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Toronto After Dark Film Festival is announced!
Hey folks, Harry here with a press release from the TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FESTIVAL - Toronto's taste of madness that all good cult movie loving Canucks love. If you can't make it to the ecstacy of Fantastic Fest you should definitely check this out!
Toronto After Dark Film Festival, has just announced its first batch of exciting new horror, sci-fi, action, and cult feature films that will be premiering at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto at the festival's third annual event this October 17-24, 2008.
The initial lineup includes cult horror musical Repo! The Genetic Opera, revenge thriller Red based on Jack Ketchum’s novel, horror action movie Tokyo Gore Police, celebrated vampire feature Let the Right One In, which won Best Picture at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, and Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton’s latest, a dark and twisted animated feature fairytale, Idiots & Angels.
Rounding out the list are MirageMan, an award-winning action-packed crowd-pleaser from Chile, the wickedly fun undead horror film Trailer Park of Terror, and the multiple award-winning cult comedy Who is KK Downey? You can watch a festival preview trailer featuring snippets of all 8 announced films at youtube here:
Individual tickets go on sale on September 24, the same day Toronto After Dark will be releasing its complete festival lineup and film schedule. Or you can opt for a Festival VIP Pass, which are already on advance sale at just $99 and give fans priority entry to all 17 screenings including the Opening and Closing Galas and Parties. Visit the official Toronto After Dark Film Festival site here for more details and to watch trailers to all the films:
TorontoAfterDark.Com
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Aug 31, 2008 6:52:40 PM CDT
I hear they actually show movies before sunset.
by stereotypical evil archer
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not the 24th.
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It's at a small out of the way theatre. Maybe it'll open wider later. You'd think it would premiere in Toronto.
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I went for free two years ago.
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The famous wrestler passed on this morning at the age of 81. He had a stroke on 8/8 and was taken off life support. :|
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Whats the whole idea behind them? Are the movies exclusive or something?
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You guys should pay for me to go and I'll review the movies for ya. Deal?
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...has been removed from the line up of the German Fantasy Film Fest, after people complained about what a shitty trainwreck the movie was. Don't know if it's really that bad, but it's an interesting story anyway :D
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Probably the greatest city in the world. (Note: I don't travel much, but that doesn't mean that Toronto isn't great. I just hate how Canadians pronounce it. Sounds like "Turahno".)
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Kiltro was fuckin weak though. Except that one scene with the heel blades. Those sounds they made? That shit was the mad notes.
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I have been wanting to go to Canada for years. I have loved every Canadian I ever met. The friendliest people ever. So far at least. I'm sure there are a few assholes in Canada.
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Looks like tons o'fun. I hope that many people here get to go to that so that I can live vicariously through their experiences.
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It is a very nice city, very, very. Lots of things to do and see there. It is very expensive though. Fred went to Niagara falls on drive back home.
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Thanks for the info. I have a copy of it on hold at the library now. Looks like they have several books by Jasper Fforde. Cool! I need a new series to get hooked on!
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It wasn't that bad. Anyone see it yet?
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Nice sunshiny day to talk about After Dark Film Fests. Did you watch the trailer?
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I guess I should.
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I haven't seen "Babylon A.D." What's it about, basically?
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Was Niagra Falls as cool as everyone says? Too bad it's illegal to go over it in a barrel now. Not that I'd be crazy enough to do that, probably, but I am sadistic enough to watch some other fool try it.
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oops!
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You'll love Jasper Fforde. Lead character in 'The Eyre Affair' is called Thursday Next. Cracks me up everytime I hear that name. But you make me think of her, for some crazy reason. There have been sequels but I can't recall them without checking.Where's the rest of the CoC then?Apologies to the Toronto TB'ers. None of that has anything to do with Toronto.
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The funny thing is that Babylon A.D is basically Riddick Part 3. Vin Diesel as a badass in the future fighting the powers that be. If he had funky eyes, you would never have been able to tell the difference. Did you watch the Riddick movies yet?
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I think they are still discussing Sagan. I was hoping to change that topic, but gave it up. Thurday Next is a cool name. I saw several of Fforde's books listed on the library website with that name in the title. I have to wait until tomorrow for them to open , though.These films look very interesting, but they probably won't make it to the theaters here. I'll have to catch them on video, most likely.
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Watched part of "Pitch Black", but fell asleep (not because of the movie). I have a lot of catching up to do with these, but it is a challenge I am ready to undertake, if I can make myself stop 'talking' long enough to focus on them!
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Canadians are the nicest people in the whole world! Even in a big city like Toronto strangers suddenly greet you nicely and ask if you need help (if you look like that). And no, none of these people stole my moneybag.
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does indeed look to contain some interesting stuff. Too fast and too short, though.Mavra - the Thursday Next books go Eyre Affair, Lost In A Good Book, Well Of Lost Plots, Something Rotten & First Among Sequels.
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I'd like to get a better look at them also. The theaters here will take up 7 or 8 screens between three separate locations (they all have the same owner) for a single title. Doesn't leave much room for the indie films, so they don't usually even pass this way. You'd think a college town would be more open to that sort of thing. Thanks, Wolf. Got that list organized! I queue the library like some of you queue Netflix.
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Everyone is still at the Riddick TB.
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I peeked in over there, but I'm not planning on getting back into it. Too nice a day to argue and debate politics and quantum physics. How many films have you watched so far?
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Watched this movie earlier, at Jonah's behest - on the same site as Hansel & Gretel. Pretty good. I tried to give his Nezzula Rat Monster another go but gave up again; looks like a bunch of cut scenes for a video game thrown together.
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Sorry I didn't clarify that. My bad!
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of HOD's so far.
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Just passed the part of the chainsaw foot. I had to go back some because one of the boys came in and started watching with me. He's waiting for me to finish so he can borrow it.
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Is gret morbid ridiculous fun. Where is HOD anyway?
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That was a fun movie! I think the big discussions on them start tomorrow. Did you like "Shinobi"?Btw, the second person I loaned "The Host" to said she cried at the ending. Wow! She seriously got into that one!
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He said he had to mow his lawn. Lucky me...I have a kid here to do it!
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I have yet to receive my movie package, so can't join in any discussions. Bah!
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I thought you'd have then by now. I will try to avoid spoilers. From what I've seen so far, you are in for a great time. Suspend your notions of reality and just settle in for the fun.
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you and I have never talked I think. Howdy! So what was the highlight for you of Machine Girl? The junior high ninjas were pretty hilarious, but I also liked the tempura hand with the shrill, eerie giggling.
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I found Shinobi a little bit hard to follow at times. It seemed more comic bookish than horror. I'll have to give it another chance. Though it did have some interesting CGI.
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Hello yourself! I loved the first tryouts of the machinegun on the red ninja menace. It was "Kill Bill", "Army of Darkness", and "Return of the Living Dead" all rolled into one big gory mess of action! Most diffcult scene to watch (for me):Drillbra. OUCH!!!! Loved the little bloopers where she's fighting and you see her left hand and also the "football" ninjas of vengeance. Gotta ask, though, if she thinks they have bullet-proof vests, why not aim for the head or legs (plus one guy wasn't even wearing a shirt), but that's just nit-picking. I give the movie an A all around!
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May wait a few more minutes til my nephew collects his fee and flees. Don't want to be conned into giving him too many movies at once.
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I also really liked the opening scene where she was beating up those teenagers. Some of that shit was completely unexpected and I couldn't help but laugh my ass of at their misfortune. That and Warlords (not sure you got that one?) were my two favorites of the first batch of movies. In terms of madness, it's sheer brilliance
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I have "Warlords" too, but, like I said, I'm behind most of you guys. So many wonderful movies this weekend between HOD and the Asain Horror site and some other, non-Asian I was guided to ("May" was one), it's been a full film option weekend.
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did anyone get any movies that were dubbed in English?
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I did that too. I just happened to find a lot of cool movies in the last 3 or 4 days and have been trying to watch them all.
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Onward with the agenda!
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Tonight Mofrees (my girlfriend's TB name back when she actually wrote on here too) and I are gonna watch the puppet movie strings and probably Envy (just cause she's a huge Christopher Walken fan). I still am planning on watching all of HOD's movies as soon as possible, as well as rewatching Lady Vengeance (Mofrees just saw Oldboy for the first time a few weeks ago and I thought she should watch the whole trilogy) and I'm rewatching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, just because I fucking adore Tim Roth and Gary Oldman.
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what a movie. Maybe my favorite of everything I have seen so far.
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ride bikes with me now, please. We have things to do.
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off to the park. Later.
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wow.. good for you if you did, but you are one easy to satisfy viewer. I tought it was utter crap. Here let me self-quote what I wrote in the Riddick talkback last night.
"It is boring, uninspired and completely nonsensical, it really feels like they cut out at least 30 minutes of important plot/explanations. And the action is minimal and utterly underwhelming, so there really is nothing to enjoy at all. Dismal, avoid at all cost."
Also, I'd like to point out the stupidity of the product placement, namely the commercial airplane with the huge Coca Cola Zero logo pasted on it. Its like, did Vin Diesel refuse to be seen drinking said soda, so they did that instead? Lame. -
I guess I didn't notice the Coke logo deal. I can't say I liked it, but I don't think that it was anymore ridiculous than Chron. of Riddick, Death Race or any other of these sci fi action movies. It seemed to be almost an exact blend of Riddick, Children of Men and Johnny Mnemonic.
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Mowed the lawn, pulled a ton of weeds, had my mom over for dinner and watched Baby Mama. Man, I loves that Tina Fey but that movie......meh. Overall, considering I had 4 days off, I watched only one really outstanding movie, Redbelt, and a bunch of piss poor to OK stuff. Did get through all of last season's Earl too and that makes up for it because that show just entertains me the hell out of me and the wife.Herb, I don't think most of the movies I sent you will be dubbed. I buy mostly the region 3 releases and they don't bother with dubbing. And sometimes their subtitles are laughably translated. I gotta warn you right now, I can't stand dubbed movies so the stuff you'll be getting from me will be 90% subtitled. And if you found Shinobi hard to follow, don't worry, these Asian movies can be like that. You get a feel for it after a while and eventually ignore the disjointed stuff.
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I was thinking that watching it, but I find Mnemonic better and more enjoyable in its crappiness, and it's coherent at least. Its a shame about Babylon because the cast actually does a pretty good job, they're just stuck in a mess, and Michelle Yeoh is wasted yet again. And this is from someone who loved Ultraviolet, so that tells you how bad I think AD is.
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That's good to hear, but I am going to try Shinobi again anyway. I'm about half through Warlords now. That is an awesome movie.
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Yeah, I thought Death Race was better than what I expected it to be.
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i used to live in a country called brunei, which has a large chinese community. so if a major movie comes out (like say titanic) it has chinese subtitles. i went to the movies and saw id4. you know at the end where they go around the world and show different people from different countries defeating the aliens. one of those is in china. in that scene a chinese guy says someone. there are english subtitles. then there were chinese subtitles of the english subtitles. i laughed my ass off. also, by my figuring at the end of that movie australia becomes the powerhouse of the world. why? well, it shows, the plains of africa, the pyramids and the sydney opera house. thing is the opera house is in the middle of the sydney cbd, which means australia becomes the only country to retain a city of more than 3m, not to mention melbourne, brisbane and the gold coast. it may be a pipe dream but i'm sticking to it.
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I gotta say, I hate the idea of being chased out by silliness. But as soon as it hits 2000 posts, Ill see you fine people over here. Keep the seat warm til I get back. It's gonna be mighty wierd over there with just me and media messiah.
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things loading too slow. didnt understand it, but I think it's the giant length of MM's posts. It just drags the thing down so much.
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Just left you a message on the other thread! Have a good night!
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Later!
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and thanks again for the asian site. It is awesome. I really enjoyed Hansel and Gretel. It's a great quirky horror. A nice blend of the original and the familiar. It definitely had more of a french feel than a korean feel I think. The movie even happened to end slightly(oh so slightly) more upbeat than your average asian film. I was really quite taken with it, and am looking forward to catching it again. Good stuff.
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not too terribly interesting. The only flick I really care about, I've already seen- Let the Right One In. For all who actually care about the vampire genre, this is the best thing that's come out of it in YEARS. A truly great little gem of a film. It's probably sitting somewhere near the top of my 2008 list right now.
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My list for the week includes The Closer, Wedding Campaign and my second look at The Restless.
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You really liked it Kung-fu? I felt it was just Miike working the wierd and absurd for all he was worth. And maybe that's the artistry. He keeps pushing the nonsense, the surrealism and the arbitrary nature of the language and the narrative, until we have to defer to him as the artist. But honestly, it just didn't work for me. It was silly, somewhat boring crap, and it had none of the earmarks of Miike's best work. I can see how some could regard it as a potpourri of wierdness, but it misses the boat for me, by a crucial margin. It fails to really show an artist's hand at work. Even the most apparently arbitrary or surrealist works often had the feel of a greater purpose at work, or the guiding hand of a visionary. This one lacks that. It feels not like something more than it is, but what it is, a series of jumbled notes ideas and scenes in search of a purpose, a unifying vision, a passionate platform. It's looking for something and it comes up wanting.
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I meant the chaser.
And for discussion purposes,for those just coming to these films:
From the first batch my top four were Daisy, The Warlords, Running Wild and Chocolate.
Unlike everyone here, I didn't care much for Machine Girl, though I do acknowledge the allure of it's gory silliness. To my credit, I told HOD after the first viewing that everyone else here would like or love it.
Currently, the new batch is terrific and an improvement over even the first batch. So far I've seen Red Cliff, Shinobi:Heart Under Blade, Guard Post and Invisible Target. All four in some form or another hit their mark, and do so well.
Guard Post really works as a creepy war-based horror film. Red Cliff is a majestic comic book of a chinese epic, and one that totally schools 300 on how to make a stylish battle film about small forces standing against an empire. Shinobi is a Saturday morning cartoon by comparison, but it's addictive and fun and finally poignant on it's own terms. It requires a bit of surrender to it's premise, but it's worth it. And Invisible Target is the return of good HK action films. I mean REALLY GOOD HK action films. Also, Jackie Chan's son is in it.
My current ranking for the second batch(there are several I've seen before, but I'll hold my opinion until I've watched them anew this time)is:
Red Cliff
Invisible Target
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Guard Post
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I liked Sukiyaki for several reason, which I would be more than happy to cover. For one thing, it's just a lot of fun. It's rare to see crazy movies like that in America, so when I get to see something so zany I just sit back and soak it all in. It may not have much depth but it's a whole lot of fun. Another thing I really enjoyed was the cinematography. Damn does Miike have an eye for beauty. I can recall a couple of those rose shots, and even some of the gory violent scenes that were just great to look at. On a visual level, the movie is gorgeous. the costumes were incredibly detailed and unique, the sets were intricate, and the action was well staged (though I must admit that final scene left me a little underwhelmed).I don't really think my enjoyment of the film really just stemmed from the superficial either. The movie had some pretty compelling and moving scenes that really got to me. Like when the woman is being raped while her husband's corpse is being dragged away as her son looks on. That really got to me.Also if you are a fan of cult cinema, which I think we all are, the movie gets to be even more fun, with its various homages to other classic samurai and western movies such as Yojimbo, and of course, Django.The best way to enjoy the movie is to just realize it's silly (and all the Japanese actors are speaking broken English) and sit back and enjoy it. Different movies are good for different reasons. While Running Wild was an excellent stark character study and exploration on morality and the themes of justice, Sukiyaki Western Django is a stylish explosion of energy meant for the entertainment of the cult film fan.
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what did you think of Sukiyaki Western Django?
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hate when that happens. makes me look like a twat
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All the Japanese actors were speaking English that was nearly impossible to understand, and there weren't any subtitles.Okay I'll admit, it dragged the teensiest bit in parts at the end.
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How do always have this shitty timing?
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I'll stop now.sorry
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and I have a few questions: 1)What the fuck is it about? 2)Seriously, what the fuck is it about? 3)Is Laura Dern's actress character the same as the white trash character or are they totally unrelated? 4)Seriously, I can't stress this enough- what the fuck is going on? 5)What was the LSD per person ratio on that set? Anyhoo, the good Mrs. Jarv hated it so much she is refusing to watch another David Lynch film which is a crying shame as we have both Blue Velvet and The Elephant Man queued.
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you poms did good at the olympics. on ya
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Rotten thing for me to say knowing that the majority of you are now back to business after a long weekend, but I'm in a chipper mood because it's finally my day off (even though I just left work...humor me). Since no one is here to argue with me about it, I'm going to 'jump' right in with my thoughts on "The Machine Girl". I can appreciate this film not only because I am basically an unsophisticated and uncultured heathen who enjoys an occasional schlockfest, but also because the opening scene brought a thought to my head that I personally consider a high compliment for a film: This would be a great drive-in movie! One of my favorite childhood memories is spending a summer night at a low-dough-carload-show, especially when they would have a movie marathon lasting until sunrise. It sounds weird, but watching "Machine Girl" gave me that nostalgia rush. There's nothing deep about this film. It's made for pulling giggles (or guffaws, from you macho types), gasps,groans, and gaggings from the audience. Even with the premise of a serious theme, it cannot be taken seriously and doesn't try. My 12 year old nephew walked in while I was watching the invasion of the red ninjas and literally fell over laughing, then took it home with him when I was done. That boy has my taste in movies!
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Glad to see I don't have the place to myself after all. How are you doing? Survive your BBC Austen nightmare with minimal mental damage?
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I've watched a little more than half of it so far. Got to that point and another nephew showed up and asked if I would mind starting it over so he could see it. I dozed off and woke up after it was over, so finishing that is my next goal. I am enjoying the "superhero" aspect of it and the bird's eye scenery views.
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there are few things i enjoy more than bit part americans murdering my accent. it is priceless. 'dingo stole my baby....'
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Mavra, you are right on bout Machine Girl. It's drive-in quality for sure. I watched it in a small minimized box on my computer while doing some at-home work, and I just didn't get into it at all. Watching it on the projector, showing it to a bunch of friends late at night, who didnt know what to expect made it a totally different experience.
That being said, I know I sound like a killjoy, but it wasn't quite the great schlock it could have been. Best scene in MG, was when the main villain is defeated in a fiasco that involves school boys losing bladder control and a drill bra.
Shinobi is odd, because it sneaks up on you. It's firmly rooted in the over the top asian supherhero genre, but it really works quite well. If Machine Girl was drive-in, Shinobi is that flick you would catch on channel 54 on a saturday afternoon.
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Kung-fu, I didnt go into Django expecting anything other than silliness, randomness, seeing odd things I haven't seen before, genre mash-ups, etc. I wasn't holding it to the standard of something it wasnt. But for me, this time more than in the past, Miike really just lost sight of the shoreline and headed out to the deep water. The one choice more than anything that ruins and sinks the movie was that horrid idea to have it all in pidgen english, even Tarantino. Also, it seemed to go on for a very long time. I, however, have it here, and will give it another run and see if it gets better.
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I want to have Mori's love child.
This is from Bobo_vision's ghost over in another TB:
"I'll give you an example (forgive my rambling, long post). There's a talkbacker at this site named Jonah Echo who I've noticed is particularly fond of Moriarty. He's in this talkback as well praising Mori for speaking out against Massa. I've noticed him for a while and he writes these posts to Mori which read like glowing love letters. He wrote one in response to the "Fear, Itself" episode Mori wrote (and several other articles as well) and I remember checking back on the talkback to see if Mori responded to him, and sure enough, he didn't.
Then, Moriarty had written this open letter to Harvey Weinstein about some movie called "Outlander", and not only did Jonah Echo praise Mori again, but he and a few others sat in that talkback everyday posting and talking in order to keep that article at the top of the most discussed talkbacks to increase the chance that it would be noticed. He even occasionally yelled out, "For Outlander!", LOL! It was one of the lamest things I've seen, like a group of mentally challenged kids re-enacting the scene from "The Outsiders" where they say, "Let's do it for Johnny, man! Do it for Johnny!" LOL! (I'm kidding, Jonah). They did this for days, so I know Moriarty saw this.
Well, I didn't read that talkback, it was huge, but I checked back out of curiosity and just scrolled to the bottom once everyone had stopped posting just to see if there was a black box there. You know, just a few words from Moriarty saying, "Hey, thanks for doing this guys", or "You guys rock!", or "You guys could be in the special olympics", you know, something. But there was nothing. Not a word. Sometimes you learn more about a person from what they don't say than what they do."
I find this very amusing.
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time for bed
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Anyone around?
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And Neigh means Neigh!
I got popped by Toad and Jonah over the weekend.
So I'm down 1,024 to 7 to Toad and 1-0 to Jonah.
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Since you enjoyed django, let me recommend another Miike, if you havent seen it: Happiness of the Katakuris. You can find it on the asian site Mavra sent. Or Survive Style 5+, which we talked about yesterday. I think you will greatly enjoy both movies. I did.
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did you read the blurb I posted above?
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I have in competing. :)
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And what TB was it in? The fucker clearly missed the point and needs a beating. On a different note, I assume that none of you have seen Inland Empire, or if you have can't help me out.
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is hysterical. Totally un-Miike like. Avoid Visitor Q.
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I see your Sports minister has to wear an England Rugby shirt at the next event she attends.
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Jonah, thanks for posting that stuff from Bobo Vision. I will agree with him on one thing and I said this before in the Outlander TB. I'm a little annoyed at how little the black boxers come on and chat with us in any of the TBs. They'll respond to some criticism and the odd time they'll even answer questions but they never pop in just to say hi or say job well done for discussing film for 2000 posts without hurling insults. And with that Outlander TB, we did discuss the actual movie for a while.Kungfu, I still haven't watched Western Django. Like an idiot, it was between that an Dynamite Warrior on Saturday and you know what I went with.Jarv, Lynch is so hit and miss I can't blame your wife from banning him completely.
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Damn it. I knew Inland Empire was going to be too much- especially after her decidedly "meh" reaction to Dune.
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and it's hard to really explain it, for one reason, I think what Lynch has in mind isn't an easy, understandable narrative. There is alot of displacement of psyche, madness, identity loss, and then just crazy stuff involving rabbit suits. The themes and ideas seem clear, but the narrative is shredded to pieces. That is usually Lynch's style. I don't know. You either love it or hate it. Im not even sure where I fall.
Jarv, I'll try and see if there are some plausible explanations for the film. I wasn't quite swept away by it enough to warrant the same level of interest I gave Mulholland Drive, a better film with similar themes and premise.
I think you are essentially watching the deterioration of Laura Dern's character's mental state and spiritual well being, but then again who knows.
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First off, I love the Outsiders and would indeed "Do it for Johnny" if given enough beer and a switchblade.
Second off, I never got the impression that you wanted to make love to Mori or give birth to his hellspawn.
Third, to say this group is this or that is pointless.
We are what we are.
People that talk about movies, joke around and have a good time.
And as Dutch told Dillon in Predator: "Instead of complaining why don't you help out"
In other words, jump in and have fun. We are not a group that is going to attack, even when provoked (well sometimes we do, but that is a case by case basis).
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I guess his point is valid, but what he is missing is that I could give a rat's rear if Mori talks to me or not. I want to talk to him the same reason I want to talk to all here-shared love of film. I'm curious to hear any tips he has for getting scripts sold, but that's all the interest. Yea, I definitely think Mori is at fault for only responding to critics, but for someone madly in love with him, I was saying that IN the Outlander TB, that he hurts himself by answering his troll critics and not discussing stuff with fans of the stuff he also loves.
But the bigger issue is that these things are non-issues. I encourage Mori in his script-writing because I'd rather do that, then slag him, even if he did suck. Personally, I didnt think skin and bones sucked. I liked it, and focused on the good instead of the flaws, because I would want that. I wouldnt want butt kissing, but I would want encouragement as well as criticism.
Such is my life, and the nature of it, that I dont look up to Mori, or envy him, or anything else. As far as I'm concerned the heroes of AICN are people like you, HOD, and these other guys here. Mori isnt any different than any of us, save for the good fortune to work in the industry. And if he keeps stooping to the level of trolls, he will at various times be no better than his critics.
But Massa had no business posting the beating up a retard thing. I responded to that because I was a Special Ed teacher for 3 years, and saw things like that happen, and I recognize real hate speech when I see it. -
it was amusing. I don't think bobo was being particularly harsh, but I think he was trying to hard to fit us into a mold for his point. I bear him no ill will, but I think he would do better to come over here and discuss movies and not follow the staff around, seeking out their weaknesses.
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and that explanation just raised a frosty glare from Mrs. Jarv. Her point, and it is a good one, is that the Laura Dern character just isn't established enough for the breakdown to make sense. And even if you allow that, the shit with the Rabbits is just so fucking weird and nonsensical that it takes you out of the movie. And I loved Lost Highway and Mullholland Drive, so I was much more tolerant of it than she was. It did still leave me cold. Sadly, Elephant Man is up next, but she's dropped the Axe on it altogether. I'm kicking myself, actually, because I'd done the Groundwork with Twin Peaks, Dune and Wild at Heart- but Inland Empire just pissed her off.
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That retard comment was salacious and unpleasant- but the SATC headline was probably his nadir.
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But yeah, that's his opinion and he's entitled to it.
But I just fail to get that caught up in it to publicy decry what someone else is doing.
To be more clear, if someone was writing personal love letters to Harry I would find it amusing, but I wouldn't care enough to write in and harp about ass kissing.
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I think you should give it a go with her. Use the hooks. It's a drama. It has Anthony Hopkins. Yea, Inland Empire is probably Lynch's weakest film. I ultimately would consider it a failure, but I admire things about it. It has many of the same flaws I attributed to Django above. It is made incomprehesible for the sake of incomprehensibility.
I don't think you or Mrs. Jarv missed anything, because there wasn't really anything to miss. Everything you could see Lynch gave you, but the point is, sometimes there isn't a sensible reason or explanation for what Lynch gave you. He burned the blueprints on Inland Empire and thus shafted his audience. Elephant Man is about human dignity and finding that humanity wherever it may lie, and soldiering on in the face of cruelty and misfortune. It's a terrific film, and it would be a crime not to see it because of the bloated, silly Inland Empire. -
and I totally agree about him burning the blueprints- it was just completely incoherent. I'd been on a bit of a roll, frankly, until Inland Empire. I basically decided to fill in gaps in her Cinema knowledge (of shlock in some cases) as there is a huge amount that she hasn't seen. So I'd hit Amadeus, The Untouchables (I can't believe she hadn't seen that), The Game, The Third Man, Kind Hearts and Coronets (Which is the best British film, ever,) to name a few. And then, feeling confident I waded into Lynch. Twat that I am.
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I know that Depalma stole The Baby scene wholesale from another film, but for the life of me I can't remember which. Can anyone help me out?
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Ha- That was meant to be: I have seen the Elephant Man. Curse my lazy typing.
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That's some quality stuff right there. As is Blue Velvet. But if someone's only experience with Lynch was the last three things I've seen from him (Mulholland Drive, Rabbits and Inland Empire) I can understand their aversion.And for the record, I don't understand Massa's reviews either. They are gibberish. Then again, so are Harry's. After Crystal Skull, I stopped reading reviews on this site altogether.
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and I want to bitchslap Immortal Fish. What a twat.
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I was still in vacation mode. Ok, gotta get back up to speed. You got me. But Jonah came through for me this weekend! Hola Jarv - nice to have you back.
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And it was loosely based on a shootout between Russian sailors I believe.And here's your interesting trivia. In the original script, the shootout between Ness/Stone and Capone's men was to take place on a train. But the studio balked at the idea because they claimed it would be cost prohibitive to find and restore a train from that era. So DePalma altered it to be int he station and used the shootout from Potemkin as a reference.
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Between that and Straight Story shows the range Lynch can have.
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Battleship Potempkin was the movie. Odessa Steps scene. Sorry, I didnt see your question.
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and it is Potemkin, no P. typo there. Good movie, worth seeing if you havent Jarv.
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That's been bothering me for ages. Half of me really likes Depalma, but the other half thinks he's a plagiarist hack. It's tough.
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That's why I couldn't remember. There's loads of "references" in that film- the expected Hitchcock ones, and other more subtle ones. I maintain though, that Connery did not, on any sane planet, deserve his Oscar for that performance.
