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Elska

21-06-2004, 11:47

I wathed In the Mood for Love last night, a film from Hong Kong by Wong Kar-Wai who directed one of my favourite films ever, Chungking Express. I think the film was very typical art film in the sense that very few words were spoken and you had to draw conclusions about what happened between different scenes. Anyway, it was beautifully shot with a love story between the two main characters told as subtly as possible. I thought it was a beautiful film, obviously not for everyone, but I liked it.

diamente

21-06-2004, 11:58

I've seen that film too Elska, it's extremely beautiful. I've not seen many films that possess as much grace as it, it's so elegant. I've only seen it once, but i do want to see it again!

Jennifer

21-06-2004, 12:00

Jersey Girl, last night in my mates Van, he had a copy of it, it was actually pretty sweet, I might go see it again.

Jen

xXx

Elska

21-06-2004, 12:03

I know...the end bit when the main male character was whispering to the wall of the monastery ruins just broke my heart! It's probably one of those films you understand better on second viewing, since it's full of kind of subtle hints.

diamente

21-06-2004, 12:06

I'm gonna have to rent out this film, cos i really want to see it again now!

Danni

21-06-2004, 20:30

Originally posted by linoleum
Oh god I LOVE The Pianist. Made me weep. Especially when he plays for the German soldier when he finds him in the house.

*sniff*
god that is one of my favourite films! I love it and the book is great too!

I watched A Beautiful Mind the other night which was wonderfuly brilliant

KaruMoo

23-06-2004, 09:27

I watched nightmare on elm street 3, what a nice little nostalgic trip for me, nice and cheesey.

diamente

25-06-2004, 12:40

Nightmare on Elm Street 3? A comedy classic.

Last film i watched was the equally arty Return of the Living Dead, which is really hysterical in places. It's trash, and it knows its trash (and for good measure, there's a character in it CALLED Trash) and it makes me laugh a lot. I think this was the first film to feature the horror movie cliche of the zombies screaming 'Brains!!!' relentlessly. Never gets boring, especially this heartbreaking comment from a recently zombified bloke to his sweet girlfriend:

'I love you....and you've got to let me eat your BRAINS'

Recommended to anyone with a weakness for the 80's, bad movies and funky haircuts.

Danni

25-06-2004, 21:19

er...Mean Girls....it was relaly funny
*is ashamed*

Awkward Sex

26-06-2004, 00:15

Ghost World, a most excellent film. Kind of like Daria, but better.

lutz

26-06-2004, 16:32

Dario Argento's "Opera".

diamente

26-06-2004, 17:05

Opera, eh? Probably the most frustrating out of all Dario Argento's films. On one level I thought it was atrociously scripted and directed, cos the characterisation is all over the joint (sorry, but if you'd just seen your bloke torn apart like that, i think you'd be a bit upset) and the tone should have been more humorous to accomodate the fact that it is utterly ludicrous (releasing a load of crows into an audience?) in places.

On another level, it's a technical masterpiece: the camerawork is mindblowing, the set-pieces are really ingenious and the film has style in abundance. I was really looking forward to seeing this but i gotta admit i was a bit disappointed, especially since Suspiria's the best horror film ever made in my opinion, and Deep Red and Tenebrae are absolutely cracking thrillers.

Sorry, i did a dissertation on Dario Argento's films at university a few years back and I had to watch them so many times, so I end up being a bit of an over-critical bore when i talk about them.

I'd love to see Inferno again though, providing it was a special edition that turned the music up and the dialogue down.

Danni

26-06-2004, 18:51

Originally posted by Awkward Sex
Ghost World, a most excellent film. Kind of like Daria, but better.
haha Daria is good though! i still fancy trent and that is just wrong

Awkward Sex

26-06-2004, 23:20

Oh, and I saw The Musketeer last night. Boring shitheap of a movie. Its only redeeming feature is that Mena Suvari is in it.

Kavokei

26-06-2004, 23:55

Finally saw Donnie Darko for the first time last night. While coming down. Slightly disturbed.

lutz

27-06-2004, 01:28

The Video stores here don't stock anything pre Deep Red or Post Trauma. I have seen a large portion of his movies though (I've been collecting them on DVD). Most of his movies on second viewing you notice exactly how many Red Herrings and un-picked up plot points there are. The problem I think with Opera was the story line. I still havn't been able to figure out what was going on with all those flash backs.... Its just um.... frustrating (as for ridiculous what exactly did an Ape wealding a hatchet have to do with Phenomena??? I thought as far as ridiculous goes the crows where at least very pretty.). Inferno is a very beautiful fim, I guess if you consider it a "middle" film thats meant to bridge over a trilogy it works really well. The disjointed "continuous narrative" can be used like that. Can't wait to see what happens with a third. Suspiria is definatly my favourite (I love the first stabbing in the museum in Bird with the crystal Plumage even after you have seen the whole movie it is still a disturbing fim).
Gowd. I am just gonna shut my trap.

diamente

27-06-2004, 09:50

I agree about Inferno being a very beautiful film. I have never seen another horror (with the exception of Suspiria) that looks as gorgeous as that. With visuals like that, it doesn't matter the acting's not so hot (and the acting is pretty weak in that film!). I wonder if Argento will ever conclude the trilogy, but i think he's waaaaaay past it now. His last film, Sleepless, was just a regular thriller with about two good scenes. Very below par for him. I think the last consistently great film he did was Phenomena, cos that's ridiculous but has more conviction in its silliness and is really, really entertaining for it.

But i'll never forget Suspiria: no matter how lame Argento is now, he's at least made one masterpiece. I read a review that said 'the film feels like what you imagined horror films to be like when you were too young to get into them'. It's a weird comment but i know exactly what that reviewer is trying to get at. Suspiria's like a trippy dream, it's so surreal, scary and spooky. I mean, even though those characters are adults, they're so blatantly supposed to be children: the setting (a a boarding school/dance academy), the intense fear of elders/authority, the main theme tune (which is kind of like a nursery rhyme performed by demons)... i think that's what's so spooky about the film, cos cos the characters are facing this totally irrational force and are lost in such a strange atmosphere, that the film ends up being like a kid's nightmare.

OK, sorry for the waffling, just that i forgot just how much of a superb film this is!

evilpink_queeny

27-06-2004, 19:02

i watched 'hush' with gwyneth paltrow late last night.

it was pretty shite. was like a b movie but suppose it might be because its from 1998

Elska

27-06-2004, 19:49

I watched two fantastic classic films with ace soundtracks last week; first it was the satanicly brilliant Rosemary's Baby and last night I watched Shaft. *sings* "They say that cat Shaft is a bad mother-shut your mouth!- talking 'bout Shaft". And I can dig it! :p :D

evilpink_queeny

27-06-2004, 21:14

just watched the end of grease.

classic film. lol

i think i had the soundtrack at one point. dont no where now though.

Rojeo

27-06-2004, 23:53

Originally posted by Awkward Sex
Ghost World, a most excellent film. Kind of like Daria, but better.
Scarlett Johansson is in that film. Speaking of which, I just watched Lost in Translation again, god do I ever love ........err..that... film. yes. ...ahem, and a couple of days ago I saw Michael Moore's new movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" which was also an ace film.

lutz

29-06-2004, 06:09

I havn't seen the new films (Stendahl Syndrom, Phantom of the Opera, Sleepless, Card Player. Havn't seen Four flys on Velvet or Days of Milan either). I did think that the films up till then where still good entertaininment. Just as a blanket statement when I finish watching a Dario Argento film I can think that I had a good time watching it.
And now ro reveal my amazing powers of geek....
08th December 2003
La Terza Madre/The Third Mother news!
Alan Jones has just sent me a report on the Trieste Film Festival where Dario revealed some news about his next film:

“I’m working on the script for La Terza Madre/The Third Mother now. We will start shooting in August 2004 and a major Hollywood studio may possibly get involved. It’s about mysticism, alchemy, terrorism and Gnosticism (a religious movement characterized by a belief in intuitive spiritual knowledge, regarded as a heresy by the Christian church). So many heretics were tortured because of the Church and I’m living all that at the moment and sleeping with difficulty."

