Movies watched recently:

[Nicholson]

Oh Andrew I'm like one episode away from having watched all of season one of The Wire. The only reason I haven't watched it yet was because I imposed limits on myself to accomplish something beforehand, and the people I need to accomplish that something aren't around. But it will be watched by tonight.

[Andrew_TSKS]

awesome. season 2 is out on dvd, and i recommend that one as well. it's an amazing show, isn't it?

[davy]

wow. i just got done watching the incredibles with my wife, and the credits are rolling, and i'm thinking to myself, "jesus. why was that so good?...it was a disney movie!" and then it flashed the director's name on screen:

brad bird

boo-yah! the brains behind my favorite-ever animated film, the iron giant. it all makes sense now. that guy is a friggin' genius.

[Nicholson]

Yeah, it's pretty good, I prefer it to Deadwood by a good margin. I stand by what I said earlier in the thread about Twin Peaks though.

[justinh]

most ridiculous movie ever?

[Ah_Pook]

i bought Bloodsport on dvd yesterday, im probably gonna watch it

[Ah_Pook]

wow. i just got done watching the incredibles with my wife, and the credits are rolling, and i'm thinking to myself, "jesus. why was that so good?...it was a disney movie!" and then it flashed the director's name on screen:

brad bird

boo-yah! the brains behind my favorite-ever animated film, the iron giant. it all makes sense now. that guy is a friggin' genius.

yea hes supremely awesome. he worked on the simpsons for the first 8ish seasons as well.

[freshbakedpi]

Last night I watched A Day Without A Mexican. What happens when all the "Mexicans" in California dissapear overnight? An awesome movie! Rent it!

[W. Earl Piglet]

I watched Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" was on TCM last night. Very good. I don't understand why they untill 2 in the morning to play good movies on TV. Prime time all TCM ever has is mass-produced 50s Star-centric movies trying to appeal to the Nursing Home audience.

[elpollodiablo]

most ridiculous movie ever?

Pain don't hurt.

[justinh]

[heather marie]

I watched Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" was on TCM last night. Very good. I don't understand why they untill 2 in the morning to play good movies on TV. Prime time all TCM ever has is mass-produced 50s Star-centric movies trying to appeal to the Nursing Home audience.

ahh, bergman! TCM always does wait at the oddest moments to play the good stuff. how sad.


i just watched vera drake, which was good but i felt needed a little more at the end. i'm about to go watch dogville.

i'd just like to say that i would die without netflix.

[elpollodiablo]

I ended up watching six episodes of The Wire last night. It's fucking sick. When I got home from work, my friends were watching the pilot, and I wasn't impressed at all, but I kept watching and got completely hooked. It's not Sopranos-quality, but it's also not the same thing: there's a difference between authenticity and realism. The Wire is definitely one of the most authentic crime dramas ever; with the Sopranos, the mob stuff almost plays second fiddle to the human drama of Tony and his families. The writers of the Sopranos are masters of that Chekovian incindentalism by which a character's depth is revealed through seemingly innocuous, inconsequential scenes. Two different things entirely. If you like gritty cop dramas, The Wire is the tops, but the Sopranos still has more depth by far than anything else on TV.

Both excellent programs, though.

[nati1107]

did anyone see palindromes yet?  i saw it about two weeks ago, it made me as uncomfortable as happiness, but i was laughing ... laughing at the horrible fucked up things that happen.  i liked it, i need to watch again.

[JamesSchneider]

Whoa, I was just reading reviews. It's playing at the Glasgow Film Theater, I'm thinkin about making tomorrow cinema day, going and seeing that, star wars, and a good woman til I get kicked out. Good plan?

[Trousers and Pat]

THis morning I saw "the barbarian and the geisha" on TV. John Wayne goes to Japan. and burns down a village to save it from Cholera. Worth it for the smarmy way he says "arigato" to the Geisha.

[Nickosaurus]

On a sligh off topic, which is the best season of Mr. Show to get after the first one? I don't want to commit to buying them all, so I figure I should get the one that delivers the most laughs.

[silentsigh89]

I just saw 'look at me'

I liked it a lot. it made my heart hurt a little.

