[shrugtheironteacup]

Bruce :(
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[shrugtheironteacup]

We were going to shoot shit but then I couldn't find ammo for my new gun and my friend forgot the gun he bought weird ammo for and it would be this whole huge trip and his wife was complaining and suddenly it was OH JUST MOVIES HURRR and--
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[shrugtheironteacup]

Really I should just live in a cave alone forever.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

*deleted orthodox Bruce Willis cuz pic was wrecking this page*

[Dracko]

[Take It Sleazy]

Ha!

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

ugh

[rabite gets whacked!]

Just watched Interiors, Crimes & Misdemeanors & rewatched Sweet And Lowdown. I'm really beginning to think the latter's the only Woody Allen movie I actually like.
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[evnvnv]

sweet and lowdown is pretty brilliant. i'm surprised crimes and misdemeanors didn't hold up but i suppose it is a little outrageous. this is just a hunch, but i would suggest that you also like deconstructing harry and zelig.

edit: history has shown deconstructing harry to be a powerfully prophetic movie, because it presaged the degenerate writer/academic trend of wonder boys, the squid and the whale, and that weird movie with dennis quaid by several years.
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[shrugtheironteacup]

[Dracko]

Excellent.
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[Tulpa]

[shrugtheironteacup]

McG: Conquest of Paradise
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

In'jun Genocide.

Musket bullet time.

Orange.

[rabite gets whacked!]

[rabite gets whacked!]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

rabite, I'm just going to assume you're not a fan of self-absorbed, neurotic jews.

[rabite gets whacked!]

Is that it? I mean, acclaim for stuff like Crimes & Misdemeanors is so universal (at least Rosenbaum agrees with me, but that's about it) that it's got me questioning my own faculties.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

I was just jesting you.

It's been a while since I've seen Crimes and Misdemeanors. I liked the Landau parts, but I felt the Allen sections detracted from the story, despite the theme of duality. I guess some would be bothered by the morality of the Landau section though.

The daydream flashback in Landau's childhood home probably laid it a bit too thick, I'll admit.

[rabite gets whacked!]

I didn't mind the flashback; at least Allen was trying to make a living character there. It was everything else with Landau's character that felt cardboard to me. He never sold it to me on any emotional level.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

I guess the character's motivations and guilt could be far better presented, but I did find Landau's performance (well, any performance of his) quite gripping.

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Stills from A Dangerous Method.

[evnvnv]

Yes I think the fact that woody allen works with brilliant st director and cinematographers tricks you in to wanting to think he is a cinematic or realist master but everything he writers is very stagey and even hammy.you can really understand this by reading his short stories. The other problem is like mamet for some reason he often hires actors who simply can't read his dialogue. I still love him T-T
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

It looks like the Lindelof rewrite of Alien prequel doesn't deviate too much from Spaihts original draft (which fanboys hated, but I rather liked). Still keeping a minute shred of hope.

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

Saw Porcile, my first Pasolini film the other night. It was some pretty fun stuff--definitely impressive for someone who took up film making as a whim.

I also rewatched The Beauty and The Beast for the first time in ten years. I was a little disappointed by it, but I can see why some people regard it as the best Disney animated movie. I wasn't so into a lot of the design choices. They did a good job of creating the world of a French hamlet and hearkening to European cartooning styles. But Belle and Gaston looked sort of obvious or perfunctory to me. And it looked like the animators couldn't keep up with the complexity in Belle's face; her eyes and mouth shifted during difficult transitions. I wasn't so into the songs either--not a lot of catchy melodies or clever lyrics. But in terms of plot structure, it was probably the most complex Disney movie. It's not an obvious hero's journey story, and the second act transitions smoothly into the third. There were even moments when I didn't feel like I knew exactly what was going to happen. Ultimately, though, I guess I shouldn't be watching kids' movies in the hopes of being surprised.

[Dracko]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

The Tree of Life finally has a release date.