"It will be set in Rome where we will first see the Mother of Tears/Mater Lachrymorum in medieval times. Because she is the most beautiful and cruel of the three mothers, I’m currently looking at Russian models to play that part. Ana Pieroni (who played the cat-stroking mother in Inferno) will not be reappearing as she now has five kids! It’s been over 20 years since I left the Three Mothers behind and it’s good to go back and explore the story from a retrospective perspective. I’m discovering more about witchcraft than ever before”.

husky

29-06-2004, 12:03

sid and nancy

diamente

29-06-2004, 12:06

Originally posted by lutz
I havn't seen the new films (Stendahl Syndrom, Phantom of the Opera, Sleepless, Card Player. Havn't seen Four flys on Velvet or Days of Milan either). I did think that the films up till then where still good entertaininment. Just as a blanket statement when I finish watching a Dario Argento film I can think that I had a good time watching it.
And now ro reveal my amazing powers of geek....
08th December 2003
La Terza Madre/The Third Mother news!
Alan Jones has just sent me a report on the Trieste Film Festival where Dario revealed some news about his next film:

“I’m working on the script for La Terza Madre/The Third Mother now. We will start shooting in August 2004 and a major Hollywood studio may possibly get involved. It’s about mysticism, alchemy, terrorism and Gnosticism (a religious movement characterized by a belief in intuitive spiritual knowledge, regarded as a heresy by the Christian church). So many heretics were tortured because of the Church and I’m living all that at the moment and sleeping with difficulty."

"It will be set in Rome where we will first see the Mother of Tears/Mater Lachrymorum in medieval times. Because she is the most beautiful and cruel of the three mothers, I’m currently looking at Russian models to play that part. Ana Pieroni (who played the cat-stroking mother in Inferno) will not be reappearing as she now has five kids! It’s been over 20 years since I left the Three Mothers behind and it’s good to go back and explore the story from a retrospective perspective. I’m discovering more about witchcraft than ever before”.

Wow, long time coming this one! I never thought he'd actually get round to making the last chapter! Hope it's good, though I have a feeling it might not be..... if he'd made it back in the early eighties when he was still a genius, then yes.....still, should be worth watching!

lutz

30-06-2004, 09:04

It also makes you wonder if he is just makeing it because he is a media starved has-been looking to revive his career (and I say that with affection).

diamente

30-06-2004, 13:51

Ha ha! Very affectionate comment! Damn right he's a has-been. His films are just so cheap and tacky now, they look and feel crap. Whereas in the vintage days his films looked expensive and tacky! But they were timeless. Avoid Sleepless like the plague, cos i think Argento's under the delusion that he can direct a conventional thriller story! Suspiria's a masterpiece cos it has no story, it's just a fucked up, weird dream of a movie and it follows no rules except his own.

lutz

01-07-2004, 07:20

There are a lot of directors that have movies with "scenes" that are just mind boggling and beautiful. Then some will direct a movie that is consistently good throughout (in the mind boggling and beautiful category OF COURSE). Brilliant if you will :D. Some directors manage to pull one or two "momants" throughout movies (Darios catalogue besides Suspiria falls here). It always makes me realise (especially when I go and read on the makeing of movies) how much of these movies is just left up to chance by a clueless director who will end up directing movies with "momants". Hmmm. For some reason I am thinking of Ridley Scott now!!!

evilpink_queeny

01-07-2004, 21:54

last night i couldnt sleep so i watched a film on itv called varsity blues with james van der beek from dawsons creek

it was your typical predictible american film

hey at least it put me to sleep!

Rojeo

02-07-2004, 04:00

I remember when that movie came out, I wanted to smash in my skull with a brick....its a shame that such moronic trash is so popular among american teens

KaruMoo

02-07-2004, 23:12

Originally posted by Rojeo
I remember when that movie came out, I wanted to smash in my skull with a brick....

Thats very drastic luv .. and I would'nt suggest it, best you go and smash in the skull of the man who made the movie to be honest .. I'll hold him down .. hehe ..

Slidje

04-07-2004, 03:52

the new punisher. very hit and miss. its a great story which was sadly made by hollywood, and full of hollywood cliches.
some parts are below awful but some are really damn good.

the whole movie is stolen by harry heck, a side character who has about 5 minutes of screen time. hes an assassin sent to kill the main character, frank castle.
the russian scene is also fantastic but not as good as harry.

the rest of the film tries to be violent, scary, action packed but its nothing you havent seen before. it could have been so much better, you can feel that and see that. there are parts of the film where you want something really awful to happen, but instead you get a recycled hero-does-the-right-thing cliche.

one scene where the punisher grabs one of the crime families lackeys to get information out of him. rather than torture him with a blow torch, like he threatens to do, he sticks an ice lolly in his back to scare him instead.
this guy just had his entire family murdered and still hes holding back.

but still, its worth seeing, just for the 2 assassins that try to kill him.

lutz

04-07-2004, 10:47

Goodness. And I hate to admit it, BUT, I saw Varsity Blues at the Cinema when a group of us couldn't decide on a movie that was less offensive. As a side note. I bit my lip dureing it and when I started violently complaing my friends told me to shut up. However by the end of the movie my bit-lip had swollen to Mamoth proportions and when we where walking out one of them finally decided to pay me a little attention and excalimed "GOD YOU REALLY DID BITE OUR LIP". It was BLOODY HUGE and I had to public transport it home and everybody stared at my big puffy red lip (Which wasn't as bad as the time I had to catch the bus with my pinkie dislocated on a right angle).

Danni

04-07-2004, 12:45

yesterday I went to see "the notebook"
word of advice if you haven't yet been to see it....
....Don't

tattmaylor

04-07-2004, 21:38

For fans of Before Sunrise!!!

I've just read they've made a sequel set 5 years later in Paris by original director and same cast (Ethan Hawke, Julie Dephy) and again is set in virtual real time (one night)...

...can't wait!

Elska

05-07-2004, 11:02

Originally posted by tattmaylor
For fans of Before Sunrise!!!

I've just read they've made a sequel set 5 years later in Paris by original director and same cast (Ethan Hawke, Julie Dephy) and again is set in virtual real time (one night)...

I read about that, but I don't know what to think, Before Sunrise is definitely one of my favourite films ever (even my current sig is from it, a line from Julie Delpy's character) and I just fear that a sequel wouldn't be as good...

diamente

05-07-2004, 12:18

Ooo, I heard about this sequel to Before Sunrise, I hope it's good, i really loved the first one. I watched Dazed and Confused again the other week, and that is such a good film, and it is rather amusing to see Ben Affleck all chubby in his pre-Hollywood zombification.

Last film i watched was The Truth About Cats and Dogs, which is really, really sweet. One major problem though: why the HELL did the story market Janeane Garofolo as the 'unatttractive' one who has to get Uma Thurman to pretend to he her? She is so appallingly gorgeous that it kind of lessened the impact of the film a tad, cos i spent the whole film thinking she was much better looking than Uma (but that's just my opinion). I guess she's not typically beautiful in that mannequinned Hollywood convention, but that's the lousiness of Hollywood for you. FACT: Hollywood mutates you. Meg Ryan, Cameron Diaz...erm loads more i cant think of..... they all look naturally lovely in their earlier films, and then the movies just turn them into anorexic, airbrushed Replicants!

Anyway, nice film.

caribou

05-07-2004, 20:23

You know, I can't even remember the last film I watched. :o

No, wait! I remember now that I watched the 5th Element last week. It was entertaining nonsense. :)

KaruMoo

06-07-2004, 10:54

I saw lord of the rings the two towers ... the dvd extended version :rolleyes: fucking hell it was a bit long u know what I mean ... I got ever so bored so I went in the back garden (at someone elses house I dont have a garden), saw some of the new bits, just as long winded as the other bits ... ooo dear me there was too many bits

TremblingStar

06-07-2004, 11:00

Watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for a second time. Glad, as I really got it this time. Beautiful.

KaruMoo

06-07-2004, 11:04

Originally posted by TremblingStar
Watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for a second time. Glad, as I really got it this time. Beautiful.

Yeah ... my brain tells me i should like that movie, but when I saw folk flying about with strings I just could'nt take to it, rather silly. but a good fucking idea all the same, hard boileds my fave they speak so fast that the subtitles are gone before u get chance to read em.

TremblingStar

06-07-2004, 11:51

**giggling**

I do love you Mooey

diamente

06-07-2004, 12:36

You know when you see a film and it is so brilliant that you almost dont want to see it again cos you fear it might not be as good the second time round? No? Oh well.

Anyway, i took a gamble with Lost in Translation, and watched it for the second time yesterday. Good thing i did. Still as beautiful the second time round. The ending almost made me cry. And the music is beyond gorgeous.

TremblingStar

06-07-2004, 12:43

Yeah, I feel that way about my favourite book - Trainspotting. I read it once and I don't want to read it again.

Big Al

07-07-2004, 19:48

a mighty wind.

a bit disapointing apart from the woman who is stifflers mom in american pie.

