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Robo · « **Reply #13380 on:** March 29, 2012, 11:34:29 AM »

I've tried to watch Linklater's Slacker four or five times over the years and always doze off somewhere in the middle after the novelty of 90s hipster "fashion" wears off—which really isn't very far removed from modern hipster "fashion", but it strikes me as more authentically lazy and dirty. My main takeaway is invariably wondering if I ever sound like such an idiot when I talk to people. I really hope not.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #13381 on:** March 30, 2012, 01:39:18 AM »

The Raid fucking owned, holy mother of god

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #13382 on:** March 30, 2012, 02:44:24 AM »

opens tomorrow in my town, I am so fecking pumped for it.

likely to be the action film of the year, y'all go see it, yeah.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #13383 on:** March 30, 2012, 03:43:20 PM »

Quote from: The Business on March 30, 2012, 03:12:45 PM

Some interesting things about the film were the lack of a typical female lead (smoking hot, wafer thin) and the of comparisons the younger generation to mine. I graduated in '03 and went back to my high school in '07 to do some Air Force recruiting and was amazed at how different it was. I can only imagine what it's like now. Are kids really that tolerant? Is the one shoulder strap wear of a backpack forever relegated to old people?

I graduated in 1999. I've been wokring at my house school since 2009. It's pretty surreal at times. The building looks the same, but the kids are totally different.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #13384 on:** March 31, 2012, 02:39:48 PM »

Saw Jiro Dreams of Sushi last night. If it comes to a theater near you and you like food at all, it's definitely worth seeing.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13385 on:** March 31, 2012, 06:31:02 PM »

Wrath of the Titans, Day 1 = $12 million
Clash of the Titans, Day = $28 million

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13386 on:** March 31, 2012, 06:53:57 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 31, 2012, 06:31:02 PM

Wrath of the Titans, Day 1 = $12 million
Clash of the Titans, Day = $28 million

I guess people were too busy getting HBO for Game Of Fuckin Thrones

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #13387 on:** April 01, 2012, 09:51:54 PM »

just got back from The Raid, my gawd, even if I put Taken on a 24 hour marathon I still wouldn't see that many throat and knee punches.

its an intensely violent that keeps trying and mostly succeeds in topping itself with each successive set piece. Its still fresh in my head, so I can't really be objective about it, but for now, my biggest complaint about it would be that it ended.

go see this movie.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #13388 on:** April 02, 2012, 12:48:55 AM »

Quote from: Billy Rygar on March 31, 2012, 02:46:57 PM

God I want to see that.

It's soooo good. Only at one theater at Seattle until Thursday. Hopefully it gets a home video release for all the dirty theatre-less plebes.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #13389 on:** April 02, 2012, 09:25:19 AM »

http://movies.ign.com/articles/122/1222098p1.html

Total Recal remake trailer.

No.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #13390 on:** April 02, 2012, 09:48:03 AM »

It doesn't look terrible, but there's no way it'll be as awesome as the original.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #13391 on:** April 02, 2012, 09:56:00 AM »

they shouldve just remade scanner darkly into a real movie instead (I love the one we have tho) or even Scanners.

Or make Ubik...or anything else but this.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #13392 on:** April 02, 2012, 09:56:21 AM »

also lol@ the propsect of the bottom level being all nice suburbia with cars. what a joke

Eric P · « **Reply #13393 on:** April 02, 2012, 11:14:45 AM »

The Brood. Low key horror but I think it was a little ruined by Howard Shore's really overwrought score. Unsure what to think or feel during a scene? don't worry, a hyper busy cue will be along to tell you. Great final scenes though.

Carnage fucking. hilarious.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #13394 on:** April 02, 2012, 11:25:24 AM »

Miracle Mile

Pretty good obscure Twilight Zoney 80s Sci Fi flick. Actually, it was the script that was originally slated to be the Twilight Zone movie. The last act when everything goes off the rails is particularly good. Worth checking out if you like the sound of imminent-apocalypse lunacy.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13395 on:** April 02, 2012, 12:08:32 PM »

I'm quite sure I'll end up watching this at some point, if for no other reason than to gawp at the expensive cityscapes.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13396 on:** April 02, 2012, 12:35:34 PM »

Attack the Block
Lots of fun. I was kinda expecting something like Shaun of the Dead with aliens but it was different and I liked it a lot. Just enjoyable.

