I know it’s corny, but The Matrix over Episode One for effects is total bs. Phantom Menace is awful and Jar Jar Binks is criminal, but there was nothing in the Matrix that pushed the effects category forward like the digital performance of an entirely digital character that held a good hour of screen time.
Also, Aimee Mann loses to Phil Collins for Best Song.
And finally, Magnolia does not take home Best Original Screenplay.
Hands down Eyes Wide Shut. It is his strongest piece. I adore Stanley’s work. Eyes Wide Shut showed the wisdom of self-restraint not present in his work since Dr. Strangelove.
My favorite funniest movie is Young Frankenstein. It seems everyone involved in making the picture what it became is at the top of their game. Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Madeline Khan, Marty Feldman. The script and its accompanying performances are hysterical, ridiculous, intelligent, theatrical, touching, I could go on. This movie is pure genius, a masterpiece from the score to the editing, the art direction, all of it fried gold.
I really like the opener in ‘Touch Of Evil’. I was gasping for air when they finally cut away.
Of course ‘Citizen Kane’.
‘Children Of Men’ (exhilarating), naturally.
‘Evil Dead 2’ (camera chases Ash through crawlspace) and ‘Raising Arizona’ (camera leaps over a car, a fountain, up a ladder through a window and into extreme close-up on Mrs. Arizona) are two of my favorites as well.
‘There Will Be Blood’ (Daniel chases H.W. into the night after having set fire to their home) features some of the best modern photography.
The camerawork in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ is exceptionally brilliant, particularly the ‘Asteroid Chase’ sequence. Dynamic. Operatic and sweeping.
The camera dollys with Pam towards the house as if it were some great maw swallowing her whole in ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’. Gothic horror.
Into camera, Kirk Douglas marches through the trenches with a reverse dolly. No Steadicam. Beautiful.
Camera follows Danny on his Big Wheel through the halls of the Overlook Hotel. Gliding along liquid smooth.
The swooning camera in the prologue of ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’. Lyrical and vertiginous.
C’mon, guys. Let’s play hard ball, rein it in. It says ‘favorite’. Singular. Put on the thumbscrews. Brass tacks and all that. Nail ‘er down! One favorite. It’ll be fun! GO!
I often think about the Glover/Witt segment, though I haven’t seen it in years, and recall fondly it’s beautiful photography and it’s terrifying script. Chilling. As in “to tha biggity-bone”. Right, guys?! Reminds me of Virginia Woolf. Hump the hostess, anyone?
I hear what you’re saying, Almodovar. Your description of Fat Girl sounds like the definition of pornography, which Fat Girl is not. Its is unapologetically frank. Yes, graphic. Yes, offensive, but is that not part of its virtue? Graphic and offensive, both in its frank depiction of despicable acts. Honest in its approach. Ms. Breillat is to be commended for, if nothing else, her fortitude in sinking her life’s energy into a deeply disturbing picture which illustrates with unflinching candor the horrors of not only a morbid sense of inadequacy and so diabolically narcissistic, but of a diseased patriarchal culture. So yeah, it’s gonna hurt. Moreover, it is my humble opinion, Breillat is by no means asking anyone to ‘like it’, but appreciate it at least. I recommend it to the few listeners out there at every opportunity.
Emptyhand, surely you meant John, not William, Hurt.
This is a very exciting thread. I realize some of these may be considered inappropriate, have already been mentioned on this thread or have already seen a Criterion release on laser or otherwise, that said…
A Clockwork Orange
In The Realm Of The Senses
Dead Man
Akira
The Piano Teacher
All The Real Girls
The Dark Knight
There Will Be Blood
Devo: The Men Who Make The Music
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
The Blair Witch Project
Fargo
Goodfellas
In The Bedroom
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Alien
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
Pusher
Breaking Away
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Blue Velvet
The Elephant Man
Touch Of Evil
Buffalo ‘66
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Badlands
Weekend
Grindhouse
Ex-Drummer
The Dark Crystal
Bad Taste
Chinatown
Metropolis (especially with the recent recovery of missing footage!)
