What movie did you last watch? - Page 25

Granny-like_the_apple · 02-02-2005, 09:15 AM

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HAHA!

I typed that then forgot to hit "post" and went and got ready for bed. I was walking by the 'puter on the way to bed and went to shut it off and thought "rut roh!".

When will people learn that lies never fix anything? Kidding! Lies got me through high school, and now they're getting me through college!

AlKilyu · 02-02-2005, 09:36 AM

I bought Halo2 last night and didn't play it cause of you. What more do you want from me?! I really did go to bed, I had taken two tylonol pm's and couldn't keep my eyes open!

Granny-like_the_apple · 02-02-2005, 09:58 AM

Your soul? That's be nice.I know, I was just kidding.

Heh. I wrote "you run divided at ten" at first. Because you do. Also, I can't type on the first try.

edible_eye · 02-02-2005, 08:12 PM

i finally watched 'the grudge' - fucking, fucking, fucking AWESOME!

immediately after it ended, i was washing something in the kitchen sink and the drain made a throaty, gurgling sound.

i'm scared.

AlKilyu · 02-02-2005, 10:26 PM

SAWWWEET!

I was hoping you'd love it!

The original is at your local Blockbuster. It's essentially the same movie, except the plot gets a tad weird at the end. However, it's much more evil, the grudge is a virus. If someone visited the house goes out into the world and is around another person, that person is cursed, and so on...

Hey where'd you get those pics? I could only find pics from the first four! They kept the ghost images off the net for a long time!

edible_eye · 02-03-2005, 04:35 AM

i searched google images and yahoo images - grudge; the grudge; the grudge movie. there's tons of shit - some of it cool, most kinda boring and many, many repeat images. i even found a pic of sarah michelle in lingerie - woo hoo!

i love that i know what this

is all about now. it gave me goose bumps.

AlKilyu · 02-03-2005, 07:52 AM

It's the videocamera scene with the cop from the first one that they actually made scarier in the American remake! Where he is watching the tape of the specter walking down the hallway, then all of a sudden it gets up in the camera and eyeballs him! I loved that scene, cause as a kid I'd have really scary dreams where I'd be hiding from a bad guy, they'd walk by, then at the last second turn and spot me. There is a TV scene in the original that I also found super scary, but they didn't do it in this one dammit.

That boy and the woman that plays his mom have done that five times so far, and getting ready for a third sequel in Japan and a second sequel to the American remake here! Can you imagine doing the same movie/plot three times each?

edit: I had to make those gifs myself from movie trailers, except for this one...

Except for this one

someone else made that, and it's from the sequel.

Loy · 02-03-2005, 06:36 PM

E_P_S-I tried to write a review for the film when it came out for the board, but the board says that I'm not allowed to submit reviews anymore. I'm sure I have the rough draft siomewhere at one of my houses, so I'll type it up when I find it.

Movies I've watched recently-

"Conquest"-more Fulci trash, but this time it's a fantasy/sci-fi film rather than a horror film. Don't take this as a bad thing, though, 'cuz Fulci put his goriest scene ever in this bad boy (woman getting her legs spread in preparation for, you think, a ******. However, they just don't stop spreading....).

a documentary on Francis Bacon-Francis Bacon, for my money, was the greatest painter of the last century (yes, even more so than Picasso, Warhol, and don't even bring up that worthless hack Dali). This doc, originally made for British TV back in the 80's, is a conversation with the man as he discusses paintings of all kinds at the Whitley (which was about to do a retrospective of his works). While it's really amazing to listen to the master painter go on with his love of art (listening to him talk about painting is liken to listening to Scorcese talk about film), he really lights up when, while fucking plowed, explain that "you have a different view of beauty than I do because let's face it, I like men". From here on out, he keeps on drinking and becomes a catty old nelly (literally, everything from the pretensiousness of artists as a whole to some other old queens pancake make-up gets a proper haranguing) whose words lacerate with a wit, intelligence, and knowledge of the human condition that's stunning to behold.

Brown Bunny-

Dear Vincent,

I actually saw your film "The Brown Bunny" at it's Seattle premiere last year. However, after a recent re-viewing, I felt the need to write this letter to you.

Being a director is tough. See, directing is one of the most thankless jobs in the world. People who are great at it don't get the credit they deserve until it's too late, and the ones that get hyped about are usually niot that decent. It's taxing to not only juggle the scheduling of shoots, the artistic integrity of the original script, the transubstantiation of that idea into something else, the ego clashes, the petty rivalries, etc. It's the kind of shit that burns out a normal person.

