i didnt think the hurt locker was that great. maybe 4/10 w.b.p

and everything should be measured in WIZARD BONG POINTS (WBP)

and whip it was awful.

Disrict 9 -- quite clever to start with, drifts a bit towards the end

how would your rate it in WBP?

Three Colours Trilogy - Red & Blue both incredible everytime I watch them - enjoy White but not as much.

Double Life of Veronique up next.

Bit of a Kieslowski binge.

how many WBP for shutter island? im almost keen to see it.

Hurt Locker had 30 minutes of ads and previews before the movie. I timed them.

thats shithouse.

watched moon (excellent bar the audio in the last ten seconds) and looking for eric (which was great, probably better if you like cantona).

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures.

One of those car crash documentaries where you wanna look away but can't. I don't understand how people can be reveal so much of their private lives on film. Parts of it were funny though although some bits seemed a bit fake.

La Grand Bouffe - Marco Ferreri (1973 France)..whoah.. a bunch of men shut themselves away in an old manor with some prostitutes and a school teacher and endeavour to eat themselves to death. We watched this on a full stomach after the Czech restaurant. Heavy. 2.5 stars

Mammoth - Lukas Moodysson (2009 Sweden) Pretty good. A meditation on 'value' set in Thailand, New York and the Philippines. 4 stars

Watched 'Nine' last night, because my lady-friend forced me to.
I can't believe it was ever made, let alone with such a star-studded cast.
Terrible, terrible film - horrible, boring, unmemorable songs, and forgettable performances.

some kinda tribute/version of fellini's 8 1/2.
was a horrible mistake, both the making of the film by whoever made it, and the watching of it by me.

Step Across The Border - Nicolas Humbert (1990 Germany Doco) Excellent doc on Improv genius Fred Frith and his cohorts. The guitar strangulation and passion for pulling sound out of any object in this film is exceptional. 4 stars.

Surrogates with Bruce Willis.
Ridiculously bad.

margot at the wedding, by noah baumbach who did that all time great squid and the whale. it was good and it included people i don't normally like, such as nicole kidman and jack black

Started watching men who stare at goats last nite. awful rippoff copy so it was hard to watch. sound was shithouse so i only got 10mins in.
so far so good of what i saw.

I watched that the other night. Quite enjoyed it.
Nothing mind-blowing, but some hilarious bits.

7/10

I'm gonna watch Working Girl tonight. For the Staten Island ferry.

The Hurt Locker - Outstanding performances, cinematography, direction, sound - just the complete package. Had me on the edge of my seat for pretty much the entire thing. Just the ticket. 9/10

Alice In Wonderland - Whoever thought Tim Burton would do to Alice In Wonderland what he did to Planet Of The Apes? Absolutely mind-fuckingly abysmal. It should be a crime for him to ever remake another movie. And yet the casting was spot on - just the performances (other than Alice's - what a captivating young actress!) were dire. Even Johnny Depp's. The CGI and 3D definitely detracted as well - sub-standard. 1.5/10

I'm about to embark on all 4 Revenge Of The Nerds films...

As promised:

Hancock, not as shit as you would think.

Will Smith does what he does. Cocky, but with heart.

An enjoyable watch.

Watched Face/Off again last night. Castor Troy excellence. hahaha...Cage's face when he's stoned on coke and seeing Gina Gershon is all time OTT Cage.

Oh God I hate Nicholas Cage. He has done a few good movies if I can recall, but I just want to punch him - right in the face.

Vincere - Marco Bellocchio (2009 Italy) Epic, oddly disjointed tale of Mussolini's estranged wife and her decent to the edge of madness outside of his spotlight and under the growing reign of fascism. A grand score, lot's of archival footage but still quite hard to follow for the uneducated. 3 stars

I doubt it will be as good as the first time I saw it but this is on the cards later on:

The Cop Who Breaks The Rules To Get The Job Done investigates the Giant Corporation With A Sinister Secret to find the missing Scientist Who Works To Make The World a Better Place with the help of her Wild And Undisciplined Sister, who, of course, wind up in bed together having had The Sex You Smoke After.

Absolute garbage. Watched on fast forward after the eighteenth minute hoping something surprising happened. Nothing did.

Oh, I wish. Big hats, cloaks, carrying knives around and squatting in abandoned railway stations
Don't you already do this?

Not a railway station, no.
And I've never worn a cloak.

I think the film is a pretty decent adaptation of the graphic novel, actually, and I don't think it's bad. I quite like Alan Moore and I share a lot of political viewpoints with him, but I don't think he put so much into V For Vendetta that what got left out made it a bad film.

From Hell, on the other hand, is probably the worst adaptation I've ever seen. It's terrible.

Survival of the Dead

People look to the ...the Dead films to each be as riveting as the last, but they're not. Not at this stage, anyway. They're now about playing within their own genre, that Romero has made his own subgenre and within his own rules he bends and breaks the conventions make new and subtle points. It's not about sledgehammer impact anymore, it's about new twists on old themes.

What separates Romero from his imitators is his subtlety in theme combined with a bluntness in action and story The obvious 'two tribes' plot hits like the typical '...*the Dead''' films (Dawn - shallow commercialism; Day - militarism breeds pavlovian instinct and target fixation; Land - statism and classism lead to ruin, etc) where both sides have no problem sending manipulated and lied to soldiers and civilians alike to their deaths to play against their opponents and the real war is between the patriarchs and not with the zombies. But Romero reverses his take on the military and shows the soldiers being human and the leaders as being inhuman, which rounds out rather than sells out the theme of 'Day...' and as the story unfolds and the complexities of life on the island for both patriarchs is revealed is done so to be taken away, to increase the sense of loss piled on loss and chances squandered by shortsightedness and a simple lack of values.

Likewise the film is pretty inevitable, unhurried and filled with a kind of exhausted despair, which I think adds to the air of stupidity in the actions of the patriarchs. It comments on the monotony of small town life (''small towns make small people'') and the frustrating pointlessness of living on an island and living within only two possible alliances: the fruitless repetition of the chained-up zombies walking back and forth from post box to mail bag, from kitchen bench to refrigerator, forwards and reverse in a car wedged into a parking space, is a metaphor for how tiring and idiotic the 'two tribes' system of modern politics is.

Romero is a great filmmaker. And watching this film without having seen the five before it won't be that much fun, but if you've seen the rest and like to actually reflect on cinema, it's actually a great film.

regards,
a very tired noneabove. Time for bed.

A Single Man - Tom Ford (2009 USA) Quite well done. Having not read anything about the film I was pleasantly surprised that it was nothing like the poster. Exquisite set design reminiscent of the first series of madmen. Excellent performances all round and the only bit that irked me was the 'nursing' bandaid cliche, which was an obvious weak point. 4 stars

Four Lions - Christopher Morris (2010 UK) Very funny and tongue-in-cheek but ultimately too silly to pack any real political punch. A few great scenes such as the family all holding hands in the kitchen which almost crosses over into Todd Solondz wrongsville. 3 stars

Con Air.

Shit.

men who stare at goats

I enjoyed it's whistfulness. not bad at all. infact I'd actually say good.

cop out

a lot of how much you enjoy the film will depend on how you feel about bruce willis, tracy morgan and seann william scott. i don't mind those guys. the plot and story is a terrible melange of homage and cliche. i can see why some people didn't like this AT ALL but i was able to chuckle all the way through.

about 1 not quite as enjoyable as cliffhanger.

^^^ l like Sean William scott.

new thread.