Bingowings said:
I have just re-watched the first two episodes of Brideshead Revisited.
Adywan has outdone himself.
It is such an improvement on Brideshead The Special Edition.
Nice one! *grin*
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
I missed a few rentals (nothing much), so I'll catch you up for the last few days:
RiffTrax Live - Reefer Madness: Nothing like seeing Mystery Science Theater live via satellite with a hundred people of similar interests.
Inception: again. A friend of mine asked to see something "mind-blowing", and his life sucks right now, so there's nothing like questioning your reality for a couple hours.
Selena: My wife bought a two pack of DVDs at Big Lots, this was one of them. So tragic, young talent being taken in her prime. And it was nice seeing Edward James Olmos yelling about things that were not Cylon-related.
The other movie in the pack is The Bodyguard (which I've not seen), and I got THX 1138 for $3 (which I've also not seen).
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Yay, Inception. I still have friends seeing this for the first time, and they say things to me afterward like, "Ben, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?!"
Which, of course, I surely did tell them.
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.
Kill Bill Vol 2.
Warb, a few thoughts on the movies you see, rather than just the title, would be nice.
ok, but correct me if I'm wrong, many have come in here and just posted the title of the movie and nothing else.
I haven't noticed - but I haven't really paid attention. I only noticed that you've done it.
Not a big deal, really. I just think it might be nice to hear a quick opinion if you liked it or not, maybe why you did or didn't like it. But no biggie.
doubleofive said:
Selena: My wife bought a two pack of DVDs at Big Lots, this was one of them. So tragic, young talent being taken in her prime. And it was nice seeing Edward James Olmos yelling about things that were not Cylon-related.
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I lived in Corpus Christi for a short time. It was hot and humid. But I braved the climate to visit this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirador_de_la_Flor
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You lived in Copus Christi? And Westminster? I used to live in San Antonio and now I live in Thornton... are you on some sort of "live in a city for a couple years that neighbours a city that xhonzi will soon move to" kick?
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 turn the question around on you - are you stalking me (poorly)?
That's absurd. Just because you were there first, you have some claim to being the stalkee in lieu of the stalker?
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.
Stalker is a very strange, magical and evocative film though.
xhonzi said:
That's absurd. Just because you were there first, you have some claim to being the stalkee in lieu of the stalker?
*speechless*
Licence to Kill.
I don't know if I mentioned it in this thread (I think I did, but I'm too lazy to go back and look right now), but I also watched The Living Daylights not too long ago.
And I have to say, I'd only seen each Dalton Bond once before, and it was quite a while ago (during my have-to-own-every-James-Bond-film-on-VHS days, before The World is Not Enough came out), and they are both much better than I remember.
I'm not sure why the Dalton films are so maligned by many Bond fans. I think both are fantastic, and Dalton does Bond better than Brosnan, Moore, Lazenby, and probably Connery ever did (I'm still on the fence there), and he's at least as good as Daniel Craig, if not better. He just ... is 007, at least 007 as he should be (to me).
Personally, I feel Licence isn't quite as good as Daylights, but it's still better than the vast majority of Bond films. I'd say the only ones that are better than it are Daylights, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, From Russia with Love, Casino Royale, and maybe Dr. No (though that's a very boring film today).
I feel one of the reasons it's not as appreciated is that the villain isn't out to take over the world or anything - he's just a drug dealer. But it works because this isn't a "save the world" 007 film - it's much more personal to James than that. Not to mention it does the "rogue" 007 better than Die Another Day or Quantum of Solace did (though Quantum comes very close).
It almost feels (to me) that Bond is doing this to vicariously seek revenge for the death of his wife (in OHMSS) as much as getting revenge for the maiming of his best friend. He knows Felix can't avenge his wife's death himself, being maimed and all, and Bond's been down this road before. To him, Sanchez may as well have killed his own wife. Licence to Kill is the kind of film that should have followed On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Bond blinded by vengeance against Blofeld. Instead we got Diamonds Are Forever (to be fair, I don't remember much of that movie, either - I should give it another go soon).
As much as I love GoldenEye, it pains me that we got that instead of another Dalton Bond. I could live with losing GoldenEye if it meant we wouldn't have had to put up with The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day. (Tomorrow Never Dies I could take or leave.)
Anyway, if you haven't given the Dalton Bond films a fair shake in recent years, give them another go. You might be surprised at how much better they are than you may remember.
I like "Licence to Kill". One of my top 5 Bond film picks. It is in a slightly different style then the other 007 films of the 80's, and it's budget problems are apparent. But still, it is a very good tale. Some of the acting is low grade from the three ladies. On the same level of Stacey in "A View to A Kill". The movie does have a good villain. The lizard was a bit over the top, but I can forgive that kind of gag over let's say playing the song California Girls (and a badly done cover version at that) over what could have been one of the most thrilling and dangerous tension filled moments of Moore's career as James Bond. That could have been on par with the "The Spy Who Loved Me" pre-credit scene. But no, they completely cheesed out. And don't let me get started on the fake looking ice burg sub... Glad they kept that kind of goofball humor to a much more subdued level in the Dalton films. More so in "Licence to Kill".