King Kong
Young Frankenstein
Shower
Margot At The Wedding
El Topo
Popeye (yes, Popeye!)
Oh no, no, please don’t misunderstand me, Allison. I have not said or implied that you are wrong. Please excuse me if that is what came across. So the answer to your question is, no, you are not wrong. We’re all friends in film, here. It’s a forum so I chipped in my two cents, but I by no means think you are wrong. Furthermore, I did not suggest or ask that you or anyone else ‘enjoy’ it. I’ve made it clear that there is nothing enjoyable about the actual act or the depiction thereof.
Yes, Miranda, I’m of the opinion that gender is most certainly intended or at least anticipated by the director, to play the primary role. That said, I’d like to include here that I have not discussed how I feel about this film, but rather what I think. Just throwing that out there. But, I’ll offer this much, Fat Girl made me feel like shit. It gave me that sunken stomach feeling, like the first time I watched Blue Velvet or Clockwork. I had to ask myself, ‘Why would anyone want to make this film?’, ‘How is this not dismissed as perverse and gratuitous?’, ‘How does this compare to my own experience?’. I was profoundly challenged by this film. This is why I’m so interested in Breillat’s work, why I put her on my list of favorite auteurs. I’d like to add that if a male had directed this film, I almost certainly would have regarded it as pandering and perverse or at least suspicious. Miranda, thank you for intiating this topic. I really don’t have anyone else with whom I can seriously discuss this film or this director, as no one I know personally will touch her work.
I also, think that ‘to teach’ is not on the directors agenda, but to illustrate, to show.
Bazhlekova, what other films depict female sexual awakening as really distubing and tragic, I’m interested, as none are coming to mind.
Awesome, Dr. Strangelove is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s so absurdly hilarious. "Tell you what. You start your countdown and ol’ Bucky’ll be back before you can say, BLAST OFF!
Some one here I forget who thought ‘Some Like It Hot’ wasn’t as funny as all that. I totally get that, but please revisit that one a few times more. It’ll grow on you in the best way.
Who out there is down with National Lampoon’s Vacation like real hard?
‘ALIEN’
The title alone is scary and perfectly invokes the terror and suspense the film captures. Simple and foreboding. It reaches out to touch a basic and common fear. The fear of the unknown. It seamlessly functions with maximum effect in the way a good title should by acting as the final piece in making the thing coalesce. The film totally lives up to the strength of its title, while the title itself lends the film credibility. Imagine if the film was called ‘Space Beast’ (working title). Ouch.
Friends in film, this thread I find shameful. What we have here is a case of people shitting in their own sandboxes. There are other sites out there where a thread called ‘Planet Of The Apes or Star Wars?’ is completely appropriate. Not here, I’m afraid. For shame. That’s not to say we should pontificate ad nauseum Godard’s contribution like a bunch of sqwaking peacock, preening and posing and nothing more. I love Star Wars. I love Planet and they were manufactured to be easily digested. No challenge there. Nathan, your opening statement is inflammatory at best. You seem to be ill-informed and frankly just bored. Your ‘opinion’ in your initial post has garnered four ‘thumbs down’ for a reason I hope does not totally elude you. Honestly, I am so irritated by this post and most of the comments on this so-called thread, I have been compelled to challenge you on this. Excuse my presumptuous approach here, please, but I know you are capable of more than this totally unimaginative, irresponsible and frankly immature topic. Now here’s the why: Your comments in their entirety read as regurgitated contrarian bull-corn. Now, Nathan I am not saying that you or anyone else are any of the things I’ve mentioned here as individuals, so please keep that in mind. What I am saying is that your supposed argument that Lucas’ films are sterile, the characters are like cardboard cut-outs, and that they have nothing to do with real-life is totally bogus. You have behaved like a phony and a fraud in attempting to start this as a discussion with the aforementioned points. Planet Of The Apes is cut from the very same piece of fabric as Star Wars. Heston is not playing a character in Apes, he plays an archetype. There is no character there. He is Adam. he has tasted the fruit from the Tree Of Knowledge and is cast out of the Garden Of Eden. Though Eden is often depicted as something good, there is nothing ‘good’ or even beneficial, as you say you have no interest in ‘good v. evil’, about a utopia. That is the world Dr. Zaius was trying to protect, an Eden, a place of blissful ignorance. The social commentary in Apes is a punchline to an elaborate and well-told joke. Star Wars handles social commentary like fortune cookie wisdom. So what, they are both KIDS MOVIES!! As far as Lucas’ films being sterile, they are intricately designed in pre-production, the performance style is meant to ape the wooden performances of on-the-cheap serials and once again, there are no characters, only archetypes. Both films are all about real-life. That’s the whole damn point and the charm of genre storytelling and mythology. There is no sense of reality what-so-ever in Apes, which according to how your post is written, is a trait that Apes has over the total fantasy of Star Wars. There is nothing realistic about the way Taylor’s craft is poised in the lake after the crash and that’s just my opener. It was a design choice, as many of the choices are in Apes, just like Star Wars. Designed, manufactured, fantasy. And what of the chauvinism expressed in your comment regarding Taylor and Nova? We’re all welcome to our opinions, but chauvinism or misogyny most certainly belies your sense of an enlightened self. Try harder.
