movies

[The Third Man]

I liked The Fountain a lot but I wouldn't blame anybody who didn't. It's riddled with flaws but I'm able to overlook them because of its ambition and emotional resonance. And it's got some really beautiful photography.

[JL21]

I just wrapped up "127 Hours". It damn near lost me in the first 5 to 10 minutes. It was like X GAMES: THE MOVIE! But it rebounded nicely. 4/5 stars on The Netflix.

I guess I just don't understand what Boyle is trying to accomplish half the time with the triptychs and varying film speeds. If it's intended to cast an air of a descent into madness or some sort of internal struggle, all it really does is distract from the story. I understand it's sparse and hard to work with to begin with (what with the whole film being about a dude by himself in the middle of nowhere) but there are better ways to expend your arthouse cred.

Still, it was very good. It's kind of becoming a ritual with Boyle movies, where I wind up liking them less than everyone else.

[cardsfantx]

so i'm late to the party....nothing was on, so i streamed moon from netflix....great, great movie. i can't believe i'd never heard of it before. i really hope they end up doing 2 more as it says they're thinking about on wikipedia.

one thing i don't understand is (not sure if i have to spoiler it since it's been out for what, 2 years? oh well, better safe than sorry i guess....

[SHOW]

why do they need the clones? why not just send up someone every three years like the clones think? seems like you're going to have roughly the same expenses for a clone as you are for a human. and no one on earth wonders why they've never seen a launch sending more people up there? maybe that's what another movie or 2 is for. it's a little late and i've had a few drinks, so maybe it will come to me tomorrow.....still a gret movie though

[clevername]

so i'm late to the party....nothing was on, so i streamed moon from netflix....great, great movie. i can't believe i'd never heard of it before. i really hope they end up doing 2 more as it says they're thinking about on wikipedia.

one thing i don't understand is (not sure if i have to spoiler it since it's been out for what, 2 years? oh well, better safe than sorry i guess....

[SHOW]

why do they need the clones? why not just send up someone every three years like the clones think? seems like you're going to have roughly the same expenses for a clone as you are for a human. and no one on earth wonders why they've never seen a launch sending more people up there? maybe that's what another movie or 2 is for. it's a little late and i've had a few drinks, so maybe it will come to me tomorrow.....still a gret movie though

[SHOW]

I think the idea was that they had "perfected" the cloning process to the point that it was much cheaper to have a large, replenishing supply of clones already on the moon than it was to pay for the trips there and back for humans. I think the on earth stuff is what they were getting to at the end of the movie. The population was ignorant of how they were doing things and he was returning to tell them.

[clevername]

I liked The Fountain a lot but I wouldn't blame anybody who didn't. It's riddled with flaws but I'm able to overlook them because of its ambition and emotional resonance. And it's got some really beautiful photography.

definitely agree with this. It also has my favorite film score ever.

[Cronos]

For anyone who's an animation buff (like me) and for anyone who has an appreciation for Celtic lore and mythology (also like me), I highly recommend "Secret of the Kells". Nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2010, it's definitely worth seeing.

Hauntingly beautiful and a very unique animation style with an almost 3D like experience without it having to actually be in 3D, which I love.

I was blown away, and this was in standard DVD format, displayed to me on a crappy tv. I plan to pick up a blu-ray of it very soon.

[Maclowery]

I second that. It looks even more bad-ass in high def. Awesome, awesome movie.

[heyzeus]

I saw Biutiful on Saturday, a Spanish movie by the director of Amores Perros. More commonly known in the U.S. as "the movie Javier Bardem just got nominated for best actor for" and "holy [expletive] [expletive], that was a beatdown."

The review from Slate says it all: "It's the kind of film that congratulates the viewer on her tolerance for the spectacle of unrelieved misery. "

I don't know exactly what to say about this movie. It's long. It's heart-rending. It explores a lot of themes of human exploitation, particularly of immigrants. I think the theme is "sometimes, death is better than life." Also, if you choose to see this film, you will be treated to several images of Javier Bardem peeing blood. And a hallucinogenic club scene where strippers' ass cheeks and heads have been transformed into boobies.

That was a disturbing movie right there. I give it 2.5 heyzeuses out of 5.

[Jocephus]

i watched "murder by death" over the weekend

after watching "capote" i was interested in the lil' fella and found out he was in this...and since it was a "clue" like movie (which im a fan of) i watched it on instant streaming..

lots of good actors and a fun lil whodunit

[redbirdjazzz]

i watched "murder by death" over the weekend

after watching "capote" i was interested in the lil' fella and found out he was in this...and since it was a "clue" like movie (which im a fan of) i watched it on instant streaming..

lots of good actors and a fun lil whodunit

Yeah, it doesn't get much better than Alec Guinness, David Niven, and Peter Sellers, and then you throw in James Coco, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan and Maggie Smith, too. The Cheap Detective, also written by Neil Simon and starring Peter Falk, is good too.