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

[Ah_Pook]

hopefully i can track down a copy of D-WAR (!!!) tomorrow, i have big hopes for it.

so i just watched this and it was endlessly excellent. i will probably buy the dvd eventually, whenever i can scam a cheap copy of it.

[WhereTheSlimeLive]

there was a night a couple months ago where i was begging for anybody to come see that with me

[old kentucky shark]

juno was pretty cute, i liked it more than i was expecting to. i assume i'd dislike it more each time i rewatched or thought about it in the future but it was just pretty cute is all. whatever!

[Ah_Pook]

there was a night a couple months ago where i was begging for anybody to come see that with me

man i wish i had seen it on the big screen. the end with all the monsters attacking LA and then the bizarre lord of the rings dragon fight climax would have been that much cooler.

[jebreject]

i meant to go see there will be blood last night but it never happened. i regret this.

[martin_van_buren]

I watched Battle Royale and Burden of Dreams last night. Both were good, but not as good as I'd hoped. Today I watched nothing

[Doctor Bob]

All of the above comments on Once (except morgan's) echo my own feelings on the subject.

A magical night in Dublin

Mr Edelstein obviously doesn't get out much, or has a very different understanding of 'magical'.  Don't get me wrong, I've had magical nights in Dublin (And so can you!  You have my number...), but they've never included Glen Hansard.

(Also: morgan- the connection probably appeared realistic because Glen Hansard was banging Marketa Irglova during the making of the film.  They're an item now.  Their 20 year age gap makes ours seem unremarkable.  So much for acting.)

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I'd be interested to know what the things that are specific to rural Ireland you thought people might not catch were - I'm sure I must have missed a couple of allusions or references here and there. I still remain a bit conflicted about the very ending (the last shot), because part of me was going "Hey! Stop ripping off Bresson!" and the other part "well, this is really good, though" - but overall, I thought it was really well done - and kudos to Abrahamson for not falling into cheap sentimentalism when it would have been so easy to.

I'll be back anon to respond (once [ha! 'once'] I've re-read my original post re Garage to see what I was saying).

I thought Garage was pretty great, though I have a couple of minor reservations.  Also, I wonder how it'll go across outside this country- some of it is very specific to rural Ireland.

I've been thinking about this since yesterday and I've come to suspect that the features I considered specific to rural Ireland might in fact be more universal than I realised, although I think the shadow of the 'Celtic Tiger' that hangs over the film is probably peculiar to Ireland.  The theme of a society/culture passed over by a supposed general economic miracle is a largely unspoken fact of life for the characters, though it is apparent in subtle ways.  I've long thought that the 'rising tide lifts all boats' cliché is a nonsense and this film seems to support my hunch.

I'm not sure what Bresson film you're referring to (I think I've only seen one of his), but one of the reservations I mentioned previously concerned the ending.  Not its questionable originality, but its believability.  I think it just about gets away with it.

Anyway, glad you thought it was grand pretty good.

[nonotyet]

jesus holy fucking christ why does this movie exist why does this movie exist no possible good can come out of anything related to this. mommy.

[Andrew_TSKS]

ok, now i want to see that. i've added it to my netflix queue.

[lastclearchance]

the trailer is horrible too

[jebreject]

whoa i'm with andrew on this one

[guanajuato]

yah, i don know what you guys doin but i just saved a movie called TEETH in my netflix que.

children of men is great, the king arthur one is great because of the massively awesome performance by one stellan skarsgård, both movies have clive owen in them -- shoot em up has clive owen in it. paul giamatti, he's in it.

the movie shooter with mark wahlberg is actually better than shoot em up and that's saying alot. it offended me, not because of the hero plunging carrots into the eyes of bad guys, delivering babies, shooting umbillical cords with his gun, but because how offensive is it to think this is extreme action. apparenetly, via reviews, robert ebert thinks it is so extremely action oriented it's gonna be a legend. it's so TAME. seriously. i'd rather watch the last sin eater, that christian movie.

[edison]

I've been thinking about this since yesterday and I've come to suspect that the features I considered specific to rural Ireland might in fact be more universal than I realised, although I think the shadow of the 'Celtic Tiger' that hangs over the film is probably peculiar to Ireland.  The theme of a society/culture passed over by a supposed general economic miracle is a largely unspoken fact of life for the characters, though it is apparent in subtle ways.  I've long thought that the 'rising tide lifts all boats' cliché is a nonsense and this film seems to support my hunch.

I'm not sure what Bresson film you're referring to (I think I've only seen one of his), but one of the reservations I mentioned previously concerned the ending.  Not its questionable originality, but its believability.  I think it just about gets away with it.

Anyway, glad you thought it was grand pretty good.

I thought of Au Hasard Balthazar in particular - you'll probably understand the comparison if you've seen it, and if not, well, I'd recommend it highly! I'm also with you on the believability aspect, but I'm generally not too concerned about believability in films, so I thought Garage got away with it too.

