movies

[JL21]

FYI, Human Centipede hits DVD on October 5th.

[Leroy]

You're a sick puppy JL.

[Freed Roger]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307901/

Watched 25th Hour. Entertaining movie, but not great. Quite the cast (Ed Norton, P S Hoffman, Brian Cox, Brad Peppers, Anna Paquin) but WTH- Tony Siragusa?!

Some nice camera angles, interesting plot. Movie was made in the NYC shadow of 9-11-01, but I didn't know what to make of all that and Norton's rant about ethnic groups. Sort of fit, sort of didn't.

Worth a watch.

[cardsfansince82]

I almost put this in the Facebook thread, but is anyone here interested in "The Social Network"? Ever since I saw the first preview I thought, "Who cares about how Facebook started?" Maybe there's more to the story, and much artistic license, but I don't see it being very interesting.

The only reason I'd even dream of seeing that movie is that it's directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en). I'm much more interested in seeing Catfish, which I believe is calling itself "The other social network movie".

I was just about to mention CATFISH here the other day. Looks like it could be good depending on what the twist is at the end. I'm going to have to try to avoid spoilers on that one.

The Social Network on the surface sounds like a movie I wouldn't have any interest in. But it is getting a ridiculous amount of praise from critics. My favorite critic (Peter Travers from Rolling Stone) gave it his highest rating of the year. He called it "better than the movie of the year, it defines the decade." His taste is almost always in line with mine so I feel compelled to see it.

[JL21]

"Catfish" is the biggest movie jackoff I've ever seen.

[G. Keenan]

"Catfish" is the biggest movie jackoff I've ever seen.

Please elaborate. I'm curious about it, mainly because of the marketing, but won't be seeing it any time soon so I'm not worried about spoilers.

[JL21]

"Catfish" is the biggest movie jackoff I've ever seen.

Please elaborate. I'm curious about it, mainly because of the marketing, but won't be seeing it any time soon so I'm not worried about spoilers.

[SHOW]

It's marketed as a horror. Or suspense. Or... anything besides what it actually is- a lame documentary about some fat housewife in Michigan making up a fake personality on Facebook. For [expletive]'s sake, half the goddamned movie is footage of some schmuck texting and facebooking with what we later find out is this fat middle aged housewife. I'm sorry, you can't have 40 minutes of someone facebooking, not when I paid money to see it.

And there's a deeper message there about the marketing fooling the viewer the same way the schmuck was fooled by the cow, but... First of all, that's [expletive] lame. You got duped so you made millions of people pay money to be duped just like you? [expletive] off. Second, once you get past the gimmick, it's just some run of the mill overly saccharine cliché documentary.

I can't remember hating a movie this much.

[ghostrunner]

I love Fincher, but Aaron Sorkin writing the screenplay just about has me scared off The Social Network. Sorkin has a gift for beating you over the head with the idea that what you're watching is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD.

Look at the track record - A Few Good Men, The American President, Sports Night (which I know many people liked), The West Wing, Studio 60, Charlie Wilson's War (never saw it, but it looked like he might have loosened up a little). Social Network looks very much in that vein.

[G. Keenan]

"Catfish" is the biggest movie jackoff I've ever seen.

Please elaborate. I'm curious about it, mainly because of the marketing, but won't be seeing it any time soon so I'm not worried about spoilers.

[SHOW]

It's marketed as a horror. Or suspense. Or... anything besides what it actually is- a lame documentary about some fat housewife in Michigan making up a fake personality on Facebook. For [expletive]'s sake, half the goddamned movie is footage of some schmuck texting and facebooking with what we later find out is this fat middle aged housewife. I'm sorry, you can't have 40 minutes of someone facebooking, not when I paid money to see it.

And there's a deeper message there about the marketing fooling the viewer the same way the schmuck was fooled by the cow, but... First of all, that's [expletive] lame. You got duped so you made millions of people pay money to be duped just like you? [expletive] off. Second, once you get past the gimmick, it's just some run of the mill overly saccharine cliché documentary.

I can't remember hating a movie this much.

Thank you for saving me $10. I thought I might hate the filmmakers based on an interview I read. They sound like the kind of 20 somethings that film the minutia of their lives in the off chance that something interesting will happen just so they can get famous on YouTube.

[JL21]

If I save even one person a few bucks, I feel I've done my good deed for the day. The quandary is that I feel obligated to honor these douchebags' request to not tell people what it's about. So now I have to tell people "It's [expletive] horrible" but can't explain why.