Saw this the other night. Pretty fucking good. [spoiler]The last half hour has a shit ton of suicides. And when Frau Goebbels poisons her kids, it's just heartwrenching. I mean, I knew about that before I saw the movie, but to actually see it on screen...[/spoiler]

Dr. George Miller born George Miliotis March 3, 1945, Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia

Became a practicing physician until, after a film course at Melbourne University he teamed up with Byron Kennedy to make Violence in the Cinema, Part 1 (1971)

Not to be confused with the director of The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)

Warner Bros. gave him the rights to Mad Max 2 (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) to get him to step aside as the director of Contact (1997).

Raised money to make Mad Max by working as an Emergency Room Doctor.

Theatrical features:
Happy Feet (2006)
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
40,000 Years of Dreaming (1997)
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (segment 4)
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Mad Max (1979)

Over the last 11 days:

# V For Vendetta
# Breach
# Singin in the Rain
# Bound for Glory
# loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies
# Bloodied but Unbowed: Bloodshot Records
# Almost Famous
# Cinderella Man
# Brick
# Thumbsucker
# Wordplay

anyone else excited about this?

no

Ah yes... On of my guilty pleasure films. Gotta love the Christ inference at the end.


Yeah, this film is pretty intense. Definitely holds your attention from start to finish.
Are there any other great docudramas on ol' Adolf? He's such a fascinating subject.

stop lying to us and, more importantly, to yourself.

let me know when the encyclopedia brown movie gets made

has anyone seen "night and fog" documentary?
is it as horrifying as i think it is?

have you read "the karnau tapes" by marcel beyer? it describes those event that you mention in the spoiler. it's short but rather interesting:

This is the common wisdom on this film, but I (mostly) don't buy it. I thought the stunts were equally far-fetched as any Bond film. The opening construction site chase, the airport car chase, and the ending fight in the sinking building were all outlandish. Not as realistic as the Bourne films, which were said to have been the model for the more "realistic" Bond. Although I'll grant your they were a little less silly than the previous Bond film, such as the parasurfing away from the collapsing glacier. More realistic than previous Bonds is faint praise.

The gadgets were a bit toned down. No invisible cars. But you still had the Jack Bauer model miracle cell phone and the medical tracking implant, verified by portable xray scanner.

We were also promised less double entendres, which got out of control and pretty silly with Halle Berry. But I thought some of the dialog in Casino Royale got pretty silly at times, particularly the scene in the train.

I still enjoyed the film tremendously, but just as much as the Pierce Brosnan Bonds. Where I was disappointed was in the realism claims made in marketing the picture, which led me to believe that the film would be more like "From Russia With Love." The film was more like "For Your Eyes Only", the Roger Moore pic that was said at its time to be a return to a more "realistic" Bond.


Miller produced and wrote Babe and was rumored to have had a hand in the directing, although it was credited to a pal.

6 episodes in to the first season now. How the FUCK did I first discover this show over the weekend? I'm totally captivated by it and am so pissed the people I know that watched didn't force me to from the beginning?

i didn't catch on until the final season...I too should've listened to those in the know.

HBO has been cycling through the seasons by making them available On Demand, however it's a terribly slow process. we'll get 6 episodes at a time, for about a month. once those are gone its usually another 3-4 weeks before the next 6 are available. we're 1/2 way through Season 3 right now.

& captivating is the perfect word.

This is the Best Idea Ever.

my 8 year old daughter is looking forward to it

yrd

loved it.

note to all SOMBies
Linking to images from impawards NEVER works
try wiki instead. they have almost every movie ever made.

yea now that you mention it, that impawards pic looks very f'n familiar.

loved it.

This could be good if it were made to look like vintage Nancy Drew and not all jazzed up for the 21st century.

That being said, "Nancy Drew: Get a Clue" is pretty ingenius in its own way.

Also, "small town girl" my ass.

Also also, lol, is she really holding a magnifying glass?

LOLer at the fat kid giving the thumbs up.

On second thought I think I'll see this one.

Is that the Roman Coppola movie? I remember when that came out I really wanted to see it but it wasn't playing anywhere. Haven't thought about it for a long time. I should see it.

Apparently, he's the major comic relief of the flick. (probably written in an attempt to lure in the tween boys who will avoid seeing this anyway)

Life On Mars

O. My. God.

This is one of the most fascinating shows I've ever seen. Something about it just invades my psyche, much like the occasional dream can screw with my head for a day or two after waking. Big props to MitchellStirling + Sask for this recommendation - it's f*cking brilliant.

Dead Alive

Early 90's horror flicks = the shit.

man, dead alive should be shown on the first day of class every school year...all grade levels included.

i would save the rental money and use it towards the inevitable purchase.

This was good (as in a B+ film), but I just don't understand all the movie-of-the-year hyperbole.

looking for comedy in the muslim world

I'm not sure whether to just say that Albert Brooks is just not funny anymore or whether to say that he never was funny at all. I tend to find a chuckle here and there in most of his stuff but he's never ever blown me away and here there's a few moments that could have worked out here but instead of building on them he lets it go.


v for vendetta

my apologies in advance to all of the lovers of Moore's graphic novel but this was pretty poor all around imho. It could've been Hugh Jackson behind that mask and it wouldn't have made a difference.


bubba Ho-tep

I knew this was gonna be good when it first came out. I just never got a chance to catch it before now.
good stuff



land of the dead

I had some high hopes for this latest Romero revisiting of the zombie trail. it gets pretty heavy handed in pushing the war of the social classes undertones.. well, if you can call it that.

best scene: guy gets confronted with what appears to be a headless zombie. only the heads still attached and it flips up like a pez dispenser and bites the guy.

