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[RedN]

Re: Ted, the movie. Did I miss something?

ive never watched family guy either.

people say sometimes the impact of comedy relies on a persons familiarity with the subject? like how attuned you are? take the IT Crowd and big bang theory, the more of a geek you are the more funny it seems i think? me i work in an office, so the show The Office hits me really good coz i can relate to it.

i guess me, i dont watch movies hoping ot be surprised? coz they all are predictable, i mean you can only think of so many things - its how its delivered, that counts to me?

its a bear... getting high, youve seen it in the previews right?... what did you expect hahahahahaha

do you... have a teddy bear? me and the person i watched it with both have a teddy

 

[Polaris]

Re: Ted, the movie. Did I miss something?

people say sometimes the impact of comedy relies on a persons familiarity with the subject? like how attuned you are? take the IT Crowd and big bang theory, the more of a geek you are the more funny it seems i think? me i work in an office, so the show The Office hits me really good coz i can relate to it.

Yes, that struck me as well. The familiarity thing, I mean. A comedy set in a dental surgery would probably hit home with me as I used to be in that line of work. So you are saying Ted may hit home because many people owned/owns teddies? Or because people are familiar with his other shows? What is it in these shows that people associate with? I can understand the geek thing- I love the IT Crowd myself. So I wonder what type Ted appeals to.

i guess me, i dont watch movies hoping ot be surprised? coz they all are predictable, i mean you can only think of so many things - its how its delivered, that counts to me?

I see what you mean, but some movies do manage to have that element of surprise. Sadly, these are few and far between (in my view). I didn't have any expectations when seeing this movie, to be honest I was probably quite negatively inclined as I find the whole talking teddy concept no different to the increasingly tideous talking animals concept.

its a bear... getting high, youve seen it in the previews right?... what did you expect hahahahahaha

I never saw the previews...

do you... have a teddy bear? me and the person i watched it with both have a teddy

Yes, I am/was a teddy person, and I kept one teddy.

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Tangent: Never a *doll-person.

I have a very old teddy, it is yellow and has the same round head and fur as the bear in that movie. Perhaps my revolt stems from the subconscious notion of violation of my childhood "bear-ideal".

How do you rate the movie?


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I mutilated the dolls that were given to me ....actually, there was one exception; this doll had red hair, freckles and a gap between her teeth. I liked this doll because she wasn't alien to me (like those awful hollow-eyed, open-mouthed baby-dolls and ridiculously proportioned Barbies)

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Eraserhead

The puss spilling out of that - thing...what the..
Crazy film..everything is disturbingly pleasant / pleasantly disturbing.

Repulsion

For some reason, I saw this movie as a subtle protest of introversion and unsocial tendencies. The main character just wants to be left alone but everyone keeps bothering her. The frantic music scenes and the part where the hands come out of the walls are my favorite. I thought the rape / sexual harassment scenes kinda foreshadowed Polanski's later sexual assault case.

Running Scared (2006)*

The action and suspense in the movie were done pretty well, it wasn't actually all that predictable like most films today. The way scenes are filmed/edited(the cinematography?) makes it pretty interesting.

 

[Puffy]

@EyeSeeCold Repulsion (and Eraserhead) are mandatory INTP viewing. I also liked how the soundtrack mirrored the phone sounds. (:

Me and my friend were saying the same thing about Polanski's later sexual assault as well. You'd have thought he'd known better, almost makes me think that the rape elements were a facade in the film and that he was trying to communicate something more personal. He survived the Holocaust moving through flats in hiding, so I wonder if that constituted some of his source material for the film.

 

[xbox]

insidious. it was dumb.

