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Post by Lauren on Mar 22, 2008 1:30:02 GMT
I just got back from seeing the English version of Funny Games.
Since I already knew the plot I sat back and really analysed it. It is basically the only movie in which I feel completely emotionally detached while watching.
So disturbing, but Haneke does it good.
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Post by irrelevant on Mar 23, 2008 23:35:54 GMT
Southland Tales..... such an utterly incoherent, rambling mess. but it's amazing. i'm fascinated that it actually exists. essentially capturing the world we live in, by making the movie as convoluted as our society is. it's out there, it's funny, it's something i've never really seen before. quick synopsis: basically, world war 3 erupts, the walls become tighter, liberal extremists pop up, advanced alternative fuels are created, and it's an election year, all while we follow an amnesiac movie star and his pornstar girlfriend who wrote a screenplay that predicts the end times. you will probably get confused [and might hate it], but the experience is worth it.
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Post by allison on Mar 24, 2008 7:40:08 GMT
i'm going through a mini- gus van sant phase. which is stupid cause i don't even like his films much. last night coming home there was a band of dirty rowdy kids, who had gotten kicked off the muni at our station. one of them looked like river phoenix and had a massive (MASSIVE!) black eye and much dirtier hair. anyway, these kids were total punks and smoking in the subway station and shit, and we all got on the next muni, and the cause a ruckus (falling all over the place and drinking) and got kicked off again at the next station. anyway i was reminded of My Own Private Idaho, so I watched it again. and of course it was the same film as before, and it was okay. truthfully, i don't get the hype. and keanu should die, there is no actor i hate so much as him.
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Post by Rhiflect on Mar 24, 2008 11:27:32 GMT
and keanu should die, there is no actor i hate so much as him. Yeah but what about Nicholas Cage?
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Post by allison on Mar 24, 2008 17:50:27 GMT
and keanu should die, there is no actor i hate so much as him. Yeah but what about Nicholas Cage? adaptation he is so excellent. perfectly fat and depressed. i hate keanu reeves in every film he's in. he practically ruins them for me.
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Post by Rhiflect on Mar 24, 2008 18:54:20 GMT
Yeah but what about Nicholas Cage? adaptation he is so excellent. perfectly fat and depressed. Replace 'depressed' with 'monotonal' and you hit the nail on the head. Next is the most awful film I have EVER seen. Also Ghost Rider. I watched Bring It On. I love cheerleading films, which is odd. BBR, IT'S COLD IN HERE, THERE MUST BE SOME TOROS IN THE ATMOSPHERE
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Post by choolin firth on Mar 24, 2008 18:59:44 GMT
I went to see The Other Boleyn Girl last night. I don't know whether I enjoyed it because I was with a friend for the first time in days and just the company of human beings made me happy, or whether it was genuinly a good film. I think it was the latter. Although I did come out thinking "Note to self: Never marry powerful man, e.g. a king, with passion for execution. If said mistake occurs, give birth to male child or run away"
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Post by Lawrence on Mar 24, 2008 19:25:14 GMT
I watched ghostbusters again yesterday, I love that film.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2008 0:34:50 GMT
I'm watching The Passion Of The Christ and it's really doing nothing for me. The violence is pornographic, how is this supposed to be affecting me or challenging/affirming any beliefs I may or may not have? 2 and a half hours of someone being slowly, very slowly, mutilated and de-humanised - it's not telling me anything about Jesus as a wonderful man, it's only telling me that He died horribly. I fucking KNOW the death would have been violent, but it's irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, I want something of greater substance. I want to know the story. 75% of it so far has been slow-motion close-ups of beatings or whippings or nails being hammered into body parts. Challenge me O film! Damn you!
It's affecting me no more than garbage like Hostel or Saw. Torture porn is apparently acceptable and highbrow if it's religious or historical.
Fuck you Mel Gibson, you Jew-hating insanity merchant.
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Post by bridgetbegins on Mar 25, 2008 0:42:16 GMT
I saw Dumplings today. It was... interesting.
And then someone posted a secret about it in the LJ Secrets community. Which was a coincidence.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2008 0:52:59 GMT
I quite like Dumplings. Bai Ling is rather good in it, which makes a change.
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Post by bridgetbegins on Mar 25, 2008 0:56:42 GMT
I quite like Dumplings. Bai Ling is rather good in it, which makes a change. It was good, it just wasn't what I was expecting. The story was amazing and Bai Ling did a relatively brilliant job as far as acting goes-- it was just kind of twisted and dramatic (vs. funny-horror? does that make sense) not what I expected, at all. Plus, you get in on the secret kind of early on and then it's more of a psychological thing... it was good. Just (I know I keep saying this) different. Interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2008 1:07:18 GMT
It's interesting that you mention 'psychological', because I've always thought it's a very clever musing on how superficial and external elements that are taken for granted can often take on this kind of inverse manifestation by infecting the mind and becoming something more psychological.
I'm now watching Quills, or rather the end of it. I've seen it a couple of times before; Geoffrey Rush is superb, I think that's the main thing to be said. It's a good film, and very Sadistic in the gleeful pleasure it takes at the ending: SPOILER:
Kate Winslet's character is killed by an asylum inmate; Joaquin Phoenix's character, who had been in love with her, sees her come back to life, and he subsequently has sex with her, only to 'wake up' and realise he's fucking her corpse.
A moment of 'romance' suddenly becomes what is considered a repulsive and depraved act of sexual gratification. EXCELLENT.
Additionally: gosh, Joaquin Phoenix used to be SO handsome.
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Post by oldgregg on Mar 26, 2008 19:14:01 GMT
MARS ATTACKS!
My favourite film when I was about 8 (although looking back it's so inappropriate for someone that age). Even funnier than I remembered and it has Lukas Haas <3
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Post by pigeon song on Mar 26, 2008 21:39:11 GMT
MARS ATTACKS! My favourite film when I was about 8 (although looking back it's so inappropriate for someone that age). Even funnier than I remembered and it has Lukas Haas <3 that film scared me as a child i was more of a starship troopers girl
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Post by allison on Mar 26, 2008 22:06:49 GMT
i showed Gone With The Wind to my uncultured friends. My favorite way to spend 4 hours. Gah i love that film so much so so so much jesusfuck
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Post by Xteenuh on Mar 27, 2008 1:08:34 GMT
MARS ATTACKS! My favourite film when I was about 8 (although looking back it's so inappropriate for someone that age). Even funnier than I remembered and it has Lukas Haas <3 ^^A SERIOUSLY UNDERRATED FILM RIGHT HERE. "Whoa... he just made the international sign of the Donut!" Lucas Haas kinda creeps me out though.
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Post by sugarkane on Mar 27, 2008 10:24:52 GMT
Spongebob Squarepants movie. Oh yeah.
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Post by Caro on Mar 28, 2008 17:23:46 GMT
Juno
I really don't know why everyone around me told me that this movie is soooo good... I was bored. I've laughed more because of the trailers which were shown before the actual movie started. (no MagicPosition-Trailer -.-) anyway... I didn't like it
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Post by Rhiflect on Mar 28, 2008 18:21:34 GMT
Schindler's List.
Well, like 25 mins of it. Of course, because it was History and we are doing the Holocaust, it was the bit where the women get their hair cut and go in the showers. Not nice for last thing on a Friday.
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