BEST IN SHOW.
now there's an amazing film

evilpink_queeny

10-07-2004, 16:07

friend lent me mean girls last week.

not watched it yet though.

evilpink_queeny

11-07-2004, 11:58

watched it last night

id give it 2 and a half out of 5

the review i read made me think it would be different to all other american teen films..

was wrong..

diamente

11-07-2004, 12:06

Forgot to mention, I watched Shrek 2 last week. Absolutely splendid stuff, so funny and sweet! There's a pisstake of Cops in it called 'Knights' which is so, so funny, and the Puss in Boots character is a work of genius!

Elska

11-07-2004, 15:56

I FINALLY saw Donnie Darko last night, and boy did I love it! It's even impossible for me to think of any other film that I could compare it to, it's totally unique! I'd run out of superlatives if I began to discribe it, so I'll just say that I thought it was a very thought-provoking and intelligent film, and I give it 10 out of 10! :D

I'd really like to see the new Shreck, but, like all the movies with children as the main audience, it's dubbed here and I hate dubbing. I guess I'll have to wait for the DVD so I can (hopefully) watch it with it's original language and Finnish subtitles (not that I need them, right ;) ).

evilpink_queeny

11-07-2004, 16:48

ive finally just this minute watched finding nemo!

ahh how cute is dory.

tattmaylor

11-07-2004, 17:00

Originally posted by Elska
I FINALLY saw Donnie Darko last night, and boy did I love it!

So go on then! Explain the last 10 minutes!!! :D:D

We were doing really well till the end - then got a bit confused. Had top re-watch the end a few times! Nearly every person I talk to (well the ones that actually understand the basic idea!) have a slightly different theory on what it means!!!

Then again thats why films like that are so good. They give enough for you to get interested and stimuplated ...but then make you work for the rest of it!

I need to see it again!

PS: Did you enjoy Tears for Fears - Head over Heels ...don't deny it!!! :D

JackedyJAck

11-07-2004, 17:09

Alright Tatt - What's your theory?

diamente

11-07-2004, 23:01

I watched American Splendor this evening, and I thought it was excellent, really original and entertaining. Missed it at the cinema earlier this year, so I'm glad i finally managed to catch it.

Rojeo

12-07-2004, 01:02

I've really wanted to see that movie...

KaruMoo

12-07-2004, 03:55

I have'nt watched a film for a good few weeks, but I watched a good, but silly episode of voyager (if thats what it's called) ... something bizarre had happened and they got stuck in some kind of space cloudy thing .. and ming the merciless was in it .. and captain janeway was the queen of aracnia :confused:

I never thought I'd see the day .... I'm talking about Star Trek .. :( but not making alot of sense, so that is probably good.

tattmaylor

12-07-2004, 18:10

Originally posted by JackedyJAck
Alright Tatt - What's your theory?

Like I said I need to see it again, so i'm borrowing the DVD from someone at work - will get back!

Sadly sat all the way through International Velvet on Sunday and I have no idea why!!!

Anyone seen LawnDogs???
A friend has recommended it to me as quite David Lynch like (came up in conversation as it has the girl from OC in it!).

Danni

12-07-2004, 18:17

I watched Cinderella the Disney one the other day <3

and Donnie Darko
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Basically it's all tied in with the book written by that woman in the film. If you go and look at the official website you can read portions of it. Basically it's the idea of the universe becoming "corrupted". Donnie was supposed to die when the engine fell through his roof, but because of his psychological problems he left the house, and survived - this was not supposed to happen. At this point the universe forks into a tangent universe, at which point all people that ineract with Donnie can be split into two groups... the manipulated living and the manipulated dead.

The manipulated living are all the people close to Donnie. This includes his family, his teachers and his friends etc. The manipulated dead are all the people who die within the tangent universe... Frank and Gretchen. The manipulated dead have special powers within the tangent universe - notably Frank with his ability to travel through time. Donnie also has these powers, but he is unaware of it.

The premise is that both groups of people act in a certain way which leads to Donnie destroying the tangent universe and the time line settling back down to how it "should" be. For example, Frank instructs Donnie to burn down Jim Cunningham's house, and as a result he is arrested for child pornography. It then follows that the P.E. teacher is unable to take the dance group away for the weekend in order to fight the cause of the (allegedly) wrongly arrseted man, and so Donnie's mum has to go - all of which culminates with her and his sister being in the plane as it flies over their house at which point the engine falls off and into the portal so it can be transported back in time to kill Donnie. Another example is the Drew Barrymore character putting the phrase "Cellar Door" in Donnie's head so he knows where to go, or his science teacher showing him the book - even the weird wormhole thing showing him where the gun in his house is. There's loads of this kind of stuff in the film, so it's well worth watching it a few times.

Basically the end result is that Donnie realises the only way to save the lives of everyone (and the universe as a whole) is to kill Frank and ensure that the wormhole carries the engine back in time, so that he can sacrifice himself for the greater good. Thus becoming the hero (anti-hero, even) that he makes reference to being earlier in the film.

sorry that was long

Rojeo

12-07-2004, 19:22

Originally posted by Danni

sorry that was long

long, yes, but I dont think I've ever heard anyone else explain it so well. Cheers danni.

evilpink_queeny

12-07-2004, 19:43

anyone watch the channel 4 film last night with j lo called angel eyes???

its was alright.

she definitly a better actress than singer.

tattmaylor

12-07-2004, 19:54

Cool!! Cheers Danni! That sounds good - exactly what i was going to say!!!! :D ;)

I always followed the tangent universe bit and some of the weird set up lines (although couldn't decide whether Frank was good or bad!) but it's at the point when Donie goes 'I know what to do to make things right' it all got confusing - which we found wonderfully ironic! We started trying to work it out but there were to many variations so we gave up (we'd had too much wine by this point!) - but that was nearly a year ago. But that second paragraph is interesting to me - can't wait to see it again!

Speaking of strangness any Lexx fans out there?

Last series on CH5 late mondays! Don't have satelite tv so i've been waiting for ages. Not as good as the last 2 so far, although 790 is still hillarious, but still bonkers. Shocked last monday to see what looked like robotic carrots going up Craig Charles arse - and I have no idea why - it really is one of the strangest things i've seen (what do you expect when germans and canadians get together to do sc-fi!)

Rojeo

12-07-2004, 20:00

Originally posted by evilpink_queeny

she definitly a better actress than singer.

yeah, thats true, but shes not much of an actress, in my opinion....:rolleyes:

blackmeggie

12-07-2004, 20:09

i watched city of god most recently. fanbloodytastic. ooh no shrek 2 was most recent, my flatmate drunkenly bought a pirate dvd. i liked it more than i thought i would, it was good.

the only good jlo film ive seen was out of sight

Danni

12-07-2004, 21:52

LEXX!!!!
I loved it!
i have the 1st series on video all signed by the whole case, original silverhaired Xev not 2nd slutty redhead Zev.
*sigh*
i loved it...Kai, Craig Charles was in it once around the time Lacroix from forever knight was in it

Elska

13-07-2004, 13:38

Originally posted by tattmaylor
So go on then! Explain the last 10 minutes!!! :D:D

PS: Did you enjoy Tears for Fears - Head over Heels ...don't deny it!!! :D
Umm...what Danni said!:D

And yes, I did like the soundtrack, Tears for Fears included...liked it a lot!

evilpink_queeny

13-07-2004, 16:00

speaking off soundtracks they keep playing TOP GUN at work

that film was on not long ago. missed it though.

Felt Martin

13-07-2004, 17:46

I'll kick off the inevitable Fahrenheit 9/11 debate by saying that I saw it at the weekend and it is fantastic. It reminded how much I used to love TV Nation and Michael Moore. I had begun to despise him slightly due to the fact that he is a bit of a dick but more to do with the media conspiracy that seems to be out to bury him. I am ashamed I fell for it.

This film features some incredible footage and it's a disgrace that I have to go the cinema and pay money to see it. Our media should be ashamed. And Mark Kermode has lost what little respect I had for him after his review of the film in Sunday's Observer. His arguments were logic-defying.

linoleum

13-07-2004, 17:59

Just watched Monster....Very good...very heavy...but very good.

diamente

13-07-2004, 19:49

Watched Spider-Man today as a teaser for the sequel which i cant wait to see when it comes out! Great film, the first one, Willem Dafoe is a really good actor, I loved him in this, and Tobey Maguire's really cool. The Green Goblin laughs an awful lot, doesn't he? Still, he wouldn't be a supervillain if he didn't. And wow, normally I'm not fussed about Kirsten Dunst, but she's a bit gorgeous in this: i think it might be the red hair. Purrrrr.

lutz

14-07-2004, 06:18

On the Donnie Darko subject. Does any body else think that that movie has exactly the same story line as Mulholland Drive??? That is it revolves around the idea of the central characters being dead and involved in "post-symbolic-excessive-reality"???

