I'm watching "Taken" again, Liam Neeson just shot the french guy's wife and is still a sympathetic character. This is a B-Movie that's a good watch all because of Liam Neeson.
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I'm watching "Taken" again, Liam Neeson just shot the french guy's wife and is still a sympathetic character. This is a B-Movie that's a good watch all because of Liam Neeson.
You must have been desperate, Buttslinger. I watched on tv Brooklyn's Finest -not out of desperation, but convenience --as a film, not anyone's finest.
TED a very funny movie.
Just finished watching We Need To Talk About Kevin, not an easy film to watch, very cold, very disturbing and very depressing but also very interesting.
L'avventura (Antonioni 1960).
I haven't seen this film for years, and only remember not being impressed with it when I did. Seeing it again confirms my belief that Antonioni's reputation has taken a dive. The sequence of films that runs from Il Grido through L'eclisse to La Notte is a relentless critique of the superficial existence of -well just about everyone. The cynicism in these films may reflect the existential phase that gripped some people in the 1950s and 1960s, assuming they knew what it was, but apart from some trivial contextual stuff about women making their own decisions, yet being regarded by men as sex objects, just as the non-liberated women are looking for a sugar daddy type -no, it doesn't work for me. And allegedly there is some competion between Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman, who films never lose their moral compass.
Criterion Trailer 98: L'Avventura - YouTube
Red state
"L.A. Confidential"
moonrise kingdom is scheduled in a couple nights, but went to see TED wuz fucking great if you get SETH.
also watched The Help last night omg great movie
Isn't Ted about a teddy bear?
He wasn't much for cuddling unless you lay real still.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
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This is good but not as most excellent as the first.
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just woke up from falling asleep to 1911 revolution starring jackie chan. i woke up at 5 for a fire drill on the ship today, so i'm not sure if its because the movie was that boring or because i was just tired and not into reading subtitles at the time.
watching DELTA FORCE - with the mighty chuck norris
The Delta Force (1986) - Official Trailer - YouTube
hahahaha you know he doesnt have a chin, just another fist where it should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness
kinda, but alil bit more involved lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
Robert Forster is the best terrorist ever. Could even keep his Michigan accent. Those Golan-Globus characters sure are even handed.Quote:
Originally Posted by LibertyHarkness
Watch Invasion USA. Russians ruin Christmas in America then shoot off everyone's Johnson.
Libby, who would you say would be considered the British Chuck Norris? Gotta be someone.
Invasion USA Trailer (1985) - YouTube
The Dark Knight Rises - Was very underwhelming.
Watched Lockout. Ridiculous and mostly bad with some embarrassing special effects at the start. The weirdest thing is that this is an almost totally British movie with British/European actors pretending to be American. I think there was one actual American in the lot, the rest had terrible accents. And that's what's so puzzling, if you're going to make a cheesy action flick with British actors why force them to speak in weird John Wayne-esque accents, why can't they just be British? Jason Statham does alright in the American market, where's the fear coming from?
I don't know the film but it does amaze me how many British actors are hired in American films when there are plenty of Americans who can do it, and do it properly. -Brian Cox and Albert Finney not only do it but do it badly -the weakest acting in the Bourne trilogy, for example. Michael Caine's American accent isn't very good either. It hasn't worked well the other way either -Tony Curtis pretending to be Cary Grant in Some Like it Hot, but with Don Cheadle attempting a cockney accent in the Ocean's films I am not sure if that is intended to be an in-joke. Do Australians do American better?
And the finest of all.... Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
I kinda liked Secondhand Lions with Robert Duvall. I'll admit Caine's accent wasn't very good but the movie was fun. Haley Joel Osment was creepy like always. Still sees dead people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
Secondhand Lions Official Trailer - YouTube
Wait...you saw Mary Poppins? How many times? I did see it, but in the interests of film criticism and a survey of the musical -in a post-modern context of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prospero
I saw it as a kid
Prisilla Queen of the Desert, always a great choice, and fuck me if Guy Rock doesnt look fabulous in that red wig and dress, yes a lil buff but quite tasty
Zeitgeist. Food for thought.
