Author Topic: Today is: Near future movie day! (Read 9498 times)

TVC15 · « **on:** November 04, 2007, 10:56:57 AM »

Already watched:

Children of Men
2001

Currently watching:
Clockwork Orange (today kind of doubles as a mostly Kubrick day)

Suggestions for what's next? Nobody say 2010, because I want only A+ movies in my marathon!

bud · « **Reply #1 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:00:54 AM »

did you watch com on hd-dvd? what's the transfer like? that movie is amazing. like, there are scenes which appear to be all one-shot scenes, but they actually cut in those. i didn't even knew about this until i read about it. and it's one of those movies that actually made me say ''whoa'' when the credits started rolling. also, there's excellent use of cg in the movie.

oh, and... back to the future

Ichirou · « **Reply #2 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:04:03 AM »

Back to the Future Part II

TVC15 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:17:55 AM »

I might watch COM again. It was that awesome.

Ichirou · « **Reply #4 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:19:33 AM »

Enjoy.

TVC15 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:29:33 AM »

Quote from: Ichirou on November 04, 2007, 11:19:33 AM

Enjoy.

After I watched it, the awesome movie high was so crazy that I almost wanted to say it was my favorite movie ever. I'm not usually one for that sort of ejaculation

, so I walked away pretty impressed. I felt that Cuaron walked a careful balancing line between preachiness and worthwhile relevance, and in the end, he pulled it off marvelously. The movie had tons and tons and tons of gorgeous shots. I'm a sucker for England, and we got to see the country and the city here, and a good bit in between. And it was a rousing adventure! With a wonderful, ambivalent ending. It was the sort of movie you could talk about for hours and hours afterwards. To paraphrase ebert, I loved, loved, loved, loved, loved that movie. Like, I can't think of a single problem I have with it, and I am usually pretty good about bitching points!

The one duder later on looked like Simon Pegg, and I got over excited and thought it was him, lol. The movie drps atmosphere, too. I was so caught up with it. So realistic, realistic characters, dialogue, even the chaos that erupts at the end, a full on gun fight feels totally authentic. Cuaron's set a really fucking high bar for himself!

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #6 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:43:54 AM »

you can't be serious! while i loved the cinematography, the entire middle of the movie was a hokey snooze, and i couldn't take michael caine's dialogue seriously, especially

spoiler (click to show/hide)

when he gets offed

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. were you quaffing robitussin again?

TVC15 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:46:36 AM »

Nope. I adored the movie. I have no idea what you be hatin'!

captainbiotch · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:57:55 AM »

Ideas...

Minority Report
Terminator
Total Recall
Gattaca
Equilibrium
Brazil
THX1138

Did videodrome take place in the future? I can't recall.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #9 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:58:17 AM »

PULL MY FINGER

TVC15 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:00:21 PM »

Videodrome is either present day or near future. But even if it is present day, it's still sci fi, so I guess that counts. I want to check out how it upscales, anyway.

And I don't get the complaints on Michael Caine's acting. I was kinda ehhhh when I heard he was a stoner hippy, but again, he pulls it off. There's not a single bad performance in that movie, including like, tertiary characters.

captainbiotch · « **Reply #11 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:12:43 PM »

They all act well, but they are all so goddamn depressing. Its like a chickflick with an awesome gunfight :'(

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #12 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:16:17 PM »

I found the film uplifting!

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #13 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:18:10 PM »

yeah, i did too. the point of the movie is to show how even one broken man can redeem himself, and i felt pretty good after watching it. and the english countryside is beautiful when misty and rain-drenched.

Mandark · « **Reply #14 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:28:08 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on November 04, 2007, 12:18:10 PM

and the english countryside is beautiful when misty and rain-drenched.

So, on weekdays.

