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it's really good, you should watch it
god I don't even know
fucking hell
also FUCK JOYCE
man I seen CHUD before
I am just gonna watch it again
Good movie!
one written and directed by Christopher Nolan
I'll write it
please rename it to "Trying too fucking hard to be Indie, New York" for a more apropos title
Anyways, I remember I was helping a friend with a student film he was making and I brought Kurosawa up and he said that he didn't watch all that many foreign films. My faith in the production and him as a film major took a big hit that day.
Being a grown man and not having watched Seven Samurai makes you a twerp.
Why would you call it indie?
edit: actually I just don't really understand what you're criticizing about it.
Charlie Kaufman and Philip Seymour Hoffman are two of the best people working in film today
Charlie Kaufman didn't disappoint with his debut, I was afraid that he'd come out with something wonderfully written but poorly directed.
I'm going to try to be fair with this but this is the sort of attitude that makes people hate Film & Video majors at college.
I have a lot of friends who won't even consider watching a film with someone out of the department.
Agreed but it isn't the problem that's the issue, but how one confronts it that happens to rub people the wrong way.
That is zero excuse for being ignorant of Kurosawa.
Catherine Bigelow
Mira Nair
Um. . .
i knew only one of those
Steam
Penelope Spheeris
Bigelow rules though
As like "CINEMA" I don't think it makes the cut, but what do I know.
Too bad Alex Proyas stopped making cool movies.
what has Bigelow made?
I know about The Hurt Locker, and didn't care for it at all
did she make other, better movies
First, what in the world didn't you like about The Hurt Locker?
Second, she directed motherfucking Point Break.
I thought it was shallow and hamfisted, delivered itself (not talking about the hype around the movie, here, but of its delivery) as an accurate portrayal of the crises of serving in modern war while maintaining absolutely no realism and doing no justice to the truth, I thought some of the acting was pretty awful, and, most importantly, I felt as though the movie's whole "conclusion" was enormously graceless and was foreshadowed both patchily and with absolutely no narrative deftness, giving the truly remarkable sense of it being both unbelievably banal and entirely groundless (which was probably the movie's greatest accomplishment, to pull off a quantum trick like that)
also, I haven't seen Point Break
Lars von Trier. Dogville is one of the greatest films. I dont know how he pulled it off. I want to see Antichrist still despite all the groinstabbin'
Well, I loved The Hurt Locker.
But yes there is also Strange Days and Point Break and Near Dark.
I thought Cache was preachy (though I thought 'that' moment was a pretty amazing bit of cinema or whatever) and Funny Games laughable, but I really liked Time of the Wolf.
Just saw Network recently. William Holden, Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall all totally fantastic.
YOU AREN'T DOING WHAT I TOLD YOU TO DO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGp6xC5MXic
great dirty farts
I thought Hurt Locker was a good film, but I didn't think it lived up to the hype. Technically, it was obviously very well done - the suspense and tension was great, but plot-wise it disappointed me. I generally like movies that are more character based, but I thought that it was just kind of a let down.
Then again, if I watched it again knowing what kind of movie it was, I might appreciate it more. As it was though, I felt like a lot of the movie was a build-up to something that never happened. Maybe that's the point, but I didn't think it worked as well as it could have.
You do what I told you to right now