Movie you are watching right now: The comparable thread

[freetibetwpurch]

I'm not really sure if this thread will get off of the ground, but I rent a lot of movies.

I'm watching Sergei Paradjanov's Color of Pomegranates. This movie is interesting in certain ways, but it's overt use of symbolism kind of makes me sick. Either the imagery used is too abstract or too cliche. Let's pour blood on chickens and make the statement that followers of the church are sheep. Let's use real sheep!

[ME!!!!]

I was just watching Bill and Ted's excellent adventure on comedy central. Notice a possible Wyld Stallion; Wyked Skeptor connection?

[RizzleMcIzzle]

http://www.towards2112.com/dvd/dvdimages/7luckyninjakids.jpg

I picked up Seven Lucky Ninja Kids for $1 at the Family Dollar. It's very enjoyable because the black kid on the cardboard cover isn't even in it. Here's what the back of the cover says:

This gang of mini-Ninjas gets together for an exciting and fun-filled adventure. One of the Ninja kids witnesses a murder and is given a large diamond by the murder victim before his death. He is asked to deliver the diamond to a woman wearing a red rose.

A gang of local hoods are after this diamond and will stop at nothing to get their hands on this prized possession. With bad guys everywhere and danger lurking around the corner, these Kung-Fu kids pul out their bag of martial arts tricks. Flying through the air with kicks and punches, nunchaku, long sticks, swords and other martial arts weaponry, the bad guys don't stand a chance. Kids will love this awesome skateboard riding, pizza eating group of mini-Ninjas! It's 7 Lucky Ninja kids... ALL FOR ONE!

[freetibetwpurch]

There certainly were not enough pizza eating and karate loving kid movies from the mid 80s to early 90s.

[scotch-romanian]

These are the last ten I watched:

The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Contempt (1963)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Get Carter (1971)
Point Blank (1967)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Mouchette (1967)

Get Carter (the original) and Au Hasard Balthazar I highly recommend.


Next on my list to see...

Prime Cut (1972) - "A Chicago mob enforcer (Lee Marvin) is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher (Gene Hackman) who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves." (Can't wait!)

Irreversible (2002) - "contains a 10-minute rape scene." (Can't wait!)

[modrob]

....driving. driving miss daisy.

[klaus_kinski]

The last few movies I have watched were

- The Count of Monte Cristo (6 Hour French version avec Gerard Depardieu)

- Burden of Dreams (SEE IT PLEASE!!!)

- A 3 hour documentary/propaganda DVD about Hezbollah with bad English subtitles but great visual content and interviews with Hezbollah's heavy hitters.

- That stupid Wilco documentary

That's about it. The Count of Monte Cristo took a lot of time to watch. I haven't been watching too many movies these days. It's hot in my apartment

EDITED BECAUSE OF EMBARASSING TYPE-Os

[AndersLevant]

Oh, man, that Gerard Depardieu Count of Monte Cristo rules. The best part is that they didn't totally bastardize the novel like those boneheads who made the Guy Pearce/Jim Caviezel version. Oh, yeah, Sergio Rubini as Bertuccio is pretty awesome, too.

Oh, if anyone is looking for a weird Gerard Depardieu movie check out Buffet Froid.

Edit: I haven't actually seen the Guy Pearce/Jim Caviezel version. But I know it sucks. Mostly because it doesn't star Gerard Depardieu.

[klaus_kinski]

Originally posted by AndersLevant


Edit: I haven't actually seen the Guy Pearce/Jim Caviezel version. But I know it sucks. Mostly because it doesn't star Gerard Depardieu.

Neither have I and I would have to agree with your prejudice against the Guy Pierce version. How can someone turn a 1400 page classic novel into a 2 hour movie? It can't possibly do the actual novel justice

[TomWopat]

I don't get how the ninja kids are lucky if they witnessed a murder and have people after them and shit.

Anyway, I haven't watched many movies lately and will probably in the next few days bring myself to watch my Charlie Kaufman movies (I have Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, and Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind) and everyone's favorite movie, Cabin Boy.

[RizzleMcIzzle]

Originally posted by TomWopat
I don't get how the ninja kids are lucky if they witnessed a murder and have people after them and shit.

