thank you.

I don't celebrate christmas, but my girlfriend does, so maybe I'll get her this for Christmas.. and read it myself first :)

 

5/10... pretty funny

role models - 7/10
zack and miri make a porno - 5/10

The Longest Yard remake. It was alright and made me laugh at times, but wasn't a keeper

Sherlock Holmes and The Secret Weapon

BRILLIANT

here's the first minute for you who haven't experienced:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75JH3UbW1H8

but that-- kinda misses the point. watch it.

rohmer is a fucking genius. oh yeah, he still lives.

House of Flying Daggers
7.5/10
Typical of these japanese martial arts driven movies: Awesome visually, story.. who gives a shit, its there so there's a reason for violent acrobatics.
The story wasn't necesarilly "bad" just unengaging.. but that, like I said, isn't really the point.
Alot of great to look at, bad ass parts. But, some of them were stupid in their execution or in how they looked.

and the point of that YouTube clip is? After an intro like that I automatically want no more to do with it!

it's a Hong Kong movie

I just saw Quantum of Solace - it sucked - avoid avoid avoid

The Woman In Green, another Sherlock Holmes film

I should explain why Quantum of Solace sucked -
it felt like an epilogue to Casino Royale, it was having trouble standing on its own. The action scenes were shaky as hell and difficult to follow. There was no sense of urgency.

The villain was stealing water from poor oppressed Bolivians. They were already poor and oppressed and this guy was stealing water from them - okay no offense to the poor and oppressed but geeze, in the scale of things WTF? Bond villains are supposed to be bigger than life. I only kind of felt like Bond was in danger and the fate of the world wasn't even close to being at stake. Oh yeah - the whole film is about Bond getting vengeance for Vesper dying in the last film, but half of the time you're forgetting that point because the movie is such a muddled mess.

So yeah - this film was awful and even more disappointing after the amazing Casino Royale.

yeah the moe i think about it, the more QOS was pretty lame after CR... i mean, i was entertained...

i guess its a 5.5/10

ha ha ha ha i dont know.

i thought it was longer.

it's a good movie if you like to read subtitles-- there is an endless reflection by the character about what's going on in the movie. #4 of rohmer's "six moral tales"-- fucking brilliant shit.

and rob-- i'd recommend starting with rohmer's first two "moral tales", which establish the theme from which the motifs are spun off in successive films.

1) The Bakery Girl of Monceau

2) Suzanne's Career

These two are short movies, easily watched. Both in black and white. Issued in a box set by Criterion a couple of years ago with the other 4 movies, and readily available via Netflix.

ab-normal beauty - 7/10

Beautiful and at times disturbing atmospheric film that's very rarely brilliant but always fun to look at.


dressed to kill - 8/10

Brian DePalma rules... well, usually.


a boy and his dog - 6/10

Very odd apocalyptic film starring a dog.

a dog and DON JOHNSON!





don johnson's HEARTBEAT. worse that eddie murphy's party all the time (and check out DWEEZIL ZAPPA, fucking loser fuck)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI5kolBpAk

Bedazzled - Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke - entertaining - fun - better than that shiite remake.

AGAIN. Love this movie, DUDE.

i watched this for the first time in a long time last night with this girl i'm dating (i think). she just read the graphic novel and never saw the movie so that's why i put it on. pretty good movie.

Everyone should be forced to watch this before they go holiday shopping.

What Would Jesus Buy?






BRILLIANT!!






trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGi21YQFjMM

and to all the New Yorkers on the board, Rev. Billy is having a gathering in Union Square on 11/28 (Black Friday) @ 3PM

http://www.revbilly.com/

http://www.revbilly.com/events/buy-n...your-debt-away

dangerous game - 6/10 fear city - 6/10 fallen angles - 7/10 sukiyaki western django - 7/10

new rose hotel - 5/10
gonin - 8/10
gonin 2 - 7/10
gojoe: spirit war chronicles - 7/10
the blackout - 4/10
'r x-mas - 5/10

Lust Caution - I read the short story a while ago, mightily impressed by this,

@sonic, is that meant to be Fallen Angels couple posts up?,the Wong Kar-Wai film, if so great film!.