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"There's loads of "references" in that film- the expected Hitchcock ones, and other more subtle ones. " By which I mean The Untouchables, not Potemkin.
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They call it being influenced. Ha!
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I always thought that Wilson (Wallace in the film) was a much more interesting character than Ness. Why has nobody made a biopic of him?
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in the film, it also helped he was played by the underrated Charles Martin Smith. Interesting guy, Wilson.
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Needs more work. Fact.
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Let's hear it. Your fave summer films of 2008?
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his latest directorial effort, Stone of Destiny, is appearing at Tiff this year. Well, if Wikipedia can be trusted that is.
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Bearing in Mind that I haven't seen Speed Racer, and Doomsday was a summer release here: In reverse order- 4)Iron Man- didn't give a fuck about it. Amazed by RDJ. Maintain film would have been gash without him. 3)Doomsday. Messy, incomprehensible, hystericaly insane stuff. Future cult classic. 2)Hellboy 2. Didn't give a fuck about it- absolutely amazed 1)TDK. Yes, I know it isn't perfect, but I haven't seen anything this year to touch it.
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First all the theatrical films I saw(with rating):
Iron Man- 4.5/5
Speed Racer-4/5
Prince Caspian- 4/5
Montana Williams and the Empire of the Obsidian Cranium- 3.5/5
Son of Rambow- 4/5
The Fall-5/5
Mongol-3.5/5
Kung-Fu Panda-4/5
The Incredible Hulk-3.5/5
The Happening-1.5/5
Reprise-4/5
Priceless-3/5
Wall-E-5/5
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D- 3/5
Hellboy 2-4.5/5
The Dark Knight 5/5
X-Files: I Want to Believe 3.5/5
Transsiberian-4/5
Tell No One-4.5/5
Tropic Thunder 4/5
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this summer is going to be looked back on fondly, if only because of how fecking awful 2006 and 2007 were.
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1. The Fall-I adored this film above pretty much all else this year. A great, gripping fairy tale that was just a complete 180 from The Cell.
2. The Dark Knight-It really is a great film and a masterpiece of comic book adaptation. I'm sure this one will only rise in my opinion.
WALL-E- Another masterpiece. I think these top three films are just classics, that even with their flaws were about as perfect as most modern films get.
4. HB2: The Golden Army-most fun movie of the summer hands down for me. I was totally into this at every turn. Wonderful.
5. Tell No One-This one actually does feel like Hitchcock, and it's not just a word to describe the fact the film is a suspense picture with accused on the run, murders and secrets. It's a pretty special movie as far as thrillers go. -
Speed Racer looms at the top of that list. Wow, I expected to hate it from early on, when the first trailer showed in December. And I loved it, not for the fx and style as much as for the family dynamic. That's the aspect that made it special.
Kung-Fu Panda in Imax-again, expected very little and was surprised by how great and gorgeous the movie looks, and how warm-hearted it is. And ontop of all that, it's actually exciting, funny and it's kung-fu battles have intensity and wit.
Incredible Hulk-I really like the Ang Lee version of Hulk, but didn't save much hope for this. And yet, while not perfect, I had a great time with it, and felt they did a better job here of capturing the comic book's identity.
The Fall-yea, I hoped it would be good, but I HATED The Cell, and didnt suspect this could pull it's premise together. Congrats Tarsem. This is the most extreme turn around I've ever seen.
Son of Rambow-It's so sweet and funny and nostalgic that it catches you by surprise, because you expect formula and you get heart. -
well, I avoided several potentially bad things, but watching the continued descent of Shyamalan is probably most heartbreaking to me, because I keep hoping the guy will pull out of the tailspin and instead he just shows me how the previous fall was nothing, and that he can always roll a bit further down the hill. This new one has now firmly caused me to end our relationship. If he wants to win me back, I'm gonna need EXTREME proof he has done soemthing special before I pay to see it.
While I liked both of them, Indy 4 and X-Files were both disappointments because while delivering reasonably good movies, the creators of both seemed to have lost sight of their creation. The actors have not and they struggle to bring dignity to these people, and in all cases, they succeeded, but the creators and the creation in both instances seem to be somewhat estranged. -
while you were gone, I saw Doomsday. It was quite a bit of crazy fun. Nothing crazier, in fact, than the scene where they dance to Fine Young Cannibals and then cook and eat Sean Pertwee.
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For the few that I did see this summer (very busy):
1.) The Dark Knight - yes, the hype was beyond control and there circumstances that made it have more interest from the masses (Ledger's death). But this really was a great movie to behold.
2.) WALL-E - Another Pixar gem that has tons of heart. When his friend holds his hand at the end and you think his personality is gone and it reappears...Gold!
3.) Iron Man - Like Jarv said above, RDJ really pushed this film to another level, but I still think it would have worked well enough if he had just mailed in his performance.
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we have beaten this topic to death, but my opinion has just not changed- it isn't bad enough to condemn, and it isn't good enough to defend. It is the living embodiment of "meh". And that, for an Indy film, is a crying fucking shame.
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and it didnt get love on the lists above, save for the main one, because it was pretty much as good as I thought it would be, well better actually. Looking forward to a film that isn't the origin story.
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So here's the quick rundown of movies I saw this long weekend:Princess Aurora - good solid flick. I really enjoyed this one Hawaiian.Mr. Socrates - haven't finished it, but kind of blah to it. Not really feeling it, nor the lead either. Will finish it at some point and see if it picks up any steam.Before the Devil Knows your Dead - Marissa......oops, sorry...dazed off a bit there. Good movie. Liked how it turned out, but not crazy about the choice of hopping back and forth in the timeline. I don't think it worked so much for this movie. Still, good movie.The Bank Job - another solid movie. I liked it.
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Trust me, the levels that his films have fallen (I haven't seen The Happening yet) are reason enough a reality check is in order.
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we made a rule not to speak of Indy 4 here, which is why I referred to it as I did above, and forgot that when actually writing about it.
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I've gotten a couple co-workers to see it and they liked it. The best about that scene is the dude throwing frisbees to the crowd. I love that.
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as well. Fact.
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The Dark Knight and Hellboy 2 were note perfect for me. Enjoyed the hell out of both. Also liked The Happening, Indy IV, and Iron Man. Notable films I haven't seen include Speed Racer, Prince Caspian, TIH, Wall-E, Kung Fu Panda, and Tropic Thunder. Only other film I saw was Get Smart and I hated that (Puddy and Bill Murray cameos excluded).
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Agree with your feelings on pretty much all those, save for Mr. Socrates, which I actually liked a bit. I'd say that and Bank Job, I felt about the same with-they were fine movies in a genre that has mostly exhausted it's interest.
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doing a chorus line behind him.
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when I threw it in Jonah, but it put me to sleep. Saw up till the point he was a cop, beat the crap out of his bro, and brought his bro to see his dad in prison.
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Loved them all, each a different take on the comic book land.
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Finalyl got around to watching it this weekend. Beautifully animated film and a very interesting story. I liked it.
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maybe, or maybe it just didn't work for you. Which is possible. For me, I thought the acting was solid and the way the film was put together, with some of the details-like them training him to be a cop really fleshed out a mediocre and tired concept.
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Persepolis was a good film. Beautifully animated, and heartfelt.
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Harry was right- it should have won best Animated feature.
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Sep 02, 2008 10:44:26 AM CDT
and sorry about bringing up the film that shall not be named
by lost jarv
didn't know about the moritorium.
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made it 20 minutes in and turned it off. I never do that but I knew it just wasn't my thing and I had to start Season 5 of The Wire.
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because there was a clear stalemate between those who liked it alright(of which I was one) and those who hated it. It usually ended up distracting us from other topics. And in my mind Im not sure I even feel comfortable defending it, since it was more Meh than Yeah! as you pointed out. I want to see it a second time first.
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I can't think of a film I'm more off than that one.
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we turned it off as well.
Jarv, I thought the same thing bout Panda, and I only went because we were going on a double date with friends, and they wanted to see it. But it won me over, and not just by the end. I'd say I was perhaps 15 minutes into the film, and already a fan. -
see Kung Fu Panda and the continued bullshit "softening" of the view of the Bear by Hollywood. A Bear is not cute nor cuddly. It is a ferocious flesh-eating machine.The day of the Bear is fast approaching....
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I was supremely underwhelmed by it, but I'm wondering if it will be better from the comfort of my couch with beer and cigs.
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agreed bout the bear, but the Panda bear,pillow? Ferocious?
Then again there is that panda bit in Tropic Thunder. Hilarious.
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fat cretins like Jack Black. And although Panda's are a truly shit bear, they do not bother with nonsense such as "kung fu". Not when they can chomp you.
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It's a Giant Panda, not a grizzly. They're relatively docile creatures that eat bamboo for 99% of their diet.
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of the bear in Hwood, then they should make a film version of Richard Adams' novel, Shardik.
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and look at the size of the bastards. They coud definately squash you.
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and more about overweight burley homosexuals that are also personified by bears.
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Will we continue to harbor these feelings that the Panda is inferior? I say no, it must end. All Bears should be recognized as equals, equally able to chomp on a human limb if provoked. Polar bears, black bears, grizzly bears, panda bears...all must unite if they are to overcome this "cuddly label" that Hollywood has unjustifiably thrown at them.
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It was A 1976 film with an 18-foot bear.
Good stuff and NOTHING cuddly about this bear.
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I think Hollywood's image of the bear is fine. Bart the Bear ripped a couple motherfuckers to limbs in The Edge. Almost killed a guy in White Fang, and killed Brad pitt in Legends of the Fall.
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I'm sure through an "re-education" process, they can learn to eat small children and whatnot.
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have done more harm to the Bear's image than anything else. And that Shardik suggestion is fucking brilliant.
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This country needs more SINFUL DWARF, the only film that qualifies for a remake. Jessica Simpson could play the busty "abducted bride" (lots of gratuitous nude scenes; this film would prove more professionally engaging than the films that Simpson's feather/manager nailed for her). So who would play the Nazi mom who kidnaps high school girls for her white slave trade? Well, Hillary Clinton needs work to pay-off a $25 million debt (dumb p.r. whore). But who would play her son, The Sinful Dwarf? Maybe some former child actor...
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That shit gave me nightmares.
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We have The Great Outdoors...Country Bears...Care BearsPaddington Bear
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Another Bart the Bear film in which the bear nearly kills two families. He didn't quit until he got shot in the ass.
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as much as that is true they have also been sanitised through pish like Gentle Ben, The Great Outdoors, Yogi, The fucking Care Bears, Baloo and other such likes. I love the idea of Bear rehab with a group of Pandas at BA (Bamboo Anonymous) that have to take turns to stand up and blame "bear" pressure for their vegetation habit.
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and was less frightening than the creepy twin girls. THat was one shit bear.
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There, I said it.
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I blame Paddington entirely for this.
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was the hesitancy in making Shardik that has resulted in Bart the bear dying before he got a chance to take the role. It would have been the film that the Academy finally nominated him for, and it would have afforded us that great Oscar moment where Bart would have accepted his trophy, mounted Meryl Streep and then scooped Jack Nicholson's smirking head into his powerful jaws.
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Meatloaf Bear from Prophecy! She had no fur, and just red bolbous latex for skin, but she could take out kids in yellow sleeping bags like nobody's business.
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Those bastards are huge!
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Love it.
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are pretty mean motherfuckers.
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But to me, that's like trying to follow up Arnie with The Rock. It just isnt the same, though he did sort of win me over in Into the Wild.
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They could cgi scenes from Bart's old movies.
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Tragic.
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they would be even meaner if they were more than a fuzzy white animated blur.
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Have they eaten anyone?
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1) Iron Man - It was a close battle with TDK. But I have been a very, very long time fan of 'ol shell-head. They nailed it. I could quibble about a few things, but really the only bad thing about the movie was the ending fight the Obie. It did not pack the wallop(pun intended) it should have, not to mention it had some serious problems with logic. That being said, it was still the best movie experience for me this summer. 2) TDK - Great flick, and I did not even try to hold it to the hype surrounding it, nothing could survive that. But it has some great things going for it(Ledger) and some things that still bug me (the whole Harvey Dent storyline and Batman taking blame). However, it was epic and very entertaining. 3) Speed Racer -Let the haters be damned. This was a rollicking good time. Once again, I am a very long time fan of the cartoon, and they nailed it here, to my absolute astonishment. Did not think it could be pulled off, and it is the most visually stunning movie I have seen in a very long time. This will be the Tron of it's generation. Meaning: It did not get much love at first, but the visual impact will last far into the future. 4)Tropic Thunder -It was a bit uneven, and not a lagh riot throughout, but I did enjoy it, and it had some insanely funny moments. My favorite is when Jack Black is tied to the tree, going through heroin withdrawal. Ok, that sounded wrong. It was the things he said while going through withdrawal that are breathtakingly funny. Cruise was great as well. 5) Wall-E. A cute story. Maybe too cute. It just did not have the impact that it could/should have had on me. And I still do not know why. Perhaps the lack of dialogue did it in. The visuals are great, but it just seemd lacking. The story is not as funny as the trailers led me to beleive, and while Eve and Wall-e are meant for one another, I still never felt there was any peril. 6) Hulk - great realization of the comic book Hulk. And really, that is what most fans wanted to see. Hulk Smash! (Don't start Node!) 7) Indy IV - Ford was great. He can do more Indy's and be very believable. They screwed up adding Shia. I know it was done to appeal to younger demographics and perhaps launch a new franchise, but it distracted from Ford. The story was terrible though with or without Shia. Lackluster direction and too much CGI! 8) Hellboy II - just could not get into it. I loved the first movie. It had a sense of warmth and family as well as kicks ass action. This felt bloated and self-important as well as self-indulgent. Lots of left over character design from Pans, as well as ripped -off MIB allusions and a terrible and boring, villain. There is other stuff. 9) Hancock - started out great, but felt like they rushed the ending. 90 min is too short for this type of movie. Great idea, that got was never fully realized. 10) Wanted - Some great visuals, but really a boring, uninvolving story with charcaters you could care less about.
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I mean he was already sick, why not go out in a blaze of glory?
Can you imagine if they deviated from the novel and had him have a final showdown with the bear?
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Funny.
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you are right bout the tree scene in Tropic Thunder. It wasnt the going through it, it was the ridiculous things he was saying as he tried to beat it.
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Sorry for the typos in above post. Multi-tasking at work. No. 6 is Hulk
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aren't they 8-10ft tall?
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but it's likely it would just open it's mouth and let you place your head on it's tongue. And that to me is pretty irresponsible, as it makes the bear lazy as it expects that food will just come on up and climb in.
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Well done, well said. I threw my worthless hat in the ring as well.The only summer movies I saw were Indy 4, Baby Mama and The Love Guru. By that measuring stick it would be the worst summer ever. Speed Racer and Iron man come out this month so I'm sure I can start to readjust my opinion.JPT, yeah on Princess Aurora! Sorry about Mr. Socrates. I liked it. Thankfully so did Danny and Jonah but if it isn't for you, then go ahead and try something else and here's hoping.Eventually you guys are going to ignore me completely. I'm the one guy who seems to like the movies reviled by everyone else. I think the only times I stopped laughing during Dewey Cox was when I was guzzling a beer.
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I don't think. And the polar bears on Lost haven't eaten anyone yet 9 (I think), but not for lack of trying.
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I was blessed to be shown part of the origin that explains our reverance of almighty No. 2 Pencil and the stabbings of shitheels with said sacred instrument! This may be old news to The Four but new news to others. The origin comes from the movie Midnight Run and the Mob boss Jimmy Serano - played by Dennis Farina. He threatens to stab people through the heart with a pencil!
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Marissa!
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Bart died in 2001 during the making of a film. But the new Bart the Bear, was in Into the Wild. If you go to IMDB, you will notice there are two Barts. The one we all grew up with has gone on to Bruinhalla, to stand amongst the mighty company of the great Ursa Majors who have come before him.
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Can't like them all. The fact that I've enjoyed four of them quite a bit is pretty fucking cool as it is, and I'm not done watching the first set either.
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Im thinking that I'll line up The Chaser, Wedding Campaign and my second viewing of The Restless this week. What do you think?
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Good acting chops for both of them, although I would say Bart's range as an actor definatly beats out his mother's turn as simply killer bear.
Bart has shown he can establish a menacing nature in The Edge and a more light-hearted spin on the man-eating genre in The Great Outdoors.
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They did alright considering. One got shot several times attempting to charge a group of survivors. One was speared but survived trying to est a child, and another one is burned using a makeshift hairspray blowtorch while attempting to drag away a former Nigerian warlord.
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in The Bear, where he got to show full range as vicious and dangerous and caring and mysterious, wise even. It was multifaceted, and yet, ignored. If that had been a human role, it would have celebrated. Bart, here's to you!
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How? Naturally or what? Somebody got sued by PETA.
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IVUJIVIK, Quebec — Lydia Angyiou's kids sure won't be giving her much trouble any more, now that they've seen her wrestle a 700-pound polar bear.
Angyiou lives in Ivujivik, a village of 300 people on the shore of Hudson Bay in northern Quebec.
One Wednesday evening earlier this month, Angyiou was walking near the village community center with her two sons when a group of children playing street hockey nearby started shouting and pointing frantically.
Angyiou, 41, turned around and saw a polar bear sizing up her 7-year-old son.
She told the children to run and raced around to get between the bear and her son. Then she started kicking and punching the animal, according to police reports.
In a flash, the bear swatted her in the face and she fell on her back. With the bear on top of her, Angyiou began kicking her legs in a bicycle-pedaling motion. She was swatted once more and rolled over, but the bear moved toward her again.
Siqualuk Ainalik heard the commotion and came rushing over. Seeing Angyiou wrestling with the bear, he ran to his brother's home, grabbed a rifle and headed back to the street. He fired a few warning shots.
The sound diverted the bear's attention from Angyiou just long enough for him to aim and fire again. According to police, Ainalik fired four shots into the bear before it finally died.
With the help of some neighbors, Angyiou made it to the home of Nelson Conn, a constable with the Kativik Regional Police Force.
"She came in in a panic," Conn recalled. "She was obviously in shock. She was saying, 'Bear, bear.' I just took her over to our nursing station and I asked where and if the bear was dead. She said, 'Yes.'"
Remarkably, Angyiou suffered only a couple of scratches and a black eye. She and the local police have been fielding calls from across Canada ever since the incident was first reported last week in the Nunatsiaq News.
Meanwhile, villagers are still marveling at her courage, and there is talk of nominating her for a bravery medal.
"I've been here 24 years and I've never seen this before," said Larry Hubert, a regional captain with the police force who arrived on the scene just after the bear was shot. "For sure, she saved the kids' lives."
Hubert has known Angyiou for 15 years and he can't believe she took on a bear. He said the bear measured eight feet in length and weighed at least 700 pounds.
Angyiou "is about 5-foot-nothing and 90 pounds on a wet day," Hubert said with a laugh. "She's pretty quiet. I'm surprised she went and did this.
"But I guess when your back is up against the wall, I guess we come up with super-human strength."
Ivujivik is Quebec's northernmost community, situated on a peninsula where the Hudson Bay meets the Hudson Strait.
While polar bears roam the giant ice packs that float just off shore, Hubert said it's rare for them to wander into the village. He said he believes the bear that tangled with Angyiou became disoriented and was not looking for food.
"She's lucky the bear wasn't hungry," he said. "If the bear was hungry, she would have been eaten pretty quickly."
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and he had a daughter too, named Honeybump. Bart did not die because of making a film. The final film was a documentary about him. Bart died of cancer at 23.
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Bart Jr. and Honeybump are two bears, brother and sister being trained by the same trainers as Bart. Bart Jr. is only the spiritual sucessor of Bart Sr.
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And that's an excellent lineup. The Chaser is pretty graphic but a great little serial killer movie. Wedding Campaign is a romcom and the reason I sent it was to diversify the pack a little but I also think it's the best Korean romcom to date. As you know the genre isn't their forte so to see one that's genuinely funny is refreshing.The Restless may have been a stinker, I can't remember. I just love the lead (same guy from Daisy) and thought the effects were actually very good, especially that end sequence.
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Let's see, his mom was in Grizzly and Bart was in a shitload of movies for a bear and his son was in Into the Wild?
Damn that is impressive and I saw a television special on the trainers and they seem pretty laid back and cool.
Wouldn't want to trespass on their property, as they probably have a few bears we've never heard of trained to sick balls like Chopper.
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ok, it's not just me then. I recall thinking Restless was just lame, and a non-starter with great visuals. I'll give it another shot though. That was last year, and I had just watched Jade Warrior which was better, and Wolfhound, the russian conan.
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when is Red Cliff 2 getting released? Any info there?
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that if a Twitch article pops up soon-it's been two weeks since the last one-we head over there. I think those places make perfect playgrounds for us.
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But like I said, for some reason I've loved that guy since Musa. He's the Korean version of an actor like Seymour Hoffman in that I'll watch a movie where he reads the newspaper.Part one of Red Cliff is still in theaters in Asia so I'm not sure how we managed to get a DVD quality version of it already. Part two opens in January so we could potentially have it as early as late February.
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It's like addicting me to crack, and then basically telling me to tie myself to a tree until February.
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...some of these movies. I think he'd enjoy Machine Girl, Chocolate and Red Cliff. Need to find a way to get them into his hands.
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I'll just have to watch the first part of Red Cliff a few more hundred times before then.
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It's a movie about pickpockets that manages to entertain. And the female lead is so drop dead I'd run across a busy 8-lane highway just to talk to her.It's just an entertaining little movie. I didn't send you anything I thought was crap. I had screened everything but the Guard Post and risked that because you personally requested it.An Empress was generally panned and you might despise it, but for me, it's a sword and sandals epic and even though Danny can't stand them, I could watch one a week. You know those people complaining about too many massive CGI armies in movies by the time ROTK came out? Not me, brother. To me that's like complaining there's too many shootouts in movies. I mean, hasn't the shootout been done to death by now? It's the staple of 95% of Ahnuld's movies. But when do you ever hear someone saying, "Oh Christ, another shootout?"I could watch CGI armies 1 out of every 10 movies I watch. Never gets old to me. So by that logic, Empress and Three Kingdoms entertained me even though I realize they were weak movies.
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In some cases the armies(and the shootouts) are too much when they aren't tied to something interesting. I watched Warlords a second time, and feel it's the second best of the first set, right behind Daisy.
Musa the Warrior worked terrifically as a battle film. But, Warriors of Heaven and Earth was a relatively weak epic in the same vein.
Curse of the Golden Flower was a great film, and I loved Hero and House of Flying Daggers. By that same token, I disliked stuff like A Man Called Hero.
With me, the film needs to have it's battles exist as an extension of story, and the battles need to have personality and style, and incorporate characters in an interesting way. Right now, Woo gets major points for the turtle shell tactic in Red Cliff because of the way it gives the battle itself character, and also literally creates corridors that open up on individual characters and give them moments within the battle to shine. -
was in one of the Naked Gun movies where Frank and some thug shot and shot and shot.
Then the camera pulls back and they are about three feet from another.
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When Sheen has the body count listed onscreen.
He also runs out of bullets and just grabs a handful and throws the bullets into the row of enemies and uses a chicken as an arrow.
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I never heard your thoughts on Invisible Target, outside the fact you liked it. I wanted to discuss that one a bit, because it really felt like a rebirth of hong kong action to me. Back in the early 2000s when people were praising films like Full Time Killer, I didn't get very excited. But Invisible Target was exciting, humorous and entertaining as well as existing as both a well told story(albeit familiar) and as a high quality reel of full-on action scenes. It can be watched both ways. I thought it interesting that I saw Woo make a big epic, and then witnessed a great example of the kinds of films Woo used to do well back in the day. Like a passing of the torch.
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irony about that naked gun moment, it was parodying the Untouchables scene we talked about earlier, which ripped off Battleship Potemkin.
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is like a primer in great shootouts. In one great scene, a criminal force feeds a detective his own bullets, which need to passed later on.
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However HOD, I pity you for having neglected Sukiyaki in favor of one of the most disappointing Tai films ever. Hopefully, django will make up for the delay.
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he on vacation or something?
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I can't help but think if you and I went to the same college or something we would just be hanging out all the time. You and HOD both actually. We don't always agree on movies, but your argument is sound enough that I always respect it, and of course, we are all entitled to our own opinions.The Fall was definitely my number 1 movie of the summer and I have been singing its praises to anyone who would listen. It's always a treat to see someone else acknowledging a film you loved but nobody else really even cares about. What a great movie it was. Can't wait for the DVD. It will probably be playing on a loop in these parts. Some of the most beautiful cinematography I have ever seen. It's crazy when you think about how alll of it was filmed at all these exotic locations.
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Seems like half our strength is posting over there - I am guilty as well.
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any suggestions?
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The Fall comes on dvd next week...Sept 9th
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It's gone be really, really hard to get them in an order I'm satisfied with but...1. The Fall- definitely the most original, stunning thing I have seen in a long time. I can't believe this is a summer movie.2. Wall-E- In my opinion the best thing Pixar has done, which is saying something. Very sweet with an incredibly moving message of the future.3. The Dark Knight- Not my favorite comic book movie, but definitely the best (if that makes sense). All the hype and praise made it a little hard to want to enjoy, since some of it seemed blinded by circumstances which had nothing to do with the film, but it really meets most of the absurd expectations. An escalation of the genre from formulaic and camp to something nearly everyone can respect an enjoy. Gary Oldman and Aaron Eckhart deserved nearly as much praise for their performances as Ledger.4. Hellboy II- My expectations for this were low after its predecessor was just a parade of tentacle monsters, but this really is a better sequel, superior in every facet. I remember being incredibly inspired by the passion and creativity that went into this film. I have always wanted to pursue a career in film, but it was this film that convinced me it's something I HAVE to do. Not a great film by any means, but it has spirit and it had some really mindblowing stuff for something I never expected a sequel for. The Troll Market is legendary in my book. I thought those times where everything was tangible and costume and sets instead of CGi were over, but I'm glad to see someone like Del Toro wants to bring them back.5. Speed Racer- This is on here mainly because it was the biggest surprise of the summer. Just like Jonah, it was the family dynamic that really made the film for me. A live-action children's movie that isn't actually completely stupid. Not gonna win any Oscars, but still lots of fun, especially on the big screen.
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I'm leaving soon so I may not be able to join in, but how about best special effects in a movie without CGi?
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requires a bit of thought. Obviously, the original trilogy of Star Wars comes to mind.
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The battle sequence in the film Ran, made in 1985 takes the classic bloody battle that is usually all cgi these days and creates it without any of that. You have heads rolling, horses falling, cannons firing. It's epic, but it's done without any of the stuff that was utilized in more recent stuff, like Last Samurai, Troy, Patriot, etc.
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Here's a new topic. What project, whether its an idea, a type of film, a book adaptation, a team-up, whatever would you like to see more than anything?
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How about Dragonslayer?
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but a case where practical effects were really used to great, um...affect is in Sanjuro. Throughout the film you have the standars samurai sword-swinging. Similar to the cowboy films of lore, wounds are never usually shown. A character killed or injured by the protagonist will simply clutch at the site of the imaginary sword strike and fall over, presumably dead. Sort of like make pretend fighting as a kid. This continued in the film until the very end when Mifune's character meets with the other master samurai, who is demanding a duel. Sanjuro's strike is so powerful and precise, that an enormous geyser of blood rages out of the other samurai's body as soon as he is cut. Until this moment in the movie, we are never aware just how powerful Sanjuro's character is. With this incredibly effective strike, we are suddenly aware of so much more about his character; just how powerful he is, and how wise he is to measure his skills so as to never reveal such insane battle prowess. Tha scene is a perfect example for me, of how effects can be used in a minimal manner to produce a more powerful reaction. Sort of like keeping a monster hidden in a monster movie for a majority of the film. It's usually well worth the wait if done right.
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on Fright Night and Ghostbusters. Edlund outdid himself in both the wildness of the critters and their representation in the film.
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I have to think about that one.I gotta go the library but I'll get back to you later.
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The animatronic T-Rexes and Raptors in Lost World. Faster and smoother than that of Jurassic Park. Amazing giant fucking robots they were.
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years later, Rob Roy does the same trick, and lets us see Tim Roth with a massive sucking chest wound that looks real, and we are left realizing that you don't screw with Liam Neeson.
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Political TB heated over there?