That movie is fucking priceless. A few scenes after the girl ninja kid witnesses the murder, she says out of nowhere "Let's go skating!" and they do it! She is in no way affected by the fact that she saw a guy get shot through the head. Also, she has this great bodyguard who provides comic relief throughout the entire movie. The kids are always slapping women on their asses and blaming it on him, and when he tries to fight later on, he gets the shit kicked out of him by people who aren't even trying to fight him. My favorite part though is when they play the Halloween theme song (yeah, the horror movie) during a fight scene.

Not that anyone cares, but this review talks about some more great moments:
http://coldfusionvideo.com/0-9/7luckyninjakids.html

[teengirlsquad]

nice thread. i rented breathless and grey gardens last week .. im going to watch both tonight and slip into a hangover depression. its going to be great!

[CptPlanet]

MOVIES SUCK. I'M WATCHING INDEPENDENCE DAY... BACKWARDS.

[Brain Stew]

Originally posted by CptPlanet
MOVIES SUCK. I'M WATCHING INDEPENDENCE DAY... BACKWARDS.
I hear that when you do that Jeff Goldbulm eats your head.

[freetibetwpurch]

It's hard to remember all the shit i've been watching. I just got home from a screening of Crash (Cronenberg). It makes me want to go back and read the book and hear about elizabeth taylor dying. Oh yeah, it also makes me want to strangle a hooker and cum on her face.

I saw:
Liquid Sky
Nights of Cabiria
Tarnation
Marriage of Maria Braun
The Apartment
The Trial
Decameron
Blowup
L'Atalante
Being There
Steamboat Bill Jr.
Days of Being Wild

I want to see the Yakuza Papers and All About Lily Chou Chou soon.

[Pali]

I just watched Seven Samurai for the first time. It was great.

[freetibetwpurch]

Ohhh, Pali you are on the path to greatness. Kurosawa is the one who got me into all this. Watch Hidden Fortress, High and Low, and Throne of Blood and you'll be on your way to being a cinephile. Next thing you know you'll like German film.

[AndersLevant]

Have any of you clowns read Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon? A large part of the book seems* to be about German film from the 30's, and I've been wondering how much of it is factual and how much he flat made up.




*I use "seems" because if any of you have read Pynchon, you'll agree that what he writes isn't necessarily what he's writing about.

[agent_PUNT]

i laughed my ass off at every comment about that ninja movie.

the rest of you are boring me.

[RizzleMcIzzle]

Oh shit! I just remembered some things! Back to the ninjas:

There's this tough black dude and another guy towards the end of the movie throwing the kids through windows and shit and two of the ninja kids say something along the lines of:

"Who is this guy?"
"He looks like a chimpanzee!"

Fucking rascists! In a film supposedly intended for children! The bodyguard also makes a comment about an American woman's "tits" while at a McDonald's and another scene looks like it came straight out of Benny Hill (see, the kids are looking for that woman and she has a mole on her leg so when they're looking up women's skirts, boy howdy, hilarity comes a-crawlin').

You know what? Just go to a shitty store near you and pick this movie up. Seriously, it'll be the best $1 you ever spent.

http://www.geektimes.com/michael/site/archive/2002/01-01/images/roots-levar-burton.jpg

"But don't take my word for it"

EDIT: I'll try to shut up now and focus on the real purpose of this thread. My apologies.

[ComedySnobedy]

My answer for this will always be Royal Tenenbaums... Criterion Collection, Bill Murray talking about a snake's disappointment when eating a chocolate chip mouse.

[Soma]

I work at one of those places where you get the movies for a few days, ejaculate into the case, and return it.

Right now I have Matchstick Men and 12 Monkeys. I'm basically just treading back and watching all the movies I never got a chance to see.

City of God was outstanding.

[CptPlanet]

i'm watching DOG IN DANGER! a story about courageous animals who help their masters out of pickles!

[Brain Stew]

For the past two weeks I've been trying to watch the Five Cassavettes film box set. I got through Shadows and am almost done with Faces, but I keep falling asleep.

