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This is the movie thread. This is the only movie thread. All others are false prophets. All hail the movie thread.
What's going on in the news?
Avatar made a few dollars
35 Criterion Collection movies are now on Netflix Instant watch
Pooro is objectively wrong about Stanley Kubrick
The Autuers is kind of a rip-off, but it's got a lot of good movies on it (some of which are free)
And in recent news, I just saw the new Coen brothers film for two dollars. It was pretty damn good. Fuck all the haters and all the babies.
Recommendations from PI:
The Man Who Would be King
The Duelists
Dear Zachary
The Thin Red Line
One, Two, Three
Head On (Will one of you fucks watch this instead of making a retarded joke about that headache treatment commercial?)
The Naked Prey
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Spartan
What's going on in the news?
Avatar made a few dollars
35 Criterion Collection movies are now on Netflix Instant watch
Pooro is objectively wrong about Stanley Kubrick
The Autuers is kind of a rip-off, but it's got a lot of good movies on it (some of which are free)
And in recent news, I just saw the new Coen brothers film for two dollars. It was pretty damn good. Fuck all the haters and all the babies.
Recommendations from PI:
The Man Who Would be King
The Duelists
Dear Zachary
The Thin Red Line
One, Two, Three
Head On (Will one of you fucks watch this instead of making a retarded joke about that headache treatment commercial?)
The Naked Prey
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Spartan
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it was good but
APPLY DIRECTLY TO YOUR TV FOR VIEWING PLEASURE
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What? The sound of awesome?
It doesn't help that I'm still on a bit of a horror movie bend, so I've now purchased:
Ju-On
The Grudge
The Grude 2
The Ring
The Ring Two
The Rings (short films and a two documentaries)
And to add insult to injury, I got that haunted house simulator for Wii (I don't currently own a Wii).
Planning on a fear-numbing marathon someday.
The boredest
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The fuck is the matter with you?
I am going to start spitballing a theory here:
The Chinese, as an autocratic government, are basically mirroring other autocratic governments-- Francisco's Spain especially-- in their choices for making movies. Obviously the Chinese government gives a lot of tax breaks (if not funding) to the movie industry. What they choose to make is primarily "epic" and "historical" features, ones that don't exactly lend themselves to topicality. They're fables, basically. So either they're trying to escape into the legendary past, a past which they draw on for patriotism, which everyone looks back on fondly, (like so many other countries making a grab for super-power) or they're just trying to sell action films internationally. Or both.
This is my theory.
You know too much.
Except that the Chinese have jobs and industry.
That and he makes a real good movie, too.
So I like mocking bad movies with friends? We just had an amazing Christmas party where we watched "Starchaser" and had a great time talking over it. It helps that some people in the group have stand-up comedy experience, and one of them is a very talented vocalist who occassionally adds impromptu musical sequences.
But, yeah, maybe that's a few too many spookfilms.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
I know Hero was all about eskewing self-righteousness for The Greater Good, but I don't think Hero was directly financed by the Chinese government.
HE'S JUST WAITING TO COME BACK!
It was the same boring story five times with different colors.
Fuck that movie.
Apparently, Spanish studios told Del Toro that the guy that ended up playing Vidal is totally wrong for the role and would not be able to pull it off, and that Del Toro doesn't get it because he is Mexican.
But that teacher sucked.
Speaking of which, someone gave a presentation in class about Pan's Labyrinth and all they talked about is contemporary Spanish history. Apparently, completely unaware of where the man was from. It was fairly grating.
I was going to make a mean post about Rashomon here, but the difference is that one of those is not a boring movie
Hero taught me that there was such a thing as too many fight sequences.
I don't remember any characters, beyond art direction.
Didn't work out all that well for Matrix Revolutions.
Moving on, where are my epic Tartar or Cossack movies?
Who will make these for me?
Also Mongol was fantastic
It was like Conan the Barbarian only real
Amazon Wishlist: http://www.amazon.com/BusterK/wishlist/3JPEKJGX9G54I/ref=cm_wl_search_bin_1
It was really pretty but goodness me was it ham-handed.
It's like they're planning some kind of shock and awe campaign!
Also I liked how you could tell just how dang morally torn the corporate guy was, because sometimes after approving something horrible he'd look momentarily distraught, or sometimes even turn away and sigh.
He's just so conflicted!
http://www.audioentropy.com/
Hey, Buster, still want to catch some flicks at the Aero?