Speaking of A Clockwork Orange, sfdebris just did his review of Star Trek Generations, and I love how he started playing "Singin' in the Rain" when Soran was beating up on Picard.
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
FAQ About Time Travel rather fun low budget Sci-Fi (sorry SF!) comedy.
Would have made a great television comedy show, it reminded me a bit of the now virtually unheard of television show Kinvig.
Well worth a watch if you want a few laughs.
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Bingowings said:
FAQ About Time Travel rather fun low budget Sci-Fi (sorry SF!) comedy.
Would have made a great television comedy show, it reminded me a bit of the now virtually unheard of television show Kinvig.
Well worth a watch if you want a few laughs.
Saw that a little while ago - and I agree.
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Warbler said:
The Seven Samurai.
I only saw six... Lack of time.
Had a movie weekend, and ended up buying a discount for half price rentals at the local video store, so expect a lot of Last Movie Seens for the next month.
The Runaways: disturbing little pic. Kristen Stewart has found the one role she can play perfectly: coked-out Joan Jett.
Inception: Finally. What a great movie. Its entertaining just skimming the top level (which is what I ended up reviewing on my blog), but you can talk about the other levels and interpretations for hours (I know, my wife and I did).
Best In Show: Came highly recommended, but I don't know why I keep trying these Christopher Guest movies. I don't really enjoy them in the end. Sure, a couple of the characters end up being funny sometimes, but overall I always find it a letdown. There's just not enough plot.
Birds of America: This was right across the aisle from Best In Show, and it had Matthew Perry from "Friends" on the cover, so my wife wanted to get it. It had some entertaining parts, but like all of these independent movies my wife and I pick up, it always ends up being half family drama that is too close to reality for me to find entertaining. Not necessarily my reality, but long scenes at dinner tables where no one talks is true to life, but I don't watch movies to watch people not do things.
But in order to appease xhonzi (and ourselves), we're planning on taking the mother-in-law to Inception this week so it will be the Last Movie Seen.
SIDENOTE: We got to the theater for Inception a minute or two late, figuring that there would be trailers to cushion our time. Our theater doesn't show the trailers before Inception, so we and everyone else in the theater walked into a movie that throws you right into the middle of the movie. I literally walked out and to the concession desk and said "I know I'm supposed to be confused by this movie, but am I supposed to be this confused?" The answer was "yes, you are."
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doubleofive said:
Best In Show: Came highly recommended, but I don't know why I keep trying these Christopher Guest movies. I don't really enjoy them in the end. Sure, a couple of the characters end up being funny sometimes, but overall I always find it a letdown. There's just not enough plot.
I love the Guest movies (except the last one, which was boring). They're really more feature length sketch comedies than movies, and I enjoy them as such. No well-developed plot needed.
Hush (2009).
Low budget, British road thriller from first director and DJ Mark Tonderai.
I'm not sure if I have the stomach for this sort of film anymore, I know there are nasty pieces of work out there in the real world and this sort of film (even when it's well made) depresses rather than thrills me but this one is a real mixed bag any way.
The lead characters are rather unappealing to start with, which is deliberate considering the character arcs being plotted here but they don't really come off in a convincing way so the start is just annoying rather than being the set up for something satisfying later.
As the story progressed the left of field twists are so left of field that they stretched my patience almost to breaking point.
I assume the lead character spends much of his time playing computer games because certain events are straight out of the video game scenario handbook.
The ending is almost comedic in it's silliness.
It's not as sadistically dumb as the classy looking Wolf Creek which I hated with a real passion, the lead often (but not always) does avoid doing the most stupid thing possible (if anything it's the faceless hooded bad guy that does the most stupid things) and there is some sense of closure to the events even if it is rather hilarious in it's obviousness.
I think the main problem is there are glimpses of story glittering in the bottomless pit where the plot should be living which really need fleshing out or cutting altogether.
It's like the author was saying, "I don't want to make a stalker action thriller I want to expose the hidden underbelly of society...oh alright here's an almost bloodless Haute Tension/Duel mashup instead".