Awkward Sex

15-07-2004, 02:37

Not really, no.

diamente

15-07-2004, 11:22

Originally posted by lutz
On the Donnie Darko subject. Does any body else think that that movie has exactly the same story line as Mulholland Drive??? That is it revolves around the idea of the central characters being dead and involved in "post-symbolic-excessive-reality"???

Yeah, i thought there were some similarities between the two! Don't ask me to say why though: both films messed with my poor cranium for days after. Both are amazing films too.

evilpink_queeny

17-07-2004, 16:23

i havent seen donnie darko yet

KaruMoo

18-07-2004, 01:39

Well today I wacthed ... hellboy on dvd and asylum on bbc1 ..

Elska

18-07-2004, 11:41

I saw the Royal Tenenbaums on video a couple of days ago, I thought it was very good, better than I expected it to be. The soundtrack was amazing, too, with Nico, Lou Reed et al.

evilpink_queeny

18-07-2004, 11:47

i watched harry potter-chamber of secrets last night..

it was ok..but i preferred the 1st

evilpink_queeny

18-07-2004, 15:01

im getting...

harry potter - the prisoner of azkaban
shrek 1
shrek 2

later on..all i need now is a dvd player in my room so i dont have to fight over when i want to watch one.

KaruMoo

18-07-2004, 17:51

Originally posted by Elska
I saw the Royal Tenenbaums on video a couple of days ago, I thought it was very good, better than I expected it to be. The soundtrack was amazing, too, with Nico, Lou Reed et al.

I thought that was such a sweet sad film, really enjoyed it.

softlad

18-07-2004, 23:52

Just seen Donnie Darko.....
The manipulated dead are all the people who die within the tangent universe... Frank and Gretchen. The manipulated dead have special powers within the tangent universe - notably Frank with his ability to travel through time. Donnie also has these powers, but he is unaware of it.
Er, so what's Gretchen's special power then? :confused:

What purpose does DDs first piece act vandalism have? :confused:

If it all makes sense why does the director talk about the film having 'certain ambiguities'? :confused:

DD dies under the airplane engine;
A) They should have played Wings 'Jet',
B) The resulting hour or so didn't happen. On reflection this would have made it a 30 minute movie - no bad thing.........:)

Awkward Sex

19-07-2004, 02:46

I saw Ran the other day, but I had previously seen it.

A masterpiece, of course. The only flaw some would attribute it is its length, but then again it wouldn't be the same at all had it been cut down in size.

TremblingStar

19-07-2004, 12:57

Saw 'Mystic River' last night - sehr gut.

I know Sean Penn got all the plaudits but Tim Robbins is even better in it.

evilpink_queeny

21-07-2004, 15:29

a friend has just asked me to go see thunderbirds not sure if fancy it though!

Kavokei

21-07-2004, 19:17

Originally posted by evilpink_queeny
a friend has just asked me to go see thunderbirds not sure if fancy it though! Errr... what's with the lipstick all the characters seem to be wearing. The macho males seem to be wearing more lipstick than the women in the trailer. :confused:

Ah well... nowt so queer as folk, I 'spose.

evilpink_queeny

21-07-2004, 19:24

hmm...i no what you mean...the tralier definitly not doing anything for me!

KaruMoo

21-07-2004, 21:18

Thunder thunder thunder thunder cats .. dah duh ..

diamente

21-07-2004, 22:05

I watched Spider-Man 2 today. Wow.

It's absolutely fantastic, easily the best blockbuster I have seen since i was a young 'un. I love the first film, but this made it look like mere starters. Completely gripping story, amazing action and excellent characters, it's just so much fun, I was amazed constantly. Wow!

tattmaylor

21-07-2004, 23:17

Originally posted by Felt Martin
I'll kick off the inevitable Fahrenheit 9/11 debate by saying that I saw it at the weekend and it is fantastic. It reminded how much I used to love TV Nation and Michael Moore. I had begun to despise him slightly due to the fact that he is a bit of a dick but more to do with the media conspiracy that seems to be out to bury him. I am ashamed I fell for it.

This film features some incredible footage and it's a disgrace that I have to go the cinema and pay money to see it. Our media should be ashamed. And Mark Kermode has lost what little respect I had for him after his review of the film in Sunday's Observer. His arguments were logic-defying.

I love Mr Moore and I have preached his gospel for years since TV nation! But although I haven't seen the Mark Kermode review, after seeing it tonight I am kind of guessing what he said.

Moore has made an overtly sentimental piece of anti-propaganda, some of which is as much about mis-information (and clever economy of the truth) as any government media!! I'm not saying what he was saying isn't true - just the way he presented it!

BUT as the film is showing stuff that the average person has no idea about (and should be more aware of) AND Moore is the only person actually clever enough to package it in a way that people listen - the film is TOATLLY JUSTIFIED I am totally behind it 100%. Shit we need it! I am totally with him on what he is saying - it's just he's becoming the documentary equivalent of Steven Spielberg!

I think (i hope) he made the film this way, in this blatently party political broadcast style (emotional music/editing, crying mothers etc..), because he is targeting middle america! For that reason (and the fact it has been a box office smash in USA) i'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

But I was also pleased to sit in a cinema with 100 other people (some of who nearly aplauded at the end!). This in itself is a victory - I have seen films like this in empty cinemas.

Best bits: edit from the crying mother of a soilder to Britney Spears - genius!!! And of course the film was summed up with a quote from 1984!!! George Orwell was there years before Micheal - it's all in there!

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

TremblingStar

22-07-2004, 07:50

The world needs Michael Moore, and I share his sentiments just as much, but 'Dude Where's My Country' put me off him a bit - it was a bit insulting in that the way it was written.

One thing, though - Fahrenheit 9/11 needed to be made etc., and it is good that an anti-Bush sentiment is growing, but if this Kerry fellow comes in, will he be any better? Do we know? Moore was a huge critic of Clinton. Clinton went, now look what we've got.

What we need is a positive liberal movement, not just a negative anti-Bush movement.

lutz

22-07-2004, 14:16

I watched Xanadu.
I blubber like an idiot at the end of that film cause the Muse really did love him and he goes off with some waitress who was the image the Muse put acroos to him.
I feel so sorry for her. It does make me feel better though that she had "An ever-lasting love and your here with me eternally".

diamente

22-07-2004, 21:21

I watched Ghost World this evening: loved it, really, really loved it. It almost had me weeping in places, Thora Birch's character was so lovely and sweet (despite the fact she was like a 'er...yeah, whatever' type at the start of the film), she ended up becoming really sympathetic and a bit of a hero. She's very cute too!

Forgot to say, i watched Roger Dodger the other night: has anyone seen this? It's bloomin brilliant! it's all about this absolutely appalling bloke who has a very questionable attitude towards women, and his nephew comes to visit him, hearing he's a bit of a ladies man and hoping that he can get him laid before sunrise. The script is amazing, and the actor who plays Roger, Campbell Scott, is terrific. Everybody must see it.

Wow, good film week this week! I've got lucky!

Rojeo

23-07-2004, 16:54

glad you liked it diamente, what did you think of doug, the guy that was always in the little convenience store???? Hes one of my favorite charecters in that movie, even if hes a small role...."hey josh, gimmie two packs a cigarettes today, workin overtime, 16 hours" ha haha ha!!!!!!! classic

evilpink_queeny

25-07-2004, 14:32

i watched shrek 1 and 2 last night..

they were better than i thought! :D

KaruMoo

25-07-2004, 22:04

Spiderman 2 .. wow it was amazing.

evilpink_queeny

26-07-2004, 07:44

valentine on ch4 last night - odd

TremblingStar

26-07-2004, 07:53

Saw 'Cabin Fever' last night - quite enjoyable.

Danni

28-07-2004, 16:26

Valentine was so bad!

I saw Spiderman 2.....twas good but the 3 parts i was waiting for all came over the credits at the end: Dashboard COnfessional-VIndicated, new Train song and Michael Bublée's Jazzy Spiderman

diamente

31-07-2004, 17:31

Watched Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time.

Liked it a lot, and Audrey Hepburn's one classy lady. Beautiful too.

linoleum

31-07-2004, 17:44

Originally posted by diamente
Watched Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time.

