Movies you've recently watched

[jimmy olsen]

I've watched that approach-to-river and murder of Willa scenes maybe a hundred times.  Actually, whenever I want to scare my twin eight year old sisters I just start talking like Preacher Powell.

"Chiiiiiildreeen?   Chiiiiiiilllddren?  I know you're down there.  I can hear ye whisperin'.  I can feel myself gettin' aaaaawful mad."

That's pretty fucked up and obsessive Spellus.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Finally saw the new Star Trek last night. Thumbs up with some small quibbles. Time travel? aren't we tired of that in the ST franchise yet? and the whole plan of the bad guy was a bit lame. also are Romulans the new Vorlons? what's up with that Vorlon freighter. kept jarring me.

Really really liked all the action and actors though. I thought everyone did a respectful job. Bones was especially bang on. I'm very glad they did not fuck this up.  The inevitable sequels better not have any more time travel though. Bring on the Klingons!

9.111 dammit Jim I'm a doctor not a bonobo monkey outta 10

[Malthus]

Saw Night of the Hunter last night. A truly menacing classic. The scenes Mitchum as psycho killer preacher closing in on the children were amazingly intense, more deeply frightening than any slasher flick.

10 pairs of hands tatooed with "love" and "hate" out of 10.

By far and away my favorite movie.  I've written a few essays on it. 

Watch Cape Fear next.  It is as different from Night of the Hunter as a movie with Robert Mitchum starring as a southern rapist/serial killer can be. 

I've watched that approach-to-river and murder of Willa scenes maybe a hundred times.  Actually, whenever I want to scare my twin eight year old sisters I just start talking like Preacher Powell.


"Chiiiiiildreeen?   Chiiiiiiilllddren?  I know you're down there.  I can hear ye whisperin'.  I can feel myself gettin' aaaaawful mad."

EDIT: It is playing this month in Chicago.  I AM SO FUCKING PSYCHED.

I think if I tried that on Carl, my wife would kill me for real. 

My aunt wrote an interesting essay on the movie:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/105/Atwood.html

[jimmy olsen]

Gonna see Terminator: Salvation tonight, it has not been given good reviews however.

[ulmont]

Gonna see Terminator: Salvation tonight, it has not been given good reviews however.

It's not really the best part of the mythos, unless you really like doomed last stands.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Gonna see Terminator: Salvation tonight, it has not been given good reviews however.

That's out?

[jimmy olsen]

Gonna see Terminator: Salvation tonight, it has not been given good reviews however.

That's out?

Premiers today.

[Grey Fox]

It's gonna suck. Even you, will hate it.

[jimmy olsen]

It's gonna suck. Even you, will hate it.

Given how much I love the Terminator mythos I doubt it.

[Queequeg]

I think if I tried that on Carl, my wife would kill me for real. 

My aunt wrote an interesting essay on the movie:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/105/Atwood.html

Your aunt?  Seriously?  I used that essay as my biggest reference.  She's a great writer, though when I read A Handmaiden's Tale at the tender age of 13 I started hating my own gender.  It was baaad.

Did you watch that scene together?  Can't imagine how intense it would be for a mother with young kids.  It's scary enough fifty years later to supremely jaded, well educated men.

That's pretty fucked up and obsessive Spellus.

It's a fantastically scary sequence.  Tried to figure out what was so scary about it, had to write a really, really important essay about it and I didn't find any literature focusing on that scene specifically.

[Syt]

I think the word mythos is used way too much. King Arthur is a mythos. The Nibelungs and the Greek Gods are Mythos. John Wayne or Johnny Cash are a mythos.

Star Trek, Star Wars, Terminator and X-Files are not mythos.

[jimmy olsen]

I think if I tried that on Carl, my wife would kill me for real. 

My aunt wrote an interesting essay on the movie:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/105/Atwood.html

Your aunt?  Seriously?  I used that essay as my biggest reference.  She's a great writer, though when I read A Handmaiden's Tale at the tender age of 13 I started hating my own gender.  It was baaad.

Where the hell have you been the last six years?

[Queequeg]

Where the hell have you been the last six years?

In law or something?  Is she Jewish or is Malthus half-Jewish?   

[jimmy olsen]

Where the hell have you been the last six years?

In law or something?  Is she Jewish or is Malthus half-Jewish?   

He's half Jewish.

He talks about his ethnicity and his aunt all the time.

[ulmont]

Star Trek, Star Wars, Terminator and X-Files are not mythos.

Main Entry: my·thos 
Pronunciation: \ˈmi-ˌthōs, -ˌthäs\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural my·thoi  \-ˌthȯi\
Etymology: Greek
Date: 1753
1 a: myth 1a b: mythology 2a
2: a pattern of beliefs expressing often symbolically the characteristic or prevalent attitudes in a group or culture
3: theme, plot <the starving artist mythos>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mythos

Are you saying that Star Wars has no plot?  Maybe the prequel trilogy.