Movie talk

Heat Pockets

Do NOT want.

I actually just bought a single Hot Pocket from 7-Eleven cuz while I was watching that, my roommate was microwaving one and I got a craving. I'm gonna miss the roof of my mouth for awhile.

Saw Paperboy last night. Girl who suggested it thought it was gonna be a romance. DEFINITELY NOT. That shit was graphic. Interesting and somewhat entertaining, but definitely graphic.

Fano got a boner?

You see more boobs, more ass and more graphic scenes at the movies when you see them in France than anywhere else. It's the law.

I don't know much about it other than it has the same director as Shadowboxer.

My friend rented that movie a few years ago. I think it started off with a guy getting raped with a broken pool cue? Whenever it got really bad (the cue rape didn't count as really bad), she'd skip the scene and it was all over in like 10 minutes so I can only assume the other hour and a half was one long uncomfortable sex/murder scene.

Which end of the pool cue?

***Sinister spoilers, maybe***

I just watched Sinister. Pretty standard. Interesting premise, a shitload of crappy-writer-friendly plot devices immediately introduced at the beginning (one kid paints, the other kid has night terrors, and the cops generally don't like the family), shitty, unbelievable dialogue, a single decent actor, and children acting creepy in a way where you can tell that they were just shown how to act creepy a moment before the shot.

It was well shot, though. It made me a bit uneasy when I wasn't laughing. The major scares were given away in the trailer, though. Pretty disappointed.

***/spoilers***

Oh, and I figured out a lot of the "twists" pretty early in the film. Especially that last two. Really? This guy was in the movie, and he couldn't put those two together?

Yeah, pretty disappointed.

I'm gonna go see Skyfall tomorrow! Really curious to see if it really is as good as everybody says it is.

For the life of me, I've never been able to get the least bit interested in anything James Bond. I'm sure I'm missing out, but I just can't make myself care! Drew thinks it's incomprehensible that I'm like this.

I like the older movies, because they're fun, even the Sean Connery ones have that tongue in cheek-ness, to me that's an important part of a James Bond movie. They took all of that out of the latest batch of movies, in order to make them more believable, I suppose? I really can't get into Daniel Craig, either. Dude has zero charisma and he looks like a caveman.

I have never really liked James Bond, but so many good things have been said about this movie that I just have to go see it for myself.

I like Daniel Craig's Bond a lot, he is the only one I can stand. Connery's is too slow paced (I think that we only see the tongue in cheek-ness in retrospect, it wasn't really there when the films came out), Moore's is too carictural (and definitely too old in the end). Brosnan is a very good actor but the series was at its most unimaginative when he played.

I haven't seen the old movies, only those with Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. And I like Craig's better.

You and I are in full agreement. A rare occurrence.

The Brosnan films are flat, definitely. Connery's Bond is kind of a brute, but I think the wry humor was always there. One-liners, etc.

Perhaps did I not pay enough attention. I haven't seen them in a while, an some I haven't seen at all.

BTW, let me recommend once again the two OSS 117 films made by the same team that created The Artist. They are parodies of the Bond fils (rather Connery vintage) :
OSS 117 Cairo Nest of Spies

OSS 117 : Lost in Rio

***Shadowboxer spoilers***

The worst end.

Timothy Dalton's where it's at. JK. Kind of...

I've only ever seen one Bond film, I think, and a Roger Moore one at that.

I saw Safety No Guaranteed, which i liked. The ending was funny. Then i saw Bernie, which was really good too.

I saw My Week with Marilyn this week. Although Michelle Williams was well cast, the film was very mediocre. BBC Films have no reason to be so up their own ass.

I just finished watching Cowboys&Aliens and yeah it's a ridiculous concept but I loved it. I especially enjoyed Daniel Craig's character which was surprising since I'm not a big fan of watching him on screen. I would have rather watched this movie in the theater...forgot why I didn't end up going.

Jaz, that movie was so bad...

I know it was horribly awesomely bad but I enjoyed it. I should've put it in the trash film thread. I'm a sucker for Jon Favreau.

I remember after I saw Cowboys and Aliens you and I conversed about Daniel Craig's ass.

I liked it. The movie, I mean. It delivered on everything promised in the title. And that's all I wanted.

Yeah, I remember that.

YOU HAVE VERY SELECTIVE MEMORY SINCE I BELIEVE YOU SAID YOU WOULD GO WATCH IT SO YOU WOULD HAVE A MORE INFORMED OPINION ON THE SUBJECT AND GET BACK TO ME.

I think your Caps Lock button is stuck.

I really did want to watch it but I didn't get to go.

Yeah I don't really care anymore. All I remember is something about cowboys and aliens.

Cloud Atlas has gotten quite some bad reviews, hm.

Argh for god's sake, why can't they show The Master at more than one cinema in the whole of London/UK?!! I am sick of waiting!

On a positive note, I got Paris, Texas for £6 at Foyles last night. Looking forward to watching it this weekend.

I forgot all about that movie! The premiere here is January 11th. -.-

Tom Hanks has not been in a good movie in a loooong time. Castaway was when his slip started, I think.

Road to Perdition and Catch Me If You Can followed and were good, but I do agree. It's a shame, his 80s and 90s movies were AMAZING!

I never saw Road to Perdition but Catch Me If You Can was amazing! They even made a musical out of it.

I'm watching Tiny Furniture, and I can't decide if I think it's tedious and I hate it, or that I sort of like it. Confusing.

Whenever I see Michelle Williams, I think Carrie Mulligan would be so much better.
In person, the allure is palpable, on big screen it falls flat.

Carrie needs a china hutch full of Oscars.

Man, Shame was an intense movie.

Shame was pretty good,but seeing Carey Mulligan naked was kind of disappointing. The idea of her naked was so much better.

Moonrise Kingdom was cute, i really liked it. It was beautifully shot too.

i saw this german film called 'the wave'. it's interesting as a social experiment and i liked it.

from the wiki:

The high school is having a project week and Wenger discusses autocracy with his class. His students, third generation after the Second World War,[1] do not believe that a dictatorship could be established in modern Germany, so Wenger starts an experiment to demonstrate how easily the masses can be manipulated.

Two classes are chosen: Wenger's to be the autocracy group, and another to be the anarchy one. Since Wenger himself is an anarchist, he accepts his role only because the other teacher refused to switch. However, he goes into the project with enthusiasm and, as a popular teacher, has the students' full attention.

It's a pretty good film.

I've been meaning to watch that, but I haven't been in the mood for subtitles. Weak, I know.