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Something from Nothing! The Art Of Rap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWne2qjeeJg
Pretty chill documentary. It's hosted by IceT and it includes interviews with BunB, B-Real, Afrika Bambaataa, Busy Bee, Joe Budden, Grandmaster Caz, Common, Treach, Ice Cube, Chuck D, Royce Da 59, Dana Dane, Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Lord Finesse, Doug E. Fresh, Lord Jamar, Salt from Salt 'n' Pepper, Big Daddy Kane, Ras Kass, Kool Keith, KRS-One, MC Lyte, Marley Marl, Darryl McDaniels, Melle Mel, Nas, DJ Premier, Q-Tip, Raekwon, Rakim, Redman, Puerto Rico, Joseph Simmons, Immortal Technique, WC, Kanye West, Chino XL, and Xzibit.
The first half of the documentary covers the origins of hip-hop and interviews with it's founding artists and early artists who redeveloped hip-hop as they pay homage to the originals. The second half of the documentary focuses mainly on rap artists and how gangsta rap emerged from hip-hop to become mainstream.
The only thing I didn't really like about The Art of Rap is how most of the artists seem to really convolute their processes with very, very abstract notions that don't mean much of anything when they're analyzed. Otherwise, a very awesome documentary if you dig classic hip-hop like I do.
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The Hunger Games
The Cabin in the Woods
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Cabin in the Woods
Total Recall
The Avengers
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Drive is an amazingly well shot movie, Lovecox, in my opinion. I loved it. I saw it a second time on a movie network lately, and it was censored; totally spoiled my fun.
This Nicolas Winding Refn, the director, should be someone to watch in the future, now that he will (or should) get bigger budgets.
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"Ruby Sparks" written by and starring Zoe Kazan, grand daughter of the great Elia Kazan. Its a witty and charmng post-modern Pygmalion . A nurdy writer starts to dream about a girl, then tarts to write a novel about her 9after several years of writer's block) and suddeny the said girl emerges into real lie and they become lovers. It's by the same directing team who made "Little Miss Sunshine about five years ago. Not as funny as that, but nevertheless a pretty good film.
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'Clue' just popped up on Netflix and I watched that again last night. Laughed all the way through it
"Flames. Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breathl- heaving breaths. Heaving breaths... Heathing..."
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Watched David Cronenbergs A Dangerous Method, yesterday, an account of the relation between Freud and Carl Jung and the beginning of the century (20th). Very thin! Really not much substance in this one. I havent read the novel it is based on, but I sure hope its a little heavier. Freud is presented as a very rational, scientific mind and a model of morality as the leader of the young psychoanalytic movement, as opposed to a rather immoral and quite indecisive Carl Jung, who has an affair with one of his patients. We know very well today that Freud himself had affairs with some of his female patients and that not all of freudism is based either on science or even on clinical observations of conclusive results. It is known indeed that none of Freuds early patients, whom he presents as examples of his findings in his books, have been psychologically relieved by the therapeutic process (one has even ended his days in a clinic).
I was also expecting much more of the movie itself. Cronenberg has directed some good and some very entertaining movies over the years, usually with a lot of originality, The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, etc. A Dangerous Method is flat and boring and, as I said, doesnt even have the merit of being the slightest bit informative. In the same genre, I preferred by far (the Grand Canyon) John Hustons Freud, largely written by Jean-Paul Sartre (who insisted his name be taken off the generics), beautifully directed and shot, and very eloquent on Freud first explorations of subconsciousness.
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I agree. Saw that film a year ago and thought it mediocre and unfair to Jung. I tend to be a Jungian.
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Hmmm Freud and Jung, the egg and bacon of modern psychology...only of course there were so many others. Freud is actually a misunderstood thinker and vastly superior to Jung, who cannot be taken seriously even as a psychologist, but might be remembered -should anyone bother to remember him- as an amateur anthropologist with some unoriginal and poorly stated ideas about the language and imagery of cultures and what they share, although Levi-Strauss did a better job of exposing the structural similarities that bind human societies together. The idea that this would make a good film doesn't make sense to me, not in cinematic terms; neither would a film about Sartre and Camus, Churchill and Lloyd-George and so on. If Cronenberg was a good enough director, he might actually devise an original story of his own, something which almost never seems to happen in cinema these days. The Freud museum in Vienna is fascinating, incidentally, much more cramped than I expected from the photos
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Curious to see this film now -- :)
Worst Movie Death Scene Ever? - YouTube
And recommending: They Live by John Carpenter.... Actually, almost anything by Carpenter.
