movies

[The Third Man]

Man on Wire last night, very very fun. The main guy, Philippe Petit, is a very likable, charming guy, made it very easy to get caught up in his aspirations and feel his highs and lows. If you don't like heights you probably shouldn't watch this though.

[robbotis]

Man on Wire last night, very very fun. The main guy, Philippe Petit, is a very likable, charming guy, made it very easy to get caught up in his aspirations and feel his highs and lows. If you don't like heights you probably shouldn't watch this though.

That was a good flick. That guy is nuts. 1000 feet in the air, w/ that breeze, and the buildings themselves moving.

[Freed Roger]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =124371580 This was kind of interesting NPR story.

The Uncanny Valley is a notion that states that if you make a robot that it up to 95 percent realistic, it's fantastic. More realistic than that and it's a disaster. That's because a 96 percent lifelike robot is a human being with something wrong. Hollywood uses the concept when animating movies

Thus Polar Express animation turns us off. But good animation with cartoonish characters "UP" does not.

Its saying that Avatar used the valley properly, creating alien-type creatures rather than the life-like to avoid the Uncanny Valley aversion. I don't necessarily agree with this -- I still have a predisposed aversion to Avatar creatures -because they just don't seem right/weird. CGI, or over life-like animation-it causes a subliminal dislike in a movie for me -even when its well done.

Anyhows -this story goes into the pyschology behind it.

[haltz]

I thought that Gere and Cheadle were really good, but that didn't come close to saving the cluster-[expletive] that is Brooklyn's Finest. Disjointed and awkwardly-paced with the same bs camerawork and ending that's been to done much better so many times and is incredibly played out.

Anyway, I have a couple of friends that wear skinny jeans and live in Brooklyn, and at this point they've pretty much convinced me that it's the coolest place on earth and the center of the known universe. After this movie I never, ever want to visit.

[The Third Man]

Back to that historical mob movies discussion at the top of the page, I watched The Untouchables last night. A fun mob flick, if nothing particularly special. Connery and Garcia are enjoyable, and Costner isn't bad either, but I'm not sure how well De Niro fits the Capone role and I wanted to punch that dorky accountant in the face. At times it borders on being completely ridiculous and De Palma sometimes wears his influences on his sleeve too proudly (the "Odessa steps"-inspired shootout screams "Look! LOOK! Eisenstein get it?!?!") - JL knows what's up. Overall, though, a fun way to spend 2 hours.

[TimeForGuinness]

Finally getting around to watching the movies on my DVR. Last night I watched Frost/Nixon...very interesting and enjoyable. I thought Frank Langella was damn near perfect as Nixon.

Also just signed up for Netflix and can't stop ranking movies and adding movies to my queue...I think I have 7 months of movies in my queue right now. I finally get to catch up to all the movies I wanted to see without having to spend $15-$30 for the DVD/Bluray or waiting for HBO/Cinemax/Starz to start showing it.

[ghostrunner]

Back to that historical mob movies discussion at the top of the page, I watched The Untouchables last night. A fun mob flick, if nothing particularly special. Connery and Garcia are enjoyable, and Costner isn't bad either, but I'm not sure how well De Niro fits the Capone role and I wanted to punch that dorky accountant in the face. At times it borders on being completely ridiculous and De Palma sometimes wears his influences on his sleeve too proudly (the "Odessa steps"-inspired shootout screams "Look! LOOK! Eisenstein get it?!?!") - JL knows what's up. Overall, though, a fun way to spend 2 hours.

The score from Morricone is good too. When I saw it as a teenager, I loved the credit sequence and music that went with it. I was just getting into movies in a big way and it must have been the first or second movie score I bought.

It's interesting how often movie composers stick with similar themes. You can listen to the scores for The Mission, Good Bad and the Ugly, and the Untouchables and it's almost like they reference each other.

Have we had a movie composer thread before? Seems like we did once.

[The Third Man]

Yeah, good call on the music. I swear there's like an 80% chance that if I actually notice the score on its own merits, it was done by Ennio Morricone. The man is something special.

[clevername]

Finally getting around to watching the movies on my DVR. Last night I watched Frost/Nixon...very interesting and enjoyable. I thought Frank Langella was damn near perfect as Nixon.

Also just signed up for Netflix and can't stop ranking movies and adding movies to my queue...I think I have 7 months of movies in my queue right now. I finally get to catch up to all the movies I wanted to see without having to spend $15-$30 for the DVD/Bluray or waiting for HBO/Cinemax/Starz to start showing it.

I'm just now getting caught up on my netflix list and I've had it for 4 years now I think.

of course, there's still some movies to see on it and I've got a backlog of multiple seasons of TV shows I'm going to dive into, but I've finally reached a point where I have a base of like 15 movies to get to and my list of saved movies that haven't been released yet. For the longest time the list was 60 movies long and I didn't seem to make any progress because I'd add movies and new ones would be released. I was in a netflix equilibrium.

[JL21]

(the "Odessa steps"-inspired shootout screams "Look! LOOK! Eisenstein get it?!?!") - JL knows what's up. Overall, though, a fun way to spend 2 hours.

Definitely, that's another one of those scenes that makes me think DePalma's a hack. Ironically enough, though, that's his one movie that I genuinely like. It probably has more to do with nostalgia. I saw it at age 12 and thought it was neat.