Films

Karate Kid 2 on in a minute when I start cooking my tripe, stoked!

Tripe? No... no...
Your veggie? Aren't you? Please tell me Lynda McCartney doesn't do Veggie Tripe now!

I'm fancying a bit of Hitchcock tonight.

I could do a bit of Frenzy!

Just picked up Primer dvd.
Says it's donnie darko for grown-ups
looks minimal

Just picked up Primer dvd.
Says it's donnie darko for grown-up emos
looks minimal

ftfy ;-)

Primer is amazing!
though if you say you understand it properly after the first watch, you're lying.

Primer is amazing!
though if you say you understand it properly after the first watch, you're lying.

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Did anyone see The Box? I was surpised how much I enjoyed it.

Now about to watch Werckmeister Harmonies again. Definite top 10.

saw the fighter last night. OK film, christian bale is really good as the crackhead

I'm fancying a bit of Hitchcock tonight.

I could do a bit of Frenzy!

Frenzy is a complete dog egg of a film! Awful!

Frenzy is a complete dog egg of a film! Awful!

Give over !

It's excellent, one of his best IMO.

I know there's been a lot of talk already about Black Swan but I've got to chip in and say 'Whoa!'
This is a film that will stay with you long after you leave the cinema whether it be because of the beautiful cinematography and direction or the horror and feeling of claustrophobia and paranoia that Portman conveys. It's been a while since I've left a movie and been excited about film and cinema but this film 'got me' on many levels. If this film doesn't get at least 2 Oscars, it'll be a travesty.

All you Portman nay-sayers - I've got plenty of salt and pepper for you to add to the words you'll be eating.

In other news, has anyone seen The Fighter yet?

Nothing wrong with Donnie Darko - thought it was very entertaining (if you don't get caught in looking for 'meaning')

went to see the fighter at the ritzy last night... but the que was ma-hoosive when i got there, so fucked it off. spotted Johnny & Cynthias rigs outside though.

Wen't home and watched Get Low instead, which I really enjoyed. Robert Duvall, and Bill Murray on fine form.
Not sure if it's out yet though? Got a pile of 'for your consideration' DVD's to get through... so dont really know why i was going to the cinema anyways...

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Did anyone see The Box? I was surpised how much I enjoyed it.

just did. really liked it too.

Frenzy is a complete dog egg of a film! Awful!

You wrong young man. Wrongety wrong wrong wrong.

caddyshack. now theres a film

Oh yeah!

Right up there with Weekend at Bernie's

You wrong young man. Wrongety wrong wrong wrong.

It's my least favourite Hitchcock film next to Saboteur. He was undoubtedly a great innovator and his best films are legendary, but he also mades some right stinkers!

My housemate and I were watching Rear Window t'other night and even that is riddled with some of the weirdest, most ridiculous devices and lines! Hilarious.

Oliver, you rule out Alien and its ilk on the grounds that the script is sparse and 'vacant'. Surely it's plain to see that (or not, if you haven't seen it) Aien is all about tension and atmosphere? If it had reams of dialogue it'd be blown completely.

Why should a film be 'all about' just one aspect? For instance, a film with terrible acting, terrible direction, etc., but a grrreat script? 'Josh, you haven't got this film, it's all about the script!' :)

I remember speaking to someone once who worked as an architect on the Lloyd's Building. I said that I didn't like it (my views on architecture are pretty boring). She said that 'the architecture was all in the joints'. Mind you, I don't know what she was referring to by 'joints' but I just had to ask why it should all be in the joints and not equally as well somewhere else. Of course, achieving absolute perfection is impossible, but why make something so unbalanced that it's good in only one aspect and crap in all the others? (I'm not saying that's the case with the Lloyd's Building, that was just her way of defending it.)

In fact, for such a film, saying you've not seen the film but have read the script is like saying you've not listened to 'Brown Sugar' by The Rolling Stones but you have analysed the arrangement. In other words, perhaps you've missed the point?

I most assuredly haven't. :) I didn't say 'I've not seen the film but have read the script'. I said that, apart from having read the screenplay, I was disinterested in one of its major claims to fame, which is its visuals--and I've seen plenty of pictures of those. I don't have to see them in motion. So, as you say above, that leaves one aspect, tension and atmosphere (or make that two, if you will)--but this/those is/are probably the one/two aspect(s) of moviemaking that interest(s) me the least, and that quality in itself to me is not any attraction. I'm quite generally not interested in one-dimensional films, or gimmicky things like the longest tracking shot, or whatever it might be. I've seen too many of them for them to still interest me. And 'Brown Sugar' is considerably better as songs go than 'Alien' as films go. Shit arrangement, though. ;)

Disclaimer: I don't normally analyse films much, I just enjoy them (or not), despite coming over all boring and analytical here.

You wrong young man. Wrongety wrong wrong wrong.

You sound frenzied.

Bullit is without doubt one of my favourite films, I even had the green 350E Mustang with a Steve McQueen figure as a kid. But I think the chase is a tad overrated. It's an excellent chase, no doubt about it. Especially at the start where the bad guys in the Charger belt up and roar off. The thing that ruins it for me is the fact that little green Beetle popping up all the bloody time because they were too lazy to do multiple runs and just used different angles to make the chase seem longer.

[predictable post]That Beetle was the best thing about the film! :)[/predictable post]

It's my least favourite Hitchcock film next to Saboteur. He was undoubtedly a great innovator and his best films are legendary, but he also mades some right stinkers!

My housemate and I were watching Rear Window t'other night and even that is riddled with some of the weirdest, most ridiculous devices and lines! Hilarious.

Rear Window is one of my favourite films ever.

It is BECAUSE of the bizarre scenarios and the surreal settings that the film is genius!

Rear Window is one of my favourite films ever.

It is BECAUSE of the bizarre scenarios and the surreal settings that the film is genius!

This is correct. North by North West is similar but on a more expansive scale, just how pointless is it to send a man on a bus with instructions to get off in the middle of nowhere. Then try and kill him with a machine gun from a WW1 biplane use dfor cropdusting.

The scene is still superb though.

Rear Window is one of my favourite films ever.

It is BECAUSE of the bizarre scenarios and the surreal settings that the film is genius!

I know, I know! Every time I watch it and it gets to the end where he's flashing his flash I seem to find myself screaming "what the farrrkkkkk?!?!?!?" at the screen.

[predictable post]That Beetle was the best thing about the film! :)[/predictable post]

i haven't seen the carchase in bulllittt. i read the script for it and thought "why bother?"

*winky