Mupepe · « **Reply #15 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:38:48 PM »

the shining for kubrick day. plus, that could happen to any of us

TVC15 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:42:54 PM »

fyi, I don't think I had seen 2001 in its entirety before. I'm not sure if I caught it on TNT and quit partway through or what, but I distinctly REMEMBER watching it, but I at least don't remember it. I blame the drugs. It felt all new this time, at least. Mayber it was HD MAGIC!

TVC15 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:54:09 PM »

Jesus Fuck, WARNER BROTHERS produced A Clockwork Orange. Would Warner Brothers come within a zillion miles of a movie like this today?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #18 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:56:12 PM »

Yes - the PG-13 remake!

COME SEE McG'S BRILLIANT RE-IMAGINING FOR AN ALL NEW AUDIENCE! STARRING SHIA LeBOUF!

TVC15 · « **Reply #19 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:57:54 PM »

Quote from: Willco on November 04, 2007, 12:56:12 PM

Yes - the PG-13 remake!

COME SEE McG'S BRILLIANT RE-IMAGINING FOR AN ALL NEW AUDIENCE! STARRING SHIA LeBOUF!

AND KIRSTEN DUNST, fresh off the set of PUMPKINHEAD THE REMAKE where she shocked the makeup people by only needing to have her head paled a bit.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #20 on:** November 04, 2007, 12:59:06 PM »

The Spider-Man franchise is OVER, your barbs no longer carry any weight!

TVC15 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:01:03 PM »

Oh no, Willco, I may like the ocassional crappy movie, but you, you will always be the man that once masturbated to a character that Kirsten Dunst portrayed! A pox upon your cox!

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #22 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:02:16 PM »

I never once wanked it to her!

Solo · « **Reply #23 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:03:28 PM »

Wow. I thought for sure Whitey would join the drinky/MAF CoM hate brigade. Cheers for choosing the right side. Easily the best movie of 2006 for me.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #24 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:04:30 PM »

They are capable of independent though, y'know!

TVC15 · « **Reply #25 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:05:03 PM »

Quote from: Solo on November 04, 2007, 01:03:28 PM

Wow. I thought for sure Whitey would join the drinky/MAF CoM hate brigade. Cheers for choosing the right side. Easily the best movie of 2006 for me.

Prole has me second guessing myself, so I may have to rewatch it, but I am pretty confident that the movie is overall awesome. A+++++ WOULD CUARON AGAIN

EDIT: Wait, what won best picture when this should have?

Solo · « **Reply #26 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:05:58 PM »

You are a good man. Now go touch yourself to Alex DeLarge and his band of droogs.

TVC15 · « **Reply #27 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:08:16 PM »

I *know* I have seen A Clockwork Orange before. I was like 14 and I was seeing it because it was a teeheehee naughty movie, so this is basically watching it with new eyes.

Mupepe · « **Reply #28 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:14:09 PM »

tvc, all of the kubrick movies are like for me

i got 2001, a clockwork orange and the shining. all 3 were like completely new movies in HD. it was like watching it for the first time again.

i'm telling you though, clockwork looks like shit compared to the shining.

TVC15 · « **Reply #29 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:22:09 PM »

Argh, I might ditch my theme and go for that.

EDIT: Holy motherfucking shit, this movie is so fucking intense. The contrast between the narration and the action on screen and the music is a total headfuck. I forgot how effective Kubrick was at pulling everything, and I mean everything, together. There was nobody else like him!

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #30 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:27:40 PM »

Drinky's appraisal of COM is spot on. Like most poorly done artsy-fartsy films, COM thinks it's much smarter than it really is. Its story is plodding rather than thought provoking. The preaching falls flat on its face because neither the delivery nor the content is fresh. This movie bored me so badly that I wished it had gotten the Wilco treatment with Michael Bay as director and The Rock as an ass-kicking baby protector. It would kinda be like an updated version of Van Damme's Cyborg.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #31 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:42:30 PM »

Hrm, i think ill watch Johnny Mnemonic today. Its awesome. Good theme idea.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #32 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:45:21 PM »

hey, i don't think com is trash -- far, far from it. i just think it is more of an experience than a total cinematic package. i enjoyed watching it, but i also had a fair few complaints with it. it's an excellent movie and still one of the best of 2006.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #33 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:46:12 PM »

Quote from: Weighted Companion Cube on November 04, 2007, 01:42:30 PM

Hrm, i think ill watch Johnny Mnemonic today. Its awesome. Good theme idea.

