After seeing the "Scarface isn't that good" post I just could not read anymore. Really? Ummm....REALLY?

Ok I just saw that somebody mentioned Pump Up The Volume. In My opinion a very entertaining flick. Not the most original project ever but well woth the time.

horror nowadays isn't too bad....I mean there alot of horrible ones out there but there are a few gems here and there. The last good horror I went to see at the theater was Drag me to Hell. I think you like psychological horror type movies instead of the hack and slash variety. Have you seen The strangers or that movie with the two brothers dressed in white. I can't remember the name of the movie right now.

French horror is where it's at these days.

Friday the 13th

I can't even watch Scarface because it's so cheesy.

I agree, scarface is lame.

any recommendations?

If you can stomach it I'd recommend Martyrs, but like I said... if you can stomach it.


Anyways in a fit of insomnia last night I watched Ghostbusters.

...cockaroaches.....

But you can't hate that scene when he's smashed in the resturaunt and he makes a scene and says "You all need me, so you can point your finger at me and say, thats the bad guy" Thats a priceless scene.

I don't know how you can think Al Pacino's acting is anything less than completely believable. Cheesy? Lame? I think not.



yeah.. I'm a Scarface fan. :D

I just went with a couple of friends and watched Public Enemies. i enjoyed it all the way through. a little slow in some parts but overall well done. call me stupid, ignorant, and whatever, but until right before Public Enemies was released I really got into The Dillinger Escape Plan and I had no idea what that name was relevant to so I laughed a little bit at myself after it hit me.

Valkyrie.
Better than I thought it would be actually.

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I don't like plays and have never seen one that was successfully turned into a movie. This one is no exception. Plus, Pacino was really annoying. 5/10

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i vaguely recall this being really really good, but i think i blocked most of it out

still, i'd probably force all of you to watch it if i could

I watched some of it, not as interesting as his lectures...(not enough nervous ticks...;)).

Just watched the Impossible Job, a fly on the wall documentary aired in 1994 following Graham Taylor's ultimately failed struggle to get England into the World Cup finals of that year. It made for a surprisingly interesting hour - had the ring of a Shakespearean tragedy to it.

I watched Iron Man yesterday afternoon and it's still as good as it was the first time I watched it. I think tonight I'm going to watch The Limey because I never got to watch it when I was working at Hollywood Video because some douche bag stole it.

I watched L'annee dernier a marienbad and Inland Empire back-to-back, they make for a good double feature. Lynch was heavily influenced by Resnais' film for his own. They're each structured like dreams, so the narrative is fractured and secondary. Of course Resnais' film blows Lynch's out of the water. Marienbad is one of the most beautiful, hypnotic films I've ever seen. Among New Wave directors Resnais is more akin to Jaques Rivette than Godard or Truffaut--the more conventional names associated with the New Wave. Marienbad is an enigmatic film (Resnais even says it is a mystery), more like Celine et Julie vont en bateau than anything Godard ever did. Still Resnais has a lot in common with all the New Wave directors--the disjointed narrative, fast cuts and zooms mixed with long tracking shots through an elegant, mysterious European hotel. I highly recommend the film. You have to make your own sense of it. Resnais has repeatedly said that in Last Year at Marienbad moreso than in any other film it up to the viewer to determine what really happened "last year" at Marienbad (for a quick synopsis...the film is about a man who approaches a woman in a hotel lobby and tells her that they met each other last year, had an affair, planned to run away together and that she herself set this rendevous one year later. She objects and the film follows the man and woman, only named in the credits as 'A' and 'X', as he tries to convince her that they did in fact meet last year). Nothing in the film makes as much sense on the surface as that synopsis though, which is where the viewer must determine what actually happened. The film also contained some of the most beautiful black and white cinematography I have ever seen. Off the top of my head its only match would be Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and maybe Truffaut's Les quatre cent coups. The film is set in a high class European hotel. The camera tracks the long corridors and the fancy molding on the walls. There is also a classic image from this film of the giant gardens of the hotel, where the people cast shadows but the neatly trimmed hedges do not...some great surrealist imagery. The actual layout of the hotel is geometrically impossible, something Resnais achieved by shooting at multiple chateaus across Europe and mixing the footage together. Corridors lead to empty corridors. The setting of a scene or a character's clothing will switch subtly mid-scene, characters will repeat conversations but little details will be switched--mimicing a dream. It's all very dizzying but the film is beautiful. Highest recommendation.