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on House 2. Cheesy but enjoyable practical effects that actually looked pretty good.
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I would purchase some of those mechanical dinosaurs from Lost World and drive them around town.
I would also make my own movie about naked chicks running from them IN SLOW MOTION!
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..they could have used a lot more practical. Like those wolf things in TT. When they are piled up on top of Gimli.....that would have looked so much better to just have a practical head made that was growling inches from his face. Just the head man....just the head!! I know I know...that shits really expensive...but still.
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Weren't some of the wargs practical? I thought that one near him, was a practical effect? It's been ages since I've seen the movie though.
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did you see the bit where someone called me out as a Mori lover above?
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I peeked in and within two minutes my computer sprouted tentacles and fangs from the overdose of venom! Anyone have the antidote? My mouse won't stop growling at me!
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earlier I was advocating Richard Adams' Shardik about a tribal hunter who encounters a giant, fearsome bear, believes it to be an incarnation of God and brings it out of the wilderness to overthrow the ruling priesthood at the center of the civilization he lives in.
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I was sort of pissed when they redid some touches in CGI for the rerelease.
Things like his eyes bulging like a cartoon when he first sees Gert looked WORSE after they added the CGI.
If it aint broke don't fix it.
Doing that to ET was like putting one of those bi-plane-sized rear wings from the Fast and the Furious on an Aston Martin DB9.
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would be perfect with Liam Neeson as the hunter, and of course the now deceased Bart the Bear, with some aided visual effects. It still could be a great fantasy epic. I don't know if any studio would greenlight it, because it would be both expensive and arty, but oh the possibilites of the right director came out for it.
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a good Houdini movie. I wonder if we will ever get a chance to see that.
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I know you meant "Shardik", but I had a sudden visual of Liam Neeson and Bart the Bear in E.T. How screwed up is that?
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...no what happened?
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I've taken dumps more challenging than that.
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go up to the post of mine that says "So apparently" and read it.
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Sep 02, 2008 2:21:29 PM CDT
whats a Morg in LOTR? Which creature are they?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Danny, those were the wolf creatures. Is that what you mean?
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Those ET were able to defend themselves by sprouting razor-sharp claws (the middle one was red hot) and a venomous barb that paralyzed the opponent.
Also rows and rows of serated teeth like a Great White shark.
I always wondered why Speilberg never gave us that version.
Instead we get a wobbly little coward that ran from its own shadow and came to earth just score some "plants".
Notice how he had the munchies all the time?
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OK. So, kungfu, I just queued up Western Django on one of my Asian rental places today and it's the official release with English subs so I'll wait until it arrives to watch it, assuming it ever comes as it's listed as long wait. I'll resend you a copy as well.Warriors of Heaven and Earth shall never be spoken of again. Horrid movie.Best practical effects? Come on, ID4 anyone? The White House and Empire State building were real models. And that street scene of the fireball coming down, did you guys see how they did that? They lined a model street with Hot Wheels and put a propane tank (Chitty, were you a consultant on the crew?) at the far end and let 'er rip, yo! What a great practical effects shot.
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Very dramatic (after "watching "Machine Girl" anyway). Completely enjoyed it, even with the third go 'round of the first half due to my visitors. I'm a sucker for those sweeping landscape shots. The magical mystical powers got happy "oohs" from my inner child, and the story had me involved enough to develop an anger for the lords' attacks on the defenseless villages. I'm 3 for 3 with thumbs up on these films!
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That two headed beast and the brownies and those rat dogs.
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that would be just amazing HOD. Thanks! I will probably enjoy the movie even more once I understand all of it.
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I know machine girl and shinobi. The third?
My fave sequences of Shinobi were the horseback chase obviously, the ninja attack towards the end, and the final scene in front of the shogun lords.
The film, and the way it is arranged feels like the movie Mortal Kombat could have been. It's silly, over the top, and unconcerned with the laws of physics or even character consistency, but it's so eager to please, that it totally does. -
I never trusted E.T. Playing the innocent while he was corrupting the children behind their mother's back. Drinking, junk food binges, experimental medical procedures...he was insidiously dangerous.
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none of us know for sure what happened in the woods that night with Elliot.
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I watched "The Host" first. That one is currently making it's way through my coworkers. I am spreading the Asian goodness in my own small way.
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to Hattori Hanso littered throughout the picture. One of the film's most unique aspects was the cinematography and location photography. The entire thing gives of an autumn feel, and this adds to the fairy tale and the melancholy tone. I am intrigued by the casting, that puts essentially a pop star at the center of the film, gives him a goofy little walk, complete with turning in random circles sometimes, and gives him(and his lady) the most awesome powers in the film. We wonder why they are the leaders, until we see how strong they really are when their natures are unleashed.
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I knew ET was up to no good the moment I laid eyes on him.
What a lot of people don't realize is that is wasn't the Reese's Pieces that led ET up to Elliot's room that night.
Remember, Elliot was asleep outside using himself as bait!
I bet Chris Hansen is kicking himself for not being there to confront ET on what his intentions were as he snuck up on a young boy in a sleeping bag.
In fact, I feel a Chris Hansen and ET story coming very shortly.
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Jo Odagiri, the lead from Shinobi is a busy guy. It looks like he has done 17 projects since Shinobi in 2005.
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These last two movies made me aware of some ignorance on my part, but I will admit to it. When I saw the "Kill Bill" movies and heard the Hattori Hanso references, I thought it was the name of the man who built the swords for Bill and Beatrix. Well, at least I can be taught.
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He was also in that, alongside Zhang Ziyi. I wanted very much to like that film, but it was difficult. An odd operatic film with an odd visual style. It's a curiosity for sure, but that's mostly it.
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I think E.T.'s cross-dressing says it all. Who deemed this a kid's movie anyway? Just makes me sick...;)
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You are correct too. Sonny Chiba played a more period version of Hattori Hanso years ago. As an homage, Tarantino hired Chiba and named his character Hattori Hanso. Hanso is the man who designs the swords for Beatrix and Bill in KB. And this conversation has suddenly inspired my desire to go out and pick up the KB movies.
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GreatFuckingMovie.Perhaps my favorite Hawaiian recommendation. I'm overjoyed that he sent it to me in the second batch. Best alley fight ever.
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the movie just doesn't let up. It's a ripping good time. I can't wait to watch it again.
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That makes me feel better. I was just thinking that I was an uneducated moron. I am striving to become an educated moron.
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come over here and join our conv. Don't get yourself banned over there.
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plays over the scene where Chiba presents the sword to Thurman was an excellent scene.
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Jonah-- yeah those Wolf creatures. They were 100% CG....maybe a practical dead one in the background.
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Sep 02, 2008 2:59:54 PM CDT
most impressive practical effects -- Roger Rabbit
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Have you ever seen behind the scenes footage of how many wires, levers, hidden stage-hands and shit where there in every scene. Especially the bar scene with the Weasels.....its amazing to see the raw footage with all the furniture and glasses and things moving around on wires.
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without the silly digital insertions of the director's cut.
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loved that chase scene through the streets in the animated car. Why is it Cool World showed up four years or so later, and it looked worse?
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..because Brad Pitt was in it.
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You aren't Library Warrior?
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"The Bride of Frankenstein" (thought of that partly because of the "Kill Bill" talk). That movie had some great stuff. Way ahead of it's time.
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The setting is a normal suburban home outside of Culver City, CA.
Dateline is here with an actor to see what really goes on when the parents are asleep and the predators are awake.
Hansen: "We have placed our actor outside the home where we have seen evidence of a predaotr lurking. Hopefully we can expose this filth and ask just what they are thinking and why."
All of a sudden there is a rustling in the shed, as a rusty set of garden shears fall out of the half-open door.
Hansen: "Shhh, he's in the shed and should be lured out by Elliot any second. Nothing is stronger as bait than the very kid he wants to corrupt..."
A slow-moving figure eases out of the darkness of the shed and creeps closer to the boy, who is shaking from fear while pretending to be asleep.
The figure comes closer almost child-like and in size.
Hansen: "Here he comes now. It appears to be a little person, shorter than most we have encountered. He also appears to be drunk as he rocks back and forth on his feet."
The figure is about to inspect the boy further when Hansen gives the cue.
The cameras circle the figure and the lights blast a blinding white coating to the area.
Hansen: "Hello there! I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC! Can I talk to a moment?"
The figure is stunned, not knowing which way to turn and it's eyes are bulging at their sockets.
Hansen: "I notice you seemed very interested in our friend here. Can you tell me what you were doing here?
ET: "Phone Home."
Hansen: "Well now is not the time to try and make excuses, after all there are several payphones at the local mini mart. You mean that with all the phones down there, you want us to believe you picked this secluded house with a young boy sleeping in the backyard to try and *puts fingers beside his head* phone home?"
ET just stares at him, not sure what is going on.
Hansen: "Yes, I would think I would be a little speechless too if I was caught wandering up to this little boy late at night."
ET: "Phone Home."
Hansen: "Oh you are so cute, look the only phone call you are going to make is from the police station. Look I just want to know why, in fact I think America would like to know what makes a monster like you tick.
ET: "Phone Home."
Hansen: "OK get this guy out of here and get Elliot some fresh boxers, we have someone coming up the driveway." -
LiberalWarrior has uttered the phrase we all love to hear him say. Rock on!
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You saw me talking about Roger Rabbit a couple weeks ago right? I was praising the effects in that to no end.I posted yet again over in that Palin mess. I think it was a nice succinct cherry on top of my ongoing argument. I'd like to see that Coughlins cretin respond with logic. That guy is just a simpleton.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_en_ot/britain_helen_mirren
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nice job up there. HOD, you missed it, we were just showing Kill Bill some love!
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since I called him out on his Stranger lie.
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Truly touching moments in tv history. Bravo.
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That's why I'm not writing the cool stories!
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with a right cross just for NOT being American.
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chew him like beef jerky.
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Hmmmm....E.T. vs. The Brim vs. The Thing. Cage Match!!!
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Tiny URL it Jonah!!
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But I like to stay mum on it so as not to rile Danny up. Just the mere mention of Cool World has him taking down the paddle with Brad Pitt's name on it.Of course my all time practical effect might be the Predator costume.My copy of E.T. has both the untouched version and the CGI version. And that CGI version doesn't exist to me.
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there are two spaces you have to fill in and the link will work. It's not a pic.
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it's above, in a post I posted titled "So Apparently". It appears between a post titled Django and "that bloody dingo."
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was fighting The Thing the same summer E.T. showed up? Coincidence? Hmm. Maybe Brim faked his death, and headed on out to the suburbs to do battle?
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I read that this morning. Yeah....she's a groovy chick. Damn I thought you had new pics of her!! -
Would have been decent for Mori to say one, "Thanks for the support guys...." or some shit. But no. He pretends to be too busy. But then he posts on Harry's empty ass TB's all the fucking time.
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but I just didnt understand the getting singled out. Besides, his "point" was nothing I or you or Hawaiian didnt say while we were in that TB.
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Brim hung on the udnerside of the ship while eliott was saying his goodbyes, and started gnawing through the thrusters, and as te ship took off, the other aliens, watching him tear through their ship like a bull in a china shop, threw E.T. out of the airlock to distract the Brim.
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I think the other E.T.'s know Earth is a hostile place so they have a rule, they can only gather specimens to study for 15 minutes tops and then they have to go....no matter what-- they have to leave. If their space craft were ever shot down or commandeered it would jeopardize their entire race.
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No way they were going to take a chance on the Brim and his bottle of A-1 sauce to get them.
ET was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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that he was part of a frat, and the aliens gave him a stupid mission that seemed harmless..
"Get us a plant..hehe.." And when E.T. went to do it, they took off and laughed all the way back. -
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First day back has been hectic. Little time to post. Just reading up on what y'all did today. Loved Roger Rabbit. Kill Bill - hoo boy! Just too all over the place for me to really enjoy it as a whole. I liked bits and pieces of it, but that's as far as I will go. If Mori or any Mod ever commented on our shenanigans here, it would seem to condone the hijacking of threads - and lets face it gents, that is what we do. Yes, we are very civil, and try to take lesser known threads, but we still go waayy off topic. Not a bad thing, but they would prefer we do it in the Zone - which sucks buffalo bilge.
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...that explains why he is such a binge drinker the rest of the film.
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1. Definite bad influence on children. 2.Possible Thing in disguise 3. Abandoned by his 'people' because he was the Thing and therefor a danger to them, or because he was the The and was on a mission to infect/ingest suburbanites, or because he was a potential pedophile and they were banishing him to their version of a prison colony. 4. Is the Brim the aliens' version of Van Helsing? 5. Why Reese's Pieces? They aren't good enough to demand interstellar travel. Regular M&Ms, maybe, or peanut butter cups, but not the pieces.
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He probably just has a thing for you - like egg salad! Ha! Just kidding.
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The Thing. WHERE IS THAT EDIT BUTTON???
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The Trolls' pinup guy. My condolences.
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Sep 02, 2008 3:50:47 PM CDT
The Morwen are actually what fall out of the Brim's mustache
by chittychittygangbang
There has been video evidence of a xenomorph crawling into The Brim's facial hair and never being heard from again.
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Sep 02, 2008 3:51:56 PM CDT
I said it before...and I'll say it again......
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Imagine the look on The Brim's face when he's eating pussy.
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Sep 02, 2008 3:53:48 PM CDT
Jonah, you are a decent guy that does not engage in smack
by toadkillerdog
Not the heroin smack - although I am sure you do not engage in that either - I mean smack talk -or smackfu! As a consequence of that and your higher than average profile - you have done reviews and are known to be a serious B movie expert, you are a target. Thats the price of fame my friend.
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That is so wrong on so many levels!
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Sep 02, 2008 3:55:48 PM CDT
his wife is probably very used to that face....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
She also sees it when he:
--Eats corn on the cob
--Smells Thanksgiving dinner
--Punches war protestors in the face
--Notices someone sitting in his court side seats at the Utah Jazz game
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when the Brim is going at her whisker biscuit.
It would be both shocking and an honor at the same time.
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and shit out Captian America.
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"She would experience the orgasmic equivalent of both the Hoover Dam and Niagra Falls being redirected through her pleasure zone."
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http://tinyurl.com/5lclt6
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...The Brim should totally play Lion-O, here is proof!! http://tinyurl.com/5qj2qg
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'I know I did', but that would be soooo tacky and immature, so I won't.
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I spit out my Jolly Rancher on that one.
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Really? Are you in Utah?
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Get to be the only ones who say all the crude but very funny stuff? I couldn't let a zinger like that pass by and still respect myself in the morning.
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The Brim is everywhere. Duh. ;)
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That first picture is GENIUS!
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And a higher pitched keyboard!
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My mind is probably as much in the gutter as anyone else's around here, I just don't show it so much. Might creep people out.
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"No dog makes it a thousand miles to the coast..."So sayeth the Brim. Amen.
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http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Merrick001/WilfordBrimley.png
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How will I ever sleep again. That searing gaze shall haunt me whenever I closeth mine eyes. Aieee!
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Got to do a 2001: A Space Odyssey here, although it's an obvious one. I'm sure Kubrick shot that on location in space.
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Would like very much to see King & Straub's The Talisman and Black House brought to the big screen. Mini-series not acceptable. A cinerama experience is required.
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can I ask why?
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did nobody see Sha Po Lang? Better known in the states as Killzone? That knife fight with Wu Jing and Donnie Yen was insane. Most of it just looks like it's improvised, but they're still moving SO FAST!
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Fred had a lot of catching up to do at work. What happened to our old TB?
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Make-up work does leech the fun out of days off. What are you and Dirk up to this evening?
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dream projects I'd love to see done:
Definitely want to see another big budget Godzilla film, maybe a collaboration between America and Japan, with some competent people working on it this time. We have never gotten the follow-up to the original we deserve. We hoped it was Godzilla 1985 but it wasn't. We hoped, in vain, for Emmerich's Zilla. I hoped for Godzilla Final Wars, but no such luck. The big guy needs a film that will make him scary and majestic and remove him from the cgi debacle of 98 and the big rubber suit of old. Yes, nix the really fake rubber suits. They have served their purposes. Lets see a realistic, but bulky, haunchy Godzilla. -
Got awfully quiet around here. "World War Z" is my long-time dream project (even though it is allegedly in progress, I'm not counting it as a done-deal until I see post-production on imdb). I would like to see a well-made version of Robert R. McCammon's "Boy's Life". That is one of my favorite books. It's been tossed about as a movie idea for years, but no one has actually takne any initiative.
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I loved Robert McCammon's short story collection Blue World. There was a short story in there called Gator Man which would make a great little film, or an anthology hour long. It features a rough and touble cajun gator hunter who has been pursuing one specific gator for years. Although, no one is really sure if it is even a gator.
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Im thinking of trying one out, but not sure which one.
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The bear from Stephen King's "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan". There is a pop-up version of that book and the bear is one mean, nasty, scary looking mutha! Absolutely nothing cute or cuddly about him.
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in the third installment of the Dark Tower. Ironically, the bear was called Shardik, after the Richard Adams' book I've been pimping all day. The bear in the King story was actually a cyborg.
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I've read all of McCammon's work (at least what he's published under that name). He's been one of my favorite authors since I was a teenager. Gator Man would be great to see. I know they filmed a few of his stories onto shows like Monsters. His temporary but too-long retirement put too many of those projects out of people's minds. I'm in a mood for film, yes. Got a good one lined up?
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do you have that asian horror link again? Im lazy and don't feel like going back to the Riddick TB.
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I have "Shardik", "The Plague Dogs", and "Watership Down". I even have a copy of "Maia" next to me at this very moment.
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I used to love that show as akid. Getting to stay up on a saturday night and watch Monsters in 1988 was a treat!
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http://www.asian-horror-movies.com
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that was a sequel of sorts to Shardik, but I actually thought it was sort of a letdown.
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I watched all of that stuff. I don't think McCammon's "Nightcrawlers" was on that one, but maybe the one about the cursed make-up kit was.
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It's on my list, so I've got it close by. It may be put off while I read the Jasper Fforde books ThereWolf recommended.
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Don't know why. Drain bamage!
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it was the first Monsters I ever saw. I stumbled across Nightcrawlers last year, when I rented the 1980s Twilight Zone compilation. It was on there. Very well done, and still creepy.
O.k. I think I found one. What about this:
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http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/tok.php
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I am there!
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in his Jan Brady wig.
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Did I just see that guy bury his mother in the dump, and the wife kicked her head off?
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Asano is such a varied actor though. Probably like the Japanese Johnny Depp. To go from this to Ichi the Killer(which I DO NOT recommend) to Zatoichi to Mongol is impressive.
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This is a must see for the rest of the group. And don't solicit dead chicks. OUCH!!!
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I don't know the actors by name yet.
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it's really hit and miss with these things.
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He's Superfly, right?
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I think the group would get a kick out of this. So random though. The whole gym teacher thing is kind of nauseating.
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I can give up the Tokyo underwear fahsion parade with little sorrow, or we can tough it out and see if it improves.
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give him the link to this. He would love it. Have another choice ready?
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Im probably going to bed soon anyway. I had higher hopes for this. I'm probably going to head out for the night. Mavra, if you drop this one check out Buppah Rahtree instead. I HIGHLY recommend that one. It's a great movie. You wont have wasted your time.
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They are a fragile people.
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You never know what you'll get until you give it a try, so no real loss. Have a good night, Jonah.
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I know people that will probably get a 'kick' out of this one. It must be shared, even if I go to Buppah Rahtree.
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so far Hansel and Gretel was a good find. Ive seen enough of these though I can keep recommending good ones to you. Its the sight unseen ones I dont have a good track record with.
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Dirk was watching the Republican convention. I know, I know. But Dirk is a fiscally conservative Amoeba. He knows his best amoeba gigolo earning years are behind him, so he wants a mean old white man to guard his gigolo jar. In case you did not know, Dirk can be a tad bit self centered.
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I think earlier you asked about which material is our dream to see in a movie. I have two. I would either love to see a perfect film version of Paradise Lost, or Don Quixote. I'm talking epic, smart, dramatic, well acted versions with perfect casts and endless budgets. I love both books to no end and have imagined them in my head so much though, I'm not sure the movies could ever meet my expectations unless I were to direct them myself someday.
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All you've missed so far is the weirdest zombie film I ever saw.
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Now I know we were star-crossed from the beginning. I can never be anything but liberal. Ahh well...
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ha ha
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He likes anyone and anything that puts more money in his gigolo jar.
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Manage other Amoeba gigolos. He could be like the Ratso Rizzo of amoebas.
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Fred must support Fred! Just like in Planet of the Apes. Ape not kill Ape!
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Thought I'd at least give it through part one, but part two was getting worse. Even I have a few standards.
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Sep 02, 2008 10:44:16 PM CDT
What was the Zombie movie you saw that left such an
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Impression?
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Ape did kill ape. You must find a better example. Fred must support Fred, that is the law. Those who break the law shall go back to the house of pain.
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Sep 02, 2008 10:47:46 PM CDT
Fred thinking of making Poughkepsie Zombie
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Showing what zombies do in the big city! Then, maybe even Akron Zombie!
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http://www.asian-horror-movies .com/tok.php It's terrible. Heads flying everywhere, random spankings, oral sex with zombies (you know that can't end well), and Asian blacksploitation. Watch at your own risk.
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Fred had blocked that out of memory. But you are right. Ape did kill Ape. Does Mavra Chang have any suggestions?
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Sep 02, 2008 10:52:09 PM CDT
Fred is scared just because of your description!
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Fred will pass - Dirk might sneak a peak though.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire? Did any politician ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Thompson?
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Beware of underwear...there is much to see that should not be seen!
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“Fred Thompson... a group experience of love and support.” I'm swiping quotes and just inserting Fred. It could work. We just need to find the perfect one.
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Sep 02, 2008 10:57:35 PM CDT
Fred Flintstone was seen by more people on TV than
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Fred Astaire. Frederick the Great had more power than Fred T
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http://www.fredsociety.com/famousfreds.html
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I was looking at famous movie quotes. I almost put "If you vote, Fred will come.", but that might not look good on a campaign poster.
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Sep 02, 2008 11:01:56 PM CDT
Are you familiar with the lyrics of Prince song Darling Nicki?
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You could change the Name Fred T or Freddie
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THAT would get attention. He might win over a whole new demograph.
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But it does have an interesting pitch for Fred. It would show a side of him the public rarely sees. Dare I say it....he could be the next Brim!
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Fred would bet there are some pictures out there!
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from the group in a big way. I may have gone too far in comparing him to the Brim, but controversy is what I live for. Bring it on!
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Sep 02, 2008 11:10:24 PM CDT
When Fred was in High School Fred had a music teacher named
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Nikki. Some of the guys in Freds class would sing that song before class started and afterwards. Fred got to learn all the lyrics! Red faced Fred
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Fred will not want me writing his campaign speeches.
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Dirk is a bad influence on you. Well, someone should be.
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Sep 02, 2008 11:12:44 PM CDT
Do not worry Mavra Chang Fred and Dirk will protect you
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From any scorn. Fred thinks that a Fred is better than a Wilford
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Fred has tip toed on the wild side!
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I'll fight 'em with one paw tied behind my back. I'll fight 'em with my eyes closed!
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Sep 02, 2008 11:16:57 PM CDT
Fred first came across that song when Fred watched
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Purple Rain. Good music. Ok story.
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Fred knew you were fierce!
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I love doing that stuff to people. Maybe controversy is not what I live for. Maybe it's shock value!
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If they come after me, I'll attack them with fleas. Roar! Mwa ha ha!
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Sep 02, 2008 11:22:12 PM CDT
Fred spit his cranberry juice a few weeks ago
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ChittyChittyGangbang made Fred laugh so hard the juice went flying. So it is only fair that you made ChittyChittyGangBang spit his candy!
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Sep 02, 2008 11:24:56 PM CDT
Fred felt like a Lion on veldt this weekend
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You know, after they have eaten a zebra and are laying on their backs with their paws in the air, and they cant tunr over because their stomachs are so full, but they have a zebra eating grin on their faces! Fred felt just like that -except Fred did not eat a zebra.
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Works for me. Too bad you weren't here for that discussion. The shock value of you saying something like that would have been priceless. Might have gone down in AICN history. Nevermind, I guess if you make history on here that would not be the quip you'd want to be remembered for.
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I ate jerk crawfish etouffee today. No veldt rolling for me, but it was really good. Did you ever read Ray Bradbury's story "The Veldt"? It was also part of the movie "The Illustrated Man".
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What did Fred say that was shocking?
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Fred has to go to bed, but Fred really enjoyed our chat. Fred hope he did not get too wild tonight.
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Don't worry Fred. I meant if you had said to Chitty and Danny what I said, but it would not have been a good idea after all. He'd have probably choked on the jolly rancher instead of spitting it. Can't take that kind of a chance.
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Saw that you saw Inland Empire and enjoyed it about as much as I did. I got into this argument with this guy on IMDB about how Lynch was just shitting out of his ass with that movie. It took me 5 hours to watch because I kept falling asleep. And this guy said that he watched it like 3-5 times in a row. I was like you are just a fucking flat out liar, that was the most miserable garbage I'd ever seen. And artsy fartsy or not, why in allahs green earth would anyone ever watch that movie without at least a 5-10 year gap in between viewings is beyond me, and impossible.
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Fred only read one Bradbury story much to Freds chagrin
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It was a fun chat and almost caught us up with the political one. You are always cool.
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Sep 02, 2008 11:34:29 PM CDT
What is inland empire? Should Fred even ask?
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Well, time for bed anyway. Fred getting sleepy
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Well worth checking out. Bradbury is awesome. Goodnight.
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Glad you liked The Walking Dead, any Zombie fan needs to get there mits on that series now. Its fucking fantastic, and I'm sure we'll see it on TV or movie soon. It has to be a showtime/HBO/FX show (shit even AMC) and even though I think that M. Knight Shamalyan is worth nothing, I'd say he is the perfect man to do it. Plus even though its set in Georgia, PA could easily replace it. And as long as he can stay off of his terrible high horse, and just use the written material and not make his own it would work. Also thanks for the Time After Time info, thats funny. Malcom is one interesting actor.
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Is David Lynchs most recent movie. He independently financed 3 million for it. WO HOO for him, how he even got $0.01 for it is beyond me.
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I'm going to get some more of those books when I get paid again. The next few were less than half the price of the first one, so I can stock up easier. Got a friend who would also thank you for telling me about that book. He asked to borrow my copy when he saw it. He said his brother has "Walking Dead" tattoed on one arm. Wow. That's a fan! Malcom McDowell gives fun interviews. You could tell he would have done that sort of thing again in a heartbeat, so matter how many couch nights it cost him.
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Yeah Heroes was fucking retarded for ending his role SOOO soon. Then again there isn't much that show has done that falls into the category of good. Even he said that he was pissed he's character was cut so short. Oh well though with the logic of that show he can come right back, seeing that this new season is called Villains, they'll probably show where he came from, since all that show is interested in doing is origin stories over and over and over again. I swear its worse then Superman.
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You must go read it now, almost as much as you need to go see Tropic Thunder in theaters. This applies to everyone. You can get the shit in Barnes and Noble, thats W H Smith to you Brits.
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I was kicking myself for losing track when I heard he was on it, but have't gotten around to catching up on it yet. Maybe that's not such a bad thing, unless, like you say, they give him more to work with. Then I would find it a moral imperative to watch.
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... you rock. You guys do a great job. I love you very much and think of you frequently.
I know that Bobo will now say this is too little too late, but I genuinely tingle in my naughty places for all of you in this particular talkback, and I don't care who knows it. I guess I just never thought to tell you until now. Thanks, Bobo, for bringing us all one little bit closer. -
For once I did not have to miss witnessing what will no doubt be the morning's main topic. Thanks for flying air CoC, Mr Moriarty.
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he is an evil genius, the worst of sherlock holmes's enemies (i that tom crusie will play him in the movie)
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They are usually the most interesting part of a story, besides being the most frequent motivation for a story's existence. How are you today? I'm still up watching "Buppah Rahtree". Very good film. Have you seen it?
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We rock.So hard.
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finally shook this cold, just in time for a ten k run i have to do.
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didn't really like it. the special features had a short flim by joel edgeton on it, that film was better.
