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

[elpollodiablo]

In Bruges was pretty great for what it was. Ralph Fiennes, as always, was awesome.

[elpollodiablo]

I dunno why I never thought of doing this before, but it just occurred to me today that while I'm spending hours and hours at the uni library, I can rip movies from the media collection while I study. None of the inevitable late fees that come with actually taking the DVDs home, this way! Today I got Network, Quiz Show, and the French Connection.

Ripping movies seems to make my notebook run at about 90 degrees Celsius, however, so maybe best not to overdo it.

[elpollodiablo]

Holy FUCK but Network is one of the best films of the past four decades. I'd forgotten. Sidney Lumet's later sins notwithstanding, this film is fucking incredible. Seriously. Maybe it's just because it plays so precisely to my interests (the media, fashionable dissent, revolutionary movements of the 6t0s and 70s, and the perennial favorite of not only myself but so many of my fellow American media consumers: the disgruntled, possibly disturbed oracle), but MAN. This film is fucking GREAT.

[elpollodiablo]

"HE'S SAYING THAT LIFE IS BULLSHIT, AND IT IS. SO WHAT ARE YOU SCREAMING ABOUT"

[elpollodiablo]

And as long as I'm drunk and enjoying the everliving fuck out of this film I'd mostly forgotten about, let me pose the question: Where in the FUCK are all of our intelligent, self-reflexive, self-examining pictures like this nowadays? Why has our our national theater been reduced to cliche and trite and overreaching pat parodies of itself? Where is our fucking SATIRE, god damn it!? Why aren't films like this being made anymore?

[Ah_Pook]

duuuuuude what about Southland Tales?

[elpollodiablo]

I said "intelligent"

[Ah_Pook]

you probably just dont get it

[guanajuato]

i watched atonement! boy that was a bummer.

[elpollodiablo]

Yeah I'm sorry man, you shouldn't have had to see that

[guanajuato]

you probably just dont get it

dude don't let them see you're active!! the posse banned you dogg!!

[elpollodiablo]

SSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH


THEY CAN HEAR YOU

[elpollodiablo]

Seriously Peter Finch is a motherfucking god

[guanajuato]

Yeah I'm sorry man, you shouldn't have had to see that

you know, it was worth it though, for k knightly. i'll watch anything she's in, i even watched that bounty hunter movie.

[Ah_Pook]

domino was worth watching once, just to see how ridiculous it was. i want to strangle whoever edited that movie.

[elpollodiablo]

Well she's one of the most beautiful human beings alive today but really she's not all that great when it comes down to it. Loved her in P&P but other than that her resume reads like a bad joke and she's apparently getting typecast if that trailer I saw before In Bruges is any indication

THE DUCHESS

"Oh my word I couldn't possibly"

"OH MY"

*GASP*

[Ah_Pook]

shes a terrible actress, i thought that was just a given at this point

[guanajuato]

domino was worth watching once, just to see how ridiculous it was. i want to strangle whoever edited that movie.

knightly's unnatural beauty was a good contrast to rourke's unspeakable ugliness. if rob zombie ever makes a new friday the 13th like he did halloween, micky can play jason. shit -- that nigga don't need a hockey mask. fuck, they could call him micky in the movie. 'it's micky, he's emerging out of crystal lake wrapped in chains and high on muscle gain powder! run!"

[guanajuato]

Well she's one of the most beautiful human beings alive today but really she's not all that great when it comes down to it. Loved her in P&P but other than that her resume reads like a bad joke and she's apparently getting typecast if that trailer I saw before In Bruges is any indication

THE DUCHESS

"Oh my word I couldn't possibly"

"OH MY"

*GASP*

sort of like that chick who keeps playing elizabeth! cate blanchett.
I, too, can command the wind, sir! I have a hurricane in me that will strip Spain bare when you dare to try me!

[Ah_Pook]

im anticipating that cate blanchett is going to blow the doors off in the new indiana jones movie. man im looking forward to that movie.

also that whole rob zombie friday the 13th nightmare scenario up there... blood... boiling... must not... kill everything. rob zombie can fuck himself to death with a chainsaw.

[guanajuato]

what! that was a good halloween movie. i mean, considering i think the one before it starred ll cool j. you gotta put these things into perspective.

also his next movie tyrannosaurus rex is from what i've read based on a semi-pro wrestler vs satanic bikers, taken from the nail by steve niles and zombie.

http://www.amazon.com/Nail-Steve-Niles/dp/1593071736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208313548&sr=8-1

[Ah_Pook]

just because there are other bad halloween movies doesnt make his shitty halloween movie less intensely shitty. also all his other movies are crap so that doesnt help either.

that new one sounds like it has a promising set up anyway, maybe he can break his streak.

[G.C.R]

I Thought The Devils rejects was offensive, but scary and not disappointing.
The thing I dont like about Miss knightley, aside from she's an awful awful actress, is that everyone goes how refreshingly unconventionally attractive ( I think she's not attractive at all BTW) but she's supposedly unconventionally attractive while still being young, tall, skinny, clear skinned, full lipped.... how exactly is this unconventional again?

[Wally]

I have a unnessacary hate for Knightley, not due to her acting skills or ow she looks, but unsurprisingly based on class rage. She's a decent enough symbol for a kind of obnoxious, over indulged, child from the South, a breed of half-wit which appears to be ever expanding and heading north like termites. She in particular is from Richmond, which has it's special type of "I buy all my food from M&S, because I like their Icelandic chicken broth sandwiches"  scumfaced attitude that certainly deserves to be destroyed never mind employed in idiotic films.

[Greg Nog]

She in particular is from Richmond, which has it's special type of "I buy all my food from M&S, because I like their Icelandic chicken broth sandwiches"

Man, that is so totally Andrew.  How you like that, TSKS?  It's like he's holding up a mirror to all your faults.