Movies you've recently watched

[grumbler]

Watched Whale Rider.  Interesting, special little movie.

I use that in my "Culture in Conflict" class.  Still not sure whether I like it, but its one of the few films that try to show the Maori somewhat realistically. 

[CountDeMoney]

Watched Whale Rider.  Interesting, special little movie.

I use that in my "Culture in Conflict" class.  Still not sure whether I like it, but its one of the few films that try to show the Maori somewhat realistically.

Yeah, I could see why you used it for that.  It's an excellent study on cultural lost causes and change in the modern world.  Smacked of Wovoka and Sioux Ghost Dances. 
It could also fit into an course on gender studies as well.

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I didn't like the ending, though.  She should've died.  Would've been more poignant, and would've made the grandfather much more tragic.

[Ed Anger]

The Film Crew version of The Giant of Marathon. MST3K lite. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Watched the Bugs Bunny restrospective in Boston today.  Stellar.

Also, Ghostbusters is on Hulu. Yay.

[Josquius]

Sherlock Holmes - I found it pretty bleh. I was expecting quite a silly action film and it was a lot more Holmsey than I imagined which is good but still it all seemed...I dunno....dead. It just seemed wrong. The bad parts of cool and modern mixed with the bad parts of 19th century style.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Not Quite Hollywood - Dock-o I threw on the Bar-B... It's about Oz-sploitation films that were being cranked out whilst Peter Weir (who did contribute to the 'sploiting too) and Jane Campion and Bruce Beresford were turning out artsy fare. Killer cars, kangaroo boxing matches cheapie slasher films with American B-listers etc.

Very entertaining doc, only slightly annoying in the parts where Tarantino brags about how many of these films he's seen.

Old school rating for old school movie: 7.5 cars dressed up like prehistoric shark-osaurs eating people outta 10

Iron Circle - based on a film idea that Bruce Lee and James Coburn came up with. Stars Martial arts forgotten hero Jeff Parker and Mr. almost white acceptable version of Bruce Lee himself the asphyxiation poster boy David Carradine. Carradine has fun with several roles, being cheeky and kicking ass with his giant flute. You have to wait til the end for Christopher Lee, and it's almost worth it. fun little cheesefest this movie.

old school rating: 7.5 crucified prostitutes outta 10

Dillinger by John Fucking Milius. Starring Warren Fucking Oates. This is the film Michael Mann should have tried to emulate more when he was making Public Enemies. Same story, with less charming dialogue and a wayy lower budget, but much more heart, and in the end more kick ass gunfights. Oates is the Dillinger's Dillinger. Some great bits by Richard Dreyfus as Babyface Nelson, Ben Jonson is staggering as Melvin Purvis.

9.333 guns made outta soap outta 10

Pandorum. Dennis Quaid and a few other people wake up from stasis after travelling for a long time in space. bad stuff happens, scary bad stuff. Eventually it ends better than BSG. I'm glib, but I enjoyed it for what it was, a scary not very ambitious, but scary movie.

7.0 mutant road warrior rejects trying to eat your brains outta 10

[garbon]

Valentine's Day

About what one would expect.

LA

[Scipio]

Axis of Evil Comedy Tour.  Excellent.  Also, contains an improvement on feather indian vs. dot indian: casino indian vs. computer indian.

[Savonarola]

Babes in Arms (1939)

This is the other 1939 film with Judy Garland and Margaret Hamilton; it even has a Munchkin (Mickey Rooney) in it for good measure.  Mickey is the son of an old vaudevillian as sound movies have come in and vaudeville has fallen out of favor.  The old guard tries to go out again on and put on a revival show, but refuse to take their children with them, or to listen to the next generations ideas.  As they leave the Wicked Witch of the West tries to have the children taken from their homes and sent to work school.  In order to stay with their parents Mickey and his pals put on a Minstrel Show.

Really, that was their plan.  Mickey, Judy and all the kids in the neighborhood put on blackface, tell jokes and sing minstrel songs.  Oh the do-dah-day.

The film was directed by Busby Berkely, but he had a much smaller budget than usual since MGM put so much money into The Wizard of Oz.  The song and dance numbers are toned down quite a bit from the usual Berkely numbers.

[Barrister]

My wife and I went to see Wolfman last night for Valentine's day.  What can I say, my wife prefers a good scary movie to a chick flick like Valentine's Day.   

Except I had sliced my finger open cooking supper, had bound it up with some paper towel and a rubber band.  We stopped by the drug store to get me a bandage just before the movie, but upon removing the rubber band it again started bleeding profusely.  So we went home to tend to my injuries.   

Where we watched some movie on DVD that my wife had bought for $4.99 called The Invisible - it looked like an low-budget American film filmed in Vancouver.  Hard to explain without spoilers: not terrible but not great, tried to hit some really big themes but somewhat missed for me.

[Duque de Bragança]

Metropolis

Director's cut (nearly).

Since I hadn't watched the previous version, it was like discovering the movie again.
I must say I wonder how they could cut the film so badly
The reinstated scenes were quite in a rough shape but that doesn't matter.

[Josquius]

Night on Earth- Odd film. 5 stories in taxis from around the world. The second one in NYC was entertaining. But then on the 3rd they started speaking French and there were no subtitles. Bleh.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Law Abiding Citizen. Completely ludicrous, but highly entertaining cheesefest, with Gerard Butler as a sociopath with the patience of Job. Jamie Foxx is an earnest and completely self absorbed ADA who has no idea he's a giant douchebag. Butler teaches him some lessons. Stuff blows up real good in this movie. real good.

Nice supporting turn from the guy who played D-Day in Animal House.

Combo new/old school rating system 7.5 outta 10

[Barrister]

Law Abiding Citizen. Completely ludicrous, but highly entertaining cheesefest, with Gerard Butler as a sociopath with the patience of Job. Jamie Foxx is an earnest and completely self absorbed ADA who has no idea he's a giant douchebag. Butler teaches him some lessons. Stuff blows up real good in this movie. real good.

Nice supporting turn from the guy who played D-Day in Animal House.

Combo new/old school rating system 7.5 outta 10

I tried to enjoy it as a cheesefest, but I just couldn't get around the fact that prosecutor's DON'T CARRY GUNS and DON'T RUN AROUND INVESTIGATING CRIME SCENES!

[Tonitrus]

Law Abiding Citizen. Completely ludicrous, but highly entertaining cheesefest, with Gerard Butler as a sociopath with the patience of Job. Jamie Foxx is an earnest and completely self absorbed ADA who has no idea he's a giant douchebag. Butler teaches him some lessons. Stuff blows up real good in this movie. real good.

Nice supporting turn from the guy who played D-Day in Animal House.

Combo new/old school rating system 7.5 outta 10

I tried to enjoy it as a cheesefest, but I just couldn't get around the fact that prosecutor's DON'T CARRY GUNS and DON'T RUN AROUND INVESTIGATING CRIME SCENES!

I sense deep-felt envy.