Dennis Hopper was phoning it in. the role could've been played by Burt Reynolds and it would have been equally as poor. it's strange how Romero has always succeeded with lesser known folks in his casting and using headliners like John Leguizamo and Dennis Hopper just doesn't do much.

Also, it's funny to think that he's responding to another zombie flick (28 days later perhaps) to suggest that the zombies are getting smarter.

what can I say. if you catch this on cable it might be worth watching but don't go out of your way to be underwhelmed.

I enjoyed the hell out of that. I'm happily waiting on the Prequel Bubba Nosferatu & the Curse of the She-Vampires.

Were a lot of films last year better?

Tonight:

The Last Picture Show

"Did you try switching it off and on?"
"Is is plugged in?"

Great tech geek fun.

Do they break out PEBCAK or RtFM?

Fair question. I'm actually not sure--given that my son was born in the end of 2005, I didn't see a lot of films last year, and I certainly didn't keep careful track of which ones I thought were best. But it's not the best film I've seen this week (I would put it just below Pursuit of Happiness, for example), so I would certainly hope there were at least a few. And some critics went a lot further--one claimed that it was the "first genuine masterpiece of the 21st century". That's definitely hyperbole in my book.

Obviously, I don't attach the same importance to the visual aesthetics of a film that you do (or that I assume you do based on your past comments)--if that was only standard I was judging by, I might think (even) more highly of the film. But, for my taste, its juxtaposition of the thoroughly evil Capitan and the romanticized rebels rings a bit hollow. Instead of Ofelia's fairy tale world providing an escape from an adult world that is not just cruel, but far too complex for a child to fully understand, it merely reflects a world where the line between good and evil is clearly drawn, even in a time of war. It is a fairy tale for adults, and I don't think that's an entirely good--much less timely--thing.

Ugh, problems with IT crowd.

1) Weak female character who can only like shoes and chocolate and talks in that voice every episode at least twice.
2) Main character stupid Bernard Black clone
3) Richard Ayoade can't really act.

I only saw one episode so far, I wasn't sure if that guy was the main character, or the other guy.

I also noticed it's from one of the same producers.

I didn't mind, since Black Books isn't on anymore. But obviously Dylan Moran is much cooler.

Fabulous movie. I finally caught it on Turner Classic last year.

We started watching this on BBC America and really loved it, but for some reason only caught the first two episodes.

Good to see it's out on DVD.

Yeah, I was expecting just a little bit more out of it. Fascinating stuff, but I really didn't care too much about the rebel forces and Pedro. Maybe the plot's nods to Narnia, Labyrinth and others of this ilk led me to be underwhelmed as well. (Best assualt with a blunt object I've seen since Irreversible, though ).

Just bought and watched this last night:



I've loved this movie since it came out, but hadn't seen it in about 10 years. Some of it hasn't aged real well, and I always thought the ending was a little hoakey....but Bill Paxton makes this movie worth every dime...especially the bar scene. I always appreciated that it's a vampire movie where the word vampire is never used....not sure why that's cool...but it is.

Was also interesting to see a young Nathan Petrelli in the leading role. Had to do a couple double takes before I realized it was him.

Unfortunately, it's only available in region 2 format. Due to music licensing, I doubt it'll survive the transition to region 1 without sacrificing the killer soundtrack (hints of WKRP on DVD, anyone?).

what? wkrp changed what exactly? the song used to open the show or the songs used within the program? i know they changed the opening song for get a life but i was always under the assumption that the wkrp song was written specifically for the show as opposed to using a rock band's already penned song (as was the case for get a life using r.e.m's stand). either way, this is why i trade with geeks who taped that shit straight offa the tube. well, that and the old school commercials.

They changed 99% of the rock music used in the original broadcasts due to licensing rights. So there's some truly generic crap in place of, say, Blondie and Talking Heads and Foreigner and...

Johnny Stecchino

I've really liked every Benigni film I've seen. Always makes me laugh.

Horribly underseen. A great little genre film. Everyone that saw Aliens should have seen this.

Surprisingly not as cheesy as I thought it'd be. I kinda actually (gasps) enjoyed it.

he's a crazy dude. you'd think he's acting is kind of eccentric, but in real like he's like 5 times more eccentric than in his roles.

Whoa, did this really come out in '05? Seems like a more recent thang.

Anyways.

You know, as much as I have trouble taking overblown, ultra-serious stuff like this, Signs, and 300 seriously, and as much as I couldn't resist being a smartass and "Masterpiece Theatre"-ing throughout the whole film, I have to say... this was an awesome fucking movie.

THAT IS, UNTIL the last 20 minutes or so when the ending kept getting increasingly lamer until that voiceover finally sealed the deal. WTF, Spielberg? Although, I should have expected as much. And hell, I did. Goddamn.

i thought it was pretty bad. had an argument with a friend cos he made me go see it with him. i called it crap, but he said it reinforced his beliefs in humanity. ugh.