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[Korea]

Riff trax live:Ed Wood's Plan from Outer Space

Fucking amazing.

[Eddie Teach]

Cocktail. Meh.

[Zoupa]

District 9, not bad. 7/10

The Goods, sucked balls. 4/10

[barkdreg]

Crank. Hitman get's poisened and and wants revenge. Sort of like speed but with a hitman instead of a bus.
Non stop action, some real fun parts and Jason Statham. Great movie.

A scanner darkly. Phlip K. Dick movie. Think I liked it. Story is wierd, the animation even wierder.
I think it's one of those movies you have to see a second time.

[Ed Anger]

They are re-doing Outland. MOTHERFUCKING TIM-LIKE THINKING.

i fucking hate everybody.

[CountDeMoney]

Saw Inglorious Basterds today.  Oh man, what a hoot. So tre' Tarantino.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

They are re-doing Outland. MOTHERFUCKING TIM-LIKE THINKING.

i fucking hate everybody.

:sigh: that's just sad.

[barkdreg]

Letters from Iwo Jima.

Good. Japanese are crazy.

[Habbaku]

Saw Inglorious Basterds today.  Oh man, what a hoot. So tre' Tarantino.

Saw it tonight.  I'm willing to stretch and say it's his best movie yet.  I quite enjoyed it.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Watched some more of that first SNL season... some awesome music from Betty Carter & Patty Smith, some cool sketches, some stinkers, Ron Nessen (duller than you remember) songs from Phoebe Snow... Bad "welcome Back Kotter" non-singalong from John Sebastian.

Overall thumbsup.

7.34 Joe Cocker impressions from Belushi making Raquel Welch's singing almost bearable outta 10

[The Brain]

Rewatched Fyra nyanser av brunt (Four shades of brown), a 2004 movie/miniseries by Swedish humor/drama collective Killinggänget. Like much of their stuff it's absolutely brilliant, world class.

I realize that it is unlikely but if any of you guys want to see good shit check it out, it's available on region-free DVD with English subtitles. Strongly recommended, if my word counts for anything around here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342636/

[Josephus]

I saw the movie Che, Parts One and Two recently.
I was looking forward to this one, but was left a bit disappointed by the whole ordeal. (And an ordeal it was....though maybe that's the point of the film we are left with.).
The detail and accuracies of this movie are amazing. As some of you might expect, I have read all the Che books. Fidel's accent and gesticulations are spot on. Che's mannerisms, his habit of saying "Che" in his sentences that gave him his nickname, his later disguises are 100 per cent accurate.
But as a narrative, I found, it felt a bit flat.
The problem with the movie is it neither glamourizes nor demonizes the man. It lacks focus. It lacks a setting.
Part One is all about the Cuban revolution. The movie doesn't get into Che's background. We don't know why the Argentine was meeting clandestinely with Fidel in Mexico City. We don't know his motivation for joining a  group of ragtag rebels.
What follows then is two hours of a group of green fatigued men wandering around the jungle like Jews in the desert.  It doesn't show how Che had to prove himself as a fighter. How he led brave attacks on Batista's barracks. Che's heroic moments in the battle of Santa Clara are a confused jumble of scenes jumping from Santa Clara to Havana. We are left to wonder why the attack on the arms train turned the tide of battle. [By "we" I mean people who don't know anything about Che and Cuba, other than he made a good poster] Although the Santa Clara battle does have the best urban battle scene of the whole movie.
Then Batista leaves, Fidel drives to Havana and Part One is over.
Nothing is shown of the aftermath of the revolution. As far as the movie is concerned, Che did not garrison himself in a Havana prison and execute Batista loyalists.
Part Two begins with Che, in disguise, heading off to Bolivia.
We do not know that Che was made Minister of Industries and Head of the Bank. We do not see his disillusionment with being a politician. We do not see how he cajoled Fidel into joining the Soviet bloc.
We do not see how he already failed in another armed struggle in Congo before heading off to Bolivia, a terrible mistake that cost him his life.
The second part is more or less like the first part, except now we're running around the jungle of Boliva instead, and Che is losing his battles both with the government and with the peasants whose loyalties are not with this ragtag group of foreigners. Even the Bolivian Communists refuse to support him.
Che is killed.
The end.
I was really hoping for more.
Three  mohitos out of five.

[Eddie Teach]

Rewatched Fyra nyanser av brunt (Four shades of brown), a 2004 movie/miniseries by Swedish humor/drama collective Killinggänget. Like much of their stuff it's absolutely brilliant, world class.

I realize that it is unlikely but if any of you guys want to see good shit check it out, it's available on region-free DVD with English subtitles. Strongly recommended, if my word counts for anything around here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342636/

I would, but I'm afraid of subtitles. 

[Savonarola]

Prince of Space (1959)

Aliens invade earth by way of Japan!  Only The Prince of Space (with the help of several annoying Japanese children) can save us!  Originally this was a serial that was spliced and edited into a movie for the US market.  This makes the movie bizarrely repetitive.  For instance at one point The Phantom Dictator of Kankor flies off to space with The Prince of Space in hot pursuit.  The Kankorians unleash a caustic fog which blind Prince of Space and send him hurtling into a meteor field.  Fifteen minutes later the same thing happens again.  Likewise the Prince of Space repeats some variation of "Your weapons are powerless against me" every five minutes.

[saskganesh]

They are re-doing Outland. MOTHERFUCKING TIM-LIKE THINKING.

i fucking hate everybody.

and Outland is a remake of High Noon. They should put this story in a fresh genre this time.