God I love this movie. Such a fantastic mindfuck. I thought I understood a lot of it last night, but after spending the morning poring over theories and explanations on the Internet I'm not so sure.

Primer is a great fucking movie. My advice - stop reading after theory #2. It's just too much to handle.

There are some great timelines out there to help organize the movie.

there is a really good screener available on rlslog.net
that is where i found the version i watched

Sullivan's Travels is one of the most criminally underrated films of all time. The dialogue is so crisp. Sturges is a master, and a major Coen influence.

Great yes...but is it really underrated. I'm pretty sure it's on AFI most recent top 100 list, and it's pretty well known. Maybe I'm just nit-picking.

It really isn't.

It really is. I just caught it for the first time about 6 months ago and loved it. Then again, I'm beginning to think I just love any movie that's at least decent.

I liked it. Lou Pucci should, and apparently is about to, go places.

Transformers: People didn't like this? Really? I mean, I'm not sure what was expected: robot soliloquies? It was big, loud, and exciting. And I loved the way the middle act of the film was basically Short Circuit with bigger robots.

I liked it for what it was, though I wish they would have focused on the robot characters more, like the old cartoon did. Best special effects I've ever seen in a movie--did you happen to catch any of the DVD supplements? To do the transforming animation, they modeled every single car part and figured out exactly how and where it go to become the robot. Amazing.

Haha, sorry I just found this too funny.
I wonder what other "implausible" character Ellen Page will play next.

Meh.

We watched the original 3:10 to Yuma last weekend, and we thought it was awesome. Not sure if we're still going to watch the remake. Glenn Ford was pretty cool, cagey bad guy, and Van Heflin played the normal working man to a T. Really loved how the wife got to be an important character, which I'm sure was big for the times.

Also have been watching seasons of CSI around the clock.

huh?

blasphemy

blasphemy, indeed.

This is all I'm doing today:

Red, I updated the DVDs for tuesday on time.

its cold. movie weekend!


still awesome, even after the fourth time.


such a gay movie but i love it. so so much. sort of annoyed that muriel is so skinny on this poster though.....


also excellent. ive seen it many times before but not for at least 5 years.

indeed blasphemy. whats wrong with you andy?



Charlie Bartlett This was streaming on the internet somewhere so I watched it for the hell of it. Campy, a little ridiculous but none the less enjoyable. A watered down Rushmore . Robert Downey Jr. delivers though, think he is quickly becoming one of my favorite supporting actors after this, Zodiac and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.



Eastern Promises I think I need to see this again. For all the hype built up around it I thought it was just alright. The scene in the "bathhouse" was excellent however. I just found myself not really caring about any of the characters or even knowing who they really are.

Need to see: There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton and Atonement.

It might be important for pioneering film techniques, but it wasn't particularly interesting. Acting was a mixed bag; mostly good, but with some really hokey parts. I understand paying reverence to past works, but it just doesn't hold up very well in 2008.



Good song; silly, aimless movie.

yes it does wtf


the whole movie could be the 20 seconds monologue that one dude delivers about the chick on the boat and it'd still be one of the best movies ever made.

i'm kinda with andyroo here. citizen kane, for starters, was about 1/2 hour too long and really...does anybody go back to it? for all the hype it receives it could have been tightened up a bit. anyways,

2nd favorite horror movie of 2007. (behind halloween of course.)

They all died waiting for micheal moore to lose some weight.

This is pretty much exactly what I expected, good to hear. I feel like I started seeing trailers like nine months ago, viral marketing over the summer, so I was sort of afraid that it had gotten pushed back due to being a complete shitfest. Agreed about RDJ although I sort of hate Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Quite often, actually.

this is really fuckin great. sadly its about 4 hrs and i have to go to work and miss a good bit of it.

Sturges' movies have had a rebirth, I'd say over the last 10 years, and Sullivan gets its due now (it's on the 2007 Top 100, but not on the 1997 version). There's a boxed set that has Sullivan's Travels, The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story, Hail the Conquering Hero, The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, and The Great Moment.

Its held up better than just about any film of the period. What other movie from the time ir more fun? Which acting is bad? Welles himself was probably the worst actor of the bunch.

Which says much...I thought he was as magnificent as anyone else in the film.

This was pretty well done, except for three or four unintentionally hilarious moments. It's regrettable that this was billed as horror, too.

Capra's movies around this time were fantastic. Maybe not as deep or groundbreaking or whatever, but very entertaining.

