How fitting that post 404 is about a movie that has memory loss as a central plot device. 

How fitting that post 404 is about a movie that has memory loss as a central plot device.


I was going to say something funny about that, but I've forgotten what it was. 

 

The Corporation:
I disagreed with a lot of it, but it was well done and an interesting piece.

Hellboy:
It was ok, nothing spectacular.

If you could only see one of the two, see the former. 

Hah, I made a funny. 

As bad as Pearl Harbor in subjecting American History to the Hollywood formula? As far as historical war movies go, Tora, Tora, Tora, and the Thin Red Line are my personal favorites. A notch down but certainly worth seeing Black Hawk Down and Saving Private Ryan; Stephen Lange's portrayal of Gen. Thomas Jackson in Gods and Generals was really first rate though the movie itself could have been trimmed down an hour in editing without losing anything. I don't think I would recommend it except to those who are inclined towards Civil War History. 

a movie about historical figures too stupid to get out of a cul de sac while the getting was good being worth my time. 

But it's ok to spoil it because you shouldn't be seeing this movie.

I don't give a rat's ass about american history, The Alamo was just a bad movie. The director tried to set up a bunch of characters for the audience to care about for when they get slaughtered. Only he did a half assed job.

For example: one of the guys is Bowie, the inventor of a stupid looking knife. He has this vision of some girl standing in his backyard. 20 minutes later he's dying of fever for no reason and we find out that the girl he envisioned is his dead (for no reason) wife. 20 minutes after that this mexican girl taking care of him starts to make out with him. Then we find out that that's his dead wife's sister. It was a real wtf moment. 

You are out cynicizing me and doing a damn good job of it! 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224345/

saw it a couple of days ago on tv and I can recommen watching it. Unpredictable story wich keeps it interesting and some scenes in an abondoned hotel with excellent atmosphere making you want to do a resident evil like game set in that hotel just because it was so cool. 

may have mentioned some already, cant remember

to catch a thief - good, hardly suspenseful but pretty funny.

this is spinal tap - I probably missed half the jokes since I'm not into this music scene but it was quite funny regardless. 18 inch stonehenge props rock.

sunset boulevard - quite good, though the acting occasionally gets annoying.

the hustler - pacing could be slightly better but very well made. Newman was great in this.

annie hall - th eonly woody allen film I have so far liked. Very funny stuff.

amadeus- good acting and story, interesting viewpoint and take on Mozart.

about schmidt - funny and poignant at the same time, jack nicholson is in good form too.

boogie nights - nto much beyond the pyrotechnic style but it's qutie dazzling nevertheless.

25th hour - fine film but I thought 2 sequences in the film hurt it pretty badly, the speech in the restroom and the dream sequence near the end. Otherwise, probably spkie lee's most accessible film, along with one of his best.

intolerable cruelty - coen bros lite but the first forty minutes were an absolute blast as were the last 10.

texas chainsaw massacre - Pushplay was right, very poor and a big waste of time.

SWAT - absolute rubbish, havent been this bored in quite a while.

rebecca - striking viusals (probably some of the best lighting ever) but it's extremely boring and poorly paced. Very un-Hitchcock.

the birds - dated visuals and poor acting, but the direction is top notch and it is quite creepy in parts. 

finally saw vol 1 last weekend and caught vol 2 the same night.

I didnt find Vol 1 as amazing as some people did, it was however a very entertaining and stylish film. Chapter 1 & 3 rocked, 2 & 5 were ok and 4 was passable.

I was disappointed with vol 2, it had moments but overall the film felt really bloated and could have been paced better.

The dialogue, like the film, had moments of Taranino spark (elle driver's black mamba monologue, the birth testing discussion, and probably the very last exchange between uma and bill), but meandered way too much and felt dull and uninteresting (especially chapter 1, bud's monologues in chapter 2 and the spanish pimp in chapter 5).

Still, chapter 3 with Pei Mei rocked as did 4 with the fantastic fight scene. Chapter 2 was pretty good once Uma was in the coffin and 5 had 2-3 good exchanged between Bill and Uma.

What did others think? 

I also caught Master & Commander last night, which is a very fine film. It's the Das Boot of the normal ship genre : cracking fight scenes, excellent sound and visuals, and decent drama + characterisations. 

When it came out. Good dialog, of course, but the Crazy 88 fight was absuredly stupid. The antagonist would never see it coming when Thurman's character swooped low to severe lower limb extremities, and never attempt the same tactic with her. I watched it with my brother, a veteren of martial arts tourneys, and it was all I could do to keep him from screaming at the screen.

Nice to Chiba again though. 

You're missing out on something vital though. The Crazy 88 fight scene isn't part of a martial arts movie, it's part of an omage to martial arts movies. People who love martial arts movies and westerns are going to get more out of Kill Bill 1 & 2 in the same way people who love french neo realism are going to get more out of Pulp Fiction. The movies have a meta quality to them. 

the fight better if I had not seen it with a knowledgeable sword fighter who nick picked it to death. I guess I was at a disadvantage (and hope the mofo doesn't do one of his periodic visits to this site and see this entry), though I did like the movie it could have been more disciplined (the older martial arts movies tended towards more realism than the modern Segal era movies) in its presentation, and saved me some personal grief as well. 

Yea saw Kill Bill last night (Vol 1). I don't know what to think, as I've lost my ability to opinionize on movies, so I'll just sum it up with "it was alright". 

Old media becomes pretty hard to quantify in how much you take from it after playing something as fun as Farcry for a week. 

Loved both of em, thought they were awesome. Not perfect, but then again nothing is. And the previews for Troy and Hero got my blood all circulated in my groin.

Five point palm exploding heart technique! 

I like westerns and I've seen the odd martial arts movie. Vol 1 felt like it had that meta quality you talk about even though I wasnt a martial art movie veteran. Vol 2 on the other hand still felt bloated. 

While Vol 1 was mostly steeped in the martial arts side of things, Vol 2 was more of the western. Like a western its more psychological then physical. There's more going on, it's full of love gone wrong and regret. I've even said it makes the series a love story. I haven't seen a good reference guide for vol 2, but I'm willing to bet there would be more westerns in that one. 

probably quite a few I even missed, but my argument is that they dont make the film any more interesting. Admittedly, westerns have a lot of talk but in this case the talk isnt interesting, despite the numerous references. 

Yah, the strong Sergio Leone references and the DePalma split-screen stuff were my fave kudos in Vol. 1 -- haven't seen 2 yet.

Meanwhile, Master & Commander kicks un-Godly amounts of ass. I wholy recommend it to anyone who digs historical drama, ship-tp-ship dogfights, and a bit of wacky humor. 

The shot showing the girl on a rooftop aiming down was very memorable 

Pure rockage. I guess the biggest compliment I can give it is that it blows all of Kaufman's other work right out of the water.