The "even" comes from having talked to so many people who fucking rag on it hard. I thought it was an excellent "trapped with the monster" horror flick.

Watching the directors cut version of Alien3 certainly makes things better. Although deep down I can't help but wonder "if the fucking studio monkeys had left Fincher how much better could this film have been?"

the only alien movie i ever loved was the first one. riddley scott used to be a great director.

the second one with winona in a space maze was dumb action shit, i didn't like it.

3 with the YY prisoners was better, it had some psychology to it and fear or rape but it wasn't great

i stopped watching after that.

Woah there you're getting confuddled and befuddled. The one with Winona was the 4th one. Aliens directed by James Cameron, which is just as good as the first one, is the second one.

What did you think of that?

oh siiiiiiii

i <3 maya deren

nah, i might have misplaced winona, but i hate cameron, he sucks balls. i hate all his movies except for the first terminator and his script for strange days.

bad education - 8/10
the skin i live in - 10/10
judge priest - 6/10
tokyo sonata - 9/10
its such a beautiful day - 7/10
moonlight whispers - 9/10
i be area - 8/10
the makioka sisters - 5/10
the man who stole the sun - 8/10
three colours: blue - 9/10
three colours: white - 7/10
three colours: red - 10/10
PTU - 7/10
three times - 7/10
white dog - 8/10
outrage - 6/10
outrage: beyond - 6/10

The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada

I wasn't sure what to expect with this and it took a while for me to really get into it but after the initial, 'what the fuck is going on here?' it blew me away. One of those films that's impossible to describe. You just have to watch it.

Deren and Anger were contemporaries of one another and shared an interest in earlier European avant-garde filmmakers like Cocteau and Bunuel. Have you seen Anger's film Fireworks? There's definite similarities between that and Meshes. They were both on the outer-outer fringes of Hollywood - less self-consciously in the case of Deren but, Meshes anyway, besides obviously being key to the whole Underground Film thing, seems to anticipate certain aspects (albeit in a roundabout way) of films like Sunset Bvd and Mullholland Dr. It's been described as a 'sunshine noir', which really works for me.

PHIL SPECTOR

With Al Pacino, Helen Mirren and Jeffrey Tambor.

Written and directed by David Mamet.

Loved loved loved it. Mamet is in very fine form. Acting is great. Lots of food for thought. Recommended.

Heat

I need to watch HEAT again. It bored the crap out of me when I watched it the first time around.

did you just watch a sasha grey porn or did you mean to say you send "heat" a fly-kiss sasha grey style?

I'm going through a midlife crisis right now and Michael Mann's my ponytail.


It was a fly-kiss to Heat, and Grecian 2000

ha ha ha

Interesting.

Compare/contrast Pacino's performance in HEAT versus PHIL SPECTOR.

2000 words. Double-space. Due by Friday.

I've not seen Phil Spector but does he get to wear snazzy suits and fire big guns?

At one point, he says, "Say hello to my little wall of sound."

HA!

I always use this film as my primary source when arguing that nicolas cage actually is the finest actor of his generation, if not of all time. a genuinely brilliant performance.

Nicolas Cage is great. History will prove him right. Bees or no bees.

7/10

Assault on Precinct 13

The original is a massive fave of mine so I'd pretty much convinced myself that I'd hate this. It's nowhere near as good as John Carpenter's film but it's different enough to be judged on its own merits and I ended up quite liking it. I wasn't sure at first about the decision to replace the gang members with rogue cops but it ends up working quite well. On the whole not great but far better than I expected.

dangerous method is on utube

Wow. If the film's even half as good as the poster I really wanna see it!

pretty great movie for a sunday afternoon. hugely entertaining. i haven't had so much fun w/ a tarantino movie since pulp fiction. dr. schultz was great. the samuel l. jackson piece of shit character was great too-- i almost didn't recognize him. loved tarantino's take on the spaghetti western-- and the soundtrack. only thing if anything it was a little bit too long, but not enough to say "hurry up already, motherfucker!". i *really* liked it. 4.8/5!

I was bored by Django after an hour.

I feel that the two white dudes who wrote it ran out of ideas.

^ I'll play along.

Who was the other writer?

Cannot find the guy's name. pre the movie release tarantino mentioned several times about how Django came about and how he co-wrote it with someone, but I cannot find the name right now. either way, not a good movie.

I'm sure you're right but I've not heard anything about Tarantino collaborating while writing Django. Whoever it was they certainly received no credit. Although I did read somewhere that Will Smith was prepared to star in it as long as there were some rewrites to his character, but Tarantino wouldn't do it.

i loved it. tarantino makes great pastiches. and the doctor's lines i found hilarious.

Hm. I know Richard Avery got fucked for Pulp Fiction (wasn't allowed to go to Cannes--forced his way into the Academy Awards). But I haven't heard this one.

Dr. Schultz is one of my favorite characters in recent movies, which makes me like the movie.

But he gets killed so stupidly and by acting out of character, which makes me hate the movie.

The whole thing made me a little sick and I didn't have much fun. But his new musical comedy about ethnic cleansing in Bosnia should be a hoot.

Haha Will Smith said he didn't want to do it as his character wasn't the lead. What a douche.

he probably insisted his son get a lead role and they told him no

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