General Movie Thread

[Me!]

Watched Elephant Man earlier and cried like a big baby.

[yesno]

* Endless Summer

* Another State of Mind

both very good.

[fonpr]

Watched Elephant Man earlier and cried like a big baby.

What part made you sad??







I shouldn't assume......







Some folks cry






when they're happy.

[hugman]

My favorite part of the Elephant Man is when he reads this poem he wrote:
"These things are good: ice cream and cake, a ride on a harley, seeing monkeys in the trees, the rain on my tongue, and the sun shining on my face. These things are a drag: dust in my hair, holes in my shoes, no money in my pocket, and the sun shining on my face."

[DoodleJump!]

I liked The Elephant Man. Me and my coworkers say "I am not an animal!" at work a lot.

I watched Milk yesterday- very well made! I thought it did a great job. Sean Penn = great job
About to watch Frost/Nixon. I am at home sick, so I am making the most of my time by watching movies I have been meaning to see.


I even have Bride Wars, of which I am not expecting much AT ALL.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

finally watched My Bloody Valentine, sans 3-D, and it was worth getting drunk/sleepy during. 

[Chris L]

For those of you with patience for less-than-optimal viewing formats, this user has the best playlists of complete rare and classic foreign films I've seen on YouseTube.  She just uploaded SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE director Victor Erice's very hard-to-find EL SUR, for instance.   

[Trotskie]

Saw UP-3D yesterday.

-There was something about the drawing and pacing that did not lend itself to whimsical narrative jumps.  One second the old dude is at his lowest depths of depression, facing eviction and life in a rest home.  One second later there are skeighty-eight million balloons rising out of his chimney.  Huh.

-One second the house is floating through a major American city.  Then, a stormy snooze later, the whole rig is in Venezuela?

-And elaborate back story about how Kevin is able to thwart Muntz for 60(!) years by hiding in her impenetrably byzantine nest lair is NARRATED to us.  Then at the end we get a soft focus aside of what this architectural wonder sorta looks like?

So... you have one of the most insanely awesome animation studios at the height of its power and they choose to make the "wow" shot a time lapse journey through how the textile and pattern usage has changed throughout the past 50 years in men's neckwear?

While the emotional backbone of the story definitely resonated, this one was a miss for me.  Felt like it was animation orchestrated by a children's book author.

[samir]

Thought it was rather good. Alternately sad and funny, the primary downer was Lars Ulrich's face showing up.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i gave a friend some serious ribbing for renting Gran Torino from the Redbox dispenser.  he invited me over to watch it and so i did* and it was horrible, of course, and hilarious with how racially insensitive he is.  









*"you cant knock it 'til you try it"

[Chris L]

and hilarious with how racially insensitive he is.  

Your friend, or Clint?

[hugman]

I fully intend to watch Gran Torino.  It'll probably come off the Very Long Wait list around the time it's on HBO.  Netflix sucks for new releases.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

and hilarious with how racially insensitive he is.  

Your friend, or Clint?

Clint, that honky.


i should also clarify that the racial slurs themselves were not hilarious, it was the audacious manner in which he nonchalantly let them roll out of his mouth.

[gravy boat]

Saw most of the In-Laws this morning and taped the rest (first time seeing it).  Ridiculous and hilarious. 

[Sarah]

The original, I trust?