HENRY ROLLINS vs EVIL JESUS

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #34 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:48:29 PM »

in honor of this event, i shall watch the much-maligned "strange days," a movie i loved as much as everyone else hated it

TVC15 · « **Reply #35 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:49:35 PM »

Holy shit, if I would have watched this movie just two years ago, I would have missed so much. The movie (and I guess the book, by extenson) makes extensive use of Brecht's alienation effect, via use of slang, in order to make you feel disconnected to the characters, all while presenting a somewhat relatable world. So you have these characters that feel out of place and unrelatable in a world that feels just about comparatively normal.

captainbiotch · « **Reply #36 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:50:43 PM »

How good is the ACO transfer? BD or HD?

TVC15 · « **Reply #37 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:51:38 PM »

BD, and it's great looking.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #38 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:52:32 PM »

the book is thick with burgess' patois -- it is there, like you said, to point out to you that you are NOT part of the alex' subculture, and that you are a rational observer peering in at him through a microscope.

bud · « **Reply #39 on:** November 04, 2007, 01:53:20 PM »

Quote from: Smooth Groove on November 04, 2007, 01:27:40 PM

Drinky's appraisal of COM is spot on. Like most poorly done artsy-fartsy films, COM thinks it's much smarter than it really is. Its story is plodding rather than thought provoking. The preaching falls flat on its face because neither the delivery nor the content is fresh. This movie bored me so badly that I wished it had gotten the Wilco treatment with Michael Bay as director and The Rock as an ass-kicking baby protector. It would kinda be like an updated version of Van Damme's Cyborg.

your taste in movies might just be worse than pd's.

TVC15 · « **Reply #40 on:** November 04, 2007, 02:01:47 PM »

Jesus Christ, what actor would be able to take the part of Alex and LIVE with himself afterwards? Why, Malcolm McDowell, the very same man to go on to star in Evilbore's favorite mastertastrophe. . ..the 90s remake of Fantasy Island!

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #41 on:** November 04, 2007, 02:06:43 PM »

Quote from: bud on November 04, 2007, 01:53:20 PM

Quote from: Smooth Groove on November 04, 2007, 01:27:40 PM
Drinky's appraisal of COM is spot on. Like most poorly done artsy-fartsy films, COM thinks it's much smarter than it really is. Its story is plodding rather than thought provoking. The preaching falls flat on its face because neither the delivery nor the content is fresh. This movie bored me so badly that I wished it had gotten the Wilco treatment with Michael Bay as director and The Rock as an ass-kicking baby protector. It would kinda be like an updated version of Van Damme's Cyborg.

your taste in movies might just be worse than pd's.

It's a close call.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #42 on:** November 04, 2007, 02:08:51 PM »

truly willco's greatest photoshop

TVC15 · « **Reply #43 on:** November 04, 2007, 02:09:54 PM »

That poster needs to be updated. . .Ian McKellan has the market cornered on gay wizard roles.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #44 on:** November 04, 2007, 03:45:35 PM »

Children of Men: 9.5

drinky's just mad owen wasn't nude in the film

Gay Boy · « **Reply #45 on:** November 04, 2007, 04:35:56 PM »

COM...meh. Cuaron has done better work with y tu mama tambien and potter.

