Spike ,'Smile Time'
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I just watched the trailer for Melancholia and now I can't help wondering if Lars von Trier has been pulling our leg his entire career.
I'm going to go with a "YES" with this. Which doesn't diminish the fact that he can make a great movie.
R.I.P. Sidney Lumet.
Aw. Sad now.
I just watched Speed Racer. Was that a movie or a candy-colored assault on my senses and/or film itself?
(I think I may have finally ended up kind of liking it by the end, but, seriously, what the living fuck was that.)
Sometimes I wish I was a film editor so I could take the theatrical release of Speed Racer and turn it into a damn fine 90 minute flick.
I mean, it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before, but not always in a good way. Well, usually not in a good way. But it was still pretty fun despite that. It was sort of like Sucker Punch with cars.
I mean, it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before, but not always in a good way. Well, usually not in a good way. But it was still pretty fun despite that. It was sort of like Sucker Punch with cars.
Plus John Goodman fighting ninjas. That was a keeper there alone.
ETA - I want to see it with a friend who's a car nut and just HAD to see it. We saw it in IMAX. You can't imagine the assault level of that, but I had fun (though it may have been due to audio-visual punch-drunkness).
It seemed like a movie that would have been much better in a theater. Or worse.
Plus John Goodman fighting ninjas.
More like a non-ja.
P-C, are you familiar with the original show? Because that does help with some elements.
I suspect it would have been Too Much For Me on a movie screen, and it is too long, but its excesses seem joyful instead of cynical, and that makes a big difference. I dunno; I think it's the same way I love Crank. The first time I saw it I went back and watched all the races again. Maybe a few times.
Someone said it was an art-house experimental film masquerading as a summer tentpole, which... yeah.
P-C, are you familiar with the original show?
Not really. I knew the basics, I suppose. And the song. I did get that a lot of the weirdness was straight from the show, though.
its excesses seem joyful instead of cynical, and that makes a big difference
Definite joy.
Someone said it was an art-house experimental film masquerading as a summer tentpole, which... yeah.
Ha. I can see that. Just the crazy way all the scenes transition with floating heads and shit like that was just like WHAT ARE YOU DOING.
Not sure if this belongs in here or music, but did we hear about the Jeff Buckley biopic.
An exegesis of sexual subtext in “Predator”
Using post-freudian dialectical analysis, it becomes clear that the 1987 action film ‘Predator’ is an allegory for the gay male struggle to accept a differing sexual identity than is appropriate in a dominant hetero-normative cultural system.