Has anyone seen this one,i think it's getting a remake next year?

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckdZpYVn38&NR=1

haha yeah i misspelled it.

it was great, unlike anything I've ever seen. I just queued chungking express.

(adam will appreciate this)


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1230/...f636cf.jpg?v=0

^^poster for POULTRYGEIST, in case it doesn't appear
AWESOME!!!!

i laughed until i was out of breath. fucking brilliant!!!!!1

we met lloyd kaufman too, he signed a poster and gave us his email-- wooohoo! the guy is a fucking genius.

shortbus, thats a hell of a thing.

Lloyd's the man. I've talked to him in person twice, at length... he touched my girlfriend's boobs and I didn't care.

I was made to watch teeth with one of my friends. I walked out of my own living room about 40 mins in. so many other things to be wasting my time on!

Teeth's amazing. What a great film. I was totally shocked by how good it was. Was expecting a silly horror comedy, but it ended up being a serious.. and scary!... horror treat. Took itself way too seriously (which I liked)... but it was surreal and I never knew where it was going. Loved it.

Oh come on, teeth was just crap. Crap you had to laugh at. Its a great time drunk.

I watched Iron man again last night cuz my parents wanted to see it.
9/10

Haha. You call Teeth crap and then give Iron Man a 9/10 (which, in my book, means you almost find it to be PERFECT)? I don't need to say anything else!

...I'm only kidding, I don't care in the least what people like or dislike. I just disagree wholeheatedly in this case.

ha ha ha ha
well he's your "gay uncle" (or at least that's what i saw he signed in one of his autographs), or maybe he was just feeling her up?

have you seen poultrygeist yet? holy fuck i laughed so hard...

the girl from it kinda looks like the pictures of your girlfriend you posted (kinda-- similar... head shape? hard to explain). maybe she's his type or something. anyway...

re: teeth, i missed it when it was in town, my friends loved it-- gotta catch it at some point but tiny tv doesnt beat the big screen.

teeth's on instant watch on n-flix, I think 123451. Well, it might not be now, it was when I saw it though..

And yeah Poultrygeist was actually pretty brilliant, though I wasn't that excited for it or about it.. the concept always seemed kinda stupid.. but admittingly it was really good.. the songs were great.

it's my first troma movie (hard to believe, my wife is a toxic avenger fan), so it took me totally by surprise and holy fuck, it blew my mind-- it's kinda like what john waters would be making if he hadn't gone corporate. well its not my first troma film exactly cuz i had started the first turn on on instant netflix, but got distracted, but this was the full-blown experience on the 3rd row from the big screen. shit, the jokes kept coming one after another, i was fucking out of control, and yeah, the songs, i was gonna cringe, but then no, it was pure gold. and thanks for the teeth news, i'll search it, though im on a rohmer kick at the moment in the home dvd front...

See, that's the thing, I've seen probably well over 100 Troma films (I just sold/gave away about 30 of the ones I own actually) so it didn't really excite me, but I can see how it would blow people's minds. I felt bad for not being more excited about it, but it didn't seem like anything new to me except for the songs (which was a concept Lloyd admittingly took from Happiness of the Katakuris -- though the songs were still quite brilliant). It's still brilliant though. Glad you enjoyed it. Almost every Troma film is on instant watch too, btw, haha.

My favorite Troma films are Combat Shock, Class of Nuke'Em High, Period Piece, Touch Me in the Morning, Trailer Town, Unspeakable (NOT the Dennis Hopper one), Surf Nazis Must die, Fatty Drives the Bus, Citizen Toxie, Bloodsucking Freaks, and Maniac Nurses Find Ecstacy.

fuckin a, i'll put those in my list-- thanks man!

hahaha. no prob.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

I...didn't like it as much as I thought I would, though the cinematography was outstanding.

I'd probably give the whole thing a 3/5.

Are you Kidding??? TEETH was brilliant.

She has to be kidding. I think she said she didn't like Happiness before, too -- one of the best films ever made.