[elvis.shrugged]

Bad Lieutenant is one of the most entertaining movies of the last couple of years, yeah.
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[rabite gets whacked!]

Pretty sure you both know what I meant there.
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[Shapermc]

Grizzly Man was pretty amazing/hilarious too. Also, Agularia: The Wrath of God is a pretty amazing adventure film. Yeah, I totally spelled that shit wrong.
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[Ghost Dinosaur]

[rabite gets whacked!]

Touche.

Anyway, I am surprised you didn't find it at all engaging on an aesthetic level until the end.
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[Ghost Dinosaur]

I liked the color, and there's a few other tracking shots down the river that have a really nice, pretty ominousness to them. But, and this is more subjective which is why I didn't bring it up before because I recognize that it might not be a flaw in the movie so much as a bias in my own personal preferences, I found a lot of the haphazard camera work (lots of handheld that tilts and pans but otherwise remains stationary, compositions that seem awkward and unrehearsed) to be distracting rather than immersive. In a more formally composed movie I might've lost myself in the mixture of tension and beauty and what not, but for some reason all that jittering and unstaged mise en scene just gave it a feel of affected chaos that I never bought into.

[shrugtheironteacup]

[shrugtheironteacup]

ghost_dinosaur the guy with the purple face liked Aguirre when we checked it out from the library in Alaska what in the sam hill
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[Ronnoc]

I saw The Social Network, it was alright. The weird thing is, one of the guys who made Youtube went to my high school, and he came in to talk to us once because he's rich and has nothing better to do. Youtube started out as a video version of hotornot.

[shrugtheironteacup]

http://www.slate.com/id/2269262/

[Shapermc]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[evnvnv]

it is a complete mystery to me what makes people think terence malick is a marketable genius and michael cimino is a waste of time. i mean, i know there are obvious differences but i have been plodding through 'heaven's gate' lately and it really isn't all that bad. he really should have been allowed to keep making dead-slow landscape epics (like malick seems to somehow keep finding the money to do) instead of making boring movies with mickey rourke (not that there's anything wrong with that).

i also just watched 'the new world' (in fact, i think i may have only put 'heaven's gate' on my netflix list months ago because i thought it was actually 'days of heaven'). it was good, but you'd think a director as iconoclastic and cerebral as malick would know better than to include a romance scene in a sunflower field in his movie about pocahontas. i half expected one of colin ferrel's dreamy narrated monologues to include the lines, "And now, I truly can paint with all of the colors of the wind..."
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[evnvnv]

Also based on the slate description of his on set and editing behavior i think wong kar wai is probably a better terence malick than terence malick is
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/ciminos-final-cut-200203

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[Swimmy]

[Dracko]

BFI have uploaded the entirety of Death and the Compass.



Cast: Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval
Director: Alex Cox
1992
In a nightmare city inhabited only by criminals and police, a mystic detective finds a tool to catch a villainous outlaw. Augmented by a non-linear narrative style, Miguel Sandoval’s unhinged and digressive narration, by mystical and religious overtones and a keen visual sensibility, Death and the Compass is a distinctly unique experience.
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[Dracko]

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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Al Pacino to play Phil Spector in an HBO movie by David Mamet.

[elvis.shrugged]

Do we like The Social Network here? I saw it tonight and loved it.
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[evnvnv]

[elvis.shrugged]

Those are fair criticisms! I just saw it so I honestly haven't had a chance to really process it. I agree that the first part of the film--the primordial elements of what became the Facebook and the examination of social networks--to be the best. I especially enjoyed sequences like the coding of "Facemash," which married the soundtrack to the movie perfectly. I did enjoy Timberlake's Parker, though, so the film was able to maintain that momentum for me. I also really liked the ending a lot, which seemed to sum up its portrayal of Zuckerberg: sociopathic and forever on the edge of society, looking in, waiting to be "friended."

I was also sort of surprised that the film didn't touch on what is the biggest problem with Facebook at the present: the erosion of privacy and the many advertisers descending on it.
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[Shapermc]

It's on my list of things to see. May see it next week.
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[Ronnoc]

[evnvnv]

yea, i'd definitely still recommend it to almost anyone, slight letdowns aside. i have a feeling there must be some potential to release a longer version on DVD that would give it a real ending and fill in some of the blanks with the characters. i also can't think of any other 'bio pic' type movies that have been made while the subjects are still at some kind of high point in their careers. except for that movie about the late night wars? weird stuff.
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[elvis.shrugged]

Well, I was referring specifically to the very last scene, which I feel could have been pulled off even if they continued the story. I was hoping for that myself actually, waiting for the floodgates to open circa 2006 and saying "hey, that's when I joined!" Yes, I'm a loser. It would have been nice to see the film tackle that BIG DEAL (and others, like the privacy and advertising nonsense), but I guess that would have taken focus away from the court deposition storyline (which may have been a worse idea).
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Never Let Me Go is quite beautiful and well acted.

Read the book instead.

[Dracko]

Jordan Mechner has posted his original screenplay for Prince of Persia.
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[Shiren the Launderer]

Ebert doesn't like Salon's review of Secretariat. I have no intention of seeing a sentimental horse racing movie shot in Kinkadian golden tones and starring Diane Lane so I may be a bit biased, but seriously Ebert, 4 stars??

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

That salon review is a bit hyperbolic (though he'd dead on about the audience).

Ebert himself can be a bit of a softy/middlebrow, but I still think he's an excellent writer, especially in regards to his blog.

[CubaLibre]

The guy's response to Ebert is basically that he was hyperbolic on purpose. I think that's a lame defense and find his review hyperbolic as well, but its core is essentially true.
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[evnvnv]

It would be a lame response if Ebert didn't do exactly the same thing in his negative reviews. Also Ebert is constantly spewing mad anti-tea party "satire" on his twitter and when he's not doing that it is chilled-out lefty vibes all around. I think Ebert was just pissed off that the review managed (or attempted) to turn a movie that won him over into an emblem of the thing he seems to despise most in the world. It also puts him in the awkward position of sharing an opinion with Rush Limbaugh, which must be irksome.

Ebert, ever the classy gentleman, manages to turn his response-to-a-response into another hilarious jab at SB favorite Armond White, which sort of redeems him for me. It's interesting, though, b/c in the White v. Ebert clash (which began with Ebert defending White for a review he wrote, [I think of District 9?] and ended with Ebert looking at White's list of favorite movies and declaring, half-seriously, that it made him worthless as a critic) Ebert sort of played the clown to White's humorless analyst. In this case the roles are reversed, and now Ebert is the one with no sense of humor. Oh, film critics.
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[CubaLibre]

Well, "you do it too" is another brand of lame response. But either way, yes, it appears that the two have buddied up by snickering over even worse critics. No matter their squabbles, Secretariat is still a golden-toned American exceptionalist fable about what utterly privileged white people can accomplish given just a little grit and determination. There's essentially no room in the world for a movie like that. It's worse than useless.
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[Shiren the Launderer]

[seth]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[Take It Sleazy]

Some of the footage of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future is coming to the new release

[Ronk]

[Dracko]

Alien prequel all but confirmed to be an abortion.