truth 24 times per second: the new movie thread

[elpollodiablo]

Yeah I've absolutely no desire to see that

[Perry the Swede]

"warning" this movie nudity and craZY SHIT
sWEDEN HEAVEN OR HELL A Italian documentary about Sweden from 1968 on google movie....

[old kentucky shark]

what the fuck is up with the last like half hour of "the lady vanishes"? it's so good up to that point! ugh

i got this six-movie collection of hitchcock things today, with sabotage, murder!, blackmail, easy virtue, lady vanishes and 39 steps for like $7. the latter two are the only ones i've seen recently enough to remember, so i'm pretty excited to check out the others again.

[auto-da-fey]

Oh man, I've never seen Easy Virtue--it was one of the ones that slipped through the cracks when I was immersed in Hitchcockmania many years ago.

Anyway, I am renouncing movies until at least the end of the month. Well, not entirely--I'm still seeing a French crime double feature Wednesday. And if my lady wants to watch a flick next weekend I will not exercise a veto. But otherwise, I'm putting my foot down. I have a lot of work to do, and if I don't impose strict limits on myself I will continue to indulge.

Less internet too! Though probably not too much less LPTJ, because it's so easy to integrate into other tasks.

[diesel_powered]

Movies bought for $20 today:

Grosse Point Blank
High Fidelity
Rounders
Swingers

Hooray for Target!

[aftm]

O man - i remember High Fidelity being SO good. I gotta go watch it again.

[Swimmy]

I just watched the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie.

I actually liked it! I didn't expect to at all. It's paced much better than I expected. And they avoid some of the more painful jokes they've taken to making in the show recently. Except the robot-humping thing was annoying.

Major bonus points for having a Hold Steady and a Superchunk song in the credits.

[aftm]

It was a pretty good movie.
AND the Hold Steady song mentioned the Mountain Goat's This Year on the soundtrack version .

[Mesmerize]

Movies bought for $20 today:

Grosse Point Blank
High Fidelity

best two John Cusack movies?  absolutely.

[jebreject]

high fidelity is only good the first 160 times

[elpollodiablo]

159.5 times more than the novel

[C of heartbreak]

zing.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Despite a few nice shots of nature and a genuinely sweet-ass soundtrack (Kaki King and Eddie Vedder, oh my!), Into the Wild is one of the worst films I've seen in recent memory.

Mostly because this character was just shoved in front of me and I think I was supposed to like him, but I didn't because he came off as such a huge douchebag.  His sister's narration wasn't much  better, it being a constant preach-a-thon of how her brother's story "needed to be told."

may have said this on here before so i'll keep it quick, but in the book it was really obvious that the guy was kind of just a cocky kid with little knowledge of the real world and a huge amount of hubris. you sorta liked him anyway some of the time, but ultimately his fate was incredibly unsurprising. the movie is trying to turn it into some kind of kerouac kind of thing and that's not what it is.

[dieblucasdie]

Haha just when I think I can't like Ryan Gosling any more, he pitches a fit and quits that godawful-looking Lovely Bones adaptation.  That thing is going to be so terrible and is going to win every Oscar.

edit:  That is, every Oscar that The Kite Runner doesn't win.

I really surprised it took Hollywood this long to catch up with the Oprah Book Club, now that I think about it.

[nonotyet]

Why is it going to be terrible?

that is a sincere question and not a defensive one

[dieblucasdie]

Because the book is terrible and the movie will be dumbed-down even more, because Peter Jackson's already used up his goodwill in my book, and now because they've fired Ryan Gosling and replaced him with Mark Wahlberg, just days before shooting.  Wahlberg can be good when he's used correctly, but he's obviously no fair trade for Gosling, especially with no time to prepare.  So yeah.

[elpollodiablo]

It does sound terrible, just based on the description of the novel


Ryan Gosling is kinda of a tool, really

[dieblucasdie]

pollo's wearing his TEAM MCADAMS shirt right now.

edit:  Odds nny is hammering out a page-long Caps-laden defense of Lovely Bones right now: extremely high.

[nonotyet]

I was at Barnes & Noble when the book got all explode-y, and we used to keep running tallies of how many men bought it versus how many women behind the registers, and we would ask the men if they were planning to read it themselves or if it was for a wife/girlfriend/sister/etc. 9 out of ten was women, and almost none of the men were going to read it themselves. I remember liking it a lot when I read it.

Which is to say, you pig.

[dieblucasdie]

ha.  damn, no Caps.

On caps lock day, no less.

But really a book cannot have a ghost narrator and expect me to take it seriously.

[nonotyet]

i will not be reduced to a caricature

[elpollodiablo]

McAdams?

[elpollodiablo]

ha.  damn, no Caps.

On caps lock day, no less.

But really a book cannot have a ghost narrator and expect me to take it seriously.

Vonnegut's Galapagos

-10 pts, blucas

[nonotyet]

Rachel McAdams. Some kinda reference to The Notebook or something, maybe. Also Gosling is or was dating her in the real life.

-20, Blucas

[elpollodiablo]

Good lord, let's make it an even 50