28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[dreamdead]

Sophie Fiennes The Pervert's Guide to Ideology. The conceit of integrating Zizek into filmic space as he lectures is still worth a giggle every time Fiennes places him into a new environment, but some of the ideas fell less developed than they did in their earlier coverage in ...Cinema. The Last Temptation of Christ ideas especially felt inchoate concerning its atheism given how that film closes--an idea that at least needs broached.

Loved the footage of the Russian film about WW2, and some of the material on They Live is also thoroughly convincing. Some of the theorizing on the recent riots (Arab Spring, Occupy Movement) needed a little more consideration to fully resonate with his thesis, though.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Baraka just blew out my brain. I need to go sleep it off.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Baraka just blew out my brain. I need to go sleep it off.

Fricke?

Yes yes yes yes. God, that movie. It's one of the movies.

[Watashi]

I WANT.

[baby doll]

I WANT.

Looks swell, but where the hell is Model Shop?

[MadMan]

I'm bummed that they choose Scanners. Shivers, Rabid and Crash would make for much better Criterion selections from Cronenberg's work out of the ones already on Criterion. Also I wish they would put Dead Ringers back into print.

[Skitch]

Guys and gals, 85,000 films from the British Pathe Archive are now on YouTube. It truly is a great age to be a cinema fan. We have so much access...I just love it.

[MadMan]

I've watched some movies already on YouTube that were not on Netflix Instant Viewing. Its nice not having to wait for DVDs in the mail.

[dreamdead]

Kinda interesting to watch Crank 2 and Taken 2 pretty much back to back. The former is much more idiosyncratic and basically embraces all of its misogyny, which occasionally doesn't always feel tongue-in-cheek (see the gay couple with the dog collar), but it's also more alive and exciting, even if it's ultimately about so little. Surprised that Amy Smart continues to do these since she's pretty much humiliated throughout. Bai Ling suffers the most, though she's also the one who the film most self-consciously acknowledges as being a caricature.

Taken 2 succeeds most in the actual balance of Neeson's daughter being given things to do. Once it's all down to Neeson against the terrorists, it's pretty rote.

[Pop Trash]

Mauvais Sang proves Godard could still make a pretty good film back in '86. Mostly I enjoyed seeing Lavant, Binoche, and Delpy in their salad days.

[Izzy Black]

It's Godard's best film.

[Qrazy]

Wut.

[Boner M]

Mauvais Sang proves Godard could still make a pretty good film back in '86.

If this means what I think it means, fuck off.

[Pop Trash]

If this means what I think it means, fuck off.

[Derek]

If this means what I think it means, fuck off.

Let's all unite and just post videos of French people dancing in Godard and Carax films to piss Qrazy off.

[Dukefrukem]

Kinda interesting to watch Crank 2 and Taken 2 pretty much back to back. The former is much more idiosyncratic and basically embraces all of its misogyny, which occasionally doesn't always feel tongue-in-cheek (see the gay couple with the dog collar), but it's also more alive and exciting, even if it's ultimately about so little. Surprised that Amy Smart continues to do these since she's pretty much humiliated throughout. Bai Ling suffers the most, though she's also the one who the film most self-consciously acknowledges as being a caricature.

Taken 2 succeeds most in the actual balance of Neeson's daughter being given things to do. Once it's all down to Neeson against the terrorists, it's pretty rote.

Taken 2 is on HBO everyday and I always turn it on during the grenade scene, which I still think is the best part of the movie. The rest is junk.

[Dukefrukem]

Serious question: Do MCers prefer auto motion plus (AMP) and the other vendors equivalent? Or do you prefer this turned off?

[Grouchy]

Serious question: Do MCers prefer auto motion plus (AMP) and the other vendors equivalent? Or do you prefer this turned off?

You mean in high definition tellys? Turned off all the way. That's just useful for sports.

[Dukefrukem]

You mean in high definition tellys? Turned off all the way. That's just useful for sports.

I know it's great for sports. But I had company over this weekend and they kept telling me that it looks awful on 100% of the time. And I just don't see it. I love it on, and I think it makes the picture 2x better. Smoother. Crisper. Makes everything look like it was shot on film.

[Sven]

All of the monitors in Hell are rigged with smoothing displays. They're atrocious.

[Henry Gale]

It's not the worst thing ever, but it's close. I mainly see use for it with the aforementioned sports broadcasts but it can also make things like first-person video games less straining on the eyes (though for games I usually play them on a really decent and still lively flatscreen tube that seems to deal with colour-richness and clarity of frame-rate movement better than most HDTV's I've seen).

But for anything narrative (which I'm pretty sure 99% of all things are shot and meant to be 24 frames per second) absolutely no. Oh god no.

It's something I fear will be pitched to the public as some sort of norm, especially with people like Cameron and Jackson advocating FPS 3D and that being misconstrued as something "better" when nothing other than a few things like The Hobbit even currently exists that way natively. I don't think it has any place outside of those rare theatrical exhibitions. I see TV commercials applying the 60hz look to themselves and all I can do is yell "WHHYYYY" on the inside.

[Mysterious Dude]

Makes everything look like it was shot on film.

To me it makes everything look like it was shot on video, like a soap opera or a sitcom. No matter what I'm watching, it becomes fake-looking.

[Derek]

To me it makes everything look like it was shot on video, like a soap opera or a sitcom. No matter what I'm watching, it becomes fake-looking.

This. It's the worst except for sports.

[Grouchy]

To me it makes everything look like it was shot on video, like a soap opera or a sitcom. No matter what I'm watching, it becomes fake-looking.

Exactly. It's the complete opposite of what Duke is saying. It makes everything look like video.

[Dukefrukem]

Exactly. It's the complete opposite of what Duke is saying. It makes everything look like video.

"Shot on video". What does that even mean?