[scotch-romanian]

Did you blind-buy the box set, or did someone give it to you as a gift? 'Cause that's a pretty big investment for a collection of films you've never seen...

Anyway, I'm dying to own that set but it's too fucking expensive. I went out and rented most of Cassavetes' stuff a month ago after Dino recommended them all on that aspecialthing thread, and I loved every single one of them! (minus Opening Night)

Faces was actually my favorite. :(

[Brain Stew]

I got birthday money and a 25% coupon at Borders, so I decided to spend all my money blindly.

Shadows was really good. Faces was frustrating, but I think that was the intention of the movie. A Woman Under the Influence is next.

The thing about Cassavetes' movies is that they don't sink in until later. Like you have to let them cook in your brain. I was walking through the subway to work the day after I finished Shadows and I realized the whole point of the movie and how the title relates to the characters: Lelia is someone who needs to be in a couple, so she will always exist in the shadow of her man even if she is stronger. Her light-skinned brother lives in the shadow of his darker skinned siblings because he feels lost in the world since he is neither white or black. The darker skinned brother is stuck (much like Cassavetes) artisticly and cannot catch a break; he is forced to work in third rate flophouse just to play his jazz. The light skinned brother's friends are outsiders because they go against societies conceived notions about intelligence (this is shown in the museum scene) and finally Hugh is overshadowed by his own guilt. He shunned Lelia because of her race and lost her; even after apologizing he cannot escape the things he said.

I know that sound stupid, but that's what I thought about it.

[Dart Shitter]

doug benson is funnier

life aquatic- i suggest drinkin ten beers, smoking a lot of weed, and passing out during the credits because owen wilson is fabulous, ya just wanna crab his nose and break it back into place

old boy- asians like to wear suits to make thesleves look more important and this leads me to believe that kidnapping is always funny


Batman Begins- The warner brothers aren't the biggest batman supporting brothers they'd like us to think they are, fags

[freetibetwpurch]

Fuck you, I liked Brain Stew's review. I have to give you credit for having even heard of Old Boy.

A woman under the influence is actually the only Cassavetes film i've seen so far. You're going to like it if for no other reason than to see Peter Falk. That style is so distinctive! It makes you feel completely uncomfortable. I forgot her name, but the title woman was definitely a fish out of water, but I think it is debatable as to whether or not she was insane. I felt bad for her as she was sitting at the dinner table at her welcome home party. She wasn't upset with the people who put her away, and she only wanted to live up to their expectations of how a person should act. The passionate and genuine performances that are extracted from the actors are superb.

[Dart Shitter]

old boy-heard of it, and seen it---great movie

with my benson comment i was refering to my own upcoming benson esq reviews, brian stewart who?, because i like his style but the only thing we have in common is that we write the reviews when were high.


i'm internet defense lawyer Dart Shittter, if you need your posts throughly defended call some one else or defense of plazayer of the yezear Ben Wallace, he obviously not paradin around, g-eah

[tjamick]

I blind bought the Werner Herzog box set based on K_K's recomendation. It was 80 some dollars and worth it. I recomend it to everyone except Treebeard.

[klaus_kinski]

Ironically the only thing I ever purchased from Best Buy was the Herzog / Kinski boxed set. For some reason they had it selling for $45.00. I knew someone in the back room fucked up when barcoding it as $45 is STUPIDLY cheap, so I bought it.

Why was i in best buy in the first place? I was looking for a vacuum cleaner I could have sex with that wouldn't suck my foreskin off. I don't think they sell vacuums

[scotch-romanian]

Originally posted by Brain Stew
I know that sound stupid, but that's what I thought about it. If those were your own words, then that's a very impressive interpretation. Usually all I can say after seeing a movie the first time is, "It was really good" or "I liked the part when..." I suck at critiques and analysis, but I hope to learn how to write better criticism at this thing I'm doing in the fall called college (sp).

