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post #31 of 143
4/8/10 at 6:00pm
Humpday was so good. I was pretty surprised hwo well they pulled off the central conceit.
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post #32 of 143
4/8/10 at 6:02pm
All these people talking about the secret Zombieland cameo. I haven't seen it but I can guarantee it's Bruce Campbell, and I'm not even a zombie film aficionado. I mean how obvious can it get? It would be amusing if I was wrong on this though.
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post #33 of 143
4/8/10 at 6:16pm
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Kurosawa.

He was one of my "etc." directors. He made some absolute masterpieces but was woefully uneven. Some of this wasn't his fault. He is probably one of the few big name directors who had really horrible films throughout his entire oeuvre, not just certain periods. That beign said; Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashomon, and Ran are all unimpeachable.
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post #34 of 143
4/9/10 at 1:15am
Just finished watching Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Completly ridiculous crime film taking place in a bizarro-world version of New Orleans. Probably one of the best directed films that came out last year. Cage almost always overacts and here he did it on purpose. He could of dialed it back some but it was kind of fun watching him that unhinged. It is worth checking out but a lot of people will hate it.
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post #35 of 143
4/9/10 at 2:33am
i watched ichi the killer.

dont watch it.
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post #36 of 143
4/9/10 at 3:15am
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Anyone watch "Alice"? What about the 3D effect?

star trek credits

I thought alice was completely dreadful... Tim Burton killed another thing I had previously loved. The 3D was useless. Gave me a headache more than anything
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post #37 of 143
4/9/10 at 6:02am
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RT "Often praised as one of the greatest films ever made" - added to my rental list!

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/balthazar/

I found the going tough until the finale. It elevated the viewing experience for me. Bresson is masterful.


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He was one of my "etc." directors. He made some absolute masterpieces but was woefully uneven. Some of this wasn't his fault. He is probably one of the few big name directors who had really horrible films throughout his entire oeuvre, not just certain periods. That beign said; Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashomon, and Ran are all unimpeachable.

That's an interesting take. My take: when it comes to quality, he is as "˜even' as any film director. With the exception of a few films at the start of his career, the guy never made a bad film. Was it Peckinpah that once said "˜I want to be able to make westerns like Kurosawa makes westerns'? There's such thing as the "˜Lubitsch touch'. Well, there should be a "˜Kurosawa touch' because every frame is brilliant. I have always maintained that his best films are the non samurai pictures, especially "˜High and Low', "˜Dersu Uzala' and "˜The Bad Sleep Well'. He is the finest storyteller in cinema.
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post #38 of 143
4/9/10 at 8:17am
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i watched ichi the killer.

dont watch it.

That is one fucked up movie.

Watched 'The Damned United' great little film.
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post #39 of 143
4/9/10 at 12:54pm
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That's an interesting take. My take: when it comes to quality, he is as "˜even' as any film director. With the exception of a few films at the start of his career, the guy never made a bad film. Was it Peckinpah that once said "˜I want to be able to make westerns like Kurosawa makes westerns'? There's such thing as the "˜Lubitsch touch'. Well, there should be a "˜Kurosawa touch' because every frame is brilliant. I have always maintained that his best films are the non samurai pictures, especially "˜High and Low', "˜Dersu Uzala' and "˜The Bad Sleep Well'. He is the finest storyteller in cinema.

As much as I would love to claim otherwise I believe this is pretty much standard critical perception of Kurosawa. For every great film he had a Scandal, Dodesukaden, Dersu Uzala, or Dreams. The guy's suicide attempt was largely understood as his statement on the decline of his artistic powers. That's not denigrate him at all, his best are among the best in all of cinema. He very obviously took some serious influence from Ford, and Hawks, but became one of the greats in his own right. His influence is undeniable. Bresson, as stated before, is on a very short list of film makers. The guy came as close to making pure motion pictures as possible. The only one on the same level in that respect is Tarkovsky.
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post #40 of 143
4/9/10 at 5:44pm
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I watched Soderbergh's Girlfriend experience tonight.