 

[nanook]

after the wedding
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457655/
cute movie, rather recommendable

and a buch of very mediocre movies:

4:44 last day on earth
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1707391/
very weak movie, i would have aborted it, if it weren't for Willem Dafoe,
but it's not like he did much good in the movie either

the way
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441912/
worthwhile, watchable, but not very recommendable

one week
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104806/
pretty weak, very forgettable, but somewhat watch-able

one day
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1563738/
horrible, i had to abort it, however i have a feeling some of you might dig Jim Sturgess, singing (it's a musical, yikes)

this must be the place
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440345/
i didn't like it at first, but it actually grew on me after a while, in the end i appreciated it ...

 

[EyeSeeCold]

@EyeSeeCold Repulsion (and Eraserhead) are mandatory INTP viewing. I also liked how the soundtrack mirrored the phone sounds. (:

Me and my friend were saying the same thing about Polanski's later sexual assault as well. You'd have thought he'd known better, almost makes me think that the rape elements were a facade in the film and that he was trying to communicate something more personal. He survived the Holocaust moving through flats in hiding, so I wonder if that constituted some of his source material for the film.

@Puffy You mentioned a trilogy of apartment films in the other movie thread(I saw Rosemary's Baby a long time ago, but not the other) so him drawing inspiration from his Holocaust experience in flats does seem likely. I suppose working with subject matter such as Repulsion could have led to some kind of obsession later on, or yeah he was trying to communicate something personal. Do you think he was depicting himself though?

Btw, found a gif of Eraserhead's pus scene

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this is really gross lol

 

[Puffy]

@Puffy You mentioned a trilogy of apartment films in the other movie thread(I saw Rosemary's Baby a long time ago, but not the other) so him drawing inspiration from his Holocaust experience in flats does seem likely. I suppose working with subject matter such as Repulsion could have led to some kind of obsession later on, or yeah he was trying to communicate something personal. Do you think he was depicting himself though?

Btw, found a gif of Eraserhead's pus scene

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this is really gross lol

@EyeSeeCold Standard hangover for me.

I hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro a few weeks ago, just after reaching the summit we descended as the fog was lifting and I immediately saw this rock:

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And thought of:

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And I was like

Re: Polanski, I'm not sure if he was in that film, but it's possible. It's suggested that Carol's neurosis was linked to her childhood (by the last shot on the photo, but there's other things as well) as Polanski was a child when it happened you could suggest a link. If you ever see the last in the trilogy, 'The Tenant', it's more heavily suggested there, for a start Polanski is the lead actor. What's interesting is that throughout the film he's paranoid that others are trying to shape him into the prior tenant, who was female and who he becomes, so for the last half of the film he's cross-dressing. You could take that to suggest that he identifies with the protagonists of the prior two films in the trilogy, and in turn that they are about him. Just a hypothesis though, really.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

@Puffy

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@EyeSeeCold Standard hangover for me.

I hiked Mt. Kilimanjaro a few weeks ago, just after reaching the summit we descended as the fog was lifting and I immediately saw this rock:

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And thought of:

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And I was like

College trip? Did you guys take any photos from the top?

With the smaller rock chunk looking like the (chicken's?) thigh they do seem pretty similar.

Re: Polanski, I'm not sure if he was in that film, but it's possible. It's suggested that Carol's neurosis was linked to her childhood (by the last shot on the photo, but there's other things as well) as Polanski was a child when it happened you could suggest a link. If you ever see the last in the trilogy, 'The Tenant', it's more heavily suggested there, for a start Polanski is the lead actor. What's interesting is that throughout the film he's paranoid that others are trying to shape him into the prior tenant, who was female and who he becomes, so for the last half of the film he's cross-dressing. You could take that to suggest that he identifies with the protagonists of the prior two films in the trilogy, and in turn that they are about him. Just a hypothesis though, really.

Yea I suppose it's just a guess, I'm not even sure where Rosemary's Baby would fit in all that. I don't know much about him otherwise, and you'd really have to get into all the interviews and biographies and other information to have an expert opinion.

Also, don't give away all the details of the movie.

 

[~~~]

Re: Ted, the movie. Did I miss something?

Someone, please enlighten me?

It is an American "comedy".