The Conspirator
Even in the Post Civil War 19th Century Justin Long was a dbag. Very good movie though. I tend to find these types of films pretty bloated but it was fairly straight to the point. The love story in it was thin but there wasn't much time devoted to it so I was thankful for that.

bud · « **Reply #13397 on:** April 02, 2012, 03:46:30 PM »

http://www.criterion.com/films/28373-kindergarten-cop

april fools, but still. how awesome is that cover?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #13398 on:** April 02, 2012, 03:52:46 PM »

Quote

SYNOPSIS: Historically, the policier and the family comedy were two distinct categories. Then, in 1990, Kindergarten Cop gave us all a lesson in genre revisionism. With muscular sensitivity, Hollywood’s last action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger embodies detective John Kimble, who is compelled to go undercover as a teacher of five-year-olds in order to catch a ponytailed drug dealer. Though it’s distinguished by pulse-pounding suspense, a Crayola-bright palette by cinematographer Michael Chapman (Taxi Driver), and trenchant observations about education in the Bush I era, the film’s emotional center is Schwarzenegger’s gruff yet good-tempered interaction with a class full of precocious scamps, including a tumor-forewarning death-obsessive and a genitalia expert. By leavening a children’s film with enough violence to please even the most cold-hearted bastard, director Ivan Reitman shows that he refuses to color inside the lines.

CONTINUITY-ASSISTANT-APPROVED THREE-DISC SPECIAL EDITION:

New high-definition digital restoration of the 1990 director’s cut, presented in 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition
New audio commentary featuring Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, author of It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Can Teach Us
Excerpts from the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps: “Ivan Reitman”
Kindergarten Cops Today, a new hour-long documentary featuring former New York City police detectives Frank Serpico and Robert Leuci, former San Francisco police inspector Dave Toschi, and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
From “Fingers” to Finger-Painting, an interview with cinematographer Michael Chapman
Archival video of Schwarzenegger’s acceptance speeches for the Favorite Movie Actor award at the 1989 and 1991 Kids’ Choice Awards
The Kids Aren’t All Right, an analysis of all the cuts made to ensure a PG-13 rating
More than six hundred minutes of rare behind-the-scenes and archival footage
Seven theatrical trailers
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by former police reporter and creator of The Wire David Simon and a reprint of James Agee’s original review of the film

I wish this was real.

bud · « **Reply #13399 on:** April 02, 2012, 03:56:41 PM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13400 on:** April 02, 2012, 10:46:42 PM »

Quote from: Variety

Not since Scream has a horror movie subverted the expectations that accompany the genre to such wicked effect as The Cabin in the Woods.

Comes out in two weeks.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #13401 on:** April 02, 2012, 11:30:19 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 02, 2012, 10:46:42 PM

Quote from: Variety
Not since Scream has a horror movie subverted the expectations that accompany the genre to such wicked effect as The Cabin in the Woods.

Comes out in two weeks.

The first trailer gives everything away sadly. It would have been cool if it kept the creepy oldschool slasher flick trailer. Then the shit that happens in the movie would at least surprise people a little.

Can't wait to see it still.

Robo · « **Reply #13402 on:** April 03, 2012, 02:45:50 PM »

Eric P · « **Reply #13403 on:** April 04, 2012, 08:19:55 PM »

I am sick at home today so I have been working from home and watching movies all day

Battle Royale 2. Awesome movie if you don't watch it was a Battle Royale sequel but rather as a Battle Royale parody / Youth Gone Wild style movie like Wild In The Streets. The problem is that most people just try to treat it as all surface ignoring that for a film made in 2003, having the US be the enemy and the kids as Al Queda being the heroes is a really strong choice. The movie just flat out rules even as it's mercilessly aping any war film post Saving Private Ryan.

Crank 1. Thanks to How Did This Get Made's Crank episodes I wanted to see this again. Fucking. Rules.

A Bell From Hell- A Spanish horror version of The Count of Monte Cristo. Fucking rules.

Slap Shot. Haven't seen this in forever. Foul mouthed low rent skanky sports film. Post-season put me in the mood. Fucking rules.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #13404 on:** April 04, 2012, 10:38:03 PM »

Slap Shot 2> Slap Shot

anyhow I rewatched Fat Pizza because it's so good. An Australian comedy classic.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13405 on:** April 05, 2012, 10:24:54 AM »

Thanks to EricP I bought Crank 2 last weekend. Gonna watch it Saturday

Saw Titanic 3D last night. The 3D was worthless but wasn't offensive. Definitely the best conversion I've seen so it cements the fact that 3D conversions are worthless at best. But nowhere was showingi t in 2D. Seeing the sinking on a huge screen again was fucking amazing.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13406 on:** April 05, 2012, 03:27:54 PM »

Seeing the sinking on the big screen was amazing

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13407 on:** April 05, 2012, 07:37:43 PM »

Have never seen Titanic, so I win

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13408 on:** April 05, 2012, 08:05:39 PM »

I was on a swim team, I know how to swim!

btw has anyone watched the new Julian Fellows Titanic show?

