movies

[thrill]

Killer Joe.

Holy. [expletive]. [expletive].

Imagine William Faulkner collaborated on a screenplay with the Coen bros. and they turned that over to William "I Have More Balls Than the Rest of Hollywood Combined" Friedkin to adapt. That's the best analogy I can come up with. When the movie ended I literally threw my hands on my head and started laughing out a combination of horror, awe and misanthropic glee. It's the darkest, bleakest, most brutally hilarious black comedy I've ever seen. It literally left me speechless.

Wow.

Meh. Lacked the power of Failkner, the skill & humor of the Coens. Frankly the people laughing in my theater was disconcerting. Not as overtly violent as I expected and the performances outside of Hirsch & McConaghey were cartoonish. It was good but it was far from great.

[Vidor]

Saw "Finding Nemo" again with the rug rat. There's a new "Toy Story" short along with it.

[Vidor]

Amy Adams doesn't like balls in her face

http://mlb.sbnation.com/2012/9/17/33494 ... ody-double

[The Third Man]

Meh. Lacked the power of Failkner, the skill & humor of the Coens. Frankly the people laughing in my theater was disconcerting. Not as overtly violent as I expected and the performances outside of Hirsch & McConaghey were cartoonish. It was good but it was far from great.

Well, what I find so fantastic about it is that I'm with you in finding the laughter disconcerting and yet being totally unable to keep myself from laughing. And laughing hard. It tickles some sort of lizard-brain instinct that takes utter glee in watching these people's miserable existences spiral out of control, while making me fully cognizant of the fact that it's really effed up. I definitely wouldn't expect most people to love it like I did, though - nobody else I've pitched it to has been as enthusiastic.

[thrill]

Meh. Lacked the power of Failkner, the skill & humor of the Coens. Frankly the people laughing in my theater was disconcerting. Not as overtly violent as I expected and the performances outside of Hirsch & McConaghey were cartoonish. It was good but it was far from great.

Well, what I find so fantastic about it is that I'm with you in finding the laughter disconcerting and yet being totally unable to keep myself from laughing. And laughing hard. It tickles some sort of lizard-brain instinct that takes utter glee in watching these people's miserable existences spiral out of control, while making me fully cognizant of the fact that it's really effed up. I definitely wouldn't expect most people to love it like I did, though - nobody else I've pitched it to has been as enthusiastic.

What was funny for me was where I saw it. There's this great theater in Scottsdale that shows all the foreign and indie moves in first runs, which is awesome. There hasn't been a movie that came out in limited release that it didn't eventually have but what is funny about it is that since it's in an older part of Scottsdale, there are a ton of old people who go to movies there just because it's close. There were a ton of walk outs and the ones that stayed were clearly laughing uncomfortably the whole time.

[The Third Man]

My theater was actually packed with old people as well, though if there were walkouts I didn't notice any. Was still pretty full at the end, and the looks on the faces of those that stayed belied more a sense of bemusement than disgust.

[Bo Hart]

When I was young, I stumbled into the living room while my parents were watching "Cocoon". It was during one of the parts where you actually see the aliens. For months after watching it, I checked behind the shower curtain every time I went to the bathroom, just to be sure that there wasn't one of those things hiding in there waiting to attack me.

Anyway, I watched it last night for nostalgic purposes. Two thoughts: one, I thought it was terrible and had really bad acting. Two, the aliens looked as terrifying as ever.

[The Third Man]

Cocoon sucks, yeah. Intelligent life appears and we give them senior citizens and Steve Gutenberg.

[Vidor]

"Who made Steve Guttenberg/A star?/We do, we do."

[G. Keenan]

Shameless plug for a film that has yet to be made, but could be with your help! Emily Hagins is an Austin-based director who is only 19 and already has 3 films under her belt. My brother is a producer on her next film, Grow Up, Tony Phillips and they've got a Kickstarter campaign going to help finance it.

Everything about it is small and independent but they are a very talented bunch. Her last film, My Sucky Teen Romance was homemade but ended up getting picked up by Dark Sky for distribution. If you've got a couple bucks lying around and want to lend your support to some up-and-coming artists, check it out. I'll make you mod for a day.