Last night I saw
"Local Hero"
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
For xhonzi:
Book of Eli
Not bad, very interesting visually and a decent story, but probably not something I'd watch again.
Vinyl 1965 film by Andy Warhol, based off of Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange.
It was my first Andy Warhol film, so I didn't know what to expect. Never been a fan of his pop art, and it turns out his films seem to be just as mundane and unappealing to me.
At one hour long, it was pretty painful to sit though, but I endured. Just so you have an idea of what Andy Warhol films are like, his 6 hour long film, Sleep chronicles one man's night of sleep. Sound interesting? Well, it is nothing more than a camera watching someone sleep. Another well known film of his, Blow Job spends thirty minutes focused on the face of a man getting a, you guessed it, blow job.
So, long story short, Vinyl, which was filmed in one take, on a single set, with actors apparently chosen on the spot for their wilingness rather than their talent, was really, really, really, really awful. But what is to be expected from the man who used to "paint" using urine?
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
Thanks, Frink!
I really like Living Daylights... especially the opening scenes. It has been several years since I last saw License to Kill but I still found it to be unsatisfying to me. I'm curious what a 3rd Dalton Bond would have looked like, but I wouldn't trade GoldenEye for anything.
The wife and I watched The Departed last night. As I predicted, she really liked it. It seems like we've been watching a lot of DiCaprio recently (He so dreamy!) and I have to say that this is probably his best work. I really liked Inception, but I don't think it specificly due to DiCaprio's performance. In The Departed, he's definitely more of a highlight. Also: Lots of cursing.
From imdb:
237 F-words and its derivatives, 6 obscene hand gestures, 16 sexual references, 23 scatological terms, 32 anatomical terms, 5 mild obscenities, 3 derogatory terms for Italians, 3 derogatory terms for African-Americans, 1 derogatory term for Irish people, 1 derogatory term for Chinese people, 3 derogatory terms for homosexuals, 4 religious profanities, 10 religious exclamations
It's a little excessive.
Also, has anyone noticed that Scorsese's films often have really bad continuity? Just simple stuff, like a guy leaning forward in one shot, and then he's leaning back in the other actor's coverage, and back to leaning forward in the next shot. I first noticed it at the end of the Aviator where 2 characters are walking and talking... it cuts to a close up of them where they are stopped, and cuts back to them walking and talking and then they stop and face each other. Back to a close up of them stopped and talking. Then back to them walking and talking... normally I'm not the contnuity police, but it seems to really stick out in these Scorsese films to me for some reason.
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.
Scorsese seems like a director who would do radically different takes to see how it goes, then in the editing room they would have to use the best takes, no matter how different they are.xhonzi said:
Also, has anyone noticed that Scorsese's films often have really bad continuity? Just simple stuff, like a guy leaning forward in one shot, and then he's leaning back in the other actor's coverage, and back to leaning forward in the next shot. I first noticed it at the end of the Aviator where 2 characters are walking and talking... it cuts to a close up of them where they are stopped, and cuts back to them walking and talking and then they stop and face each other. Back to a close up of them stopped and talking. Then back to them walking and talking... normally I'm not the contnuity police, but it seems to really stick out in these Scorsese films to me for some reason.
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Wahlberg is pretty good in the movie 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 heard that somewhere else too (some Academy?), but I won't believe it until I see it. He's still "unintentionally-funny actor turned intentionally-funny actor" to me.xhonzi said:
Wahlberg is pretty good in the movie too.
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C3PX said:
Vinyl 1965 film by Andy Warhol, based off of Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange.
It was my first Andy Warhol film, so I didn't know what to expect. Never been a fan of his pop art, and it turns out his films seem to be just as mundane and unappealing to me.
At one hour long, it was pretty painful to sit though, but I endured. Just so you have an idea of what Andy Warhol films are like, his 6 hour long film, Sleep chronicles one man's night of sleep. Sound interesting? Well, it is nothing more than a camera watching someone sleep. Another well known film of his, Blow Job spends thirty minutes focused on the face of a man getting a, you guessed it, blow job.
So, long story short, Vinyl, which was filmed in one take, on a single set, with actors apparently chosen on the spot for their wilingness rather than their talent, was really, really, really, really awful. But what is to be expected from the man who used to "paint" using urine?
I know it isn't strictly speaking a Warhol film but Blood For Dracula is beautifully shot (not bad for a film made with the resources and crew left over from bringing Flesh For Frankenstein in well in advance of schedule and under budget) and bizarrely funny.
Now there is a pair of films I would like to see get a modern 3D make-over.
The Men Who Stare At Gloats.
Didnt know anything about it, but it does the Jedi religion thing to a tee
The World's Fastest Indian
I saw it last night, and absolutely loved it. Hopkins was brilliant. The whole thing was beautifully filmed, and it was story all the way through; no CGI, no excessive special effects, just a thoughtful film about what is essentially a true story. Give it a go!