 

[RedN]

magic mike

i get an easy feeling that a lot of people would think its trash but... its eye candy for girls and to some who can relate its actually sweet.

that part in the dressing room before the miami thing, that was a very real moment that a lot of us can go through even if youre not strippin.

i try to look for something good to pick up with every movie i watch. hell even... the worst movie of all time, Manos... hahahahahahha.... where it sucks so bad but looking at the man who made it, its a bit inspiring you know.

 

[Jennywocky]

Saw Spiderman on Friday. Thought it was decent, probably one of the most "solid" movies I've seen this summer despite not being complexly artistic. I liked how Garfield's Spiderman was different from Maguire's -- I think it's the difference between Gen X vs Gen Y or later, mentality wise.

Started watching The Illusionist last night. It's not bad, and has decent actors; I think I enjoyed The Prestige more but we'll see how this one ends, I've still got about 40 minutes to go. Right now, it doesn't seem as complex as The Prestige, and some of the magic I've seen seems rather unbelievable... anything that was unbelievable in the other movie was clearly chalked up as a scifi.

 

[A22]

Eraserhead is on my watchlist, just haven't been in the mood for it lately.

The People vs. Larry Flint

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.

They focused on silly things IMO, and the movie got too long because of it. But it's an ok picture.

Ice Age 4

As most animation series, it gets less funny each new title. Had some laughs though.

 

[ophelia]

"L'Espions" with Guillaume Canet.

 

[Cavallier]

^And what did you think?

 

[noksve]

I saw Stalingrad, a german movie from the 1993, about, that's right, the battle of Stalingrad. Shows the story from the point of view of a German Wermacht unit. I kind of like war movies, actually, so I enjoyed it a lot. I liked it more than american war movies in general, because in the end they didn't show how the war hero got back home and was received warmly by his family and countrymen. No, it was really

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sad, and everyone dies. Even

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the russki lass who befriends the protagonists. And

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the protagonists. Dammit, GG.

And it manages to get you to like the characters, without exactly sympathizing with the nazis.

I cried at the end. Not even manly tears.

 

[RubberDucky451]

Umberto D, It was very touching.

 

[GeneralPatton]

Lockdown

It was, mediocre at best. Prison in space, not quite economically feesable at this time

 

[Puffy]

Wild at Heart

I don't know why it doesn't get as much rating as a David Lynch film. I think this, Blue Velvet and the first series of Twin Peaks belong in his peak period, imo.

 

[RedN]

1911 with jack chan on it. but i think it was more on sun yat sen really than him.

too many names, and theyre in chinese hahahaha....

i hate monarchy. movie was so so i think

 

[nanook]

manderlay. good movie. maybe even important. albeit, as a lesson it's unfinished and many would be inclined to learn all the wrong things ...

for eyed monsters cuteish b-movie about introverted thinking types dating

big fish hm, i'm not a huge fan of author-goes-fantastic-material, but the reflection on a narcicist/pre-reflexive/untransparent father (enfj probably) got to me, cuz my own father is one of those pre-reflexive fishes too

rundskop was a little hard to get into the movie, for me, i'm not exactly drawn in by a guy who is all about selling meat and injecting himself with testosterone, but once it was revealed what this character is about (won't spoil anything) it became a very interesting character study.

after the wedding very cute movie, partially a postmodern theme, but more about the characters ...

headhunters good action movie, distinct through norwegian style

snowtown murders a very creepy b-movie, that stands out for seeming realistic, as all the characters involved are white trash types, without added colones, and with a full dose of the madness, that simple minds are capable of. gives you that feeling of oh, i might take the next train to mars

this must be the place
mediocre movie, but in the end the theme stuck with me, confronting old nazis is always fun. the "slow" sleepwalking ozzy osbourne type is hard to get used to, but it's interesting how he wakes up out of his trance and it's almost unreal how he is actually a very efficient hunter

 

[MichiganJFrog]

Brideshead Revisited

The new version, not the one with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews. The old version was sumptuous, but the new version had a different take on things, I thought.

