Movie talk

Was it wizard?

The Grey is niggling me still. there's something about it that I just don't know. I might have to see it again.

It's a metaphor for death.

I think I might go watch The Secret World of Arrietty tonight.

I've only been watching about half hour of it, but it's been pretty interesting. Anyone else see it?

What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. Producer Ridley Scott and Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald took this raw material — all shot on July 24, 2010 — and created Life in a Day, a groundbreaking, feature-length documentary that portrays this kaleidoscope of images we call life. National Geographic is bringing it to theaters starting July 24, 2011. Prepare to be amazed.

This looks so cool!

I watched a bunch of movies the other day. Did I mention them already? I can't remember.

Hangover 2 - Funny. Funnier than I thought it would be.
Mama's Boy - Good. Funny.
Shutter Island - Didn't like it. Couldn't cope with a mindfuck movie.
X Files Movie - Ok, Billy Connolly was the best thing about it. It must have been a while since I've seen anything X Files because I was surprised that Mulder and Scully were together.
Just Go With It - Meh. Ok.
The Help - Chick Flick. I enjoyed it.

I thought the Hangover 2 was so dark and kind of depressing!
Just Go Wih It - in the cinema by boyfriend was howling with laughter at the bit where the guy picks up a coconut with his bum cheeks. I've never seen someone laugh so much as something so stupid! It made me laugh in turn because it was so ridiculous.

We recently watched all the paradise lost documentaries and I still can't stop thinking about it all. Mental. I can't say m 100% sure they didn't do it but I mostly believe they're innocent. Mostly...

How much better would Hangover 2 have been if instead of just re-doing the first one in Thailand, they had the unfamous friend and the brother also with them, and they woke up separated from each other, like 2 in one group and 3 in the other, and had to try to find where the other group was and there were comical moments where they just missed each other. And also a lot less tranny rape.

Oh yeah, the tranny "jokes" were a bit overdone.

I had really low expectations of the movie, but it did make me laugh a few times.

For the past few weeks I've had the songs from Sweeney Todd stuck in my head, mostly due to a friend who goes to school far away from me was in it. So I rented and watched the Tim Burton movie.

I watched Megan is Missing earlier and I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting it to be what it turned out to be.

I just watched Exit Through the Gift Shop. It was a very good watch. That guy Mr Brain Wash is just so unaware and nuts.

That was a good movie. I last watched The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Now those were some drugged up hillbillies.

We watched that a couple of weeks ago! Next up in documentaries about crazy ass creepy families is Brother's Keeper. Have you seen that? I think we'll watch it some time this weekend.

Fuck yeah! I love that documentary. I've seen it a ton of times.

Is it just me, or does Jesco White sound just like Hank Hill from King of the Hill?

I hate country, but I really dig the intro song - Straight to Hell by Hank Williams III. But then I think I just like Hank Williams III's music:

Don't ever give Jesco sloppy eggs!

Haha, Drew's been reciting that...uh...soliloquy...when I make eggs for breakfast lately.

I have ALL of Hank III's music! If you ever have a chance to go to one of his concerts, I HIGHLY recommend it.

He was here recently, but I couldn't make it to the show. I forget why - if I had plans or what. I was disappointed though, I really wanted to go!

That Whites one was a really good documentary about a real shitty family. There's nothing wonderful about them at all.

Yeah, it's in NY...is the nephew weird?

About as weird as anyone else. I found out he was the nephew because I talked about this movie with a group of people after I watched it on IFC. I was in the middle of saying how screwed up these guys were when he excitedly blurted out, "Oh ,those are my uncles!" I think I would've kept quiet about that.

And I think mental illness does run in the family.

Ha Pete. I liked that HWIII song too. I wish I could dance like Jesco.

Wasn't much else to do tonight so I decided to watch Can't Stop, that Conan O'Brien doc about when he was off the air and went on tour. The guy works hard to put on a good show, but Geez, he really came across as an asshole hypocrite. They had a bunch of behind the scenes stuff, and he'd put on his TV face to do all these meet and greet things with fans and smile, take pictures and sign autographs, but as soon as they left, he went into this shithead mode of "Why the fuck am I talking to all these people I don't even know." "Oh yes, let me meet the 37 members of your family!" just pure jackassery.

It was so bad, at first I thought he was just kidding, but it just kept going on and on and on, at every city and stop he made. him complaining about having to do all sorts of shit he had agreed to do. That it quickly became obvious this was not some "bit" but just the kind of whiny bitch he really is. I've completely lost all respect for the guy after watching this.

Oh, and did I mention they had a lot of behind the scenes stuff? Because that was ALL they had. there was probably a total of 12 minutes of his actual show in a hour and a half movie.
To reiterate, fuck Conan O'Brien.

I'm watching 1984. Poor Winston.

Is it bad that the only thing I really remember from that movie is the one chick's bush? It feels bad that's that's the only thing.

The old nasty prostitute or Julia? They both show big bushes. Julia has hairy armpits, too, which is a little distracting.

This movie makes me want to read the book for the 87 millionth time.

I'm guessing Julia. I don't remember the old prostitute scene or I've blotted it from my memory.

I want to see The Hunger Games and no I don't really care if the author stole the premise from Battle Royale.

It could be a really good book/movie for all I know. What I do know however is that whenever something just seems to appear out of nowhere with all sorts of hype around it as The Next Big Thing, and I don't see it having any past roots in success, that smells awful fishy to me as the marketing engine kicking in to high gear. Fuck that noise and everything associated with it.

I would think that it appeared out of nowhere because you're probably not that up on your teen literature. That's how I feel at least, and I do really want to see it. That girl was surprisingly good in XMen First Class, even if everyone was over shadowed by Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy being awesome and dreamy.

I just watched Factory Girl. I really liked it. Sienna Miller does hot naked mess very well.

*** puts Factory Girl in movie queue***

Has anyone seen a movie called Russian Ark? If so, thoughts and opinions plz.

great goddess you are a sight to stare at for long periods of time inbetween reading your beautiful words. sorry.

i had to say it.

What, who me or that Sienna Miller chick?

who kares? maybe that alex paul woman.

I care. That is why I asked.

nathaniel parker: i appreciate you more than you know. when everyone else was goin, "where's six" i was like, yeah where is she, but siriusly, WHERE IN GoDS GREEN EARTH IS MYStER PARKER!

Awesome, another one of these today ^ Yay!

After that movie I thought he quite an arsehole. Interesting, but an arsehole.

I like how it kind of linked to Exit through the Gift Shop which I'd just watched too.

You should watch A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory. It's a documentary on Danny Williams who seems to have been another casualty. It's really interesting and is directed by a relative of Danny Williams.

Here's the trailer http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1995440921/

Am I the only one who finds this lumbdonitch to be a poor man's Hopi?

I kinda liked hopi