Liked it a lot, and Audrey Hepburn's one classy lady. Beautiful too.

Wow thats spooky mate. The last film I saw was Breakfast at Tiffany's too! :)

But it is a fabulous movie I agree, and I love *cat* the cat!
( aswell as Audrey :) )

evilpink_queeny

03-08-2004, 08:38

i watched the sunday channel 4 film with freddie prince jnr and julia stiles called down for love..

was s***e...

KaruMoo

03-08-2004, 12:45

I watched in the name of the father friday .. what a good but sad film .. bless em.

evilpink_queeny

03-08-2004, 19:11

not watched a good film since shrek 2...think ill have to buy some...might get i,robot

Elska

04-08-2004, 14:56

I watched a British film called The War Zone the other night, directed by Tim Roth who's of course better known as an actor. The film was one of the bleakest I've seen for a while, dealing with the subject of incest in what seemed like a very realistic manner. A very good and important film, albeit obviously not one that will make you feel too cheery afterwards.

blackmeggie

04-08-2004, 15:19

i watched the twin peaks pilot which i know isnt a film but it lasted for one and a half hours so it was film length

TomBoyRacer

04-08-2004, 16:29

I watched the film about general manuel noriega starring bob hoskins. I think it was called noriega.

they make him out to be a bumbling old fool who everyone walks all over. To be honest it was something of a comedy. Then all of a sudden he turns psychotic when his generals attempt a coup against him that fail because the americans don't help. That's when the laughs stopped. Then his country gets invaded and he goes on the run and the laughs start again. They show him being arrested in a large church, but from what i can remember it was at his presidential palace.

KaruMoo

05-08-2004, 11:16

ooo

evilpink_queeny

05-08-2004, 15:29

Originally posted by diamente
Watched Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time.

ive never seen it :rolleyes:

Danni

06-08-2004, 22:45

Originally posted by diamente
Watched Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time.

Liked it a lot, and Audrey Hepburn's one classy lady. Beautiful too.
I LOVE that! I have a giant poster for it aswell!

last thing i watched was at the cinema and it was "30 simon le rien" or something I think I wrote it wrong but it was 13 going on 30 in french, twas actually funny

TremblingStar

07-08-2004, 19:31

Originally posted by Danni
I LOVE that! I have a giant poster for it aswell!

I have a huge print of the original poster on my wall.

Darling.

evilpink_queeny

08-08-2004, 13:08

i watched lion king last night with my 3 and a half year old godson...

not seen it for years...

had a little tear...my godson came and give me a hug and said its okay theyve gone to heaven...

how cute....:)

Elska

09-08-2004, 10:09

I watched Virgin Suicides for the second time last night, what a great film. And I wish more films had a soundtrack that fits them as well as the one this movie has, it's just perfect - sweet and sinister, just like the film.

blackmeggie

09-08-2004, 15:32

watched monster last night (well most of it because i was too tired to stay up). i thought it was really good.

evilpink_queeny

10-08-2004, 22:17

Originally posted by blackmeggie
watched monster last night (well most of it because i was too tired to stay up). i thought it was really good.

just been given it on dvd not watched it yet though!

wanted it for a while after watching the documentary..

diamente

10-08-2004, 22:19

Last night me and a friend watched (despite knowing better) some action thriller B-movie bollocks called Silent Trigger, a classic example of one of the two kinds of movies Channel 5 is repsonsible for polutting the airwaves (the other's the softcore 'erotic thrillers' they have a penchant for showing). It starred that most renowned of actors, Dolph Lundgren, and more bafflingly, Gina Bellman from BBC's Coupling.

Let's just say the acting was appallingly sub-par, and the chemistry between the two was non-existent.

evilpink_queeny

12-08-2004, 16:58

just watched 13 going on 30

it was actually better than i thought it would be..

but it was still bit cheesy and obvious...

JackedyJAck

12-08-2004, 19:00

I just watched Dogville. I did so after reading several reviews which labelled it "Anti-American" and as a result, spent the entire 3 hours looking for anything which could have explained these accusations. Now - having watched and sat and contempated for a while, I find my recurring anger at the number of americans who, in their own self-importance, hastily accuse any observation of american culture as being anti american. (I hasten to add, not ALL americans!! Those who I have spoken to here are very charming and lovely :D)

Without wanting to spoil the plot or themes for anyone else, I just want to add that I think that the character Grace (played by Nicole Kidman) represents 3rd world nations, who seek aid from the world super-powers (represented by the town of Dogville) and at first it appears that they are recieving it but over time, slowly find that they are being used and their own state of predicament is not improving. Grace's eventual attack on Dogville represents (IN MY OPINION!!) terrorist attacks which follow the spurious aid of the powers that be.

I also hasten to add that I do not condone terrorist attacks!!! They are a vulgar, useless method of achieving ones aims.

Comment.

evilpink_queeny

12-08-2004, 19:15

ive not seen it..

diamente

12-08-2004, 21:51

Last film i saw was Return of the Living Dead. Now that's fucking High Art. It's better than Citizen Kane, The Godfather and Raging Bull put together. Anyone who disagrees is clearly out of their fucking minds!

JackedyJAck

12-08-2004, 21:51

Originally posted by diamente
Last film i saw was Return of the Living Dead. Now that's fucking High Art. It's better than Citizen Kane, The Godfather and Raging Bull put together. Anyone who disagrees is clearly out of their fucking minds!

SEE!! Lowering the bar!

diamente

12-08-2004, 21:55

Hardly. Have you SEEN the film?

JackedyJAck

12-08-2004, 22:06

Actually yes I have, it was a shoddy attempt at post modernist realism meets classic gothic horror.

diamente

12-08-2004, 22:11

True. I liked the bit when she dances naked on the grave though.

linoleum

12-08-2004, 22:14

Shipping News.

JackedyJAck

12-08-2004, 22:21

Originally posted by linoleum
Shipping News.

Loved the film but hated the book!!

diamente

12-08-2004, 23:32

Originally posted by JackedyJAck
Actually yes I have, it was a shoddy attempt at post modernist realism meets classic gothic horror.

Wait a minute....no it fucking wasn't! It's a classic! I'll defend it to the end. BRAINS!!!!

evilpink_queeny

13-08-2004, 12:29

a friend has just given me two dvds not watched them yet torque and haunted mansion

evilpink_queeny

16-08-2004, 08:31

watched catch me if you can with leonardo dicaprio on saturday..

i thought it was slow at first(might be to do with 4hours kip)..

but it got better and i thouight it was clever and it had a good ending....

GilTurko

16-08-2004, 13:28

The Card Player by Dario Argento, one of my favourites directors. Last night, alone in my house, on dvd. All lights off, the wind blowing... hhh...!

evilpink_queeny

20-08-2004, 11:35

mona lisa smile.....

my sister begged me to watch it last night because i really didnt fancy it..

then the bitch went on the phone and missed half ot it..

so i ended up watching it alone..

grr..

evilpink_queeny

20-08-2004, 16:32

i pulled a sicky today so thought id watch a dvd...

watched...

cold creek manor...with sharon stone in it and sexy stephen dorff..

was alright not best film ive seen but not worst..

and stephen dorff plays a nasty character so well.:D

evilpink_queeny

20-08-2004, 22:00

must be in a film mood...

just watched Matchstick men with nicholas cage it was pretty good weird ending though..

JackedyJAck

20-08-2004, 22:09

I'm watching Rules Of Attraction with no sound...

evilpink_queeny

20-08-2004, 22:12

aahh with james van der beek..

why no sound?

evilpink_queeny

21-08-2004, 12:46

watched matchstick men last night..

was pretty good ending a bit odd though..

JackedyJAck

21-08-2004, 16:37

Cos I was busy listening to Moo!!

linoleum

21-08-2004, 17:09

Big Fish as recommended by Jimi.

Cried my bloomin eyes out at the end though...

God I'm soft!

evilpink_queeny

21-08-2004, 22:09

just watched paycheck with uma thurman and ben affleck...

was tres good...

best film ive seen for ages!!!!!

evilpink_queeny

22-08-2004, 12:06

if you havent guessed ive just got a DVD player for my birthday..

so ive been watching a lot of films when i cant sleep...

last night well this morning i watched TORGUE which my friends boyfriend lent me..

should of known really i think its more of a mans film..

it was ok..made me sleep lol

evilpink_queeny

25-08-2004, 13:23

breakfast at tiffanys is on bank holiday monday channel 4 3;50pm

definitly wil be watching it..:D

Elska

26-08-2004, 11:27

I watched LA Confidential on sunday, a very good film, but I was so hungover I had difficulity concentrating on the fairly complex plot :o ! Perhaps I should watch it again...

linoleum

26-08-2004, 11:48

Originally posted by evilpink_queeny
breakfast at tiffanys is on bank holiday monday channel 4 3;50pm

definitely will be watching it..:D

ooh thats one of my all time fave films. Me and Jimi watched it recently and its just lovely. Also pretty risque subject matter for that time.