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This movie is on that Asian horror film site. A ghost is haunting an apartment, still in her shrouded body, and will not be moved from it. At the moment, a shrill-voiced phony monk (or priest, not quiet sure of his proper term) has gotten himself trapped in the room with her. Sucks to be him. She has righteous anger issues.
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nope i got a few days left, but i feel blergh!
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http://www.asian-horror-movies.com
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Get plenty of rest and liquids before you subject yourself to running. Guess it's good that it's winter for you. 3 in the morning where I am and still 85 degrees. Yuck!
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First Mofrees and I watched Lady Vengeance. After showing her Oldboy she was so intrigued I decided it was finally time to see out the other two thirds of the Revenge trilogy. Needless to say, I was not disappointed. I knew nothing about the film, other than the fact that it was along the same lines as Oldboy. I can't decide which one I think is better yet, but I'll rewatch it later, after I've seen Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and then I'll think about it once more. But certainly an entertaining, extremely original piece of cinema.Now this next part is for you HOD. So after that Mofrees went to bed and I decided to pop in Shinobi. I'll be honest. In spite of everybody's raving about the movie, I went into this one with extremely low expectations. I am not a fan of fantasy action. The closest I can get to it is Hero. It's fun every once in awhile but not usually something I particularly enjoy. All the wire work and CG usually just rubs me the wrong way. This movie changed all that. The action in Shinobi is dynamic, exciting, and just incredibly well staged. I was on the edge of my seat at every bout, sometimes almost cheering, especially when that one guy with the chain blades finally killed big sleeves man. I hated big sleeves man. Forget the fact that it was Tak Sakaguchi from Versus. That ourfit, that fighting style? Lame. So chain guy was definitely a fav. Another thing I really enjoyed about Shinobi was its cinematography. It's become a little formulaic for Asian action epics to have lots of sweeping shots of exotic, beautiful landscapes, but I still don't mind all the pretty pictures one little bit. My only problems with the movie were the weak leads, and the fact that the plot was a little thin (basically just there so there could be one fight after another). Now I'm not complaining too much. Like I said, the movie had some great action. But a plot with a little more meat would have been nice, and the two leads were less charismatic than I thought they would actually be. Again, not too much of a problem, since I can understand the director wanted to leave some room for all the other cool characters as well. So my final scores for the next batch so far are...Sukiyaki Western Django 4.5/5 - A psychotic, explosive blast of cult cinema, and... Shinobi 3.5/5 - A surprisingly entertaining action flick with lots of dynamic fantasy violence and an okay love story.Thanks again HOD! Probably going to check out Invisible Target tomorrow. Very excited about that one fromm what I've heard.
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I liked the sleeve guy. He was like spiderman in loose clothing. I said it earlier, but the various superhero styles of the Shinobi appealed to me. Still, you've seen many more of these film than I have, so you have more experience to judge them by.
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but chain blade guy just seemed more traditional ninja to me, and I'm all about the old school. I agree Mavra, the superhero sort of aspects of the characters in this one really worked. I don't know if it's because I haven't seen a fantasy action movie in awhile, or it was just that good, but the movie was a great surprise.So are you new to the martial arts film genre or just fantasy action Mavra?
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"I've seen The Brim eat 15 war protesters and shit out Captain America"
I laughed so hard at that one, good thing I wasnt eating something at the time, I woulda choked to death...
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That I recall. The only "martial arts" films I think I've seen were the "Kill Bill" movies and "Unleashed", if those even count. The only Asian films I had seen before this week were horror, and all of those of the ghost/curse variety. This whole thing is a new world to me, and I'm having a pretty good time in it.
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... I'm not seeing it until next week so I can see it projected instead of on DVD. Not that I always wait... I've got ELITE SQUAD here for later tonight or tomorrow, for example. I take it it's already been released overseas on DVD?
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would you like some recommendations? I'm sure the likes of Jonah and Hawaiian and the others will have a few more to add but here are some of my favorites.Fantasy action: Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer, Hero, House of the Flying Daggers, Dragon Inn, Ashes In Time, Legend of ZuSamurai movies: Azumi, Samurai 1, 2, and 3, Sword of the beast, Sword of Doom, Shogun's Samurai, Twilight Samurai, Samurai Fiction, Shogun Assassin (or any Lone Wolf and cub movies), any of the Zatoichi movies (Takeshi Kitano's remake is also worth checking out for a differnet spin), and pretty much anything by Akira Kurosawa or starring Toshiro Mifune is a safe bet. Especially Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Ran, Kagemusha, etc.Old school kung fu: Drunken Master, 36th Chamber of Shaolin, 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, The Flying Guillotine, The Five Venoms, Iron Monkey, Fist of Legend, Fists of Fury (known in the states as the Chinese Connection), The Magnificent Butcher, Drunken Master 2(Legend of the Drunken Master), and one of my personal favorites, Heroes of the EastModern Action: Hard Boiled, Sha Po Lang (Killzone), Police Story and Police Story 3 (skip part 2), A Bittersweet Life, Versus (for stupid crazy fun), Chocolate, and of course anything Tony JaaSome other good stuff I hihgly recommend that doesn't neccessarily fit into the action genre:Oldboy, Tears of the Black Tiger (I was raving about this a few weeks ago but never really got a response), 3-Iron, Tokyo Drifter, Auditon (my very favorite horror movie), Devils in the Door Step (everybody NEEDS to see this) and Taste of TeaThere are of course hundreds more great films to choose from, as I'm sure many others will point out to you. These are just some of the ones I have enjoyed over the years. Every one of those last ones comes especially recommended for their unique flavors and executions.
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or it might be hard knowing just what the hell is going on. elite Squad huh? I had never heard of it before you mentioned it, but upon wiki...er, wiki-ing that shit, I am interested. My only other exposure to Brazilian films was City of God, a great way to kick off my exposure to the country's cinema.
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I also recommend Battle Royale.
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That's very thoughtful of you. I saved your list so that I can find these movies. You do rock!
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And if action ain't your thing, definitely start with the last part of the list. It's a nice balance of drama, comedy, and romance that any cinema fan could enjoy. If I had the means (and actually owned all of those on DVD) they are the ones I would send out to people who looking for some new or different stuff.
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that is pretty hot. it's 75 here but that is winter (6pm) in summer it gets up to 110. (although we celsius)
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Did anybody else notice in the very last scene with Oboro and the hawk or falcon or whatever, every time the shot changes the stream is different? At first when she is drinking the water from it, it is flowing gently, but serene, when it shows it again it's got a pond on the bottom (the serene part) but a steep incline of steadily flowing water, and in the last shot, she's standing by a full on hill of miniature rapids. Okay, maybe I'm talking about the scene with a bit of hyperbole, but it's kind of funny no?
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Do you say "It's not the heat, it's the humidity"? 85 wouldn't normally bother me, I like warm weather, but it's oppressive now. To quote the late, great Anne Ramsey "It's too damn sultry in here!" ;) Hey, it's only 84 now. Refreshing!
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I'll have to rewatch that part.
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get 100% humidity, just that filthy stinking heat that leaves your skin wet. good weather for swimming though.
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wotcha chipps- last one-dayer today. Engand will apparantly be the 2nd best team in the world if they win. I think that's bollocks to be honest. Cheers Series, nobody without their pretension dial turned up to 11 could sit through IE three times in a row. Bollocks. Kill Bill: Part 1 was fun. Part 2 was DIABOLICALLY AWFUL. The whole thing was a bloated fat lazy fucking movie, and they could have both been knocked together with most of the cuts coming from part 2. What did the return to the Wedding sequence add? anything? nope, didn't think so. Or the end- she's chasing Bill for fucking ages and when she catches him do we get the promised bloody battle? Do we fuck. Bill talks tarantino bollocks about Superman for what seems like an age and then Uma tickles him to death. It was shit. Better than grindhouse though. And I maintain that Uma Thurman was fucking terrible in it. Takling. Very. Slowly. Does. Not. Equal. Great. Acting. (Something Carradine should also have noted). Self-indulgent tripe.
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... one of the main reasons I don't miss Florida at all. September in the San Fernando Valley is anvil hot, sort of a dry take-your-breath-away heat. With some winds that sort of suck. I'll take two months of that over two minutes of Florida sticky 99.9999% humidity that just gets thicker all day long till it's like you're walking around underwater. I had yeeeeeeears of that nonsense.
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Battle Royale 2 is just shit. I also like sympathy for mr. Vengeance the most out of the Vengeance trilogy, but they're all great.
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that's funny about the jersey. dam our addictive gambling. we are playing the bangladesh it's kinda embarrassing, they seem to be getting baseball scores. symonds has been kicked out of the team because he went fishing instead of training.
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at the moment. It's just cold and wet here. I want to go back to Spain.
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what are you doing poaching our players! You'd never see us put out a team with oooh 4 South Africans in it.
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i need to go on a holiday to the states. it's one major place i've never traveled through.
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because he really does sound like an englishman doesn't he. and he is pale and sickly looking like you guys to. he would blend in perfectly at high tea with the queen.
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I have a question about Masters of Sci-Fi. It just finished here and was so woefully under-advertised that I didn't know it was on, so I only saw the last one (which was OK but not mind-blowing to be honest). It strikes me as a kind of reworking of The Outer Limits which I loved, is this the case?
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and as to the pale and sickly thing- I'm currently immaculatly suntanned. Anyway, are you not aware of how many asians/blacks there are in Birmingham?
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he is black and drinks australian beer would make him fit right in in birmingham
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at the site of the battle of stirling. that was a good day.
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funny stuff. Did he have a reason for going fishing or did he just do it.
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they are saying they might not let him back in the team. but he is one of our best so it will be hard to keep him out
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even by the standards of this Aussie side.
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he has years ahead of him
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there was a tv series on the bodyline series. it had hugo weaving as the bad guy. he makes a good bad guy.
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With the possible exception of Bodyline/ Cronje and the D'Oliveira fiasco.
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... they were working apart from the MASTERS OF HORROR guys, so I can't say for sure that OUTER LIMITS was a specific goal... but come on... that's pretty much got to be the pinnacle of anthology sci-fi on TV. Horror's had a lot of attempts, both good and bad, over the years but sci-fi anthologies are expensive and difficult to sell. As proven again by the way MASTERS OF SCI-FI was handled by the network.
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and you know it. He just isn't as old as some of the other fossils in your batting line up. I'm just jealous, mind.
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I was just wondering. The finale episode I saw looked extremely cheap. But the story itself (even if another retelling of the Who Watches the Watchmen parable) reminded me of an Outer Limits episode. Really, The Outer Limits was a fantastic series, and if they'd pitched it like that I'd have watched more. Instead they buried it and advertised it as a sci-fi Masters of Horror. The whole marketing strategy was deeply flawed.
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I never expected to see any 'black boxes' around these parts. Well done, Mr Moriarty.Mavra - "Thanks for flying Air Coc..." Ranks up there with Fred's 'Coc Cannon.' Seriously wish I hadn't been eating a bowl of Curiously Cinnamon slathered in vanilla milk at that moment. Going to be a twat emptying my keyboard of that little lot...Oi, everybody: We rock!
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Howyadoin, crazy man? Got over your multiple banning in one morning?
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It's actually cool to have you here as another voice talking film. That was what I wanted to see anyway.
I didn't care much for Django, but I may need to see it again, as it's clear Miike was going more for a Jodorowsky-style thing than a straight forward film. Y'know, that's not exactly right either. He's Miike. He is his own style.
For me a few of Miike's stylistic flourishes sabotaged the movie instead of causing elation at their wierdness. For me, Happiness of the Katakuris is the pinnacle of that giddy insanity at the center of Miike's career. It's probably my favorite movie of his, despite it's "lightweight" nature.
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you liked Buppah Rahtree? Good, that's two who have liked it. Kung-fu, see Buppah Rahtree, it's a pretty cool little horror comedy. In fact Mori, if you haven't seen it, it's definitely worthwhile. It's interesting to see how they change the tone so drastically for each of the three segments, while allowing pieces of each to linger into the next.
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is the ending. And I have to say that the major death scene bothered me for quite a while. "He can't be dead!" cries Pillow....
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Damn, everyone is gonna have a '2' after their name soon...
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Carlos must be taking some juice or something...
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I think several still havent seen IT, so we should keep spoilers to a minimum, but yes you are right.
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foreign fare, not necessarily just asian. Has anyone here seen Tell No One? AWESOME thriller.
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for Tell No One up front on another film. Looked interesting. It's on watch-movies.net in 4 parts but I don't know how good the quality is.
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When you folks post a link, do you deliberately put spaces in said link so as not to stretch out the TB screen?
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That surprised me in a good way too Jonah. And I've seen the trailer for Tell No One too. I have to agree, that looked pretty good.Thanks to our group here, I've been on a foreign kick and seen some pretty damn good movies.
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Though I generally use tinyurl for outside links. If I provide AICN links, then I just cut and paste the actual link and however it comes across in the talkback screen, it comes across. The spaces appear like magic.
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Tell No One - should be a 5-parter but there's something up with Part 1. Apparently, you can also watch it 'in full' put I couldn't get the smegger to play!
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Thanks for that. I'm not entirely confident I wouldn't explode the whole TB if I tried URL-ing!
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Bodet got banned 4 times in one morning. It was some work
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I only saw the last one as well, but I basically had to strategize to see it, as the stations seemed to keep moving it about(local that is). The last was The Dsicarded, and it starred Brian Dennehy and John Hurt as survivors of a molecular disease(RIGGM) that reformed your DNA and created mutants.
Earth had forced the infected into space, and they were essentially travelling around in a flying tomb, waiting for their resources to run out when Earth contacts them for help.
The set-up and the acting were better than the actual execution, but I would have liked them to get their footing.
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It's like shooting wamp-rats back home.
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Four times. The horsemen have rode.
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I dont think egg salad even managed that feat. Of course with him, they probably don't even pay attention anymore. Harry probably has a filter up that sifts through posts and the first time an individual poster uses the words dog and sex in the same sentence 400 times consecutively, they get banned. And the staff can rest assured knowing they got Egg Salad.
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and had that guy from LA confidential and another few people in it. I wonder why ours was different
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but it wasn't in the AnimalStructure scale. Has Memories been banned? or have I managed to finally drive the termite out.
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I haven't seen everything he's done, (a bizarre omission is Ichi), but the only one he made that I found offensively awful was Visitor Q. But I'm aware that it has it's fans
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In case you're still around/awake, yes indeed, Sukiyaki Western Django has been released overseas and that's where I got my copy. I'm not sure how keen on Asian movies you are but I know that Harry is only slightly less infatuated with them than I am but if either one of you has an extra $20 a month in your budget, subscribing to a Asian movie rental service is the way to go. And Kungfuhustler is correct about the subtitles. If the version you're watching doesn't have them, prepare yourself for an evening of struggling to understand what 90% of the cast is saying.Kungfu, per your recommendation I bought Tears of the Black Tiger sight unseen so that's how much faith I put in your opinion, brother. When it comes to Asian movies, you and Jonah have the most extensive knowledge I've yet to come across.I finally started watching John Adams, the HBO miniseries last night and that's quality stuff. Anyone else see it? Paul Giamatti and Phillip Seymour Hoffman need to be cast in the same movie. Call it Scenery Chewers. It will be the greatest acting tour de force in years.
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according to IMDB, the show returned and ran two eps in December,four months later. WHA??
I didnt know they ever were anymore beyond The Discarded. James Cromwell is the guy Jarv. Always remembered in my mind as the Babe farmer. Actually, can you imagine that as a movie. James Cromwell is THE BABE FARMER. Tonight on Cinemax. -
tried watching Tokyo Zombie last night, but it was awful. I'm glad I've started glimpsing bad asian films on that site again. It gives me a greater appreciation for the stuff you sent.
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If M-o-M was banned, it was done so without any fanfare. Jarv, you probably know this better than myself, but if he regularly posted every day, then he's either been banned or taking a break because I haven't seen a single post from him in any of the top threads in almost a week.
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some nerd developed a fying bird with Military application that could discern murderous intent and nuetralise them. It was then pressed into domestic service, but Homeland Security were hawkish (hah)and forced him to advocate the use of more lethal force. The Watchbird is merged with his Brain so to make him do this they murdered his fiancee. You can see where this is going.
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...but now that Jarv is back he's going to skewer my choices me thinks so I have to tread even more lightly than I did last week.How is everyone doing today, by the way? Having trouble adjusting to work after vacation, Jarv?
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maybe Im inviting you to a mindfield here, but if I recall you liked Inland Empire right? I was trying to explain to Jarv, but came up wanting. Any extra thoughts on your end that would perhaps shed light on it?
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Mrs Jarv made me sit through Van Helsing last night. I tried to tell her it was fucking awful, but she kept on about how she hadn't seen it. Tonight is Blade Trinity. What a crappy run. I'm going to treat myself to Lep 5: Back 2 Da Hood when I get home to brace myself for it.
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especially as my Job description has changed and I have to attend even more pointless meetings/ Seminars where pointy headed nerdlings talk utter arse at me. Today the topic is "Confidence in your database". What a fucking joke.
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your top twenty movies, and any additional thoughts-disappointments, surprises, whatever else. Sound good?
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If you can help me out with a few clues as to what Inland Empire is about, I'd be grateful. Especially, as if I can demonstrate that it is about something then I can talk Mrs Jarv into The Elephant Man and off her Lynch boycott.
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Mrs. Jarv is testing you....
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Jarv, if anything will make the missus rethink her Lynch boycott it's those two movies. Throw in Ghost Rider for the trifecta and it's a done deal. You'll have Mrs. Jarv begging to watch The Elephant Man.Sorry to hear about the job description being changed. Does your boss happen to look like Ian Holm? Odd how companies don't realize how much money is wasted through pointless meetings. Productivity takes a real slide during those periods.
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I hate middle management. Although I may tit around on here a lot, I'm actually being productive during this time. Something you can not accuse me of being when I'm asleep in one of these meetings.
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Here we go. Right now it's just the list. I'll do discussion as we go along.
1.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2.Incredibles
3.Twilight Samurai
4.A Very Long Engagement
5.House of Flying Daggers
6.Hotel Rwanda
7.Aviator
8.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
9.Touching the Void
10.Osama
11.Finding Neverland
12.Kill Bill 2
13.Primer
14.Shaun of the Dead
15.Spiderman 2
16.Bon Voyage
17.Maria Full of Grace
18.Hellboy
19.Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
20.Collateral
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If you look above, I pointed out I didnt think you were being terribly harsh. Obviously you were somewhat keeping up the shenanigans. No offense here. I never made any comments on you individually, just was amused someone had capsulated my intent in a way I found bizarre. Getting Mori to talk has never my purpose. I just like interacting with people. As you may have noticed, I even try to engage the trolls in meaningful discussion(guys like Anakin and Eggsalad.)
No worries here.
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keeping up with our shenanigans, meaning you were reading the Outlander TB, so I doubt you really found us that pathetic.
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I think you can.
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It tolls for thee! Get ready
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Neigh!!!!!!! I say! NEIGH!!!!!!
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Sep 03, 2008 8:46:35 AM CDT
Mori, I am glad you noticed our merry band of movie lovers
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This is a very welcome respite from work for me and others!
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My hands were shaking as I pounded the keyboard in a futile attempt to fire the first blow.
I feel like having a sobbing Walmart fit.
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A Walmart fit is when you take a little brother or sister into Walmart and you happen to go by the toy section.
You are in a hurry and don't have time for that, so when you drop the bad news on them, they hit the floor and roll and scream in protest for not getting a toy.
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...the AICN staff to interact with us. OK, I lied, that's just a bonus I hope for. Having Mori pop in earlier was nice. He didn't have to match us post for post but he responded to you and Jarv and I think that was perfect. Some of our (off-)topics are interesting and you have to think they read our blather from time to time and being movie geeks, surely they must have an opinion.Jarv, you need to finagle yourself into middle management. Then you can put nonsense behind you.Best of 2004? You're going to have to give me a few for this one.
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Is what we call Walmart feet.
It when you see a kid (or in my town, an adult) walking around the Walmart barefoot.
Then you get a glance at the bottom of there feet.
There is this dark grey powder on the bottoms of their feet.
You can't see this when you look at the floors, but walk around barefoot for a while and then it will be there.
This effect is amplified in the grocery section, where juices from fallen grapes expose this phenomona as is visible to the naked eye.
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to put Kill Bill 2 on your list. It's on mine there somewhere. I saw that movie with my future inlaws. Oddly, it was our bonding moment. :)
And honestly, how many films are cool enough to reference Sluizer's The Vanishing? Boo-ya!
My out on a limb pick there is Sky Captain, which many seem to hate. I don't understand it. It was like a candy binge, with that wonderful sugar coma spilling over you as the movie ends. I walked out of that one smiling ear to ear as Somewhere Over the Rainbow played over the credits. It helped I saw it in one of those great old movie houses. -
Ok, Jarv, I know yo are out there. Give me a hint, what did he say to get banned - four times in one day? Wow!
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cool movie that it is, for Save the Green Planet. I forgot that one was a 2004 film. I saw it at an anime convention in Baltimore. What a crazy film!
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I experienced the Costco Fit (TM) on the weekend. Made the mistake of cutting through the crowd by taking the often empty book aisle and my daughter flew off the handle when I wouldn't stop so she could look at Elmo's latest crazy escapades. Thank FSM they had all those free food samples to appease her.
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Sep 03, 2008 9:00:44 AM CDT
I'm going to have to give Sky Captain another go
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Added to my queue.
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On a stealth mission. Fred Thomspson could kick The Brims mustache from Tennessee to Montana!
Smack Talking Fred -
I saw you gave Darling Nicki a shout out last night! How old are you? That is a bit of a risque song for the likes of you! Hah!
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Fred is 25 - but Fred heard that song in High School because Freds music teacher was named Nicki. Fred also heard the song on Purple Rain. Yes, the lyrics are a risque, but Fred did not write them - only memorized them hee hee. Red faced Fred
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HOD at the height of my parent's cheapness, somewhere back in the late 80s, early 90s, they would stop by price club on a sunday afternoon after church or something, and would essentially encourage us to eat samples until our bellies bulged, to avoid having to take us out to lunch. There were four of us, but still. As a result, I have been Pavlovian trained to salivate anytime I see a Bagel Bite warming in a microwave oven.
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I'm typically always missing you. How are you today? Tops of 2004? Also, your top movies of this summer?
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You know my feeling on that, but it just makes me sad that the promise of something extraordinary went unfullfilled. I will just break out my Superman cartoons from the 1940's though.
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MMMMMMM....HMMMMMMMMMM.....
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The Brim would grab Thompson's foot and pour A-1 suace on it.
As The Brim's ravenous maw clamped down Thompson's foot, he would be sprinkling seasoning on the rest of his body.
The Brim eats full grown men like Thompson and shits out smallers versions of them, which hit the floor and scurry away like coachroaches with a light turned on.
Also The Brim wouldn't go on a late night talk show and annouce his intention of running for president.
He would stand on top of Mt. Rushmore and declare he is NOW the new president and nobody would say anything as his booming voice spilled out, causing a wave of destruction that makes ID4 main weapons look like a gentle breeze.
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called "Howie and the Brim" chronicling the bizarre friendship of Howard Hughes and Wilford Brimley.
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Gosh, top movies from 2004. Hang on While Fred reviews list. As for this summer - that is easy. 1) The Dark Knight 2) Wall-E 3) Speed Racer 4) Iron Man 5) Hulk
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You always make Fred laugh! The last time Fred had Cranberry juice in his mouth and it went all over the screen! Last night Fred and Mavra Chang were discussing famous Freds.
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I kid. I really dug all those movies on your list. Good choices.
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Flame away!1) The Incredibles2) Spider-Man 23) Kung Fu Hustle4) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind5) Man On Fire6) Kill Bill 27) Taegukgi8) Before Sunset9) Shaun of the Dead 10) Downfall
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1) Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkhaban 2) The Incredibles 3) Spidey 2 4) Hellboy 5) Maria Full of Grace 6) Shaun of the Dead
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christ, I actually felt myself age.
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Me, I kind of felt it was an experimental year, with alot more attempts, than say actual classics. It was the big return of Scorsese I felt, since he had been kind of running on fumes in my mind for the past few years. I LOVED the Aviator, if for no other reason than the fact Dicaprio and Blanchette have given me perfect templates to imagine when Chitty writes his Brim stories. Nothing quite like picturing Blanchette smirking up into a sky full of falling hookers.
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Biggest disappointment of 2004. A complete bawbag of a film.
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second biggest disappointment of 2004.
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I forgot Kung-Fu Hustle, That definitely belongs in the top ten. Something else will have to fall out. And Taegukgi also belongs in the top 20. Holy crap, Downfall too! That's 3 I missed. Arrrggh.
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7) Bourne Supremacy 8) Howls Moving Castle 9) Dodgeball 10)The Passion of the Christ
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you are also a fan of Maria Full of Grace? Good for you!
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Fred glad you are found!
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Hehehe....just kidding.
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What did Bodet say?
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was definitely a 2005 release over here. It was the last bit of my bachelor party. We all went to the Charles theater to see HMC.
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2004 is probably my least genre filled year. I'll give it a go anyway: 1)Touching The Void 2)Before Sunset 3)Eternal Sunshine 4)The Incredibles Shaun of The Dead 6)Harry Potter7)Downfall 8)Team America 9)Layer Cake 10)Vera Drake
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1. Mean Creek
2. Sideways
3. Million Dollar Baby
4. Fahrenheit 9/11
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. Kill Bill: Volume 2
7. The Aviator
8. Control Room
9. Goddbye Lenin!
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in 2004. I look at it (with 2005)as a transition year before the utter pish that was 2006 and 2007. I'm hoping 2008 marks an upswing.
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top film. Drop Vera Drake down to 11 then.
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interesting choice, Hobo. Definitely an interesting film. It, to me, had the feel of a short story. Thought the young guy playing the bully did a terrific job. Heartbreaking.
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for Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I really enjoyed it. Yes, it was the further adventures of Wes Anderson walling himself off into his specific precocious world, but isn't that the fun of it?
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As a first date movie with Fred Girlfriend. Of course Dirk was the chaperone - in between hitting on Fred's date and popcorn kernels. Fred really enjoyed it. Howls was in 2005? Well, it still on Fred's list.
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The Motorcycle Diaries
Before Sunset
Closer
Finding Neverland
A Very Long Engagement
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring
The Incredibles
The Bourne Supremacy
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Napoleon Dynamite
Open Water
The Village
Super Size Me
The Ladykillers
Dawn of the Dead
Touching the Void
THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK
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WOW. That's cheery Fred. :)
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The Day After Tomorrow
Troy
King Arthur
Shrek 2
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
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No offense Hobo, but for me that film completely fell apart. That was the one time the Coen bros. completely bungled it in my mind. I liked plenty about Intolerable Cruelty and Man Who Wasn't There, but LK just seemed off on every level, and nothing about it really suggested the hand of the Coens.
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Wow! And Before Sunset is one of them? Double wow!Nice to see the love for Downfall. Superb film.Hobo, that is quite the list. Hats off to you, brother!
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I thought Carly Schroeder, Rory Culkin, and Scott Mechlowicz were all Oscar worthy'
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Sep 03, 2008 9:50:37 AM CDT
Fred was trying to be fancy - it was at an Art House theater
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
It worked too! She loved it. Thought Fred had 'expansive taste' in movies. It was not until later, that she saw Fred's geek movies.
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A movie that grew on me, and that I legitimately like. The score is a classic.
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I've been avoiding the CoCbacks in recent days for reasons I'm too traumatized to discuss, so I don't know if it's been mentioned, but has anyone else listened to the Carpenter/Russell yacktrack on The Thing DVD? They're always awesome to listen to, like having them in the living room having a beer with you, but that commentary is especially funny -- not least of all when they talk about The Brim and his antics. It gets to the point where Russell more or less busts out laughing every time The Brim does something onscreen. Comedy GOLD.
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had I remembered it. Consider it there then.
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Fred enjoyed that as well. It was also a date movie. Fred see a pattern!
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I'm going home and watching that straightaway!
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I loved it. I thought Tom Hanks gave one of his funniest performances ever in the film.
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I think I just felt a tear roll down my cheek.