See, whilst you think you might understand this, after seeing "BB", I really don't think you do. With "BB", you have, instead of making a great film, or even a decent one, just played up to some "bad boy artiste" mystique that you've cultivated over the years within the New York Hip Scene. And whilst this scene has given us many a great artist (Warhol, Lou Reed, Paul Morrissey, Jon Spencer), it also cultivates a whole slew of tag-along hustlers plying for greatness, but only able to grasp mediocre shock that passes with a gnat's attention span (Paris Hilton. Oh, and if you see Paris again, can you pass a message for me? Tell her that if I wanted to deal with a rich and snooty airhead of passable attractiveness that gives shitty head, there are plenty of sorority houses down the street from my house. She doesn't need attention THAT much).

What differentiates the two? Simple-understanding and pushing whatever talent they have/had. For example, Warhol was no Picasso, but he was Warhol, and he pushed his singular talent as far as it could go without trying to be anything else.

I know what you're gonna say-"you're just a critic, and all critics are just frustrated artist wannabes". While I could toss out such names as Truffaut, Godard, Rivette, Chabrol, Rhomer, Argento, Visconte, Rosellini, Bertolucci, Wenders, and Antonioni to say "wrong", I'll just say it like this-a critic is a critic, and if you can't handle criticism, go back and cry like the little bitch that you are, but leave the name calling behind.

And now you're gonna say "you don't understand anything new or artistic". To which I say that you're wrong. See, I'm a huge fan of Antonioni (which, from watching "BB", I can see you are too). In fact, I consider "The Passenger" to be one of the greatest films ever made (which, from watching "BB", I can see you do too). I'm also a fan of Wenders road films, of Abbas Kiarostami's films, and of Gus Van Sant's "Gerry" (which, from watching "BB", I can see that you are too). What I'm not a fan of is posing. "BB" strikes the same poses as all these films (it's use of landscape to symbolise the emptiness of the protagonists soul, it's use of silence to suggest things not said or seen, etc), what it lacks is the conviction of these same films. See, these films understood that these techniques are just that-techniques. In other words, part of the whole, not the whole itself.

But wait, you do differentiate yourself. How? With an blow job. Not some off-screen thing, but a full on, hardcore suck-off. And you have the gaul to think that this is something new? Wow, I guess that wall of pornography I have is something I'm imagining. However, let me give you a suggestion-porn flicks have more than one hardcore scene, and the time between them is, while not cinematically brilliant, easier to bear through than your little self-congradulatory copping.

I'm not saying "don't make another film". However, with your track record, I'd suggest really thinking about making another film. Whilst "Buffalo 66" had style to spare, it was lacking of anything else. "BB" suffers from the same problem, and if you're serious about directing again, I'd suggest fixing your apparent heartleness. Movies are about more than style and impressing coked-up hipster sluts-it's about (like all art) communication. While you have a knowl;edge of the language, you lack anything to say.

Please think about this.

Sincerely,
Loy

AlKilyu · 02-03-2005, 07:00 PM

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Brown Bunny-

Dear Vincent,

I actually saw your film "The Brown Bunny" at it's Seattle premiere last year. However, after a recent re-viewing, I felt the need to write this letter to you.

LOY NO!

Don't send that!

That pretencious snooty cocksucker actually wishes cancer on his critics, and gleefully takes credit for the demise of Gene Siskle. What a cocky little douchbag. Ever seen the guy? I think he did that oral scene to prove himself NOT gay, which I frankly don't care, I just wish he'd go away.

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Tell her that if I wanted to deal with a rich and snooty airhead of passable attractiveness that gives shitty head, there are plenty of sorority houses down the street from my house.

What street do you live on again? :P b

ohthefuckwell · 02-06-2005, 08:13 PM

ok. i was really in the mood for creepy, scary, fuck-with-your head movies this weekend.

i like horror. scary movies. i don't much care for gore and slasher flicks....movies that just seem to throw a bunch of random bloody images on the screen in an attempt to "shock" just don't do it for me. i like movies that get into your brain. movies that have you jump at strange noises for days after. movies that you watch that have subtle things in the background that make you say, "what the fuck was THAT?!?" and...if you're watching it at home....you debate rewinding it to find out because you wonder if you really want to know and, of course, you end up deciding you do and when you go back to it you say, "HOLY SHIT!"

sooooo.....this weekend it was ju-on, ringu, and session 9, among others.