Audrey looks absolutely stunning in that film, and she wouldn't look out of place now with her hair the way it was streaked. A classic beauty, elfin like I think she is.:)

My friend has just lent me an Audrey Hepburn dvd box set, and I will definitely be putting that on my Christmas list!!

evilpink_queeny

26-08-2004, 15:34

i dont think ive seen it but i will definitly be watching it proberly nursing my hangover after manchester pride....

Elska

30-08-2004, 10:24

I FINALLY saw Kill Bill vol. 1 last weekend. I loved the visuals of the film, but would have expected more Tarantino-style dialogue. The scene where Daryl Hannah walks in the hospital hallway dressed as a nurse and whistles was an utterly perfect movie moment. All the music was also wonderfully chosen, as it would be, this being a Tarantino film. I'm really looking forward to seeing the second part.

evilpink_queeny

30-08-2004, 15:58

Originally posted by evilpink_queeny
breakfast at tiffanys is on bank holiday monday channel 4 3;50pm

definitly wil be watching it..:D

damn...forgot...and missed it:mad:

greenwell64

31-08-2004, 05:05

I don't see a lot of movies these days. It takes time to plop in front of the T.V. or money to go to the multiplex, and I usually find other things to do with both.

Back around my birthday, however, my friend Rebecca staked my ticket to see Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. An Awesome strip of celluloid. My kind of love story.

diamente

01-09-2004, 21:56

Just finished watching Final Destination 2. What a load of fucking shit! Very, very entertaining though, and I have to admit, quite suspenseful in places. How on earth it got a 15 certificate I'll never know: It was disgusting!

I'm also inclined to believe that this is also a bit of a sick film: I've not seen many movies that have got their rocks off on grotesque death as much as this, but some of the 'accidents' were hilariously outrageous, so much that I had to laugh, which made me feel slightly guilty afterwards!

Danni

01-09-2004, 22:02

Final destination1 was crap too!
although kerr Smith <3

I watched Shaun of the Dead at Reading in the film tent...love it

diamente

01-09-2004, 22:06

Heh heh, but I don't remember the dialogue being as funny in the first one! Especially in the bit after the scene in the dentists, where the main woman yells to the boy 'The pigeons! Watch out for the pigeons!'

And like you say, the second one doesn't have Dawson's Creek bloke in it!

And Shaun of the Dead is out next Monday on DVD! I'm getting it on the day!

KaruMoo

01-09-2004, 23:15

Originally posted by diamente
Just finished watching Final Destination 2. What a load of fucking shit! Very, very entertaining though, and I have to admit, quite suspenseful in places. How on earth it got a 15 certificate I'll never know: It was disgusting!

I'm also inclined to believe that this is also a bit of a sick film: I've not seen many movies that have got their rocks off on grotesque death as much as this, but some of the 'accidents' were hilariously outrageous, so much that I had to laugh, which made me feel slightly guilty afterwards!

I really loved this film I could watch it again, but I can't think of any good arguements to why it was good.

Thought of one as u have said already .. suspense. In the room theres a thousand ways to die and they set u up for it too, constantly filming the possible objects of death and go through a long scene where the person is gonna die ... but doesnt, then it goes quiet they calm down then bam there dead. ooo

evilpink_queeny

02-09-2004, 14:11

Originally posted by diamente
Just finished watching Final Destination 2. What a load of fucking shit!

i agree......but i thought the first one was good!

evilpink_queeny

02-09-2004, 15:16

tonight im getting...

bourne superimacy
the bourne identity
terminal
i robot
dodgeball

diamente

02-09-2004, 23:00

Me and Sandy watched a re-release screening of Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell's late 60's masterpiece Performance this evening.

I love this film, and I was really glad to have seen it on a relatively big screen (i mean it wasn't the same sized screen as the kind that would show Spiderman 2!), but I gotta admit I'm still left confused at the end, but i think i get it a little bit more each time i see it, and even if i don't totally understand the film, i still love watching it, cos it's just one of the strangest and original works of art ever made. The second half of the film is what really makes it, I just love the atmosphere and the dialogue and the whole vibe of it. And it's still pretty disturbing (mostly in the first half: i don't think the gangster scene in London has been portrayed in a seedier way than in this film) and potentially offensive today: one bloke got up and walked out during the bedroom scene between Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg and the other woman (don't know her name!). Superb soundtrack too: the 'Memo From Turner' sequence probably helped to invent the music video without realising it and the themes of androgyny and the parallels between crime and showbusiness are really intriguing.

And the best line in the film? When James Fox says to Mick Jagger: 'Comical geezer. You'll look funny when you're fifty'.

The film was more prophetic than it realised!

JackedyJAck

02-09-2004, 23:14

Originally posted by diamente
And the best line in the film? When James Fox says to Mick Jagger: 'Comical geezer. You'll look funny when you're fifty'.

The film was more prophetic than it realised!

Hehe - yep, Jagger does look like a bit of a freak at the moment. And his daughter (name?) is looking a bit anorexic. She claims she inherited her fathers fas metabolism, which may be true, but you can only use that as an excuse if you acutally eat darlin'!

KaruMoo

03-09-2004, 01:11

Recently I've seen fahrenheit 9/11 and Kill Bill again .. he just wont die ..

I'll leave it for another day to leave a comment .. they just left me commentless but enetertaining notheless.

JackedyJAck

03-09-2004, 01:16

I'm loving Kill Bill at the moment. Another of my recent viewings was a Lord Of The Rings marathon. Didn't watch alot of it tho'...

*cough*

KaruMoo

03-09-2004, 01:36

Originally posted by JackedyJAck
Another of my recent viewings was a Lord Of The Rings marathon. Didn't watch alot of it tho'...

*cough*

Why did'nt you watch it all Jack was'nt it your cup of tea.

JackedyJAck

03-09-2004, 01:38

Originally posted by KaruMoo
Why did'nt you watch it all Jack was'nt it your cup of tea.

Because I was either pouring a shot whenever Legolas came on screen or giving people head...

KaruMoo

03-09-2004, 01:40

That sounds like my kind of film party ... but u r a dirty cow Jack.

JackedyJAck

03-09-2004, 01:43

I'm a dirty cow? Is that orgasmic Mooing I hear on your webcam? Mais OUI!

I'm a classy bloke I'll have you know...

KaruMoo

03-09-2004, 01:49

That was'nt mooing I was laughing .. I dont laugh too often so it sounds strange ..

JackedyJAck

03-09-2004, 01:50

I'll tell you what it sounds like. It's sound like a brummy orgasm...

KaruMoo

03-09-2004, 01:57

Originally posted by JackedyJAck
I'll tell you what it sounds like. It's sound like a brummy orgasm...

haha, thats an awlfull sounding concept .. but still where would we be without it, we need thick sounding people in this world .. if not who would we have to mock.

JackedyJAck

03-09-2004, 01:58

Too true. I mean, if you didn't orgasm like that webcams would be a bit dull mate... :p

KaruMoo

03-09-2004, 02:01

I'm just starting to think ... did I orgasm on cam and did'nt know folk were watching .. ooo u bugger u got it for free. Bronze boy.

JackedyJAck

03-09-2004, 02:06

Sandy saw too Moo. We were very impressed...

KaruMoo

03-09-2004, 02:14

Impressed?? with what?? my Kate Bush impersonation.

JackedyJAck

03-09-2004, 02:16

I never saw Kate Bush doing that!

linoleum

03-09-2004, 22:08

Originally posted by JackedyJAck
Sandy saw too Moo. We were very impressed...

All I saw was Mooey spliffing up/doing a Kate Bush impression and waving at me.

Ooh the last film I saw was also - quelle surprise - Performance....
hmmmm..well I was unimpressed with the first half, bit violent and wierd music in background.
But second half was ..errr..interesting and Mick Jagger looked hot with make up on, and James Fox was HOT and reminded me of Dennis from Eastenders!
Also, a lot of the arty shots made me think of Abba videos!!
Oh and the other thing was I kept recognising samples from *E=MCsquare* by Big Audio Dynamite....God and I'd always thought that * I like a bit of a cavort* was from a Michael Caine film all this time!!!

