hardly a documentary

the guy would recreate scenes from his real life and then film them

interesting to watch, but you have to keep in mind the dude is completely full of shit

Wish he had stuck to acting. My god, his archival video as a pre-teen doing those intense monologues are scarier than anything else in the movie.

Haven't seen that one since I was a kid. How does it compare to Big Adventure?

I haven't seen "Big Adventure" since I was a kid so I can't really tell you. "Big Top Pee Wee" was just wacky. He lives on a farm and one day, there's a big storm and it blows a circus onto his property. Zaniness ensues! The old people in town don't like the circus so Pee Wee feeds them magical cocktail wieners from his hot dog plant and they all turn into children and enjoy the circus! Hooray!

Just started Y Tu Mama Tambien last night and i'll be watching the other two instead of studying for exams this weekend... I'm excited.

big adventure >>> big top

that's a fact.

Yeah, obviously. "Big Top" didn't have Tim Burton being all dark and gothy and stuff, so it played more as a straight-to-video (which it may or may not have been) festival of silliness rather than a really coolass movie (which I remember "Big Adventure" being).

Guided By Voices "Live at Goose Island Fest, Chicago, 2003" - DVD bootleg.

watched this last night and was dissappointed, having been on a cronenberg kick lately. I think this movie would have been better off with a different director.

Better with each viewing.

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I love that movie! It does definitely gets better w/ repeated viewings. Those were the days when the Cohen brothers were always worth watching.




This was pretty entertaining. It got a little tedious at a few points, but there were enough good gags to make it worthwhile. It was great how it satirized the ridiculous patriotism that we've seen in the last few years.

Never did watch this show back in the day but I'm addicted to the DVD's. On season six at the moment and although it seems to be losing steam a bit, still highly entertaining.

There was a definite lull when certain characters got killed off or moved to other ventures (I'm not spoiling much here). Definitely one of the greatest dramas in TV history.

Righteous shit!

^ Never saw it, but be sure to follow it up with this:

That was on TV a couple years ago! I watched it! It was mildly amusing!

It was very amusing when I was 13! Anyway, it heavily references Strangers on a Train, plus it's got Anne Ramsey in it

I watched part of this but could not get into the Thunderbirds rip-off. For whatever reason I just have not been charmed by South Park or the humor that these guys shoot for. Every once in a while I'd chuckle but I'm not mesmerized by the patriotic zings in the musical interludes either.
Maybe I only saw the tedious parts you mentioned.dunno.waste of time in my book.

Kicking & Screaming

This on the otherhand while both tantamount of being mostly hollywood rehash material. Did have some zingers which Farrell & Ditka pulled off to my surprise. Farrell kills as a turned coffee addicted psycho coach. The 'Juicebox boy' scene still gives me chuckles just thinking about it.

and now a moment of embarrassment..

When revisiting old films of yer high school era (where the trailer probably seemed cooler than the actual product) this flick was by far more interesting to me then compared to seeing it now where it's obviously not only dated but all around kinda bad with the exception of being zero degrees from Kevin Bacon.


National Treasure
While in reality, my sister-in-law was a conservator on one of the copies of the Declaration of Independence and watching this ridiculous thing only reminded me that no matter how stupid a concept. It can always make its way into a feature film. Hence, the DaVinci Code...

day after tomorrow

man vs nature... reasons to be happy in this yarn of the greenhouse effect.

1. yer daddy's a weatherman
2. if all else fails, go to the library cause chances are everyone will wanna leave.. except for the token homeless guy.
3. you'll definitely get the girl if you can hold your breathe underwater long enough
4. all major boating vessels always carry penicillin
5. wherever you are, whatever the weather-the wolves can still get you

and yes beyond all else, the statue of liberty survives even after the ices melts and the monkeys take over!! wait, that's another movie : P


Cathouse.

meow. HBO pluggin this wonderous world of the nevada desert trade- the worlds oldest profession. So let's go over the guests shall we?
1. a mother who brings her son in so he can lose his virignity
2. a husband & wife looking for a threesome
3. a widower
4. a pimp who's lookin to keep his hand strong by plucking a chicken from the hen house
5. another skinny virgin looking to lose his before his shift starts at Best Buy.
6. two brothers looking to get their freak on..together?

Sure weird stuff is bound to be there and what's more tasteless than the one hump
motel? Well, the outtakes showing these folks where they tell em they're on camera kinda shows an eye opening freak out for sure for a moment or two...

Divine Intervention

http://www.avatarfilms.com/releases/divine_intervention.html
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808439461&cf=trailer (clips)
Palestinian director and performer Elia Suleiman delivers a darkly comic masterpiece. Suleiman utilizes irreverence, wit, mysticism and insight to craft an intense, hallucinogenic and extremely adept exploration of the dreams and nightmares of Palestinians and Israelis living in uncertain times.