Timber · « **Reply #13409 on:** April 05, 2012, 09:20:20 PM »

Quote from: Robo on April 03, 2012, 02:45:50 PM

Looks like Woody switched to autopilot again.

chronovore · « **Reply #13410 on:** April 06, 2012, 08:20:35 AM »

Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on April 02, 2012, 09:25:19 AM

http://movies.ign.com/articles/122/1222098p1.html

Total Recal remake trailer.

No.

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on April 02, 2012, 09:48:03 AM

It doesn't look terrible, but there's no way it'll be as awesome as the original.

Pretty much that.

I can see the executive meeting:
"I know, let's have the SAME shots, but with different SET DRESSING!"
"...GENIUS!"
"I know, right?!"

Robo · « **Reply #13411 on:** April 06, 2012, 10:39:12 AM »

Quote from: Timber on April 05, 2012, 09:20:20 PM

Quote from: Robo on April 03, 2012, 02:45:50 PM
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Looks like Woody switched to autopilot again.

I'm willing to give him the benefit of doubt and assume that the trailer just kinda sucks. It's nice to see Woody appearing in a film again, in any case. I can only hope his role will make up for casting Alec Baldwin.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13412 on:** April 06, 2012, 11:04:09 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on April 05, 2012, 08:05:39 PM

I was on a swim team, I know how to swim!

btw has anyone watched the new Julian Fellows Titanic show?

ABC is playing it Saturday. I'm gonna watch it. I have a huge hard on for all things Titanic (always have) so I'll post my thoughts on it afterwards.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #13413 on:** April 06, 2012, 05:39:05 PM »

Awesome mupepe. I watched Tintin tonight, and it was just average.

I want to watch A Serbian film and Enter the void as a bogof, but am currently growing my own. So it's not happening until I either find a dealer, or my crop enter end times.

chronovore · « **Reply #13414 on:** April 08, 2012, 04:40:08 AM »

Finally saw Insidious. I really liked it. Some well done shots, very creepy, reasonably slow burn movie.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #13415 on:** April 08, 2012, 06:55:33 PM »

Mission Impossible 4

awesome awesome. awesome.

Ghost Rider 2
not as good as I wanted. had moments of greatness but the rating and the script was just terribad. Nick Cage is still an awesome Johnny Blaze.

rodi · « **Reply #13416 on:** April 09, 2012, 02:53:28 AM »

I recently saw Vanilla Sky. Thought it was that other movie where Tom Cruise is trolling a cab driver for like the first forty-five minutes. What a brain fuck.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13417 on:** April 09, 2012, 10:35:53 AM »

Quote from: rodi on April 09, 2012, 02:53:28 AM

I recently saw Vanilla Sky. Thought it was that other movie where Tom Cruise is trolling a cab driver for like the first forty-five minutes. What a brain fuck.

Vanilla Sky is awesome. It's a pretty good shot for shot remake of a movie called Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos). Both versions even have Penelope Cruz! Both are really good though. Love them.

Robo · « **Reply #13418 on:** April 09, 2012, 02:22:43 PM »

looks kewl

chronovore · « **Reply #13419 on:** April 10, 2012, 03:17:10 AM »

Quote from: rodi on April 09, 2012, 02:53:28 AM

I recently saw Vanilla Sky. Thought it was that other movie where Tom Cruise is trolling a cab driver for like the first forty-five minutes. What a brain fuck.

That's Collateral, a fantastic portrait of downtown Los Angeles by Michael Mann. The story's OK, the cinematography is sexay.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #13420 on:** April 10, 2012, 03:25:48 AM »

going to see The Raid tonight. I'm pumped

Eric P · « **Reply #13421 on:** April 10, 2012, 06:35:16 AM »

Lincoln Center Walter Reade showed Jackie Chan's Police Story last night. It was a Hong Kong cut I'd never seen before so there were additional scenes that weren't even in the well known "extended cut" from Japan (though missing many of those scenes).

The Sceneman · « **Reply #13422 on:** April 10, 2012, 10:32:27 AM »

The Raid - okay, when you guys saw this film was it totally out of focus? Or was it the projection in my cinema?

The action in this flick was INCREDIBLE but was very blurry. Also the semblance of storyline detracted from so much of the ass kicking. Film should have just been 95% action.

