saw it the other day. omigod what a load of pointless bs, an excuse for softcore lesbianism. lynch has an interview with some french guy and cannes press conference on the dvd - just rambles on about pointless crap nothing to do with the actual question. makes you realise the movie never will make sense.
what was alright was donnie darko. and i got audition, which was boring as hell until she cut his leg off. highlight of the movie.
just to sound lame, i enjoyed long time dead last night :P surprisingly slightly scary.
kill bill rocked too, though it should never have been chopped into 2, and instead shortened for theatres and release the long version on dvd instead. 

need an excuse? 

and it proved three things :

- it's not just the matrix movies, the wachowskis' dialogue writing skills in general are just above George Lucas'.

- they know how to direct a movie when the script is reasonably tight and not self indulgent.

- what metl said.

Oh, and I did enjoy it quite a lot once the actual caper started. But some of the stuff before that was tedious due to the extremely trite dialog. 

glengarry glen ross - more of a play than a film, but the weak direction made it even more so. Still, it has some pretty awesome acting from Lemmon and Pacino and one of the funniest cameos ever by Alec Baldwin.

italian job - enjoyable heist movie with some cool stunts and a novel way of stealing the loot. Not even remotely resembling the cool 1969 Michael Caine version apart from the inclusion of using minis to carry the stolen loot.

nurse betty - pretty good, but eneven and patchy overall. Reasonably funny, Chris Rock & Morgan Freeman steal the show but the other actors are good too.

the crow - saw it again and I have to say it looks dated. Sure, the visual prowess is still there, but Dark City did it much better later on. And the action scenes look pretty ordinary comparative to today's stuff.

identity - liked it up until the big twist which sucked IMHO. No clues given about it at all except one or two strange happenings which could have really led to any conclusion. The second twist was more conventional and more predictable. Well made up until about the 75 min mark.

big trouble in little china - heavily recommended, and maybe I just dont get it, but I couldnt care too much about it. Sure it has some nice humor and knows it's cheesy but I couldnt really get into it.

Lawrence of Arabia - lucky to see it for the first time on a projector, it looks fucking amazing! And a pretty good film to go with the spectacular visuals. Favorite shot has to be of the whirling dervishes along with the mirage when Omar Sharif's character first appears.

good, bad & ugly - I normally dont like westerns but reasonably enjoyed this one, probably because the style and coolness overcome the rest of the deficiencies. Good stuff.

Anyway, enough for now. 

It did kinda make sense. My girlfriend and I spent an hour going over our opinoins regarding what actually happened, and once we collaborated on ideas, the actual plot seemed to make sense somewhat. 

There's a part 4 coming out with Edward Furlong starring as the resurrected victim, and David Boreanz as the "bad guy" (I can't think of the word right now.. protaganist?). As much of a fan I am of The Crow (mostly part 1 but part 3 was cool) - I think they should stop. I will see it regardless though.

And little factoid: movie franchise is based upon a graphic novel (fat comic book) written by James O'Barr after his wife was killed. 

just finished watching the first disc and the movie is much better with the extra stuff. Its more rounded off and just flows a lot better. Its still inferior to FOTR IMHO, but much better than the theatrical cut so far. 

the Crow = protagonist
villain = antagonist

and yeah, I did know that about the graphic novel ( which is vastly superior to any movie ) 

No really. Other ppl's faults though.

Matrix Reloaded - pretty good but a mixed bag overall. Some excellent scenes, plenty of good, memorable action. But as mentioned before, too much pretentious twaddle without revealing much that was remotely interesting (aside from the programs admitting they were programs), and too much cheesey soppiness without genuine expression of feasible emotion. A good film that could have been a great film with much better editing - needed to be sharper.

Matrix Revolutions - Similar view to Reloaded, although I found this one more entertaining due to the hardcore sci-fi spectacles (the initial entrance of the squids, and the flight over the harvesting field, awesome) and smaller doses of soppiness (that were sometimes done well). Again though, pretensions without exciting relevations - the relationship between the matrix and reality, and the problem of the Smiths should have been explored in a way that added depth and interest. A little gung-ho in places too. Again, a good film that had the material and potential to be superb.