Subtitled, "A Chronicle of Love and Pain," Divine Intervention follows ES, is a character played by and clearly based upon the filmmaker himself. ES is burdened with a sick father, a stalled screenplay and an unrequited love affair with a beautiful Palestinian woman (Manal Khader) living in Ramallah. An Israeli checkpoint on the Nazareth-Ramallah road forces the couple to rendezvous in an adjacent parking lot. Their relationship and the absurd situations around them serve as metaphors for the lunacy of larger cultural problems, and the result is palpable, bottled personal and political rage.

Suleiman's wry chronicle sketches his hometown of Nazareth as a place consumed by ferocious absurdity, where residents harbor feuds, dump garbage into neighbors' yards, and surreptitiously block access roads. Characters transgress rules with abandon - stealing forbidden cigarette breaks in a hospital corridor, for example. Yet the film's acerbic, absurdist sense of humor (earning comparisons to Jacques Tati and Nanni Moretti), in a situation where death seems to lurk at every corner, and Suleiman's own eye-popping directorial interventions, are what earned him the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.

There's not much of a plot, it's more a series of sketches. If you sit patiently, you will be rewarded. To me, it's as if Godard, Tati and Monty Python (and special guest director Stephen Chow) decided to make a movie about the Middle East. Bouncing between very funny and very odd. It's at the Harold Washington Library (I have it on loan and it will be returned tonight).

I still gotta see this..

Antonioni has a great eye for film. Beautiful cinematography.

Yeah, Antonioni is great. I just watched "The Passenger" with a young Nicholson. It was pretty slowly paced, but had an existential feel, with of course beautiful cinematography.

If you haven't seen "L'Avventura", I would recommend that too.

pretty awful movie - I think even Godard has disowned it, but the footage of the Stones in the studio is a must-see.

"Who's the huge spade in the bath?"

I picked up the DVD only for the Stones footage. I have no idea what Godard was going for with those unrelated scenes of people talking intercut with the Stones. It's nice to have the chapter stops for convenient skipping around.

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That's Godard's style for sure. He does the same thing in two of his other movies I've seen, Weekend and Une Femme Est Une Femme. Just artsy-fartsy pretension, rhetorically asking, "Why should the visual match the audio? Why should you care more about the Stones than these people? Which is more important?" etc.

Fuckin' awesome!

This was terrific. It reminded me quite a bit of Apocalypse Now actually, which I hadn't seen mentioned in any reviews. Spielberg at the top of his game is brilliant, though his tendency towards lackluster endings continues

As an aside, coming from an Israeli family, they did a great job of capturing Israeli culture. The sets, costumes, accents, etc were all dead on. The only thing they botched was the pronounciation of the lead characters name: It's Ahv-nair, not Avner

Meet The Feebles
After about 20 minutes, I hit the eject button
Hard to believe the guy that did that movie went on to become one of the most successful directors in the world

It's sort of a New Zealand version of what The Muppet Movie would have been like if Trey Parker and Matt Stone set out to fuck it up royally. Frankly, I liked it more than PJ's "Bad Taste"--but "Dead Alive" kicks all of their asses.

Watching "Cabin In the Sky" (1943)...controversial by nowadays standards, it's the MGM musical unit's attempt at an all-black musical, with appropriate gospel, blues and jazz tunes. Silly story about Eddie Anderson's attempts to quit gambling and infidelity, while angels from heaven and devils from Hell attempt to suade him in their preferred direction. Weird to see absolutely no white folks in a movie. Ethel Waters is radiant in her role as the long-suffering wife Petunia, and Lena Horne is a knockout as the temptress Georgia Brown. Look for Louis Armstrong as a trumpet-playing minion of the devil. Looking forward to Duke Ellington's appearance later in the flick.

Vincente Minnelli's first feature film. Hard to believe he followed it up with the wonderful but extremely whitebread 'Meet Me in St Louis'.

This film would have been so much better if it were directed by Vincent Spinetti.

Don't tell me you didn't get to see the knife-throwing junkie lizard going thru withdrawl? That was the highlight of the movie! "Are ya asthmatic? Can I have yer huffer?"

But yeah, it's a one-joke film stretched out over 90 minutes. Dead Alive kicks it's arse. Come to think of it, D.A. might be tied with LOTR as Jackson's best film. Lord knows it's more entertaining than Two Towers or ROTK - academy award or no.

I suppose it helps to be in the mood for it but I'd hardly feel like it wasn't worth seeing and yes it is nowhere near the glitz of his Hollywood produced material.





Well if you liked that one you should definitely rent 'Stormy Weather'

yah stormy weather is a lot of fun for a colored musical

King Kong - Far more enjoyable than I had expected.


Hoodwinked - Some animation is just bad and this one kinda falls into that catagory imo.
Fun for kids perhaps but I just watched it cause I was on a plane.


Pee Wee's Big Adventure - This movie is still great.


