Why did you waste your time?

Much better than I expected. Great script (not entirely believable, but it was funny as hell).

it was on in the background while i was on the comp.

was it funny at all?

Figaro wasn't really bad, just slightly naughty.

A really bad cat is in Cinderella. (my inner dork in full bloom right now... )

Ben Foster is a great actor, been a fan of that guy for years.
I was shocked on how good this movie was.
the casting was perfect. you are right about the likability of the kids except for one
and that one was the most important. If the kidnapped kid wasn't so likable, the film would've fallen apart

OK, modern American horror movies being what they are, and given that this is based on a video game--- I can accept the dumb moves made by major characters; I can accept the threadbare acting; I can marvel at the creepy shit in this flick that jitters and slithers and shuffles its way through the sets of darkened hallways via the magic of CGI; but what I can't accept is the unrelentingly nauseating and sadistic tone that the film takes (especially regarding a child character) after the big secret of Silent Hill is revealed.

the wife was out of town for most of the week and despite playing 'catch up' for the most part.. I've still got 31 flicks on my hard drive to watch. here's what I saw during the majority of my waking hours..



flags of our fathers

talk about yer under appreciated flick of the year. I don't recall this one getting that much notice
when it was released. In part because it was this dual flick project that Eastwood pushed. Stunning visually and some really solid performances. Only tidbit that I thought sort of broke the illusion was when the characters visit Soldiers Field in which they pass the clearly more contemporary lettering on the facade of the building. Pretty sure that wasn't there in the forties. Outside of the that I thought it was a well paced tale of the people behind the historic image that'll forever be published in textbooks.


syriana

lie, cheat, steal, investigate, deny, probe, reveal, eliminate, commit, release, accept.
who says your tax dollars are going to waste? following a similar chronolgy to 'Traffic'
this time instead of drugs we follow the twisted road to the riches of oil and how all the various players involved gain or lose ground based on the methods chosen to control fossil fuels on this planet. all around there's nothing fair about it but I'm positive that there's plenty of truth to the kinds of episodes involved in pic.


lady in the water

yeah so this one was ripped to shreads as I recall and I suppose as casting goes its certainly a great batch of talent involved. Shyamalan does a bit more than just keep to a cameo which doesn't say that he can't hold his own but then this falls into the catagory of accepting certain limitations with this made up as you go along tale. found it amusing but not particularly blown away. his operative formula has always been this b-picture concept where the unknown plays a bigger role and while it maintains the whole misdirection to a point. There could have been a good riddle in this somewhere but the deliveries all screwed up and no one can translate this cept the guy who made it up.

Sort of all over the place today.

That seems like an unusually timid statement of badass-ness. Perhaps? In his own way?

That's two great places, in any case.

Watched a few minutes of Rushmore earlier today.

Yeah, I was in the shit.

fucking great movie dude i fucking blow my load over that fucvking movie!

fucking cocks and dicks and fucking blow jobs oh man semen is everywhere when rushmore is on the fucking tv fuck me in the ass

Still going with the sexualized profanity shtick? Alright then.

I forget who said that

need a photoshop of this "in 2008, clint eastwood will fuck your shit"

I dunno, to me I've always felt that only 37-42 and 89-94 Disney was really the only worthwhile Disney(and boy was it ever, some of the best movies ever made were pumped out during those eras) with a couple exceptions. Is Lady & The Tramp one of them? I haven't seen it in a long, long time. Maybe I should start working on downloading every Disney animated feature.

Irreversible
Dayyumm! I knew this film was difficult, but had no idea what I was in for.
Without giving too much away, it was filmed in a nice disorienting hand-held style - lots of swirling, sideways, upside-down shots.
And the opening credits were great.

there might of been a good line or two.
anything funny in the movie was funny for the wrong reason

damnit. this was just on hbo. kinda want to see it since i found unbreakable unimpressive

Amazing shit. Destroys every Disney movie made in my lifetime? I think so.

watched this in the background while i was posting here. for a suspense/action film, it sure was a calm film. ending was a bit heavy handed

you tube the first five minutes and last ten. that's all you need.


[spoiler]yea, that rape scene....was fucking hot. kidding, i can't think of a scene i've had more trouble watching.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Rape seems to be the theme of the day.[/spoiler]

bachelor weekend part deux...


nacho libre

I was very hopeful for this to have some funny stuff and it did. I mean the whole secretly devoted masked wrestler defending the orphans deal has some great moments. Especially using corn-on-the-cob as a deadly weapon. Still there's too many moments that were clearly improvised by Jack Black that seemed to lessen the thrill of it to a certain degree. Coming from the maker of 'Napoleon Dynamite' this carried a very similar vibe.


the good german

how bout dry toast? stilted and convoluted experimental attempt at a period piece shot by soderbergh where he apes as many stylized post-war hollywood era shots in one flick than spielberg ever did. kind of a postcard attempt at portraying the finesse of the sistine chapel. sure it looks the same but chances are you're never gonna have the same sensation as if you'd been there. there's a lesson to be learned here and I think it was 'Ocean's 13' is on its way.


