movies

[Jocephus]

i remember when we were kids and this would come up on like, TNT or something, my dad would go into how this was the scariest movie he saw when he was young

also, the uploader has tons of great public domain movies

https://www.youtube.com/user/BestPDMovies/videos

[Jocephus]

'68 re-release with burroughs narration!

[go birds]

watched entourage and it was basically just a 2 hour long episode.

terrible movie but i loved every minute of it

[thrill]

Sicario is a 100% A+

I live in Phoenix so it's portrayal of the Sonoran desert landscapes and how the director used the washed out, sun bleached landscapes and desolate vistas in conjunction with the brutality of the crime world churning beneath the surface of the border states might have hit home with me more than it might with you guys. The power and inhumanity of the environment it is the literal setting of the border as well as a metaphorical, spiritual setting for the issues surrounding it and this movie captures that better than any movie about the cartels or the war on drugs ever has. If a tense, hopeless portrayal of the inhumanity of the drug war set to haunting music and barren desolate landscapes sounds like something you'd like, run asap to the theaters to see it and soak it in.

[Jocephus]

[Vidor]

Sicario is a 100% A+

But, tragically, Emily Blunt refused to take her top off for this movie.

****

Anyway...saw a hilariously overwrought, super-dramatic trailer for the new super-dramatic Bradley Cooper drama (it's a drama!) called "Burnt". It's a drama about...um, about opening a restaurant.

See Bradley Cooper get all dramatic about the food he's going to make!

[33anda3rd]

I have high hopes for Burnt since Chef was ok but ultimately very cliche and kind of painted over reality. In that one chef is insubordinate to the guy who writes his paycheck, quits in a furious rage, but luckily his wealthy ex-wife gives him an opportunity that saves him and etc etc. Burnt looks like it might be a bit more honest about stuff like the high % of alcohol and drug use by chefs, the trainwrecks that are their personal lives almost across-the-board, and their inability to interact with grace and treat people with dignity and respect.

There's a documentary on Curtis Duffy coming called For Grace. It's making the festival rounds. Nutshell is: dad killed mom and himself, kid finds his calling in the kitchen, decides he's going to be world class. Divorce, issues with kids, issues with low-income and living in a garden apartment while building a temple of food that gives the image of extravagance. It looks like it's going to be a pretty honest bigscreen look at the life of a chef and not a glossed-over "hey look at this rock star" thing that reality TV and most films produce.

Anyway, I saw Sleeping With Other People last night and it was the worst thing in a long time. Something so bad it made Alison Brie unlikable, which would seem an impossible task. A story about two sociopathic a-holes who find love, not very funny, and pretty textbook RomCom just with a-holes who hurt everyone around them and the usual window-dressing like her as a schoolteacher in NYC who dresses like she just fell out of the pages of some fashion magazine.

[haltz]

Can't be worse than the last time he played a chef. Check out this back-alley abortion of an adaptation. Fox does Kitchen Confidential.

[Vidor]

Can't be worse than the last time he played a chef. Check out this back-alley abortion of an adaptation. Fox does Kitchen Confidential.

There's a whole genre of ridiculously overwrought and overdramatic works about restaurants, I guess. The heart-pounding tension of, uh, making better food than the other restaurants. When Pixar did this they had the common sense to make it a comedy about a rat.

I love that title, though. "Burnt." Sounds like a movie about a renegade cowboy cop. I guess Cooper is a renegade cowboy chef.

[Vidor]

In other news, "The Martian" was great. Highly faithful adaptation of the book. I even read some possible Oscar buzz the other day. One would imagine the Academy would love the chance to nominate a popular mass-market movie that isn't taken from a comic book.