Inland Empire was clearly inspired by Marienbad but I don't like it nearly as much. Resnais' film is very much like a nightmare, a disturbing ghost story. Lynch's film is of course, exactly like a nightmare. Unlike Resnais film however, where every shot has a purpose, some of the images and sequences in Lynch's film seem unnecessary. At 3 hours long it had a lot more time to fill and I feel like some of the scenes veered off into strange and disturbing territory needlessly, though it does help to create that nightmare aesthetic, where not everything makes sense. So in that sense I understand the purpose of those scenes but it is hard to maintain interest over the 3 hour run time. Still not a bad film, watch it if you get the chance but don't go out of your way to see it. But do go out of your way to watch Marienbad.

I watched my dog skip the other day
and Hannibal; never realized how sketchy that
movie had been until yesterday!

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Essential viewing for anyone interested in lgbtq filmmaking. Go find out more about it...8/10

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meh, 5/10. Saw the end coming from a mile away, and I was never scared. It has no really funny camp things to laugh about either. I'd have given it a 4/10 if the acting hadn't been exceptionally good for a B-film.

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Pretty funny, ending was shit

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pretty good, ending wasn't shit

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BBT is excellent in it but I guessed the ending within the first five minutes :(

Wait a second, you thought the ending of Pineapple Express WAS ****, and Eagle Eye WASN'T ****? Am I getting this right?

Yes, the ending of Pineapple Express was awful, after a cheesy gunfight they go eat breakfast were they talk. I know these movies are supposed to be about friendship but all the dialogue led me to believe their was more than friendship going on. I was expecting them to just cut the crap and start making out then and there at Dennys or where ever they were. Eagle Eye was a decent 'thriller', but the ending wasn't shit and Shia LaBeouf has really made a career as the guy who runs from things and flares his nostrils and because he's good at it.

Dudes just escaped a barn of burning weed man! I love that scene, apparantly it was all improvised as well.

It's a great ending, the dialouge at the coffee shop is top-notch, everytime you think the fat guy is done for he comes storming back. Had me laughing into the credits.

Eagle Eye was a decent movie until the end. When it turned into a huge **** cloud that rained on my entire day. What a waste of half of a good film.

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one of the best gangster films i've seen lately, really makes me want to read the book. well done all around.

The British DVD cover is way cooler:
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Solid film though. Get Carter and The Long Good Friday beat it hands down for best British gangster film but it's definitely one of the best of the last few years.

The book was actually really good, one of those rare ones where the movie is just as good if not better than the book.

While we're on the subject of British gangster movies, I watched this one last night, but I need to go back and watch it again because I was distracted by work.

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The Limey does take a couple of watches for sure. The fractured editing is brilliant but infuriating for some.

Where the fuk do these movies come from?

Is it me............?

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I know, it looks retarded, but it's not that sort of movie.

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Every now and then I got through a phase where I like to watch conspiracy documentaries. I think the problem with this one (besides the obvious) is that it tried to blend two different schools of thought into one body. On the one side you have the Obama haters who think he's a liar, the other side you have the group of conspiracy nuts who believe he's the puppet for a New World Order. The people that make up the first side generally don't believe the idea of a covert shadow government made up of International Bankers is out to create a United World Government, and thus think that the documentary is just about the lies that Obama has allegedly told. They then see the documentary fold out into a huge global conspiracy theory and are immediately put off. It killed two hours of time and I can't say that I've watched worse, but I did take everything it said with a grain of salt. That said it did rekindle my urge to learn how to safely own and operate a firearm as well as learn at least one form of martial art.

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Really a beautiful film.

The Dillinger flick - "Public Enemies". I wasn't super excited to see it and it exceeded expectations.
I definitely learned some things and it was was an entertaining 2 hours.
It was well done and not overdone. I think the cast was good all around from Depp and Bale, to the female lead and the guy who played Hoover.
The Tommy Gunns sounded great. They always make me think of Topper Headen and Joe Strummer. I wonder if they really sounded just as they did in the film.

Oh I also saw Changeling on DVD recently. I also enjoyed that more than I expected.
I didn't realize it was directed by C. Eastwood (and orig. to be dir. by R. Howard but he had a sched. conflict).
The ensemble was good in this one too from Jolie, to her friend in the hospital, to the police chief, to the child from Canada (I don't want to give anything away).
And it was also an unexpected pleasure to see J. Malkovich in an interesting supporting role.

I just saw Road to Perdition for the first time. I don't often watch films and this was until yesterday one of the woeful voids in my viewing experience. Anyway it's definitely something special.

I just saw the new Harry Potter. I read all the book and this movie's really nothing special compared to the book. Don't waste your money.

To what end?