Some silly 70s horror: Dracula AD 1972, Horror Express and The Devil's Nightmare. Actually the last is not a bad movie at all, and it even has a lesbian scene of great tenderness and passion, being a European horror film, and all three are great entertainment.
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Posts: 96 (02/27/06 2:24 AM) |
A rather moving Norwegian comedy called Kitchen Tales. Anyone seen this one? Nicely minimal production, lesiurely even sedate pace, and very well observed and portrayed characters.
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Posts: 234 (03/08/06 8:12 PM) Minister of Social Superiority |
I just recently watched Pi, which I'd seen before, and Jin-Roh, which I hadn't.
Pi is awesome. Sci-fi-ish math-drama. *cough*... It's really good, though. (You'd probably dig it ljim) Jin-Roh was also really good, and I'm not usually all that into anime. I think it was by the same guy that did Ghost in the Shell (or at least one of the same guys)... And I think I might actually put it up there with it in terms of quality. I suck at giving synopsiseses.
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Posts: 96 (03/15/06 1:27 AM) |
The Nick Cave video collection - some great stuff there.
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Posts: 96 (03/21/06 12:39 AM) |
The Brothers Grimm. It looked pretty mostly, but was pretty much a train-wreck. Waste of a cool premise.
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Posts: 4513 (03/21/06 12:48 AM) Audio Ambassador |
Been watching a Discovery/BBC series on Ice Age in the Americas. Pretty cool stuff though it almost always puts us to sleep. Not really from boredom, just from being really relaxed.
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Posts: 96 (03/29/06 1:53 AM) |
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - It's got those stylistic quirks I find annoying about Burton, but also the quirks that I find enchanting, so a pretty entertaining movie, and better than the Chocolate Factory remake.
Munich - Nope, I didn't like this. It might seem fraught with peircing moral introspection and symbolism for Americans, but for me it was just a surface skimming of ambiguities that I'm pretty familiar with, from where I'm standing. Some of the scenes were truly egregious (eg: The extended scene where we are treated to quick cuts between Eric Bana in the throes of passion and shots of terrorist and counter-terrorist acts). Zatoichi - This was fun! Takeshi Kitano stars, directs and also wrote this movie about a popular film hero, Zatoichi, the blind masseur/kickass redresser of wrongs. 'With my eyes wide open, I can't see a thing...' |
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Posts: 4513 (03/29/06 4:42 AM) Audio Ambassador |
I liked Corpse Bride a lot. Enough to give it a thread of it's own here. Haven't seen the others.
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Posts: 96 (04/01/06 6:19 AM) |
Baise-Moi: A very violent and disturbing French movie. About two girls who basically embark on a killing spree. Sort of a brutal, nihilistic Thelma & Louise.
Amadeus: It's based on a rather dubious premise, but this movie continues to be a favourite of mine. The Dead Zone: An adapatation of the King novel, starring Christopher Walken. A very well-paced and gripping movie, with a great performance by Martin Sheen as a psychotic senatorial candidate. |
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Posts: 4513 (05/01/06 10:59 PM) Audio Ambassador |
I watched a library DVD of Robot Stories, directed by Greg Pak Saturday night. It was enjoyable low budget science fiction that reminded me of an Asian American take on the old Twilight Zone method of story telling. Broken into four individual chapters, it used robots as an analogy for common human social interactions such as motherhood, romantic love, and coming to terms with death (both in ones' self and in a loved one). Nothing Earth shattering, but still insightful and amusing. The cinematographic look of the stories was oddly very bright and "mainstream t.v." in terms of lighting and costuming, making the whole thing a bit like an Asian American "Friends" in appearance despite the Twilight Zone like stories!
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Posts: 4513 (05/06/06 3:49 AM) Audio Ambassador |
We watched Dark City last night, which was surprisingly o.k. amidst some cheesiness and cliche. Very comic bookesqe aesthetic with a somewhat Lovecraftian/surrealist theme of powerful "strangers" from the stars stealing human dreams and feeding them back to them. A little more separation from Hollywoodness and it could have been a great movie actually, but even so it wasn't half bad.
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Posts: 4513 (05/08/06 1:51 AM) Audio Ambassador |
Watched Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch last night. A western shot in b&w starring Johny Depp with an instrumental soundtrack by Neil Young and a cameo featuring Iggy Pop as a transvestite mountain man. As weird and fu[ked up as most Jarmusch movies, but a bit more violent than some. Not my favorite of his films, which I went into it suspecting it to become, still very good.
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Posts: 4513 (06/23/06 2:04 AM) Audio Ambassador |
We finally got our library copy of the Firefly movie Serenity, which I've had on hold not for about 5-6 months. My comments on it can be found at the bottom of this thread over at Science Fiction. No real point in copy and pasting it here. A one line summary: good, not as good as the original series, Star Wars influences not all a good thing.
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Posts: 96 (06/30/06 2:33 AM) |
I liked Dark City a lot.
Some recent views: Revolver. didn't like this at all. Guy RItchie tries to get profound with cheesy aphorisms and whatnot, and pulls off a pointlessly complicated and pontficatory movie. The Devil's Rejects: This is a really vile movie, but well made and gripping, often funny. If you can get over the despicable content, worth a watch. Best-ever use of a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. The Descent: A very taut and tense movie about a team of girl spelunkers running into nastiness in an underground cave system. Very claustrophobic and well-paced. |
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Posts: 6698 (06/30/06 8:01 AM) SARS Incubator |
I just watched "Tony Takitani," which is this beautiful film shot in a minimalist style. It's based off of a short story with the same name by Haruki Murakami, and it's quite possibly the most depressing thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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Posts: 4513 (12/15/06 12:28 PM) Audio Ambassador |
We watched this dated but entertaining 1970s Cold War SF thriller last night. It's always enlightening to see what the future looked like in the past - lots of videophones yet nary a personal phone to be seen and super-genius computers running on reel to reel tape! Although it's prophetic value doesn't exactly hold up, the imagery and soundtrack were still pretty cool. These type of movies make for amusing "alternate histories" when watched today.
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Posts: 4513 (12/24/06 3:05 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Last night at my Dad's we watched Grizzly Man, the Warner Herzog documentary about Timothy Treadwell, the somewhat insane guy who lived among the grizzlies in Alaska for 13 summers until one finally ate him. The guy was seriously a fruitcake, but there's lots of amazing footage he shot in it.
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Posts: 6698 (12/24/06 6:31 PM) SARS Incubator |
Quote:  Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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Posts: 4513 (12/24/06 8:57 PM) Audio Ambassador |
Hmm. It might have been even better if he'd lived among llamas, and eventually been eaten by one of them instead...
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Posts: 6698 (12/30/06 7:12 PM) SARS Incubator |
"Children of Men."
Go see it. Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. - Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo |
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