda Rhoda
06. Dancing Girls And Dancing Men
07. Conqueror Of The Moon
08. Wrinkled Ghost
09. Serious Birdwoman (You Turn Me On)
10. Tomorrow Will Not Be Another Day
11. I Feel Gone Again
12. Gold
13. Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft
14. Top Of My Game
15. Full Sun (Dig The Slowness)
16. (Tommy's Got Pedal Rage)
17. Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
18. Much Better Mr. Buckles
19. Subspace Biographies
20. Motor Away
21. Game Of Pricks
22. Recovering
23. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Bonus Features: photo slideshow, "Subspace Biographies" dual-angle split-screen presentation
I missed this show - my flight was delayed coming back from Santa Monica - which was a bummer, but this is the next best thing. This band is (was?) unbelievably tight.
QUOTE(held @ Mar 23 2007, 09:59 AM) [snapback]343055[/snapback]
also,do you know Vincent Cassel is married to Monica Belluci?
Yes. That's why I hate him with the fiery hate of one thousand suns.
QUOTE(Sid Hartha @ Mar 23 2007, 11:25 AM) [snapback]343073[/snapback]
from the GBV torrents site:
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ROBERT POLLARD and THE ASCENDED MASTERS
LIVE AT THE ABBEY PUB 2xDVD
Chicago, IL - November 10th, 2006
LIVE AT THE ABBEY PUB 2xDVD
Chicago, IL - November 10th, 2006
I missed this show - my flight was delayed coming back from Santa Monica - which was a bummer, but this is the next best thing. This band is (was?) unbelievably tight.
I was there. Maybe the best show I've seen him pull off.
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QUOTE(cerebralcaustic @ Mar 19 2007, 11:33 PM) [snapback]340454[/snapback]
It's not said often enough: That Woodsy Allen is a comedic genius. With all respect to Mike Judge, Idiocracy wishes it was half as funny as this.
One of my all-time faves, and probably the funniest sci-fi slick of all time.
"I wanted to have sex, but there wasn't enough people!"
"Let's use the Orgasmotron!"
"Great idea!"
ha..."my brain! that's my second favorite organ!"
agreed on the Idiocracy notion. great ideas, mediocre yet entertaining execution...reminded me of ferris bueller in that fashion (-ducks-). thanks, now i can't diane keaton off the brain.
QUOTE(held @ Mar 23 2007, 09:59 AM) [snapback]343055[/snapback]
also,do you know Vincent Cassel is married to Monica Belluci?
did you know Vincent Cassel is in Ocean's Twelve?
I got sick a little when I found out.
that was a good comedy with a nice twist of nostalgia in it. read somewhere that it's considered the last great fellini's film.
After watching this, I understand how George W. got reelected!
Scary.
Seeing kids speaking in tongues is very disturbing.
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I just saw "The 300", and:
****
The best film made in 2007. You will not see a better film this year, and I say this--based on the fact that "The 300" was better than all of last year's movies.
The lead actor who portrayed Leonides is on his way, no doubt.
What a performance!
And no, ther wasn't a whole lot of dialogue, but ther was a lot of presence.
This is one of the funniest things I've ever read. I hope for your sake there is some of that requisite 'hipster irony' going on here cuz holy shit was this movie terrible.
Enjoyably so though - I've never seen a mainstream film that is so earnestly homoerotic and camp in my life. So many six-packs i thought maybe these dudes abs had been created is post-production, its a veritable onslaught of male bodies, a spartan cast of earnest dudebro gym rats and utterly over-the-top dialogue that seems entirely unaware at how ridiculous it all is - "Tonight we dine...IN HELL!" "Freedom isn't free" "SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Its like an earnest Starship Troopers, or something. Don't even get me started on the queen letting mcnulty from the wire fuck her in exchange for some confusing/unneccessary POLITICAL INTRIGUE subplot action (which is resolved in the traditional Spartan manner - stabbing someone to death!)
And to get this out of the way cuz its all you expect from a deej post (and more) - hells yeah this shit was racist, although that made up a small portion of my issues w/ it. Yes, the white folks playing the spartans are super-manly heroes fighting an effeminate multi-ethnic polyglot pan-Afro-Asian conglomeration of EXOTICS lead by
Its entirely unclear why we should be rooting for the heroes, and how exactly their utterly militaristic culture is defending 'freedom' against the threat of 'mysticism' when they seem entirely unaware that their mystical obsession with glory on the battlefield (a.k.a. dying for your absurdly violent culture) is a fascist, militaristic existence, while the enemy is portrayed as pure evil without a clear understanding of why exactly we should prefer Spartan existence to that of the Persian hordes. Frankly the Persian orgy scene looked a lot more appealing than the Spartans' promotion of a youth spent wrestling other dudes..
Don't get me started on the hilariously forced softcore sex scenes shoehorned in for no discernable reason, which were about as provacative as a Bob Loblaw posts in the ASS thread.
My, how ethno-centric you are.
I know that you are a student of history, so do me a favor and pick up a book on Greek history, and you will learn that the Persians were out to take over as much of the fucking world as they could, starting with Athens-- all because they wanted revenge the Greeks for kicking their asses in battle years before.
maria antoinette was decent. i really liked the movie not for what sofia chose to show the audience, but what she chose not to show. great historical moments were happenning amongst the people and we really saw none of it, giving us a good look of a sheltered, detached and privileged life.
I thought it was mostly stunning.
I'm really into grandness and epics lately. In the past month I've seen The English Patient, Apocalypse Now, and now this.
Watched the new Bond, "Casino Royale", last night.
Pretty good. Nice to have the back-story on him at last. And yes, Craig is more Connery than Moore, or any of the other bozos--thank god.
I was also pleased that it didn't bother me that (of course) the time frame was off. Funny how this film can put an old story in the present and it doesn't bother me, whereas the time frames that are presented in Spiderman, Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan, etc.--make me want to torture small animals.
All and all, it was good popcorn. It was also fun that they didn't follow the Bond-formula at all. I mean you didn't even know what the 'plot' was, until about 10 scenes or so in.
Was a little disappointed that Eva Green was the only real eye-candy. Bodacious babes all around is a key ingredient in conjuring up the bond formula. But alas--they went against formula.
Pretty good. Nice to have the back-story on him at last. And yes, Craig is more Connery than Moore, or any of the other bozos--thank god.
I was also pleased that it didn't bother me that (of course) the time frame was off. Funny how this film can put an old story in the present and it doesn't bother me, whereas the time frames that are presented in Spiderman, Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan, etc.--make me want to torture small animals.
All and all, it was good popcorn. It was also fun that they didn't follow the Bond-formula at all. I mean you didn't even know what the 'plot' was, until about 10 scenes or so in.
Was a little disappointed that Eva Green was the only real eye-candy. Bodacious babes all around is a key ingredient in conjuring up the bond formula. But alas--they went against formula.
haven't bothered watching the last bond movie, but i heard a lot of people complaingin about the new bond dude. i saw screens from that film and he just looks like a cyborg. anybody remembers a film "universal soldier". was he in it?!
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