Movies you've recently watched

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Subway (Luc Besson) Christopher Lambert is a weirdo blackmailer with a surreal sense of time, and place. He screws with the cops and Isabel Adjani. Lots of running around the subway meeting weird people who do weird things, but really not quite weird enough. Dated Eric Serra soundtrack is a bit too Mann-ish at times. I may have actually seen this when I was younger, but didn't recall it.

One of those movies where not much really happens. Mildly entertaining.

5.5 bodybuilders living in the Paris sewers outta 10

[Admiral Yi]

My understanding is that Yi is making a jab at it being good for TV, but not making the cut quality-wise to make it to the cinemas.

More the scale and scope than the quality.

[Duque de Bragança]

Subway (Luc Besson) Christopher Lambert is a weirdo blackmailer with a surreal sense of time, and place. He screws with the cops and Isabel Adjani. Lots of running around the subway meeting weird people who do weird things, but really not quite weird enough. Dated Eric Serra soundtrack is a bit too Mann-ish at times. I may have actually seen this when I was younger, but didn't recall it.

One of those movies where not much really happens. Mildly entertaining.

5.5 bodybuilders living in the Paris sewers outta 10

Adjani et Christophe(r) Lambert...
Loved it when I was a kid but I am afraid it is now too '80s-dated. Skating at Charles de Gaulle Etoile métro/RER ftw!

[Scipio]

BBC/Masterpiece Theatre's The 39 Steps.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282016/

Appallingly bad script.  Cheesy acting.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

BBC/Masterpiece Theatre's The 39 Steps.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282016/

Appallingly bad script.  Cheesy acting.

I tried to watch a few minutes of that, but the Ghost of Alfred Hitchcock was sitting next to me retching and coughing so I changed the channel.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Heaven (dir. by Tom Tykwer) I always spell his name wrong. Is it right here?

Anyways I'd always not watched this despite really enjoying most of Tykwer's output, had a bad vibe from the box... makes it look like more of a chase movie than it is.

Well It definitely has it's moments, but ultimately is another less satisfying take on the coincidental meeting of a man and a woman fated to be together, at least sort of. No big stunning moments in this one... but a nice flow, movie goes by quickly, and it was well OK. Not as bad as The International - but not even close to either Lola Rennt, or Princess/Warrior, in terms of gravity.

worth a rental, but not much more. (especially if you like scenes of small Italian towns, countryside.)

6.0001 Accidental mass murderers outta 10

[Savonarola]

The Abominable Snowman (1957)

Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing (he was still only a Petit-Moff at this stage in his career) go searching for the Yeti in this mediocre Hammer film.  Tucker and Cushing do a great job as adventurers with opposite points of view (businessman versus scientist) but the rest of the cast is forgettable.  The Yeti only appear as footprints and shadows until the very end; a wise decision considering the costume is awful.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Triangle - very decent thriller about a gal who joins some acquaintances on a sailboat. Things get very weird when the wind disappears and then there's a storm.... and a cruise ship comes by, and they get on it. Some good twists, and mindfucks.

new skool rating = 

[Scipio]

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/03/03/hurt-locker-law-suit/

Wow.  What a fucking tragedy.

Geoffrey Fieger is the best attorney he can get?  Unfuckingbelievable.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Red Without Blue - doc about a pair of gay twins from Montana. One gets a sex change. Interesting but really disjointed in the editing. Everyone in the family seems (except for the Dad) to change their look constantly, so it gets difficult to get context as the sense of time is very weird. One conversation over 3 years it seems as one of the profiled twins plays with his facial hair more than I do. Mid sentence, he looks like a different guy, almost.

bad editing, continuity, but a very  interesting story, and pretty real seeming. As everyone ends up with points of view on the trans aspect, that they thought they'd never have.

6.232 it could have been betters outta 10

[Savonarola]

Beau Geste (1939)

I am Sergeant Markoff. I make soldiers out of scum like you, and I don't do it gently. You're the sloppiest looking lot I've ever seen. It's up to me to prevent you from becoming a disgrace to the Regiment. And I will prevent that if I have to kill half of you with work. But the half that lives will be soldiers. I promise you!

Simply marvelous adventure yarn with Gary Cooper in the titular role, but Brian Donlevy as the sadistic Sergeant Markoff steals the show.

[Josquius]

I've just watched the first series of Mad Men.
Wow.
This is damn good stuff.
Everything about it sounds shit yet you watch it and...Great.

[The Brain]

I've just watched the first series of Mad Men.
Wow.
This is damn good stuff.
Everything about it sounds shit yet you watch it and...Great.

Occasionally it will lose focus but stick with it.

[The Brain]

Amadeus. Again. It's a great movie. Salieri FTW.

[Alexandru H.]

Agora.

Really gay and stupid. The anti-Christian message of the day: you've killed the only ancient person that discovered how the universe works. Oh, and she was also a woman...