While greg nibbled on an unhealthy snack/tim roth what films have you watched?

[diesel_powered]

Every time I've seen Ford on the talk shows, I'm reminded that my dad is only a couple years older than him and I have a little freak out.

[jebreject]

Rescue Dawn was pretty brutal.

[elpollodiablo]

my mom liked indy. she said 'there were no curse words in it!' and...'he's 65 years old..that's pretty good for a 65 year old huh...being in an action movie an' all.'

she gives it 3 and 1/2 crystal skulls.

I give it 3 and 1/2, as well! I had a great effing time. Started to drag a bit toward the end, but on the whole a lot of damn fun.

Your mom appears to have like a self-censor or selective memory, though, they were tossing around the s-bombs and the SONOFABITCHes with great abandon.

[guanajuato]

yeah, her memory is majorly selective.
she's a republican.

[guanajuato]

an american crime. omg.

[Augo]

Today I will watch my favorite Pollack film/my favorite film, Jeremiah Johnson, maybe three times.

[jebreject]

rewatched the indiana jones trilogy over the last couple days. held up pretty well, except temple of doom wtf were they thinking

[YojimboMonkey]

KALI MA
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[YojimboMonkey]

But seriously, watched the new Indy movie yesterday and I didn't like the opening or the ending much (the movie went well beyond what level of weirdness and suspense of disbelief I will allow in an Indiana Jones movie), but there was a lot in the middle that I liked.  I still cannot countenance the Shia LaBoeufBourgignon but he was not the live-action Jar Jar that I feared he would be.  That honor, of course, belongs to John Hurt.  Why?  Why must you do this to me? 

Will it join the other three in Indy canon for me?  Hard to say, probably not.  But are there any clock towers in my near future?  No.  I had enough people tell me how terrible the movie was that it was able to exceed my expectations.

[elpollodiablo]

I dunno what everyone's heavy beef is! I thought it was a riot.

[YojimboMonkey]

Well my "Why must you do this to me?" was about John Hurt being wasted as a sanitized Ben Gunn analog.

I thought Indy not only surviving a nuclear explosion but being the only thing hurled clear of the blast was going too far.  And also, for a series that has spent some time working the more supernatural end of things, to suddenly have a giant flying saucer at the end seemed to me like a pretty big departure, though I understand there are arguments to be made that it is really the same kind of thing, just a different mythos.  Mostly it seemed to have more of a contemporary big summer action blockbuster feel than the adventure serial homage feel of the trilogy. 

[Greg Nog]

I saw it yesterday, and liked it all right.  The tack they took with the crystal skull people did seem a little weird, and the survival of SimulacrumTown seemed a little unbelieveable, but no less so than a face-melting ark or dodging sweeps of machine-gun fire, so overall, I didn't have a problem with it.  Really, the cardinal sin the movie could have committed would have been if it was boring, and there was no point where I wasn't enjoying myself, so I'd say it counts as a success.

The only thing that I hated -- truly HATED, and I have no idea why they did this -- was the emphasis on CGI prairie dogs.  WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? 

[jebreject]

A:

(by the by, i suspect it is no coincidence that mr. lucas has come to resemble jabba the hutt

[Greg Nog]

BARGON WANCHI KOX PAA PRAIRIE DOGS, HO HO HO HO

[Andrew_TSKS]

KALI MA
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i won't pretend--i find this part of the movie, especially when it turns into a huge wall of noise for 3 or more minutes, incredibly fascinating.

[Mesmerize]

in terms of math, here are the movies I've seen recently:

forgetting sarah marshall = baby mama >>>>>>>>> indy IV

[elpollodiablo]

*shudder*

Speaking of the unspeakably bad, I watched this flick called The Oxford Murders the other night. Just grabbed it at random from the Pirate Bay. Ridiculously wretched. John Hurt has a pretty good turn, but it's a shit part and a shit script and OMFG Frodo Baggins is one of THE worst actors working today. Like epically bad. It brought to mind a movie the memory of which I'd managed to suppress up until this point: Green Street Hooligans, another viciously dumb movie with another abjectly terrible performance by Mr. Wood and a pretty good one by a dude named Charlie Hunnam. Anyway, The Oxford Murders is at heart a silly murder mystery but is made crushingly stupid by all of the faux intellectualism and ridiculous pseudo-philosophy sprinkled throughout which I imagine is meant to lend some air of legitimacy to the whole debacle. I could imagine Richard and Marinus seething with apoplectic rage at points, specifically those in which Wittgenstein is "discussed" and Heisenberg's name is tossed around like an old Frisbee. The only bright spot in the movie aside from Hurt is Leonor Watling, whom I'd never seen before and who is, as far as I can tell, one of the most beautiful people on the planet.

[guanajuato]

takes the kid to sees indiana jones
walks in a doubter
walks out HAPPY

wow what a great movie. i don't really understand the criticism leveled at it, about the otherworldly aspect. being older than i was when i saw the original trilogy, i can now see how it's a homage to the pulps where before i just saw it as 'indiana jones' and left it at that. why wouldn't there be an otherworldy aspect in it? that's what makes a great pulp with a bit of weird tale spice.

my only wish is that they would've made several more of these movies between this one and the last crusade in 1989. an old indiana jones is just hard for me to accept and several times i went into mourning in the theater for how the ravages of time have affect indy. omg his hair. omg the way he's gotten that blocky old man's body.

[Mike24]

somebody start talking shit about sex and the city please

[edison]

I would, but I certainly don't even have 0,000001% of the courage it would take to be subjected to that movie. Sorry.

[Andrew_TSKS]

i made a new movie thread a bit ago, it's here.

please use it from here on in.