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[garbon]

It wasn't especially good.

It would have been better framed if the plot was simply: I like to go around fucking things up/look at me without my shirt on.  The attempt at a plot was sad as it was simply an attempt.

[Duque de Bragança]

Not to get all Timmah... but they have Robotech on Hulu now!

US-Edited version of Macross.
Avoid!

[Sophie Scholl]

Pfft... it's the shit I remember from when I was a kid, so it's good enough for me.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Not to get all Timmah... but they have Robotech on Hulu now!

US-Edited version of Macross.
Avoid!

And the Shadow Chronicles, which were soso.  Only watched for reasons of not having cable.

[Maladict]

JCVD. 
It's not bad, actually.

[Ed Anger]

Zombieland. Alright.

[Syt]

The Quest for the Mighty Sword

Apparently the 4th Ator movie, but not connected to the previous movies. Ator, son of Ator is raised by a malevolent dwarven smith who's also "safekeeping" a broken mighty sword of Ator, father of Ator. Ator jr is also destined to free a warrior semi goddess trapped by the gods for meddling with the affairs of mortals.

At this point zombie Wagner would rise from the grave to sue for copyright infringement.

Lardass Siegfried, err, Ator kills Mime, err, Grindel andsets out on his quest. A myterious woman tells him that before he can rescue the chick he has to offer the treasures of the Kingdom of the West to the Gods. He slays a conjoined twin robot and a snot covered gozilla (!) and makes the offering. Supposedly he has no idea where to find the rescuable chick, though.

Still, in the very next scene we see crafty Ator enters cave which from the outside looks exactly like the one he was raised in. Inside he wakes the sleeping semigoddess with a kiss which causes a volcanic eruption that lays waste to several Greek cities.  Selfish bastard.

In the next scene Ator and the now mortal Valkyrie are in a bar where he saves a whore from harm. She offers.sex to repay him, but suddenly they realize they are mother and son. She is thus freed from her curse (she was forced to be a whore for sleeping with the dwarf who had put her under an aphrodisiac - he didn't get punished). She shrivels into an old woman and dies.

The final half hour or so of the movie is a confused mess of a royal brother and sister (Laura Gemser) to get a hold of the couple,because she wants Ator and he wants the Valkyrie. The movie ends when the evil dwarf chancellor Hagen is killed.

The acting is consistingly bad. Lines are unconvincing and in many cases pronounciations vary from scene to scene, even from the same actors. Fight coreography there's none. Special effects ... well, if you go for a godzilla costume and recycle masks from Troll 2 ...

Still, the movie has a charming naivity that makes it cringeworthily funny.

3 out of 10 merry dwarf tunes when a bad guy enters the screen.

[garbon]

Trainspotting.

Like Requiem for A Dream, I think I watched this too late in life to find it at all shocking.

[ulmont]

Trainspotting.

Like Requiem for A Dream, I think I watched this too late in life to find it at all shocking.

Trainspotting was a hilarious movie.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Trainspotting.

Like Requiem for A Dream, I think I watched this too late in life to find it at all shocking.

Trainspotting is/was only shocking to those with no exposure to junkies. Living in East Van at the time it seemed almost like cinema verite. :p

Requiem, I don't think holds up as well to later viewings. Though Ellen Burstyn's turn is still teh awesome. Bob Barker is the ultimate crack. :p

I watched two docs last night, purely by flipping channels and getting sucked in at the beginning of each.

1st was "Outrage" the new doc about "Out-ing" closet case politicians (mostly Repubicans, as their closet has a smaller door and is much harder to get out of) The thing that this doc actually points out is just how much compromise and politicking really goes on in Washington... which is according to the doc, the gayest city America. It's also the most closeted though. McGreevey is well spoken, when they get to him, as is his wife. They portray obvious closeter Grist (FLA Jeb replacement) as the next great closet case of politics.... but he seems very teflon. may even end up President. Where he'll put all the queers in camps for easy access. :p

It was actually more thoughtful and even handed than I thought it would be. It's crazy all the masks you need to wear just so a few aristocratic families can keep control of one nation where everyone has the illusion of freedom to be whatever or whoever you want.

7.5 Senate pages living under desks outta 10

later after some middling TV, I glanced upon something I'd seen before, but quickly got sucked into: Agnes Varda's "The Gleaners and I" Great verite doc about a long tradition in France of post harvest recycling, which is often if not tolerated, encouraged. free labour to clean the fields of what to the farmers is waste (except of course in Burgundy where, and reasonably so, the pickers or gleaners have to wait for the table wine 2nd harvest grapes)

Varda transposes her own fears of aging and being tossed in the trash with the lives of these Gleaners, some of whom have jobs homes and families, but need this extra bit of food to make it. Also the people who make art from trash, or recycle the mountains of appliances that Parisians kick to the curb every month. Very well done doc. Contains a lot of wisdom, and joie de vivre. At the end Agnes gets a clock with no hands from the trash and makes an ornament of it. She is comforted by it's lack of time passing.

8.9 barely edible pieces of fruit being chewed upon outta 10

[Admiral Yi]

Buddha, your avatar is fucking with my scrolling.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Buddha, your avatar is fucking with my scrolling.

are you on dialup? :p. I'll change it. getting tired of it myself.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Blues Brothers 2000.  I  try to ignore the plot adn acting in favor of music that is usually as good as the original.

[garbon]

I'm watching The Matrix which I last saw when it came out.  Why is Reeves allowed to be an actor?

[Duque de Bragança]

The Quest for the Mighty Sword

Apparently the 4th Ator movie, but not connected to the previous movies. Ator, son of Ator is raised by a malevolent dwarven smith who's also "safekeeping" a broken mighty sword of Ator, father of Ator. Ator jr is also destined to free a warrior semi goddess trapped by the gods for meddling with the affairs of mortals.

At this point zombie Wagner would rise from the grave to sue for copyright infringement.

Lardass Siegfried, err, Ator kills Mime, err, Grindel andsets out on his quest. A myterious woman tells him that before he can rescue the chick he has to offer the treasures of the Kingdom of the West to the Gods. He slays a conjoined twin robot and a snot covered gozilla (!) and makes the offering. Supposedly he has no idea where to find the rescuable chick, though.

Still, in the very next scene we see crafty Ator enters cave which from the outside looks exactly like the one he was raised in. Inside he wakes the sleeping semigoddess with a kiss which causes a volcanic eruption that lays waste to several Greek cities.  Selfish bastard.

In the next scene Ator and the now mortal Valkyrie are in a bar where he saves a whore from harm. She offers.sex to repay him, but suddenly they realize they are mother and son. She is thus freed from her curse (she was forced to be a whore for sleeping with the dwarf who had put her under an aphrodisiac - he didn't get punished). She shrivels into an old woman and dies.

The final half hour or so of the movie is a confused mess of a royal brother and sister (Laura Gemser) to get a hold of the couple,because she wants Ator and he wants the Valkyrie. The movie ends when the evil dwarf chancellor Hagen is killed.

The acting is consistingly bad. Lines are unconvincing and in many cases pronounciations vary from scene to scene, even from the same actors. Fight coreography there's none. Special effects ... well, if you go for a godzilla costume and recycle masks from Troll 2 ...

Still, the movie has a charming naivity that makes it cringeworthily funny.

3 out of 10 merry dwarf tunes when a bad guy enters the screen.

Wasn't Ator the fantasy series with the wimpiest hero ever ?
Danke fur reminding me to watch these classics