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1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
3. Man on Fire
4. Motorcycle Diaries
5. Alexander
6.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
6. Collateral
7. The Aviator
8. Hellboy
9. The Chronicles of Riddick
10. Spider Man 2
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Saw-o.k, it's obvious to everyone now that this franchise is a slim, cheap exercise in calculated exploitation. But in 2004, it was seen as a small indie thriller and the premise had me intrigued because I hadn't seen a trailer or anything. In fact, I thought Elwes and Glover were the two guys chained in the room all the way until I walked into the theater. It was Halloween, a friend had already seen it and assured me it was a great thriller, Silence of the Lambs good. I wanted to throw my coke at him so badly when this was over. What a complete mess. I don't think any horror franchise has been less deserving of it's success than this one.
Taking Lives-it felt like this movie would not end, and would not die. It just kept going and going. Awful.
Alien Vs. Predator-ugggh.
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make no mistake though, The Happening makes me want to eat kittens.
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Sep 03, 2008 10:02:13 AM CDT
I say the Village score should be required listening
by chittychittygangbang
By anyone on this talkback.
Moving, flowing, haunting do not even begin to describe the effects it can have on you.
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I'm with Hobo on most of these: King Arthur, Troy, Day After Tomorrow, The Village, Oceans 12, Meet The Fockers, AvP, Man on Fire and The Garden State. All of which are truly fucking awful. Honourable mentions in this category are too many to list but I want to make specific note of Briget Jones 2, ALfie, White Chicks and Taking Lives.Disappointments- the aforementioned 2, Farenheit 9/11, Crash, Million Dollar Baby, Near Misses for the top 10- MEan Girls, Dodgeball, Bad Education. I'm sorry, but I'm totally failing to see where this love of Kill Bloated 2 is coming from. It's crap- and actually undoes a lot of the first film.
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Sep 03, 2008 10:03:19 AM CDT
Big Trouble in Little China commentary good too...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....Russell will not stop fucking laughing. Carpenter says, "So uhhh....this movie didn't do so well at the box office," and Kurt responds with, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA."
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Fucking wretched. Tom Hanks is not fit to lick Alec Guiness's shoes. Where is the love for this coming from?
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I knew it was ok to laugh too.
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That movie was creepy as hell. And it has more of a dark Indiana Jones adventure type feel than the others. Stellan was bad fucking ass. I've never seen Schrader's version.
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Try Primavera and Andare by Ludovico Einaudi.
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..people from the U.K. get all freaked out because it claims Arthur was part Roman. But as a bad ass adventure film its great.
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that is great music.
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I thought was a balanced post in that Palin TB. Silly of me.
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There is no limit to the bumminess of Stellan Skarsgaard in King Arthur. Few epic films present the villain as an angry drunken homeless man, but this one did it proudly.
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Jarv I think you took him wrong. He wasn't being sarcastic. He was really saying you (being from another country) must think Americans are all douche bags, and how he hopes for something better with the next leader.
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we let that political TB die.
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Hate to disagree with you. I held of on watching Harlin's film until I had Schrader's at home as well. I then proceeded to watch them back-to-back. I started with Schrader's, figuring I'd watch the good one first, folled by Harlin's. While, yes, watching the latter is like being bludgeoned with a ham loaf, I found Schrader's film to be truly awful -- which really shocked me. Harlin's film goes completely off the rails during the last half hour but up to that point it's a hell of a lot more cheesily entertaining than Schrader's insipid, anemic and po-faced film.
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..in Arthur. And his redneck goateed son is even worse. He looks like a Nascar fan if I've ever seen one. I like the design of all the characters in that. Lancelot was fucking awesome.
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We get fucked off as it totally rapes and pillages our mythology. Arthur being of Roman Descent actually makes sense- bar the fact that the Roman Empire had fallen long before whatshisname converted us.
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I guess you are right Doc, in the fact that Dominion is in no shape or form a horror film. Not really anyway. I liked it though. Thought it had some interesting thoughts on evil. I liked the confrontation at the end of the film. Skarsgaard being confronted with the nature of evil, the possibility of God's goodness, and his own ability to move past the things he had seen. Exorcist 4: Harlin Boogaloo was like a dimestore of cheap tricks. I will say, I don't think either film is wonderful, and neither film can hold a candle to the beauty that is Exorcist III: Roaring George Crotch Punches the Devil.
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I have never jumped higher in the theater than when that dog thing attacks the kid......
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and we do (much to my shame) tend to think of Americans as stupid- hence the constant insistance that Americans don't "get" Irony. It's got a lot worse since 2004, though. People are genuinly staggered that you could vote someone as stupid as Bush in twice.
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Sep 03, 2008 10:16:13 AM CDT
Lost Jarv -- no one was more staggered than I
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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fucking hell...
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nor The Heretic. I consider this a major gap in my filmic knowledge.
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In your apology did you offer to provide the lube the next time he fucks himself? Hehehe....
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On that we can agree -- Exorcist III is an extremely underrated little gem and creepy as fuck.
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frankly. One of my best friends is half-American and he points out that it isn't that Americans are more stupid. It's that there's more of them to be stupid. And he's got a point. We've still got Big Brother for fuck's sake. I've also seen someone suggest the British model as a possible cure for America's ills. If you really want to see democracy die- then that's the way to go. I literally don't vote any more in elections as where I live unless you vote Labour then you're wasting the effort it takes to get to the polling station.
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anyhoo- politics begone! By the way, can someone explain why Marlon Wayans keeps being in shit comedy when he can actually act and isn't funny?
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I'm quickly scanning a 2004 list, and holy shit....CatwomanAvPDay after TomorrowGarden State Jersey Girl Along came Polly Meet the Fockers Princess Diaries 2 Kill Bills (hate both of them) Resident Evil: Apocalypse Village Blade Trinity Bridget Jones SpanglishFuck.
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Damn... Richard Burton as a mad priest and jailbait Linda Blair in a diaphonous gown. Genius.
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It was a cool concept but come on! It was one cliche after another. ALthough I have to say the ice scene was pretty cool.
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How so? Why is not worth it to vote unless its Labour? I dont know much about your politics.
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it's like everyone gave up in '04...
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Because as you might have noticed everyone hates The Village, except for the two of us apparently. But I can't talk about Shyamalan anymore. Last time I got banned.
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White Chicks...2004: The year of the drippy little whores.
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Probably would have put it on my top 10....didn't realize it was 2004.
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The funniest thing about the BTILC yacktrack is when Carpenter and Russell start asking each other how their kids are doing and talk about completely irrelevant shit for, like, 20 minutes. Hilarious!
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His demented Colonel Sanders schtick was hysterical!
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Did you ever get to see Streets of Fire?
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Almost as bad as Lady in the Water.
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Spidey 2...Shaun of the Dead...Incredibles...Finding Neverland...Hellboy...Bourne Supremacy...Riddick...Collateral
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Totally. I just put that shit on in the other room while I do stuff around the house and it feels like I have old friends over.
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no one really dislikes the Village now. In fact, I have a few friends who think it's his best movie. I don't think so, but I liked it fine. Lady in the Water and The Happening however just went beyond any plausible place I could follow.
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Ha! Good spot.
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for some reason. I have it listed but it's still on their TBC list. Danny, the reason being I live in, officially, Camden. The British Electoral system is divided into constituencies that made sense about 100 years ago, but not so much now. Where I live the Labour voters outnumber any other party by a factor of about 6 to 1. And not just working class- there's a strata os champagne socialists that vote Labour regardless. It is silly, because their is no real difference between Cameron and Blair, and everyone should vote Tory to oust Brown. However, the labour support turns out and blindly votes Labour without looking at the issues or performance or personality of their candidate. Voting Tory is anathema to them. I voted Labour in 1997 (yes I was taken in- which is how I see Obama=Blair. It's exactly the fucking same path to power), and voted Tory in the Local Elections and mayoral election(which at least makes a difference). But really my generation is completely disenfranchised.
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Incredible acting, original score, photography....some good writing and solid pacing. I don't know whats not to like other than the usual, "THEY'RE NOT EVEN REAL FUCKING MONSTERS?!!" complaint. Its a great film.
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hasn't see Exorcist 3? If so, we will have to remedy this.
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That is crazy. I had no idea.
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Magnificent. Watched it before I went to Spain and actually saved it so I could show it to Mrs. Jarv. Michael Pare gives one of the most hysterically awful performances of all time. It was great.
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to Republican or Democratic. Then you find yourself making excuses for said party in order to justify why you're still following the bastards.
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and unlikely to change. We've got something obscene like 700 MP's- and the chances of them changing the system are fucking tiny. To make matters worse, the majority Party use something called "The Whip" (no, sadly they don't beat them), so when they get in only effectively the cabinet are making laws. This was slightly balanced by the House of Lords, but that has been destroyed too.
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And I don't mean the performance was bad it will go down as myth, I mean he played that as if it was a mythical character. As if a time traveler had decided to describe the plot of West Side Story to an ancient Grecian shephard, and then that shepherd tried to imagine what a 50's biker gang would be like, and it turned out to be Pare's performance.
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I'm just going to go on record as saying that, like The Village, The Happening will one day be more accepted as a good film. The studio fucked up by releasing it in summer and marketing it as a summer film, and it's not a summer film. Literally half the people I've gotten into arguments with about this film's quality, didn't even bother to see it. I'm serious. And that's all I'm going to say on the subject because I really don't want to think up a new TB name.
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is that there is such a thing as a "second home allowance" for the MP's to buy a flat in London to live in when on Parliamentary Business. They also have a fucking huge expense account to furnish it with. Now, this wouldn't bother me- they do need somewhere to live- if it weren't for the fact that THE FUCKING TAXPAYER BUYS IT AND GIVES IT TO THEM OUTRIGHT. EVEN IF THE CUNT'S LIVE IN LONDON ANYWAY. Then they can sell it when they leave parliament and keep all the money. It's a fucking corrupt disgrace and we need a revolution.
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but I did see it, and I think this would have failed at anytime. In fact, it did better financially I think because it was released in the earlier summer. I kind of wish X-Files and Happening had traded release dates.
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I usually don't get into politics, but I really encourage each person to study research the choices and make their decision on that.
Blind Allegience is like a three-year-old watching somebody talk to their mother the wrong way.
No matter how valid the other person's point is, Mommy is never wrong so you hate that person just because mommy does.
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Unless there was another banning I am not aware of! I liked The Village. It reminded me of the classic short stories I read back in grade school. It did not have a monster payoff though- and that ticked off MNS fans who were expected more than just a twist with no real punch.
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you saying things about people who show blind allegiance. I just don't think they could possibly be wrong, and as a result I think...wait..yes..I think I hate you.
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and won't either. Signs burnt me but the Village was the last fucking straw. I'm not even a big fan of the sixth sense, to be honest.
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Sep 03, 2008 10:41:47 AM CDT
anyone read M. Night's book, The Man Who Heard Voices?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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did you do a list yet?
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Then Sixth Sense...
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1. Signs
2. The Village
3. Unbreakable
4. Lady In The Water
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1. Unbreakable
2. Signs
3. Sixth Sense
4. The Village
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Thats crazy......in California, we almost rioted when he heard about the nice condos that were rented for the legislature. And just RENTED......
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Sep 03, 2008 10:47:27 AM CDT
I wish someone would give me a second home allowance
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I'm thinking some nice little island. Or the Italian Riviera.
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Whaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Tee-Hee, see why I hate talking politics?
Now I will wake up in the middle of the night and have Ninja Fred standing over me with a sword and a goodbye note from the Echos.
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You wont know when..you wont know where...but when it happens, you will know...you will know you have been NEIGHED!
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How do you think Lucas can keep releasing films that don't measure up to Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back?
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..is proven by the fact that Bruce Willis still gets work......sort of....
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That's true but it was the seething anger built up in me from the combination of Ang Lee Hulk hate, TIH cocksucking, and The Happening hate that drove me over the edge.
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I was going to do that- Lucas Apologists are really the most blindly loyal fan grou ever. Star Wars and Indy? and yet people still went to that Clone Wars shit,
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1. Unbreakable2. Signs3. The Sixth Sense4. The Village5. Lady In The WaterHaven't seen Happening. Should I?
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of Fifth Element, Twelve Monkeys, Unbreakable and North? Ok, not North..No, not North.
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This is precisely why I don't like posting my favorites in a year where QT or the Wachowskis put out a movie. People end up scratching their head bald over my selections.The Village, Million Dollar Baby, Shark Tale, Oceans 12, AvP, Van Helsing, Blade: Trinity, Spanglish and Riddick are my bottom ten. I'd put Crash in there but it won the Academy Award for 2005 so the MPAA considers it a 2005 film even though it premiered at 2004 film festivals.
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what?
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D'oh. THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
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Yeah. He used to be good. But he should have quit 10 years ago.
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It's completely warranted.
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1. Unbreakable
2. The Sixth Sense
3. The Village
4. Signs
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it's fine if they scratch their heads. Besides, the way I see it..you introduced all of us to Chocolate and Invisible Target and Daisy. You could get on here and talk about how Dunston Checks In was the best movie of 1995 and I would still respect your movie tastes.
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Now that was a Neigh!
Can you imagine Toad and I taking it to that extreme?
I wake up in the bed screaming as a bloody horse head stares back at me.
Then Toad jumps out from behind the door pointing his finger and yelling "Neigh means Neigh!" before jumping out the window into a idling car. -
These negate the headscratchers.
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1)Unbreakable (quite like- ruined by end)2)Sixth Sense- massiveley overrated and does not stand up to repeat viewings 3)Signs- shit. Complete shit.4)The Village- Even worse. Refuse to watch Lady and Happening.
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1) The Incredibles 2) Harry Potter 3)Spiderman 2 4)Sideways 5) Hellboy 6)Mllion Dollar baby 7 Shaun of the Dead 8 Godzilla 9 Bourne Supremacy 10)Suspect Zero
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That's informed faith. We know damned well what will happen should our loyalty waver. And it won't be pretty.
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There were lots of good movies.
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Sep 03, 2008 11:00:51 AM CDT
I'm like Jarv in that I can't comment on M Night
by hawaiian organ donor
Since I stopped watching after The Village. He would have to direct a Godzilla movie before I gave him a third chance.
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Sep 03, 2008 11:03:09 AM CDT
I don't know how anyone can not like Signs....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I get the complaint about the alien not being able to get into the basement and that kinda shit...but the family element. Come on-- its some of the most finely crafted family moments ever shot. The dinner scene when Mel breaks down...fucking gold.
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That Paré analysis was sheer genius.
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he might hear you and make a Godzilla movie. One in which at the end, they realize it was just a japanese guy in a rubber suit, who had helicopters carrying giant mirrors around him to give the illusion of enormity.
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Sep 03, 2008 11:04:43 AM CDT
true Jarv, but others were not there for the "awakening"
by just pillow talk
and their faith may not be as strong.They must take the "word" as truth, spread by the warciples. Some may cower in fear over the mighty pencil, and not truly believe. Yet still they follow. While it has been argued that these followers should be purged from the CoC because their lack of faith is disturbing. They claim that our sorcery ways have not conjured up the stolen...er, sorry. Star Wars was on last night.
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SWING AWAY. Signs was the most, trite, pathetic, risible, cliched, annoying load of crap. Fucking hated every moment of it. On the flip side, I fail to understand how anyone can like The Ladykillers, especially in comparison to the Coen's other stuff and The original.
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Sep 03, 2008 11:08:43 AM CDT
Chitty - that was indeed one helluva Neigh in Godfather
by toadkillerdog
Equinas is probably still crying over that scene. "He was so young, so young! I never got to know him! " Why? Why? Dear great Horse in the sky, why?" *sniff*
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I think in a lot of ways he's a good director. He is, however, not a good writer. He's like the chef that doesn't know when to stop adding ingredients. If he directed someone else's script I'd give him another chance.
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Trite and cliched?
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was actually a pretty weak year. Which is how I remember it at the time. Shall we move on to 2005. I have a tendency to be partial to it, since it was my first year of marriage, but I think besides some excellent genre films, it was a weak year. Lets check it out.
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...direct a script written by Wes Anderson.
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You woudn't be saying that if you had seen Lady in the Water. It's awfulness is literally mind-boggling.
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Like it a lot. Don't get what's wrong with "swing away..." I've heard this before from others.
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...as someone who HATED The Village. HATED IT!
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...is a prime example of far too many ingredients. Its not a BAD film IMO. There is just too much going on and too many themes for its own good. I still enjoy it.
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that he wants to see Night do something great, not succeed for doing crap. I concur. I think it's brutal watching bad movies from Night because the guy isnt Sommers or Ratner or Bay. He has aspired to more, and achieved it, and has fallen hard due mostly to his own hubris.
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and we will have to disagree about Swing Away. I actually cringed at that moment. regarding cliche- I meant the characters. They are some of the most poorly drawn, one dimensional charicatures that have ever graced the screen: "Philibrick I've got this Night Script and I don't get it. There's a Preacher lost his faith, we need a reason. GIVE ME A REASON GODDAMIT." "Yessir, howabout his wife died?" "GODDAMIT PHILIBRICK THAT'S GOLD. AND NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE"
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I'm fuming even thinking about it. I think I need to watch the Village again, as I might actually hate Signs more.
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Wow. I've never heard that opinion before. Usually the complaints are about the stupidity of the aliens-- and I can almost understand that. But the family? Fuck me. That family was incredibly written. I feel like I know them....they don't feel like characters when I watch the film. Mel really feels like their father......crazy...just crazy.
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But in late 70's, early 80' Warren publishing had B&W comic mags out like 1984, Creepy, and Eerie and Vamipirella etc. etc. Great writing and art. Well, in one of those mags, I have it at home, but can not remember if it was 1984 or Eerie, I think it 1984- there was a comic group of asskicking mercenaries called "Rex Havok and The Asskickers of the Fantastic." They were led by a brain damaged 'hero' who always inflicted more pain and suffering on those he was supposed to save. Well, in one story, the group goes to Tokyo to stop a monster named "Goddamo". After a big fight, and lots of name calling, and insinuations that Goddamo was sulking because he got his ass kicked by the Big Monkey (Kong) and other assorted stuff, it was revealed that Goddamo was actually just a really, really big dude wearing a rubber suit!
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hmph. Maybe I should give Lady a try.
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1. Shaun Of The Dead2. Hellboy3. Spidey 24. Dawn Of The Dead5. Passion Of The ChristLet downs - Creep, The Forgotten, The VillageApologies if I've got the year wrong. I mean, I thought King Arthur (which I like) was 2005!
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Look at them- I will give you the interaction between Mel and the Kids was very authentic- but that was down to Mel not the script. But Mel was still a preacher that had lost his faith because his wife died- and I jokingly said as soon as we saw where the cross used to be on the wall "I bet he's lost his faith because his wife died". Are you honestly trying to tell me you have never seen that before? And don't get me started on this advanced civilisation that can be defeated by a rube with a baseball bat and the fucking rain. The Aliens were shit.
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Phoenix's non performance, (another fucking hackneyed character, BTW) the pacing problems, and the fact that the CUNT CAST HIMSELF in it. Hmmm, maybe I do hate Signs more than the Village.
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I just read that Dreamworks is producing a Rex Havok feature length animated movie due for 2009 release! I am Giddy! I tells ya, Giddy! Sorry about the typos in above post. Damn multitasking.
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what a bag of shit. Fucking hate that as well.
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I don't mean he wants M to succeed with crap. I mean that you'd hate LIW so much you'd want to see M punished.
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"What if there are no coicidences..."Dying wife passes on what Mel thought at the time was gibberish - but wasn't, as it turns out. She tells Merrill(?) to "swing away..."His bat's on the wall. It's on the wall because he broke some record with that bat so it's like a trophy.Mel has moment of epiphany and tells Merrill to "swing away." He gets it and does.What's the problem?The bit at the end where the kid revives is superbly acted and very moving. The score as the entire finale plays out is excellent. In fact the whole score is.
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I maybe way off base, but you seem to have a real fondness for films with a strong family element- lots of your picks seem to rely on this, but I honestly believe that you excuse some of the worst excesses in your favourite movies on the fact that the family element is strong. This isn't a criticism, just an observation- we've all got our blind spots- so no offence intended.
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Im sure Im missing stuff again...
1.Tsotsi
2.King Kong
3.Pride and Prejudice
4.Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
5.Howl’s Moving Castle
6.Constant Gardener
7.Oldboy
8.The New World
9.Syriana
10.Kontroll
11.A Bittersweet Life
12.Good Night, and Good Luck
13.Munich
14.Batman Begins
15.Cache
16.L’Enfant
17.Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
18.Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
19.Oliver Twist
20.Mirror Mask
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Telegraphed, embarrasing, cringeworthy. Yuck. I know I'm alone in this one as my Changian brethren seem to love this. I don't mind.
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Could be....a strong family element gets me every time. Surprisingly there is nothing tragic in my family history either.
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And seriously, Hitchikers? No way, that was biggest disappointment of the year.
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This was before HOD and his timely film deliveries. Oldboy was released at theaters in Baltimore in 2005. That's when I saw it.
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Sam Rockwell fucking rocked. Mos Def, lead dude was good, Alan Rickman as a depressed robot.....fun fun film.
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...for all the QT bashing I withstand.Danny, you know you're golden to me. I'll stand beside in the trench as an army of slow moving zombies descends on us. But if you want to know why Signs was bad, let me begin.Even if I was willing to say the human element was good, it needed a story around it that made sense. An advanced alien race invades earth and rather than arrive with guns blazing, they decide the slow and steady approach is the way to go? Why would the aliens be concerned with a family in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere? Their strategy is to harass us one by one? And they may have zero shame on their homeworld but they're going into battle here naked? Swing away? It was the Ewoks all over again. Defeating a highly advanced civilization with wood.The aliens intentions were so badly realized in that movie, it's impossible to see past it and appreciate the good moments that might actually exist.The ultimate irony is people who loved Signs but despised ID4. At least Emmerich allowed us to defeat the aliens with a computer virus and a buttload of F-18s. M Night gave us a bunch of E.T. rednecks who could be clobbered with a bottle of Evian and a piano leg.
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Sep 03, 2008 11:38:04 AM CDT
is it confirmed the aliens meant to invade or destroy?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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I like the way you point it out that ID4 is more plausible than Signs. I think the diff is Night is a better director and made me care enough about what was happening in Signs that I didnt note the completely ludicrous core of the plot.
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Except in Aliens, right?
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There, I said it.
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they were gassing people and dragging them off to their ships. I suppose they might have a different purpose, but then it would be up to the film itself to build on this, however slightly it did it. In fact, I thought that would be twist, that what the aliens were doing was somehow for our benefit.
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But I'll do 2005 first- no particular order: 1)The Descent 2)History of violence 3)Sin City 4)Batman Begins 5)Syriana 6)THank You For Smoking 7)Kiss Kiss Bang Bang8)Murderball And that will do because the Janitor is throwing me out. See you later
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and leave Signs alone.
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...it was a raid?
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Again its, "
"Hey little girl...did you lose your family? I used to have a daughter. Want to be my new daughter? Oh look...there's a nice handsome marine, and if the three of us stand next to each other its like we're one big happy family!! This film has so much heart!" -
have a good one.
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Sep 03, 2008 11:42:01 AM CDT
I couldn't give a toss if they were destroying or invading
by lost jarv
Imagine if we put a nail through some wood. Then they'd be truly buggered. Fucking hate that film.
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...is garbage lacking a single redeeming quality. Its dialogue and characters are embarrassing. Bill Paxton's rousing speech...embarrassing. Will Smith one liners....embarrassing. Randy Quaid screaming, "I'm baaaaaaaaaaack!!".....just embarrassing. That films makes me ashamed to be of the same species as Roland Emmerich. Just a loud, tacky, ugly looking film without an ounce of true emotion. Luckily Emmerich redeemed himself with The Patriot, or he would be clumped in the same category as Apatow, Rodriguez, Tarantino, and LeBeef for the rest of eternity.
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Millions. How did I forget that.
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I was under the impression it was a smash & grab raid and not an invasion.Raiding farms because they were away from water?I basically filled in the blanks; the aliens had been travelling a long time, found food and thought the 'water' risk was worth taking as they wouldn't be hanging around. I also thought the inflicted damage was due to chemicals in the water.You'd be right to say an audience shouldn't have to fill in that many blanks.
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I guess for food or for research purposes.
ID4 aliens came to chew bubblegum and kick ass.
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Good job!The real twist would have been if it was a panty raid. M Night would have had me from the opening logo.Jarv has Sin City in his top ten? Whaaaa? That's a double take if I ever saw one.
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Sep 03, 2008 11:50:46 AM CDT
I just never gave a shit about the alien's motives....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I understood the point of the film was not the aliens-- but a family coming together. They could have been escaped convicts that brought the family together, it didn't really matter what the fuck they were. There are some films that illustrate their themes through a different sort of path, people just can't accept this. -
1. Kingdom Of Heaven2. King Kong3. Batman Begins4. History Of Violence5. Dead Man's Shoes
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...of Signs, because there isn't any. However, if you want to play that game... It's never understood that the aliens have warp drives or other supralight technology. They could have been traveling for centuries, passed by Earth, in need of supplies and said:
"Damn, look at all the food! But that fucking WATER, man... Fuck it, we need to load up. It's a long way to the next stop." -
For all their technology and crosses what I'm sure was millions upon millions of miles, they would not stand a chance against me on my porch with a water hose, case of beer and a full bladder.
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Here's the sad part. A year with a Star Wars movie where Vader becomes Vader, the Beard's take on WotW and Jackson's take on King Kong and none of them are even close to my list.
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is a great little film. Good choice.
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1. Capote
2. Crash
3. Match Point
4. The Constant Gardener
5. The New World
6. Syriana
7. Kung Fu Hustle
8. A History of Violence
9. March of the Penguins
10. Totsi
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Hostel
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
The Fog
The Family Stone
Broken Flowers
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There are only a few films I will continue to watch over the years. The rest of these-- even though I enjoyed them, will probably be forgotten soon....
Brokeback Mountain
The Brothers Grimm
Chicken Little
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Four Brothers
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galax
The Island
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
King Kong
The Matador
Munich
The New World
The Pacifier
Rent
Serenity
A Sound of Thunder
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Transporter 2
War of the Worlds
White Noise
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Absolutely stunk the place out. I rated director Rupert Wainwright up until then.
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Hee hee - Fred finally see's you in daylight!
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Yes indeed! Does make a change. I'll be going for some chow shortly, though.
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Dirk is cringing.
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1) Munich2) A History of Violence3) Sin City4) Cinderella Man5) A Bittersweet Life6) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang7) Capote8) The Matador9) Kingdom of Heaven Director's Cut10) The Island (I'm going to take a beating for this one)
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In an interview, the actress said women who are raped after willingly going to bed with a man cannot expect their attackers to be charged. The 63-year-old, who won an Oscar last year for playing the Queen, said date-rape was a 'tricky area' and something men and women had to work out between themselves...She said that if a woman voluntarily ended up in a man's bedroom, took her clothes off and engaged in sexual activity, she still had the right to say 'no' at the last second. If the man ignored her, Dame Helen said, that was rape. But she continued: 'I don't think she can have that man into court under those circumstances. I guess it is one of the many subtle parts of the men-women relationship that has to be negotiated and worked out between them.'...Dame Helen said young women now were better at standing up for themselves. 'Times have changed,' she said. 'I hate young girls going around beating each other up, but I love the fierceness of young girls nowadays, and the way they just say, '**** off', because I wish I'd been taught to say '**** off' when I was younger. I wish I'd had those words in my arsenal of self-defence. 'Instead, I was polite and didn't have the courage to say that to men who wouldn't accept "no" for an answer. I was very innocent when I went to college in London. I went to a convent school and had never spent a night away from home or gone to parties or any of that. 'I found guys were horrible, mean, rude, insulting, and so without feeling. I was looking for love and for someone who just liked me and I just met all these creeps.' She recalled: 'I was [date-raped], yes. A couple of times. Not with excessive violence, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will. It's such a tricky area, isn't it? Especially if there is no violence. 'I mean, look at Mike Tyson [the boxer jailed for raping beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington in an Indianapolis hotel room]. I don't think he was a rapist.'"
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not amoebas. Or should that be amoebae. Hmmmm... wonder what they're like on toast... (licks lips and glowers hungrily at computer monitor...)