But Cassavetes has said that Shadows was his favorite film that he did, so it's probably not a bad one to call your favorite. He's probably my favorite American director after Robert Altman, and I'd rank his films in this order (from what I've seen):

Faces (1968) - highly recommended
Love Streams (1984) - highly recommended
Shadows (1957) - highly recommeded
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) - highly recommended
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) - highly recommended
Husbands (1970) - recommended
Opening Night (1977) - worth-a-look

Originally posted by freetibetwpurch
I forgot her name, but the title woman was definitely a fish out of water, but I think it is debatable as to whether or not she was insane.The actress is Gena Rowlands -- Cassavetes' wife (err, widow). She's really scary/good in it, and whether or not she is insane isn't what is debatable (in my opinion)... what is debatable is whether or not her husband (Peter Falk) is even crazier than she is.

Originally posted by tjamick
I blind bought the Werner Herzog box set based on K_K's recomendation. It was 80 some dollars and worth it. I recomend it to everyone except Treebeard.I own "Aguirre" and I'd like to own Fitzcarraldo. Those are the only two I've seen. Great stuff.

EDIT: Faces is like a long slap in the face. Drink a little before you watch it so you can relate more with the characters.

[Treebeard]

hey guys

im watching the longest yard starring burt reynolds

[freetibetwpurch]

I saw the Jacque Tati classic "Playtime" in a theater last night. You have never seen anything like this movie. The first Hulot film I saw was Mr. Hulot's vacation, and I was a little disappointed after hearing so much about him. The bits were clever, but they never really hit the mark. Playtime did everything right, from the fertile setting to the social commentary. Tati takes jabs at Americans, of course, but also criticizes the French people for living outside their means. The restaurant scene is the perfect example of a country feebly trying to keep up with the Jones'. The maitre'd takes reservations for a restaurant that is not completed, and from then on it is a race to remain one step ahead of the demand. Tremendous care was taken with this film. The sight gags come a mile a minute, and I get the feeling that I even lost some things in translation or possibly from exhaustion. The scene with the silent door is brilliant, and the visuals Tati captures are inventive and beautiful.

[TomWopat]

I just saw the Wizard of Oz... for the first time in my life.

[AHK86]

The Brown Bunny. It was really good you should totally go out and buy it.

[Dart Shitter]

Martin and Olorf is delayed until September fo release on DVD, i know David says it really not that good, i still like UCB people related projects

[AHK86]

The Pacifier. Good thing Vin Diesel gave up xXx for this shit.....it was no brown bunny.

[scotch-romanian]

"This person is on your Ignore List"I haven't seen that, AHK, but it sounds good.

Anyway, I just watched THE WAGES OF FEAR and all I can say is: Wow.

[teengirlsquad]

Wow.
Wow wow wow wow wow. Wow wow wow wow wow wo wow: Wow.


i know im an idiot.

[scotch-romanian]

I saw The Wicker Man for the first time last night and I think it might've been the most disturbing/enjoyable viewing experience I've ever had. Thanks, UK.

[freetibetwpurch]

I decided to watch Burden of Dreams on Klaus' recommendation. Let me just say that Klaus Kinski is one odd looking mother fucker. I had no idea Mick Jagger was going to be in a Herzog movie. This was one amazing documentary. The new wave thought they were rebel filmmakers. I don't think anyone ever died while Godard was making a film. That guy truly saw film as an art. I can't imagine a person being more genuine and passionate as he was. He obviously wasn't making this movie to make money. I didn't even know a film could be made that way. He took his limited backing and did everything he could with it. I was most surprised at the lack of supervision. There were no MGM or FOX representatives making sure everything was fine. Herzog must have realized how similar the plot and real life turned out to be. As it touches upon in the movie, Herzog probably paved that tough road for himself for the sake of his art.

[Citrus Mountain]

Originally posted by scotch-romanian
I saw The Wicker Man for the first time last night and I think it might've been the most disturbing/enjoyable viewing experience I've ever had. Thanks, UK.

Amazing movie.

A nerdy american internet witch says "it's not like that at all"

[freetibetwpurch]

The Wild Bunch is gritty and wonderful. I don't think there is really anything extraordinary about this film, but Peckinpah does everything very well. For me, it's a throwback to many of the old Clint Eastwood movies. All of the characters are three dimensional even if they can be predictable. You start to care about the characters and care about when they get shot, which makes the action scenes more vested. I would say that I like this even more (or maybe less) than Straw Dogs, because the out right violence in this movie is more plausible.

