What Was The Last Movie You Watched

[Incognito]

Originally Posted by roxymodest

fuck IMAX

It's only worth viewing in IMAX 3D; the visual intensity loses a bit of its flair in smaller formats.

[madeyeshawn]

I watched Lars and the Real Girl and LOVED it!!!! What a dark and interesting comedy.

[Amravanti]

Originally Posted by madeyeshawn

I watched Lars and the Real Girl and LOVED it!!!! What a dark and interesting comedy.

I loved that movie. Ryan Gosling is fantastic.


I just watched The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters. It was enjoyable. Better than I thought it would be, but not as good as I'd heard. Billy Mitchell is like the Voldemort of classic videogaming.

But man, those have got to be some of the biggest nerds in history. That kind of dedication. It's admirable, but yikes. It's also kind of sad in a way.

But then, I did just make a Harry Potter reference, so I guess I have no high ground.

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by standardman

On Tarantino, I used to be a big fan, party because I liked his movies (especially the dialogue) and partly because he was so enthusiastic about movies I loved and movies I'd never even heard of. The problem was because he arrived at exactly the right time with two terrific movies, he got to do whatever he wanted to, making all his worst tendencies grow and grow until you get Death Proof, which is basically a collection of his very worst habits..

If you're talking abouyt the foot fetish, i'm one too so i'm one his side

Joking aside, i still think that he's one of the few non octuagenarian direcvtorsd, thart still loves to do movies with style and an eye for memorable shots. In basterds i could cite three examples: the whole way the climax to the first sequnce is shot (it's everything from depalma to Leone mixed with a perfect timing and amazing soiundtrack), The entry of Eli Roth's character (The Morricone cue, the slammin of the bat and how abruptly the music stops when the bat hits), The entire Tavern sequence (The shootout at the end made me jump like a motherfucker)....

I have a cinephile, film school student friend who says that Tarantino was finished after Pulp Fiction, but he idolizes Michael Mann.
Now i loved Heat... But Collateral was so-so, Miami Vice pretty much ridiculous and Public Enemy.... Well that was trickery. I was promised a gangster epic and i got an overlong, sleepy, badly shot disaster...

To each its own

[Bucho]

Originally Posted by Junkenstein

I dont know why so many expected a different movie than what it was. All Tarantino movies are heavy on dialogue (some have good dialogue, like reservoir dogs or Jackie Brown, some have ridulous, self indulgent dialogue like Death Proof, and most of Kill Bill).

His movies always have drawn out sequences, and a lot of movie geek masturbatory stuff. Kill Bill was as close as he got to an action splat-fest and there were lots of stetched out scenes there ("Wiggle your Big toe")

Even Pulp Fiction, that all movie nerds count as untouchable, has a whole segment that' just embarassingly drawn out (The whole scene with Bruce Willis and his girl).

It's his style, and i think that Inglorious Bastards is as good as his other stuff if not more mature.

The trailer tricked people but what trailer doesnt?

C'mooooooooon Junk, the vast majority of trailers don't play up a supporting character and storyline as if the main story is that. This was a film about Hans Landa and Shoshanna and yet they barely appeared in the trailers, if at all. And the problem with Basterds itself wasn't that there was too much talking, it was that too much of the talking was heading towards pointless wankery instead of good story-telling. In his best films it's not like that. The other main problem with Basterds we already hashed out in this thread.

And I like the scene with Bruce and his girl in that Pulp Fiction, to me the worst scenes are Uma Thurman's and Eric Stoltz's.

[Junkenstein]

Originally Posted by Bucho

C'mooooooooon Junk, the vast majority of trailers don't play up a supporting character and storyline as if the main story is that. This was a film about Hans Landa and Shoshanna and yet they barely appeared in the trailers, if at all. And the problem with Basterds itself wasn't that there was too much talking, it was that too much of the talking was heading towards pointless wankery instead of good story-telling. In his best films it's not like that. The other main problem with Basterds we already hashed out in this thread.

Yeah, i agree with you, the trailer WAS tricky. but what i mean is that the campaigns for any movie are ususally tricky. There's a bunch of examples i can give: a re-edition of "2001" made look like it was some star wars action epic, a bunch of movies where a famous actor was pushed like he was in main role and was instead in 'em for a few minutes. If you ever watch the "42nd street forever" collection of grindhouse move trailers, they were the masters into making everything look like sex-filled, gore fueled and "THE MOST SHOCKING MOVIE YOU EVER SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNN!!!!".

Producers deal with trailers. Producers are usually scumbags. And when you say Tarantino, you say Weinstein. The king of tricksters. And a Jew, too...

[Mikey]

Tristan & Isolde . Dudes... I almost freaking cried.

[Mikey]

Tristan & Isolde . Dudes... I almost freaking cried.

[Junkenstein]

This Is It

Alright. I used to be a fan of Jacko until "Bad". The i became (theoretically) an dult, and gre out of his music. Also his personal scandals bothered me. I wouldnt care about that stuff, usually. Artists are always fucked up one way or another, but he was disgusting me. The kid touching, the denial, the wird interviews. Too much. I ended up hating him, and hating even more his fans who went insane after his death and started looking more like a demented cult than anything else.

But seeing his dancing in this movie kinda made me rmember what i liked in his art when he was at the peak. It's not a good movie (i wont even call it a movie), even as a documentary it's flimsy and exploitative. it looks more like a series of dvd extras. But what he had in mind, his choreographies, his dancing, are simply amazing.

It deserves to be watched just for that. I found myself enjoying it, and i swear to god, i hated evrything that had to do with the man and still think that he was a despicable human being and deserved to die. My girl, is a Jacko fan and was tearing up.

[Bucho]

I saw this puppy in big ol' Imax and it looked pretty fucking neato. The designs of the Na'vi are goofy and take some getting used to but the 3D and the awesome hardware and jungle make it a shitload of fun to watch. On the downside the storytelling is disappointingly juvenile at times (you'd think he'd have spent some of the 12 years of development at least putting some decent meat on the predictable bones) with undercooked characters, relationships and dialogue, and a little too much tree-hugging hippy bullshit. The problem isn't the unoriginal story (it's Dances With Wolves in space), it's that while it hits the right beats it doesn't connect them anywhere near as well as it should and as a result it sometimes feels childishly written. The story is fine, it's the storytelling that's sub-par.

But in spite of those negatives the experience of the world he's created in massive 3D is something special enough, and even though you'll forget most of the movie within 24 hours of leaving the theater, the 2:45 (yeah, it'll numb your ass) you spend in front of it is worth it.