28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[monolith94]

Am I the only one who'd like to see a David Lynch film with Brian Blessed in it?

[Grouchy]

I bought Superman: The Animated Series Season 1 on DVD and I hadn't realized before that a huge staple of the DCAU is characters destroying TV sets when they don't like the news. I wish someone with more spare time than me would count all the times someone blasted the TV on this and the Batman show.

[Spinal]

Am I the only one who'd like to see a David Lynch film with Brian Blessed in it?

It hadn't occurred to me until now, but that is an inspired idea.

[Bosco B Thug]

The Game was too fantastic and didn't have the eccentricity to properly make it work, but it's a sleek film that at least (before the reveal) doesn't ever betray its most persuasive angle as a nightmare fantasy about invisible grand larceny in the impersonal electronic age.

Smiley Face was... weak, even by its standards. It's good the performances and the idea behind it all is inherently conceptual and buoyant and candy-colored for the "heightened" meta-viewing, because funny-when-you're-high, predictable gags are just predictable when you're grounded. It's also irritatingly nonsensical. Why are ALL THOSE PEOPLE looking for her at the end of the movie???? Oy.

[MacGuffin]

Smiley Face was... weak, even by its standards. It's good the performances and the idea behind it all is inherently conceptual and buoyant and candy-colored for the "heightened" meta-viewing, because funny-when-you're-high, predictable gags are just predictable when you're grounded. It's also irritatingly nonsensical. Why are ALL THOSE PEOPLE looking for her at the end of the movie???? Oy.

Yeah, Jane Lynch and the people looking for her at the end were the only funny parts for me. It's a really mediocre movie, overall. I don't think Gregg Araki will ever make a good movie.

[Winston*]

I don't think Gregg Araki will ever make a good movie.

I think Greg Araki has already made a great movie.

[MacGuffin]

I think Greg Araki has already made a great movie.

If you're talking about Mysterious Skin, I don't consider that a good movie.

[trotchky]

I don't think Gregg Araki has ever made a bad movie.

[MacGuffin]

Well, I just saw one of the best movies ever made.

[Dukefrukem]

Well, I just saw one of the best movies ever made.

Boy Meets Girl?

[MacGuffin]

Boy Meets Girl?

Yeah.

[Boner M]

Yeah.

It's a good one, but wait til you see Carax's Mauvais sang before you make that designation.

[Qrazy]

It consistently impresses me how little overlap (aside from new releases) there seems to be in peoples signatures (and by association we witness the enormous output of an art form only about a century old). We've all definitely seen many of the same films and yet there's so much content out there that we can simultaneously explore completely separate seas in the ocean of cinema.

[NickGlass]

I believe that Gregg Araki has made two very successful movies (Smiley Face, The Doom Generation) and one hit-and-miss film (Mysterious Skin). My opinion on his oeuvre, however, tend to run contrary to even what his fans think.

I really, truly do not understand how anyone can call Smiley Face predictable. Gags? It's a freewheeling film about post-collegiate waywardness, which is completely nailed by Anna Faris' tragicomic performance.

[Sven]

Attempted to rewatch The Quick and the Dead with Kristen the other night. Had to stop because it is goddamn terrible.

[baby doll]

Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax, 1984) 5/5

Yowsers, Inspector Gadget! If you liked that, wait until you see Les Amants du Pont Neuf.

[Ezee E]

It consistently impresses me how little overlap (aside from new releases) there seems to be in peoples signatures (and by association we witness the enormous output of an art form only about a century old). We've all definitely seen many of the same films and yet there's so much content out there that we can simultaneously explore completely separate seas in the ocean of cinema.

It doesn't shock me that much. After all, if someone has similar taste, and they see a movie that their friend enjoyed greatly, they'll check it out in hopes of the same response.

[Qrazy]

It doesn't shock me that much. After all, if someone has similar taste, and they see a movie that their friend enjoyed greatly, they'll check it out in hopes of the same response.

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"It consistently impresses me how little overlap."

[Derek]

By my count, Gregg Araki has made one great movie and one awful movie.

[Ezee E]

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"It consistently impresses me how little overlap."

Oh... I think we overlap quite often, minus a few.

[Qrazy]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Kaufman) - Questions:

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1. How do the pods absorb the memories and consciousness of people. Sometimes they touch them and other times they don't. Are we to assume they just need to be in a 50 foot proximity or something? Even if they used pheromones to transfer info. it seems like that would only reach the human host and not feedback to the pod to give the pod the info. it needed to duplicate.
2. Why can the Snatchers be fooled sometimes but not other times.
3. If a Snatcher can be fooled why can't pods? How do pods know they are only replicating humans and not already snatched humans.
4. Why can some Snatchers show more emotion when they communicate than others. If that is their defining characteristic why do they not all exhibit it (married woman, Leonard Nemoy).
5. Not really a question but Donald Sutherland is pretty gullible. He's taken in by new Snatchers (taxi cab driver) regularly when he should be on the alert at least after the second time.

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[Qrazy]

By my count, Gregg Araki has made one great movie and one awful movie.

Brighton Rock thoughts?

[Raiders]

Ride Lonesome (Boetticher, 1959) ***

B, when we going to get a few sentences on this?

[Derek]

Brighton Rock thoughts?

I loved how Pinkie's amorality becomes increasingly terrifying as the film goes on. Attenborough's stone-faced intensity more than makes up for the rather simplistic, though engaging, plot. Rose and Ida were both a tad underdeveloped in terms of the motivations behind their more drastic actions, but that's a relatively minor complaint. It's beautifully shot and quick as a whip - a solid recommendation.

[Boner M]

B, when we going to get a few sentences on this?

Hey, it only entered my sig a few hours ago. First half kinda boring, Randolph Scott boringer, supporting cast awesome and play off Scott's boringness wonderfully, Karen Steele's jugs amazing, 'scope photography among the best I've seen, final shot a metaphoric wonder, OK maybe I should watch this again.