Quite an interesting film, with some good ideas, particularly about Chelsea's boyfriend also being bought as an accessory.

Sasha Grey is also quite a good actress. I wasn't aware of her p0rn films either, though after a quick search, I may get some of these too
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post #41 of 143
4/9/10 at 6:39pm
I've been watching Luc Besson's films lately..great action movies

Documentaries I watched on Netflix:
Food, Inc.
Bigger, Faster, stronger
Super High Me
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post #42 of 143
4/9/10 at 6:52pm
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I watched Soderbergh's Girlfriend experience tonight.

Quite an interesting film, with some good ideas, particularly about Chelsea's boyfriend also being bought as an accessory.

Sasha Grey is also quite a good actress. I wasn't aware of her p0rn films either, though after a quick search, I may get some of these too

I Sasha Grey. I stumbled onto this movie browsing through blu-rays to add to my netflix queue and I really wanted to like it, but didn't. The whole side of the movie that dealt with her bf and those other douchebags annoyed me. It was poorly shot and it just felt pointless to me. I had higher expectations given who directed it.
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post #43 of 143
4/10/10 at 3:48am
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As much as I would love to claim otherwise I believe this is pretty much standard critical perception of Kurosawa.
I don't mean to be rude, but are you actually watching the majority of his films or have you just seen a handful and going off of that? Your view is definitely the 'standard critical perception' of Kurosawa (the patchy career).

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For every great film he had a Scandal, Dodesukaden, Dersu Uzala, or Dreams.
If those are bad films, I will give it away. Sure, Scandal, Dodesukaden, and Dreams might be inferior to some of his other films, but most directors could make a career from a Dersu Uzala.

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The guy's suicide attempt was largely understood as his statement on the decline of his artistic powers. That's not denigrate him at all, his best are among the best in all of cinema.
He was NEVER appreciated in Japan. Financially, his backing dried up. He struggled to make pictures in the latter part of his career (it was impractical to back him commercially). Waning talent was the least of his concern.

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He very obviously took some serious influence from Ford, and Hawks, but became one of the greats in his own right.
I hate the comparison because Kurosawa was the better filmmaker (yes, I know it's subjective). Hell, the general perception is that Ford made the quintessential Westerns when Boetticher, Peckinpah and Mann were equally capable.

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Bresson, as stated before, is on a very short list of film makers. The guy came as close to making pure motion pictures as possible. The only one on the same level in that respect is Tarkovsky.
Aesthetically, Tarkovsky was in a class of his own. Overall, I think filmmakers like Bergman, Fellini and Bunuel deserve some attention, too. I'm surprised you included Cronenberg. He doesn't belong on a shortlist of a 1000.
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post #44 of 143
4/11/10 at 3:45pm
I watched Wise Blood yesterday. Has anybody seen it? I'd never read any Flannery O'Connor, so I went in not really knowing what to expect. I was blown away. That little shriveled-up little Jesus mummy, that gross fat hooker, the monkey suit--all of it. Some good quotes:
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I'm here to start my own church, the Church of Christ without Christ, where the blind don’t see and the lame don’t walk and what’s dead stays that way.
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Where you've come from is gone. Where you thought you were going to never existed. Where you are is no good unless you can get away.
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Your conscience is a trick. It don't exist though you may think it does, and if you think it does, you had best get it out in the open and hunt it down and kill it.
I didn't understand a lot of the movie, but it appears to be about a poor bastard who tries to run away from Jesus into existentialism and then crashes--hard. As John Huston, the director, said, "at the end of the picture, Jesus wins."
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post #45 of 143
4/11/10 at 8:16pm
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I've not seen Wise Blood, no. I will read up on that though, it sounds interesting.

I'm just about to finish watching I'm a Cyborg - which I have loved so far.

Diary of a country priest, and Humpday are arriving on Tuesday from Lovefilm ( online dvd rental), so thanks for the recs chaps.
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