|
01-17-2010, 06:06 PM | #4081 | |
Supporter
Join Date: Aug 2000
Casino cash: $8318275
|
Quote:
__________________
We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics - E.W. |
|
Posts: 95,642
|
01-17-2010, 06:09 PM | #4082 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
Welp, I was wrong. Damn; Juno was some forgettable shit. I would watch it again so as to make a proper assessment but there are cheaper and faster ways to annoy myself.
|
Posts: 33,369
|
01-17-2010, 06:11 PM | #4083 |
Supporter
Join Date: Aug 2000
Casino cash: $8318275
|
You KNOW I had to quote that for posterity.
__________________
We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics - E.W. |
Posts: 95,642
|
01-17-2010, 06:12 PM | #4084 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
You KNOW I had to post that after your post specifically for the lulz.
|
Posts: 33,369
|
01-17-2010, 06:15 PM | #4085 |
The 23rd Pillar
Join Date: Sep 2002
Casino cash: $10019237
|
Fair enough, LOL
__________________
“Boy, you all want power. God, I hope you never get it.” - Lindsay Graham |
Posts: 110,871
|
01-17-2010, 11:23 PM | #4086 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Casino cash: $9070204
|
Watched Inglorious Bastards tonight. I really, really enjoyed it. I'm glad for the mixed reviews, because it lowered my expectations quite a bit to the point that I wasn't even sure going in that I'd like the movie. As such, I ended up loving it.
I'd probably rate it in the top tier of QT movies for my personal tastes. Take out all of his QT film-geek homage nerdiness and soundtrack brilliance and all of the other artsy shit that make him great, and one fact remains: QT can just spin a good ****ing yarn.
__________________
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken |
Posts: 21,776
|
01-17-2010, 11:28 PM | #4087 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Fayetteville, AR
Casino cash: $9070204
|
Also saw District 9. I enjoyed it, but the cinematography bothered me. They tried to keep the mockumentary roots of the youtube short by splicing in little documentary pieces and surveillance video footage. But that made no sense, because other parts of the movie were just conventionally shot. As such, it made from a completely inconsistent point of view for the movie. I still liked it, but that kept bothering me. I'd just as soon they completely scrapped the mockumentary roots of the movie and just shot it conventionally as trying to make some kind of hybrid mockumentary.
__________________
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - H. L. Mencken |
Posts: 21,776
|
01-17-2010, 11:38 PM | #4088 | |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
Quote:
Think about it: QT could cast any actor he wants. For the role of The Bear Jew, in a film that is largely about violence (and propaganda) in movies, he casts the director of films whose audience adores the "torture porn" of it all. It is not a coincidence. |
|
Posts: 33,369
|
01-18-2010, 01:12 AM | #4089 |
Mahomes > God
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Clinton, MO
Casino cash: $5038996
|
So I was in Wal-Mart late the other night, found Munich for $4, had seen it in forever so I picked it up.
Forgot how good of a movie this is, love it...one of Spielberg's most underrated flicks. |
Posts: 10,067
|
01-18-2010, 05:25 AM | #4090 | |
Feelin' Alright
Join Date: Aug 2004
Casino cash: $10004900
|
Quote:
__________________
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Then remember that half the people in the world are stupider than that." --George Carlin |
|
Posts: 16,887
|
01-18-2010, 08:19 AM | #4091 |
Cheat Death
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Land of Drincoln
Casino cash: $808244
|
Got around to watching District 9. I found the beginning of the movie to be outstanding and then the same old story of the out of luck guy does something amazing for someone else crept in like almost every other movie. It was like Bruce Willis detonating the asteroid all over again. If you can get over the same underlying story its entertaining, I appreciated the look of the aliens and their pitch shifted voices. Every time they spoke I found myself yearning for a devastating guitar riff and a blast beat.
|
Posts: 35,041
|
01-18-2010, 12:14 PM | #4092 | |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
Quote:
I'd wager that nearly everyone who saw the film would agree that they would prefer the IG defeat of the Nazis to the real-life way that the Nazis were defeated. The revisionist fantasy history is actually preferable. I see IG making a case for movies with this movie. The cinema has the power to make real the precise kinds of delusions that we crave. We long for story, for emotion, for propaganda to give us direction. Movies give us all of these. Movies are at the very center of IG; one could say that IG is all about the movies. IG makes a case for movies as a vital, necessary part of our lives. |
|
Posts: 33,369
|
01-18-2010, 12:16 PM | #4093 |
Take a Chill Pill
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: South Carolina
Casino cash: $7859900
|
I saw "The Hurt Locker."
Its sort of a mind-**** movie, in that it just depresses the hell out of you. |
Posts: 44,565
|
01-18-2010, 12:28 PM | #4094 | |
The 23rd Pillar
Join Date: Sep 2002
Casino cash: $10019237
|
Quote:
Sorry to kick you while you're down, but I couldn't resist.
__________________
“Boy, you all want power. God, I hope you never get it.” - Lindsay Graham |
|
Posts: 110,871
|
01-18-2010, 12:39 PM | #4095 |
Take a Chill Pill
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: South Carolina
Casino cash: $7859900
|
|
Posts: 44,565
|
|
|