 

[Audentia]

The last of the moheicans
Grey owl

 

[EyeSeeCold]

Joe Dirt

 

[Howitzer]

Cabin in the Woods - Enjoyed it a lot. Kind of comedy horror, or something.

 

[MichiganJFrog]

Rid of Me, starring Katie O'Grady -- wherein a woman goes from shy introvert to well adjusted introvert. A typical line would be something like, "I just need to..."

 

[Artsu Tharaz]

The Great Silence. Before that, Addams Family.

 

[addictedartist]

akira
sword of the stranger
animatrix

 

[Puffy]

Haven't watched many films in aaaages. I've been staying with a friend of mine whose really into his art-house though, so we've just had a marathon.

Inland Empire - I enjoy Lynch films in general, as I just like his style, I find it seductive and absorbing. But I'd say this is the most pretentious film of his I've seen (even more so than Mulholland Dr. - I like that film, but it is pretentious ). Too much self-reference, few good scenes, otherwise just standard Lynch.

Julien Donkey-Boy - Today, we have discovered an awesome director. We watched another film by him (Harmony Korine) a few months back called Gummo and really enjoyed it, but we were both blown away by this.

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Yes, that is Werner Herzog at the bottom there. He plays the father.

It follows an untreated schizophrenic and his family, I think it was done entirely on hand-held, it has a really intimate fam-cam feel to it. Like Gummo, it's very direct and honest, the acting is amazing with much of the dialogue having the appearance of being unscripted. The graininess gives more power to the imagination, this, the weirdness of it, and the amateur hand-held/ experimental effects create a really strange mix. Beautiful. Awkward in places.

Yeah. I love this film. Great sound track to, any soundtrack with Oval in it must be good.

 

[contextblues]

If you have Netflix, I strongly recommend The Parking Lot Movie and Winnebago Man (the documentary) for some lighter, more comedic viewing.

Both provide a healthy dose of affirmation for the intelligent, underachieving misanthrope.

I watch them before going to work (salaried mindlessness) sometimes...

 

[contextblues]

Oh boy, almost forgot another amazing Netflix streaming film:

The Atomic Cafe - "Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety" (IMDB).

Here's a taste of the amazing music/editing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bsw1T0nDfw


PS.

Rid of Me, starring Katie O'Grady -- wherein a woman goes from shy introvert to well adjusted introvert. A typical line would be something like, "I just need to..."

I dug it.

 

[Intellect]

Just watched Ratatouille. As usual, Pixar does an amazing job.

 

[jamesbeck]

The last movie that i saw was "Forrest Gump". It seemed to be an inspirational movie for me and i enjoyed it watching at my cousin's home.

 

[snafupants]

In Time - The science was wonky and largely unexplained but the plot was decent.

 

[BridgeOfSighs]

Plan 9 from Outer Space

1959 science fiction flick complete with mystery, death, aliens and zombie-like beings.

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It's all here on Youtube.

 

[brandonmarks94]

The tournament: a movie like the hunger games but very different and a lot more gory and bloody with a lot more action and a realistic plot that hooks you in and also it is possible unlike the hunger games

 

[BigApplePi]

The Adjustment Bureau. Good movie for INTPs. About fate and whether we can change it or not depending on how much we want to because our main fate supposedly will turn out the same if we are passive.

 

[Absurdity]

The American

Beautifully shot, tragic film.

 

[TheHanarchy]

Inland Empire - I enjoy Lynch films in general, as I just like his style, I find it seductive and absorbing. But I'd say this is the most pretentious film of his I've seen (even more so than Mulholland Dr. - I like that film, but it is pretentious ). Too much self-reference, few good scenes, otherwise just standard Lynch.

I find it easier to watch Inland Empire if you allow yourself to be open to dream logic. Which actually kind of applies to all Lynch's films....


