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I saw Robots couple days ago, really liked all the mechanical stuff, some cool visuals and ideas. Story was fairly typical and predictable though.
Story was fairly typical and predictable though.
That's a problem with the viewer's intellect and not the movie's script, though. saw SinCity on the weekend, since I have read through the graphic novels and enjoyed those I was more than pleased with how true they were to the scenes/style/dialogue. I was also quite pleased with the stories they selected. The 'Marv' story was probably my favourite from the comics themselves, so I was happy to see that one.
Other recent viewings have been 'Toxic Avenger' and 'Class of Nuke 'Em High 2' both from Troma studios. Dunno if you read PlanetDOOM much but they mentioned this:
http://www.cgonline.com/content/view/756/2/ "The film industry trade publication Variety announced today that Showtime plans to make a bio-pic movie based on Masters of Doom, the 2003 released non-fiction book on the formation of Doom developer id Software." So who's takin' the lead as Carmack? Romero? Heh... this reminds me of that biopic on Microsoft that was for TV... John Carmack -- Vin Diesel
Adrian Carmack -- Bob Balaban John Romero -- Cher Tom Hall -- Haley Joel Osment the rest of the cast will be midgets, like the Wizard of Oz. On a side note, my mom knew one of the midgets from the Wizard of Oz when she lived in South Boston. Apparently the guy had been in quite a few things, and could be found doing such regular person things as shopping at the supermarket, taking a dump, and dragging a sack of kittens into a burning building. Sign Up !!!
http://www.petitiononline.com/dmovie/petition.html At least we can claim this movie must change in order to match Doom concept.... Witness for the Prosecution - classy film. If there's one thing Billy Widler could do, it was write dialogue. Although not in the same class as Sunset Boulevard or Double indemntiy, it still has some sparkling exchanges.
The Royal Tenebaums - Also quite classy. It's more of a comedy/rama but the funny moments are well built up and the drama by itself is quite well done. The attention to detail and shooting style is also outstanding. Ok so I finally saw this. I wouldn't normally bother to comment, but I read it's other reviews in this thread, and I seem to hate this film so much more than the other guys that saw it.
I think my main complaint with this movie is that the script seems to have been written by a load of 14 year old boys. I also get the feeling that the boys aren't keeping up to the times, because they obviously missed the memo that told them that smoking isn't that cool any more. I think approximately 30-40% of the movie was dedicated to Keanu: (A) Lighting a cigarette (B) Smoking a cigarette (C) Dropping a cigarette in slow motion (D) Putting out his cigarette in his own blood, no really. (E) Being told by people that he shouldn't smoke. Other things that only 14 year old boys think are cool include: ... Weapons covered in crosses ... Erm, including a knuckleduster with one on each knuckle ... Having Constantine be an asshole to everyone to make him 'darker' ... Trapping demons in mirrors. Mirrors are just shiny things, get over it. I don't know how explain what a huge pile of steaming cliched feces this is. Don't start thinking that it might be so bad it's good either, like Rambo or something. Here, the cliches are all the ones you hate. We've got one of my favourites, the bit where a female character says some line like "leave it to the men? oh hell naw!", designed to appeal to the feminists. Actually thats less of a favourite, more of something that makes me punch the person next to me in the neck. We've got the classic snivelling kid who wants to be the hero's partner, but he only lets him do something basic, in this case driving a taxi. In this case, the kid is played by that asshole from Holes, and near the end he saves John Constantine and starts being useful. Surprise, surprise. All this said, there are some great moments. I think my favourite is where Constantine has to do a spell or some shit, so he sits on a chair holding a cat, and puts his feet in a tupperware box full of water. The water is there to lubricate the transition between the planes of Hell and Earth by the way. I defy you not to laugh when he does that, it's amazing. All in all, a great movie, and well worth seeing. Two thumbs up my ass! If this film is like Starbuck discribed it, for sure I will not go to see it.. It seems to suck a lot !
Nelly and Mr Arnaud - Pretty good french film by Claude Sautet with the stunning Emanuelle Beart. Not much plot but the acting and script are well done.
La Notte - Very good film by Michaelangelo Antoinini (Blow-Up) with well pitched performances from Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni as a married couple with no emotions for each other. The framing in this film is also the best I've seen since my viewing of Playtime. Also features a cameo from the very hot Monica Vitti. Repulsion - Another awesome film from Roman Polanski's early days. Has the same eerie and unsettling atmoshpere that was displayed in Rosemary's Baby and an excellent turn from Catherine Deneuve as a woman who is sexually repressed and has some very strange halucinations. The Direction is also outstanding. Crossifre - Very good noir film with a nice script and good performances. Not up there with the greatest noirs but definitely close. You rock. Seriously, one day when I get some free time, I'm gonna compile a list of all the movies you liked that sound interesting to me and seek them out. You seem to put a good deal of thought and effort into your evaluations, so I just wanted to say thanks for reccomending some of the more obscure films to those of us who don't have the time or the education on that sort of thing. Cheers.
this might be more helpful, if you ever want make a list :
http://www.dvdaficionado.com/dvds.html?cat=1&sub=All&id=nitin That ones without ratings I havent got around to seeing yet. The eminently quotable film that probably has more than a few parallels with the amateur game development scene, and failed to grab my interest or evoke more than a couple of grins. Good movie, I just didn't like it.
hm, 25th hour is one of my personal favorites, does anyone know of any other movies of the same brilliance by spike lee ? movies listed at imdb dont ring a bell.
Do the Right Thing -- it is quite good...the one thing about it though is that it leaves a lot of unanswered questions in terms of what it brings up during the course of it. Great performances all around.
Bamboozled -- OK. The first half was really promising, but it starts to get a bit dilluted. The whole movie is like that "Black People Love Us" webpage. You'll see what I mean :D It's along the same lines as Do The Right Thing in that it brings up alot of tough questions, and doesn't resolve them in any definite way. I have seen a fair number of Spike Lee movies. Here are my general assessments. If I get any titles screwed up, it is because I haven't seen these flicks in a long time.
School Daze -- I don't like musicals nor marching bands but some of the numbers were pretty catchy. Probably some of his smartest dialog on matters of inter-racial conflict. She's Gotta Have It -- where as marching bands and musicals don't do it for me, sexually aggressive black women -- I like. The male characters were a bit iritating, either too whiny or too control freakish. Do The Right Thing -- Over rated. The conflict was completely manufactured and the dialog of whiteys was not realistic. Burn a place down because the owner had pictures of Italians and not blacks? Get the fuck out of here, that is just stupid. Jungle Fever -- Kind'a boring, except for the sex scenes and even there it ain't Cinemax or Showtime. Crooklyn -- He filmed his sister nekad. How twisted! I don't remember much about the movie, however, except his sister's titties. He Got Game -- A movie I liked better than most critics did. Paints a pretty corrupt portrait of Collegiate Athletic programs, and Denzel is excellent in this one. His first anti-hero role, I believe. Get On The Bus -- my personal favorite. It reads like a swan song for the Civil Rights movement; it's sentimentalist vision is quite moving here and the late Ossie Davis was memorable. Summer of Sam -- great idea (and title) for a movie, just not well executed. a VCD version of Ed Wood Jr.'s Plan 9 From Outer Space from alt.binaries.monter-movies.
(And no, I have not misspelled the group name.) Yea verily, I am fucked in the head.
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