Rewatched Borat last night with my uncle and aunt. Rewatching Casino Royale atm with my dad...
TOMORROW NIGHT I DINE IN HELL!... Well, actually I'm going to be dining at the Atlantic Buffet (mongolian BBQ FTW)... but, I WILL BE HAVING DESSERT IN HELL!
God help me, Rocky Balboa wasn't bad at all. In fact, I say it qualifies as 'good'. I was so ready to dislike it, but it won me over.
I watched Princess Mononoke on saturday, it's the second Studio Ghibli film I've seen, the other being Spirited Away, and I love it.
Onibaba.
Classic black-and-white Japanese art-horror that lives up to its considerable reputation.
Oh my God guys... A third testicle just dropped... I kid you not...
300...That is all that needs to be said... No more words will be spoken
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Continuing in my obscure-arthouse-trend here, I saw The Piano Teacher.
Whether I enjoyed it is something I am undecided upon, but... there were good things there, such as the acting. Just not the gratuitousness.
The Holiday. My family had rented it ages ago, but not gotten around to watching it, and when I learned it had Jack Black in it, I was somewhat curious. Wasn't that bad.
More importantly, however, I finally can say that I've watched Raiders of the Lost Ark. Watched THAT earlier today, too. I can easily see why it was rated R at first. Don't see why it hasn't been re-rated PG-13 since its PG re-rating, though; this is definitely NOT a PG movie.
Unbreakable. See it for it is awesome and saying anything about it is spoilers.
Actually, Raiders was always PG. Forever and ever PG. In fact, so was Temple Of Doom (the movie that forced the creation of the PG-13 rating).
Ah, Unbreakable. The last GOOD M. Night movie, IMO.
I rather liked Unbreakable, too - as someone who's studied narrative theory, I really enjoyed the way it messes with archetypes by the end.
Just saw Hot Fuzz. As someone who actually lives in the sort of sleepy little village where the last police to come through were parked in our bus stop, consulting a map and looking confused, I was sniggering rather loudly.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Now I've just got The Last Crusade to watch before I've finally seen the whole trilogy.
Undead.
Perfect example of not judging a [movie] by its cover. The cover, a hot chick with a gas mask and quadriple-shotgun (combined with the title of the movie), would suggest a badass zombie slaughter-fest.
But instead we were treated to an hilariously terrible alien movie with only one good character, and that character is pure comic relief.
Shame.
Unbreakable seems to get a lot of hatred from the main critical community I hang around in. Never been sure why.
Anyway, 300 finally came to the UK. Quite a fun film, but I couldn't help noticing that it was about a bunch of fairly purist, religious fanatical warriors fighting heroically against a large, wealthy, corrupt and sexually excessive nation of blasphemers; and wondering why, exactly, Iran was upset, or the Iraq war parallels being drawn the other way around (good Democrats beat bad Arabs, think most people).
The joys of it being the 2nd fairly recent Hollywood blockbuster to feature a Persian army getting thrashed by "noble" Greeks. For some reason, the fact Iran is now where modern day Persia is (and probably that they just want to keep the hate building), they take offense at such stories being portrayed in films.
Most recently saw Earth, a film set around the division of India and Pakistan at the end of British Colonial occupation, and the violence between different religious groups. Although quite interesting and reasonably well done, I kept feeling that I was missing the right background knowledge to fully appreciate it, partly due to not being particularly familiar with the history or culture, and partly suspecting that the translated dialogue (from the various dialects used in the film) lost some of its meaning/conciseness.
Science of sleep.
Quirky, engaging film. Not sure how well it hung together, but there was some very inventive stuff in there.
The Unforgiven was on History a few hours ago, so I watched it because I forgot how long it is.
Long movie is loooooooong.
At home, Casino Royale. At the theater, 300.
Quote:
Long movie is loooooooong.
Yes, it's long on AWESOME.
I watched Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker again. It's still amazing.
Kwaidan.
Amazing 3-hour japanese ghost story from the 60s.
I saw Will Smith's The Pursuit of Happyness, the new Charlottes Web, and The Last Mimzy.
