What movie did you last watch? - Page 63

WolfMoon · 04-03-2006, 09:48 AM

Damn, no wonder it was such a great part!

I think they should start making all actors wear masks.

Johnny Depp is exempt from that rule, of course.

Has anyone else seen 'The Gift'?

Sobeh · 04-03-2006, 10:07 AM

Wasn't The Gift the one where she uses Zener cards to divine? The triangle/wavy lines/square/etc. shape-cards? Where Keanu Reeves plays the redneck?

Beowulf · 04-03-2006, 11:15 AM

Legend of the Witches (1970)

This interesting film is a documentry on the history of witchcraft in britain.

For more info...

tenet_2012 · 04-03-2006, 11:17 AM

David Lynch's "Eraserhead"...

I don't even know what to say about this really, really fucked-up movie.

PinstripesAndPithHelmets · 04-03-2006, 08:17 PM

Road Warrior. I love that movie. I want his car. And his one armed leather jacket.

Godslayer Jillian · 04-03-2006, 09:02 PM

I saw Saw II

Sobeh · 04-03-2006, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

I saw Saw II

I saw Saw II too.

Godslayer Jillian · 04-03-2006, 09:20 PM

YYURYYUB ICURYY4me

Magpie_Tendencies · 04-04-2006, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian

YYURYYUB ICURYY4me

My friend used to have lots of those coded letter sentences and she'd write them out during class and I'd spend the entire class trying to figure them out instead of paying attention. I blame her for my bad Maths grades last year

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TwistedKitsune · 04-04-2006, 01:13 AM

2LDK, written and directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi

One exceedingly long, exceedingly violent chick fight...just...wow (If you didn't like/couldn't stand Kill Bill, you probably won't like this one)

Morrigan_Dubh · 04-04-2006, 04:05 AM

I watched "The Happiness of the Katakuris" (Katakuri-ke no kôfuku ) last night... A truly bizarre film...
A comedy horror musical (should there be dashes or slashes between those words..?), which seems to be a genre I've inexplicably drifted into enjoying. It's diected by Takashi Miike, but you wouldn't guess, as there's not much in the way of gore. It's a quirky (yes, "quirky") story of a family who run a guesthouse in the middle of nowhere. The business is struggling - they haven't received a single guest since opening. Eventually, to their great happiness, a single guest arrives unexpectantly.
I won't give any more plot away, except that there are deaths, dancing, singing, shallow graves, and claymation...
I love it for the amount of times it made me say "what the f**k?"...

pitseleh · 04-04-2006, 05:52 AM

I watched Last Days by Gus van Sant.

The main character of this film, Blake (Michael Pitt) looks a lot like Kurt Cobain, and is basically in a similar situation, but as it is stated at the very end of the film, before the credits, the film is only "inspired" by the last days of KC, but all characters and events are fictional. I like that, because a conspiracy-theorist plot and emotionally charged script would have been a totally inappropriate way to tackle this kind of story.

Apart from the absence of a plot, the slow pace and lingering frames showing very little in way of action, probably the strangest aspect about the film is the sound. Many of the enviromental sounds (doors closing, feet shuffling, bells of various sorts, creaking and muffled voices) are arranged in a way that suggests a paranoid collage of psychoacoustics. It adds to the unsettling mood, but is sometimes almost musical in nature.

You can only rarely hear everything someone is saying, and when it is clear, what is being said is usually one of the peripheral characters expressing their will or opinion. Blake is basically never audible, apart from short sentences here and there, even though he mumbles to himself alot. But he does pick up the guitar on a few occasions. One of those produces a pretty cool one-man jam session with several looped tracks, as guitarists are wont to do; the other one pretty accurately nails the essence of pathetic post-grunge "power ballad" songwriting, while still being better than any of those bands! Anyway, I had to skip that scene...

That being said, the whole experience of watching this is something like being a distant spectator to a series of wholly unremarkable events, that are nonetheless quite captivating in their undignified emptiness. Some are hilarious (the guy drawling along to "Venus in Furs" by the VU, kinda made me like that song a little less), some are poignant (just Blake in general, wandering about) and some are just uncomfortable (that whole "interacting with people" bit).

I had a weird time watching this, but I have to say it was still pretty interesting, and offered a few opportunities to chuckle at some morbid - and to me, very bleakly 90's - scenarios.

Don't watch this if you are easily bored, but I'd recommend it over an emotionally manipulative Hollywood flick any day.

Oh, and it also features Asia Argento! In a minor role, but oh - is she ever the cutie. And Kim Gordon! (who is not as good at acting as music and vocalization, unfortunately).

Pathogen. · 04-04-2006, 10:38 AM

Two. Again.

*Batman [1 episode with the Penguin].
*Frances [1982] [a biography flick on the life of outspoken, independent-minded & later institutionalised 1930s/1940s film/stage actress Frances Farmer. Jessica Lange's best role ever!].

Pathogen. · 04-04-2006, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Xnguela

I love Jessica Lange! I used to go to school with her kids!

XNG: You're lucky. Were you friends with them or were they typical snobby-acting, spoiled rich kids?

cannibalnuns · 04-04-2006, 12:50 PM

Die Hard With a Vengeance.

