saw a talkie at the picture show: new film thread

[dieblucasdie]

He didn't google it!  Dude used yahoo.

Alright. I don't know how this happened but I just saw the new twilight movie. I have one thing to say that is a spoiler alert: how the f is a vampire going to GOOGLE vampire baby? They should already know that shit! He didn't even use google, he used yahoo. Maybe that was the problem.

That's what I said!

ha, sorry, I saw that on re-read but was powerless to fix it on my crappy phone.

[dieblucasdie]

What would your vampire babby name be? Take your mom's first name and your babby daddy's or babby mommy's first name and combine 'em.

The "Let's name her 'Renesmee'!" scene was amazing; I swear the girl who plays Alice almost broke.  Shit, even Pattison looks like he's done playing this shit straight in that scene. 

[Babar]

Yeah, it was Brian De Palma. And like I said, not usually my bag (I've never seen any Hitchcock from what I can remember) but I thought it was pretty good. Having never seen any Hitchcock, it reminded me more of The Rhinoceros (with Gene Wilder, yay!) than anything else. Very consciously arty.

Just watched it. Only Brian De Palma would follow a huge critical and box office success with an exploitive b-movieish skinflick. I liked it, but not immensely. I wouldn't say it was consciously arty, more like consciously sleazy and occasionally playing with audiences head by eschewing the lines between the film itself and filmmaking, watching a film and being a voyeur. I think the film would have been better without the vertigo syndrome of the main character, yeah yeah he's referencing Hitchcock but it didn't do much for the story and those particular scenes were way too cheesy. But still, I feel almost as if the cheesiness is the point of the movie because the suspension of disbelief is very thoroughly thrown out the window where it's ran over by a U-haul and put on fire (the ashes then shot into outer space). Was De Palma serious when he made this movie? I'm pretty sure he made his actors think so, but behind the scenes he could have been laughing his head off. I don't know. But even having seen Vertigo and Rear Window and simply knowing the title of the film, Body Double, the twist still managed to surprise at least somewhat.

On the De Palma scale I would rank it just below Sisters and just above Bonfire of the Vanities. Hmm, perhaps it's even higher.

[peacocks]

What would your vampire babby name be? Take your mom's first name and your babby daddy's or babby mommy's first name and combine 'em.

The "Let's name her 'Renesmee'!" scene was amazing; I swear the girl who plays Alice almost broke.  Shit, even Pattison looks like he's done playing this shit straight in that scene. 

Haha I know! We were cracking up. I think the better name game is to take your dad's name and your mom's best guy friend's name and combine them for a name. My name would be Jim Jim.

[dieblucasdie]

No!  It's just initials, you see.  You'd be JJ!

Honestly, my favorite part was what they did with the honeymoon after the first night.  In the book, it's this whole, tortured, wow-this-is-what-you-want-to-teach-girls thing where Bella begs Edward to fuck her, over and over again, through multiple scenes covering several chapters, while he demures, worried that he might "hurt her."  

In the movie, it's a hokey montage, complete with music just this side of "Yakety Sax," where Kristen Stewart strikes various poses in various skimpy outfits while Robert Pattison freaks out and runs away.  AWESOME.  As a 2011 Catholic with weird sexual hangups, I can't help but feel that the Mormons have outdone us at last

[peacocks]

I did not read the book so I have no clue. One of the people I was with said that in the book she get's to' up after the first time and she did not look nearly traumatized enough. She wasn't even as traumatized and hurt as I was when I lost my virginity!* I wanted her to lift up the covers, look down, and FREAK OUT. Because the way that bed was, man. There is no way her parts felt good after that.

*edit to add that my first sex experience was very healthy and I wouldn't change it.

[dieblucasdie]

ha, yeah, again, in the book, on their wedding night, he fucks her until she is unconscious.  That is a thing that happens in a series of books geared toward tween girls that has been made into 4-going-on-5 wide-release major motion pictures. 