Attack Of The Clones. At the time of release it seemed to get a bit of a pass because it wasn’t as dreadful as Phantom Menace, but since it has been lumped into the garbage heap. I think its dead-on Star Wars fare. Yeah, it’s got its boring parts, but I feel like it gets the series back on track. The speeder chase, the Jango/Obi-Wan battle in space and their ‘fist fight’, the Jedi battle in the arena, the opening battle of the Clone Wars and the lightsabre finale are all on target.
Moonstruck. My mom and I love this movie. None of my film-loving friends celebrate this one, but it is classic Nicholas Cage. It’s a sweet, romantic, light but snappy comedy. Incredible script and some really pro performances.
SUPERFUZZ. Terence Hill is friggin’ ridiculous. Mega-stupid. I used to catch it on HBO during the ancient times. Will anyoune else chime in on this movie?
Would not the place in history Henri Langlois and his Cinematheque Francais occupy be a fantastic way to cover the New Wave as well as what came before and after? His passion is so infectious.
Memento, Insomnia, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, Barton Fink, Requiem For A Dream, Kids, Caligula, High And Low, Funny Games
Channel 13 KTRK in Houston broadcast ‘Alien’ for their midnight movie one Christmas Eve. It was strange, because it was just me and mom. I guess the festivities ended early that year which is unusual for us. Anyway, Mom doesn’t dig on sci-fi or horror. She must’ve been too toasty to move, but it was great to share one of my favorites with her. I’ve watched it one million times, but around the holidays, I love to relive that memory in the darkened den lit by a pile of embers in the fireplace and the white/blue glow of the television at Christmas.
By the way, I didn’t even see Juno and I didn’t like it. As the saying goes, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I wouldn’t know because I wouldn’t eat the filthy mother fucker. Can not most of us smell these turds comin’ down the pipe? Why do we watch them? There’s a topic for you…
From the topic ‘Movies You Just Don’t Like’, I posted a handful of movies I don’t like, most of which I knew were going to be awful beforehand. Yet, I watched them anyway, trying to keep the rage in check, straining to keep the vomit from projecting. From the moment it enters your consciousness, you know it’s straight garbage. Pandering, market research, surveyed population reports, condescension, insulting tripe. For instance, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Crash, Garden State, Little Miss Sunshine…Discuss.
I like to imagine that Criterion threw ‘em in to generate a little scratch to keep fighting the good fight. I also like to tell myself and others that Criterion had a more academic motivation behind these choices. Take the case of Equinox. That movie stinks and Dennis Muren, the director, admits as much. But! Dennis Muren is a god of the effects industry and Equinox not only showcases the first major work of a movie giant/artist, but is also a perfect capsule of dozens of in-camera effects which Mr. Muren is very generous in discussing on the commentary track. It is a terrific sign post in that regard for burgeoning filmmakers, particularly for its DIY spirit and as a beginner’s handbook to in-camera film effects and illusion. That said, ‘The Rock and ’Armageddon’ are great additions in that they serve as points of deep contrast between art and commerce (read: crap-ola). To quote Jerry Bruckheimer, “One man’s trash is another man’s cash.” Michael Bay is not a master turd-shiner, he just puts that turd on a silver platter and tells you it’s steak. Bon appetit!
