What Movies Are You Watching Lately

Harold falcon · Mar 23, 2012

Blue Thunder rules all blue movies.

MrG · Mar 23, 2012

Biggskip said:
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Vanilla Sky is ****. Cruz is unwatchable. Crowe might be one of the most overrated directors working today. With the exception of Almost Famous, everything else he's done is crap. Only good scene is post-accident when Cruise confronts that group of doctors who have engineered that fancy mask...

Dude, Crowe wrote Fast Times and directed Singles and Say Anything. He may not be wall-to-wall brilliant, but Almost Famous wasn't his only good work.

dwyhajlo · Mar 23, 2012

Aside from his uh music career, what has Lynch been up to lately?

patrickBOOTH · Mar 23, 2012

dwyhajlo said:
Aside from his uh music career, what has Lynch been up to lately?

A lot of painting and art projects. I saw him speak last summer about meditation.

patrickBOOTH · Mar 23, 2012

MrG said:
Dude, Crowe wrote Fast Times and directed Singles and Say Anything. He may not be wall-to-wall brilliant, but Almost Famous wasn't his only good work.

I really like Singles. A lot of people I know haven't heard of it.

javyn · Mar 23, 2012

patrickBOOTH said:
You're telling me. One of my favorites. I met Kyle MacLachlan a few weeks ago.

Woah, awesome! Tell him he's the **** in Portlandia!

patrickBOOTH · Mar 23, 2012

javyn said:
Woah, awesome! Tell him he's the **** in Portlandia!

Hipster.

MrG · Mar 23, 2012

patrickBOOTH said:
I really like Singles. A lot of people I know haven't heard of it.

I do, too. It may be my favorite Crowe movie, even if it's not his best.

I've noticed it's not very well known, as well. I suppose it never really got popular enough to be talked about much 20 years later, which is too bad, really. If nothing else, it was a really cool chronicle of the early-90s grunge scene. In fact, I believe all of the bands that appear in it - Pearl Jam in particular - were still nobodies on the national scene when the movie was made, then they happened to blow up right around its release.

patrickBOOTH · Mar 23, 2012

MrG said:
I do, too. It may be my favorite Crowe movie, even if it's not his best.
I've noticed it's not very well known, as well. I suppose it never really got popular enough to be talked about much 20 years later, which is too bad, really. If nothing else, it was a really cool chronicle of the early-90s grunge scene. In fact, I believe all of the bands that appear in it - Pearl Jam in particular - were still nobodies on the national scene when the movie was made, then they happened to blow up right around its release.

I am a big Campbell Scott fan. That is what brought me to it.. He was amazing in Roger Doger, and The Secret Lives of Dentists.

imatlas · Mar 23, 2012

patrickBOOTH said:
MrG said:

I do, too. It may be my favorite Crowe movie, even if it's not his best.
I've noticed it's not very well known, as well. I suppose it never really got popular enough to be talked about much 20 years later, which is too bad, really. If nothing else, it was a really cool chronicle of the early-90s grunge scene. In fact, I believe all of the bands that appear in it - Pearl Jam in particular - were still nobodies on the national scene when the movie was made, then they happened to blow up right around its release.

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I am a big Campbell Scott fan. That is what brought me to it.. He was amazing in Roger Doger, and The Secret Lives of Dentists.

+1, I love Campbell Scott.

Interesting to see you talking about Singles, my wife and I were just talking about the scene with Matt Damon and Eddie Vedder in the cafe:

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We'd just left Portland for San Francisco when this came out, so the setting had a very familiar feel to it. I thought Singles was a hell of a lot better than Reality Bites.

in stitches · Mar 23, 2012

javyn said:
speaking of Blue, how about Blue Velvet. Now THAT'S a fuckin crazy ass weird but great movie

better

Biggskip · Mar 24, 2012

patrickBOOTH said:
You're telling me. One of my favorites. I met Kyle MacLachlan a few weeks ago.

javyn said:
Woah, awesome! Tell him he's the **** in Portlandia!

Ha! Javyn beat me to it.

harvey_birdman said:
Blue Thunder rules all blue movies.

Part of the 80's fascination with military helicopter dramas. I still say that Airwolf is the most preposterous concept for a show ever.

MrG said:
Dude, Crowe wrote Fast Times and directed Singles and Say Anything. He may not be wall-to-wall brilliant, but Almost Famous wasn't his only good work.

That is why I carefully chose the word directed. I don't like either of those other two movies.

patrickBOOTH said:
I am a big Campbell Scott fan. That is what brought me to it.. He was amazing in Roger Doger, and The Secret Lives of Dentists.

Me too. I love his cameo in The Daytrippers.

StephenHero · Mar 24, 2012

After reading the profile piece on Whit Stillman in last week's issue of NY Times Magazine, I'm going to try and watch a couple of his other films besides Manhattan, which is one of my favorites. Anyone have any thoughts about Barcelona or Last Days of Disco?

Lord-Barrington · Mar 24, 2012

StephenHero said:
After reading the profile piece on Whit Stillman in last week's issue of NY Times Magazine, I'm going to try and watch a couple of his other films besides Manhattan, which is one of my favorites. Anyone have any thoughts about Barcelona or Last Days of Disco?

I liked Barcelona but I LOVED Last Days of Disco. One of my favorite comedies of all time. It's sort of over the top like all of Stillman's films (verbose dialogue, non-seqitors galore, superficial characters) but there's a melancholy that goes through it that seems really genuine, especially to anyone who has been through a period of mid-twenties angst. And the soundtrack is fantastic.

Harold falcon · Mar 24, 2012

StephenHero said:
After reading the profile piece on Whit Stillman in last week's issue of NY Times Magazine, I'm going to try and watch a couple of his other films besides Manhattan, which is one of my favorites. Anyone have any thoughts about Barcelona or Last Days of Disco?

Barcelona, yes.
Not a fan of Last Days of Disco.

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