I think that she was his lawyer even back when he got put away, unless she switched sides from prosecution to defense and started working for him, 'cuz she's the one who's representing Jimmy Jump when he gets released later in the film. Fun fact...one of the thugs on the train is Harold Perrineau.
Worst Part's Almost Over wrote:I've just watched Southland Tales, lent to me by a good mate of mine. And I have to say, I've no fucking idea what I just watched. I can't tell if I enjoyed it or not. I can't tell if it's good or bad. I can't tell who I'm supposed to be routing for. I can't tell what the story is about.
I am so bloody confused!!
havocSchultz wrote:Maui wrote: I'm sure the mutant in the basement and Anne Ramsey's character likely would have scared me if I was a little one.
Anne Ramsay still scares me now...
She's used as a warning to little kids who don't eat their vegetables...
"The only thing we serve is tongue. Do you boys like tongue? "
havocSchultz wrote:They should've thrown the train at her...
Zarles wrote:That movie is one my holiday guilty pleasures. I have no idea why, but I like it. We've watched it the past two Christmases in a row.
Maui wrote:Zarles wrote:That movie is one my holiday guilty pleasures. I have no idea why, but I like it. We've watched it the past two Christmases in a row.
I watch the Grinch!![]()
Zarles wrote:Maui wrote:Zarles wrote:That movie is one my holiday guilty pleasures. I have no idea why, but I like it. We've watched it the past two Christmases in a row.
I watch the Grinch!![]()
Please tell me you don't mean the Jim Carrey 'movie'. Otherwise, you might be dead to me.
Maui wrote:No, Boris Karloff all the way!!!
Brocktune wrote:magicmonkey wrote:"Kwaidan" my friends, "Kwaidan". Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Get in some herb and enjoy. This guy locked himself in a aircraft hanger for like a year and built his sets for this movie. It'll be your new favourite movie for at least a week, or two.
you speak sooth, magicmonkey. kwaidan is in fact super awesome. the last story is a bit of a trip, but in a good way. hoichi the earless is visual poetry. well worth checking out.
Flumm wrote:Back in the way back whens...Brocktune wrote:magicmonkey wrote:"Kwaidan" my friends, "Kwaidan". Directed by Masaki Kobayashi. Get in some herb and enjoy. This guy locked himself in a aircraft hanger for like a year and built his sets for this movie. It'll be your new favourite movie for at least a week, or two.
you speak sooth, magicmonkey. kwaidan is in fact super awesome. the last story is a bit of a trip, but in a good way. hoichi the earless is visual poetry. well worth checking out.
Hmm. If I had noted that then, instead of waiting for it to tumble back into my sights nearly three years later, I might not have wasted those years on cheap living, booze, and conscripting Venezuelan hookers into My Little Pony fetishistic operatas, like I so sorrowfully did.
Meh, or not quite.
I know I certainly take more note of things now, than I even did then, yet still I do wish sometimes that these little recomendations and opinions we pass among ourselves would sometimes be able to relay something more of the impact and immersiveness of things we find ourselves dissusing and not somehow seem so easyily transient in comparrison.
I might try to review it, but it'd do little of us any good, safe to say Kwaidan is one of the most compelling films I've watched all year. Both the magicmonkey and the reverend are both truthtelling and hairily generous, respectively.
If I had to make a list of my favourite films seen, new or old, at the end of the year, I would imagine it would find itself somewhere on such a list.
Auterism at it's most atmospheric and mesmirising, if you haven't seen it already and you like asian cinema, old school suspensefull horror, beautific craftsmanship of sight and sound, venezuelan hookers, hairymagicpriestmonkeys, or, um, any combination thereof, do you as will, guys, but don't wait three years if you can help it.
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:if you glance over to the lef...no, wait, right, glance to the right, you'll notice one Mr. Tony Wilson, as portrayed by Rock Hudson, in John Frankenheimer's best film, "Seconds".
more prescient today than when it was released, so far ahead of it's time that it still looks futuristic, touching on and embracing elements of disparate genres in a heady post-modern mish-mash of styles, the third piece (and by far the least dated) of Frankenheimer's Thriller Trilogy, with a score by the great Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography from one of the G.o.a.T, one Mr. James Wong Howe, "Seconds" is intelligent, chilling, and features one of the most stunning climaxes in film history. Hudson, cast and playing against type, is a revelation in what is his undoubtedly his greatest film performance, playing the titular second who has (wait for it...) second thoughts about the Faustian bargain he...well, not he, not at the time, that would've been John Randolph as Arthur Hamilton, who Hudson was playing after...well, fuck it, see it for yourself. Spoiling anything would defeat the purpose. In fact, forget that "stunning climax" & "Faustian bargain" stuff while you're at it...what's that you say, you can't? The process of actively trying to forget something makes you remember it even more? Well fuckmygrits, how can I get you to be my second when I need one when you're only going to bitch and moan about your past memories coming back to haunt you and thus ensuring that you too will fail in your new life and then come sniveling back to the great corporate benefactors who, like Ouroboros...what's that, I'm giving even more away? Fuck you! I mean, by now you should've just stopped reading this convoluted failure of a meta-review and have hopped on whatever mode of transportation you have to go rent this movie anyway...what's that, you rent from Netflix you say? Well, at least it's not blockbuster.