[scotch-romanian]

I can't watch that movie without smiling every time Strother Martin is on screen. What a chameleon that guy was.

[RizzleMcIzzle]

I'm watching The Other Sister on TNT!

[Brain Stew]

I am watching Wall Street.

[5InchTaint]

I just watched a Guy Maddin movie.

[heroin bob]

The Station Agent.

[Brain Stew]

Originally posted by 5InchTaint
I just watched a Guy Maddin movie.
I've seen guys get mad in plenty of movies.

[Roddimus]

Teen Witch.
Watch it. I'm dead serious.

[Maple Syrup]

School Of Rock... I forgot how bad this one was.

[quartersmostly]

Originally posted by heroin bob
The Station Agent.

Love that movie. What did you think?

[Maple Syrup]

God Dammit! Now it's Bruce Almighty... I hate having roomates. And herpes... I hate having herpes too.

[Dart Shitter]

the station agent was the first movie that i've seen with know big fancy ending that i've liked in a long time, the opposite of this would be broken flowers--great sountrack though

[5InchTaint]

Originally posted by Maple Syrup
God Dammit! Now it's Bruce Almighty... I hate having roomates. And herpes... I hate having herpes too.
You're married with a kid and have rommates? Man, you're ghetto.

[Rabot]

I am watching Waiting To Exhale with my girlfirend.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000ILEE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

It is getting pretty intense...I just saw the sex scean with the alstate guy, and I couldn't help saying, she's in good hands. My girlfriend didn't get it...:(

[5InchTaint]

Originally posted by Rabot
I just saw the sex scene with the Allstate guy, and I couldn't help saying, she's in good hands. My girlfriend didn't get it...:(
Didn't get it or just doesn't appreciate the corny hacky swill that is your sense of humor?

[Rabot]

No she is kinda dim...she is also yelling at me for ignorig her and using the computer.

[5InchTaint]

Originally posted by Rabot
No she is kinda dim...
A match made in Heaven, apparently.

[5InchTaint]

Just kidding. Yougoodkid.

[Rabot]

I was thinking the same thing when i posted that...

[Maple Syrup]

Originally posted by 5InchTaint
You're married with a kid and have rommates? Man, you're ghetto.

I have TWO kids, and I'm HOMELESS. "Roomates" is a term I use loosely. "Patron Saints" is probably more accurate. We've been without a home for almost 3 months... it's been really hard on us all. We have a place on the first though...(Whew!)
edit: And I just watched Crash... It was pretty good even though Oprah liked it.

[heroin bob]

Originally posted by quartersmostly
Love that movie. What did you think?

'Station Agent' would have been funnier if the dwarf was retarded, too. Kidding aside, I thought it was really fucking good.

[quartersmostly]

Originally posted by Dart Shitter
the station agent was the first movie that i've seen with know big fancy ending that i've liked in a long time, the opposite of this would be broken flowers--great sountrack though

Broken Flowers was an over rated piece of poo. I love Jarmusch, and Muarry but this was an awful movie. So is Thumbsucker. Don't see it. It sucks. Or see it and talk to me about how it sucks.

[ComedySnobedy]

anyone seen the squid and the whale yet? I think I'm seeing it this Saturday

[teengirlsquad]

Just Like Heaven . aaaaaaaaaaaand shes not EVEN dead. Shes in a coma! bullllllllshit. complete bulllshit.

[morgan morgan]

Originally posted by ComedySnobedy
Broken Flowers was an over rated piece of poo. I love Jarmusch, and Muarry but this was an awful movie.Yeah, I fell asleep in the theater.

Anyone see A History of Violence yet? I thought it was pretty decent and I normally HATE Cronenberg movies. Honestly, I don't understand why that guy has such a big following. Almost all of his movies suck.

[teengirlsquad]

I normally LOVE Cronenberg movies and I HATED History of Violence. mmm i dont have time to elaborate and convince you now.. ill come back.. .

[morgan morgan]

Originally posted by teengirlsquad
I normally LOVE Cronenberg movies and I HATED History of Violence. mmm i dont have time to elaborate and convince you now.. ill come back.. . Well I've got nothing better to do right now...