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40 yr old Virgin...History of Violence...Constantine...Ong Bak...Millions...Layer Cake...Unleashed...Sith...Cinderella Man...Batman Begins...Serenity...Syriana...MunichI hate to admit it, but I"ve never seen Oldboy.
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You got it right with Munich, The Matador, Kiss Kiss, and The Island.
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Kingdom of Heaven came out in '05, along with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang? Those must be added to my list.
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Brokeback Mountain - did not see it.
The Brothers Grimm - did nor see it
Chicken Little - did not see it
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Liked it
Four Brothers- did ot see it
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Like it a lot
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - It was ok, not nearly as good as TV show
The Island - Splosions! But nothing else
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - did ot see it
King Kong - Fred disappointed in it. But Loved,loved,loved Kong himself.
The Matador - It was good.
Munich - Fred really like it.
The New World - did not see it
The Pacifier - It had some funny moments.
Rent - Toe tapping songs, but not as good as stage show.
Serenity - Fred loved it!
A Sound of Thunder - did not see it.
Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - Fred really disappointed.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada - did not see it
Transporter 2 - It was ok, not as good as first
War of the Worlds - it was ok.
White Noise - did not see it
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I'm not a big horror guy, but that movie is fucking great. Too bad I didn't see the "proper" ending.
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next she is going to confess to eating orphans.
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Sep 03, 2008 12:31:41 PM CDT
Dirk says Amoebas taste like a finely aged Porterhouse
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Oops!
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I'm always way behind the times.
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...my 3 favorite of the year.
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Sep 03, 2008 12:33:27 PM CDT
Dirk REALLY meant, Amoebas taste like rancid
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
20 year old butt steak.
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It has been quite a while since Fred said hello to you!
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Throw out Munich.
1. Millions
2. Rent
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Sep 03, 2008 12:37:03 PM CDT
ThereWolves do not like rancid butt steak, do they?
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Dirk may have to go into hiding.
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...fucking blew as the follow up to Azkaban? I don't read the books, so I was expecting the films to continue in greatness. Goblet of Fire is probably the worst of the films so far IMO.
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At least Danny and I can agree on some movies.I put Oldboy on my 2003 list.I'm going to need to swap out Kingdom of Heaven for SPL. KoH gets pushed down to #11.
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Sep 03, 2008 12:47:04 PM CDT
Goblet of Fire was not as Good as Azkaban
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
But it was not horrible either. The problem is that the movies are following the books -which keep getting darker and darker. But in the books, because of the length, there are moments of levity. The movies do not have the luxury of including all of those little scenes. When they tried to do that, such as with the first two films, they tried very, very hard to duplicate the books, and they failed overall because they were too ponderous. Azkaban succeeded because Cuaron is a better Director than Newell when it comes to pacing and understanding the material. Two cents Fred
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...it was just the weakest of the films, and it looked twice as bad following Azkaban.
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Sheesh.I'm going to say this as I make my way to the door. I've been really unimpressed with all the Potter movies. Only the last one caught my interest. I haven't read the books but it's clear they are cramming and cutting too much and the movies just feel like a disjointed mess to me. Maybe Phoenix was the shortest book of the series because the pace felt perfect for a change.
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Do not get the love for that film.
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In fact Phoenix is the LOGEST book in the series.
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Sep 03, 2008 12:54:02 PM CDT
Dirk wants to know if anyone has spotted ThereWolf?
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Dirk getting nervous. Threatening to take his gigolo jar and flee to Uzbekistan.
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SAY WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
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and the shortest movie in the franchise. Pretty weird.
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What a great underrated movie. I love the "out of town shooters" speech.
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we are nearly through. I think the good movies were really good this year, but the bad was really bad.
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But Outkast Andre was not very convincing.
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It's exploitation plain and simple. Not to mention horribly acted. Wahlberg, Tyrese, Andre 3000? Is there an actual actor in it besides Terrence Howard, who is grossly overrated IMO.
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are the two best films. One is a magical and imaginative kid's film, and the other is a somewhat understated precursor to a war. Both use different styles, but both worked wonders for me. They are the pinnacles of the Potter film series. I liked GOF though, quite a bit and Philosopher's Stone is the weakest easily.
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Sep 03, 2008 12:58:39 PM CDT
exploitation of what? black people in the cold?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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yes.
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"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" co-creator Kevin Eastman has confirmed that a new live-action movie based on the property is being talked about.
Eastman tells MetalTV that "Although the CGI film did well enough to warrent a sequel, there has been much talk between Imagi and Warner Bros. to do a better "re-invention" of the TMNT's, in a live action film - like what was done with Batman. Back to basics, back to the origin and the intro of the Shredder, etc."
How far has it gone? "There have been talks, trips to Northampton to talk to Mr Laird, and discussions with the original "first" TMNT film director Steve Barron to come back and do it right - but no official word yet."
The original 'Turtles' live-action movie cost a mere $13.5 million and made ten times that. Last year's lackluster CG-animated "TMNT" still managed to haul in a global $95 million tally from only a $34 million budget. -
1. Pan’s Labyrinth
2. Children of Men
3. The Fountain
4. The Host
5. Letters from Iwo Jima
6. The Painted Veil
7. The Prestige
8. A Scanner Darkly
9. The Banquet
10. Joyeux Noel
11. The Descent
12. United 93
13. Monster House
14. Curse of the Golden Flower
15. The Protector
16. The Guatemalan Handshake
17. Fearless
18. Casino Royale
19. Stranger than Fiction
20. The Queen
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Fred totally agrees with what you said about the Potter movies.
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Fred looked up the Rex Havok reference. It was from the 1984 Magazine. But Fred could not find any movie being produced. Fred did see that Dreamworks has Monsters vs Aliens with Reese Witherspoon as a 49'11" monster will come out in March 2009.
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you talked earlier about a big dude in a monster outfit. Have you seen the Japanese film Dai Nipponjin yet? I have. It's somewhat amusing, but also a little tedious.
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HaaaaHaaaa!
Good one Fred!
It reminds me of when pack of lions kill water buffalo and start eating it from behind.
I always watch those nature just in case one of the lions raises up and sees a water buffalo shitting in a field and says "Oh man, are you guys seeing this? We gotta start at the other end and give the Hyenas this end! No wonder they laugh all the time at us..." -
1. Children of (Fucking) Men
2. Babel
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Letters from Iwo Jima
5. United 93
6. The Departed
7. Casino Royale
8. The Fountain
9. Borat
10. An Inconvenient Truth
HM: Brick, Superman Returns, Insde Man, Little Miss Sunshine, Miami Vice, Hard Candy, the Descent, Beerfest, Mission Impossible III, A Scanner Darkly, Apocalypto, Little Children, The Road to Guantanamo, The Queen -
You made Fred laugh again! Fred can see the Hyenas laughing at he Lions for that very reason!
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do you write for a living? If you don't you should.
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Fred think it was Toadkillerdog talking about Rex Havok fighting a monster named "Goddamo" - who was just a guy in a rubber suit.
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1. Children Of (Fucking) Men2. V For Vendetta3. United 934. The Host5. The PrestigeHonourable mentions to A Scanner Darkly, Brick, Renaissance & The Fountain. And a 'must try harder' to Silent Hill.
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It's a chinese martial arts epic based off Hamlet, basically. Great film.
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1. Miami Vice
2. Rocky Balboa
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Hollywoodland
5. Deja Vu
6. Mission Impossible III
7. Apocalypto
8. Beerfest
9. The Host
10. Casino Royale -
movies I liked:16 Blocks...Apocalypto...Beerfest...Blood Diamond...Brick...Casino Royale...Children of Men...The Descent (when did this come out here?)....Eight Below...Jesus Camp (for scaring the shit out of me)...Jet Li's Fearless...Letters from Iwo Jima....MI3....Pan's Labyrinth...Perfume...The Prestige...The Proposition...The Protector...Rocky Balboa...Stranger than Fiction...V for Vendetta...The Zodiac
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But now I toil away at the worst shithole office job I can imagine.
If I didn't write in these talkbacks I would go off the deep end.
As it is now my fingernails are the only thing keeping me hanging on to the edge of sanity.
I'm really not a sane person sometimes. Really.
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It was you with the comic stuff. Sorry.
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Dirk is safe. Dirk does not have to flee to Uzbekistan. ThereWolf is sated. For now...
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That is a creature that is usually in human form and all of the sudden has a split-second transformation right?
The reason I say that is my dad turned into Godamo everytime he..
Stepped in a fresh pile of shit.
Realized he was out of whiskey.
When the horses got out from behind their fence.
When my teacher called from school.
When the cops called the house about me.
When he got a flat tire.
Well you get the picture...
Bad event and BLAM! Goddamo!!! -
What if he stepped in shit the very instant he realized he was out of whiskey?
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1) Casino Royale 2) X-3 3)Thank You for Smoking 4) The Protector 5)Borat 6) Apocalypto 7) Children of Men 8) Miami Vice
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Writing does not pay very well (It was sportswriting)
So my future wife would cry and ask when I was going to get a job that paid more money.
So like a complete idiot I jumped on the first job that came along.
Now with a house, car, newborn etc, I HAVE to work here to pay the bills.
When your job turns into HAVE TO and not a creative dream that also happens to pay the bills, then you slowly have to start fighting the urge to just give up.
And no, I'm not talking about suicide, but turning into the average Joe my age that has a gut, no hobbies and is basically a cog in the wheel.
I refuse to give up on writing, working out and falling into that norm.
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Wow....Bond #1?
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Whew! That was a close call. ThereWolf, Dirk feels like Molly's pet hamster after Billy gets a python for Christmas! It's only a matter of time.
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You know the one that rattled windows all the way in Norway?
Look it up on wiki.
They said it would not take that many to do permanent damage to earth's crust.
Alright strap about 100 of those together and you have his temper if that were to happen 20 years ago.
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.....I feel you. I'm in a similar boat.
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Not really a Bond fan before then.
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Did you ever see The Daily Show when Craig Kilborn used to host it, before it was really political? He did that 5 questions thing with guests and they had an intro video with a guy smashing another guy's head and blood and brain shot from his ears in slow mo...anyway, thats what I imagined to represent your old man's rage. -
To answer your question about what would happen if ChittyChityGangBangs dad stepped in poo at same time he ran out of whiskey. Two objects can not occupy the same space at the same time. He would star in his very own Michael Bay film and splode!
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Chitty - no matter what man, just write. Even if it is just for yourself. Can't hang around much today.
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It appears many of us are in the same boat. And here we all are together? Perhaps fate is at work.
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hadn't cropped up in the conversation.I got the now customary rejection letter from a literary agent in the post this morning.There now follows the equally customary questioning of my own writing skill (do I have any? do I not?) for a couple of weeks. Every single word I put on page will be dismissed as "shite."Don't know why I get so down about rejection letters. I've had a lot, you'd think I'd be used to it by now. What can I say; it hurts.
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quite honestly, I am sorry to hear that. Keep writing. It sounds like the copout answer, but there are tons of currently INSANELY successful writers who probably have drawers full of rejection letters.
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Cause when the going gets tough...............................................................................................................................................................................The tough get going...so who's with me?
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I'm just a crazy muthafucker of an accountant armed to the fucking gills with sharpened #2 pencils...just itching to find a home in someone's god damn neck.
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Fred is a failed playwright with lots and lots and lots (and lots) of rejection letters. Fred has kept every last one. May come in handy when civilization breaks down and toilet paper becomes scarce (ooh that could be painful). Anyway, Fred really intends to frame all of them and to keep writing. Fred thinks no matter what, if yo love to write, you must write. Did Fred mention that Fred has lots of rejection letters?
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we had our own website, where we could write articles, etc, fiction whatever? At the very least still in practice. Not an exclusive film website, or competition for here or something, but just what if.
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Hawaiian Organ Donor told Fred the name a few weeks ago
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regardless, we have the opportunity to encourage one another. There, keep sending stuff. Try everyone. Fred, you have a good mindset, stick with it. Danny, write us a giant cockroach vs. mantis flick and write a part for TINY LISTER where he plays a guy named Jonah Echo, Chipps, get the freshly finished script up and running and out the door, HOD, keep working with the writing partner and get something out there, I know you can make before that deadline of yours. Seriously, this can be attained. Keep pushing.
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I'll throw some Sf in there (not hard Sf), bit of horror, supernatural... a lot of the fantastical elements. I'll be the first to admit nothing particularly original.
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I'm reading Jack Ketchum. If this dude can get published, you can get published.
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It sounds like two things possibly. If you're suggesting a site where we can write stuff just for US to share then that would be Zhura. We can form a group and put up screenplays for TV, movie and stage.If you're suggesting a public website for others to see, then I have my defunct website which I haven't updated in 3 years and which I can tear down and put something else in place for the group.
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Maybe both. Maybe neither. But hey, with all the hope and desperation in everyone's voice here I cant just let us stay on this site forever posting random movie comments without trying at something. Let me ponder it.
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My thought is that it would be cool if there was a place where our core group could share stuff and encourage one another. That's one.
The other is it would be neat to have a criticism/fiction/writing/comics/poetry/whatever venue where people could hone their writing skills on short fiction, little write-ups here or there, that sort of thing. Doing both of those things could be feasible.
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Not read any Ketchum.But thank you for the vote of confidence. I appreciate that. Writing just seems to be a long and lonely road. Just me and that blank piece of paper refusing to fill up with ink.
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If there was a trustworthy and helpful community, that would be something right?
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...I've only submitted stuff to contests and been rejected enough to know the sting. I have 4 weeks to tweak the latest effort for re-submission. If I get rejected again, I'm moving onto the next project which I've already storyboarded. Thankfully I have the next 4 projects completely storyboarded so I've got enough rejection material to last me a while.I'm not sure at what point you have enough material to seek out an agent but I'll do that next year after I have 4 complete scripts to offer.Chitty, I'm in the same boat as you. I had a decent job 3 years ago. My daughter was born, I took a week off, I came back only to learn my department was being outsourced to India and a week later I was out of a job. Desperate to put food on the table and diapers on my daughter to catch the end result of said food, I took the first job I could find. It was a crap job at a greatly reduced salary. Whole lifestyle had to change.So here I am, a geezer fighting off the beer belly, working at a job I loathe and struggling to do that one thing with my life I thought I was born to do.
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If we built up a little website encouraging one another to write and not get discouraged.
Then all of the sudden one of hits the bigtime.
I'm talking a lockdown airtight millions of dollars script.
We all are happy for the person and then as soon as they are gone, start ripping them to shreds as jealousy rears its ugly head.
Now that would be high comedy as the remaining group put their wits together and try and make the hollywood script equivalent of a rabid 50-ton xenomorph queen on steriods, drinking Everclear and having her period.
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to have people of similar tastes and places in life for company reference and criticism. I think our core group, we relate well. What we do with that, I don't know, but I will say in 2 years I don't want to be sitting here still contemplating my unpublished unwritten work, while Egg Salad talks about dressing up my dog as Carol Channing for a night on the town.
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xenomorph of jealousy. Darn, it's hard to formulate a plan at work.
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Glad to hear you got Tears of the Black Tiger HOD. Hope you like it. It's sort of an homage to those really old campy westerns, but with some super violence thrown in. It's a pretty gorgeous movie though and I think you'll have fun with it.
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It sounds to me like a good solution for you writer types to band together and bounce ideas and experiences off of each other.
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Who is in? Just neigh.
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...as well as have discussions and put down ideas. It's a sweet site that allows you to do quite a bit.
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is there a way to do that?
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You can even post that crazy script we started from the 2012 TB and we can give it a real go. All we need is to setup a group.
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...under "Ideas" and do it in parts.
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10. Miami Vice9. Borat8. The Protector7. tie between The Departed and Blood Diamond6. Fearless5. Apocalypto4. The Fountain3. The Host2. Children of Men 1. Pan's Labyrinth
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He does not trust a ThereWolf.
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You are the equivalent of someone farting in an airplane! Everybody groans and pretends it's not there, and it's not gonna leave until the plane lands, meaning us moving to another TB, not that we will. Your shenanigans are the same old boring cry for help/a beating they have always been. Let me know when you actually have something thoughtful or interesting to say. Got it tiger?
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It belongs to the Qarluq family of Turkic languages
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What 'Turkic?'
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Sep 03, 2008 3:09:55 PM CDT
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Latin
Barcha odamlar erkin, qadr-qimmat va huquqlarda teng bo'lib tug'iladilar. Ular aql va vijdon sohibidirlar va bir-birlari ila birodarlarcha muomala qilishlari zarur.
Cyrillic
Барча одамлар эркин, қадр-қиммат ва ҳуқуқларда тенг бўлиб туғиладилар. Улар ақл ва виждон соҳибидирлар ва бир-бирлари ила биродарларча муомала қилишлари зарур.
English
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brother
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The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are traditionally considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.[1][2]
Turkic languages are spoken by some 180 million people as a native language;[3] and the total number of Turkic speakers is about 200 million, including speakers as a second language. The Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers is Turkish proper, or Anatolian Turkish, the speakers of which account for about 40% of all Turkic speakers.[2]
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Fred likes to speak this way. Fred likes to see you around here too. So, party on dude!
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Why didn't you say so in the first place!I can speak fluent Uzbek whenever I drop a heavy object on my paw... I mean foot.
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Sep 03, 2008 3:20:59 PM CDT
ThereWolf , Fred just read a wonderful article
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
On Bullfighting in The Prospect Magazine. It was written by a man living in the U.K. Is The Prospect a U.K. mag?
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I can honestly say I've never heard of this magazine of which thy speaks.
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Here is the link. BTW Dirk is giving me dirty looks for
'talking to the enemy that wants to eat me'.
http://tinyurl.com/6jp9r8
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The the NightCrew would be in the house!
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Fred does not endorse Bullfighting, but the article is wonderfully written, and gives insight into that tradition
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I can see no justification for bullfighting. There's no fight. The author tries to draw a comparison with a TV programme called Big Cat Diary. The lions on BCD have to kill wilderbeest to survive. Humans do not have to kill bulls to survive.Stabbing an animal to death is not entertainment.
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On one of my annual trips to Mexico as a kid, my father took me to a bullfight. I'm surprised I didn't become a vegetarian back then.Yikes. One of the many bulls I saw killed that day looked like hamburger by the end. I guess the matador didn't know what the hell he was doing.
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The Author does try hard to justify bullfighting. What Fred liked about the article though, was the authors ability to describe the action of a bullfight, not his obvious love and attempts at justification.
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Fred does not want to see one. Fred saw a Rooster fight in the Dominican - and that was bad enough.
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it is well written, but there's a thread of condescension running through the text - as if I'm just a common peasant who doesn't understand while I'm tucking into my freshly slaughtered roast beef.
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...or any other form of animal torture deserves to get fucked to death with a crow bar on live t.v.
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A Bittersweet Life. On the surface, the film seems so simple, but if you look more closely, there is really a lot to the film. It's not Scorsese's best picture by any means but it is solid entertainment.
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A Bittersweet Life. On the surface, the film seems so simple, but if you look more closely, there is really a lot to the film. It's not Scorsese's best picture by any means but it is solid entertainment.
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...a sloppy ass movie that movies at a clumsy ass pace with Jack Nicholson pretending to be fucking Irish.
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Was Walberg's dialog.
Can you imagine working somewhere that allowed you to talk like that in meetings and such?
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Those two were the only decent thing in that piece of shit. I dunno who is worse...DiCaprio moping around with that lost lamb about to cry look on his face the whole time or Matt Damon with the most irritating Bostonian accent I've ever heard in my fucking life. By the end of the film I wanted to sit both of them down and projectile vomit my chimichunga lunch on their fucking faces.
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I just can't see where your complaints are coming from. you're using vague terms like sloppy without siting any actual reasons for not enjoying the movie. And Nicholson's not just trying to be Irish, he's Boston Irish. Big difference. Did you have a problem with it before or after it won at the Academy Awards?
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And maybe because the crowd was into or something, but I left thinking it wasn't too bad.
I actually enjoyed it.
But borrowing the DVD and rewatching a couple of times, I realize the only time I'm entertained is when Wahlberg and Baldwin are talking.
Wahlberg: "Feds should be treated like mushrooms. Kept in the dark and fed shit."
Classic.
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I had a problem with it 35 minutes into when it started to feel like I was being punished for sins I committed in a past life. I haven't seen it since the theater. But fuck me, what a piece of miserable shit. SLOPPY is not a vague term. That defines the entire film for me. Sloppy editing, sloppy pacing, sloppy writing, sloppy source music editing-- how nothing blends, it just cuts off. Sloppy squib work on Nicholson when he gets blasted. Its just a half ass movie. And it proves Scorsese could film his shit rotating around on a microwave carousel and play some Rolling Stones over it and sure as fuck-- it would win some Oscars!!
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But it does not hold me for repeat viewings like Good Fellas, which I watch once a week at work.
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and i wanted to. maybe one reason that goodfellas was about italians and scorsese better understood the culture. It really felt like an outsider making the movie. I thought decaprio was good in it, as was sheen, who was not the first choice. the music was pretty good as well.
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Scorsese had never won an Oscar for Best Director, which in itself is a fuckin crime. The fact that he got the Oscar for Departed, one of his weakest films, just makes it worse.
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what has started this obsession with the irish. maybe one day he was drinking a beer and eating some chips and he thought to himself, shit, these guys have it made!
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was more political than anything else. e really deserved it a lot more for the likes of Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver.
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or has Fruit Salad's posts all gone?
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though, by the time i saw ragging bull i was starting to get a bit sick of joe pesci / robert denerio's improve shtick. a bit repetitive.
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I just set up a group over at the Zhura website. It's called Ghosts of the COC. Everyone needs to log in however, and then they can be invited in. Whose up for it?
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I feel like you tend to dislike some things just because others find them to be successful. Sort of like when Nirvana fans went crazy after the band became more popular with the mainstream. Could this possibly be true? I respect your opinion a lot, and I love hearing what you think of movies, but sometimes I think your judgment of some films may be a little clouded.
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disliking some of his stuff, but all of it? That seems crazy. Anyone here also share mad love for After Hours, probably the most underrated Scorsese movie out there?
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Egg always disappears like that. He shows up, does his thing, and then wham ,bam, thank you spam, he's gone again.
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That may be true with some things. Like I was initially excited to see Tropic Thunder until it was pounded in my fucking skull how hilarious it was and stayed away. But not with The Departed. I genuinely hated it. And I came out thinking of course everyones gotta lick this movie's balls because its Scorsese......but how much longer can they do this? Really....how much longer can people blindly follow someone because of their name. I never thought in a million years it would win awards, I thought it would be a sorta forgotten Scorsese film like Bringing Out The Dead. But no-- in all honesty I think Departed is a shit film. Without the names attached....if it was the exact script with a bunch of nobodies-- no one would give a fuck about that film.
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Ultimately, what's the goal? I've never written a screenplay. It's a long time since I've done a short story. I just do novel length.What are we going to be doing in there?
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Ive checked it out, you can post pretty much whatever you want, in the ideas area. I suspect it would be mostly good for encouragement, talking out ideas,if you want, sharing bits of stuff whatever, but being able to do that with people in a setting that is secure. And obviously, this aint it.
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I think Kundun and The Aviator are both fine films.
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I really got into it. It's one of the few of his that I own. Raging Bull is great, After Hours, Mean Streets, The Aviator, Age of Innocence, Goodfellas. I didnt care too much for Departed either, but Scorsese hardly sucks.
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was also good. That one is a bit overlooked.
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We run ideas past each other and see what the others think?
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I mean give it a spin. I have some smaller scripts Ill probably end up posting. Make sure stuff is copyrighted and what not, but sure. I think it can be good motivation, and helpful. And a bit more constructive than this. Not that this isn't fun, but I figure it sounds like alot of frustrated writers here, with similar tastes. I figure we can at least try it.
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How do we get in there again?
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there actually is a theory that he was left over from the romans. not the main theory but it is possible. it is the right time frame. Arthur wasn't a saxon, he was (mostly thought to be) celtic, opposing the saxons. he became popular after th e norman invasion as the embodyment of medieval chivalry that said i didn't really like the movie, it just wasn't very good
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but at the same time a little guarded. I'm trying to forsee how much time I would spend there. I don't want to commit to something and then hardly show up. That would be just plain ungrateful after you've taken the time to set this thing up.
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create a profile. Use your real or fake name, but if you want your identity hidden, use a fake name.
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who cares, I dont know how much either. It took me like three minutes to do it. It was no big deal at all.
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on the zhura thing?
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Im not letting everybody in save for people serious about discussing screenplays and sharing stuff, etc.
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I have a zhura profile. now what? I typed in Ghosts of CoC and nothing came up
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Someone could come along and read this and try to get in (Egg Salad in disguise) acting all serious like he's a screenwriter and shit and then sneak in just to fuck shit up for everyone else.
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Done. Can't find Ghosts of the CoC though.
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....we agree on. And then one person should email the others the code or whatever to get into the group.
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did you guys keep your names or change them?
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look me up Im still Jonah..and send me a message.
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I put in a false name. Never occurred to me to use ThereWolf. Have I made a boo-boo?
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but I'll make sure you know it's me.
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sent you a message and a friend request. You'll know it's me if you just check the subject line of the message
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That was a "I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE GETTING BANNED FOR STUPID SHIT!!" Sorry...I didn't clarify. I can see how you might be confused.
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Okay. That was painless. Now what?
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you like 4 brothers? wtf?! I really wanted to like that movie, but i just couldn't. and excuse me but i never show my brother my cock. never.
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My basic plan is I let everyone in who can confirm their identity, and then we close it off, and then share ideas.
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They weren't real brothers...so its cool.
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I will tomorrow...I'm about to leave work.
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so you WOULD show some guy who isn't your brother your cock. I think thats worse.... hang on let me check..... yeah, it's worse. maybe this not showing other blokes your cock is an australian thing, i don't know.
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you game? not for showing your thing, but for joining the zhura group?
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...you people are so damn close minded.
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i now have an account but i can't find 'ghost of coc'
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Search 'Jonah' and you'll see his name. Then send him a message.
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Sorry I'm late today, Fred. Got some family problems going on. Jonah, "Buppah Rahtree" was a great recommendation. Never saw that twist coming. I wish I could have translated the blooper reel. ThereWolf, I picked up "The Eyre Affair". While I was at the library, I also got the dvd of "Ran". It's a start...
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How are you feeling today? Weather's finally taking a turn for the better here. Rain is likely soon and the temperature is dropping fast. Nice!
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Did you search 'Jonah' and send him a message?I'm guessing he's left work now anyway and is travelling home but you can still leave him a message on Zhura.
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I'm just about still awake.Nice one - I'm positive you'll get into 'The Eyre Affair.'
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yeah, it's raining here. we need it. (we're still on water rationing)
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It looks right up my alley. I'm taking it to work with me so I can start it on my break.
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They requested the ceasing of lawn watering and I lost my garden (I was renting a campus plot) because they turned off our nearby water supply. That was as far as we had to ration, so we were lucky.
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Hope your family problems aren't too serious.Fred disappeared. I think at Dirk's bidding. Dirk started to fret about what "a ThereWolf" eats when hungry and wondered if amoebae were on the menu. I have so far been unable to placate Dirk. As you well know "a Therewolf" eats mainly rabbits. Fresh ones. Mmmm.
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In disguise. It's a pretty serious problem. Even though it has nothing to do with me, it's going to effect my whole family. My sister has been an emotional wreck for a couple of days now. She found out her husband cheated on her this past weekend. I've never seen her in so much pain. I cannot write what I'm thinking of him now because it would get me banned.
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I had heard of it before, but had no idea what it was about. The package say it's a retelling of "King Lear". That sounds like my type of movie. I enjoy Shakespeare.
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I'm sorry to hear about that. Her head's gonna be in bits, about all you can do is keep her close as a family unit. She may start blaming herself - so you've got to head that off at the pass pretty swiftly.
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dare i watch them and go without sleep. asian women can look so creepy.
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I told her I'd support her no matter what she decides to do. They've got 4 kids, so she can't make any rash decisions.
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I saw a long time ago, still have it on VHS somewhere - taped off the telly. Not much I can remember of the film beyond I was suitably impressed.
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Have you seen "The Red Shoes"? It's on that site. I liked that one. The one last night was good too. "Buppah Rahtree" has a short haired ghost though, instead of the long haired one.