His best films, of course, were done in the 70s and 80s. Later films don't have the same edge/depth/filmic fright -- :)
They live (1988) The sunglasses "Obey" "This is your god" - YouTube
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Loved “They Lived”, Ben! a lovely anti Regan era type of capitalism metaphor. Not very deep but of course funny, entertaining and efficient, eloquent!
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"Iron Sky" - a Finnish made film, in English, which is one of the worst films I've seen in years. Quite unbelievably inept. The idea is that an American space mission disdovers a Nazi colony on the dark side of the moon - preparing to invade earth. Conceptually it could be funny or even thrilling. In the event it bungles every possibility - bad acting, bad writing, siily effects. Utterly inane.
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"Looper" - a sci fi film that has excited most critics. It's about time travel and borrows from lots of other films. The trouble is that though it has some intiguing ideas it is done in a ham-fisted shoot-em-up fashion. None of the characters are more than cardboard cut-outs to allow special affects and mayhem to take centre stage. I yearn for good sci fi that treats us a adults - exploring the genuinely intriguing ideas of time travel with real people you could care about and believe in. They do exist but they are as rare as hen's teeth.
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The Avengers. Pretty good flick!:)
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Just saw The Master with Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. An excruciating look into the character of an alcoholic and a somewhat askance look into the life and character of an fringe-religious cult leader. Yes the acting is superb...but beyond that, can anyone tell me what all the fuss is about???
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well this has been a weekend of movies, really glad I have all my coworkers here with me or it would be a miserable boring weekend as I have a sprained ankle :(.
I watched:
Girl in Progress last night
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about to put on
Labyrinth
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well this has been a weekend of movies, really glad I have all my coworkers here with me or it would be a miserable boring weekend as I have a sprained ankle :(.
I watched:
Girl in Progress last night
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I LOVE Labyrinth.
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David Cronenberg's RABID with the beautiful Marilyn Chambers. She was considered a porn star in her day although she appeared in only three or four porn films in her entire career, fewer than many actresses today shoot in one day.
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Speed (Roger Spottiswode, 1994)
I saw this on tv this evening for the first time. I guess you could say it has enough plot holes to drive a bus through....but hugely enjoyable film of its kind. Biggest let down is the lack of sparkling dialogue that could have been done better; Hopper mad as usual. Did he ever play normal people?
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Speed (Roger Spottiswode, 1994)
I saw this on tv this evening for the first time. I guess you could say it has enough plot holes to drive a bus through....but hugely enjoyable film of its kind. Biggest let down is the lack of sparkling dialogue that could have been done better; Hopper mad as usual. Did he ever play normal people?
Hah...I've just been watching that.
Give the sequel a wide berth! :shrug
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Speed (Roger Spottiswode, 1994)
Hopper mad as usual. Did he ever play normal people?
I thought he was fairly well adjusted in Blue Velvet. But reasonable people can disagree:).
I saw Roman Polanski's version of Macbeth the other day. I have not seen any other versions of it and I thought it brought the play to life for me. One problem was that he changed a few things in ways that added nothing and may have detracted a bit. The tomorrow soliloquoy was not spoken aloud and in the end scene where Macduff cut his head off Polanski did something to the sequencing of the dialogue that was baffling.
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David Cronenberg's RABID with the beautiful Marilyn Chambers. She was considered a porn star in her day although she appeared in only three or four porn films in her entire career, fewer than many actresses today shoot in one day.
Great choice. Love the early Montreal Cronenberg(Shivers, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners).
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on the recommendation of my idiot friend who told me looper was as good as inception, i caught looper last night.
1. not a bad movie but has alot of flaws
2. i generally don't like time travel movies because its impossible to time travel
3. with having heard it was as good as inception, a movie that is now one of my favorites of all time, it was bound to disappoint.
if you like a bit of plausibility in your movies AND you don't like something to be 100% predictable, you might want to pass on this.
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I just saw legally blonde 1 and 2 on HBO....
Such a great movie almost as good as Titanic. lol.
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The Bourne Legacy 2012
Can't wait to see the second part!!!
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Once Upon A Time in Anatolia... nearly three hours most of it shot at night out on the plains of Turkey. Dull, dull, dull.
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Never understood the hate for this. No Silence Of The Lambs perhaps but it still gets the blood flowing to the right places.
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