I'd rather you get hit by a bus than Gallo. He makes great films and great music. You make nothing. Check and mate.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
I'd rather you get hit by a bus than Gallo. He makes great films and great music. You make nothing. Check and mate.Quoting Qrazy (view post)
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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"Great" is certainly a matter of opinion here.Quoting Brightside (view post)
Alex Cox has no room to rip into anybody, considering he made this:
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My YouTube Channel: Grim Street Grindhouse
My Top 100 Horror Movies OF ALL TIME.
Let's all just agree that no one has any right to voice their honest opinions about anything cos everyone sucks and will do and/or has done something shitty.
Was that Gallo quote from before he worked with Francis Ford Copolla on Tetro?
Yeah, it's from that unpublicised interview conducted in the early 00's that was leaked last year (that's where all of his quotes in that article are taken from).Quoting Winston* (view post)
Yeah, I was starting to wonder if he actually watches his own movies.Quoting baby doll (view post)
I mean I quite enjoy something like 'Through a Glass Darkly' but it's not exactly trotting along.
Actually I make a great deal.Quoting Brightside (view post)
Gallo is a complete shithead who's an average actor, made one competent film, one shit film and one film no one will ever see.
Also by your logic you should get hit by a bus as well. You've pretty much dove headlong into the old line of bullshit... you can't criticize anything if you're not better at it!
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I dove into that old line of joking around. You should know me well enough by now.:PQuoting Qrazy (view post)
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Yeah it's true, my bad. :lol:Quoting Brightside (view post)
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Any recommendations for good Japanese films about the war or that have stuff in them about the war?
Kobayashi's Human Condition TrilogyQuoting Winston* (view post)
Ichikawa's Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
Imamura's Black Rain about the slow and painful nuke fallout after the war is quite powerful.Quoting Winston* (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
In addition to the great films, Gallo has a couple excellent albums worth of music under his belt.
Oof, what a pun that was.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
I hinted toward that, yeah. I've been listening to When recently and really enjoying it.Quoting Milky Joe (view post)
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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The Fifth Seal, a morality tale about a group of friends living in Hungary under Nazi occupation, marks another terrific film seen during this cinematic journey. Roughly the first 35-40 minutes take place entirely within the confines of a bar where the lights are kept very low and an ear is always listening for an air raid siren. A partially crippled war veteran stumbles in the bar and his persona joins the mix as the guys continue to debate philosophical and moral issues in the face of an oppressive government and war. Fábri's camera swirls around the table and joins in the discussions with jaunty zooms accentuating faces. One of the guys, who'd thus far been obviously unimpressed with their certitude in their moral stances, poses a "be the slave or the master" question to test their convictions, which sends each of them reeling off into the night and back to their respective lives. After a group of local soldiers enter the bar again the next night after having came in the previous night and leaving without trouble, they kidnap the original four men and take them to a military compound. A young soldier is eager to execute them for accusing them of being murderers, an nice touch of irony, but the boss takes a more intellectual approach and seeks to strip them of their self-respect before letting them go free. They're each asked to slap the face of a resistance fighter twice in order to leave, who is strung up like Jesus, arms spread in the middle of a room complete with a spotlight shining directly in the mens' faces, effectively casting judgment upon them as they contemplate the deed. I'd be curious what people made, or will make, of the ending.
Last 5 Viewed
Riddick (David Twohy | 2013 | USA/UK)
Night Across the Street (Raoul Ruiz | 2012 | Chile/France)*
Pain & Gain (Michael Bay | 2013 | USA)*
You're Next (Adam Wingard | 2011 | USA)
Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
*recommended *highly recommended
“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.” -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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I remember Grave of the Fireflies being good.Quoting Winston* (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth is very specifically about Japan in the 30s and 40s, leading from the Manchurian invasion to WWII, seen from Setsuko Hara's eyes.Quoting Winston* (view post)
Recently Viewed:
Thor: The Dark World (2013) **½
The Counselor (2013) *½
Walden (1969) ***
A Hijacking (2012) ***½
Before Midnight (2013) ***
Films By Year
Since I have now seen all their feature films, I shall rank the Coens!
Blood Simple - 7
Raising Arizona - 4 (I have tried twice. It's not for me. :|)
Miller's Crossing - 7
Barton Fink - 7
The Hudsucker Proxy - 7
Fargo - 9
The Big Lebowski - 8
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 7
The Man Who Wasn't There - 8
Intolerable Cruelty - 4
The Ladykillers - 3
No Country for Old Men - 7
Burn After Reading - 6
A Serious Man - 9 (the best)
True Grit - 6
Blood Simple - 84
Raising Arizona - 48
Miller's Crossing - 89
Barton Fink - 66
The Hudsucker Proxy - 72
Fargo - 78
The Big Lebowski - 66
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 57
The Man Who Wasn't There - 58
Intolerable Cruelty - 49
The Ladykillers - 28
No Country for Old Men - 65
Burn After Reading - 66
A Serious Man - 70
True Grit - 55
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
If this is going to happen en masse as it usually does can it be in another thread please?
The Princess and the Pilot - B-
Playtime (rewatch) - A
The Hobbit - C-
The Comedy - D+
Kings of the Road - C+
The Odd Couple - B
Red Rock West - C-
The Hunger Games - D-
Prometheus - C
Tangled - C+
I was wondering what spawned that, but then I actually read the post.
On a related note, I finally saw all of Raising Arizona for the first time the other night (I know, I know), and despite it being one of the few Coens I hadn't yet seen, it still managed to completely take me by surprise. It's just such a mindblowingly fun movie, which considering the rest of their work, isn't something they tend to set out to achieve without also adding their characteristically (though usually enjoyably) cynical world view in the form of a significant moral drama, whether you may consider that an asset or baggage in each individual case. If there's anything that I could bother to say negatively about it, it would maybe be that its shift to a more reflective, sentimental tone towards the end feels a bit sudden, and maybe not entirely justified considering the way it whimsically and cartoonishly presented its characters before that. But even then, once it got to the final dream, I couldn't help but feel like that last minute change was completely worth it. There's no way I could rank it anywhere near things like Ladykillers and Introlerable Cruelty.
Also, I feel like it's not brought up enough how thematically and structurally similar it is to No Country.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Yeah, Raising Arizona is their best, but I love them all. Even The Ladykillers.
None of their films would receive less than a 7/10 from me.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft
NO!Quoting Qrazy (view post)
Blood Simple -7
Raising Arizona -10
Miller's Crossing -7 (needs a rewatch)
Barton Fink -8
The Hudsucker Proxy -7
Fargo -10
The Big Lebowski -7
O Brother, Where Art Thou? -8
The Man Who Wasn't There -n/s
Intolerably Cruelty -n/s
The Ladykillers -n/s
No Country for Old Men -9
Burn After Reading -7
A Serious Man -7
True Grit -8
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
I want them all.
Sure why not?
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Rian Johnson) - 9
STRONGER (David Gordon Green) - 6
THE DISASTER ARTIST (James Franco) - 7
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (Sean Baker) - 9
LADY BIRD (Greta Gerwig) - 8
"Hitchcock is really bad at suspense."
- Stay Puft