The last movies I watched were All About Lily Chou Chou, and I'm a Cyborg but that's Okay. Both are Asian.......I don't watch A LOT of Asian films but I was just in an Asian-cinema kind of mood.

All About Lily Chou Chou is a sublime, and harsh film about the nature of Japan's pervasive youth culture. All the characters have various troubles occurring to them, and all find comfort in the music of Lily Chou Chou, a dreamy sounding rock star who makes music from the 'ether'.
It's good, hard to watch if your not in the mood, but really really good. One particular scene with a kite is one of my favorite cinematic scenes ever....just because it's gorgeous.

And IACBTO, an off-putting but funny romantic comedy(?), involving to legitimately insane people in a mental hospital (not just cute insane, like "I'm a little eccentric haha". More like a "I wear my grandmother's dentures so that I can talk to machinery." insane). The girl believes she is a cyborg and refuses to eat for fear it will corrupt her machine body. The guy believes he has the ability to steal the souls and attributes of those around him, and also that someday his body will shrink and he will disappear.
I would recommend this one, the end is kind of 'meh' though, not bad, just not as satisfying as one would hope.

 

[BigApplePi]

Departures. Japanese. Modern. Great film. It's about separation from those you are attached to. Drop me a notification if you've seen it and care to discuss it.

 

[Jennywocky]

Watched a few movies recently:
　
Audition: Wonderful pic, creepy as heck and all on a low, low budget from the looks of it. I also like how it works for an actual straightforward drama for much of it, until the dark twists start coming.
　
Megamind: I'm a Will Farrell fan, so I enjoy it; those who don't like Will might not be as fond of it. But most of the gags are amusing to me, as well as the earnest undercurrent where it's clear that this guy who originally felt like life demanded he be evil ends up realizing it wasn't really his calling after all... and that maybe the good guy gets tired of the schtick as well.
　
The Descent: I try to watch this every so often. it's just SLIGHTLY more streamlined than I liked -- I think the whole subplot involving Beth, Sarah, Paul, and Juno is just a LITTLE too much understated (there are so few lines of dialogue about it that, if you miss one, you might not understand the subtext which is necessary to add some richness to the overt plotline), but it's a brutal movie. The movie captures the claustrophobia and fear of being trapped underground, and either you'll hate the mid-movie twist in tone or you'll think it's even more frightening. Of course, then there's the whole ending, which they modified for American audiences because we can't handle existential starkness but still is shot and composited beautifully, with elements of Asian ghost horror, and the original ending kind of pulls the movie's title in a few different directions. Acting is good from mostly no-names; it shows female dynamics within a group as opposed to the male dynamics in "Dog Soldiers" (the director's prior film, about a bunch of British soldiers needing to defend themselves against werewolves); David Julyan does an evocative score as always; and the crawlers are well-designed and acted. The worst part about the movie is that the company insisted on pushing a sequel, which makes no sense and also greatly lessens the power of the original and did poorly in the box office.
　
If you have the BluRay, watch the Outtakes video. The opening with the crawler on a greenscreen is just hilarious... but only if you've already seen the movie.
　
The Avengers: I would like to improve my original score for this movie, which was only about a B, up to a B+. Now that I knew what I was buying by watching this movie, it went down a lot better. Some great character interaction between the various "types of personalities," and of course when the Avengers come in to save/avenge NYC... well, that is just the Avengers the way they actually would be. Pretty awesome fight, and I liked how Whedon would shoot the action in one long cut by tracking one character to another, switching to that character and tracking them to another, etc. I'm pretty stoked for Iron Man 3.
　

In Time - The science was wonky and largely unexplained but the plot was decent.

　
Oh, geez, I hated that movie so bad, after wanting to really really like it.
And poor Cillian Murphy tried to hard to up the quality of it, but he just didn't have the support from the script or the director to pull it off.
I found Looper to be a higher-quality, tight production in terms of that type of scifi.