now, if you glance to the lef...no, wait, right, glance to the right...
enough of that hoo-haw - look, people may say a film like this is cynical, but I find it rather life affirming. There are no second chances, so deal with what you've got and make the most of it, 'cuz it's the only chance you're going to get. "Seconds", while indeed satirizing the insidiously evil nature of the corporate capitalist structure as an Ouroboros type serpent that slowly eats itself, blames Arthur Hamilton for his faults, faults that, let's face it, are inherent in a lot of us...non-communication with loved ones, acquiescing to a life quiet desperation instead of doing something about it, looking for the easy way out instead of laboring away for it. It's a film made 40years ago that everyday seems all the more relevant.
check it.
judderman wrote:I just finished watching the entire first season of "Flight of the Conchords". I got into it after falling madly in love with Kristen Schaal (I'm weird, OK?), and she is, without a doubt, the best thing in this series. But then, I can't say I really enjoyed it all that much. I'm not a fan of anti-humour (where the jokes are funny because the punchlines aren't), and this show seemed to consist of long stretches of non-punchlines piled on top of each other. Plus, while I'm sure Bret and Jermaine are nice guys in real life, the characters they're playing here are so completely unsympathetic that I had difficulty caring what happened to them. By the end I was fast forwarding through the endless cringe-inducing social disasters, looking for Mel.
DaleTremont wrote:judderman wrote:I just finished watching the entire first season of "Flight of the Conchords". I got into it after falling madly in love with Kristen Schaal (I'm weird, OK?), and she is, without a doubt, the best thing in this series. But then, I can't say I really enjoyed it all that much. I'm not a fan of anti-humour (where the jokes are funny because the punchlines aren't), and this show seemed to consist of long stretches of non-punchlines piled on top of each other. Plus, while I'm sure Bret and Jermaine are nice guys in real life, the characters they're playing here are so completely unsympathetic that I had difficulty caring what happened to them. By the end I was fast forwarding through the endless cringe-inducing social disasters, looking for Mel.
B4NN3D!
DaleTremont wrote:judderman wrote:I just finished watching the entire first season of "Flight of the Conchords". I got into it after falling madly in love with Kristen Schaal (I'm weird, OK?), and she is, without a doubt, the best thing in this series. But then, I can't say I really enjoyed it all that much. I'm not a fan of anti-humour (where the jokes are funny because the punchlines aren't), and this show seemed to consist of long stretches of non-punchlines piled on top of each other. Plus, while I'm sure Bret and Jermaine are nice guys in real life, the characters they're playing here are so completely unsympathetic that I had difficulty caring what happened to them. By the end I was fast forwarding through the endless cringe-inducing social disasters, looking for Mel.
B4NN3D!
RogueScribner wrote:These movies are interesting examples of pre-Code Hollywood films that had female leads...
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:so I hate to follow up Flumm's astute thoughts on the brilliant Kwaidan with a film that doesn't even deserve to be written up at all...but seeing how we had at least 5 topics started on the damned thing (of which an advanced search returned 0 hits) by various soulless spammers (who should really, really find better ways to spend their precious time), and seeing how one of the pull quotes was from AICN calling it "the future of horror", well, I suppose The Signal deserves a word or two.
crap.
utter crap.
oh sure, it had some moments, but with the hackneyed style (I'm now officially bored with films showing deserted streets in major cities), the all too typical horror reliance on relatively smart characters doing stupid things (so there's mass chaos, people killing each other willy-nilly, and you come across some dude taped to a chair...why oh sweet merciful Zeus why would you untape them? Ya' think maybe, just maybe, someone might've tied 'em up for a reason?), and the schizophrenic plotting (3 writer-directors each handle one of the three segments of the film), The Signal gamely tries but can't raise itself above it's limitations.
I kinda liked the middle segment best, as whichever writer-director who handled that bit showed some solid comedic chops for a little while until the plot contrivances kicked in, but overall, I give The Signal the finger.
the middle one, in case you were wondering.
havocSchultz wrote:but I might've had some better dope...so who knows...
havocSchultz wrote:The opening was kinda cool...with the bad horror film scene opening it up...and the initial outburst of violence in the hallway, with the garden shears, was kinda nice...
havocSchultz wrote:another one I'll throw in was the girl throwing her discman on and cranking the tunes while she's trying to escape...
Because who needs to hear what's going on when you're surrounded by psychos...?
Keepcoolbutcare wrote:havocSchultz wrote:but I might've had some better dope...so who knows...
no, you don't. I'll put my purple up in a Pepsi challenge against anything you've got...
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