General Movie Thread

[SJK]

Watched a few movies lately...

Nowhere Boy - John Lennon biopic of his teenage years, sad but good.
You Don't Know Jack - Al Pacino as Jack Kevorkian. Better then I expected.
A-Team - As good as the TV series. The TV series is terrible.
Zodiac - 3rd viewing in as many years, love the slow burn and atmosphere.

up next,

Skupljaci Perja(I Even Met Happy Gypsies) - directed by Aleksandar Petrovic (this director provided some inspiration to Emir Kusturica, according to my friend who owns the DVD)

[crumbum]

Winter's Bone - loved it. It's a really, really dark and ruthless murder mystery set in the Ozarks. John Hawkes (the dude from Eastbound and Down, Deadwood and You And Me And Everyone You Know) is especially great. It's one of those roles where you suddenly see that an actor has way more in him than you realized.

[fonpr]

Watched What About Me a couple days ago. 1993, low budget film about a homeless woman living in New York City.

Black and white.  Written, directed by Rachel Amodeo.  Who also plays the lead character.

Story and filming were pretty good.  Acting was not so great (what do want from Richard Edison, Nick Zedd, Dee Dee Ramone?)

Richard Hell was the surprise.  I wish he had more screen time.  He's a natural.

[masterofsparks]

Winter's Bone - loved it. It's a really, really dark and ruthless murder mystery set in the Ozarks. John Hawkes (the dude from Eastbound and Down, Deadwood and You And Me And Everyone You Know) is especially great. It's one of those roles where you suddenly see that an actor has way more in him than you realized.

I loved the book (I love all of Daniel Woodrell's books, actually), so I was definitely excited to hear about this happening. The fact that it appears to be good makes me all the more excited.

[Bryan]

Yeah, I liked Winter's Bone too. It is good, but it's the kind of movie that makes me realize that most other mainstream movies should be that good. An intriguing premise, colourful setting, good use of atmosphere and strong dialogue... that stuff doesn't cost anything! Shouldn't that be standard issue for any movie? But since sadly it's not, Winter's Bone is unusually good.

[Paul DePhiladelphia]

I saw Cyrus which I thought was good and a smooth transition for the Duplass Brothers into big budget. Although I cringed at a few parts like when John C. was like "I am NOT going to the party!" and the next shot he's there. I laughed for a minute when he delivered this line: "Your son hates me. And to be quite honest I fuckin hate him too." I can really picture Mark Duplass delivering lines like that. I really love that guy.

[JonFromMaplewood]

When NJ Transit shut down last night, I decided to go to a movie to get out of the heat and wait out the snarl.

The only movie playing at the right time was "Agora."  I do not recommend it.  Heavy-handed. Like the fate of many characters in the film, you feel like you are being stoned to death with the messages the film makers are trying to convey.  And they are didactic stones...whatever that means. 

It had some visually good moments, but of course, that does not make a good film.

[JonFromMaplewood]

Finally watched Moon.  Loved it.  Can't believe it did not get more press.

[cutout]

Speaking of the Duplass brothers, there's a movie I saw a few months back and cannot remember the name. I thought it was them who wrote it but am probably totally wrong. Plot is: 2 guys in their 30s, reunited after a decade, one guy is more straight laced, the other is a Burning Man kind of dude who's trying to still be young and hip and wants to do something edgy so he jokes about them having sex on film. The rest of the movie is leading up to whether or not they'll go through with it to keep their word. Ring any bells?

[Martin]

Hump Day

[dave from knoxville]

Did I say this already? Me and afk loved Inception.

[Bryan]

Did I say this already? Me and afk loved Inception.

Yes. I liked it too. More today than I did last night, immediately afterwards. I have a couple of minor quibbles with it, but overall - wow! Quite an accomplishment.

[cutout]

Hump Day

Yes! Thanks. It wasn't 5-star or anything but I really liked the dialogue and how natural the characters all seemed despite how absurd it was.

[cutout]

Did I say this already? Me and afk loved Inception.

A lot of the psychobabble dialogue was rubbing me wrong for a lot of it, but a day later I'm realizing that it was pretty ambitious and definitely an adventure of a film.

[ben]

Did I say this already? Me and afk loved Inception.

A lot of the psychobabble dialogue was rubbing me wrong for a lot of it, but a day later I'm realizing that it was pretty ambitious and definitely an adventure of a film.

I liked it.  I was disappointed that one of my favorite actors, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, didn't have more to do in the film performance wise.  And some of the dialogue did seem overly expository.  But it's definitely a movie I have to watch again, while it's still on the big silver/golden screen.