fast food nation

I have to admit I was extremely curious as to how effectively richard linklater was gonna be able to pull this off but I've gotta say that this does an extremely good job in showing a picture of the undersided aspects of not just the working conditions but the quality of product and health involved in the meat packing industry.
Not unlike the automotive and oil industries. These outfits are lock and load and if there's any places on earth that have the nastiest most dangerous jobs on the planet. It's these joints.

btw. I would not recommend you eat a meal while watching this. The kill room sequence in the later half just might make you lose your appetite. then again, if everyone had to kill their own cow to eat it. I'd suspect that most folks wouldn't eat as much beef as we do.

yea i have the same belief. lately when i get weak for meat i hop on the net and go here. gets me every time.

Did you rent this or was it on tv? Pretty sure it'd be too depressing for me to ever watch.

honestly i really liked this. it was on hbo, so this isnt a rent or anything.

i was surprised how much i liked it. great soundtrack.

at times its a bit over the top.

but the twist near the end was really fucking great.

i'm torn, i have Overnight (doc about getting Boondock Saints made) and Boondock Saints. should i watch the doc first or will it reveal tmi?

Netflix. I can't imagine a cable channel ever running it.
It's not really depressing, but there is some extremely violent content.

Never seen the doc, but I'm pretty sure you should probably see the actual movie first.

well i went with the doc (which was pretty good btw) first and you were right. but not because the doc gave away any spoilers, but because this writer/director guy is such a fucking idiot. the only reason i shall view the actual movie is because it stated at the end of the doc that the director's contract doesn't pay him for rentals, tv or foreign sales. lol. what a douche.

OTM. I turned this off after 10 minutes. Terrible. And Tobey Maguire is fast becoming my least favorite actor.

Entertaining movie with a lot of action, and actually has a palpably tolerable anti-government (pro citizen) message. Take that, Charlie Wilson.

Extras - Complete Series & Christmas Special

Reign Of Fire

So bad, it doesn't deserve a larger image.

Is this the one with the dragon that gets released from the coal mine and kills Alice Kreig in the first six minutes?

very meh. Hardly deserved to be nominated, much less win.

The adverts and general attitude of the film struck me as the kind of film that's mass-market, pretending to be highbrow (c.f. Crash).

leonard cohen: I'm your man

I was really looking forward to this being a great bio/performance deal and instead while it had all the charm of pbs special. I was underwhelmed by the homage concert inner cut with very stylized storytelling despite including performance highlights of nick cave, jarvis cocker & beth orten.

twas also amused by Rufus Wainwright's memories of meeting leonard as a kid but once I saw U2 performing with him at the end I really felt let down. Not that I don't enjoy these ppl on their own terms but some combinations are just toxic to me and U2 doesn't fulfill anything outside of making this anticlimatic.



clerks II aka "Never go ass to mouth!"

"may be the sweetest movie ever to feature an act of bestiality." (Stephanie Zacharek - Salon)

yeah I don't know how many folks here love Kevin Smith. I think he's an extremely funny guy but I also usually find his films continuously lame. 'Clerks' I thought was pretty good and as sequels go this has all the characters and standard crude demeanor that Smith always serves on on shiny platter. It's just seeing folks who behaved like idiots then turn out to still be doing it now doesn't exactly turn out to say much.
Nice to see that Smith got the old gang back together so these guys might get paid a little more than they'd been in the past. at one time Smith might have actually pushed something with a sharper edge to it but instead we see these jokers who don't have much of a punchline.

Juno was pretty damn good. In the first few minutes of dialogue, I though to myself "Oh no, this sounds so much like someone trying to ape teenager-speak" but I quickly got into the groove of it. The dialogue actually had it's own rythym almost like a sort of poetry that was kind of mesmerizing. Also, I like the way it demystified the Hollywood 'She's Having A Baby' genre, while still retaining some of the magic of childbirth; in a way, it presented the whole story in a cynical, yet innocent way. Amidst all the hype about Ellen Page's performance (Which is good, maybe Best Actress of 2007...right now it's either her or Julie Christie...give it to Christie), no one has talked about J.K. Simmons turning in the performance of the film as the beleagured father of Juno. He's consistently the funniest, most sympathetic character in the movie. Will definitely crack my Top 10, maybe 5 of the year. Hell, at the moment, it has an outside shot at #1.

Runaway

Hasn't aged well, but it was never a great movie in the first place.
However, you gotta love Gene Simmons as the yuppie techno badguy.

you better have some ky, you're gonna need it.

Water it.

best use of the beach boys.
really enjoyed it. it was nice and trippy

I Am Legend
Meh.
This is basically 28 Days Later with the Fresh Prince. Skip it.

^^^
this is the best argument i've heard for seeing this.

watched

in its entirety for the first time in about 15 yrs. still great.

That ending gets ya every time, don't it?

I'm about to watch this:



I'll report back in a couple of hours.