(for instance, there was the '98 version of alice through the looking glass with kate beckinsale which was scary for totally unintended reasons, i'm sure. a lot of innocent celluloid was brutally abused by putting that uhhh "movie" on it. *shudder*)

after watching ju-on and ringu i was left thinking, "what was the big deal??"

in ringu, i kept waiting for the "creepy parts". the only thing that got to me even just a little bit was when sada came out of the tv. i wasn't expecting that. as she got closer, i figured she'd just get right up to the screen and do something freaky and that would be it.

it was the same with ju-on. i was really looking forward to it after everything i had read about it, both here and other places. people kept talking about the "creppy noise" kayako makes. the first time i heard it, i thought, "so? i make that noise half the time i do my first really good right-out-of-bed stretch every morning." the only thing that i thought was particularly creepy was when rika feels kayako's hand on the back of her head. that actually made me say, "oh, shit!" out loud.

but.

those were redeemed by session 9. this one....i really liked. watching the madness unravel was great. and the ending really wasn't what i expected. i thought it had an excellent story and great acting, not to mention i found it to be truly visually appealing, as well.

shikoku, cure, and phone got put back to get the first two, instead. i'm thinking that was a mistake. i was so disappointed in ju-on and ringu. not NEARLY as disappointed as i was in the village, though. that one STILL pisses me off.

Deadhymn · 02-07-2005, 07:39 AM

Yeah, i wann see Shikoku, Cure, and Phone as well. Just havent gotten around to it yet. Anyone have a reccomendation as to which one i should get first?

Last movie i watched was actually Ghost Dad. Bill Cosby. This movie is like 20 years old and i had never seen it. I understand its status as a classic, but the movie still fucking sucked. The cab driver made my day, though. Thank god for UPN.

edible_eye · 02-09-2005, 08:08 PM

king arthur.

sucked my ass.

don't bother.

Loy · 02-10-2005, 03:31 PM

Some more training of my little Enid

"True Meaning Of Pictures"-an enetertaining and informative documentary on photographer Shelby Lee Adams, who grew up in the Ozarks, and went back there to take pictures of the families he knew there. The film deals with Adams' connection with this area, the history of the Ozarks, reactions to his photos of the citizens (including the inbred families you imagine when hearing the word "hilliblly"), and the history of the stereotyping of "rednecks" and "hillbillies"....yeah, "Deliverance" is still just as scary as before hand, but at least you learn about the other side.

"Deliverance"-this is what happens when you leave the city. ("C'mon! SQUEAL like a pig!")

"Impressionism-The Other French Revolution"-an A & E doc, but not as static and lacking in data as that channels docs tend to be. But the best part-lots and lots of paintings.

"4 Films By Warhol"-little Enid had only seen the "Flesh" trilogy, but I had to explain "no, Paul Morrissey made those films. THESE are some of the films made by Warhol". "Blow Job" is footage of a mans face while receiving one. "Sleep" is 8 hours of a man sleeping (severely truncated for viewing purposes), "Empire" is a shot of the Empire State Building throughout a single day (again, severely truncated), and "Chelsea Girls", which was the epic freakout epic to end all epic freakout epics (actually, a combination of a whole bunch of films warhol shot projected onto thre different screens at the same time).......artsy, experimental, tedious, annoying, fascinating, pointless.....all this and more!

"Pink Flamingos"-actually, about 45 minutes of it. Here's what Enid had to say......
Before-"Oh, I love John Waters, and 'Hairspray' and 'Cry-Baby' are two of my favorite movies of all time"
After-"Don't EVEN try talking to me! You have NO idea how mad I am at you for showing me that right now....I don't think I'll ever be able to watch 'Hairspray' ever again....I HATE you so much right now!!!"

"Raging Bull"-watched it last night with THELMA FUCKING SCHOONMAKER!!!!! "Who's Thelma Fucking Schoonmaker" you might ask? She is the greatest editor in the history of cinema, and she happens to work for Martin Scorcese, and won an academy award for "RB", and was brought to town (for a retrospective on her late husband, Britsh film-making godhead Michael Powell) by Scarecrow Video. She did a class on film editing, then screened "RB".

gingerbreadwench · 02-10-2005, 11:10 PM

The Terminal. I absolutely love it. I missed a lot the first time I saw it, so I enjoyed it more the second time.

edible_eye · 02-11-2005, 04:50 AM

donnie darko, finally.

watched it with a buzz and enjoyed it quite a bit. i want a full army of those rabbits, armed with machetes to do my dirty work.

that would be hot.

skoteinh · 02-11-2005, 04:59 AM

The Woodsman

with Kevin Bacon

A great film, although the subject was a little disturbing (child abuse)

Bacon is a great actor after all...

I enjoyed it immensly

Loy · 02-11-2005, 02:13 PM

s'more

"The Graduate"-Here's what you already know-"plastics!", "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?", that damned Simon and Garfunkel soundtrack (every song you know by them? Originally for this film), the beginning (stolen by Tarantino for "Jackie Brown"). What you don't know-"The Graduate" stands as one of the greatest comedies ever, one that's just as fresh today as it was over 30 years ago, and also stands as one of the most eviscerating films ever. What? You think that just because the counter-culture of the 60's started quoting it that it's a little play-by-play tract? Oh no, this film cuts the "me" generation of the Baby Boom as swiftly and deftly as it does the generation that came before. And it has one of the most hauntingly enigmatic endings ever. But most importantly, it does all this with a sense of humour that's sadly missing from cinema today (Wes Anderson and his followers excepted).