Last Holiday - OK so once in a while Wayne Wang needs a paycheck right so why not punch the clock doing a remake of an old Alec Guiness comedy with the likes of Queen Latifah & LL Cool J?
Sure, and throw in Gerard Depardieu for those witty jokes about not being able to understand the french guy. This one just goes through the motions at best. No deep sense of connection and hardly impressive than being anything but another in the long line of hollywood rehash.


Big Momma's House 2 - I never cared for Martin Lawrence in the first place and while I'm surprised to see an airline plugging a sequel into their onboard viewing queue. It was mindless and it did have some funny moments I guess but can anyone tell me what it is about this guy that made it seem worth making a sequel for? (Other than the obvious fact that the first one made money)
This is about as useless as 'Stakeout' was. Only nobody put on a fat suit in that one.

king kons seems pretty underrated to me. that's as good a popcorn flick as they come.

last night i caught parts of this:

hmm, image didn't work?
"Dellamorte Dellamore", aka "The Cemetary Man"

an italian horror flick, which i happened to be watching on the spanish movie channel. so obviously i understood about 5% of the dialogue.
anyone ever seen it? looks interesting.

When was first screened at the Venice Film Festival, Martin Scorsese stood up and called it the best film of the year (1994) . Very surreal flick based on the comic. Michele Soavi is sort of a follower in the footsteps of Dario Argento.

I almost bought this a year ago. Finally saw it tonight. Good, informative documentary, but I have some complaints:

• Not one mention of Nathan Roberts. He's on the list of "past Lips members" in the credits, sure, but there's no mention of him in the movie. He was in the damn band for a good two albums. What the hell?
• They didn't even mention Hit To Death In The Future Head. It was their major label debut! What about the "Brazil incident"? BAH!
• No information about how the band met Dave Fridmann or their experience working with him. He is interviewed, sure, but for what, 10 seconds? The guy was fucking important, you know. Eh.
• No mention of just how important of a record In A Priest Driven Ambulance was for the band.
• Who the hell is that guy playing drums? His name is weird. Keilph or something. Kleiph maybe? He's playing just like Steven! He has Steven's haircut, too! WHY??? WHY DOESN'T STEVEN DROZD JUST PLAY THE DAMN DRUMS??????? HE'S ONE OF THE GREATEST DRUMMERS EVER! I'm pissed off at this band for absolutely refusing to kick ass.

I would have also liked to see more in-studio footage of the band. There was some from the Clouds... sessions, but that was it.

Just minor complaints, it was great overall, blah, blah, blah.

On the queue for this weekend, Hill Street Blues, season one.

well?

What's up with these Amazon images? Fuck this white shit.



That Tina Turner sequence... holy balls. It made me uncomfortable. Or aroused. Or something.

uh yeah, I remember a number of peeps saying they were going to go to this when I started a thread about it. So how was it?

not as hard to watch as people claimed, but still pretty disturbing
first movie to make me cry since i was a kid (during the 15 minutes or so of final phone conversations that the passengers had with their families)

Yeah, I cried too. The first movie I've gone to see by myself in at least 5 years, and that was probably for the best.

Very realistic. I haven't come up with anything else to say about this that doesn't sound like a borrowed TV trailer quote. Knowing exactly what's going to happen you think that there wouldn't be a lot of actual suspense in this. But a helpless, paralysing feeling of dread set in very early for me and I found even the earliest scenes on the plane to be hard to watch. It was always a relief when the scene would shift back to one of the air traffic control centers on the ground -- even though those are in absolute chaos and confusion for most of the film -- if only because I knew that they would at least be safe.

Near the end I was sure that they were going to make it and get out alive. I mean, I knew they wouldn't, but...

Probably the best movie that I've seen in a while, but I don't know when or if I'll ever watch it again.

From the United 93 thread:


That's funny, because watching this movie, I never once felt any hatred towards the hijackers. They definitely weren't portrayed sympathetically, but even in the worst moments of this, when they're stabbing people and screaming at everyone, did I ever feel any real anger towards them. I certainly wanted them to fail their mission (of course I knew that they wouldn't) and I wished that I could have been there to help kick their asses (it is a very emotional movie and it's probably hard for anyone to not feel this way while watching it), but I never hated them, and never got the feeling that they were anything more than pawns in the game.

I don't know what movie Limbaugh was watching, or why he really thinks that "that's important." Really, whatever feelings you had on that day will probably come back to you again. I think that's the reaction that the vast majority of people who watch the movie are going to have.


Currently limping towards the $30 million mark. I think it was just buried by too many other big, dumb, pre-summer releases (Da Vinci Code, RV) and family films (Ice Age 2, Over The Hedge). This would have done better as a fall release. Also, not having a single recognizable star in it obviously makes it a tough sell.





There was one passenger who was being a really big puss. "Let's just cooperate with them and give them what they want," etc. At one point he tried to alert the hijackers to the plans, but was handgagged and dropped to the floor by the rest of the passengers (this is not a spoiler, don't worry). He had a European accent, so that definitely narrows down who it would have been in real life.