 

[Jennywocky]

Oh, and since I haven't posted in this thread for quite awhile, I forgot to include "The Grey." Great survivor movie, where a plane crashes in the northern climes and seven survivors need to make it out alive... but they are being harrassed (and killed, one by one) by a ferocious pack of wolves. There are also some really painful flashbacks of Neeson with his wife, who "left him" -- those scenes are heart-wrenching because of the transition shots and the juxtaposition of their peace with the coldness of the rest of the movie.

The Grey doesn't just refer to the wolves, it refers to the grey sky, the bland/cold environment... and the existential starkness of the movie where these men -- all of whom already should be dead, and now feel potentially like their survival was one big joke, with the wolves around -- start sharing impromptu the their thoughts about life, death, love, values, etc. Not that it gets too heavy-handed, but it's real and non-preachy... and in the end it's really one of the most existential American movies I've ever seen. Even the ending does not relent. Ebert (the famous reviewer) said this movie was the first in a double-screening, and he ended up walking out of the second movie after half an hour because he just couldn't do the second film justice with "The Grey" lingering over him. It was the same for me; I think I just sat and stared at the wall for awhile... it's THAT kind of movie. To paraphase Watchmen, in the end there is neither good or bad, black or white, there is just the dark/void... and us. I'm proud of this movie for not backing away from that reality, and still remaining meaningful.

 

[eagor]

the original bad news bears

i like the fat kid

 

[BigApplePi]

City of God. I thought I'd seen this some time ago and I did but saw it again. This film is highly rated by critics. What it says to me al a this Forum is it's a great film for looking at ExFx types. So many E's. The storyteller I'm guessing is an ISTP. This film is good for thinking about why INTPs are so few. In this slum how would an INTP survive? One has to choose sides. One has to take action. I'm not going to answer these Q's ... just leave them up to you.

 

[Puffy]

Watched a few movies recently:
　
Audition: Wonderful pic, creepy as heck and all on a low, low budget from the looks of it. I also like how it works for an actual straightforward drama for much of it, until the dark twists start coming.
　
Megamind: I'm a Will Farrell fan, so I enjoy it; those who don't like Will might not be as fond of it. But most of the gags are amusing to me, as well as the earnest undercurrent where it's clear that this guy who originally felt like life demanded he be evil ends up realizing it wasn't really his calling after all... and that maybe the good guy gets tired of the schtick as well.
　
The Descent: I try to watch this every so often. it's just SLIGHTLY more streamlined than I liked -- I think the whole subplot involving Beth, Sarah, Paul, and Juno is just a LITTLE too much understated (there are so few lines of dialogue about it that, if you miss one, you might not understand the subtext which is necessary to add some richness to the overt plotline), but it's a brutal movie. The movie captures the claustrophobia and fear of being trapped underground, and either you'll hate the mid-movie twist in tone or you'll think it's even more frightening. Of course, then there's the whole ending, which they modified for American audiences because we can't handle existential starkness but still is shot and composited beautifully, with elements of Asian ghost horror, and the original ending kind of pulls the movie's title in a few different directions. Acting is good from mostly no-names; it shows female dynamics within a group as opposed to the male dynamics in "Dog Soldiers" (the director's prior film, about a bunch of British soldiers needing to defend themselves against werewolves); David Julyan does an evocative score as always; and the crawlers are well-designed and acted. The worst part about the movie is that the company insisted on pushing a sequel, which makes no sense and also greatly lessens the power of the original and did poorly in the box office.
　
If you have the BluRay, watch the Outtakes video. The opening with the crawler on a greenscreen is just hilarious... but only if you've already seen the movie.
　
The Avengers: I would like to improve my original score for this movie, which was only about a B, up to a B+. Now that I knew what I was buying by watching this movie, it went down a lot better. Some great character interaction between the various "types of personalities," and of course when the Avengers come in to save/avenge NYC... well, that is just the Avengers the way they actually would be. Pretty awesome fight, and I liked how Whedon would shoot the action in one long cut by tracking one character to another, switching to that character and tracking them to another, etc. I'm pretty stoked for Iron Man 3.
　

