movies

[jeffbgoofy]

The Muppets are awesome and I will fight anyone who implies otherwise.

See, I do not stand alone in this...

[docellis]

I did a re-watch on Dead Man a year ago or so and was blown away by just how big the cast was, and I hadn't known it the first time I saw it in 1996 or whatever. Alfred Molina, Iggy Pop in drag, Robert Mitchum, Billy Bob Thornton before anyone knew who the hell he was, Gabriel Byrne, even Jared Harris. It's a great movie, my favorite by Jarmusch.

And the dude from Butthole Surfers getting a [expletive] in an alley.

Neil Young was badass

[Schlich]

Just watched a "The War Room" screening at the Bipartisan Committe annual summit and had a Q&A with RJ Cutler afterwards. Pretty cool stuff.

[lukethedrifter]

I did a re-watch on Dead Man a year ago or so and was blown away by just how big the cast was, and I hadn't known it the first time I saw it in 1996 or whatever. Alfred Molina, Iggy Pop in drag, Robert Mitchum, Billy Bob Thornton before anyone knew who the hell he was, Gabriel Byrne, even Jared Harris. It's a great movie, my favorite by Jarmusch.

And the dude from Butthole Surfers getting a [expletive] in an alley.

Neil Young was badass

I think I touted Dead Man a while back. Love the soundtrack which Neil apparently did by noodling on his guitar to the soundless images.

“I’ve been a fan of Neil Young for many years, and I was listening constantly to Neil and Crazy Horse while writing the script for DEAD MAN. During the shooting of the film (and all the traveling it involved), we were also listening to Neil’s music. Crazy horse even performed in Sedona, Arizona during our shooting period, and a large number of our crew attended the concert.”

“From the very start of the project there were hopes of Neil Young performing music for the film, but I was never very confident that this would actually happen. When Neil finally saw an early cut of DEAD MAN and then agreed to score the film, I was ecstatic. (I should attribute this also to the fact that Jay Rabinowitz, the editor, had cut some sequences of the film to instrumental sections of Neil’s existing songs as examples of how his music might work with the story).”

“Neil eventually played pump organ, detuned piano, and acoustic guitar, but the largest percentage of the music is from his electric guitar. |What he brought to the film lifts it to another level, intertwining the soul of the story with Neil’s musically emotional reaction to it – the guy reached down to some deep place inside him to create such strong music for our film.” – Jim Jarmusch

[Freed Roger]

MASH -the original movie. It is worthy of a watch. But not a classic by any stretch. I'm sure it could be groundbreaking in some respects - a comedy, with satirical criticism and serious blood and guts war backdrop.

The big deal is the cast, E Gould, Donald Sutherland, and Duvall and the HotLips character. A bit too many random characters pop in and out of the storyline for my liking, and the humor is contrived at times -like that whole Last Supper spoof. I mean it was cool and all, but it took a lot of work getting there.

Sutherland and E Gould are what make the movie work.

[Michael]

Dead Man is a movie I really wanted to love, but honestly other than the strong ending it bored me to tears.

[lukethedrifter]

At the St Louis Intl Film Fest saw both Burke and Hare and In Darkness.

Burke and Hare with Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis was really funny.

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In Darkness is a Polish German film in the spirit of Schindler's List. Very bleak, it was a beautiful film from the director of Europa Europa and lots of TV stuff.

[lukethedrifter]

with apologies

http://www.studioarthur.co.uk/

[MrSaigon]

Is anyone else a bit geeked up for The Muppets?

[thrill]

Is anyone else a bit geeked up for The Muppets?

Well I downloaded The Muppets album and have been listening to it for like a week, so...nah. JK YES.