movies

[Richie Allen]

I know we've discussed this before, but it's worth repeating. The unedited version (not tv) of Bad News Bears is the greatest sports movie of all time.

Unfortunately, that's not saying much.

Is The Hustler considered a sports movie?

[lukethedrifter]

I know we've discussed this before, but it's worth repeating. The unedited version (not tv) of Bad News Bears is the greatest sports movie of all time.

What does this mean? I've only seen Bad News Bears once and it was in the theater. Is there another version?

[vinsanity]

Baseball - Ken Burns

[InvincibleCakeEater]

A reporter interviewing M Night Shyamalan

Have you read the reviews for Last Airbender?
No, I haven’t.

Well, are you aware of the reviews?
No, actually.

Well, for the most part, critics have not been kind. Are you just ignoring them? Will you read them this weekend? Have you just not had time?
Are you saying that in general they didn’t dig it?

In general, no. Roger Ebert, who liked The Happening, did not. The first line of his review is, “The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category that I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.” How do you react to something like that?

[MrSaigon]

A reporter interviewing M Night Shyamalan

Have you read the reviews for Last Airbender?
No, I haven’t.

Well, are you aware of the reviews?
No, actually.

Well, for the most part, critics have not been kind. Are you just ignoring them? Will you read them this weekend? Have you just not had time?
Are you saying that in general they didn’t dig it?

In general, no. Roger Ebert, who liked The Happening, did not. The first line of his review is, “The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category that I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.” How do you react to something like that?

Reading the reviews kind of made me want to check out the cartoon actually, which makes me feel like a dork. But I definitely have no desire to see that movie.

M. Night Shyamalan and Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) are on the top of my list of great first movies then went to hell. But Shyamalan's descent has been incredibly consistent. Each movie is worse than the last. How he can keep that alive at this point, however, is a good question.

[Maclowery]

Hasn't read the reviews, my pale white ass. He knows exactly how people feel about his schlocky movie.

Anyway on a more important note:

The first few reviews are coming in for Inception, and they incredibly, incredibly positive. Multiple reviews saying it's one of the best films in years. I won't read a single line of plot or synopsis now, I know only a bit from the trailer (which is tremendously awesome). It's the only movie left this summer I expect to actually see in a theater.

[TimeForGuinness]

Sat down and finally caught Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland...visually striking and not as bad as I was expecting it to be. If you liked Burton's version of Willy Wonka, then you'll probably like Alice in Wonderland...although I feel Alice in Wonderland is a slight step down.

Alice in Wonderland: 6/10

[Transmogrified Tiger]

The first few reviews are coming in for Inception, and they incredibly, incredibly positive. Multiple reviews saying it's one of the best films in years. I won't read a single line of plot or synopsis now, I know only a bit from the trailer (which is tremendously awesome). It's the only movie left this summer I expect to actually see in a theater.

Please stop raising my excitment level about Inception, next Friday is too far away.

[TimeForGuinness]

The first few reviews are coming in for Inception, and they incredibly, incredibly positive. Multiple reviews saying it's one of the best films in years. I won't read a single line of plot or synopsis now, I know only a bit from the trailer (which is tremendously awesome). It's the only movie left this summer I expect to actually see in a theater.

Please stop raising my excitment level about Inception, next Friday is too far away.

I'm the same way, I really want to see this movie...and I'm trying not to overhype it

[JL21]

The review on GK's brother's blog of the aforementioned "Human Centipede", which lends credence to the notion that it's not just some dumb gross-out movie.

Did I detect a bit of subtext at work in Tom Six’s creep-out THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE? Could the movie actually be about how the shallow, impersonal connections we make with others cause us to lose our humanity? I believe so, and that’s more than I expected from a movie about a guy obsessed with sewing people together mouth-to-anus to form a living chain of horror.

I was afraid that the concept would be the whole movie, with no thoughts toward suspense or characters, and an over-reliance on gross-outs and gore. First of all, the film is conceptually troubling, but not particularly gorier than most studio horror films. The audience’s tolerance for watching human suffering is challenged, but not your stomach (unless you have a really weak stomach, but, then, you probably wouldn’t be looking up HUMAN CENTIPEDE reviews on a site called Horror’s Not Dead if you did). I was also surprised at how suspenseful the film actually is. You keep waiting on the edge of your seat for a grand escape or a hero to come in and rescue the sufferers from their surgical fate as things get progressively worse. You start to get the feeling that there probably won’t be a happy ending.

I don’t think the subtext I spit-balled about earlier was Six’s explicit intent. The idea sprang from a joking form of punishment that he’d come up with, then snowballed into the feature film. For such a thin idea, he gets a lot out of it, especially since he never quite goes all the way with the inherent yuck factor. But, there’s something interesting about the loss of identity that everyone suffers at the hands of Heiter, far scarier than touching lip-to-butt in a Satanic conga line. The greatest horror that THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE has to offer is the fear of being trapped in your own body as a non-human, without a means of escape. That, and Dieter Laser.