Also last DVD I saw was Secretary....Oh my god..that film is superb....and always delivers. ;)

TremblingStar

03-09-2004, 22:24

Just bought Night of the Living Dead for a spook-tastic two quid on DVD at music zone. get down there fast folks. They're selling like hot cakes.

hamstall

04-09-2004, 14:34

"In the last film I ever saw, they wore suits and they wore ties..........."

wAtChLaR

05-09-2004, 11:32

saw Lynch's WILD AT HEART on the big screen again last night...Grace Zabriskie was there and she talked about her role in the film as Juana and working with Lynch in his other projects...most notably as Sarah Palmer in Twin Peaks and Fire Walk With Me.

watched the dvd of Lars von Trier's DOGVILLE today...loved it...but i'm terribly biased...Lynch, Kieslowski, and von Trier are my favorites...

the wild at heart special edition dvd, region 1 is released on december 7th by MGM...details on extras can be found here...

www.dugpa.com

FINALLY...now we just need Lost Highway on dvd

diamente

05-09-2004, 11:33

Originally posted by TremblingStar
Just bought Night of the Living Dead for a spook-tastic two quid on DVD at music zone. get down there fast folks. They're selling like hot cakes.

Wow. That is a bargain. And a classic film. Watch with Dawn of the Dead for ultimate effect and to get both of the best kinds of horror film. The first one for genuine chills and atmosphere, the second for gore, action and great bad acting.

Danni

05-09-2004, 12:43

last night we had another video night with Pulp fiction and resovior dogs
before that it was me and a coupla people with maggie Gyllenhaal
Donnie Darko and Secretary

TremblingStar

05-09-2004, 22:51

I'm about to watch Donnie Darko, I just bought it on DVD. It better be as good as everyone says it is.

I may report back in a couple of hours.

TremblingStar

06-09-2004, 01:23

Originally posted by TremblingStar
I'm about to watch Donnie Darko, I just bought it on DVD. It better be as good as everyone says it is.

I may report back in a couple of hours.

Yup. Good film. Wasn't what I expected. I thought it all made perfect sense, then scanned back through this thread and it transpires that you can make it as sophisticated as you want it to be.

Oh and I'm sorry, but I still don't like that Gary Julezzzzzzz song.

TremblingStar

06-09-2004, 01:30

Yup. Good film. Wasn't what I expected. I thought it all made perfect sense, I don't think it was complicated at all.

The direction was great and really suited the mood of the film - I admire directors who will do the understated things well that benefit the piece and not show off.

It's called Guy Ritchie syndrome.

A bit like how 70's prog rock was shit.

TremblingStar

06-09-2004, 01:58

Actually just been to www.donniedarko.com

Wow. Really impressed. More films should come with such an 'after-care' package!

EDIT: Sorry, just realised that I've done four posts in a row.

ebuzz

06-09-2004, 04:46

I just watched Napoleon Dynamite. Great flick!!!

Check it out!!

Jeffrey...

diamente

06-09-2004, 08:59

Originally posted by TremblingStar
Yup. Good film. Wasn't what I expected. I thought it all made perfect sense, I don't think it was complicated at all.

The direction was great and really suited the mood of the film - I admire directors who will do the understated things well that benefit the piece and not show off.

It's called Guy Ritchie syndrome.

A bit like how 70's prog rock was shit.

70's prog rock: shit?!! I feel I must step in and defend this most maligned of musical genres, because I do admire it's willingness to take risks, not give a shit about looking ridiculuous and create music that's really ambitious and epic in scale. Yeah, some of it's toss, but at its best, it's preposterously exciting and really, really huge sounding, and I want to hear some of that epic madness from time to time! Much better than a lot of groups who a) play it safe or are b) too concerned with looking cool!

Of course, the overhwhelming shadow and presence by prog and the huge rock groups of the time must have been a nightmare to put up with and I'm glad punk showed up to boot it off stage when it did! And prog rock inspired one of the best albums of the 90's in my opinion, Mansun's Six, an album that really did not give a shite about how silly it was, and that was a real fresh thing to hear in 1998 when that Britpop thing was in its artistic death throes and bands like Cast were still getting into the top 20. Shudder!

Heh heh, that's me done! Er, last film I watched? Still Performance, from a few days ago!

And Guy Ritchie is shit, I agree!

KaruMoo

06-09-2004, 10:45

I watched carnival last night (not a fim a tv series on fx)

Did anyone else give it a go it was very good a bit like twin peaks but set with carnie folk.

Weird too.

TremblingStar

06-09-2004, 11:21

I just get agitated when Led Zep, Pink Floyd or even Yes comes on the radio. But you are right in that it has inspired some great music today: Elbow, Mansun, Radiohead et al all some of my favourite bands.

So...movies?

KaruMoo

06-09-2004, 11:24

Originally posted by TremblingStar
I just get agitated when Led Zep, Pink Floyd or even Yes comes on the radio. But you are right in that it has inspired some great music today: Elbow, Mansun, Radiohead et al all some of my favourite bands.

So...movies?

:eek: dear me Mr Trembler, your just trying to agitate me, I know it.

TremblingStar

06-09-2004, 11:35

**pokes KaruMoo repeatedly in the side**

KaruMoo

06-09-2004, 11:46

*finds a place of zen calm*

and repeatably smashs Trembling stars head of it ... the only use for such a place ..

linoleum

06-09-2004, 14:53

Originally posted by KaruMoo
*finds a place of zen calm*

and repeatably smashs Trembling stars head of it ... the only use for such a place ..

Now now Boys!

Calm Down - Calm Down! ( said in scouser accent )

evilpink_queeny

06-09-2004, 15:37

i watched a film called drunks yesterday which had faye dunaway and calista flockhart in its about A nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where everyone airs his or her own views and experiences...

kind of apt really as i watched it after yet another heavy night out..

Danni

06-09-2004, 20:49

A cinderella story...noone ever see that! ever!ever!

tattmaylor

06-09-2004, 21:47

The Village or I-robot? ...going out on thurs no idea which will be best

...i fancy Hell Boy but people i'm out with probably won't handle it!!

diamente

06-09-2004, 21:59

I saw The Bourne Supremacy today and top marks to it: an excellent thriller, better than the Bourne Identity and full of suspense. I imagine it would be the kind of film the makers of the James Bond series would create if they toned down the campness and emphasised the danger.

I don't fancy seeing Hellboy: it's from the same guy who made Blade II and i thought that was diabolically poor, and i didn't like the look of the trailer. Haven't seen The Village or I, Robot: both are meant to have their problems but are also meant to be quite entertaining. I suppose it all depends on how much Will Smith gets on your nerves!

tattmaylor

06-09-2004, 22:19

So The Village it is then :D

Hell Boy equalled guy from Children of the lost World and Selma Blair - I know nothing about it??

JackedyJAck

06-09-2004, 22:31

I really liked the Village - I don't care what people say...

I watched House of sand and fog, American history X, Kill Boll vol. 1 and White oleanders today...

KaruMoo

09-09-2004, 23:19

This evening I watched The Passion of Christ :eek: wow and Shaun of the Dead :eek: ooo

evilpink_queeny

10-09-2004, 10:36

Originally posted by KaruMoo
wow and Shaun of the Dead :eek: ooo

i was going to buy that...should i?

KaruMoo

10-09-2004, 16:03

Originally posted by evilpink_queeny
i was going to buy that...should i?

Yeah cause, but I'd rent it first, my boyfriend did'nt like it but I thought it was very clever.

evilpink_queeny

10-09-2004, 16:03

can get cheap dvd copies so i think ill put it in my next order....lol

evilpink_queeny

11-09-2004, 16:34

last night watched dvd called row your boat it had jon bon jovi in it...

it started off and i was nearly falling asleep..

it got a bit better then had a slight shock of an ending...

:)

TremblingStar

13-09-2004, 11:49

Finally watched Night of the Living Dead last night. Its no way near as good as Dawn of the Dead (I'm talking about the originals here), but it had its moments. I saw all the twists coming though. Probably because many horror movies since Night of the Living Dead used it as a template.

tattmaylor

13-09-2004, 18:23

Well ended up at i-robot which I quite enjoyed (but maybe i was just in the mood for it). Plenty of faults but it also lacked the heavy hand I would of expected from a Will Smith film. I loved the robots though.