　
Oh, geez, I hated that movie so bad, after wanting to really really like it.
And poor Cillian Murphy tried to hard to up the quality of it, but he just didn't have the support from the script or the director to pull it off.
I found Looper to be a higher-quality, tight production in terms of that type of scifi.

Yeah, me and my friends still have many jokes about In Time. I challenge someone to drink everytime they say 'time' in that film and not pass out by the end.

I've seen Descent, Audition, and The Avengers too (the latter recently), I liked the first two, especially Audition (Miike's hit and miss for me, but amazing when he does), I think I have a bias towards The Avengers though. When I watch the Batman films I think, "yeah, Batman's a fascist, but at least it's exploring that", where the Avengers came across as unaware imperialism to me: the emphasis on unity and solidarity against the lies of the enemy, the alien invasion at the end, in New York to, so the 9/11 connection seemed not so much deliberately alluded to but present. I probably read into it too much, I just felt a little uncomfortable being in a cinema of people cheering them on.

Recently saw A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Also a little propagandist, as it was made after the second world war to emphasise peace between the US and the UK. The ending was very corny as a result, but it was visually innovative and experimental. A romantic comedy about a British fighter pilot who's shot down, and, despite not having a parachute, washes up on a beach in Boston only to fall in love with an American girl. He has intermitting visions of heaven (in black and white) where there's a debate over whether he should be allowed to live, as it was through the slight of an angel he didn't die. In reality (colour) a psychologist explains his hallucinations as a part of his concussion. Like the Wizard of Oz there are blurring connections between the two worlds, and it's up to the viewer whether to take a secular or religious interpretation.

It was the technical elements of the film which give it an A for me, I really enjoyed the soundtrack, symbology and parallelism. But it was obviously made in a time different to our own.

 

[ObliviousGenius]

I saw Skyfall last night and thought it was excellent. They really took a page out of the Batman series with the villain and it paid off. Revenge also seems to be a recurring theme in the three Daniel Craig versions so far.

Also, Ralph Fiennes is in it. He's one of my favorite actors who trades in his evil villain specialty for the intellectual proper gent role.

It's got a lot of action from start to finish and great witty, intellectual dialogue which I can appreciate.

Go see it.

 

[Chronomar]

The Blues Brothers! And then Skyfall, which was very good, I'll concur, and then yesterday I watched Mulholland Dr...which, to sum it up, unhelpfully, is a David Lynch film. All are recommended though.

 

[LarsMac]

The Brothers Bloom.
A completely strange movie, to start with, but becomes fairly predictable as the plot winds down.

 

[Jennywocky]

I saw SkyFall on Friday. Very decent movie. I might have liked Looper slightly better, but it was definitely one of my highest cinematic experiences of 2012. I also liked the theme of destruction -> creation that plays throughout, as well as the exploration of Bond's relationship to the one women consistently in his life (M).

Also watched Forrest Gump over the weekend -- some of it's silly, but there are a few resonating moments for me (including Jenny's desire to fly away and having trouble accepting love). Also watched 12 Monkeys; I hadn't watched that for years, but it's actually got that great bit where the two main characters convince each other that they're right about the nature of reality and so they start to trade places in perspective.... and then there's the whole time loop. And Brad Pitt just cracks me up. [Also, sadly... the System always wins.]

Watching How to Train Your Dragon now, again -- the title (I know it's based on the book) is just stupid, but it's one of the best DreamWorks animated pics released IMO and opts for the more bittersweet ending.

The Brothers Bloom.
A completely strange movie, to start with, but becomes fairly predictable as the plot winds down.

I should see that. it is by the same director who made Looper and Brick, isn't it?

 

[LarsMac]

Yes, Rian Johnson.