[Doctor Bob]

Thanks for the tip.  I know the title but not the film.  It's on the list.

(For some reason, I associate it with Georges Perec- perhaps he was just a fan?)

[edison]

I have no idea, actually. I mean, come to think of it, with that title, Au Hasard Balthazar could theoretically be a filmic version of La Disparition! But it isn't.

[Doctor Bob]

Heh.  Very true.

Perhaps it gets a mention in the book.  I'd check, but that would mean reading it again, and... eh, it was fun, but once was enough.

[G.C.R]

I've always wanted to see Balthazar, but if its anything like Once, well then, flag

[Andrew_TSKS]

so i finally watched another netflix movie for the first time in something like 4 weeks. tonight i watched the trip. it's on a double-feature dvd with psych out, which i may watch later if i don't fall down the tv politics rabbithole (i also have a week's worth of countdown episodes that i want to still watch, so it's anyone's guess at this point). anyway, the trip was fucking weird but i really liked it. this may come as a surprise to some of you, since it's such a classic drug movie, but i've always found the whole psychedelic thing really interesting even removed from any sort of drug context, so all the crazy colors and weird images that peter fonda spent the movie seeing were fascinating to me. there wasn't too much of a plot, but what there was was also really interesting, watching fonda run around being crazy and, uh, tripping out. the whole bit where it seemed like he was coming to a new understanding of his position with regard to the divorce he was going through and the new girl he was starting to date was interesting to me as well, though i'm certainly not someone who thinks that this is how all major life issues and decisions should be made. so yeah, i liked it. i'm really into seeing as many of the weird roger corman movies from the late 60s, when aip was the company who was really tackling the subjects that rebellious hippie kids wanted to see and make movies about. to that end, i've also got a double-feature dvd with wild angels on it coming from netflix soon. well, relatively soon, assuming i start sending movies out on a prompt schedule again.

[rockmeamadeus]

man, I dunno... it was different from anything else I've seen, and sort of awesome... both really awesome and really slow. I dug it... it was way pretty.

[diesel_powered]

So right now I'm watching The Brain That Wouldn't Die on cable access' "Nightmare Sin-ema".

Now, I first saw this movie on MST3K (a show that I'll always have a special spot in my heart for, not only for the nerdiness but because it was produced by my hometown heroes) and while I'm rarely on a big b-movie kick, I gotta give "Wolfman Mac" some credit for dragging his ass out and doing a weekly show. There's no reason why I don't have a public access show, but he's got one and I don't and there's something admirable about being the guy who shows up and  gets the job done. And really, while I'm not unbelievably huge into b-horror, I can definitely get down with the level of kooky kitch.

(Now the guy's trolling for chicks to get a body for the brain that wouldn't die. I couldn't make this up.)

[morgan]

(Also: morgan- the connection probably appeared realistic because Glen Hansard was banging Marketa Irglova during the making of the film.  They're an item now.  Their 20 year age gap makes ours seem unremarkable.  So much for acting.)

The chemistry was definitely there, yeah, but people can fake chemistry, too.  I meant that the actual story seemed a lot more realistic than a lot of romantic movies being made these days.

And hey, I once dated a guy who was 16 years older than me.  Come to think of it, he was also Irish.  Perhaps old Irish men just have a knack for seducing young foreign women?

[Andrew_TSKS]

so i went ahead and watched "psych-out" last night as well. i liked "the trip" and all, but "psych-out" was so much more awesome. it was produced by dick clark in 1968, when he decided that he wanted to make a movie that showed what the kids were up to in san francisco in a reasonably positive light. so the whole thing is shot on location in haight-ashbury sometime right around the "summer of love", and the music in the movie is mostly by strawberry alarm clock, who appear in the film--as do sky saxon and the seeds, for one song where they're playing in a park and a shitload of hippies are running around doing some weird symbolic ritual about the death of death.

anyway, as for the actual plot--a deaf teenage girl runs away from home and comes to san francisco to find her brother. when she gets there, she runs into jack nicholson and friends, who are in a band called mumbling jim (or something like that) and who help the girl avoid the cops and give her a place to stay. from there, the movie just follows the girl and the band as they travel around san fran looking for her brother and playing shows. there are a couple of dramatic parts and honestly, the ending is incredibly bleak, but for the most part the movie does a respectable job of trying to paint an honest picture of what life was like for kids in the haight at the time. i was way into it, even though jack nicholson, bruce dern, and dean stockwell were all obviously wearing fake long hair.

[Doctor Bob]

I've always wanted to see Balthazar, but if its anything like Once, well then, flag

Nope- Garage, not Once.

Perhaps old Irish men just have a knack for seducing young foreign women?

Surely I can't be held responsible for the effect I have on younger foreign ladies?  It was a gift from g-d.

[nonotyet]

hey guys

last night I watched the first Die Hard for the first time ever in my entire life


and it was awesome

[DCDave]

hey guys

last night I watched the first Die Hard for the first time ever in my entire life


and it was awesome

Best Christmas movie ever.