Persona vs.The Exorcist. Two great takes that taste great together. Also, I’d offer psilocybin mushrooms as an appetizer since my fantasy double feature would be at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Austin. Boo-Yaa!!!
Check it
http://filmchatblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/did-persona-inspire-exorcist.html
Tron followed by Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, because the shit rhymes. We’ll call it Tron-Khan. I know Bridges is on-board. Let’s hear it for Boxleitner! Anyone? Bridges and Boxleitner together again. Flynn’n’Tron, knee-deep in it. Right, guys?
most overrated oscar performances or robberies over 3 years ago
I know it’s corny, but The Matrix over Episode One for effects is total bs. Phantom Menace is awful and Jar Jar Binks is criminal, but there was nothing in the Matrix that pushed the effects category forward like the digital performance of an entirely digital character that held a good hour of screen time.
Also, Aimee Mann loses to Phil Collins for Best Song.
And finally, Magnolia does not take home Best Original Screenplay.
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What is Kubrick's Most Under-Appreciated Film? over 3 years ago
Hands down Eyes Wide Shut. It is his strongest piece. I adore Stanley’s work. Eyes Wide Shut showed the wisdom of self-restraint not present in his work since Dr. Strangelove.
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favorite funniest movie over 3 years ago
My favorite funniest movie is Young Frankenstein. It seems everyone involved in making the picture what it became is at the top of their game. Gene Wilder, Mel Brooks, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Madeline Khan, Marty Feldman. The script and its accompanying performances are hysterical, ridiculous, intelligent, theatrical, touching, I could go on. This movie is pure genius, a masterpiece from the score to the editing, the art direction, all of it fried gold.
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Directors that consistently make terrible films over 3 years ago
Roland Emmerich. God why?!!! The man’s a nipple.
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Best camerawork in a movie...handheld or otherwise. Or best use of the camera to convey the scene's intention. over 3 years ago
I really like the opener in ‘Touch Of Evil’. I was gasping for air when they finally cut away.
Of course ‘Citizen Kane’.
‘Children Of Men’ (exhilarating), naturally.
‘Evil Dead 2’ (camera chases Ash through crawlspace) and ‘Raising Arizona’ (camera leaps over a car, a fountain, up a ladder through a window and into extreme close-up on Mrs. Arizona) are two of my favorites as well.
‘There Will Be Blood’ (Daniel chases H.W. into the night after having set fire to their home) features some of the best modern photography.
The camerawork in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ is exceptionally brilliant, particularly the ‘Asteroid Chase’ sequence. Dynamic. Operatic and sweeping.
The camera dollys with Pam towards the house as if it were some great maw swallowing her whole in ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’. Gothic horror.
Into camera, Kirk Douglas marches through the trenches with a reverse dolly. No Steadicam. Beautiful.
Camera follows Danny on his Big Wheel through the halls of the Overlook Hotel. Gliding along liquid smooth.
The swooning camera in the prologue of ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’. Lyrical and vertiginous.
Great site, great thread. Cheers, everyone!
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Best camerawork in a movie...handheld or otherwise. Or best use of the camera to convey the scene's intention. over 3 years ago
Oh yeah! Baretta’s home invasion video footage in ‘Lost Highway’.
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favorite funniest movie over 3 years ago
C’mon, guys. Let’s play hard ball, rein it in. It says ‘favorite’. Singular. Put on the thumbscrews. Brass tacks and all that. Nail ‘er down! One favorite. It’ll be fun! GO!
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Hotel Room over 3 years ago
I often think about the Glover/Witt segment, though I haven’t seen it in years, and recall fondly it’s beautiful photography and it’s terrifying script. Chilling. As in “to tha biggity-bone”. Right, guys?! Reminds me of Virginia Woolf. Hump the hostess, anyone?
