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lenny nero
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Hausu is hands down one of the craziest movies I've ever seen. Halfway thru I started to question whether someone had slipped some PCP into my RC.
Anamnesis
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Definitely! I can't think of another horror movie that's so cheerful. Apparently the movie was inspired by an idea from the director's seven-year old daughter, which explains why the movie feels like a live-action cartoon.
More Criterion picks:
The Virgin Spring-4.5/5
I Was a Teenage Zombie-1/5
The Honeymoon Killers-4/5
beer good
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I don't know why I haven't seen Hausu. I think I have to track it down.
127 Hours. As a director, Danny Boyle is a bit like Jim Steinman; everything he does looks and sounds about the same, he uses the same tricks every time, but that's because they work. Trouble is that this time he's saddled himself with a story that has two huge drawbacks: nothing really happens in it, and we all know how it's going to end. So on the road there, he pulls out every stop to try to make the movie exciting - flashbacks, hallucinations, dream scenes, split vision, intense soundtrack music and everything to make a story about a guy trapped under a rock seem like an insightful character piece. And it's impressive enough (and mercifully short) that you don't really have time to get bored before the inevitably uplifting sugary ending. And unlike Steinman, he works with talented people; the Oscar nomination is too much, but James Franco does a fine job carrying the entire movie.
127 Hours. As a director, Danny Boyle is a bit like Jim Steinman; everything he does looks and sounds about the same, he uses the same tricks every time, but that's because they work. Trouble is that this time he's saddled himself with a story that has two huge drawbacks: nothing really happens in it, and we all know how it's going to end. So on the road there, he pulls out every stop to try to make the movie exciting - flashbacks, hallucinations, dream scenes, split vision, intense soundtrack music and everything to make a story about a guy trapped under a rock seem like an insightful character piece. And it's impressive enough (and mercifully short) that you don't really have time to get bored before the inevitably uplifting sugary ending. And unlike Steinman, he works with talented people; the Oscar nomination is too much, but James Franco does a fine job carrying the entire movie.
beer good
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Finished my Oscar race with a couple more:
Exit Through The Gift Shop is a ton of fun. Starts out as a straight documentary of street artists, in particular Banksy, and then gradually gets weirder and sometime around the hour mark you start speculating about just who is making a documentary about whom and whether the guy filming and narrating even exists or if it's all a prank by Banksy (or someone claiming to be him). Hilarious send-up of the art world and peopple's attitude towards it.
Blue Valentine is not hilarious in any way (OK, Michelle Williams' character tells a really good joke at one point). It is, however, a very well made drama about two people who got married in a fever and are now trying to make it work while constantly running face-first into their own ingrown problems. Williams and Mark Gosling are both absolutely incredible, and even when the script gets a bit predictable they keep it going on pure raw emotion, but let's just say it's not something you want to watch when you're feeling a bit down already. Oh, and if someone ever asks you to go to a motel with different themes for each room, run the other way.
The Kids Are All Right: Another relationship drama, this time with a bit of dark humour and a slightly brighter outlook, with a lesbian couple who have been ignoring some problems a little too long and are forced to face them when their kids track down their sperm donor and invite him into the family - which turns out to be a very bad idea. Again, very well-acted story that doesn't make a huge deal of its setup. If anything, it all feels a little too natural, as if the script trusted a good setup and good actors to do all the work and didn't need much of a story. But hey, Bening got the Oscar nod for a reason and Ruffalo does a very good slacker.
The Fighter. It's Marky Mark playing a boxer. And yeah, good acting and Based On A True Story and all that, but in the end it's still Marky Mark playing a boxer and we've seen this story 500 times already. Hard work, gym, personal problems, title bout, bla bla bla.
Exit Through The Gift Shop is a ton of fun. Starts out as a straight documentary of street artists, in particular Banksy, and then gradually gets weirder and sometime around the hour mark you start speculating about just who is making a documentary about whom and whether the guy filming and narrating even exists or if it's all a prank by Banksy (or someone claiming to be him). Hilarious send-up of the art world and peopple's attitude towards it.
Blue Valentine is not hilarious in any way (OK, Michelle Williams' character tells a really good joke at one point). It is, however, a very well made drama about two people who got married in a fever and are now trying to make it work while constantly running face-first into their own ingrown problems. Williams and Mark Gosling are both absolutely incredible, and even when the script gets a bit predictable they keep it going on pure raw emotion, but let's just say it's not something you want to watch when you're feeling a bit down already. Oh, and if someone ever asks you to go to a motel with different themes for each room, run the other way.
The Kids Are All Right: Another relationship drama, this time with a bit of dark humour and a slightly brighter outlook, with a lesbian couple who have been ignoring some problems a little too long and are forced to face them when their kids track down their sperm donor and invite him into the family - which turns out to be a very bad idea. Again, very well-acted story that doesn't make a huge deal of its setup. If anything, it all feels a little too natural, as if the script trusted a good setup and good actors to do all the work and didn't need much of a story. But hey, Bening got the Oscar nod for a reason and Ruffalo does a very good slacker.
The Fighter. It's Marky Mark playing a boxer. And yeah, good acting and Based On A True Story and all that, but in the end it's still Marky Mark playing a boxer and we've seen this story 500 times already. Hard work, gym, personal problems, title bout, bla bla bla.
beer good
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Which version of Alien3 did you watch? The longer cut really is a pretty good movie - you can tell Fincher was basically given a brand new script every day until he simply gave up, but the shoddy CGI aside I think the movie they finally pieced together holds up and I absolutely love some scenes.
YouTube - Alien 3 - Dillon's Speech
(The shorter version is a mess, though; entire subplots just disappear.)
lenny nero
New Member
Martyrs ~ nasty slice of French horror that aims for a bit more than the torture porn genre it's lumped into. I read somewhere that the special effects person killed himself after working on this movie.
Enter The Void ~ trip the light fantastic as Noe takes on the Tibetian Book of the Dead.
Enter The Void ~ trip the light fantastic as Noe takes on the Tibetian Book of the Dead.
eclair
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beergood, having checked, it was the longer version.
After the tonal differences between the first and second movies, the third was always going to be a difficult beast. I liked that in one swoop they killed off all the hope they were fighting for in number two (Newt as replaced daughter, the budding romance with Hicks, the potential understanding/friendship with Bishop) and so the fatalistic tone and darkness works well. Plus, I can't think of many films in which pretty much everyone dies.
After the tonal differences between the first and second movies, the third was always going to be a difficult beast. I liked that in one swoop they killed off all the hope they were fighting for in number two (Newt as replaced daughter, the budding romance with Hicks, the potential understanding/friendship with Bishop) and so the fatalistic tone and darkness works well. Plus, I can't think of many films in which pretty much everyone dies.
Fantasy Moon
kickbox
Beastly
Libra
Active Member
Did you like it? Seems like Beauty and the Beast present version.
The Green Hornet
lenny nero
New Member
Never Let Me Go
The Pat Tillman Story
The Pat Tillman Story
Fantasy Moon
kickbox
Oh, yes! I enjoyed it a lot. It was better than I expected, and there was a lot more comical moments in it than I had anticipated too. I intend to buy the video when it's released.
Libra
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I will see it then.Seen the commercial so many times I was curious.
The Chameleon
abecedarian
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I Am Number 4 
The Adjustment Bureau
The Adjustment Bureau