Movies you've recently watched

[Cerr]

I saw Public Enemies last night. It was a decent enough flick.
My biggest problem with it was the look of the movie (the director used digital video rather than film). I found it sort of off putting especially as the film is set in the past (the 1930s). It was a weird uncanny valley kind of effect. Maybe I'm just used to seeing period pieces shot on normal film.
I didn't have a problem with Collateral's look and that was shot on the same digital video, but I saw that on DVD and it was set in the present.

[CountDeMoney]

I saw Public Enemies last night. It was a decent enough flick.
My biggest problem with it was the look of the movie (the director used digital video rather than film). I found it sort of off putting especially as the film is set in the past (the 1930s). It was a weird uncanny valley kind of effect. Maybe I'm just used to seeing period pieces shot on normal film.
I didn't have a problem with Collateral's look and that was shot on the same digital video, but I saw that on DVD and it was set in the present.

Video looks better for night shots to capture all the black hues, which is why it worked in Collateral.  I don't understand why he did it for Public Enemies, though.

[Ed Anger]

Public Enemy-

Johnny Depp as John Dillinger directed by michael mann
I like the parties involved but just couldn't get into this movie.

I'd like Johnny Depp to drop dead. or fall into a woodchipper.

those are fighting words.
Johnny still ranks as the nicest actor i've met.

He comes across as a douchebag.

[The Brain]

katmai = star-struck

[Neil]

To Live.  Zhang Yimou and Gong Li combine to make a fantastically devastating movie, on par with the greatest films on the Holocaust.  Wish there was a Russian equivalent that wasn't set in the 16th Century.

Gong Li is one of the few Asian women on the planet that is actually attractive.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Is First Blood really undervalued?  I thought it was regarded almost universally as a very good film?

Only to those who were actually alive when it was in theaters and saw it then.

The younger generations are trash anyhow.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Awesome Timmay. You've just earned the first "point" of New Languish. You have a Kharma Chameleon, choose your reincarnation for your next lifetime.

[The Brain]

Event Horizon

It is what it is. I've seen worse. I was in the mood for some SF.

[Admiral Yi]

First Blood is indeed a genuinely good movie.  And very different in tone from the movies that followed.

Very similar to the Rocky series.

[Admiral Yi]

The Kite Runner.  Excellent.  I was glued to the screen the whole time.

[Syt]

The Kite Runner.  Excellent.  I was glued to the screen the whole time.

I liked it and thought it was pretty faithful to the book, even though leaving out a few scenes. The book elaborates more on the father's inability to adjust to life in the U.S. Check it out if you have the opportunity.

[Admiral Yi]

I liked it and thought it was pretty faithful to the book, even though leaving out a few scenes. The book elaborates more on the father's inability to adjust to life in the U.S. Check it out if you have the opportunity.

Yup.  Thinking the same thing.  It should be available in paperback, nyet?

[Syt]

It should be available in paperback, nyet?

My copy was paperback.

[Eddie Teach]

I just saw a depressing movie loosely based on the Valerie Plame incident, Nothing But the Truth. It starred Kate Beckinsale as a reporter whose life went to pot because she wouldn't give up a source.

[katmai]

katmai = star-struck

Nah met a bunch of other actors so that isn't it, sure no of them are dolph lundgren but...

[katmai]

Video looks better for night shots to capture all the black hues, which is why it worked in Collateral.  I don't understand why he did it for Public Enemies, though.

Mann has had a hard on since Collaterall for HD