they've shown this on both screens: your next movie thread

[Andrew_TSKS]

in other news, that post was 100% serious, which is why i ended it with a random quote from "oklahoma".

[DCDave]

in other news, that post was 100% serious, which is why i ended it with a random quote from "oklahoma".

I don't watch musicals!  Sorry!

[coldforge]

Dave, don't be an idiot.

[elpollodiablo]

Well... I downloaded Before the Devil Knows You're Dead expecting a little crime caper with PSH, but it turns out there's also a lot of naked Marisa Tomei.

Neat!

[Maaik]

oh hey neato!

[das kranke Tier]

I'll say!

[Nick Ink]

I used to rent 4 or 5 videos/DVDs a week in Korea, but haven't seen a single one in the 18 months since I've been back in the UK. This is a ridiculous state of affairs I realise, so I just went and joined the local Blockbusters and came back with a couple of, oh the irony, Korean films.

The first one is The Host, which has remarkably good reviews across the board and looks nailed on to be fun. I'm just sweating on whether or not I have the subtitles or the dubbed version.

The other is The Bow, by Kim Ki Duk. He's made a string of wildly different films, from superslow studies of Buddhist themes (to which category this one seems to belong) to pretty shockingly graphic horror (The Isle). He's kind of an outsider in korean cinema and with one or two exceptions I've always found his films quite enjoyable, but a brief scan of the net suggests this one might be a dud. Can anyone confirm or deny?

[mriley]

I've only ever watched 2 Korean moves in my life.  One was Old Boy and the other is The Host which I watched a couple months ago.  I enjoyed the shit out of that movie.  It was alot of fun.

[elpollodiablo]

I was really put off by the Host, actually.

[Greg Nog]

Yeah, I thought the Host was kind of all right, but not nearly as good as I kept hearing from everyone.

[girl]

You know what didn't suck? Atonement. It was really faithful to the book. Actually, everything looked exactly like I pictured it from the book. I still don't like the story, but I'm pleased that the movie didn't turn it into some horrid sappy thing.

[old kentucky shark]

watched touch of evil tonight which i blind-bought like a month ago. spoiler: really fucking good!

[Nick Ink]

Yeah, I thought the Host was kind of all right, but not nearly as good as I kept hearing from everyone.

Well, I enjoyed it, but overall I agree with this.

[Good Intentions]

watched touch of evil tonight which i blind-bought like a month ago. spoiler: really fucking good!

IT is, isn't it?

[Wally]

The Ballard of Jack and Rose. The cover made it look like an inspid heart warming story, with Daniel Day Lewis finally playing a role that suburbia can love, but it turned out to be bloody brilliant. Slow, delicate, slightly odd little drama about devotion and the failure of ideals. Rebecca Miller needs to make more films. 

[Maaik]

Saw Juno last night.  They used Cat Power's cover of "Sea of Love" (mine & tMO's First Dance) after the birth scene and she started bawling like a baby.  I enjoyed the movie a lot.

[elpollodiablo]

The Ballard of Jack and Rose. The cover made it look like an inspid heart warming story, with Daniel Day Lewis finally playing a role that suburbia can love, but it turned out to be bloody brilliant. Slow, delicate, slightly odd little drama about devotion and the failure of ideals. Rebecca Miller needs to make more films. 

I liked it as well, though I thought it was a bit uneven. I dunno if it would have even be remarkable were it not for its two leads, however.

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

I saw I Am Legend. It did a good job of adapting the novel without seeming like a remake of The Omega Man, but the casting of Will Smith and the zombie-ness of the infected made it look like someone meshed I, Robot with Dawn of The Dead, and this is what came out. Plus I'm so sick of films without happy endings.

[auto-da-fey]

Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth came, went, and just made a pitstop at the three-dollar theater, so I decided to check it out before it sinks into obscurity. Wow. This is ludicrous freeform metaphysical bullshit of the most hilariously bad order, a huge convoluted mess in which Tim Roth plays a failed professor who never finished his epic tome on The Origins of Language and Human Consciousness but then gets hit by a bolt of lightning, turns younger, hides from Nazis, and falls in love with a woman who also survives lightning only to begin suddenly speaking Sanskrit. It’s the kind of movie where supergenius Roth literally learns by osmosis from touching books, casually invents a new language to "better express paradox" but then never mentions it again, and has debates with his fragmented alter ego over whether his reincarnated lady is now speaking Sumerian or Babylonian as she regresses ever closer to . . . The Origins of Language! In other words, holy shit is this a big fucking load of tripe, the kind of movie that crams in endless references to the Upanishads and metempsychosis, as if Francis Ford had spent the past decade endlessly retaking Intro to Philosophy courses at some cheesy Eastern mysticism-fetishizing New Age fake-college. I never thought I’d long for the days when the man was churning out John Grisham adaptations, but I think The Rainmaker probably tops this one.

[Babar]

it has been decided. next weekend i'll watch all of the star wars flicks

[hannah]

Those who have seen There Will Be Blood: did the audience laugh when Plainview gets baptized and/or during the final minutes of the film?

[auto-da-fey]

No, and I think there were a few gasps on the second front. Did you laugh?

[hannah]

No, but the rest of the audience did in each instance. I was curious if I was missing something.

[old kentucky shark]

i watched godard's contempt. godard is now three for five in my book, with breathless, band of ousiders and alphaville winning hard, and masculin feminin and contempt being dumb and useless. pretty but a total waste of time

also saw black sunday (or the mask of satan) and i guess i don't really feel comfortable reviewing it based on the dubbed version, because a lot of the dubbing was distracting and bad, but i was disappointed

[Greg Nog]

Those who have seen There Will Be Blood: did the audience laugh when Plainview gets baptized and/or during the final minutes of the film?

Some of them did for the former, I can't remember it happening for the latter.  I think in the first case, it was probably a sort of reflexive laughter of relief, where folks were happy to see someone intimidating get knocked down a peg.