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Does anyone get 'Fat Girl'? over 3 years ago
I hear what you’re saying, Almodovar. Your description of Fat Girl sounds like the definition of pornography, which Fat Girl is not. Its is unapologetically frank. Yes, graphic. Yes, offensive, but is that not part of its virtue? Graphic and offensive, both in its frank depiction of despicable acts. Honest in its approach. Ms. Breillat is to be commended for, if nothing else, her fortitude in sinking her life’s energy into a deeply disturbing picture which illustrates with unflinching candor the horrors of not only a morbid sense of inadequacy and so diabolically narcissistic, but of a diseased patriarchal culture. So yeah, it’s gonna hurt. Moreover, it is my humble opinion, Breillat is by no means asking anyone to ‘like it’, but appreciate it at least. I recommend it to the few listeners out there at every opportunity.
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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago
Emptyhand, surely you meant John, not William, Hurt.
This is a very exciting thread. I realize some of these may be considered inappropriate, have already been mentioned on this thread or have already seen a Criterion release on laser or otherwise, that said…
A Clockwork Orange
In The Realm Of The Senses
Dead Man
Akira
The Piano Teacher
All The Real Girls
The Dark Knight
There Will Be Blood
Devo: The Men Who Make The Music
Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown
The Blair Witch Project
Fargo
Goodfellas
In The Bedroom
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Alien
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
The Empire Strikes Back
Pusher
Breaking Away
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Blue Velvet
The Elephant Man
Touch Of Evil
Buffalo ‘66
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Badlands
Weekend
Grindhouse
Ex-Drummer
The Dark Crystal
Bad Taste
Chinatown
Metropolis (especially with the recent recovery of missing footage!)
King Kong
Young Frankenstein
Shower
Margot At The Wedding
El Topo
Popeye (yes, Popeye!)
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Does anyone get 'Fat Girl'? over 3 years ago
Oh no, no, please don’t misunderstand me, Allison. I have not said or implied that you are wrong. Please excuse me if that is what came across. So the answer to your question is, no, you are not wrong. We’re all friends in film, here. It’s a forum so I chipped in my two cents, but I by no means think you are wrong. Furthermore, I did not suggest or ask that you or anyone else ‘enjoy’ it. I’ve made it clear that there is nothing enjoyable about the actual act or the depiction thereof.
Yes, Miranda, I’m of the opinion that gender is most certainly intended or at least anticipated by the director, to play the primary role. That said, I’d like to include here that I have not discussed how I feel about this film, but rather what I think. Just throwing that out there. But, I’ll offer this much, Fat Girl made me feel like shit. It gave me that sunken stomach feeling, like the first time I watched Blue Velvet or Clockwork. I had to ask myself, ‘Why would anyone want to make this film?’, ‘How is this not dismissed as perverse and gratuitous?’, ‘How does this compare to my own experience?’. I was profoundly challenged by this film. This is why I’m so interested in Breillat’s work, why I put her on my list of favorite auteurs. I’d like to add that if a male had directed this film, I almost certainly would have regarded it as pandering and perverse or at least suspicious. Miranda, thank you for intiating this topic. I really don’t have anyone else with whom I can seriously discuss this film or this director, as no one I know personally will touch her work.
I also, think that ‘to teach’ is not on the directors agenda, but to illustrate, to show.
Bazhlekova, what other films depict female sexual awakening as really distubing and tragic, I’m interested, as none are coming to mind.
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Directors that consistently make terrible films over 3 years ago
McG. Isn’t that that fast food joint?
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favorite funniest movie over 3 years ago
Awesome, Dr. Strangelove is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s so absurdly hilarious. "Tell you what. You start your countdown and ol’ Bucky’ll be back before you can say, BLAST OFF!
Some one here I forget who thought ‘Some Like It Hot’ wasn’t as funny as all that. I totally get that, but please revisit that one a few times more. It’ll grow on you in the best way.
Who out there is down with National Lampoon’s Vacation like real hard?