[Mr Mustache]

I was a little worried, but Kiarostami's new movie is actually pretty cool, helped that he was there, and answered a lot of questions, but I think it's definitely worth checking out if it comes to your town.
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[bleak]

my brothers this is bleak. I just caught The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day. I have to say that I was too harsh on Troy Duffy following my viewing of the original Boondock Saints film. After viewing The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day I realize the The Boondock Saints was laying the foundation for an epically skyboxed motion picture saga about shootin' motherfuckers which I was simply too immature to appreciate upon my viewing of the original film. The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day fleshes out the canon in ways that bring exciting new dimension to the Boondock Saints universe and elevate it from pedestrian crime film territory and into a fiercely hypnotic cinematic stratosphere which has forced me to reevaluate my feelings on many classic films. Barry Lyndon may have great, innovative lighting and cinematography but it doesn't have the face-melting awesomeness of two irish brothers and their ambiguously latin cohort meting out sweet lead-based justice to a variety of underworld types who are frequently of questionable ethnic extraction. I mean, we have to keep the gene pool clean right guyz?

Look, I just think it's time a movie about catholic vigilantes taught us about the perils of miscegenation and The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day does that. It has everything you could ask for in a motion picture: guns, tits, guntits, explosions, titguns. Tits. Guns. Bullets. Bullets coming out of guns. Close-ups of magazines filled with bullets being rammed home into guns like my dick into a white bitch and then a round slams home and there is the camera right on the breech and I'm all UGUUUUU~

I am bleak my brothers and this is a fucking sweet movie you should buy a copy on blu-ray disc with immediacy so says bleak
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

I think Certified Copy might be my favorite of his. It's up on KG for anyone living outside the festival circuit.

Mustache, did Kiarostami give any interesting answers? I read recently that he's thinking of making a film in Japan with Binoche.

[elvis.shrugged]

Should I see others films of his before watching this? I just found a copy to download and I would love to see this.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

No. Certified Copy is probably Kiarostami's most accessible work, a perfect starting point. I'd recommend you see that and Close-Up, before going on to more difficult fare like Taste of Cherry and The Wind Will Carry Us.

[elvis.shrugged]

Thank you! I can't wait.
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[Ronnoc]

Looks like Black Swan is actually hardcore, fingernails-falling-out body horror. Pretty pumped!

[Dracko]

[evnvnv]

i guess that he's being intentionally curmudgeonly, but someone who thinks of 'unique, personal films' and comes up with godard (2010 godard, no less) and haneke is not a very good critic in my eyes.
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[rabite gets whacked!]

Born Into Brothels
These kids will be whores
unless they're educated
good luck there, lady

The Limits of Control
I don't speak Spanish
I have Christopher Doyle
to do the talking

District 9
I liked this man more
when he was killing babies
now he's just boring

Dark Habits
Nuns on LSD
the convent's pet tiger is
not Chekhovian

35 Rhums
Unspeakable loss
we'll dance instead of speaking
your clothes match this wall
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[RobotRocker]

Saw 3D is still quite bad with some obvious twists and the most telegraphed ending in film history, but this one ranks extremely high on the ownage scale if you are into that sort of thing. I cant quite hate on a movie that brutally murders the lead singer of Linkin Park in one of the most gnarly deaths of the series. A small cheer erupted in the cinema. Not as good as Saw VI: DEATH PANELS, but its an ok waste of time on Halloween.

[Ronk]

i don't think it's wrong to say some of these designs are pretty good.


i like the brazil and westworld ones.
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[rabite gets whacked!]

Decalogue, pt. 1
The kid's a genius
Dad's a heathen technophile
God: asshole Luddite.
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[Renfrew]

I watched the Good, The Bad, The Weird. It still manages to be a fun movie despite not even trying to use any of the elements that made the Good, The Bad, and the Ugly a great movie. I really liked this special effect they would use where whenever a physical stunt would be performed, the camera would start in close to the stunt but then would rapidly pull back a good 10 or 20 feet while the stunt was going on. It lent a cool sense of frantic movie much better than modern Hollywood jump cuts.
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