But hey, best fight scenes I've seen in years

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #13423 on:** April 10, 2012, 03:35:33 PM »

wasn't blurry for me

new zealand

Robo · « **Reply #13424 on:** April 10, 2012, 03:51:34 PM »

If nothing else, I thought it was pretty (unintentionally?) hilarious.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #13425 on:** April 10, 2012, 04:32:07 PM »

Vanilla Sky was shite.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13426 on:** April 11, 2012, 01:39:28 AM »

chronovore · « **Reply #13427 on:** April 11, 2012, 02:00:15 AM »

Quote from: Billy Rygar on April 10, 2012, 03:36:47 PM

Did I just hear someone praise Vanilla Sky

Quote from: Robo on April 10, 2012, 03:51:34 PM

If nothing else, I thought it was pretty (unintentionally?) hilarious.

Quote from: Billy Rygar on April 10, 2012, 03:53:10 PM

True dat. Plus Penelope Cruz. Otherwise...........fuck that movie.

Even Penelope Cruz was uninspiring in that movie. The whole thing was pretty meh.

Eric P · « **Reply #13428 on:** April 11, 2012, 09:26:29 AM »

London Boulevard. Taken from a Ken Bruen book so it has lots of literary references which seem to get somewhat lost in the shuffle. I really liked it though. It wasn't what the trailer made it out to be. Well, it was in content but not really in tone or structure. Great acting from Colin Ferrel. I read that this is comparable to In Bruges. That is incorrect other than it is a crime film starring Colin Ferrel. It's more in line with a 70s character piece but it about 15 minutes too short. Amazing soundtrack as well.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #13429 on:** April 11, 2012, 03:58:23 PM »

Guys. I watched Spielbrergs Tintin. It was shit.

My conclusion:Too many Cook spoil the broth.

Eric P · « **Reply #13430 on:** April 11, 2012, 04:01:56 PM »

you should instead be spending your time with the spate of new Jean Rollin Blu Ray releases.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #13431 on:** April 11, 2012, 04:09:55 PM »

Yep, if I was unemployed, a student or a housewife.
I have enough of a pile without adding shit I'd never want to watch.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #13432 on:** April 11, 2012, 04:10:20 PM »

A pile of media.

Eric P · « **Reply #13433 on:** April 11, 2012, 09:58:01 PM »

Museum of Art and Design is showing an Argento series all this year. First up this week is the Animal Trilogy. They screened a 40 year old print of The Bird with Crystal Plumage. It was an American cut (on screen title "The Master of Terror") but it wasn't heavily censored from what I could. The print was in unfortunate shape (40 years old after all) yet it was a great experience to see it on the big screen. Friday is Cat O' Nine Tails and Saturday is the screening of Four Flies on Grey Velvet; an Argento film I haven't actually seen before, so I am excited.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13434 on:** April 12, 2012, 10:27:29 AM »

That sounds awesome

Eric P · « **Reply #13435 on:** April 12, 2012, 10:35:39 AM »

I don't know if this museum has always been like this or is just now getting weird but this summer they're showing Nekromantik, the touching German story of a three way love triangle between a man, a woman and a corpse.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13436 on:** April 12, 2012, 10:57:28 AM »

wtf? That does sound like an awesome museum

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #13437 on:** April 12, 2012, 03:53:49 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on April 10, 2012, 03:17:10 AM

Quote from: rodi on April 09, 2012, 02:53:28 AM
I recently saw Vanilla Sky. Thought it was that other movie where Tom Cruise is trolling a cab driver for like the first forty-five minutes. What a brain fuck.

That's Collateral, a fantastic portrait of downtown Los Angeles by Michael Mann. The story's OK, the cinematography is sexay.

Question is, when will Mann make another good movie?

Miami Vice was poo.

Quote from: Eric P on April 11, 2012, 09:26:29 AM

London Boulevard. Taken from a Ken Bruen book so it has lots of literary references which seem to get somewhat lost in the shuffle. I really liked it though. It wasn't what the trailer made it out to be. Well, it was in content but not really in tone or structure. Great acting from Colin Ferrel. I read that this is comparable to In Bruges. That is incorrect other than it is a crime film starring Colin Ferrel. It's more in line with a 70s character piece but it about 15 minutes too short. Amazing soundtrack as well.

I thought it was kind of a romantic movie. I liked it too though, but it's def no In Bruges.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #13438 on:** April 12, 2012, 06:37:36 PM »

I saw an advanced screening of Cabin in the Woods.

Not what I was expecting. Especially the third act.

Robo · « **Reply #13439 on:** April 12, 2012, 06:39:16 PM »

How was it aside from that? (Without saying too much, of course.)

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