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Best title over 3 years ago
‘ALIEN’
The title alone is scary and perfectly invokes the terror and suspense the film captures. Simple and foreboding. It reaches out to touch a basic and common fear. The fear of the unknown. It seamlessly functions with maximum effect in the way a good title should by acting as the final piece in making the thing coalesce. The film totally lives up to the strength of its title, while the title itself lends the film credibility. Imagine if the film was called ‘Space Beast’ (working title). Ouch.
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Planet of the Apes or Star Wars? over 3 years ago
Friends in film, this thread I find shameful. What we have here is a case of people shitting in their own sandboxes. There are other sites out there where a thread called ‘Planet Of The Apes or Star Wars?’ is completely appropriate. Not here, I’m afraid. For shame. That’s not to say we should pontificate ad nauseum Godard’s contribution like a bunch of sqwaking peacock, preening and posing and nothing more. I love Star Wars. I love Planet and they were manufactured to be easily digested. No challenge there. Nathan, your opening statement is inflammatory at best. You seem to be ill-informed and frankly just bored. Your ‘opinion’ in your initial post has garnered four ‘thumbs down’ for a reason I hope does not totally elude you. Honestly, I am so irritated by this post and most of the comments on this so-called thread, I have been compelled to challenge you on this. Excuse my presumptuous approach here, please, but I know you are capable of more than this totally unimaginative, irresponsible and frankly immature topic. Now here’s the why: Your comments in their entirety read as regurgitated contrarian bull-corn. Now, Nathan I am not saying that you or anyone else are any of the things I’ve mentioned here as individuals, so please keep that in mind. What I am saying is that your supposed argument that Lucas’ films are sterile, the characters are like cardboard cut-outs, and that they have nothing to do with real-life is totally bogus. You have behaved like a phony and a fraud in attempting to start this as a discussion with the aforementioned points. Planet Of The Apes is cut from the very same piece of fabric as Star Wars. Heston is not playing a character in Apes, he plays an archetype. There is no character there. He is Adam. he has tasted the fruit from the Tree Of Knowledge and is cast out of the Garden Of Eden. Though Eden is often depicted as something good, there is nothing ‘good’ or even beneficial, as you say you have no interest in ‘good v. evil’, about a utopia. That is the world Dr. Zaius was trying to protect, an Eden, a place of blissful ignorance. The social commentary in Apes is a punchline to an elaborate and well-told joke. Star Wars handles social commentary like fortune cookie wisdom. So what, they are both KIDS MOVIES!! As far as Lucas’ films being sterile, they are intricately designed in pre-production, the performance style is meant to ape the wooden performances of on-the-cheap serials and once again, there are no characters, only archetypes. Both films are all about real-life. That’s the whole damn point and the charm of genre storytelling and mythology. There is no sense of reality what-so-ever in Apes, which according to how your post is written, is a trait that Apes has over the total fantasy of Star Wars. There is nothing realistic about the way Taylor’s craft is poised in the lake after the crash and that’s just my opener. It was a design choice, as many of the choices are in Apes, just like Star Wars. Designed, manufactured, fantasy. And what of the chauvinism expressed in your comment regarding Taylor and Nova? We’re all welcome to our opinions, but chauvinism or misogyny most certainly belies your sense of an enlightened self. Try harder.
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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago
Attack Of The Clones. At the time of release it seemed to get a bit of a pass because it wasn’t as dreadful as Phantom Menace, but since it has been lumped into the garbage heap. I think its dead-on Star Wars fare. Yeah, it’s got its boring parts, but I feel like it gets the series back on track. The speeder chase, the Jango/Obi-Wan battle in space and their ‘fist fight’, the Jedi battle in the arena, the opening battle of the Clone Wars and the lightsabre finale are all on target.
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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago
Moonstruck. My mom and I love this movie. None of my film-loving friends celebrate this one, but it is classic Nicholas Cage. It’s a sweet, romantic, light but snappy comedy. Incredible script and some really pro performances.
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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago
Son Of Dracula. Nobody seems to dig this cornball classic. The movie does stink, but the music is awesome and it has a cute premise.