I just saw this, based on seeing it here.

Mindfuck is right. Wow, Memento/Donnie Darko can suck it after seeing this.
I remember reading about it, the Ebert review and the fact it was made for 7 grand, just never got around to it until now.
Best mindfuck movie I've seen since Pi, which was a mindfuck for completely other reasons but still.

yeah are you kidding me? I thought he was excellent, i mean playing three different ages throughout the film spot on. The first time I saw it I thought that young Kane and old Kane were played by two different actors.

In fact, new avatar for all you Citizen Kane/Welles nay-sayers.

I watched Metropolitan for the first time in a year. That way it doesn't lose its charm. Anyone else a fan?

Once was a wonderful film, really.

It was refreshing to see a movie that didn't involve ultra-unsurmountable problems or a third reel plot complication, coupled with wonderful musical performances (the duet in the music store being the best). This will be in my Top 10.

yessssss, everyone drink the once koolaid. come to the dark side.

Definitely a fan. I wish Last Days of Disco would get re-issued on DVD some day.

children of men


the bridge


barbarian invasions


billy liar

Gloriously stoopid fun, as if John Woo and Chuck Jones did a directorial collaboration. Leave your brains at the door.

I find Capra's best films tragic and complex.

I watched Once last night, and sorry, it was decent but I was underwhelmed. I think it was a combination of a lot of things, two being: (1) the hype; and (2) the music really isn't my taste. Take the music out of that film and it's basically neorealism, which I sort of disdain.

Since I quote this guy all the time...

"The music sucked. It looked like it was shot with sub-consumer grade video so everything looked sick, pasty and underexposed. It clearly wanted to be a filmic "short story" but counted on a sympathetic audience to fill in the sketchy outlines masquerading as characters. It evokes the whole New Europe problem with respect to underclassed Eastern European immigrants, but is too committed to its sappy emo-core worldview to really think about it. Oh, and the music sucked. What a pointless little nothing of a film. I would really have loved to have seen anything resembling what Atkinson saw, but I just saw lack, thoroughly confident that its overweening sincerity would ultimately win the day. I guess maybe I just have no soul."

Atkinson (whoever he is) agrees with the author (whoever he is) more so than at first glance. And I agree wholeheartedly with Atkinson here:
I heard the title track mucho times on WXRT, and merely thought it as just another David Gray/Damien Rice mopefest ripping off Smokey Robinson. Onscreen, it touched me, for whatever the reason.

Gone Baby Gone: I love when a movie I really don't have any plans/burning desire to see comes along and knocks me on my ass like this did. There's a point, about forty minutes into the movie, where I realized my stomach was in knots, my heart was in my throat and I was perched on the end of my seat (literally) because I'd become that invested in the characters in that short amount of time. Fantastic movie with staggering performances, particularly Casey Affleck, Amy Ryan and Ed Harris, and it looks sooo amazing. I've long thought Ben Affleck was underrated, now I'm certain. And the ending where Affleck's character is faced with the ultimate impossible decisison to make! I was talking about this film for about an hour after it was over, and rolled it over in my head all night long and all day today.

[spoiler]Affleck's character basically chooses what is right over what is right. The fact that he sacrifices everything for what he believes is one of the nobler, yet infuriating moments of 2007. And I give kudos to the screenplay for having the guts not to make Amy Ryan's character get on the straight and narrow again. The last shot of Affleck sitting with the little girl, watching TV, as he wonders whether or not he made the right decision after all is one of the most haunting of the year.[/spoiler]

I think this just might be the best film of 2007.

I would change that to [spoiler]chooses what is right over what is good[/spoiler]

Also, did anyone catch the wonderful plot development in the final words of the film?

[spoiler]The mother didn't even have the name of the doll right[/spoiler]

Rush Hour 3

Wow. What a disappointment. The first 2 were actually pretty entertaining, but this one is incredibly weak. Chris Tucker is an irritation from start-to-finish, and Jackie Chan looks like he'd rather be chillin' on the beach. Ah well.

I didn't notice that.

[spoiler]Another thing I failed to notice that someone just pointed out, is that Helene managed to cash in on her daughter's disappearance with not only talk show appearances, but the brand-new flatscreen TV her daughter is watching[/spoiler]

Casshern

Pretty cool, actually. Kinda like Blade Runner on amphetamines.

For the 50th-something time...

Pure genius.