movies

[TimeForGuinness]

yea, one of my buddies got 6 tickets for opening night, and asking who wants to go....um no. that sounds [expletive] horrible. packed theater where you prob get stuck in a corner somewhere and can't see the screen?

i'll see the thing in February when [expletive] calms down.

Just the other day, a friend of mine was telling me about the time he went to the midnight premiere of Attack of the Clones. He said that the crowd was downright raucous and completely insufferable.

For example, he said that after the Yoda/Dooku fight end, the crowd was cheering and applauding for another 30 seconds to a minute. He ended up not being able to hear some of the ensuing dialogue because of it. He said that was basically a microcosm of the whole night.

I'm not huge on Star Wars so I wasn't planning on going to the premiere anyway, but hearing that from him pretty much sealed it for me.

I'd be mostly concerned about sitting behind someone wearing a fedora and the general stench of BO.

...and loud grumbles about "Star Wars canon"

[thrill]

yea, one of my buddies got 6 tickets for opening night, and asking who wants to go....um no. that sounds [expletive] horrible. packed theater where you prob get stuck in a corner somewhere and can't see the screen?

i'll see the thing in February when [expletive] calms down.

Just the other day, a friend of mine was telling me about the time he went to the midnight premiere of Attack of the Clones. He said that the crowd was downright raucous and completely insufferable.

For example, he said that after the Yoda/Dooku fight end, the crowd was cheering and applauding for another 30 seconds to a minute. He ended up not being able to hear some of the ensuing dialogue because of it. He said that was basically a microcosm of the whole night.

I'm not huge on Star Wars so I wasn't planning on going to the premiere anyway, but hearing that from him pretty much sealed it for me.

I'd be mostly concerned about sitting behind someone wearing a fedora and the general stench of BO.

...and loud grumbles about "Star Wars canon"

If he's not too busy subverting the "system."

[JL21]

That picture is [expletive] glorious.

[wart57]

That picture is [expletive] glorious.

The tiny plastic sai's are teh clutch.

[Freed Roger]

"Beasts of No Nation" made by or for Netflix is quite good. About a child soldier in West Africa. Horrifying in that regard. Well made film. The actors & director deserve some props.

[JL21]

Cooties was [expletive] quacktastic. If you want a horror (or horror/comedy) to watch between now and Halloween, you really can't go wrong.

[JL21]

Good Night, Mommy was pretty [expletive] intense. Squish together Teshigahara's Face of Another with Haneke's Funny Games and a touch of New French Extremity and you've got yourself a really jacked up, very good horror.

[go birds]

Good Night, Mommy was pretty [expletive] intense. Squish together Teshigahara's Face of Another with Haneke's Funny Games and a touch of New French Extremity and you've got yourself a really jacked up, very good horror.

Posted about this upthread...i didn't think it was as scary as the preview made it out to be, but boy was it intense. Definitely one of the better movies ive seen this year.

In other news, how the hell did i miss this:

[Vidor]

I read about "Goodnight Mommy", and...no, just no. I was not a fan of torture porn even when I was younger and now in my forties...no.

"Bridge of Spies" was pretty excellent. Was kind of cool to see the dissident writer from "The Lives of Others" playing a role on the other side of the Cold War divide.

[Freed Roger]

I may have watched the worst movie ever made. "Old Joy"
I found it on a "best of "Netflix online . music by Yo La Tengo. Landscape of pacific northwest. Will Oldham, whos brooding music can be interesting.

Netflix had it at 1 star, which encouraged me onward. Boy, what a creepy waste.