...but maybe I just enjoyed it for this...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005256/

oh! First day of dole ....shit TV day!!!! That Loose Women is just knicked from Mel and Sue!

hamstall

13-09-2004, 18:31

Originally posted by tattmaylor
Plenty of faults but it also lacked the heavy hand I would of expected from a Will Smith film.

Ah!... But did it have all of the Will Smith Smugness that makes you want to give him a smack?

The last film I saw was "The Ladykillers".
Classic Ealing comedy, with Alec Guinness and a Tristram Cary soundtrack.

Hx

tattmaylor

13-09-2004, 18:42

Originally posted by hamstall
Ah!... But did it have all of the Will Smith Smugness that makes you want to give him a smack?

Well I'm not sure! I'm definatley not a fan of Mr Smith, but he wasn't give to much time to really get on your nerves. He was cast as Will Smith so it didn't matter. He had too be a black actor for the 'prejudice against robots thing' so it worked. The real cliques were in the american stereotyped set up, so I let him off for once! But he had some really god lines which helped!! The sneeze followed by 'sorry i'm elergic to bullshit!' is gonna catch on. I did it all day as a private joke on friday in meetings! :)

diamente

14-09-2004, 21:52

Watched some of Highlander today. Christopher Lambert is a real borderline. I believe he has real screen presence, but only when he doesn't speak.

evilpink_queeny

15-09-2004, 10:28

Originally posted by tattmaylor
Well ended up at i-robot which I quite enjoyed (but maybe i was just in the mood for it). Plenty of faults but it also lacked the heavy hand I would of expected from a Will Smith film. I loved the robots though.

ive got that..just not got round to watching it yet though...ill have to make sure im in the mood..lol

Jennifer

15-09-2004, 12:09

Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood

it was divine!

:)

xxx

Danni

15-09-2004, 17:10

I love that film!!

we finished A Streetcar named Desire...marlon brando...yum

evilpink_queeny

16-09-2004, 11:18

harry potter prisoner of azkaban..

liked the knight bus lol

evilpink_queeny

18-09-2004, 15:11

somethings gotta give..with jack nicholson

it was just your typical american love story..lol

but passed the day nicely...

TremblingStar

20-09-2004, 11:35

Three Colours Blue.

I've just bought the trilogy on DVD (an intellectual purchase cancelled out in that I bought the Adam and Joe DVD at the same time)

I love all the sensory stuff in films, thats why I love 'Blue' - the sugarcube soaking up coffee, the holding breath underwater, running your knuckles against a wall. One of the extras showed how Kieslowski spent half a day trying to find a sugarcube that would soak up coffee in 5 seconds! Genius.

I think its all the sensory stuff that makes Amelie my fave film (you can just FEEL those peebbles in your pocket and your hand in that grain).

Paris can look so hypnotic when those tinted lenses are on the camera. To the point that its a bit of a shock when you get there and find out its covered in dog shit! Still a great place though, just for the architecture - but it feels so different from in the movies.

diamente

20-09-2004, 11:37

Watched Zoolander yesterday. Bit hit and miss but occassionally hilarious.

The 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go' bit at the petrol station had me in hysterics. Shouldn't laugh really, but if characters are going to behave that incompetently, then they get what they deserve.

I've only seen the 'Red' film of the trilogy, Trembler, and I really liked that. I love the director, though I don't think i can handle watching 'A Short Film About Killing' again. A classic, but too effective for me to want to seek it out again. 'A Short Film About Love': absolutely beautiful, again, dunno if i could watch that again, a really sad film. My favourite of his is 'The Double Life of Veronique', unbelievable film, absolutely gorgeous, and I'm not just talking about Irene Jacob, who is quite simply one of the most beautiful women on Earth.

I've been tempted by the Adam and Joe dvd...very tempted!

TremblingStar

20-09-2004, 12:11

Go for it... its the Beans commercial that makes me laugh most.

The best bit in Zoolander is the midget orgy. On a no-brainer film note I saw Deuce Bigalow for about the third time on Saturday night - I have such double standards.

I saw both the 'short films' last year as part of a European film course the Uni was putting on. I couldn't stop thinking about 'killing' after I saw it. Its so striking.

P.S. note the inverted commas

Danni

20-09-2004, 20:47

Les Mistons-part of the new wave of french films...for school, this really old shakey horrible film

linoleum

22-09-2004, 15:53

Supersize Me with the jimster in Bristol the other day......

I shall never eat fast food AGAIN.

Bleugh...well that was the effect on me anyway...however Jimi said he fancied a burger after seeing this one!

SICK.

greenwell64

22-09-2004, 22:08

A few years ago over here, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser kind of put a lot of people off fast food over here. I'm not nearly so apt to want a e-coli burger so damm quick nowadays.
Ground turkey make Hamburger Helper taste better. So does cooking it in a non-smoking apartment.

diamente

23-09-2004, 17:26

Meet the Parents.

Very funny!

evilpink_queeny

23-09-2004, 18:22

dying young with julia roberts..

i thought it was pretty good apart from the ending..he should of died or recovered...

tattmaylor

23-09-2004, 20:38

Wedding Singer

...lovely, soppy, no brianer (apparently it's meant to be that way but starngley loads of Adam Sandler films are like that! With great music aswell - that's meant to be embarassing ...but for some of us (Sandii!!!) it's great!!!!

I love the bit where Adam Sandler's mate's talking about finding the right women and says 'I just want someone to hold me and tell me 'everything is gonna be all right'' ...then the old drunk at the bar hugs him and tells him 'everything is gonna be all right' ...oh and Steve Buscemi' excellent drunken fall ...sign of a true acting genius!

....oh! ... and Drew is the most lovely you'll ever see her!!

hamstall

23-09-2004, 21:55

Diva.

Nice car........

linoleum

23-09-2004, 22:27

Speaking of 80ss films, I saw Back to The Future tonight...ahh memories. Can't believe that film is nearly 20 years old!

Yes Tatt, I love The Wedding Singer, especially when Adam Sandler loses it singing that really depressing song, *somebody Kill Me*...and all those 80s references are hysterical. Although I like to think that in the 80s I was much too cool and too busy wearing black and sucking in my cheekbones to be that flippant!
:D

TremblingStar

24-09-2004, 14:26

Originally posted by tattmaylor

I love the bit where Adam Sandler's mate's talking about finding the right women and says 'I just want someone to hold me and tell me 'everything is gonna be all right'' ...then the old drunk at the bar hugs him and tells him 'everything is gonna be all right' ...oh and Steve Buscemi' excellent drunken fall ...sign of a true acting genius!

Yes, but not as good as the "he's losing his mind... and I'm reaping the benefits"

Originally posted by tattmaylor

....oh! ... and Drew is the most lovely you'll ever see her!!

Agreed.

diamente

25-09-2004, 22:34

I bloomin love The Wedding Singer, it's so sweet. And yes, the 'reaping the benefits' bit is priceless. I'm laughing now just thinking about it!

And Drew Barrymore is so cute in that film, definitely!

I watched Gremlins last night. Total A+++ movie that one. Anyone who doesn't think little Gizmo is the cutest thing on the planet has no soul.

One bit that had me in hysterics is when Billy takes the injured Gizmo into the bathroom but forgets to turn off the lights. Our little Mogwai yells 'Bright lights, bright lights!!', the light gets turned off and Gizmo lets out a sigh of relief that is just so bless it's hilarious.

Blimey, Back to the Future, The Lost Boys (2-disc superbastard version), Big Trouble in Little China, Gremlins...I'm going through an 80's retro phase here. And yes, I will be buying The Goonies when it comes out on dvd in a week or so!

TremblingStar

27-09-2004, 09:07

My three year old brother looks like Gizmo - in a good way, it's my nickname for him.

Last night I saw Gladiator again. As a history student it is entertaining to see your subject raped by Ridley Scott in such an overblown but strangely entertaining way.

The acting is top-notch in it though, and as far as blockbusters go it could have been much worse. Lesser directers would have cast Colin Farrel and the like...

Danni

29-09-2004, 16:51

haha when everyone else was watching Gladiator...i was watching...legally blonde which was on channel5 at the time!
love that song

Rickyroo

29-09-2004, 17:13

I saw L'Apartement again recently. A fantastic film, funny, intriguing, deeply romantic and stuffed with gorgeous women - Monica Bellucci would be enough, but then they added Romane Bahringer to the mix...drool...

And of course there's Vincent Cassel, who rock's in so many ways.

Avoid the recent American remake Wicker Park. I haven't seen it, but it's clearly going to poo. Vincent Cassel becomes...Josh Hartnett!?!? Dear God! Monica Bellucci becomes...Diane Kruger!?!? Kill me now...