Neglify

"12 Angry Men" 1957 - 5 / 5
An undisputed masterpiece. This is how to adapt a stage play properly.

"Near Dark" 1987 - 4 / 5
Kathryn Bigelow cut her teeth on "The Loveless", then showed us she knew how to make a goddamn movie with "Near Dark". It's a broody horror that cares more about atmosphere than gore. It's a creepy, funny tale that has a deserved cult following.

"Martyrs" 2008 - 2.5 / 5
This is a disturbing, bloody and shocking film. I'd love it except that I wasn't able to feel any interest in the main characters. By the time the plot is fully revealed, I was pretty bored.

"Days of Heaven" 1978 - 4 / 5
Shortly after starting shooting, Terrence Malick threw out the script and had the actors improvise to get the feel for the characters and story. It took him 2 years to edit the movie, because he had trouble piecing together his own film into a coherent story.

And you sure can tell. This is a difficult movie to get through (for me at least). The visuals are stunning and as always, the atmosphere Malick creates is beautiful. But the acting and dialogue, especially the narration, feel stilted and unnatural. It almost ruins the "real life" aspect that Malick is so great at showing in film.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Neglify said:

I really like "Meaning of Life". I'd give it 3.5 balls out of 4. I've only watched it once though, and I was stoned, but I laughed my balls off.

There's too many stoners, drunks, drunk stoners, and stoned drunks on this board. =P 

I guess that means you're in the square minority? 

DuracellEnergizer said:

Alright, but only if you promise to use carpenter staples. Those puny paper staples are for pansies.

This button'll do the trick.

TV's Frink said:

Neglify said:

TV's Frink said:

What exactly are we tweeting?

Every Off-Topic post, as it gets posted in real time.

 So, every post I make then?  Wouldn't that cause Twitter to shut down?

Maybe that's OT's secret master plan...

DuracellEnergizer said:

Neglify said:

Everybody should watch "Beerfest - Extended Edition" !!!

I'd rather watch the PT, one film after another, with no breaks (bathroom or otherwise), with my eyelids stapled open. 

Send me an address and I can help you out with this scenario.

TV's Frink said:

What exactly are we tweeting?

Every Off-Topic post, as it gets posted in real time.

HAPPY BEER DAY!

Everybody should watch "Beerfest - Extended Edition" !!!

#chuglife

@TV Frink's license plate:

#frinklife

Well at least Fo's winks don't turn into stupid emojis that look like stroke victims.

captainsolo said:

Meaning of Life

Beyond frustrating, rushed, slipshod, annoying at many times, terribly unfunny in many places. This is a mess of a picture that ultimately NEVER works because they rushed into production without a break, creative recharge, or even decent material. The sketches never flow, they merely bang into one another, and what should be hysterical (Sex education etc) fails to spark. Other bits are painfully unfunny ("Every sperm"), pointless (all the couple on vacation bits), and downright disgusting (Creosote. Good grief.). It drags on so badly that one wishes the "Get on with it!" extras could have been reassembled to yell for the remainder of the feature. A criminal waste, made only worse by a mindbogglingly long Gilliam "short" that precedes the film for almost 20 minutes!

An extremely over-generous 2 balls out of 4. Primarily for the liver donor sketch. Uni's BD is at least cheap enough and the new hour long discussion with the five remaining Pythons is better than the film itself.

I really like "Meaning of Life". I'd give it 3.5 balls out of 4. I've only watched it once though, and I was stoned, but I laughed my balls off.

Easter weekend films:

"It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown" 1974 - 4 / 5

"The Prince of Egypt" 1998 - 3.5 / 5
A nicely done animated film from the 90s. Didn't care too much for the songs but they weren't bad.

"The Passion of the Christ" 2004 - 5 / 5
I can't wait for ssj's fanedit, redubbing all the dialogue.

"The Ten Commandments" 1956 - 5 / 5
This is a wonderful Classic Hollywood epic, the kind of film that doesn't get made anymore. I'd love to see a great modern director take this exact script and remake it, without going to extremes.

"Easter Yeggs" 1947 - 5 / 5
Bugs murders the Easter Bunny.

Nice! I've made a ranking list of all the Hitchcock films I've seen: http://letterboxd.com/neglify19/list/alfred-hitchcock-ranked/

Here are the top ten:

10. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
9. The Wrong Man (1956)
8. North by Northwest (1959)
7. The 39 Steps (1935)
6. Rear Window (1954)
5. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
4. Strangers on a Train (1951)
3. Vertigo (1958)
2. Rope (1948)
1. Psycho (1960)

darth_ender said:

What is racism?

A hatred of foot-races.

*sigh* to you, good sir

Here's how I'm prepping for Avengers 2:

Seriously people, whatever happened to the concept of "You have your beliefs, I have mine, no more needs to be said or debated." Mutual respect motherfuckers.

darth_ender said:

I guess as I've thought about it, though I was defending Warbler, I was also defending Jesus Christ.  You see, to me he is not just some guy.  He is not even some remote supernatural being.  I see him as a very dear friend, someone for whom I have a great deal of love.  You may criticize me, my beliefs, my church, its founder, its leaders, its doctrine, its scripture.  You may criticize similar things for broader Christianity.  But when you actually belittle the Man I love most in this universe, I really cannot take it.  It's not just being thin-skinned.  Most of you wouldn't take me insulting a family member.  This is much like that.  You don't have to believe in him, but please do not disrespect him.

I'm totally down with this.

Warbler said:

twister111 said:

I think if the restroom analogy was akin to the restroom scenes in Suits it works out rather well actually. I mean if you've seen the show you'd know that they put a lot of varied dramatic scenes set in the restroom. Kind of fits off-topic in a way.

 from my perspective, which I know most will disagree with,  the off topic section is the Cheers bar, the rest of the forum is in that restaurant on the 2nd floor.

That got a legit LOL from me, great analogy.

Legit, I have no bad feelings towards Warbler. I wouldn't want him to leave the site.

Yeah I was pretty drunk last night. If this came across as mean, well there you go. I have nothing against Warbler.

NOTE: This is a dumb April Fool's thread. Warbler's a good guy.

I think from now on, if anybody wants to make fun of Warbler, they should do it only in this thread. Don't clutter up other threads making fun of the guy. If you like making fun of him, do it here. I don't promise Warbler will read this, but I promise you it'll be on the internet.

Atheist: What’s this fly doing in my soup? 

Waiter: Praying. 

Atheist: Very funny. I can’t eat this. Take it back. 

Waiter: You see? The fly’s prayers were answered.