Films

what about 'Tourist'
vehicle for Jolielips or serious director flick?..........

do not and I repeat do not go and see Love and Drugs. gaaawd I ate all my popcorn out of sheer boredom. can I get a refund for your popcorn making me feel sick?

credit us with a bit more fucking nous please

why are modern hyped films so fucking shit?

your post implies some value in film.
lots of audiences dont go to films for value, they go for sheer escapism, dosent matter to them.
it is after all the most accessible cultural product,

I suggest you immediately take up Opera viewing, you will have to watch, understand, translate the language all at once,blockbusters wont bother you anymore.

logs off goes to Covent Garden for matinee

what about 'Tourist'
vehicle for Jolielips or serious director flick?..........

Shit, ridiculously predictable. However Johnny Depp is fun to watch, as usual.

Watched Somewhere last night. Liked it. But then i like films where nothing really happens.
What the hell is Party Boy doing in it??.. although his acting seemed ok.

Also started to watch Black Swan the other night, but turned it off after an hour as i had to get up early.... it was starting to get very, very dark. Havent had the guts to watch the second half yet.

I genuinely thought he stole every scene he was in. The Navratalova comments had my girlfriend and I in hysterics.

That bit was great. "some russian bitch"

i couldnt work out if he was ad-libing, or if it was scripted. I think he's gonna go a long way.

I read in a magazine the other day in an interview that all his stuff was ad-libbed (they were given themes to talk about but free reign on what to say)

< impressed.

hmm.. even more impressed now.
I wish him luck.

secret in their eyes. +1

or wait for the inevitable hollywood remake no doubt starring george pissing clooney.

^ Still haven't seen that - looking forward to a DVD copy if only so I can see what all the fuss is about with the big one-shot in the stadium..

A friend has been banging on about it for months:

"one-take chase sequence that begins high up above a football ground, sweeps across the pitch, into the crowd and ends in the bowels of the stadium. Filmed at Argentine team Huracan’s stadium, the scene took a scarcely believable three months of pre-production, three days of shooting and nine months of post production to complete."

it's a police procedural at its heart - good ol mindfuck twist at the end tho. don't watch it with your mum in the room tho. and yes the football stadium scene is jaw droppingly well done.

i know this has probably been said here before but what's irksome is that of all the films i've seen this year, the best have far and away all been foreign language films (TSITE, A Prophet, The Lives of Others) that pretty much piss from a dizzying height over anything hollywood has mustered. yet come awards time, specifically the fucking oscars, all these films will be lumped into some asinine, patronising 'foreign language' section while derivitive, overblown shite like Avatar hoovers up the rest of the gongs. not that these mastubatory exercises in self congratulation are by any means a measure of quality, they do serve to get otherwise under appreciated/exposed film makers and actors access to a wider audience.

For those of you who enjoyed Black Swan, definitely watch Requiem For A Dream. Same director and similarly dark.

Didn't enjoy that to be honest. Massively hyped by just about everyone I know but it just left me feeling that it was a cold, emotionless film. Even something like Irreversible had a purpose. Requiem for a Dream seemed just empty and ineffective. Brutal for the sake of it. I get that the emptiness may have been part of the point but it's not something I'm in any hurry to watch again.

Also, Aronofsky is a hipsters wet dream:

^^Opposite view here. Found Irreversible very difficult to watch and won’t stomach it again, whereas Reuiem For A Dream I like a lot – it’s based on a Hubert Selby Jr book. Irreversible is surely more brital for the sake of it.

Umming and Ahhing - In places sure, but I felt at the end of Irreverisble that I was interested in it and I could watch it again. It might be an ordeal in the obvious places but I could do it.

Requiem I just didn't have that feeling. Maybe I should go back to it. I haven't watched it since I bought it about 4 years ago. Now's probably a good time.

Have to disagree, I find RFAD pretty uncomfortable and not very rewarding viewing, I can understand why people like it, but just find it does not go far enough in any of the ways it could.
Both the Gaspar Noe films I've seen Irreversible and Enter the Void are visually mindblowing and really take affect on the viewer, I find the content of the Noe films less off putting than that of RFAD. I will say Ellen Burstyn is fucking terrific in RFAD (I wanted to see here, peggy and Keira in the childrens hour, but it's sold out)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI89ovR36r0

i know this has probably been said here before but what's irksome is that of all the films i've seen this year, the best have far and away all been foreign language films (TSITE, A Prophet, The Lives of Others) that pretty much piss from a dizzying height over anything hollywood has mustered. yet come awards time, specifically the fucking oscars, all these films will be lumped into some asinine, patronising 'foreign language' section while derivitive, overblown shite like Avatar hoovers up the rest of the gongs. not that these mastubatory exercises in self congratulation are by any means a measure of quality, they do serve to get otherwise under appreciated/exposed film makers and actors access to a wider audience.

its just that "hollywood" produces so many films the good ones might be harder to spot
between the mega advertising campaigns for the blockbusters.

"the prophet" and "lives of others" have already been preselected for you as foreign
films that stood out and made it to the international market.
if you had to watch the regualar output of german or french cinema you would
probably kill yourself.

"the prophet" and "lives of others" have already been preselected for you as foreign
films that stood out and made it to the international market.
if you had to watch the regualar output of german or french cinema you would
probably kill yourself.

very good point :)

its just that "hollywood" produces so many films the good ones might be harder to spot
between the mega advertising campaigns for the blockbusters.

"the prophet" and "lives of others" have already been preselected for you as foreign
films that stood out and made it to the international market.
if you had to watch the regualar output of german or french cinema you would
probably kill yourself.

good point well made.

also - watch this

I enjoyed that ^ though, as with all dance-finales, I was a little put off at the end :)

heh indeed - all went a bit bollywood at the end. did kinda somewhat maybe tie-in with the tap dancing farmers seen throughout the film tho.