Himu · « **Reply #46 on:** November 04, 2007, 04:38:56 PM »

tvc you hadn't seen clockwork before? you acting like you never saw it buddy

warcock · « **Reply #47 on:** November 04, 2007, 04:48:09 PM »

What is this about lust,caution and tony leung. Then i hear the words ang lee uttered and shiver. I need a healthy serving of chinese bad assery

. Both my muses have lost their testosterone producing glands in search of fame and glory. Elaborate on this Lust,caution evilborgots. Hookers are socially insignificant.

Himu · « **Reply #48 on:** November 04, 2007, 04:49:27 PM »

Chow Young Fat

Jackie Chan

Jet Li

they all kind of suck now

warcock · « **Reply #49 on:** November 04, 2007, 04:54:00 PM »

Chow yun fat et. John Woo, never again should their names be tainted by distinguished mentally-challenged love stories, chinese middle age flying circuses or hollywood flubs.

"
Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution" is first languid, then passionate, as it tells the story of a young woman who joins a political murder plot and then becomes emotionally involved with her enemy. It begins at a 1942 Mah-Jongg game in Hong Kong, when erotic undertones become clearly audible to us, and then flashes back to Shanghai, 1938, during the Japanese occupation of China. One of the rich ladies at the game table is revealed to have been a college student, and not really the wife of a wealthy (but unseen) tycoon."

Why. I sincerly do not know why i still keep track of threads here they always end in dissapointment.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #50 on:** November 04, 2007, 05:15:12 PM »

YES TVC WOOO

I still haven't met anyone else in real-life that loved CoM. $:-\$

It should have at least won Best Cinematography over Pan's, which is why I was elated when it lost Best Foreign Language Film.

TVC15 · « **Reply #51 on:** November 04, 2007, 05:49:09 PM »

lrn 2 reed Himu, I have seen Clockwork before.

TVC15 · « **Reply #52 on:** November 04, 2007, 06:51:44 PM »

zomg, in this interview/retrospective on malcolm mcdowell, he is telling Caligula anecdotes!

This is fucking awesome! Even the special features are in HD!!!

HD!!! HD!!!! HD!!!!!! AWESOME SPECIAL FEATURES!!!! CUMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Himu · « **Reply #53 on:** November 04, 2007, 07:04:20 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on November 04, 2007, 05:49:09 PM

lrn 2 reed Himu, I have seen Clockwork before.

it's just you were acting like you hadn't seen it before sorry you don't have to be so mean :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #54 on:** November 04, 2007, 07:08:07 PM »

after seeing The Shining in HD last night, I have been acting like I'd never seen it before (it was the sixth or seventh time I've seen it)

wow just wow, HD makes movies worth watching again

TVC15 · « **Reply #55 on:** November 04, 2007, 07:14:43 PM »

I am unwrapping the Shining! This has turned into a full on Kubrick marathon.

That awesome ***HD*** interview/retrospective with Malcolm (with clips! CLIPS!) almost had me pulling out Time After Time, and a certain other McDowell movie and turning this into a McDowell marathon!

HD! HD! HD!

TVC15 · « **Reply #56 on:** November 04, 2007, 11:47:58 PM »

I give up! I just finished the shining and I am movied out. . .

Children of Men
2001
A Clockwork Orange
1.25 hour long documentary/interview with Malcolm McDowell
The Shining

Full Metal Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut will have to wait.

What could next weekend's (attempted) theme be?

Ichirou · « **Reply #57 on:** November 05, 2007, 12:34:42 AM »

Recommendations:

Malcolm McDowell night. If..., O Lucky Man!, Tank Girl, Star Trek Generations, Clockwork Orange, and Caligula.

Foreign crime caper night. Grand Slam, Non Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, Rififi, and Le Samourai.

TVC15 · « **Reply #58 on:** November 05, 2007, 12:36:48 AM »

Time After Time will be included in any potential Malcolm McDowell night. Probably at the expense of either Tank Girl or Star Trek Generations. Or both, maybe.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #59 on:** November 05, 2007, 12:38:43 AM »

immoral wars night! full metal jacket, platoon, hamburger hill, mash, thin red line, and apocalypse now!

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