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Have a look at that Buppa Rahtree movie, it's very good.Have to admit, I did see the twist coming quite early on.
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In my computer. I'll probably put in the dvd player in the morning. Maybe I'll have better luck with it there.
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although i was just watching a re cut of the western ring which made it out as a chick flick 'what if you learnt you only had 7 days to live. what would you do?'
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And liked "the Grudge" better than "Ju On", but only because "Ju On" seemed to have some time-skipping that threw me off. I liked the "Ju On" sequels better than either of "The Grudge" movies.
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was an effective chiller but I didn't get the end. Not seen 'Ju On' or any of the 'Ring/Ringu' movies.
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nearly asleep.Have a better one, folks.
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Let me sum up: She failed to destroy the house, she failed to lift the curse. She's screwed.
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And dream of rabbits (ha ha).
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Mavra, Im sorry for your sis. Just be there for her as a family. Tonight, Mav, try Kwaidan. It's on there. It's a 60s ghost movie. Great stuff. Art in fact. It pleases me so many like Buppah Rahtree. If you find kwaidan too much of a time commitment, go with Survive Style 5+. But Kwaidan is totally the more worthy movie.
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You're a good fella. I will check "Kwaidan" out now.
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I didn't realize "Ju On" was ever a tv series. Tuck that away for future viewing!
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Been to busy moving looking for a job. Haven't watched a movie in a while. Plus I don't have my nice ass TV here yet.....BUT I did catch part of the new 90210... talk about juicy!
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That sounds very like a Grimm fairytale plot, but I can't remember which one by name. I'll see if I've guessed right on that one.
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i didn't really care for the subject matter but it looks genuinely good
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I saw the first two segments, but the film ended at the beginning of "Hoichi the Earless". There is not a link on the site for the rest of the movie, as far as I can see. Maybe I can find the rest of it on anther site tomorrow. These are classic styles of stories. Given my current mood, it isn't much of surprise that I liked the ending of "Black Hair", even though it was a given. I know I have read a story with the same theme as "The Woman of the Snow", but don't remember if it was a Grimm story or in a different book. The ending was slightly varied though, as the children did not change. The sky imagery was fantastic. It gave it a little bit of a science fiction flair, I thought, besides being surreal and beautiful. As you said, Jonah, this film is art.
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Milk looks really good to me. And what a great cast! Like "Holy shit!" great cast!
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a checking stuff out on youtube. it's very interesting.
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Mavra, I'm sorry to hear the news. Please don't take this the wrong way as if I'm sticking my nose into something I shouldn't but please do your best to keep your sister from blaming herself.My best friend and writing partner found out in February that his wife had a prolonged affair on him and this was two weeks after he got laid off and two weeks before he learned his dad and mom had cancer. Needless to say he was emotionally unstable. Anyway, I've hated his wife since day one and she's a selfish manipulative harpy and sure enough, she managed to twist the affair around and blame him for not giving her enough attention which was a crock. But he is such a spineless marshmallow he bought it hook, line and sinker and took full responsibility and stayed with her. And then he began over compensating by surgically attaching himself to her. So do your best not to let your sis take the rap for that because it just ain't right. I apologize if I stuck my nose where it didn't belong.Jonah, Kungfu and Chipps, I have added you all as friends. And by the way, we can't join the group. Jonah has to invite us. So get on that Mr. Echo.And let's make some magic.
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I think I can add you to the group. I'm going to try that right now.
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and I accepted you as a friend too.Cheers.
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obviously I'm going to split these posts.
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Blade 3 was complete shit only partially redeemed by the odd great line from Wesley and when Ryan Reynolds calls Parker Posey a “Cock juggling thundercunt”. Which I’m going to steal.
I was genuinely surprised at how, well, gay it was. For example, at the start the shrink asks Blade if he gets sexually aroused when he drinks blood. Cue inhaling serum and lingering shot of Blade’s package. Mrs. Jarv was in hysterics. Just rubbish, but about 1million times better than Van Helsing.
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Fuck that. I’m 100% with Danny on this one. It is a piss poor remake of the, frankly awesome, Infernal Affairs. It’s certainly minor Scorcese and without Alec Baldwin and Wahlberg would have been a fucking fiasco.
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I struggle to think of 10 films that I'd actually watch again. Obviously, for me The Descent was 2005, so I can't have that- but even looking at your lists I'm severely underwhelmed. I'll give it a go though.
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travesty. Not to be tolerated. I would like to hang that Kruger cunt that wrote it up by his thumbs.
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That Woman is a true Cock Jugging Thundercunt. I didn't think I'd get a chance to use it as fast.
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sheeit, I'm really struggling here: In no particular order: Children of Men, Pan's Labrynth, The Lives of Others, This is England, Volver, This Film is not yet rated (despite it's obvious flaws, I always like hypocrites getting exposed), Lady Vengeance, London To Brighton, 36 Quai Des Orfevres, Election.
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I'd like to give an honourable mention to Silent Hill (only Videogame movie that doesn't provoke rage), Capote, Three Burials, Fearless, United 93, Who Killed The Electric Car, Once in a Lifetime, and The Last King of Scotland. I reserve particular hatred for Hostel, X3, Superman Returns, MI3, POseiden, Davinci Code, World Trade Center, Shopgirl, The Last Kiss (One of the worst films I've ever seen), The Killing of John Lennon, The Convenant, Date Movie, and Saw 3. What a fucking terrible year for Hollywood. I actually had to check with IMDB to see if I was missing anything.
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and rereleases. But I don't think in any other year there would be 2 British movies, 2 Spanish language movies, 1 korean, 1 Hong-king, 1 Eastern european a documentary, a French Film and only 1 "American" effort. And even then Children of Men is Based on a British Book, set in London, and Filmed by a mexican. Wow.
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"I don't think in any other year there would be 2 British movies, 2 Spanish language movies, 1 korean, 1 Hong-king, 1 Eastern european, a French Film, A documentary, and only 1 "American" fiction effort. And even then Children of Men is Based on a British Book, set in London, and Filmed by a mexican. Wow." I'm stunned, for me to absolutely despise every summer blockbuster is highly unusual. If I had to pick a "best" film I'd go for either Lives of Others or Lady Vengeance, and if I had to go for a worst it's a toss up between Superman Returns and Hostel.
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I'd like to say thanks to all of you for letting me vent my issue and for being so considerate and gracious about it. I know that this is not the sort of place where it's proper to discuss these matters, so your support means a lot. I consider him my brother because they've been a couple since high school, nearly 20 years. Being this angry at him is a new concept. I'll try not to get all girly about it again ;). I will note, however, that she busted him on it less than 24 after it happened. She has some mad computer skillz of her own. Off now to escape into some Kurosawa. Write the next 10 bestsellers and have a great day!
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2006: i'll pay 16 blocks, casino royal, flags of our fathers, maybe the good shepard, the prestige, the proposition rocked. texas chainsaw massacre. seriously, see the proposition 'i WILL civilize this land' ray winston makes a good baddie
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that's the worst. i've gone to try to rent the original and they have turfed it for the new one. melonfarmers.
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Absolutely outstanding. That bumps Children of Men off the list and straight into number 1.
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my reasons for not raving about Co(fucking)M is my fondness for the book, which I think they eviscerated for the film.
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Funny.
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that and proposition would be my favourites. have you seen 30 days of night, it hard to belive danny huston is the same person. i still need to go out and get the sound track for the proposition. as an australian (and particularly one of my political persuasion) it was great, as we have here what is called 'the history wars'. as part of the previous pm's agenda of curbing republicanism, we have been fed a jingoistic version of history (with the govt dictating what will be in school and threating to hold back funding otherwise) in his version of history australia has always been a peaceful and cohesive society (until those damm immigrants showed up) In reality we were populated by people who stole food for their families or dared to say that chatholics should be allowed a say in the government of ireland. later we had a big wave of immigration due to the potato famine. the country was founded on brutality and this extended to the aboriginals. Even in my dad's day catholics and anglicans mistrusted each other (catholics were blamed for preventing conscription in the first world war) and brawled constantly. The proposition, beautifully shot (and winston is great in it) does an awesome job of showing the tension, particularly between the aboriginals, the irish and english.there are some great lines, like when the english army guy says (about the aboriginals) 'how long have they been hiding up there' 'they not hiding, they live there' 'how long have they lived there' 'they always lived there'
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wow. 2006= Hollywood's worst year ever.
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really, really hated it.
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great idea, bad execution, still a kernel of something good.
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It was such a waste of a great idea. Fucking EMO screechy vampires. Fucking Josh Hartnett (has he been good in anything? ever),
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actually, Chipps that isn't true about people stealing food for their families. Transportation= Death sentence and was handed out for fucking millions of different "crimes" including Graffiti. It's unbelievable to think of, but some of the shit that could get you that draconian sentence was unreal.
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or just metaphorically - stealing something to sell to buy food. and there were a shit load of political prisoners. but yeah, the basic reason they set up oz was that that they had been handing out the death penalty willie nilly and they started to curb it, and then the jails overflowed. To be honest it is hard to think of something worse than being sent to australia. (i know this give fuel to the poms). these days we have cities and our families live here, but permant relocation to country where your crops don't grow and is a six month journy away would be fucked. In the early years it was a constant battle to not starve.
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that they put a time that you were to be sent to OZ for- usually 7 Years. The fact is though, you had pretty limited chances of surviving the journey, then less chance of surviving your first year. If by some miracle you did make it to Year 7, the real kick in the tits is that you then couldn't find anyone to bring you back. I've no idea how many were actually transported, but I'll take a bet that it was hundreds of thousands (if not millions) and only about 1 in 10 survived.
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This is cultural. The missus likes it- me, I'm indifferent. She talks about the "Artistry" of it and the Bravery of the matador. Too long in the south of Spain, methinks. As far as I'm concerned it's in the same bracket as Fox hunting. Just not something I give a fuck about.
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I seem to be missing something. Mind you, seeing as I spent a long time writing nauseating puff-pieces in an attempt to sell some truly unsellable music (and my soul), I'm probably not qualified.
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Danny, did you leave the group? I dont see you anymore?
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Zhura is a place where you can form private groups to discuss scripts, writing, etc, post stuff. I started one for all of the writers in our little group. It's mostly for fiction writing of some form or the other, but if you are interested, you can come. Let me know.
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i'm off to dream of stealing wallets. actually you know what else pisses me off. you guys are STILL sending us your scum. those arseholes who killed james bulger are floating around here somewhere. fuck that. tell you what. we'll give you martin bryant and chopper reid as a trade. anyway night.
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Who Killed the Electric Car? and Lives of Others for '06.
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on the basis that I've never written anything creative (other than my CV ka-CHING) I'll probably do it- it will at least get me off my lazy arse and writing something.
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go to Zhura.com, register for account, look up Jonah Echo and send me a message, and I'll hook you up with the group.
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and come off it- every teacher in North London, not to mention most bar staff seem to be aussies nowadays
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...restores my faith in humanity. What a shitburger that was. Is there anything more annoying in vampire films than actors keeping their mouths open as wide and long as possible so that everyone can see how big their fangs are? And what's the deal with vampires letting blood soak their lower faces and shirts? I love coffee and beer, but not so much that I let it run in torrents down my chin and all over my chest and then LEAVE it there. WTF?
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Sep 04, 2008 8:11:12 AM CDT
I would post a 2006 list but I'm mostly going to steal Jarv's
by hawaiian organ donor
As he nailed it with his best of and honorable mentions. The Proposition, Children of Men, Pan's Labrynth, The Lives of Others, This is England, Lady Vengeance, Election, Who Killed the Electric Car, United 93 and Fearless. Wow, it really was a dire year for Hollywood. Those are mostly foreign films.Jarv, as you seem to enjoy Asian films, are there any mom and pop DVD rental stores in your vicinity that rent out titles that won't see a proper region 2 release? Most of us around here agree you'd love some of the titles that the group has been introduced to recently.The villain of Blade 3 was the weakest villain in recent memory. How bad does a movie have to be when Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel can't salvage it?
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Sep 04, 2008 8:14:17 AM CDT
I wasn't a big a fan of This is England as you boys...
by just pillow talk
And I've never seen United 93, and to be frank, have never wanted to see it.
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Why on earth did they give the Vampires fangs on upper and lower teeth? It just made them look like they had stuffed shit into their mouths. Stupid. The Dracula/Drake character's speech to Blade about "Way of the sword" and "honour". I wouldn't mind this stuff if they spent some time to establish that he wasn't just a blood-crazed degenerate. The fact that this Drake cunt was a Daywalker. Why on earth would the "Vampire Nation" have spent so much time buggering about trying to catch blade in the first 2 films when they could have just dug this twat up. And bear in mind how well resourced they were- was Parker Posey's little gang really going to find him before them? I hate continuity errors. That Blood thing also happened in 30 Days of arse. I think it's so hack directors can show that they're "edgy". But it did have the "Cock Juggling Thundercunt" (A more perfect description of Memories-of-Murder I'm yet to hear) line.
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No. There isn't. Camden is an urban wasteland populated by people that would not look out of place in Blade 3. And I'm not joking about that. I keep meaning to get off my arse and go down to Chinatown to buy a few of them- or go to HMV on OXford St which has an excellent selection of Asian films (Where I got Election from).
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They're so useless I didn't bother yet. I have The Host listed, though.
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That's gold, folks, and will outlive the movie by decades.
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He waits until I've not posted for a bit and then comes back.
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...being forced to run through? What the FUCK could he have possibly done to deserve this bukkake of bannings?
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but it must have been insulting. He was rude about Mori's writing and got banned. He keeps getting banned for repeating it.
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...on movies sight unseen, Jarv. I looked at Lovefilm and they don't seem to have many obscure Asian titles, although I do see they have Chocolate (the 2008 Thai film, not the Johnny Depp vehicle) so might I recommend you add that to your queue. It's The Protector Lite but still a terrific movie.I'm also willing to send a stack of stuff to you if you're up to it. All it costs me is a few bucks out of my pocket and a little time. I sent a package to ThereWolf in Manchester last week so it wouldn't be the first time I sent something overseas so don't let that discourage you. I think we'd all love to hear your thoughts on the titles we've been discussing lately.Just thinking of the Drake character makes me angry. He's such a good actor on Prison Break but that role was trash. He was as menacing as a pet turtle. And am I the only one that feels unless she's in a Christopher Guest movie, Parker Posey is painful to watch?
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I have to carefully ration anything with martial arts as it's the one place Mrs. Jarv draws the line- she just hates it like Mrs. Pillows hates horror. Even Crouching Tiger, which we watched (despite my complaints) in Spain she described as being "Quite good if it weren't for that ninja shit". I've got a lot of friends still working for distributors so I'm working on them getting me some stuff comped- one of them is always complaining about Tartan's staggered release dates, so I remain optimistic that they'll sort it for me. If they fail, I'll drop you a buzz (if that's OK).
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is almost all pre-Scream 3. After that she has travesty after travesty on the list. She isn't sexy and she isn't frightening so being in Scream, Superman Returns and Blade were blunders of the highest order.
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Should have been Lois Lane at one time. LL needs to be a brunette harpy.
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Yes, but Ralph Wiggum would be a better Lois Lane than Bosworth. I can't think of an actress that could do a good version, actually.
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Sold!
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If you need some titles to ask your distributor friends about, let us know.Thinking of Parker Posey in Superman Returns makes my arsehole speak in tongues. What a horrid role.
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...is enough.
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It's fucking polluting my brain. Did Ryan Reynolds really need to be a Vampire? and why was his Glyph tatooed just above his cock? Vampire Dogs. How fucking lame. Especially when one was a pomeranian. And why did they use the split jaw thing from Blade 2 on THE FUCKING DOGS? Triple H. Need I say more? The Doc's right, it's a shitburger.
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"Can you read my mind-my cat's name is Mittens and his breath smells like milk!"
Hawaiian, I watched most of 3 Kingdoms last night. It's hard checking this out so soon after Red Cliff, which gets so much of that story right. The difference feels like the diff between say, the tv miniseries of a story(i.e. Titanic) and the big theatrical version. 3 Kingdoms is obviously the hallmark miniseries version.
That being said, it isn't horrible and it's watchable, but not engaging. I love Sammo Hung however, and regreat that he isnt in more of the film. The battle scenes are edited wierdly. My wife noted that the scenes are chaotic, and the performers seem to get short changed as a result.
My current biggest complaint is that the film pulls a "Beowulf" and skips the large part of the story, with Gaun Yu and everyone else being dead by the time it ramps up it's final chapter. I don't know how long the film is, but right now they are engaging in the final battle. Is there much more left HOD?
I think it was interesting that one of the strongest scenes in both movies was the rescue of the young Lord. Red Cliff has the best one, but this film attempts a more personal, character-driven version of it and I thought it worked. As do almost all of Hung's scenes. He really builds heart into the film.
And where is Maggie Q. She gets to be the female version of Caio, but I haven't seen her for more than 3 seconds at the film's opening.
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Sep 04, 2008 9:19:46 AM CDT
You choo-choose to fly circles around the Earth...
by hawaiian organ donor
...in order to turn back time just to save me?
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fighting it out in my head. I actually prefer Blade 3 to Superman Returns- which I consider to be a crime against celluloid. If it wasn't for Hostel then it would be far and away the worst film of 2006. I almost think it stands a good chance at worst film of 2000-2010
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Yikes, worst vampire villian I've seen in a while.
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I'm going to sort it later though, as my stupid server is blocking it for some reason and I'm to busy (despite appearances) to go in and tit around with the firewall (something I'm massively unqualified to do)
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Was the scene where he gets shot in the eye and when he saves the plane.
And even those were not groundbreaking conquests of cinema.
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CHIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTYYYYYYYY!
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NEIGH!!!!
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Reigning in the horse!
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was actually so awful that I NEVER want to see another version of Superman in the Cinema and it will be a hell of a long time before I watch the donner version again,
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winding down now.After this we can do 08 so far, and what we look forward to. I think 07 was largely an improvement over the previous years.
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Off to a meeting.
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was just the credits with the theme music, zipping about planets.
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Like I said, not a great film but not a total stinker. And I watched it well before Red Cliff which worked in it's favor. Maggie Q is all but absent until the last 20 minutes.Speaking of Red Cliff, good news everyone! It's up as a pre-order on HKFlix which means it should be coming out this month and that includes a Blu-ray version as well. So when my copy arrives, everyone will get an official release.
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I think you described the movie correctly. It also felt like an older film than it was. Like it could have created in the 80s. Not bad, but I think because the quality of everything else I've seen so far has been so good, it suffers. Still, enjoyable. A mild thumbs up so far, but still a thumbs up.
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It must be better than 2006- and I have to admit to not having seen There Will Be Blood yet (which is 2008 for me anyway)
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Zodiac, Jesse James, Eastern Promises, Michael Clayton, 3:10 to Yuma, Ratatoille, The Warlords, Invisible Target, Grindhouse, The Mist. I have yet to see Diving Bell, Into the Wild, Taxi to the Dark Side or No End in Sight and those who know me say they would easily crack my top ten.
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I recommended it to a friend recently and he saw it spoiler free.
Unfortunatly I knew about the story before the movie, but was still very impressed.
I can't imagine someone getting to see it without knowing the story.
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Talk To Me, The Hoax, La Vie En Rose, Shoot Em Up, Gone Baby Gone, Assembly, The Lookout, Walk Hard, Stardust and Protege.
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...Into The Wild this weekend. As Red said, "Get busy watching or get busy dying."
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Though I haven't seen Grindhouse or the Mist. I would add Black Book if that qualifies as an '07 movie....I'm also partial to Hot Fuzz, Dan in Real Life, Death at a Funeral, first 3/4 of Sunshine....Was the Orphanage in '07? I haven't seen it yet, but hear very good things about it.
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I'll get to it this weekend.
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In no particular order: Rocky Balboa, Sunshine, My Kid Could Paint That (again- ove fraud's being exposed), Stardust, 300, Zodiac, Control, Eastern promises, Persepolis, I need to see your lists as I'm actually stuck.
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phew. Knew I'd make it. Don't bother with Grindhouse PIllows. It's fucking dreadful.
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What the fuck are you guys talking about?
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Jesse James, Michael Clayton, 3:10 to Yuma, Inland Empire (can't work out which category to put it in)
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Honest, I watched it last night. Parker Posey turned him- Jessica Biel turned him back.
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He shows them his mark.
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Including Supe Returns and Lee's Hulk, however, I'm assuming you caught Jon Stewart last night? Hysterical.
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1408, Number 23, Sheitan, INland Empire (covering bases),
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Totally missed that. I knew he was a familiar but I never knew he was actually turned.
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There will be no blood in our country of old men.
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Spiderman 3, Grindhouse, Mr Bean Takes A Holiday, 28 Weeks Later, 30 Days of Night, This list is endless, really.
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Or did Posey actually turn him?
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Easily missed, because it doesn't add anything
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asks him if he wants to go back to "being one of us again". Damn it, I'm stuck thinking about it again.
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but I still enjoy it for the most part. I liked the Dracula villain and Posey's bitchiness. Ryan Reynolds was annoying though. I got sick of him taunting Blade with no reaction from him.
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1. Zodiac2. Control3. Hot Fuzz4. The Last Winter5. SunshineHonourable mentions to the Planet Terror segment of Grindhouse and also American Gangster.
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Yank Grindhouse and The Mist off my top ten and insert Hot Fuzz and Black Book. And Rocky Balboa goes into my honorable mentions, which are in essence my 11-20 picks. And I haven't seen Persepolis yet. I suppose I should watch that this weekend too.
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1. There Will Be Blood
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or Andre the Giant in Princess Bride.
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Sep 04, 2008 10:27:41 AM CDT
I'm also trying to find time for The Counterfeiters
by hawaiian organ donor
I hear it's excellent.
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Michael Clayton, The Mist, Eastern Promises, Sicko, NCFOM, Atonement, The Lookout, Into The Wild, Juno, Sunshine, Ratatouille, The Darjeeling Limited, The Bourne Ultimatum, Sweeney Todd, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, TAOJJBTCRF, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Persepolis
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300 and Superbad
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I refuse to watch Superbad.
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Fred was quite surprised by it.
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It was brutal. I can't believe some the times that stuntman had doing it.
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that shit wasn't funny in the 90's and needs to be retired now. Fucking makes me die inside.
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There Will Be Blood
The Lives of Others
Zodiac
Ratatouille
Into the Wild
Once
Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
No Country for Old Men
The Orphanage
Lars and the Real Girl
Bridge to Terabithia
The Mist
I’m A Cyborg, but that’s O.k.
Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet St.
The Lookout
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Paprika
I’m Not There
The Namesake
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For reminding me of Before The Devil. How can any movie with Marissa Tomei naked not make a top 20 list. Pull anything out and stick that one in my honorable mentions.I guess I need to watch Persepolis too.
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poor wesley. And I bet you, within 5 years we will see Blade 4.
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workmate's birthday- see you all later.
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Beowulf
Dan in Real Life
Enchanted
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Control
Deep Water
Persepolis
Stardust
In the Shadow of the Moon
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Looking at these '07 lists... so many movies I haven't seen.I am ashamed.
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I'm wanting the long overdue Drop Zone 2: Return of Shoop.
Premise Snipes and Shoop stop a drug ring dropping bags of herion over the mean streets of Boca Rotan.
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You coming to the Zhura group?
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My Top 5 of 2007.......not enough really good ones to do 10
1. Into The Wild
2. The Darjeeling Limited
3. We Own The Night
4. Sweeney Todd
5. 3:10 To Yuma
And the rest of these...I had fun with...
Smokin' Aces
Hannibal Rising
Ghost Rider
Pride
TMNT
Meet the Robinsons
The Reaping
Pathfinder
28 Weeks Later
Spider-Man 3
Georgia Rule
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
1408
Live Free or Die Hard
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Across The Universe
Stardust
Death at a Funeral
Resident Evil: Extinction
Hitman
Juno
National Treasure: Book of Secrets
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
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The Orphanage and The Lives of Others.
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what happened to you?
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WTF?
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I really enjoyed that flick.
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your top 5 is good but man is there a drastic drop off in quality afterwards.
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Spider-Man 3, At World's End, Transformers, Ghost Rider, D-War, Death Sentence, War, AvP:R, Premonition and Rise of the Silver Surfer.I didn't see Epic Movie, Hannibal Rising, Daddy Day Camp, Hostel 2, Bratz, Rush Hour 3 or Fred Claus and I hear those are outright crap.
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I admit that. Its not like I think Ghost Rider is a very good movie....these are movies I had fun with.
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Screw it, my list is rubbish. I can't keep it straight. Once deserves to be in my top ten.
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It had a mischievous, adventure feel to it. Its basically a revenge film.........very odd tone. But I thought it was very entertaining.
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I'll get there eventually.
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Flip flopping on mainly the "evil" media picking on poor Palin by Papa Bear, Dick Morris and a few others. Very funny stuff.
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I've never heard of that film.
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I can't figure out for the life of me how one can have fun with that movie. Nic didn't even give a good cooky performance that we know he's so capable of. Horrendous movie, and not in a so bad it's good sort of way.
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I'm watching it now online. the yhave full episodes you can stream. I liked the foghorn/droopy comparisons. LOL. Stewart is the best i nthe biz at exposing hypocrisy from all sides. He eviscerated O'Reilly and Rove last night.
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1408
Bourne Ultimatum
Becoming Jane
3:10 to Yuma
Atonement
Jade Warrior
Summer Time Machine Blues
Tekkon Kinkreet
First Snow
The Wolfhound
La Hora Fria
The Brave One
Eastern Promises
Michael Clayton
The Last Winter
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I got it on my list. Because my list is honest people!! I don't just go for the films that got rave reviews and festival hype.....Fuck this OBAMA!! OBAMA!! OBAMA!! OBAMA!!
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But what does Fred do next?
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Any random 10 minutes of Ghost Rider is more enjoyable than Transformers as a whole.
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It's the latest film(as of last year) by Chan Wook Park, and is quite different than his vengeance trilogy. A young woman in a mental hospital believes herself to be a cyborg, and therefore will not eat, but simply licks batteries. She meets a man who wears a rabbit costume and steals the powers and abilities of other people within the hospital.
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is a great little family film. I just got a copy of it the other day. Good stuff.
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look for Jonah Echo and send me a message
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I'm not into asian cinema too much. I did see Oldboy, but didn't think it was all that.
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Sep 04, 2008 11:08:59 AM CDT
My wee fair Nessie wants tae share haggis with Waterhorsey
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Ya think he likes a big gahreenn girl with joonk in hare troonk?
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That film is a work of demented genius, and I will not stand for any of besmirching of its many lunatic charms.It is a film about a man whose head is sometimes on fire, and who defeats the villain by using his firm grip superpower. And it has Wes Bentley acting only with his eyebrows. Eyebrows! Also, it features the single worst recorded performance by Eva Mendes, which, when you think about it, is quite the monumental achievement.Never did I think I would see a film that could surpass Fantastic Four in terms of glorious nonsensicalism, but Ghost Rider did it. Only a future film about Aquaman starring Paul Walker or Chris Klein or Josh Hartnett has any chance of taking its crown.P.S. Hello, all.
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But it says No one is here. Fred tried sending you a message, but it says who are you sending to? Maybe Fred misspelled Jonah Echo
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Far be it for Fred to question anyone's taste in movies, but Ghost Rider was, ummm, well, Fred did not much care for it.
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It's Jonah Warren Echo
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I got that too. Just put 'Jonah' in search. You might have to scroll down - there'll be two options, one of which is wee Jonah Echo. Go, go, go...
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You forgot about the wizardry it took to convince us the Australian outback is in fact Texas, and Sam Elliot pulling off the unthinkable and running back and forth between the sets of the Golden Compass and Ghost Rider!! The only man in the history of film to shoot two films simultaneously as the same character!! -
Is £5 too much to pay for this movie? I like Sam Elliott.
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Hawaiian Organ Donor - is that you in picture with beautiful Asian woman?
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Clearly, I am more sophisticated than anyone else, because so far I'm the only person I've come across who loved Ghost Rider. I loved it so much I immediately watched again after it was over, and it's rare I do that. Any film that brilliantly stupid deserves to be watched at least twice in row.
