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[Ed Anger]

Going to go see Book of Eli tonight.

it's Fair. Worth the price of the afternoon matinee.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Watch Nuri Bilge Ceylan's (same dir as "Distant" i reviewed the other day) "Climates". University Prof and his much younger Girlfriend breakup in very realistic (read: dysfunctional)  manner amidst beautiful scenery at the beach. His life meanders on through crappy weather, and more crappy weather, he hooks up with an old flame in a weird weird rough sex scene. Eventually he tries to win back the ex. then it's over.

Ceylan has a real gift (he acts as the main guy too) for subtle silent acting and getting the most out of good actors simply emoting during conversation, or alone. I highly recommend this or any of his films based on the two I've seen.

I have dubbed him "The New Turk-ovsky on the block".

9.222 nightstand drawers as pillows outta 10

[Eddie Teach]

Willow. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Willow. 

[Eddie Teach]

No, but it did have this:

[The Brain]

Ghost Ship was on TV. I hadn't seen the beginning before and I ended up watching it all. I'm a sucker for that kind of movie.

[Josquius]

Everything is Illuminated- What a weird film.
Starts as a light comedy but turns into a drama by the end with a guy killing himself :s
American Jew travels to the Ukraine to find the village where his grandad originated from. Translating for him is a odd looking Ukrainian with a funny grasp of English (lead singer from Gogol Bordello), he says things like 'My name is Alexander but my friends call me Alex because it is more flacid in the mouth'.
When it gets a bit serious its all left up to you to figure out just what is up and I've no clue on the details still.
Quite good though

[Sheilbh]

In The Loop, again.  As good on a second viewing.  I love the sheer Baroque nature of the swearing - the 'lubricated horse cock' scene is particularly good.  Watching it again though I think the seriousness of Ianucci's satire comes through.  He seems to have that requirement of all good satirists; at heart he's a moralist.  I think that this isn't necessarily a satire of US-UK relations, or even the run-up to the war, so much as it's a comment on the state of language and its importance. 

All through the film I was reminded that Ianucci almost wrote a thesis on 'Paradise Lost' and in some ways I think that shines through.  In 'Paradise Lost' Satan is portrayed as the world's first spin doctor.  He's a character who is able, through language alone, to almost make you believe something that isn't true.  Satan says 'The mind is its own place, and in it self /Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.'  But that 'the mind is its own place' reminds you of Mephistopheles in Faust, for whom hell is ever where he is; hell is in his mind.  Satan says that it's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven - though we know it's not.  Throughout Milton reminds us that Satan is 'in pain,/ Vaunting aloud, but rackt with deep despare' that there's a distance between his words and the truth.  Satan goes from a heroic figure to, by the end of the poem, one reduced to crawling and slithering on his belly.  Satan isn't the hero of 'Paradise Lost' and Milton wasn't of the Devil's party. 

In this film we love and laugh with Malcolm Tucker - as the government spin doctor - but we're painfully aware of the difference between his words and the truth.  Though the script is to some extent on his side (as opposed to the loathsome pseudo-Rumsfeld) it is not of Tucker's party.  His vertiginous swearing is to this film what Satan's great speeches are to 'Paradise Lost'.  That we sympathise with him is the film's great trick.  We know he's lying but we want him to succeed nonetheless, even though it helps lead to a war in some un-named Middle Eastern country.

[DisturbedPervert]

Willow. 

I watched Willow last night on youtube 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Willow. 

I watched Willow last night on youtube 

You should read the George Lucas sequel novels. 

[Neil]

Willow. 

I watched Willow last night on youtube 

You should read the George Lucas sequel novels.

That would probably be a mistake.

[Josquius]

In The Loop, again.  As good on a second viewing. =

Never heard of this before but just wikipedia'd it.
Armando Ianucci!

[Darth Wagtaros]

Willow. 

I watched Willow last night on youtube 

You should read the George Lucas sequel novels.

That would probably be a mistake.

Not if he decides he likes them. He could be twisted enough.

[Neil]

I watched some Swedish vampire movie with my wife.  It's shocking how inferior the Swedish people of the 80s were.  No wonder they're the stunted race that they are today.

[Korea]

Moon

I really like it.