Pathogen. · 04-05-2006, 01:48 PM

Two.

*Batman. Again. [1 episode with the Riddler].

*Mortal Thoughts [1990] [Bruce Willis plays an abusive, loudmouthed, coked-out wifebeater in this; not a role I'm used to seeing him play].

Beowulf · 04-05-2006, 02:13 PM

The Breakfast Club (1985, Directed by John Hughes)

Five students: Allison, a weirdo, Brian, a nerd, John, a criminal, Claire, a prom queen, and Andy, a jock, are forced to spend the day in Saturday detention. At first they are quiet, but later they start talking and learn that behind the exterior, they are all the same.

IMDB

Classic John Hughes!!!.

Beowulf · 04-05-2006, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Xnguela

No way. Is that the first time you've seen that?!

Xng,

Its one of my favourite films, I`ve watched it loads of times, it`s John Hughes at his best (and no, there is no Shermer in Illinois

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I take it you like his films as well, whats your favourite John Hughes film?.

Pathogen. · 04-05-2006, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Beowulf

The Breakfast Club (1985, Directed by John Hughes)

Five students: Allison, a weirdo, Brian, a nerd, John, a criminal, Claire, a prom queen, and Andy, a jock, are forced to spend the day in Saturday detention. At first they are quiet, but later they start talking and learn that behind the exterior, they are all the same.

IMDB

Classic John Hughes!!!.

BEOWULF: "The Breakfast Club". 1 of my favourite flicks growing up. My favourite characters were John [the Metalhead] & Alison [the nutbag]. Those 2 always made me laugh. The film wouldn't be anything without them. In high school, I used to see myself as a mixture of John & Alison. And how about those classic lines?!!

JOHN: "Being bad feels kinda good, huh?"
ANDY: "If you don't settle down, I'm going to beat your fucking face in". JOHN: "You & how many of your friends?" ANDY: "Just me". JOHN: "And how many hits?" ANDY: "Two hits. Me hitting you, you hitting the floor".
THE DETENTION-MONITOR: "I'm sorry to inform you, but John Bender will be relieved of his troublemaking duties for the rest of the day". JOHN: "B-O-O H-O-O!"
ANDY [TO ALISON]: 'Well, I'm not the one who dumped out my purse & invited everyone into my problems".
JOHN [TO CLAIRE]: "Don't talk to my friends! Don't look at my friends! Don't even condescend as to even come near my friends!!"

Pathogen. · 04-05-2006, 03:54 PM

Soon, I'm going to watch another 1980s teen flick "Pump Up The Volume" [1987]. Starring a hella young Christian Slater.

Beowulf · 04-05-2006, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Pathogen.

Soon, I'm going to watch another 1980s teen flick "Pump Up The Volume" [1987]. Starring a hella young Christian Slater.

Pathogen,

That film fucking rocks, and "remember to eat your cereal with a fork, and do your homework in the dark".

Pump up the Volume is definatly in my top 20 films!!!.

ExistentialDisorder · 04-06-2006, 01:50 AM

Brokeback Mountain.

Good attempt for a gay film made by straight people. Gotta give them credit for trying. It's a sad movie. It didn't piss me off like I thought it would. It actually has some rather haunting qualities that stay with you. It reminded me of some past experiences that I don't really like thinking about. It's definately one of the most emotional films I've seen in a long time.

The problem is that it's a straight people's gay film. by that i mean the audience, more than it's creators. which takes a lot of the meaning out of it. it was written by a woman, and then adapted to screenplay by a man and a woman, both presumably straight based on their commentaries. somewhere along the line i think those factors are what deaden the actual connection between the two main characters and the rest of the film. especially in the sense that they made it more of a lust thing than true love. for straight people trying to interpret homosexual love and emotion, it's like trying to write a first-person story about the life of a cop when you've never been a cop. you can research it all you want and learn all the details, but you'll never really understand it until you've lived it. and i'm sorry, but there is a big difference between heterosexual and homosexual love. the first rule of writing is to write what you know.

but overall it's a good film and did a decent job of trying to portray this type of story honestly. unfortunately the straight audiences - which is ultimately what this film targets - still won't get it.

i just wish there were more homosexual writers and directors that were more interested in telling a real story about their lives instead of rehashing last friday night at the local fag bar, which basically is the gist of the bulk of "gay" films out there.

Morrigan_Dubh · 04-06-2006, 03:22 AM

I watched two movies on TV last night...
"Thelma & Louise" and "Cruising".

delusional_fairy_goddess4 · 04-06-2006, 05:16 AM

donnie darko-director's cut
great movie(at least i think it's a great movie)

my mom loves brokeback mountain. she even has a crush on jake gyllenhaal(i think i misspelled his name). which is a little creepy, because he's only 25 and she's in her 40s.

Morrigan_Dubh · 04-06-2006, 05:49 AM

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my mom loves brokeback mountain. she even has a crush on jake gyllenhaal(i think i misspelled his name). which is a little creepy, because he's only 25 and she's in her 40s.

That's not creepy at all, my darling. That shows good taste. He's a peach.
If you find guys in their 20s attractive now, then wait until you are in your 40s and I am sure you will still have plenty of crushes on 20-something boys.