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Hee hee - Dirk still practicing his Uzbek. He wants me to tell you that Amoebas do not taste anything like rabbits!
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any personal stuff from that place here. Obviously, we already knew HOD was married to a beautiful asian woman, so no surprises there. But I thought you would be taller, Hawaiian.
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You can tell Dirk that he is perfectly safe and he may dispense with any further foreign lingual mastications!
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Jonah is right.....there are fucking freaks here. Egg Salad anyone?
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Also, I forgot to mention Sam Elliot has one of his greatest movie monents in that film - when he uses the last of his remaining flamey-head/horse power to ride out into the desert with Ghost Nicolas Cage... and then turn around and go back home again! He didn't help out at all!Way to back up your Ghost buddy, Ghost Sam Elliot.
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the last thing I want to do is pull into my driveway and find a grown man in a diaper crooning "Jooonnnaaahh! Come out and pllllaaaayyy!!"
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About anyone. Hawaiian Organ Donor has mentioned many times his beautiful wife.
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Dirk is keeping his options open. He is afraid that come some lonely full moon lit night a certain ravenous ThereWolf might just be tempted to go off menu!
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Fred think we covered topic of guilty pleasures before.
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And answer every call.
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Awesome...just fucking awesome. With that bad ass cheesy Western rock anthem blasting. Yeah and then, "You're on yer' own amigo." What the fuck Sam?! I thought I go...you go?!
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*taking off daiper and tearing up bus ticket*
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What do I have to say to the little guy? Dirk's an amoeba. Amoebae just ain't filling. Amoeba, though, are capable of changing shape, so if Dirk happened to shift into a sort of rabbity shape, well... Just don't, Dirk and you'll be fine.
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In case anyone needs to reach me.
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Was there not a better casting choice in the history of cinema than Elliot as Ross?
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But I deserve to be hit in the face with a shovel if I called her beautiful so I hope I didn't. That just sounds boastful to me which is a wanker move since beauty is in the eye of the beholder.Anyway, we talk about wives, girlfriends and kids here but I think we do a good job of keeping the real personal stuff out.Taller? Man, you cut me deep. My wife is wearing high heels in that photo and she NEVER wear high heels. So that gives her an extra 3 inches. Jeez, you make it sound like I'm looking straight into Warwick Davis' crotch every time he's over for drinks.
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Hey, I could use a good thai massage, so why not.
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Yeah, good in Hulk and very good in We Were Soldiers.
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Sep 04, 2008 11:49:20 AM CDT
I have several accounts in that area code Danny
by chittychittygangbang
One of them was a big hassle, but they have slacked off a bit.
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I didnt think that. It just seems to be the thing people say when they have pics. If anything, because you always call yourself an old fart,
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Height - 1/32 milimeter
Length - 1 milimeter - yeah baby!
Color - Translucent, but I glow in the dark with a black light! Yeah baby!
Taste in Females - Not picky. Tall. Short. Blond. Redhead. Popcorn kernel. Dislikes - Wolves who mistake me for a rabbit! -
you would be older. And no, you never said "my beautiful wife", but it was not a surprise to learn she is.
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You already had reached an upper pantheon due to gifts of cinema, but you are now reaching demi-god status.
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I think Im just waiting on Jarv and Danny to come join our group. I'll put the invite out to Mavra too, but she won't be on til later. After that, I think we have it covered, right?
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from my pic that I'm a good looking guy."I'm a good lookin guy. You're a good lookin guy. We're all good lookin guys..."!!!
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You never once mentioned how beautiful your wife is. Fred is the one who said that. Fred is sorry if you are offended because Fred mentioned how beaitiful your wife is. Fred will refrain in future from discussing looks.
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I can see Warwick at a party..
"Jusss open the zippa...and I'll pretend to hop out of your crotcchh...issss a clazzzic...sceeeene..." -
"Jeez, you make it sound like I'm looking straight into Warwick Davis' crotch every time he's over for drinks."
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naked, drunk, and hung like a fucking Cossack.
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Can you imagine him getting drunk enough to start confusing his roles with reality?
Davis: "Oh yeah man, this one time a witch named Bafmorda or something was trying to fuck up this little kid. (Takes a long swig from a now-warm beer and wipes his wet mouth with the back of hand) I just said listen bitch, I'll send this little thing to whole 'nother deemenchin and shit! And just whipped the baby around and put her in my cape. And bitch fell for it! She fell for it! (takes another long drink) What a dumb bitch. Who's got a baby and a cape? I'll show you (falls to floor with a thud as a moment of silence is broken up by laughter and the staining of carpet). -
Warwick Davis actually dresses up as the Trix Rabbit and he manages to eat the cereal every f-ing time in spite of those uptight kids.It's OK, Fred. Thanks for the compliment. I was just worried I was being a vain wanker.That picture is only a couple years old but I am an old fart. In fact, my joints are aching already and Hurricane Hanna is still 500 miles away.
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That is brilliantly observed and I am now officially pissing myself.
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Awww fuck I'm laughing. Taking that swig of piss warm beer. I picture him naked under the Willow cape standing on someone's coffee table and wearing a beer dispenser hat that says BRO'S BEFORE HO'S. You know he just shit talks Lucas every time he gets plastered, "This motherfucker trying to tell me how to live my life!! Fuck you George!! You ain't my daddy!! Fuck you old man!! The dream is over!! Its all.............over!!" BAM he stumbles off the table and lands on his ass.
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after minutes of laying on the floor, and screams "I NEEDS ME GOOOLLD!!" and disappears in the bedroom, only to come toddling out to everyone's sadness and surprise in the original Wicket costume, and begins to try and forcefeed his guests candybars.
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Please stop with the Warwick stuff before I get fired. That's comedy gold.You know what though? It does give rise to the idea of a "Being Warwick Davis" movie.
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Sep 04, 2008 12:22:48 PM CDT
In a couple weeks I can post my script to the group
by hawaiian organ donor
So that you guys can see what a dreadfully incompetent writer I am and slap me back to reality. That'll be nice.
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Clearly you all see this, right?
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...when Jack smacks the handful of coke on the hooker's ass and says some shit like, "Don't stop until you're numb...." Well, image Warwick Davis in that scene-- except in Warwick's situation its not a fucking movie. Its the real deal baby-- every Friday night at the Château Marmont Hotel in Hollywood. -
Fred would like to know.
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Warwick should be digitally placed into all the famous movies of all-time.
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did you want to be a part of the Zhura group?
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Fred agrees that warwick should be in all famous movies! He could have been the Maltese Warwick that Bogie fought over. He could have been in the briefcase in pulp Fiction. Hey, that could be a topic/game! Spot the Warwick in every movie!
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but you writer types, that's your arena. Me, I'm a talkback type of guy. I'm having enough trouble getting free time right now to post here, let alone another site.
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Also the worked the innards of the animatronic pig
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He would be the board game in Jumanji...The little alien that pops out of the chest in Alien...the football in Remember the Titans...
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from behind in Before the Devil knows your dead. Granted, he would have been on a footstool or something...
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Warwick Davis didn't know he was being filmed in Willow.
Camera crew spotted him in the woods and just started following hium around to see how he rolled. -
He would be banging her from behind (sort of like throwing a wrench in a closet) and all of the sudden she would hit her head on the bedpost and let out a yelp. Davis would then say "That's right, take it all bitch."
Sorry I had to butcher my own animal joke. -
Warwick has a fetish for the little green man, and tends to dress up as a Leprechaun for shits and giggles. A crew stumbled upon him and the rest, as we say, is history.
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Warwick Davis is a character he plays.
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If Brim is ever in trouble, he just puts one finger on left nostril, and blows. Out flies Warwick to handle his light work.
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Wawrick stays alive by grabbing little bites of whatever whole cow, elephant, grown man that The Brim is eating.
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His insides are made of rainbows and slim jims.
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Sep 04, 2008 2:11:39 PM CDT
FRED Thompson would eat Warwick for brunch
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Then use The Brims mustache to wipe his hands clean! Hee hee Flame Throwin Fred
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I bet Warwick ascends and descends on nose hairs like King Kong and the T-Rex did those vines between the cliffs in King Kong 2005.
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So much manliness, the world could explode any instant...
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And baste him with The Brims Mustache! Hee Hee
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How dare you mock the mighty Warwick with Fred "Foghorn Leghorn" Thompson. He's not a true Fred like yourself.
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would make Fred Thompson's left nut fall off. Yup, the little man is all man.
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Would slap The Brim silly after saying "Die-ah-bee-tis"
Correct Pronounciation Fred -
Sep 04, 2008 2:18:07 PM CDT
I say that dog is lower than a snake full of buckshot
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred Thompson sounds more like Foghorn Leghorn than The Brim! Foghorn lovin Fred
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Sep 04, 2008 2:20:02 PM CDT
Smart boy, got a mind like a steel trap - full of mice
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Foghorn Fred
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or not serious, but less silly, did anyone see his turn as Nickabrik in Prince Caspian? It was cool to see him in a rather substantial role again where you could see most of his features and he didnt have to explode form someones crotch. And thinking of Caspian, makes me think that a battle between Peter Dinklage and Warwick would be AWESOME.
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maybe a buddy cop movie? Or better yet Willow 2: The Wizards at War.
Dinklage could be evil wizard from Willow's own village that corrupts under the spell of his own power.
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The universe would implode after that cosmic battle of half pints...
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changed the group name. did you notice?
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I haven't laughed this hard since Larry Craig did the soft shoe outside my stall a few weeks ago."Wawrick stays alive by grabbing little bites of whatever whole cow, elephant, grown man that The Brim is eating."Whenever the Brimwick goes to the zoo, milk cartons with zebras and lions start appearing.
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Sep 04, 2008 2:47:31 PM CDT
So now that we're caught up to 2007, shall we go back...
by hawaiian organ donor
...and start with a best of list for the 90's?
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For all I know, Warwick could be hiding in my bookbag. I should have paid Warwick to take my last class.
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I wish we could get a shot of him for a group profile pic.
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feeds Warwick by actually snorting half a ton of hot steaming quaker oats into his nasal cavity.
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Sep 04, 2008 2:57:53 PM CDT
That dog's as subtle as a hand grenade in a barrrel of oat meal
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
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Where the little cartoon bugger has a wee little living room is someone's nose?
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Sep 04, 2008 3:01:03 PM CDT
I bet at night, The Brim sends Warwick on missions
by chittychittygangbang
to The Brim's crotch to do battle with the various chiggers and sabre-tooth cooter crickets The Brim has collected from a night of shagging ladies and them eating them.
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have you gone to youtube and seen the Diabeetus Remix there? It's pretty humorous. Personally, Id love just to see a ton of Brim clips with Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf" playing over them.
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called Brim Fairy Tales. A cautionary tale for kids about what really will eat them if they stay out after dark.
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Sucked I don't get the huge love for them. They both played out like pilots to awesome HBO shows. If that were that case then they would've been good. They just seemed so cut short.
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interested in the zhura group?
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Lets start with 90?
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If you haven't seen the movie Redbelt considered yourself flawed. Finally saw it last night, awesome movie. That ending was awesome, sappy yes but still awesome. Chewtol Ejewan (you know who I'm talking about), will win Best Oscar soon. Everything that guy does it amazing.
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Ill pick it up tonight. HOD recommended it earlier in the week, but I forgot to pick it up.
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REALLY wanted to like it, didn't though. Really liked Jumanjii though. I actually read that book based on the movie on that! I read it in one day too? Also read the book based on the movie of the Fighteners around the same time. I think I've read the actual Jumanjii book, did that guy do Polar Express? My fav kid book.
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and Ironman I don't really think Favrow is a really good director? I didn't care for any of those movies. And I really wanted to like all three. In fact I feel asleep during Elf I was so bored. I don't get it, like shit like Elf and Harry's Potter I throw away as being to childish for me, but then I wake up early to watch saturday morning cartoons.
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Zhura is a screenwriting(and other kinds of writing) website, and I started a group over there for those of us who are aspiring writers, or those who want to contribute, and talk about screenwriting. I'm limiting it to the main group here, but Im trying to remember to ask all the core people. Of which you are one. We aren't leaving this site, but this is strictly to focus on writing, to share our ideas and get feedback. We have about 7 right now.
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wow. Guess I came on the talkback a little too late today because I am completely lost.
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changed the group name. did you see?
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The scene shows the Brim sleeping soundly as his chest grumbles up and down, his stomach processing the final hooker that was shoved past his maw and into the acid filled gullet.
It is a picture of gentle slumber that almost disguises the fury that could explode at any minute.
All of the sudden the scene changes to Warwick, armed with only a threading needle and flaky bugger as a shield. He is fighting off a viscious group of sabre-tooth cooter crickets. Samwise against Shelob does this battle no justice as Warwick digs his feet in and pushes the pin past the snapping teeth and into the beast head. Warwick screams with effort...
Scene cuts back to The Brim, almost in an infant-like grin and posture. You have never seen a better picture of content.
Scene cuts back to Warwick, who has just been ambushed by the bogs of Seven Year, who flaming surfgace causes him to leap headlong into a pile of chiggers that scatters like a set of bowling pins.
All of the sudden the ground shakes and the distant sounds of bile have given way to almost a train-like cadence.
Something is getting closer.
Warwick has heard this before and realizes what is coming.
He rips away from the chiggers and leaps over the bodies of several cooter crickets.
He sees the edge of the waistband just ahead. His heart is racing, every beat a booming thud in his ears.
Right then a bellow emits from behind. Sorts of like two whales giving mating calls and a tornado siren mixed in.
The Brim has farted.
Warwick leaps from under the waistband just as The Brim (who is awake after feeling the last bit of hooker get past the bottom of his stomach.
Warwick jumps and lands in the open hand of The Brim, struggling to catch his breath and raise up to receive his praise.
The Brim looks down and the angry face breaks into a grin, the mustache turning from a menacing gate to hell to a beaming welcome mat.
Warwick snuggles down in the 'stache and gives a final breath to cross into full sleep.
Gently he feels the words come from The Brim.
"That'll do Warwick, that'll do."
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Oops my bad, that sounds pretty cool. I'm down for that. Internet and me will be spotty until I get it in the home, which should be Saturday, maybe. But that sounds really cool.
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can you join now? that way we can be sure to get you in, and then I can stop using the jonah moniker over there. go to zhura.com and register and then send Jonah Warren Echo a message.
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are we changing it to something Big Trouble in Little China-esque next too? Because i am all for that.
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BROTHERHOOD OF LO PAN
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didnt you just defeat the purpose of picking a new name by mentioning it here?
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with the one that is there. I was assuming once everyone was cool, we'd use one.
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Lo Pan is the shit. Maybe Cronenburg will take notice and send us all those wicked awesome super-big basket hats.
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but didnt use the one mentioned here.
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I meant Carpenter. Definitely not Cronenburg. Don't even know if I spelled that right anyway.
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Wow, there are some crazy insane people in this world. "I tolerate gays even though I don't approve of their choice." WTF?So is it a choice to urinate after I've had a six-pack or do I have some unknown ability to absorb all that toxic piss into my body and shake it off? Because I'd be saving a few gallons of water every day and how cool would that be?
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where to go for confirmation the world is not nearly as educated as it needs to be
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Oh...secrecy wasn't why I mentioned a new name. I just thought the other one sucked.
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Sep 04, 2008 3:46:48 PM CDT
they should change the name of drink sizes....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...to SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE, and WARWICK DAVIS' DICK!
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the producer of The Descent...'Do studios not realise that people, when they see a film poster don't go "whooo, it's from the guy who PRODUCED Descent, I'm having me some of that movie!"Oi, studios! We look at who's directing and who's starring. Who produced it doesn't send us flocking to theatres. Capiche?
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SCARY. Fucking psychos patrol these halls.
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Sep 04, 2008 3:54:31 PM CDT
ThereWolf -- it works for JUDD FUCKING APATOW!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Jump on board!!
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Blunt is thy name, brother!"Would you like that meal super-sized or Davis dick-sized?""What's the difference?""Oh, about twenty inches."
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I stand corrected.
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Are you comparing homosexuality to urination? JK. Regardless it shouldn't be an issue whether it's orientation OR choice.
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...meant a lot more back in the day. Joel Silver for one could always get me into a movie.Commando, Predator, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Hudson Hawk, Ricochet, Last Boy Scout, Demolition Man, Executive Decision. And then he went sort of wobbly.
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I skimmed it and I didn't see anything that crazy. I did hear one good line though, "What kinda last name is milk? Dick milk perhaps?" Awwwww....that made the 14 year old in me giggle. And yes...if you're wondering, there is indeed a 14 year old being held hostage in my ass. He says its a cool for a little while longer as long as I stay away from the Mulligatawny Soup!! OUCH!!
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Your homie Thanos is back in the Palin TB! You're up. Hehehe.
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Just religous zealots trying to justify their hate through the bible. The usual.
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Milk. Skimmed. Very good, Danny. Heh.
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He's a weakminded cumnugget. Coughlin's is just as stupid and even more persistent, even in the face of total pwnage.
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...that can measure the temperature of the water in a swimming pool with the head of his dick instead of his foot.
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...it only plays arenas.
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Warwick Davis also measured the depth of the Marianas(sp?) Trench.
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I have been watching this for three days now. Its much longer than I thought it would be. It's got some pretty cool action though.
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I wonder if the pool is a little warm, he gives a little giggle and pees in it.
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...it has an opening act.
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...if you cut it in two you can tell how old it is.
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...it only tips with hundreds.
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....John McCain is gonna paint it red, white, and blue, and speak in front of it during tonight's acceptance speech.
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It certainly is a biggun.
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Sep 04, 2008 4:33:12 PM CDT
haha...there's a title -- ADVENTURES OF BRIM N' WICK!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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You can send him and email!
Of course I sent one on in and he even addressed Willow 2. -
Hell fucking yeah!! You can get Warwick to autograph a 8X10 for about 26 bucks American....you can even get him to write personal messages on it....FUCK YES!! I'm so ordering a Willow pic with the personalized message "BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF WILLOW'S WAND!!"
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my.fan.mail@warwickdavis.co.uk
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While filming ‘Prince Caspian’ in Queenstown, New Zealand, I dropped into the Flight Experience centre there. This is a place where you can take the controls of a commercial airliner in a simulator.
I was greeted by Laura Hopkirk who is the manager of the facility. I made a booking for a one hour flight with a qualified pilot. During our conversation, I mentioned how much Queenstown had changed since I was here twenty years ago while shooting ‘Willow’. Well, she almost fell over! She told me that she was baby ‘Elora Danan’ for the New Zealand part of the shoot.
We both exclaimed ‘what a small world it was’, then I stepped aboard ‘Davis Airways’ Boeing 737’ and took off for a scenic flight to find ‘Willow’ locations around New Zealand’s South Island. -
oh, and Hobo, want to join our Zhura writing group?
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The Fellowship Of The Wick.
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great news huh?
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Warwick Davis finally getting the recognition he deserves. He and Val Kilmer should be in another movie together.No Brownies this time.
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Know that Willard Scott was the first Ronald McDonald? Just throwing that out there.
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Special Edition DVD - audio commentary by The Wick!I'll buy that for a fiver.
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Was the BOMB in Goillas in the Mist. Almost as good as Vern Troy in Mighty Joe Young.
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anybody here a fan of the Hellboy comics?
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I've been wanting to get into Hellboy Comics. I'm in the middle of reading Marvel Apes right now. I heard that there is a good Hellboy Story going on right now? Did the Hellboy guy write Rising Stars?
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I'm really not sure Series. How is Marvel Apes? I was just wondering because I haven't read them for awhile and I have been checking the trade paperbacks out of the library. I even got my girlfriend reading them! Series, if you ever get the chance, definitely check out some Hellboy stuff. The short story collections are especially fun for me because Mignola does so much research on folk lore from all over the world, then puts Hellboy right smack dab in the center of all these crazy stories. Good stuff.
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Late as usual here. Jonah, I sent you a message on Zhura. Thank you! I'll try to catch up with all of you tomorrow.
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Hello
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I thought everyone was gone. I've been out annoying people with the power of oldies music tonight. Evil, yet tuneful. What are you doing?
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Watchin some football with Dirk
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The family problems with your sister and brother-in-law.
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I was at a diner taking advantage of free refills of root beer and dropping quarters in their jukebox, which is all 50s and 60s music. During the 5th Dimension's "Age Of Aquarius", a couple came in and sat at the table next to me and started dissing my song, then discussion the flaws of astrology.To counteract their observations, I played the song 4 more times before I left, then hit it for 2 extra as I left. Don't mess wit my muzik!
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You guys have all been very kind. I really appreciate it.
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should have been "then had a discussion on..." I may have overimbibed on the rootbeer during the songfest!
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Always loved that song. Fred watched youtube 60's tv show wit that song a few weeks ago. Dirk says hi. He is still learning Uzbek
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Does he get the license to carry an uzi? Also, does he learn at a faster rate if he practices while drinking oozo?
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That A&W is a killer!
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Although I've never met a rootbeer I didn't like.
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Sep 04, 2008 8:52:53 PM CDT
The Uzi was named after Israeli Col. Uziel Gal
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Oozo is a Greek fermented drink. It has nothing to do with the learning of the great Uzbek language. Oh, you were punning on the name.
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He doesn't have to worry about whether or not he can make a fist.
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There is a picture of Dirk on the site
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I signed up a little while ago and sent a message and friend request to Jonah. I put my picture up there too. The American Dental Society will not approve....
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Dirk can drink lots of oozo!!! The rootbeer has gone to my head!
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Sep 04, 2008 8:59:03 PM CDT
Fred is going to post part of a play Fred wrote
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Hopefully it will not make people regurgitate their cornflakes
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As he impersonates you from time-to-time, I sometimes get the two of you mixed up.
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Dirk is an Amoeba. He wants me to remind any ThereWolves who may be lurking that he is not a rabbit
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Now wonder he's such a ladies amoeba! He's very photogenic.
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Mavra, how are you tonight? Fred? Dirk? Mavra, looking for any movie suggestions? I see you liked Kwaidan. I believe the rest is on Youtube. I bought the criterion dvd though, after watching the segments. It's a beautiful movie. More so on a big screen.
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You look like a celebrity!
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That's good news about Kwaidan. I really want to see the rest of it. I don't think I hav e time for a full movie tonight. I have to leave in less than an hour. Duty calls (hi, ho).
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is the best of the four stories. It really makes the movie.
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between the ships. I suspected it was going to be great, thus explaing the torture of it being incomplete on the site. I said before that the Asian ghosts are very technologically advanced.
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So Kungfu continues to impress. And regardless of where you were, it's always going to be the limo sandwich picture to me.Seriously though, what a beautifully shot, radiant picture. I haven't seen colors that rich in a long time. It's campy as hell, moreso than I expected but what a fan movie. Highly recommended.
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It was like watching candy. Delicious, gorgeous candy. MMMMMMM...HMMMMM...TOBT is a great film.
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Maybe tomorrow afternoon.
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I still think I like it more than the first one, but way less than the second.
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I was worried the camp might scare you off, but if you get the movie, then you REALLY get the movie. So happy you enjoyed it man. It's really grade A cinema and it's a shame more people haven't heard of it.
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the guns of navarone, on the waterfront, vertigo, the desert rats and day of the jackal. if it isn't better than the bruce willis one i will break my tv. I didn't know james mason played rommel in two movies. that's gold.
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Earlier today I finally finished Invisible Target. Here's my review:Prior to actually seeing the film, I was hearing a lot of hype from the rest of you guys. So I went in pretty excited to see what was to come. Upon completing the movie, I gotta say, it's good, but not the second coming of the great Hong Kong action film some were making it out to be. Lemme start with the pros.1) Wu Jing- I did not know this guy was going to be in the movie, so when he popped up, I immediately got really excited. This dude is incredible, with tremendous potential to be one of the greatest action stars ever. He has the stamina, the speed, that all important illusion of power (something Tony Jaa has mastered), and the charisma. I'm a little confused how he ended up in another bad guy role like in Sha Po Lang (Killzone) but I'm happy he was in it all the same. Every one of his scenes was a hilight, and every flying kick he did was candy for the eyes. On a side note, for those not familiar with Wu Jing, definitely check out the previously mentioned Killzone. There is a really good version of it out for Region 1 from Dragon Dynasty, and it's pretty much mandatory for HK action fans.2) The Varied Action- I liked the balance in this movie between different kinds of exciting and crazy action scenes. There's the martial arts, the gun fights, and even some really well staged chase scenes sort of like in Ong Bak. Lots of fun for everyone, and probably one of the most balanced action films I have ever seen come out of Hong Kong.3)Jaycee Chan- The guy didn't have much in terms of physical stuff unlike Wu Jing, Nicholas Tse, and Shawn Yue, but he really helped to gel the protagonists together and worked well for the role he was in. He was probably my favorite part of the movie, and the scenes with him, the bad guy that killed his brother, and the bus full of little kids, were all great scenes.Now the Cons1) The Wire Work- I liked the action a lot, and Wu Jing kicks multiple loads of ass without even trying, but some of the wire work was just distracting and stupid. I don't need to see a 40 year old man get kicked by Wu Jing and go sliding across the floor. In fact, it would probably be more affective to simply have him roll slightly in pain, since it's more realistic anyway. And some of those jumps the characters were making were so ridiculously unrealistic, I was just pulled out of the movie completely. Bottom line, if anybody made some of the leaps out of buildings these guys were doing, their legs would be broken. Make all the close up, fully physical fights you want, with all the realistic kicks and pnches you can manage, but at least have the brains to maintain some integrity within the movie's universe. Don't have some guys have their feet planted firmly on the ground the whole time while others are flying around like Superman. I know I'm ranting about this a lot, but it's not too big of a deal for me. It didn't ruin the movie or anything. Just a pet peeve of mine when it comes to action movies.2) I used to think an action film could work as pure action, without any fluff from the likes of plot or character. That is still true for me in some cases, but Invisible Target tried to balance it all out, but ended up stumbling a bit. The characterization that does take place is just okay. Most of it just left me wanting more. There are attempts to give the characters many dimensions, but it usually just boiled down to simple, convenient characteristics to drive the plot (Nicholas Tse wants revenge, Wu Jing Wants revenge, Jaycee Chan wants to be a good cop). So while there are hints that the characters may evolve, the lack of development later makes the movie seem a bit lazy.2) While the final act of the movie was fun, and had some great action, I felt it ran a bit too long. There was so much action and shit going down near the end I actually got pretty bored by the time the last bad guy was finally getting taken out. There can be too much of a good thing. Eat too much candy and you'll get sick. The action is fun if there are breaks every once in awhile to get better acquainted with the characters, but if you're gonna just cram in as many spectacular action scenes as you can, it's gonna get a little boring.I know it may have sounded like i didn't like the movie at the end there, but Invisible Target was just a lot of fun and I enjoyed it a lot. It had a great, physical cast, lots of precise, well staged action sequences, and even a few well placed jokes (the bullet poo comes to mind). My complaints about too much action may seem kind of stupid at first, but I'm only complaining because I felt there was real potential there for more great character moments, and less of the same repeated jump kicks.Final Score: 4/5
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but I finally finished Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy ronight after finally seeing Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. And wow what a trilogy. Of all the trilogies I have seen (and before you laugh at that, thinking about how many popular trilogies there actually are), I have to say this is up at the top. I still can't decide on a favorite between the three movies, but I'm thinking Mr. Vengeance may be my new #1. Song Kang-ho is my favorite Korean actor, and I didn't even have a clue he was in this! What a chilling, sad film, but simultaneously extremely powerful and moving.
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who am I, Scrappy-fuckin-doo?
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do you have I'm a Cyborg But That's OK? I think Park made it right after his Vengeance trilogy.And did anybody hear Chan-wook Park was actualy offered the chance to remake Evil Dead but he turned it down? Just imagine what that would have been like eh?
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is fucking awesome, great action, historically acurate, fuck yeah.
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shall we move to that soon? I'm too tired to check out the stuff this week tonight but I'll definitely check it out tomorrow.Okay off to bed.
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that was a shit hot movie.
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Lets get over to Twitch. I'm up for it. That line-up is awesome too. I want to see every one of those, save for Otto. I don't think a gay zombie movie would be my bag. And guys, there is a movie over there with Dolph Lundgren as a rock drummer who has to save the president. We need to go now!
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to infinity and beyond
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See you on the other side.
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