Zeitgeist Movie Trailer - YouTube
Captain America: The First Avenger
Iron Man 2
The dark knight rises
Red Dog.
Wrath of the Titans. It had top notch special effects and the action never slowed long enough for you to despair of the wooden acting by the lead. Still, it has Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Bill Nighy as gods of Olympus, chewing up their scenes with a sense of fun. British accents are appropriate here, of course, because it's the ancient world where everyone was British.
Back to the future lll
Alex Jones also makes some good conspiracy theory documentaries.Quote:
Originally Posted by maxpower
Django (Corbucci, 1966).
This classic Spaghetti Western was banned in the UK until the 1990s, because of scenes of sadistic violence. The film itself, which spawned 31 sequels (!) marked a departure for the western as a primarily American genre involving cowboys and indians struggling over private property, or some moral tale involving sherriffs and outlaws. Taking Kurosawa's Yojimbo as its model, these films offer no moral high ground, the parties involved, motivated by greed or revenge are as bad as each other. Django is an ex-Union soldier in the badlands between Texas and Mexico where there is no law, and where the pall of defeat has generated some odd affiliations -the ex-Major with his band of followers who wear red masks and scarves, for example. The film brilliantly portrays a defeated society, in a landscape thick with mud and dirt and an all-but deserted town crumbling to pieces. The whores are growing old, fat and ugly and fight among themselves. The film has all the right symbols -the coffin as the repository of death, the gunfight in a cemetary with a revolver balanced on a crucifix -the violence is sadistic and gratuitous but intended to portray a social milieu with no justification other than survival. Django does indeed survive, but he is an anti-hero, unlikeable, crude, selfish. The music is as bad as the dubbing; yet you can see how the Dollars films both built on this film, and also improved it.
Django (1966) - Trailer - YouTube
Good, huh? Nice review. Check this one out. Django but not exactly Django but still more fun than a barrel of monkeys. The style and balls of The Italians.:Bowdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stavros
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The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzoi, Corbucci; Nineteen Sixty-Eight)
Another western that broke the mould. The film is allegedly based on a true incident in Snow Hill, Utah, although I couldn't fnd a record of it. It pits a form of good against evil -there is a long-running conflict between Mormon immgrants from the east and a local landowner who has prevented them from settling -by resorting to crime to feed themselves, the community has become criminalised and thus a feast for bounty hunters. At the core of the film is an attempt by Utah state to impose law and order on Snow Hill; and the contest between two bounty hunters: Silence -a Mormon I assume, whose throat was cut when his parents were murdered by bounty hunters so he couldn't describe what happened; and Tigrero (sometimes Loco) who becomes his -and everyone else's, nemesis.
The strengths of the film are the dazzling snowy landscapes (filmed in the Dolomites), and the unusually harsh ending, possibly the bleakest in any kind of western. In this film, Silence may refer to Death, but would be a Christ-like figure were he not so violent himself. Apparently, the Sherriff, played by an American actor called Frank Wolff (who committed suicide sometime after the film) had a ferocious row with Klaus Kinski before the film.
The weakness is the dubbing, which was never a strong point in Italian films, but which gives it a detached feeling, so that one is alienated by sound, as well as by the nihilistic violence. It is particulary hard when Kinski's actual voice was quite different from the dubbed one.
There is a discussion of the film here:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/ind...Silence_Review
The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio) Trailer - YouTube
Beasts of the Southern Wild...
amazing, disturbing, and a tour de force for the first time director Zeitlan
All Quiet On The Western front. The greatest anti war movie of all time. Watched in connection with research but a pleasure to see it again.
Great one, yes. What about “Johnny got his gun”, from Dalton Trumbo, or “The Paths of Glory”, from Kubrick?