blackjack

The wife or the mobile phone?


Last film I saw at the cinema was The Departed, enjoyed it, one of Scorcese's better "later" efforts.

I've been vegging a bit in front of UBC lately, caught a thingy called "Mobsters" the other night, with Christian Slater playing Lucky Luciano. Overly romanticised but a good, enjoyable little movie with a nice cameo role for Anthony Quinn who hams it up wonderfully.

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kenkannif

I got Se7en the other day....love that film!

Also got Amalie (sp?) for 89 Baht yesterday!!!

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Riddle me this brother can you handle it
Your style to my style you can't hold a candle to it
Equinox symmetry and the balance is right
Smokin' and drinkin' on a Tuesday night
It's not how you play the game it's how you win it
I cheat and steal and sin and I'm a cynic

Unwell

amelie's great eh...you know i've never seen 'seven'!


just saw the new bond, posted about it on that thread...just went to see 'grizzly man' but missed the fucker...

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"...ever wonder why they kill the weak ones, baby?"

Unwell

i just saw 'grizzly man' and thought it was absolutely brilliant although so disturbing, for me, i wouldn't be able to see it again.


herzog's putting together of this documentary is masterful, he's so good at what he does, everything i've seen of his has had such a powerful effect on me he has to be my favourite director, of all time.

this piece isn't about bears, conservation or wildlife. it's a portrait of a very misguided, self-obsessed individual; idealistic to the point of ridiculousness and his desire to opt out of civilisation, deluded and hapless. it's about what it means to try and rebel against humanity and carve out a niche for yourself as something else. and about the unfortunate, and fairly inevitable consequences of this. along with the consequences for those we, perhaps selfishly, leave behind. it's full of incredible set-pieces - tim and the foxes, the bear footage, the terrible moment that herzog listens to the audio tape of the attack that killed tim and his girlfriend, footage of hunters intruding on 'his' territory, interviews with bewildered bear 'experts'.

perhaps the most amazing sequence is tim's explosive attrack on his enemies; foul-mouthed and barbaric. also a moment for herzog to shine and do something incredible. he manages to draw a comparison, very subtley, to the psychotic actor klaus kinski who has been an integral part of herzog's film career. and for a moment, and perhaps it was just me, tim even begins to look like kinski with his chiselled features and almost savage madness naked to herzog's camera.

the last twenty minutes i found chilling. very dark as tim's death closes in on him, questions arise as to why he was there after his trip had officially ended, why his girfriend accompanied him to their deaths even though she had grown sick of his desire for self-destruction. the footage of the bear that killed them, an outsider to the area; bigger, angrier, hungrier and perhaps crueller than the bears tim had lived with.


all in all, i thought it was a fantastic piece of film-making. it moved me tremendously and will stay with me for a long time although raising many personally uncomfortable questions and ideas. although being very sad and troubling in ways that herzog's films always are. first-class.

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Skateboard C

Just watched Jackass Number Two. Tasteless, idiotic and downright disgusting. It's also very, very funny.

My score: 3 out of 5

richie122

Lonely Hearts Killer-- Pretty good flick.. Something to take up an hour and a half of down time

Ice Maiden

I watched Flushed Away.

It was very comical and there are a lot of things in the film that make adults giggle as well as younger children.

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See there, I know you're there
Look at me with your evil glare
Squeeze me tight 'cause I like it rough
Baby I just can't get enough

Munted

it's very twee

Bond was enjoyable, Grizzly guy was overated IMHO

Skateboard C

I saw that one a couple of weeks ago. Loved the singing slugs.
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Amélie was on a couple of days ago. Meant to watch it but fell asleep... at 9pm!

robitusson

De Ja Vu and it typified Hollywood mediocrity in every way. Utter dogshit basically.

Denzel Blackmanington is in it and they can see into the past and a boat gets blown up but Denzel goes back in time because there's a hot chick who died that he wants to save and he chases a car with a gadget on that can see into the past and then he drives into a house and gets shot and there's some explosions and some one-liners and he manages to save the boat but gets killed but it's ok because he went back in time so there's two of him so he survives even though he gets killed and he scores with the chick and that's the end.

It's shit.

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Umbuku

"The Others"

A good ghost story. Old creaky manor house. Creepy new house staff. Neurotic single mother and two kids. The others and the intruders. Watch it, it's good.

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The free man thinks about nothing so little as death; his mind is focused upon life, not upon death. I always feel a bit sad when I see someone who thinks that the purpose of life is something other than living.

Unwell

could have told you that from the trailer...why waste yer time?

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Hootad Binky

Just watched "Cars," the latest Pixar/Disney film, with Owen Wilson doing the voice-over for the main character Car.

Great story, stunning animation, high adventure, romance, life lessons, humour. More in the mold of older Disney films.

Both my soon-to-be 3year-old and I thoroughly enjoyed it!

MikeS

For sheer nostalgia, I just ordered Monty Python's Life of Brian DVD on Amazon, so when it arrives I'll let you know by how much I reckon it surpasses any movie I've seen in, oh, maybe the last decade!

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