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daphaknee just enemies now
Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 892 Location: YAY AREA
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:05 am Post subject: |
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oh fuck yes primer, i had to watch it twice in a row too for e verything to sink in properly |
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Shapermc Hot Sake!
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I think I've got it all figured out, it's just that my solution seems a bit too simple and I ignore a few points in the film. Anyways, I'm probably going to watch it again this weekend. _________________ “The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932
"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!" |
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sediment .
Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 428 Location: SUPERPOWER GEORGIALAND
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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We watched Gothic last night, in celebration of assembling our living room (even though our couch doesn't have any cushions right now -- we stupidly washed them. ).
I'd seen it before, in the Way Long Ago when I was a teenager. MJ, my fiancee, hadn't ever seen it.
So, some points:
The film is set during the month-long stay of John Polidori, George Gordon (Lord Byron), and the Shelleys and Mary Shelley's stepsister Claire in Byron's estate at Lake Geneva, during the little ice age in 1817. It's pretty wild, considering the larger part of the film is a laudenum-induced horror-hallucination dash through Byron's home, with everyone visiting both their sexual passions and horrific fantasies in turn.
Mostly, I really love the intensity Gabriel Byrne captures in the role of George Gordon. He's more striking in this film than he is in Stigmata and End of Days, which is kind of neat. The guy from Warlock also plays Shiloh. He's got a really nice butt.
Other movies we've watched lately: Alien^3, half of Boy Eats Girl, half of the Devil's Backbone (though I mean to finish this one - our ondemand's been fucky), Big Trouble In Little China, annnnnd something else that was completely forgettable. _________________
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seryogin JRPG Kommissar
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 886 Location: Occupied Stalingrad
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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Cross of Iron.
Any Peckinpah fans around here? I'm not one, thanks for asking. But Cross of Iron has always fascinated me. Because... well, first check out this poster:
I, and a whole lot of other dudes stuck in early adolescence, can't walk past a poster like that. 2) Peckinpah's mostly known for Westerns. Seeing his bag of tricks applied to war, especially one as rife with lurid horrors as the Eastern Front, would be a damn curious site. 3) The film was made during the Cold War, so there’s no way they could have filmed in Russia, so it’s interesting to see how they try to reproduce it. This fact also means that it was filmed before Western historians began reassessing the Eastern Front following the massive amount of declassified information from the former Soviet Union.
The movie, then, is ultimately what you’d expect from that poster: grimy and gritty and audaciously lurid. There’s so much gruff, cynical machismo on display that one wonders how anyone could take it as anything other than a filmed version of one of those EC war comics from the 50s. Some lines are so bad that you end up admiring the sheer gall of the dude’s writing them.
The action’s pretty good, though. _________________
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Dracko .
Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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I love that film so fucking much. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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seryogin JRPG Kommissar
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 886 Location: Occupied Stalingrad
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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Do you really? It's impossible to take seriously. It's fun and the ballsiness of Coburn's "follow me and I'll show you where the iron crosses grow" is great, but it doesn't really do much beyond that.
I also saw Eastern Promises, at last. Cronenberg stereotypes Russians to a laughable degree and doesn't understand a thing about the actual "vory v zakone," who had, in fact, all died in the gang wars of the mid 90s, precisely because they were so principled and inflexible. Russian issues aside, the movie ends just when it's supposed to get interesting. What the hell? Viggo was fun, though. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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It's because it's a lurid EC comic that it's so great.
And you've got to love that intro.
Also, the homoerotic sub-plot. I guess that's pretty EC too, come to think of it. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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seryogin JRPG Kommissar
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 886 Location: Occupied Stalingrad
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:08 am Post subject: |
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Hell, you ought to check out Red Angel then, a Masamura film from the early 60s.
Burn After Reading is comedy gold. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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Noted.
I'm looking forward to Burn After Reading's releases here. And am even more excited for the new Bond film, obviously.
I may be intrigued enough to see Taken in the meantime, though I severely doubt there will be any attempt to accurately represent Eastern European slavers. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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seryogin JRPG Kommissar
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 886 Location: Occupied Stalingrad
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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The new James Bond does indeed look boss. _________________
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Dracko .
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Samuel L. Jackson in a Nazi uniform. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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Dracko .
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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I really want to see Gomorra. _________________ "This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!" |
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sediment .
Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 428 Location: SUPERPOWER GEORGIALAND
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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I saw Midnight Meat Train yesterday.
Clive Barker's gotten kind of a lot predictable, but I still liked it. _________________
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:59 am Post subject: |
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Saw REPO: The Genetic Opera.
Was silly, and gothy lame.
I hated the lighting.
Hated it.
It sucks.
Maybe it would be ok live and under inebriation. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:25 am Post subject: |
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It felt like an hour and a half long music video for a goth band.
The director completely failed to make use of the medium.
That said, I found it tolerable, but it may be just because Ohgr is in it (barely) and he's my main man. _________________
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Superfly
I drank a forty of OE while watching this.
The Seventies, so much brown and orange and red.
So much hair and sweat.
Pimpmobile and an 8-track deck.
Yeah, it's dark and hard.
Just ask the protagonist's main squeeze.
Blaxploitation?
Just a wrapper for education.
Perhaps.
Superfly, nose fed
Get out now or wind up dead
Pimpmobile exit
Recommended _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Redeye .
Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:00 am Post subject: |
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Watched Equilibruim.
Boromir gets killed off early.
It's like THX-1138 crossed with Fahrenheit 451 crossed with 1984, with a touch of The Matrix.
It could have been a masterpiece, but was just decent. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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johntoh .
Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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Just finished hangover 3rd time. One of mine favorite movie...
The Hangover is constantly funny and endlessly innovative. Every vignette within the movie contains mountains of laughs. Almost every line is bursting with comedy. _________________ Semenax reviews |
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SuperWes Updated the banners, but not his title
Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 3725
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:42 am Post subject: |
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johntoh wrote: | Just finished hangover 3rd time. One of mine favorite movie...
The Hangover is constantly funny and endlessly innovative. Every vignette within the movie contains mountains of laughs. Almost every line is bursting with comedy. |
If you are indeed a viral marketer for the movie "the Hangover", you've succeeded. I will add it to my queue.
-Wes _________________
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ApM Admin Rockstar
Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1210 Location: Ottawa, ON
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Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Wes, can you not see the link in his signature? He's a viral marketer for penis pills. |
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