28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[Mara]

Watching the Bing Crosby cartoon of Sleepy Hollow on Youtube. It's weird.

Who's the town lady's man? Ichabod, Ichabod Crane.

So creepy. Scared me to death as a child. Really dark for a Disney short.

[Derek]

Big Fish beats Batman Returns handily.

Big Fish is hot garbage.

Hey Derek where's your av from? If it's from the Mekas I'm even more curious than before.

Yeah, he has a lot of typed or hand-written inter-titles throughout, that one of a more tongue-in-cheek fashion.

[D_Davis]

He has yet to top Ed Wood or Batman Returns, though.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is better than both.

[Derek]

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is better than both.

Definitely.

[Lucky]

Big Fish is whimsical and successfully endearing. I like the little town Burton created in that. Good casting as well.

[Raiders]

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is better than both.

Still his best film. Probably always will be.

[Ezee E]

I love the Bing Crosby Sleepy Hollow. It's really the only way I picture the movie.

[Dukefrukem]

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is better than both.

The truck driver scene scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

[Yxklyx]

Oh man, the Headless Horseman song is good.

Now he likes them little, he likes them big
Part in the middle, or a wig
Black or white or even red
The Headless Horseman needs a head

good is at least one word I'd use to describe the above

[Boner M]

weekend:

13 Assassins
Docks of New York
Come on, Children (comma added by me)
More Ubuweb catchups

[balmakboor]

weekend:

13 Assassins
Docks of New York
Come on, Children (comma added by me)
More Ubuweb catchups

Why did you add a comma? That's like adding a question mark at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It changes the intent of the title.

I liked Come On Children a lot btw.

[Boner M]

It changes the intent of the title.

Making it sound less like kiddie porn.

[D_Davis]

Making it sound less like kiddie porn.

[balmakboor]

Making it sound less like kiddie porn.

Oh...

[Yxklyx]

"CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival expelled Danish director Lars Von Trier on Thursday for jokingly calling himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathizer, leaving the world's biggest cinema showcase in a state of shock."

[Dukefrukem]

"CANNES, France (Reuters) - The Cannes film festival expelled Danish director Lars Von Trier on Thursday for jokingly calling himself a Nazi and Hitler sympathizer, leaving the world's biggest cinema showcase in a state of shock."

[megladon8]

I thought this was kind of neat...


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[elixir]

Safe was unsettling in the best way. I'm still trying to sort my thoughts out on it and it feels like something where I'll notice so many more things upon each new viewing of it...the environmental illness part seems to be merely ostensibly the subject of it, or the catalyst perhaps...while there is definitely something being said about the toxicity of modern life, it extends way beyond pollution and beyond the normal "suburbia sucks" genre of films...the main character is a void and I feel like it's this absence of self that is the reason for her decline (at least metaphorically), and the self-help center is simply further destroying her chance for a strong personality or any real interactions (the sad glimpses of one with her cooking partner are devastating). While maybe not "realistic" as a person (I don't really give a fuck about that, I'm just saying), the film uses this extreme example of a void, a nothing--a person defined by their negative capabilities and absences (of true friends, of any opinions that seems to strong) to get across its points. The film perfectly captures malaise and one going through the motions and feeling sick from it all (obviously in extremes) and the final moments are ultimately quite depressing I think (though apparently others see it differently).

I feel like I haven't really even begun to gone beneath the surface right now with my incoherent ramblings, but suffice it to say that even if I didn't understand it all, I loved it.

[Pop Trash]

LOLERSKATES @ your Dancer in the Dark rating elixir. Don't let Spinal see that. Oh and Safe rulez.

[soitgoes...]

Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier, 2000) 3

Ugh. This distracts me from your Safe review. Trier's film is one of the best ever. Spinal's eyes aren't the only ones that need shielding from such things.

[Irish]

Interesting article on the genesis of Paddy Chayefsky's Network script, including photographs of handwritten notes and outlines made during development:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/mo...twork-film.htm

[Ivan Drago]

Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) zooooooooooooooooom

You still liked it, though, right?

[elixir]

You still liked it, though, right?

Not really. I'm not going to call it a bad film and I'm glad I watched it, but it was pretty much just an endurance test for me.

[Ivan Drago]

Not really. I'm not going to call it a bad film and I'm glad I watched it, but it was pretty much just an endurance test for me.

Aw, dude, I was in a trance throughout the whole movie. I also saw it on projected film which made the experience even more awesome.

You'd probably like WVLNT: Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have The Time.

[Watashi]

The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1960) 7.5
Thor (Branagh, 2011) 8.5

This is worse than elixer's Dancer in the Dark rating.