In fact, as a trilogy, they had the potential to be THE best films evar, IMHO. The material is there, the style is there, the visuals are there, the ideas are there. It just needed to be sharper, genuinely cleverer, and less hollywoodised in a few crucial places.

Kill Bill Vol 1 Chapters 1-5 etc - I didn't know it was supposed to be 2 films so I got quite surprised by the end. Quite good film, definitely entertaining. Obviously trying hard to be hip and cool but could have gone further in that respect and been slicker and sharper. I like Uma's character alternating between vicious effeciency and tortured haggardness, some of the surreal humour and the unanswered questions behind it all. "Leave your limbs behind, they belong to me now" - quality =). 

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808404362&cf=trailer 

Come back when it's not in yahoo's gay "we can't let you have the actual files because we think you are a dumb cunt"-format 

YES, HAHAHA!! Godammit, Ron Perlman really is the perfect choice for Hellboy. This is good timing - I just bought my first Hellboy compilation a few days ago, and I'll be picking up the next one in a few days time.
Movie looks a bit like the X-men...only 666 times darker and grimmer. And Perlman/Hellboy is way more pithy and sanguine than Wolverine ever was.

*Kell goes bump in the night* 

What is The Quad? Why, the Alien Quadrilogy 9 DVD-set, of course. It was released as of Tuesday, and after watching the "Director's Cut" on the film (which should more properly be called "the Studio's Cut"), I'm still on the Alien extras disc. My God, pre-production art, an early draft of the Dan O'Bannon screenplay, Ridleyograms (the director's storyboard art) and interviews and photos and deleted scenes and alternate takes and every fucking angle of the Chestburster Scene you could imagine. This thing really rivals Peter Jackson and New Line's amazing work with the LotR:EE sets as far as all the detail and love in the package -- and I haven't gotten the second movie yet! 

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the new alien3 cut, that's really teh only thing I'm interested in from this set. 

Yeah, I'm anxious to see that too, not to mention the DC of Aliens (I know, I know...). Just don't wanna pass anything over -- and there's a LOT to look at here... 

is much better, except for the dune buggy into at the start. 

is much better, except for the dune buggy into at the start.

Which pretty much ruins the whole movie anyway.

Nevertheless, the box set is incredibly sweet, since b_ff failed to mention that the set has both the original versions of all four films, and the special editions. Don't like the new version? Fine, go watch the original. 

But I've already seen the originals already. So don't mess with me -- I got sonic eeelectronic ballbreakers, I got nukes, I got knives...sharp sticks! 

Alright, people. look sharp! Somebody wake up Hicks... 

Why aren't you working?

There's nothing to do.

Well you pretend that you're working.

...Why don't YOU pretend I'm working? You get paid more then me. Hell, pretend I'm mopping, knock yourself out. I'll pretend they're buying stuff and we can close up. Here's a fantasy for you bud, let's pretend I'm the boss and you're fired! If we're gonna make up shit we might as well rare on back! 

...jesus 

bill hicks isn't an alien movie

not yet anyway 

...holy ghost 

This is the film thread after all, so maybe I can be a bit forgiving and just ignore it. 

Was a little disappointed with this end of it, seeing as how they didn't have nearly as much pre-production art as the Alien part did, but otherwise it was quite nice. While the Director's Cut of Aliens was really excellent (it was like the LotR stuff in the way that none of it seemed to be "stuck in"), I was hoping for more of Ron Cobb's and Syd Mead's stuff on the extras disc. But there are tons of interviews, behind the scenes footage, lots of stuff with Stan the Man Winston (who up until Aliens I had seen as "that other guy who worked with Rob Bottin on The Thing") and his crew, and all kinds of ambivalence between Jim Cameron and the British crew ;) Didn't leave me as satisfied as the first movie's coverage, but it was really cool.