Pursuit was a very powerful movie, even though the agony it has to drag Chris (and the viewer) thru is a bit excessive. Charlotte's Web was nice, with many "Lemony-Snicket-Movie-esque" voice cameos. Dakota couldn't pull off caring as well as she could sassy and unappriciative, though. And The Last Mimzy was weird, cool, and by the end, a good movie, even though there's NO WAY IN HELL they could get away with all that with only Spoilers (Select To Read): a "sorry" from the MIBs.
2 films today: one with a Romanian title I can't actually remember (really good insane comedy thing, though), and the other was Them!, the original giant insect film.
Watched The Pursuit of Happyness... AWESOME movie... Depressing, but awesome. I had tears in my eyes at the end of it.
Anyhoo, Pulp Fiction was just on the local college television station twice, once normally and once chronologically (They did this with Memento a while back, too) So I watcheded that.
Chronologically, does that mean the first scene is the vet talking to little Bruce Willis about being a POW?
Children Of Men. Phenomenal movie, beautiful cinematography.
I got The Departed on DVD a couple weeks ago. One of the best movies I've ever seen, and Scorsese definitely deserved that oscar that's been due for. (IMO, of course)
THE GREAT SCONE HEIST
IT WORKED BECAUSE OF THE ENGLISH ACCENTS
300
IT IS A MANLY MOVIE.
SO MANLY THAT I CAN ONLY TYPE IN A YELLING STYLE DUE TO THE TESTOSTERONE OVERLOAD I HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO BY THIS MANLIEST OF MOVIES.
MADNESS? THIS IS MOFO!
Just saw "Blades of GLory" It was funny. Had to shut yourbrain off for bit, and yeah, Jon Heder and Will Ferrell basically did "Napoleon Dynamite and Ron Burghundy on Ice"...but it was still funny.
TMNT.
Oh yes. It was hot. Felt like it was missing about 30 minutes of footage, but what was there was good.
The Bicycle Thieves.
Classic 40s award-winning Italian film.
Saw 300 a few weeks ago, a good action film with great visual effects, it was fun.
Also saw Kung Fu Hussle a few days ago, very fun film, though the story is a bit naff.
"TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL."
Just got back from seeing 300. Loved it.
Throughout the whole movie, I was 'wowing' at quite a lot of things, mainly the gruesomeness of it all. And then during the credits I read that it was based on Frank Miller's work. And then it all clicked into placed and I lol'd.
Saw 300 last week... HOLY S**T, THAT WAS AN AWESOME MOVIE! The visuals were excellent, especially when they showed parts in slow motion. And I jawdropped when I saw so many arrows falling at once, blocking half the sky. Leonaidas is awesome.
Just saw Blades of Glory last night... It was so wrong in so many ways. At one point I was keeled over lmao...
At some point I'm going to watch Secondhand Lions again. Watching the first 5 minutes reminds me of why I love this movie :3
Sony Playstation will retail for 599 US Dollars!
This is blasphemy! THIS IS MADNESS!!!
THIS. IS. LIVING! *Boots anti-PS3 peoples off the internet*
...yeah, I saw 300. Everything is a 300 gag now.
Stayed up tonight to watch Secondhand Lions... That movie is full of win... Especially the two uncles fishing in their lake with shotguns XD
Oh yeah, that movie is pretty cool.
And then at the end when the guy comes along, and we find out that all the flashbacks actually happened.
Yep! The alternate ending is pretty good too. The Sheik coming on a helicopter to the funeral.
Yeah, Secondhand Lions is a fantastic movie. The deleted scenes were interesting, too; They were an entirely different take on the movie, throwing much more doubt on Hubb and Garth's story.
From Dusk Til Dawn.
Silly film.
I'll be seeing Sunshine and INLAND EMPIRE sometime this week.
Since I last posted, I saw The Anchorman on DVD, The Reaping in theatres, and the Aqua Teen movie in theatres.
Caught Oldboy on the weekend, which is one messed up movie, but in such a good way.
Hard Core Logo. A funny Canadian movie about the death of punk rock that I probably would of enjoyed much more if I was whatsoever a fan of punk rock.
Inland Empire.
Easily the best film this year.
Do late-night Skinemax films count? Because...=D
I saw Disturbia last weekend. It was very disappointing.
Inland Empire is clearly better than such, yes.
