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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/8/2008 8:42:48 AM
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gambit
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Saw 4.
If you saw Saw 1, and saw Saw 2, and also saw Saw 3, then you might as well see Saw 4.
Gore galore.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/9/2008 1:34:24 AM
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Lord of War
an amazing movie
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/9/2008 4:04:55 AM
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Graveyard of Honor (the original Kinji Fukasaku version)
The original is definitely much more grimier, as it is grittier, given the setting of the story: post-war Japan, where American occupational forces are trying to set its former enemy back on track, all the while the chaotic black market anarchy is going on in both the background and foreground. I think there are some moments that definitely signify Fukasaku's most impassioned emotions about Japanese society from 1945 onward--and the director doesn't let up with the graphic, yet exaggerative violence (check out the blood-splattering suicide sequence... if you must  ). Some of the violence felt like it was heavily influenced by then-Hollywood contemporary, Sam Peckinpah, with the slow-mo cinematography.
Overall, I think where the Miike version is much antiseptic in its setting (post-Bubble economy Japan circa 1995), the postwar world in Fukasaku's version is so slum-ridden that I don't know if I can still muster the strength to watch it again... at least not in a longer while.
Story: Sociopath loser rises in the Yakuza ranks with his sheer fearlessness of anyone, anything, only to lose it all thanks in part to that same quality. Perhaps a morality lesson on hotheadedness?
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/9/2008 4:14:02 AM
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Branded to Kill
I wanna be a good lil' cool alternagirl, honest. But I just can't dig b&w, 1960's Japanese gangster movies. Even if John Zorn says it's good. Good MST fodder, sure.
Kronos - yeah....I didn't know it was Guillermo del Toro when I picked it out, his cleverness certainly saved an otherwise staid tale of magic and immortality.
I don't know... I like Branded to Kill, more so than Tokyo Drifter, but then again, I can see why BtK can be an acquired taste: (director) Seijun Suzuki was fired from his job, after Nikkatsu brass gotten wind on the final product; not something you want to do with studio brass!  though, I think Suzuki went on to build his prolific film making career, long after the original Nikkatsu brass--like most other Japanese film studios, went under during its collapse in the early 80's--hence why Hollywood movies are more of a mainstay there!
I guess because of its quirkiness (i.e. the rice fetish, the Godzilla-styled soundtrack, jazz score, B&W sleekness, etc..) gave it its charm!  But I've yet to see Pistol Opera though...
BTW: do you think maybe BtK should at least be given the full Woody Allen treatment, given with "What's Up Tiger Lily?" 
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/9/2008 4:24:25 AM
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There Will Be Blood
Throughout my viewing of this movie, the only thing that stands out for me is the most is the stock, cartoonish/far-fetched depiction of its only Christian character, which at first I though it's primarily Paul Thomas Anderson's suspected case of what I called, "Christian Derangement Syndrome" (think a more ecclesiastical version of Bush Derangement Syndrome), especially when an acquaintance once told me in a church function, that she had the opportunity to chat with Anderson--albeit mainly as a heated debate over Christianity (or at least its depiction on Anderson's films), during one preview showing of this work. But when I read the end credits, crediting turn-of-the century muckraker/leftist/socialist/progressive writer, Upton Sinclair (the same bloke who gave us the expose, The Jungle, and a subsequent scathing novel on a huckster preacher--the name of which I can't recall, possibly inspired by the likes of Aimee Macpherson), all if it seems to make a whole lot more sense, down to the smarmy performance of that preacher character.
But other than that, I guess There Will Be Blood could be another Oscar-worthy performance for Daniel Day Lewis, though I can't help but be suspicious that the reason why this movie is so heavily praised is possibly in part to the film establishment's snobbish/elitist disdain for what I personally called, "the people's faith," a.k.a. (Judeo-)Christianity. But enough ranting...
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/10/2008 12:29:36 AM
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Watched A Few This Past Week:
The Invasion: Very Good Movie. Quite Enjoyed it
Juno: Good Movie. Very Cute
Die Hard: Missed the Begginning but still liked it
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/10/2008 5:28:51 PM
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Semi-amused by an old Robert DeNiro flick (boy was he young) called The Last Tycooon based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story about old Hollywood. You can tell the writer and director were more in love with the old Hollywood angle than the movie's actual story about a young producer and his fall from grace while he pursues love. Neither of the main characters really comes into focus.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/10/2008 8:25:32 PM
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The Savages
I like both of the principal actors, but found the movie boring and depressing at the same time.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/11/2008 9:54:34 AM
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The Assassination of Jesse James...
But not all of it. At least most of it, I think. So, while I still don't really know what all was going on, the film itself is stunning. Some of the frames, and shots, were just gorgeous.
Didn't like Brad Pitt's casting, at all. It's my only complaint.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/11/2008 1:39:06 PM
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I rented Breach Friday night. I had been wanting to see this since the main character was an undergrad from Auburn. Very interesting story & of course good turnout. kd
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/11/2008 6:23:22 PM
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Lars and the real girl...it wasn't what i had expected at all...it was acutally very sweet, very sad, but hopeful at the same time.
all i can say is Lars is really lucky to have the family and community that he has...i don't think such a thing exists outside of this movie.
it was very, very good.