"Desperate Living" and "Polyester"-OK, so I redeemed Mr. Waters in the eyes of little Enid with these two films. "DL" has a neurotic housewife and her 400 pound maid on the run after the maid sits on the wife's husband until he dies. They run into transvestite cops, pox-marked dykes, bikers, the queen of Mortville (a hovel full of deviancy), and 50's Burlesque stripper Lyz Renay......."DL" has all the great Waters lines ("Seize her and fuck her!"...."I don't want NO white man looking at my tampax. Get off me, milkhead!"...."I'm so hungry, I could eat cancer"....)...."Polyester" was Waters first shot at....well, not really "mainstream", but a little bit more user friendly. Divine plays a suburban housewife who's life is going to shit (what with a daughter who wants to get pregnant just to have an abortion, a son with a serious foot fetish, and a porn-shop running husband who's cheating on her). She finds hapiness in the arms of a handsome stranger (played by fifties heart-throb Tab Hunter), who's actually in love with Divines mom....best to see this film with the scratch-and-sniff cards that come with the DVD (it was released in "odo-rama"). Trust me on this one.

"Rushmore"-Wes Anderson's best film...OK, "Royal Tennebaums" is great, but "Rushmore" is the reason why Anderson's considered the best American director since Scorcese (no really), and "Rushmore"s also the reason "Life Aquatic" is such a huge letdown (though it's better than about 90% of what's out there).

SuicideJade · 02-11-2005, 11:51 PM

i watched The Grudge (the american one)

i expected to lose sleep over it and got dissapointed.. but the movie was still good.. it was creepy.. not frightening.. a nice change

Deadhymn · 02-12-2005, 05:59 PM

Goodfellas.

The Godfather is the genesis of the modern gangster film. Movies like Casino, Scarface, and Carlito's Way represent what a modern gangster film is. Goodfella's on the other hand is the absolute APEX of what gangster films can/should be. BEST FUCKING GANGSTER MOVIE EVER.

drgnlvr · 02-13-2005, 07:32 AM

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the ending just made me even more frustrated than i already was, never mind the absolutely unbelievable feats of that blind girl. it was like he based every scene on - ok, how can we make this even more unbelievable so maybe it'll be believable?

sorry - didn't work.

Finally got around the watching The Village, myself.

It had the potential to be a very good movie. Top-rate actors, beautiful cinemetography, etc. But the blind girl travelling through the woods alone? Give me a break! I -might- have been convinced at her abilities to move around the village with no problems, seeing as she grew up there. But the rest left me flat.

I could have possibly suspended disbelief enough to buy that they were sepeeatists living in the depths of some national park (Yellow Stone is big enough that it's concievable, if not actually believable for a small group like that to live, and not get "contaminated" by the rest of the world...but it still stretches the boundaries of credibility)

But, excuse me? A "Wildlife Preserve" that is not just fenced off, but -walled- off?! And no one is allowed in, not even the Park Rangers?!?! And the government creating a "no-fly zone" over the area? NOT!!

It was left way too open. There was no payoff, and no explaination for that. Those are plot holes big enough to drive a semi through.

If they had at least explained in the end that they were some kind of "experiement" by the government, I would have scoffed, but at least the holes would have been closed.

GAWD I'm glad I didn't go see that in the theatre. I feel like I'd been screwed without K-Y or flowers just renting it from Blockbuster.

*whines* It hurts and stings!

drgnlvr · 02-13-2005, 07:37 AM

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donnie darko, finally.

watched it with a buzz and enjoyed it quite a bit. i want a full army of those rabbits, armed with machetes to do my dirty work.

that would be hot.

Heehee! The Director's cut will be available on DVD Feb 15th!

I absolutely LOVE that movie!

edible_eye · 02-13-2005, 08:29 AM

dodgeball last night. i was puffed up like a hot-air balloon in anticipation.

unfortunately, the movie was a dull pin that stabbed me a few times before i burst. lame.

and i had such high expectations...

gingerbreadwench · 02-13-2005, 11:14 AM

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and i had such high expectations...

... Really?

edible_eye · 02-13-2005, 11:28 AM

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... Really?

yes, really. i was hoping against hope it would make me laugh a la 'airplane', 'something about mary', 'naked gun', 'police academy', 'dumb and dumber', etc.

serves me right for setting the bar too high.

Deadhymn · 02-13-2005, 06:09 PM

yeah, ben stiller movies are hit and miss....but when he hits, oh does it feel so good....