This weekend I'll be drinking my fav. beer in my fav. pub: U fleku in Prague. Envy me.
This weekend I'll be drinking my fav. beer in my fav. pub: U fleku in Prague. Envy me.
Tony Manero - Why am I subjecting myself to this horrible movie?
Cuz it's actually a pretty good movie.Quoting Winston* (view post)
Finished it. Disagreed. Did not need that ugliness in my life.
Don't make me defecate on your expensive clothes.
I understand Shadow of a Doubt was Hitchcock's personal favorite of his own works. For me, it's one of his films that beautifully married his technique, his themes, and a script with great dialogue. It sits just below Rear Window on my scale.
Btw, I saw the Vivre sa vie Blu-ray last night and I can feel a new personal favorite film happening.
Tony Manero is out on DVD now? I've been wanting to see that for ages.
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It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Fuck you guys, dammit.
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Shut up.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
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Hard Times (Hill) ****½
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/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
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I would pass you a bottle, but this beer is brewed there and ... yes, everyone drinks it there. No bottles, nowhere.
Come, and see.
I feel like my time in Prague was a missed opportunity, now. I'm sure it's better than Staropramen (but many more korunas). I went to plenty of bars in Prague, but I'm not sure if I can name one. I remember Bohemia Bagel.
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Yeah yeah yeah. One of the things I wanna do before I die is enjoy a pilsener from the source, in the land that invented the stuff.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
They have vending machines with Pilsner Urquell in them. It's absurdly wonderful.
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shut up.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Exactly. No one buys beer from vending machines.
You get it served from the brewing master, from the urquell so to speak.
EDIT: I guess I'll get a "shut up" for this post.
I've never seen FGF, but I always assumed it was a prank set up by some film friends of mine that have good taste, and say that they like this movie.
I haven't fallen for it. I've seen the preview, and that's good enough to know it's wretched in this case.
Yawn.
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
It really bothers me that people think I'm joking when I say that Freddy Got Fingered is brilliant.
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Hey, I gave it a fair chance. But I'm sorry. It is remarkably, painfully unfunny. In fact, I'm positive it isn't even intended to be funny. But there's nothing else there. I think Ebert is right, that this film one day (today apparently) will be regarded as some landmark in neo-surrealism, but the day will never come when it can be properly called a comedy. It is the definition of just not my kind of film. The envelopes it pushes do not get delivered to me.
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Freddy Got Fingered may be demented, but as I've seen someone rightly observe, nothing in the film is really as weird as the hostility of its reception. Vadim Rizov wrote a defense of the film on the IFC site recently, and he made an interesting point in suggesting that it would play far better today than it did at the time, now that its dadaist style of humor has become more acceptable in the media landscape, debuting as it did around the same time as the infancy of Adult Swim. As he also notes, what makes the film particularly effective is how it actually works better than most ostensible "gross out" comedies as an almost tender work of emotional honesty and naked soul baring. You may love it or you may hate it (I wouldn't begrudge those who do), but it's difficult to argue that the film isn't blazingly auteurist and altogether sui generis in its warped vision.
Letterboxd rating scale:
The Long Riders (Hill) ***
Furious 7 (Wan) **½
Hard Times (Hill) ****½
Another 48 Hrs. (Hill) ***
/48 Hrs./ (Hill) ***½
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Besson) ***
/Unknown/ (Collet-Serra) ***½
Animal (Simmons) **
The reviews for Furry Vengeance are overwhelmingly BAD? Gol-dangit, I was expecting this to be the big #1 box-office draw of the year! :sad:
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If parents are taking their kids to see a movie this weekend, it'll likely be How to Train UR Dragon again.
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The Secret of Kells just opened here. I'm thinking that.
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