Anti-littering PSA from David Lynch: [link]
Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.
Glory ,'Potential'
Buffista Movies 5: Development Hell
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Tom Scola - Mar 25, 2007 7:04:56 am PDT #7995 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2007 11:22:31 am PDT #7996 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I just got back from the international film fest showing of Almodovar's All About my Mother. SO happy that I waited to see this on the big screen for the full immersion experience. Cecilia Roth just blew me away - I think that's the best performance by an actress I've seen in the past year.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 25, 2007 12:00:31 pm PDT #7997 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Movie quiz stuff:
1) Repo Man (didn't really love it on first pass; soon become most quoted movie in then recent memory)
2) Grapes of Wrath
3) John Hurt's cameo in SPACEBALLS (double your reference, double your fun)
4) Damn, I've only seen PEEPING TOM which is post-Pressburger. Oh well, it's a great movie.
5) Trey and Matt showing up in drag and tripping.
6) Guy Pearce. For RAVENOUS if nothing else (and there is more).
7) Amarcord
8) THE NAKED KISS
9) Monica all the way, bay-bee!
10) GROUNDHOG DAY / THE FULL MONTY / NORTH BY NORTHWEST
11) PATCH ADAMS
12) HOPE AND GLORY
13) Warren, though I do love Bruce.
14) The correct one.
15) I think Quentin Tarantino's movies utterly reflect his personality, and that's just the first one I thought of. I think both Wes and Paul Thomas Anderson are also in that category. And definitely Sofia Coppola.
16) Aguirre.
17) THE FLY (Cronenberg version)
18) Sandra, for getting to torture Jerry Lewis on camera.
19) Favorite: the jaded hero(ine) who rediscovers their reasons / Least: Wacky misunderstandings that two sentances would have cleared up.
20) Nes.
21) BIGGER THAN LIFE (scary ass shit and could have qualified for question 17); my wise-ass response would be THE AMERICAN FRIEND
22) I'm going with famous "bombs" that were underrated: POPEYE, HUDSON HAWK & LONG KISS GOODNIGHT.
23) VIDEODROME
24) Bruno!
25) HEARTS OF DARKNESS
26) Michael Palin throwing out "but I didn't have the salmon mousse" at the last second in MEANING OF LIFE. In a non-movie context, Bob from TWIN PEAKS showing up by accident in a shot a Lynch and company running with it.
27) WINGS OF DESIRE
28) Pena, for LONE STAR if nothing else (and there is more)
29) BLACK SHEEP: Get ready for the violence of the lambs!!!!
30) Whatever Pauline Kael did, that's what I loves the most.
Bonus: Yes, because they matter to me.
Also, a massive pbpbpbbbblllttt!!!! to Hec for his 2001 crack.
Polter-Cow - Mar 25, 2007 6:28:51 pm PDT #7998 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I just watched the Manchurian Candidate remake.
How did they take an exciting thriller and make it so damn boring ?
I feel like it was ineptly made, or I just hated all the directorial choices. Like the fact that half the shots were the character right in the middle of the frame, facing the camera. Often talking to the camera in the process of addressing a character. There were a couple times where it seemed intentional, for effect, but it happened so many times for no apparent reason that it felt like Demme had never made a movie before or something. Plus, the constant fade-outs were weird. It's like the movie had zero momentum. It was sort of a mess. I don't get it. I remember being really impressed with how good the original was.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2007 9:08:59 pm PDT #7999 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Some alternative marketing for 300. I cracked up at the visual the creator chose for the first chorus.
megan walker - Mar 26, 2007 8:43:29 am PDT #8000 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Pena, for LONE STAR if nothing else (and there is more)
God do I love that movie! Now that I've actually been to that part of Texas, I should probably see it again.
Frankenbuddha - Mar 26, 2007 1:06:02 pm PDT #8001 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Finally saw PAN'S LABYRINTH and I loved, Loved, LOVED it. Put me squarely in the camp that feels that everything that Ofelia saw really happened and the ending is a happy one. Even if there weren't two things I'd consider tells, I'd feel that way - it certainly seems more unambiguously a happy ending than CHILDREN OF MEN. But both her brief escape from Vidal in the labyrinth via the walls (though you could make a case that he was lagging due to the drugged drink), and, more tellingly, how else could she get out of her locked room in the first place. This is similar to THE SHINING (Kubrick version) in that almost everything COULD just be Jack going crazy and taking his family with him, except for who let him out of the storage locker. And even the chalk is almost a tell - where did she get the chalk if the faun didn't give it to her?
Anyway, loved it.
Jessica - Mar 27, 2007 9:08:34 am PDT #8002 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Saw Blades of Glory last night. I wasn't expecting much, so I wasn't disappointed. It's no Dodgeball, but it's passable. Will Ferrell and Will Arnett are both hysterical (even if Will Arnett isn't given nearly enough to do, he is the only one of the cast who can actually skate). Jon Heder continues to baffle me -- why do people think he's funny, again? Amy Poehler (no, I don't know how her name is really spelled) is also good but underused, ditto Jenna Fischer.
The plot is beyond sloppy and inane -- if you were really really drunk and The Cutting Edge was on TV, and then you wrote a parody version in your sleep, it would come out something like this.
(I actually had a much better time at it than I'm making it sound, but I wouldn't recommend anyone actually PAY to see it. Wait for the DVD, or see something good and then sneak in.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 27, 2007 2:20:20 pm PDT #8003 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Dnevnoi Dozor opens June 1st.
Invisible Green - Mar 27, 2007 3:03:11 pm PDT #8004 of 10001
I just saw Ein Kleid aus Warschau (A Dress From Warsaw), the new Esther Dischereit film. It was pretty good, though it felt somewhat underdeveloped.