movies

[G. Keenan]

The new Coen brothers, A Serious Man, is outstanding.

[G. Keenan]

I kinda want to see this.

[/youtube]

It's pretty good. Certainly worth a rental.

[lukethedrifter]

I kinda want to see this.

[/youtube]

It's pretty good. Certainly worth a rental.

As good as The Hottie and The ......?

[G. Keenan]

I kinda want to see this.

[/youtube]

It's pretty good. Certainly worth a rental.

As good as The Hottie and The ......?

No, but then what is?

I wouldn't know because I refuse to watch it

[omaha_red]

Has anyone seen Zombieland? It's pretty funny, I have to say. But even if it weren't, the sequence with Bill Murray would make the entire thing worth it. One of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

i loved it.. woody was fantastic..

[SHOW]

that'll do pig

[PujolJunkie]

Has anyone seen Zombieland? It's pretty funny, I have to say. But even if it weren't, the sequence with Bill Murray would make the entire thing worth it. One of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.

i loved it.. woody was fantastic..

[SHOW]

that'll do pig

Woody Harrelson was amazing in Zombieland. Really, truly amazing.

Just saw it today. Instant classic for me.

[The Third Man]

Stuff I've seen recently:

-The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original) - Awesome. The first half-hour or so is really cheesy, fairly dull stuff with some really poor acting but once they show up at the house it gets great. The last half-hour in particular is as consistently intense as any sequence I've ever seen in a movie, to the point of being unpleasant at times.

-Whip It - It fits into a LOT of cliches - sports movie underdog, rebellious teenager, coming of age, hipster girlfriend/boyfriend, et cetera - but it's a very fun movie regardless and I absolutely love Ellen Page so I had a great time with this. On repeated viewings some of the weaknesses might annoy me more, I suppose I'll find out when it comes out on DVD because I'm looking forward to watching it again.

-Knife in the Water - I've loved most of the Polanski I've seen and this is generally considered one of his best, but to be honest I didn't get a whole lot out of it. It's a very solid movie and an impressive debut, and I could see why others would like it more than I did, but I felt it really dragged at times and thought the characters behaved pretty ridiculously at times. It's also not tense enough to support its complete lack of a plot and doesn't end up going much of anywhere. Worth watching for me but nothing I see myself revisiting often.

-The Immortal Story - Very good Orson Welles made-for-TV movie from the late 1960s. It's a bit stagey and mannered for my tastes but you can tell Welles put a lot of energy into this. It's a shame that at that point in his career he wasn't able to consistently make the films he wanted but I think he accomplished most of what he wanted to here.

[Freed Roger]

Pretty good old movie. Early Stanley Kubrick film. Later crime/heist movies seem to copy from this.

It doesn't have a linear timeline and shows each player in the crime's story, until they intersect. This is pretty common now, but I guess it wasn't back then, because they subject you to a cheesy unncessary narrator telling you of changes in timeline.

[cpebbles]

I was very unimpressed with The Killing. Struck me as a completely generic crime movie without a hint of the usual Kubrick characteristics. One of the bigger cinematic disappointments for me.

[epinephrine]

I watched Saw V recently. Every movie is basically the a carbon copy of the last, but it was fun to watch .. I guess.