Recent films. A very brief opinion.

Dress Barn · Post by **Dress Barn** » 19 Jan 2008, 10:56

Yuma was pretty good but the things I didn't like about it were
Russle Crow was pretty bland which was a good part of the film

And the voilence was kind of cartoony- A guy hits hit in the face with the butt of a gun a billion times to the point where he spits out a tooth and he only get's a few scratches on his face

Another guy burns to death in a stagecoach and never lets out a screem

When most people get shot they just keeled over like an 60's western

And the chicks were too Holywood hot for me to think of the film in the 1800's

ReverseEngineer · Post by **ReverseEngineer** » 19 Jan 2008, 11:20

Westerns and realism aren't supposed to go together, you know...

Dress Barn · Post by **Dress Barn** » 19 Jan 2008, 22:50

Cloverfield was a lot of fun

Best monster film evah

joey5001 · Post by **joey5001** » 20 Jan 2008, 07:22

Watched another studio Ghibli film last night.

Howl's Moving Castle, was pretty awesome until the last 10 minutes. The ending seem pretty rushed and incoherent.

Liingus · Post by **Liingus** » 21 Jan 2008, 22:05

Shoot Em Up - awesome
totally ridiculous
funny one liners

Don Eduardo · Post by **Don Eduardo** » 22 Jan 2008, 02:34

If you just got into Ghibli stuff, Joey, you need to check out Mononoke and Grave Of The Fireflies particularly. Look around for Steamboy as well. Very similar.

Mobiesque · Post by **Mobiesque** » 22 Jan 2008, 05:13

Mononoke was pretty nuts, saw it down at the Astor with the subtitles. The dubbed version has billybob thornton and claire danes 'n junk. Steamboy, once again amazing visuals but the story didn't do that much for me. Spirited Away weren't half bad neither.

That said, gimmie Urotsukidoji any day.

joey5001 · Post by **joey5001** » 04 Feb 2008, 07:38

Watched Mononoke last night, it was wonderful. Thought it was pretty full-on for a kids film though. A young girl sucking blood out of wounds. Heads and limbs chopped off. And a massive subplot about Urbanisation and environmentalism. Those crazy Japs.

I'd put it just below Spirited and above Howl's.

Also watched Lolita. Peter Sellers is a God.

Thunder Bear · Post by **Thunder Bear** » 04 Feb 2008, 15:29

which god?

ReverseEngineer · Post by **ReverseEngineer** » 04 Feb 2008, 17:04

joey5001";p="937923 wrote:Also watched Lolita. Peter Sellers is a God.

I could never really make it too far past the first scene of that one without getting incredibly bored. Yes, Peter Sellers is great in it, but when he's off-camera the film grinds to a halt.

joey5001 · Post by **joey5001** » 05 Feb 2008, 04:44

Really? I thought Mason was great in it. But of course Sellers steals it.

Thunder Bear";p="937971 wrote:which god?

Ermm, the funniest one? Ganeesh?

Thunder Bear · Post by **Thunder Bear** » 05 Feb 2008, 09:05

Excellent choice.

poopshipdestroyer · Post by **poopshipdestroyer** » 05 Feb 2008, 13:47

Thunder Bear";p="938116 wrote:Excellent choice.

Eviltoastman · Post by **Eviltoastman** » 05 Feb 2008, 16:24

Persepolis. Very good.

joey5001 · Post by **joey5001** » 10 Feb 2008, 18:04

Just watched Irreversible, and feel slightly worse for wear afterwoods...

I actually thought I was going to have a seizure at the end. But I enjoyed it. And Monica Belluci is just amazing.

ReverseEngineer · Post by **ReverseEngineer** » 10 Feb 2008, 18:29

I think the impact of Irreversible was greatly lessened when the characters just kept talking after the initial 'shock' scenes...

joey5001 · Post by **joey5001** » 11 Feb 2008, 05:03

But they wern't after.
And wasn't that kinda the point?

ReverseEngineer · Post by **ReverseEngineer** » 11 Feb 2008, 19:46

in the storyline they weren't
watching the film, they were.

perhaps if the whole thing built to the brutality that's in the film's beginning, it might have had greater impact.

Dress Barn · Post by **Dress Barn** » 12 Feb 2008, 00:20

Let There Be Blood was pretty good

Great music

Redundant Retard · Post by **Redundant Retard** » 12 Feb 2008, 12:59

O' Horten - Nice, warm film. Bent Hamer does it again in my opinion.

I am legend - Good premise, shit execution.

Darjeeling Limited - Funny, cute. Really good movie.

La nuit de Varennes - Marcello Mastroianni & Harvey Keitel performing if not at their best, well at least at a very amusing level in this great Scola-movie.

Hank · Post by **Hank** » 13 Feb 2008, 20:39

Watching the third film of the Pusher trilogy tonight. The first one was decent, but I really liked the second - Mads Mikkelsen is great.

Liingus · Post by **Liingus** » 14 Feb 2008, 00:28

HALE-BOPP";p="939712 wrote:Let There Be Blood was pretty good

Great music

jonny greenwood from radiohead

Dress Barn · Post by **Dress Barn** » 20 Feb 2008, 15:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scW90Q6Z_OM
Crazy as fuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S9uvhjTiBA
Pretty good

about to watch Ken Burns The War

The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford was an hour too long

Dress Barn · Post by **Dress Barn** » 20 Feb 2008, 20:01

Grizzly Man was awesome

joey5001 · Post by **joey5001** » 22 Feb 2008, 18:02

As you all know, I watch films about 942e92 years too late.
I just watched 3:10 to Yuma and enjoyed.