My knowledge of film is lacking so you movie freaks back the fudge off as I dissect this hoser's shitography:


A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE - D. Cent

SPIDER - I read the book so maybe that's why I didn't like it. Or maybe it just plain sucked.

EXISTENZ - Woops, haven't seen this one.

CRASH - An interesting premise that just doesn't work as a full-length feature. Would've been good as a short film or comedy sketch (!!!) The best part of the movie is when they re-enact the James Dean car crash.

M. BUTTERFLY - In-da-Gadda-da-Boring

NAKED LUNCH - Liked it. Kind of.

DEAD RINGERS - Duller than dirt... Before it started I was like, "They're twin brothers AND they're gynecologists? Awesome!" But like I said, that was before it started.

THE FLY - Good.

THE DEAD ZONE - Hahahah I was just watching the South Park episode where they parodied this.

VIDEODROME - Okay, is he intentionally taking cool-sounding ideas and making them into shit? This is like strike three.

SCANNERS - Haven't seen it, but it's a cool-sounding idea so it's probably shitty.

THE BROOD - Were the scenes with the bludgeoning mutant children supposed to be funny?


To conclude my shitty analysis, it seems like Cronenberg has had a 30 year hard-on for all things GRUESOMELY VIOLENT (and something something about male sexuality and blah blah blah the human anatomy juxtaposed with technology whatever whatever). I'll give him credit for never selling himself out and for sticking to his guns for so long ("sticking to guns" -- that sounds like the premise to his next movie!), but the finished products seem to always come off as laughably forced and/or shamefully depressing.

Bleh.

[morgan morgan]

Wait, I just remembered that Blondie is naked in Videodrome so disregard the negative comment.

[Brain Stew]

Originally posted by morgan morgan
Wait, I just remembered that Blondie is naked in Videodrome so disregard the negative comment.
Cronenberg reminds me of David Lynch in some ways. Both guys like to make movies where a bunch of shit happens for seemlingly no reason that makes no fucking sense and is nuts. Cronenberg likes to go more visceral with it.

[Dart Shitter]

just got done watching SAW, i know i'm a little late on this one but know one i know really liked it so i avoided it initally. I thought it was pretty good, of course there is a lot of plot holes but i'll see the sequel cause i like the premise.

I'm about to watch the new Amityville Horror, on my mark, get set, BLOW!!!

[tjamick]

I watched SAW at 6 in the morning on ONDemand a few months ago. The torture devices were pretty cool, but the acting was discusting, even at 6 am.

[heroin bob]

I just finished 'House of D' which was interesting if only because Robin Williams plays a retard. A part he was born to play, really.

[Rabot]

I met Robin Williams the other day...he was pretty funny.

[5InchTaint]

I just watched 'Dolls'. It was one of the few Takeshi Kitano films I hadn't seen. It was pretty good considering. I also just saw 'Sideways', it was OK. I'm not sure why everyone was so uppity about it when it came out.

[morgan morgan]

Has anyone seen the movie Naked?

http://www.allenandunwin.com/images/largeimages/0571202640.jpg

It's pretty good.

[klaus_kinski]

No I haven't. I studied film in college, worked at a vintage movie poster store with the biggest bunch of film nerds you'll ever see. But, no, I haven't. What's that?

Just kidding dickhead!

Oh, PS, MORGAN YOU"RE ONE OF MY FAVE POSTERS LATELY!

CONGRATS!

[tjamick]

Anyone ever heard of this one?
http://www.allstarauc.com/asonline/images/auction13/119-13.jpg
It's also pretty good.

[5InchTaint]

How about this one?
http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/3792/1441301020a2ep.jpg
Old but still pretty good.

[klaus_kinski]

Why don't you asscunts post BIGGER picture so I can hate you more?! Assholes

COME TO NYC

[tjamick]

Originally posted by klaus_kinski
COME TO NYC
Alright, you've convinced me, now shut up!
I didnt want to re-size the image and i only check the first row of google pics, so you get what i take.

[Keith Whitener]

I just saw Darkman. It was amusing.