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Films you love but most people hate. over 3 years ago
SUPERFUZZ. Terence Hill is friggin’ ridiculous. Mega-stupid. I used to catch it on HBO during the ancient times. Will anyoune else chime in on this movie?
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French Film over 3 years ago
Would not the place in history Henri Langlois and his Cinematheque Francais occupy be a fantastic way to cover the New Wave as well as what came before and after? His passion is so infectious.
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Female Directors — How many can you name? over 3 years ago
Penelope Spheeris, Tamra Davis, Catherine Breillat, Katherine Bigelow, Debbie Allen…
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Movie's you just don't like. over 3 years ago
Memento, Insomnia, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, Boondock Saints, Donnie Darko, Barton Fink, Requiem For A Dream, Kids, Caligula, High And Low, Funny Games
Donnie Darko…
…Juno…
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FAVORITE CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY MOVIES over 3 years ago
Channel 13 KTRK in Houston broadcast ‘Alien’ for their midnight movie one Christmas Eve. It was strange, because it was just me and mom. I guess the festivities ended early that year which is unusual for us. Anyway, Mom doesn’t dig on sci-fi or horror. She must’ve been too toasty to move, but it was great to share one of my favorites with her. I’ve watched it one million times, but around the holidays, I love to relive that memory in the darkened den lit by a pile of embers in the fireplace and the white/blue glow of the television at Christmas.
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Movie's you just don't like. over 3 years ago
Oh, American Beauty and Crash as well…
and Juno
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Movie's you just don't like. over 3 years ago
Garden State
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Movie's you just don't like. over 3 years ago
By the way, I didn’t even see Juno and I didn’t like it. As the saying goes, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I wouldn’t know because I wouldn’t eat the filthy mother fucker. Can not most of us smell these turds comin’ down the pipe? Why do we watch them? There’s a topic for you…
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You know it's gonna be bad, but you watch it anyway... over 3 years ago
From the topic ‘Movies You Just Don’t Like’, I posted a handful of movies I don’t like, most of which I knew were going to be awful beforehand. Yet, I watched them anyway, trying to keep the rage in check, straining to keep the vomit from projecting. From the moment it enters your consciousness, you know it’s straight garbage. Pandering, market research, surveyed population reports, condescension, insulting tripe. For instance, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Crash, Garden State, Little Miss Sunshine…Discuss.
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WHY!!! over 3 years ago
I like to imagine that Criterion threw ‘em in to generate a little scratch to keep fighting the good fight. I also like to tell myself and others that Criterion had a more academic motivation behind these choices. Take the case of Equinox. That movie stinks and Dennis Muren, the director, admits as much. But! Dennis Muren is a god of the effects industry and Equinox not only showcases the first major work of a movie giant/artist, but is also a perfect capsule of dozens of in-camera effects which Mr. Muren is very generous in discussing on the commentary track. It is a terrific sign post in that regard for burgeoning filmmakers, particularly for its DIY spirit and as a beginner’s handbook to in-camera film effects and illusion. That said, ‘The Rock and ’Armageddon’ are great additions in that they serve as points of deep contrast between art and commerce (read: crap-ola). To quote Jerry Bruckheimer, “One man’s trash is another man’s cash.” Michael Bay is not a master turd-shiner, he just puts that turd on a silver platter and tells you it’s steak. Bon appetit!
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FANTASY ARTHOUSE DOUBLE FEATURE over 3 years ago
Persona vs.The Exorcist. Two great takes that taste great together. Also, I’d offer psilocybin mushrooms as an appetizer since my fantasy double feature would be at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Austin. Boo-Yaa!!!
Check it
http://filmchatblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/did-persona-inspire-exorcist.html
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FANTASY ARTHOUSE DOUBLE FEATURE over 3 years ago
Tron followed by Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, because the shit rhymes. We’ll call it Tron-Khan. I know Bridges is on-board. Let’s hear it for Boxleitner! Anyone? Bridges and Boxleitner together again. Flynn’n’Tron, knee-deep in it. Right, guys?
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