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

[hannah]

Greg is right

[hannah]

Not about Ralph Wiggum tho

[jebreject]

I think it woulda been way better if I'd been high.

Will keep this in mind

[Greg Nog]

hannah, I thought of you and your RuddCrush during several points in the movie.  That man has some brilliant comedic timing.

"Looks like you got some pain behind those eyes."

[Greg Nog]

So I saw Juno last night.  That was a thing.

[edison]

what kind of thing?

[Greg Nog]

It definitely felt like an assault kind of a thing.  I've never seen a movie try quite so aggressively to be adorable at me.  I dunno, I guess I didn't really like it too much.

[edison]

Oh, yeah. I didn't mind too much, all things considered (probably helped by the fact that there was a lot of hate around the movie at the time I saw it, so I expected worse), but I can see it, yes.

[Greg Nog]

Yeah, after all the reactions I'd heard, I was kind of expecting to either hate it or love it, but in the end, it just felt mildly disappointing, like I'd eaten a whole box of Nilla Wafers.  Like on a wafer-to-wafer basis it was kind of fine, but now I just feel kind of gross and wish I hadn't done that.

[edison]

I remember being ready to think that I'd had kind of an okay movie experience, but that corny last shot/song (sorry, Kimya Dawson) made me reconsider. Still, I'm neither in the love it nor in the hate it camp.

[guanajuato]

fooled again by good trailers!

Iiiirrrron man.
Ccccccrraaap.

worst scene: when our hero returns from captivity in afghanistan , he wants a cheeseburger...so they make a big thing of it, with him actually carrying a burger king bag and jeff bridges asking 'is that burger king? do you have 2 cheeseburgers? do you have one for me?" dude, unless i get cheap movie tickets as my cut of the product ad, keep that shit away from me.

anyway, boring movie, bad, canned story, poor performances all around. i do not recommend, unless you liked daredevil.

[Greg Nog]

This is INSANE; I was just about to post here to say that Iron Man was fucking incredible.

[Greg Nog]

Actually, "fucking incredible" is maybe a bit strong, but I definitely liked it, definitely thought it was one of the best superhero movies I've ever seen.

Also, these past few days, the more I think about Juno, the more angry it's been making me.

[jebreject]

You guys should fight about Iron Man, and the outcome will decide if I see it in the theaters or wait till I can Netflix it.

[elpollodiablo]

I've really got a desire to see this one; I dunno why exactly. I never read the comics. Has a lot to do with RDJ, I think. I dunno how Jon could be so critical of his doppleganger like that.

[edison]

I've watched a bunch of other movies lately (including the very good Lady Jane and the oh-thank-god-Schnabel-didn't-turn-this-into-a-suckfest filmed version of Lou Reed's Berlin), but I just wanted to say that anyone who has the opportunity to see a Spanish movie called La Influencia should go. It's nearly the best thing I've seen all year, but I can't say too much about it except that it starts out as a depressing, near-silent Ken Loach-style kind of film and then goes to completely unexpected places. Harrowing experience, but absolutely worth it.

[G.C.R]

Also, these past few days, the more I think about Juno, the more angry it's been making me.

heh, yeah. I actually thought it was good when I watched it.... and then it really started bugging me that she had such a goddam easy pregnancy, i mean really her biggest worry was stretch marks? C'mon! And theres this one breif moment when her stepmother gets mad at her presence (the thing about wanting dogs or whatever) and my heart leaped because thats totally the way my stepmother would talk to me and thought there was going to be this great thing aboout Juno not being wanted in the house no more, but that didnt go anywhere.
But I guess you cant make a film about a difficult teen pregnancy and have it be a comedy, huh?

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0804,hoberman,78918,20.html

(contrast w/ four months)

I have not been to the movies in an age, but was thinking of going to see Iron Man this week.... now I dont know! Arg!

[jebreject]

So I watched Juno. It didn't make me wanna kill till the last scene, so it was better than I thought it'd be. The "listen to this Sonic Youth song!" scene made me cringe too, but overall it wasn't that terrible. I even enjoyed some of it.

[jebreject]

Walk Hard was surprisingly hilarious. I think it woulda been pretty bad--or at least not at all memorable--if the songs themselves hadn't been so good, but Dan Bern does alright by me

[Trousers and Pat]

Yeah, I haven't seen the movie but I heard some of the songs... I remember the "dewey cox died" song being particularly moving

[Andrew_TSKS]

i have like 4 or 5 movies to talk about that i've seen since the last time i posted here. here's a quck rundown:

"night of the living dead" for the like 12th time, because the girl i was hanging out with (the one who was my friend in high school, who i hadn't talked to since i was 16... that one) had never seen it. it was pretty fun getting to see it with someone who was seeing it for the first time. she was very impressed with it, as she should have been.

"house on haunted hill". the original with vincent price. eh... it was ok. price has done quite a bit better.

"white zombie". bela lugosi as a haitian voodoo master. 1933. really bad quality print. my favorite part was maybe the first 5 or so minutes. since it took place in haiti, there were a lot of badly caricatured black characters. that shit bugged me. plus the movie just wasn't that good. i was hoping it'd be as cool as "dracula", but fuck no it was not.

"flirting with disaster". wasn't sure if i'd like this or not, but i ended up totally loving it. didn't make me actually laugh out loud much, since it was so deadpan with its humor, but i still thoroughly enjoyed the comedy of it all. i was afraid that between ben stiller and the whole humor-of-discomfort thing that i wouldn't like it nearly as much as "i huckabees", but i pretty much did. i need to see "three kings" now, i guess.

[auto-da-fey]

Ha, you're watching that 50-horror-classics collection, aren't you?

I haven't been watching many films lately, which makes it a pretty dumb decision that I recently saw The Moving Finger, this low-budget 1963 thing about a bank robber hiding out with doofy beatniks in NYC. It's the second feature on a disc with Murder a la Mod, which I believe was Brian De Palma's feature-length debut in 1968. I only got this for the De Palma flick, so I'm not sure why I watched the b-side equivalent first. It wasn't that bad, though.

Also I saw The Silent Partner on the big screen recently, and hot damn if Elliott Gould didn't pretty much own the 1970s.

[guanajuato]

I've really got a desire to see this one; I dunno why exactly. I never read the comics. Has a lot to do with RDJ, I think. I dunno how Jon could be so critical of his doppleganger like that.

it could be the burger king plug. man...my niece and kid who i took to this flick hated the shit out of it. if a kid don't like a superhero movie, and an adult does, doesn't that negate the whole idea of a superhero movie?

[guanajuato]

This is INSANE; I was just about to post here to say that Iron Man was fucking incredible.

BITCH I WILL KOCK YOU

[difficult]

I've really got a desire to see this one; I dunno why exactly. I never read the comics. Has a lot to do with RDJ, I think. I dunno how Jon could be so critical of his doppleganger like that.

it could be the burger king plug. man...my niece and kid who i took to this flick hated the shit out of it. if a kid don't like a superhero movie, and an adult does, doesn't that negate the whole idea of a superhero movie?

Either that, or maybe society is finally evolving