Yeah, Lars and the Real Girl has a definite Frank Capra feel to it. I really enjoyed watching it last year; one of my fondest theater memories.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/11/2008 8:12:58 PM
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just watched the original Walking Tall 1 & 2. not the shameless rock movie but the real ones from 70's. when he was a sheriff in Tennessee not in Washington. guess like many movies have to modernize it but Walking Tall, Gone In Sixty Seconds, Posieden, those are amazing movies from 70's that new ones made me sick to watch
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/12/2008 11:36:40 AM
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Lars and the real girl...it wasn't what i had expected at all...it was acutally very sweet, very sad, but hopeful at the same time.
all i can say is Lars is really lucky to have the family and community that he has...i don't think such a thing exists outside of this movie.
it was very, very good.
Ya still gotta watch that documentary I recommended via PM (and posted about in this thread). Real Girls, was it called?
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/12/2008 1:37:35 PM
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Across the Universe.
My daughters loved the music and watched the film more than once. I just wasn't all that thrilled with it. The previews gave me the impression we'd be seeing something more akin to Moulin Rouge except in the 60's. It didn't have that level of punch.
We're getting FIOS later this week, so I've been busy offloading stuff from the DVR to the DVD-R. Which is too bad, because there are some movies I'd like to watch. We did manage to get Encore On Demand restored and watched The Prestige again, which I recorded to DVD for hubby. I was reminded yet again how much I had WANTED to like The Prestige better than The Illusionist, but ended up thinking The Illusionist was the better film.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/12/2008 9:25:12 PM
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in process of watching the resident evil trilogy. just starting the last one
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/14/2008 4:11:21 PM
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Saw Across the Universe last week too.
I did think of Moulin Rouge minus the prostitution and comsumption (they got Vietnam instead). Some of the songs were set up very nicely but I just got tired of the copycat from real life characters (oh look it's the Ken Kesey character or the Janis Joplin character, etc) and the Vietnam angle. There's only so many Beatles songs you can bend to fit into that theme. I started out really excited and by the end I thought they were just shoving songs in without making them as good as the beginning.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/14/2008 4:15:38 PM
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Paperclips
I can't recommend it enough - all of it, documentary movie and all the bonus footage.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/15/2008 10:01:25 AM
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Jumper.
Had free passes for this one.
Truly a bad movie. Talk about no plot, no story or even a clear understanding of the characters, it's a muddled mess.
At least the trailer for Indiana Jones was cool.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/15/2008 2:31:14 PM
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Across the Universe-
first half I really like, the second half made my head twirl. Most of the songs did work. I like Prudence's version of I wanna hold your hand until I found out who was she singing it to- but she's got a great voice. The Let it Be version was very good.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/15/2008 4:40:57 PM
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At least the trailer for Indiana Jones was cool.
I have a funny story about that.
Yesterday, after our FIOS was installed, I decided to test the network by going to the new Indiana Jones trailer. The background graphic on the site was Indiana Jones and his son. My 18 1/2 yo daughter looked at the image, and said, "oh, he's a good choice to play Indiana Jones." I said, no the young man is Indiana Jones' son. She said, "no, the other guy...Harrison Ford." I said, "Honey, he's the one that PLAYED Indiana Jones from the first movie onward!" She looked at his picture for a moment, and said "OH...that's HIM?"
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/15/2008 5:56:25 PM
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Saw Across the Universe last week too.
I did think of Moulin Rouge minus the prostitution and comsumption (they got Vietnam instead). Some of the songs were set up very nicely but I just got tired of the copycat from real life characters (oh look it's the Ken Kesey character or the Janis Joplin character, etc) and the Vietnam angle. There's only so many Beatles songs you can bend to fit into that theme. I started out really excited and by the end I thought they were just shoving songs in without making them as good as the beginning.
That was the creators intent to copy real people. Janis Joplin, Hendrix,etc.
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/15/2008 7:46:14 PM
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just finishing up the new Gaither Homecoming Series video called Homecoming Picnic
next up gonna be Towering Inferno. Steve McQueen is a fave actor of mine and this is one of my all-time fave movies. isn't much of McQueen movies I don't own or have seen
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RE: I Just Saw... - 2/17/2008 5:45:32 AM
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I saw a reeeaally lame movie the other day called The Spirit of 76. It was sooo horrible. My mom rented it cause it had David Cassidy in it who she's had a crush on since The Partridge Family. So ya... but it was absolutely horrible. Terribly painful movie to sit through. Some peeps from 2176 try to go to 1776 and retrieve the constitution but land in 1976 instead. It was supposed to be a comedy but it was so bad.
And I've given up renting animes on blockbuster cause they never come even though I've had them at the top of the list for ages and they still say very long wait. So I finally just bought a few series for real cheap hoping they are good. Right now I'm working on Cowboy Bebop which I thought was safe since I really liked the movie and the series is great so far. After this I have Witch Hunter Robin, RahXephon and D.N.Angel to watch. And like the first disc of Mermaid Forest cause it was only 2 dollars and the plot/themes made it sound like a Japanese version of the Highlander series. So I think I can cancel Blockbuster for a while :D
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