General Movie Thread

[dave from knoxville]

11) Tony Leung
5) Catherine Deneuve

Good? Bad? Indifferent? Random pluckings? I am enjoying CD in A Christmas Tale at this very moment. Are you happy? Outraged? A bot?

[jbissell]

11) Tony Leung
5) Catherine Deneuve

Good? Bad? Indifferent? Random pluckings? I am enjoying CD in A Christmas Tale at this very moment. Are you happy? Outraged? A bot?

Oops. Didn't realize I didn't actually write anything under the quote. They're two of my all time favorites. She's great in A Christmas Tale.

[Chris L]

If you want to see something really good, The Browning Version is on TCM tonight @ 8 PM EST.

[Martin]

I endorse! The Browning Version.

[Sarah]

The Michael Redgrave version, right?  (What a stupid question:  of course you can't possibly mean the remake.)

[crumbum]

I saw The Runaways last night. It looked cool purely in terms of cinematography and had an impressionistic quality that helped to smooth over a lot of the usual biopic cliches, but I can't recommend it except for the strange experience of seeing Dakota Fanning snorting coke off the floor while wearing lingerie.

[yesno]

2012 was so much worse than I thought it would be! Really remarkable.

[cutout]

Just watched Gentlemen Broncos and it was so bad I almost renounced movies altogether and pawned my DVD player.

[wood and iron]

Just watched Gentlemen Broncos and it was so bad I almost renounced movies altogether and pawned my DVD player.

I've heard how bad it is but the clips I've seen of Sam Rockwell as the fantasy hero makes it look at least interesting.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

i watched persepolis for what felt like the first time (but surely, i know i've seen it before).  it was probably the last thing i should've watched after Paul F. Tompkins being the last thing i actually saw.

[Martin]

Today I was in a vengeful mood since my trip to New York got cancelled, so I watched DEATH WISH. Then I watched DEATH WISH II, then DEATH WISH 3, DEATH WISH 4: THE CRACKDOWN, and then finally, you guessed it, DEATH WISH V: THE FACE OF DEATH.

 

[Smelodies]

Someone call the men in white coats.

[Martin]

Also I want to kill a lot of people now.

[crumbum]

Saw Eclipse (the Irish gothic horror/romance, not the Twilight thing) over the weekend. It's kind of a mess in a lot of ways, but a stunningly effective mess. There are only a small handful of scare scenes but they arrive in totally unexpected ways and one in particular had everyone in the theater more freaked out than anything I've seen in a long time.

It also has a very good score and beautiful cinematography.

[Christina]

I saw Clash of the Titans in 3D this weekend. Nice 'n' stupid. Pretty much like the one I watched on cable constantly as a kid, but with everything turned up several notches.

This was also the first 3D movie I have seen, too. I mean, this current technology ... not the kind where you have one red lens and one blue lens type of 3D.