re-watched Reel Injun last night, reminded me of how long it had been since I watched Atanarjuat...described in Reel Injun as the first "inside job". Just a fantastic movie, if anyone hasn't seen it, you need to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I69lbgclAIs

What say you on Neon Demon?

Still haven't gotten around to that one. Waiting for the right moment, when I'm so stone-cold super chill that nothing can shake me. That moments never going to come though, so maybe I should just watch it and vomit since I'm already vomiting.

well it's super GLOSSY. pure eye candy. like, 99.9% high fructose corn syrup plus vanilla. what's not to like?


back in the day we had minority report, 3 men and a baby, and adam sandler's movies couldn't go straight to youtube

The Neon Demon for me was just okay. I was really looking forward to it cause I like Nicholas Winding Refin, I enjoyed "Drive" and even liked "Only God Forgives", which I know I'm in the minority on, The Neon Demon didn't connect with me. For all the talk about how shocking it was because it involved such taboos as cannibalism and necrophilia, for me I thought it was interesting but ultimately feeling, that's it?

I liked Neon Demon. But it reminded me a lot of Starry Eyes from just a couple years back.

 

Ridiculously bad. 4.5/10

so after all them real-life clown sightnings here comes trailer for Stephen King's adaptation of It. looks cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnCdOQsX5kc

no... it has scarlett!

okay, yes, storywise it's total baloney but come on, good visuals

it wasn't supposed to be a documentary anyway, right?

i like luc besson. yes, he's a trashy filmmaker. and yes he makes almost the same superhero movie over and over with his characters. but i just like his brand of trash.

so much so that talking about it i kinda wanna see this movie again.

The Usual Suspects, for my first time ever

I think so too. Especially since I rewatched the TV movie from back in the day and realized how utterly shit it was in pretty much every conceivable way. Total shit. Shit sandwich. Also, hilarious.

apart from tim curry..
tim curry is always awesome.

If I haven't seen a Michael Bay film in a while I seem to convince myself that I quite enjoy them. Then I'll watch one again and get a reality check. I've nothing in principle against the kinds of films he makes I just can't stand the way he does them. And there really isn't much to study in terms of his style. A lot of it's just Tony Scott on steroids.

Saying all that, if there's one Michael Bay film I do enjoy it's The Rock, but that's more because of Nicholas Cage than Michael Bay.

^^ nicolas cage + michael bay must be an insane mix. all the frosting that is possible! i'll be sure to follow soon.

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just watched HOLY MOTORS, and HOLY SHIT WHAT A MOVIE

i don't wanna ruin it with explanations or even movie stills that might give some things away but holy wackawackawacka it was so fucking beautiful and brilliant



with a movie like this, you don't need drugs. it is the drug.

Yeah, he was definitely the best part, and genuinely scary for me when I was 8. I hear the poor guy is wheelchair bound now. Suffered a stroke or something? Really sad. What a great evil motherfucker he was.

He played a sicko evil kidnapping rapist motjerfucker on Criminal Minds once. Terrible show... just tepid and ridiculous and boring and insulting to bevahioral scientists everywhere, but even in that ghastly setting, he haunted my dreams a bit.

Did it blow your mind? I always thought its "mind-blow" factor was gratuitously overstated. It didn't make me go "what." like, say, Fight Club did the first time I watched it. I was like, "that (SPOILER) is fucking (SPOILER)." And then the (SPOILER) turned out to be (SPOILER), and I probably shrugged or something.

Great movie. Seems like it's been forgotten about pretty quickly, but it's something else.

No, but I also generally knew the plot twist going into it because so much hype over the years that I never bothered to avoid.

I love this movie, but it does get better with each viewing.

^^ oh that is something i've never seen. and MUST.

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this past weekend watched the XXI century version of CASINO ROYALE

i need to watch it again knowing what i know in the end. particularly eva green. who always does some sort of femme fatale, with her strange face and nice tits.

what's amazing about THIS james bond is how he gets continually traumatized and nevertheless keeps running like a ton of bricks. is it something in his physiology or something else i think it's kinda hilarious. i mean, i get that the actor spends a lot of time at the gym but muscles don't make a person invulnerable.

so i kept looking for something to touch his real vulnerabilities. like winston in 1984. torture vesper in front of him, and then see what he does.

peculiar too that the girl's arm doesn't get cut off either. this is no scarface movie. people here have shreds of honor.

vesper lynd is a superinteresting character though and i realize now i paid very little attention to her because it was in all appearances a dumb action movie and i treated it as such. basically i had a computer game playing all throughout it. ooops!

i might need a rewind ha ha ha

hahhaha. Too funny.

Re: Usual Suspects, I think it is the most Hitchkockian film to come out in decades. Perfectly constructed IMO.

He is a ton of bricks. That's the answer. He's a gorilla. Not a man. Daniel Craig, that is. And if I recall, he does kinda lose his shit a bit at the end of Casino Royale, doesn't he?

That was a really swell reboot attempt, and they had the bases loaded for an awesome new Bond era with the cliffhanger ending. Then Quantum of Solace had to come along and be a big boring stupid thing, most of which I cannot remember for the life of me. Then Skyfall was good. Then SPECTRE was mostly total crap.

This was supposed to be the Bond answer to Nolan's Bat-flicks ... in fact, did you know that Chris Nolan and Christian Bale were originally pursued for the project? I didn't... not until recently. Anyway, turned out to be the most perfectly uneven tertralogy in recent memory.

I haven't seen it in forever, but that's because I was pretty roundly unimpressed by it. I have never thought of it as Hitchcockian, but maybe you're right. Maybe I need to rewatch.

@ SYMBOLS -- Don't read my post in response to tw2113 about this. There be spoilers. Will edit.

yes, he a gorilla in figure but i know plenty of cage fightning athletes that are now retired for much less ha ha ha. but anyway

thanks for the spoiler eradication. much appreciated.

as for a "critical" appreciation of the bond reboot-- it seemed overly long-- not just for me but my wife was also watching. went on and on and on... she complained first. i get it now that's supposed to be as epic as la dolce vita, and therefore...

lol, no. just way too long for the material.

didn't know about the nolan/bale duo. bale as bond? i dont know ha ha ha ha. sounds kinda hilarious.

anyway

what i really was interested on was vesper's face as she delivers her lines.

her lines weren't that great tho. "you're such a man your pinkie finger" haaaa haaaa haaaa haaa. okay it was funny. in a terrible way. like a dirty uncle joke, machismo part and parcel of it all.

I think they went too serious with the Daniel Craig films. Losing the fun element almost completely. Not to say they should've descended to the pure comedy of stuff like Live and Let Die but if I'm honest I do prefer that campier side of the series.

hehehe. I have never seen tv movie ver.

I was rather unimpressed and disappointed by it too.

Thank you!

hmm....about 2/3 of the way thru A Cure for Wellness....sort of Jared Kushner meets Rosemary's Baby at the Road to Wellville. Not sure I'm going to bother finishing it....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1rLFCdewU

Forget Paris a couple nights ago, Buffy The Vampire Slayer since then. Tonight I have Angels in the Outfield.

I like some cheese, I'll deal with it :D

That sounds nightmarish.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

One of those films I'm always in the mood to watch

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to demonrail666 again.

^^ ha ha

ha ha ha ha

yes

yup I've said it before and I'll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while... you just might miss it.

I really can't fault that film, although I weirdly never actually liked Ferris. I'm definitely Team Cameron.

Same.

Under the Skin, shit movie, great soundtrack

I loved it.

And the soundtrack.

under the skin was awesome

not just cuz scarlett

it was all great