[JamesSchneider]

I just watched Bram Stoker's Dracula. Totally worth it for how cool Tom Waits is and how OUT OF HIS DAMN MIND Anthony Hopkins is. Word.

[Maaik]

m is one of my favorite movies ever. it starts out slow but once it gets going... oh shit.

it's tight. you definitely need to get through it.

You were right Andrew.  I just finished watching it for the first time and it was great.  Lang was a genius--using film tricks that shouldn't have worked back in the '30s (like everyone gets all amazed at that push through a window in Citizen Kane and Fritz is all like "done it!")  Even the tidy little moral at the end wasn't enough to distract from how great the criminal's court scene was.  That shit ended brilliantly.

So yeah, thanks for encouraging me to give this a try.

[Andrew_TSKS]

no problem, i'm a total evangelist about that movie. and i'm glad you understood enough about movies to understand how revolutionary some of his technical work in that movie was. sometimes i have trouble showing it to people and getting them to understand why i like it so much, because i'm going "but he did THIS in 1931!" and that just doesn't mean anything to them.

but yeah, to me it's a good movie anyway. i love the last 45 mins or so, and the climactic interrogation scene is the best of all. fucking peter lorre--so great.

[freshbakedpi]

TEAM AMERICA! (Fuck yeah!)

Rent it.

You know you want to!





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[Scott CE]

I ended up watching six episodes of The Wire last night. It's fucking sick. When I got home from work, my friends were watching the pilot, and I wasn't impressed at all, but I kept watching and got completely hooked. It's not Sopranos-quality, but it's also not the same thing: there's a difference between authenticity and realism. The Wire is definitely one of the most authentic crime dramas ever; with the Sopranos, the mob stuff almost plays second fiddle to the human drama of Tony and his families. The writers of the Sopranos are masters of that Chekovian incindentalism by which a character's depth is revealed through seemingly innocuous, inconsequential scenes. Two different things entirely. If you like gritty cop dramas, The Wire is the tops, but the Sopranos still has more depth by far than anything else on TV.

Both excellent programs, though.

The Wire is my favorite TV Show in the history of the ever.  It has a more limited scope than the Sopranos (really, it's just about people WORKING), which might be why it feels more controlled to me.  Each season is basically a novel, with a few major plotlines and themes.  And each one is totally mesmerizing and gutwrenching.

[nonotyet]

I ended up watching six episodes of The Wire last night. It's fucking sick. When I got home from work, my friends were watching the pilot, and I wasn't impressed at all, but I kept watching and got completely hooked. It's not Sopranos-quality, but it's also not the same thing: there's a difference between authenticity and realism. The Wire is definitely one of the most authentic crime dramas ever; with the Sopranos, the mob stuff almost plays second fiddle to the human drama of Tony and his families. The writers of the Sopranos are masters of that Chekovian incindentalism by which a character's depth is revealed through seemingly innocuous, inconsequential scenes. Two different things entirely. If you like gritty cop dramas, The Wire is the tops, but the Sopranos still has more depth by far than anything else on TV.

Both excellent programs, though.

The Wire is my favorite TV Show in the history of the ever.  It has a more limited scope than the Sopranos (really, it's just about people WORKING), which might be why it feels more controlled to me.  Each season is basically a novel, with a few major plotlines and themes.  And each one is totally mesmerizing and gutwrenching.

OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
I just rented the first three episodes of The Wire last night as the rental place was out of volume four of Six Feet Under season three and Blockbuster ain't even ORDERED it yet (bitches!) I found the very first Wire a bit difficult to get into, but that may just be because I am not very smart. By the second episode, I was hooked, and I find D'Angelo's explanation of the rules of chess to be one of my favorite almost-monologues ever. Moral of story: I need to stop getting into HBO shows when I haves not the cable and am scared of the bittorrenting. This is only going to end badly when I reach the end of Season One.
Side note, since two TV shows have been namechecked. Is anyone biting their nails prematurely over the season finale of Lost? Just me? Okay then.

[milly balgeary]

I'm curious how they're going to end the first season of stacked... it's by far my favorite show on tv right now. What a rehabilitation for Pamela Anderson's career.