[peacocks]

that is fucked up.

[dieblucasdie]

And... that is only like #4 or #5 on the list of Most Fucked Up Things That Happen in Breaking Dawn

[peacocks]

if my best friend fell in love with my new born baby I would be upset.

almost as upset as I would be if I named my baby resume.

[dieblucasdie]

Part of the awesomeness of the book is the pages and pages spent trying to convince you that Jacob's love for Renesmee isn't totally horrifying.  Like, how did an editor sign off on that shit?  I guess it was those heady days when people were getting that Deathly Hallows money

[JamesSchneider]

"Hey baby, I'll fuck you someday and that'll keep my wolf buddies from eating you or whatever i guess I don't know pushup time."

[Ah_Pook]

IMPORTANT MUPPET RELATED UPDATE: go see the new muppet movie, its basically the best movie. i laughed, i cried, i laughed a lot more.

edit: also it had a high quality Toy Story short in front, so thats cool too. also it had a trailer for the new Aardman movie The Pirates: Band Of Misfits, which im now real excited about.

[clare]

Oh man, Pook. That is so good to hear. Unfortunately I'll have to wait until fucking Jan 12th to see it here, but I've been hanging out for it. Every post on fb from The Muppets has made me simultaneously excited and annoyed..

[jebreject]

Loved the Muppets as well!

[coldforge]

I really want to see it. I even enjoyed the muppets intro on SNL

[mixed cats]

The books that the Aardman movie is based on are total nonsense and I love them. They're really short and the author's name is Gideon DeFoe, if you want to look them up.

I need to see Muppets, and would have tried to con my family into it, but the one theater anywhere near here is already closed for the winter.

[milly balgeary]

ha, yeah, again, in the book, on their wedding night, he fucks her until she is unconscious.  That is a thing that happens in a series of books geared toward tween girls that has been made into 4-going-on-5 wide-release major motion pictures. 

yeah, but even in the first book, he's up in her room, watching her sleep, in a controlling fashion. The books are all about control.

[Good Intentions]

The two of you are making this sound like Steps.

[Ashley]

The books that the Aardman movie is based on are total nonsense and I love them. They're really short and the author's name is Gideon DeFoe, if you want to look them up.

OH MAN someone bought me the scientist book for christmas one year and it is pretty great

"It didn't matter that they had already eaten a sumptuous feast earlier that day, because they often had adventures comprised of nothing but sumptuous feasts."

I CAN RELATE TO THAT

[Bernard]

Saw Su Friedrich's "Sink or Swim" -- sheer poetry. Incredibly beautiful and painful.

[fishjim]

Saw Su Friedrich's "Sink or Swim" -- sheer poetry. Incredibly beautiful and painful.

Just read up on this - looks mesmerizing. The review I read from '91 made it seem, in some ways, like the identity poetry of Bergman's Persona, which he always called a poem in film.

The central metaphor of "sink or swim" is also chiming nicely with the Leonard Cohen kick I'm on, and that astonishing middle stanza of "Suzanne" that begins, "Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water" and ends, "Forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone."

[lastclearchance]

hell yes to Safe. Is that even on R1 DVD?

Yes but long out of print. It's one of those movies Criterion fanatics keep asking Jon Mulvaney about.

Peacocks, Nightmare Alley is pretty patchy but Of Interest. Have you seen Freaks? That is by far the better Carny Life movie, though Nightmare Alley does have some impressive drunkenness IIRC. And Touch of Evil is great.

I love Nightmare Alley, but I don't think of it as a Carny Life movie so much as a noir that happens to take place at a carnival. More in the spirit of The Mind Reader (1933).

edited to add: also I missed the entire Edward Yang run cause I'm a dingus but Brighter Summer's Day is there all week now.

[elpollodiablo]

I meant to post something about it last week, but: we also loved the Muppets! I think I enjoyed it even more than Danielle.

[Chet]

there is a aliens vs avatars movie. i am live tweeting it @MFianpatrick