I applaud the restraint employed in not making another slick sick psycho flick but the method used needed to delve a bit deeper to justify the images of suffering abducted women bound and caged.
The cast put in really good performances of people I'd never want to meet in a million years and the director shows promise but ultimately it's not a film I'd recommend.
A clockwork orange. Weird sir. Didnt get the message Kubrick was getting at, but i loved it and hated it at the same time. Alex got reformed, so theres hope for all of us
You really didn't get what he was getting at BUT I'm glad you got something out of it (wasn't the wobbly thingy sculpture funny, the scene was horrid but the thingy was a real gas).
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the not-Mary Poppins Disney movie. Despite its similarities to the aforementioned, it was quite enjoyable. A good change to revisit a childhood favorite.
A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
Now that's movie I haven't seen in a long time . . . a long time.
I forgot how much like Terry Kubrick's A Chocolate Orange Bedknobs And Broomsticks is (I was about to say something about the lamentable state of my sex life in connection with Bedknobs And Broomsticks but my internal editor chip kicked in, lucky I'm not typing this....Doh!).
doubleofive said:
But in order to appease xhonzi (and ourselves), we're planning on taking the mother-in-law to Inception this week so it will be the Last Movie Seen.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
Bingowings said:
wasn't the wobbly thingy sculpture funny, the scene was horrid but the thingy was a real gas
I did LOL sir, yes. I also appriciated the nudity sir..
I didnt like how scientists/politics used the circumstances for personal gain...that didnt sit well with me....such is life though....MIFF
I like filums that play on my mind days after watchin em though, then i know ive seen a film worth watching...
I don't know if this counts or not, but last night I watched a bonus feature on my Blu ray of Saving Private Ryan. It was about the those whom filmed actual footage of WWII. They showed alot of footage I had never seen before. It was graphic, very graphic. It showed footage of battle, the aftermath, it show countless dead bodies. Some were horribly mutilated and deformed. It also showed film of the concentration camps and the aftermath of the Atom bombs. One shot showed a Japanese woman and her baby. They think she saw the camera and feared capture. She threw her baby off a cliff and then jumped herself(remember back then Japanese didn't like to captured alive. The final shot will stay with me for a while. It was a film a a poor 2-4 year Asian girl who must have gotten caught in the middle a battle. She was being fed by a US soldier. She was shaking and there was blood on her it was clear she was wounded. She was scared to death. No child should have to go through whatever hell she must have gone through. Everyone should be required to see it once to understand why war should be avoided if at all possible.
Warbler said:
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It also showed film of the concentration camps and the aftermath of the Adam bomb.
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KEEP YOUR CREATIONIST RHETORIC OUT of the LAST MOVIE SEEN WAS INCEPTION forum please.
Or have you been playing BioShock recently...? You can talk about that here too.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
I watched Alien last night. That scene with Tom Skerritt in the air ducts when the alien is in the corner still scares me like it did when I was a kid, and I always expect it too.
Then I watched Descent for the 2nd time. It is pretty good, of course it pissed me off more than scared me. I was like "Shut the *beep* up bitch, it's gonna getcha!!!"
"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas
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xhonzi said:
Warbler said:
It also showed film of the concentration camps and the aftermath of the Adam bomb.
KEEP YOUR CREATIONIST RHETORIC OUT of the LAST MOVIE SEEN WAS INCEPTION forum please.
Or have you been playing BioShock recently...? You can talk about that here too.
whoops! previous post corrected.
Well, that's no fun. :(
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
it wasn't meant to be a fun post. it was meant a serious post, a VERY serious post.
Scrubbed...
Warbler said:
it wasn't meant to be a fun post. it was meant a serious post, a VERY serious post.
I guess Apocalypse Now is a little less confusing now?
Read some William Peter Blatty it always cheers me up, I'm currently reading Dimiter (when I have the time) it's the sort of masterpiece that some suits are bound to screw up and turn into a really disappointing movie (I'm talking to you Morgan Creek you pinheads!).
perhaps sometime, I'll re-watch Apocalypse Now and see if it is less confusing.
