Movies you've recently watched

[CountDeMoney]

Watched Valkyrie.  I am a bit unsatisfied.  There is not enough on why the conspirators had to do it.  The sense of desperation was insufficient.  Not enough background.

  You're such a goof sometimes.

"Hmmm, but what's my motivation?"
"Adolph Hitler, Nazi terror, ending a war costing millions of lives?"
"I need more here."

[Josquius]

Twenty Million Miles to Earth?

Cloverfield- Surprisingly pretty good despite a slow start. Very British sci-fi.

Ey? Wozzat?

[DisturbedPervert]

Watched Valkyrie.  I am a bit unsatisfied.  There is not enough on why the conspirators had to do it.  The sense of desperation was insufficient.  Not enough background.

  You're such a goof sometimes.

"Hmmm, but what's my motivation?"
"Adolph Hitler, Nazi terror, ending a war costing millions of lives?"
"I need more here."

After all, he loves animals and is a fabulous dancer.

[Scipio]

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the silk stocking (2004).  Rupert Everett is an excellent Holmes; Ian Hart a fine Watson.  Yet this movie falls flat when compared to the Jeremy Brett series.

[Sheilbh]

Is that the Holmes and proto-Freudian version Scips?

[lustindarkness]

Snow Day, kids movie about kids and snow and teenage romance, like always the boy never sees that he's true love is right next to him all along. Oh yeah, and snow.

[Neil]

Watched Valkyrie.  I am a bit unsatisfied.  There is not enough on why the conspirators had to do it.  The sense of desperation was insufficient.  Not enough background.

  You're such a goof sometimes.

"Hmmm, but what's my motivation?"
"Adolph Hitler, Nazi terror, ending a war costing millions of lives?"
"I need more here."

Remember, Mono lives in a country that makes the Nazis look like Girl Scouts, when it comes to mass murder and terror.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

"Intentions of Murder" 1964 by Shohei Imamura... continuing to work my way through the new Imammura Criterion/Janus boxset of Imamura early films. This picture is where he really starts to get his groove going. You also cannot heap enough praise on his collaborator Shinsaku (credited as Misahasa iirc) Himeda... who was like a Japanese Gregg Toland!

The visuals are truly stunning.

It's still a very typical Japanese postwar tale of a young woman trapped by her low social class and antlike lifestyle. A dude breaks into her house, beats her up steals her savings, rapes her, then keeps dropping by for similar, eventually she tries to break free. It's a big very literate melodarama. I woke up with images from the film rattling through my brain.

8.9999999999 women who can't even move laterally in the social fabric, because the glass ceiling is that low outta 10

[Scipio]

Is that the Holmes and proto-Freudian version Scips?

Kraft-Ebbing's Psychopathia Sexualis is quoted directly.

[Syt]

I'm currently watching the remastered first season of Star Trek - TOS. I'm very positively surprised that the new special effects are kept unintrusive and actually look pretty good and blend in well with the series, and that they managed to rework the image quality to this extent.

In some ways it's like watching the series for the first time.

[Syt]

P.S.: TOS also had consistently hot chicks in almost every episode.

[Habsburg]

"Intentions of Murder" 1964 by Shohei Imamura... continuing to work my way through the new Imammura Criterion/Janus boxset of Imamura early films. This picture is where he really starts to get his groove going. You also cannot heap enough praise on his collaborator Shinsaku (credited as Misahasa iirc) Himeda... who was like a Japanese Gregg Toland!

The visuals are truly stunning.

It's still a very typical Japanese postwar tale of a young woman trapped by her low social class and antlike lifestyle. A dude breaks into her house, beats her up steals her savings, rapes her, then keeps dropping by for similar, eventually she tries to break free. It's a big very literate melodarama. I woke up with images from the film rattling through my brain.

8.9999999999 women who can't even move laterally in the social fabric, because the glass ceiling is that low outta 10

I must now see. 

[The Brain]

new special effects

[CountDeMoney]

Wanted.
Totally and completely over the top, and totally and completely entertaining.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm currently watching the remastered first season of Star Trek - TOS. I'm very positively surprised that the new special effects are kept unintrusive and actually look pretty good and blend in well with the series, and that they managed to rework the image quality to this extent.

As a TOS purist, I have to admit that I wasn't as insulted and pissed off with the remastered episodes as I expected to be.  They support, not substitute.