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[heyzeus]

I really enjoyed Schwartzman's ode to the rock in that movie.

[Richie Allen]

I finally got around to watching Gone with the Wind. It's the best movie I'll ever hate. I won't deny that it's an incredible epic, great visuals, and a great story at its heart. But it pushed all the wrong buttons for me. The representation of the slaves as pro-Confederate was waaaaay over the top. The glorification of the antebellum south is sickening. At least a half hour, probably more, should have been left out- there's absolutely no excuse for it to be nearly four hours long. And most importantly, Scarlett O'Hara is a humongous spoiled brat [expletive].

I didn't watch that until about 7 or 8 years ago and it didn't do anything for me either. I didn't necessarily hate it but I have no desire to ever sit through it again.

[JL21]

I just finished watching Antichrist. It's in theaters around here but also on Comcast on demand, which is how I watched it.

So, um, holy [expletive]. It's a doozy.

I'm not too squeamish when it comes to cinema, though I will occasionally turn away from an especially vile or visceral bit of gore. There was a shot in this film that made me look away.

The things Charlotte Gainsbourg did for this movie are pretty, uh, intense, you could say.

I watched it yesterday. Definitely not for the squeamish, but I also thought that the critical bashing of it was way off base. IIRC, haltz posted a link to something where people were saying it'd end von Trier's career and Willem Dafoe's career and Charlotte Gainsbourg's career. Um... no. I liked it a lot, even if it was pretty disturbing at times. But honestly, I've seen far more disturbing movies.

This, though, is what slays me- from the Wiki page:

According to the Danish newspaper Politiken, a video game called "Eden," which is based on the film, is in the works. It will start where the film ends. "It will be a self-therapeutic journey into your own darkest fears, and will break the boundaries of what you can and can't do in video games," says video game director Morten Iversen.[44]

[Freed Roger]

Just finished "Public Enemies". Overall I enjoyed it, Depp and Bale put in some fine performances - but I was hoping for more from this movie -with the actors involved, the legendary characters etc...maybe the film had too much to work with.

The gun fight scenes were so chaotic with all the gangsters/feds looking alike I gave up trying to figure who was who (granted, thats probably more realistic, but it doesn't work for story-telling). Other than Dillinger and Purvis, the rest of the characters weren't developed. At one point Dillingers main side-kick (I have know idea the guys name) says "do you remember what happened to Walter Dietrich" I'm thinking, who the heck is Walter Dietrich.

And my understanding is they monkeyed with the history - somewhat necessary to adapt it to a film, but it seemed rather random and didn't do much as far as furthering a theme.

Again, glad I seen it, but was hoping for more.

[Bo Hart]

I'm sure a lot of the people in this thread are going to find the fact that I'm posting this to be laughable (particularly the older ones), but what do you guys think of the proof-of-concept Mortal Kombat video that was released? (It's here if you haven't seen it).

I think it looks pretty good.

[PujolJunkie]

I'm sure a lot of the people in this thread are going to find the fact that I'm posting this to be laughable (particularly the older ones), but what do you guys think of the proof-of-concept Mortal Kombat video that was released? (It's here if you haven't seen it).

I think it looks pretty good.

Amazing. In one word. I mean really, it looks like something I would totally and completely nerd out to.

[Jocephus]

I'm sure a lot of the people in this thread are going to find the fact that I'm posting this to be laughable (particularly the older ones), but what do you guys think of the proof-of-concept Mortal Kombat video that was released? (It's here if you haven't seen it).

I think it looks pretty good.

i was just about to post this...its definitely taking some liberties from the true story of MK, but it looks like it could be an entertaining flick...especially considering how the first two were...

[PujolJunkie]

Has anyone seen Get him to the Greek?

It was hilarious, fwiw

[Bo Hart]

Amazing. In one word. I mean really, it looks like something I would totally and completely nerd out to.

I know, so would I. I thought it was really well-done.

i was just about to post this...its definitely taking some liberties from the true story of MK, but it looks like it could be an entertaining flick...especially considering how the first two were...

See, I've heard a lot of complaints about this (not implying you are complaining). Why does it matter? I just want something that's entertaining, and it looks like this fits the bill.

[cpebbles]

I think the enthusiastic reception of the Mortal Kombat thing is further proof that we need to just kill off every male under 30 and start over with that generation.