Movie talk
I like their song Girl's Not Grey.
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Julia's thesis is in the can.
GO JO!
Synopsis
In Depression Era Mississippi, SKINNY JO is a fiercely independent young woman who’s out to take care of her family, and nothing will stop her. She sells stolen goods for the money needed to buy marijuana from TOMBI, the Choctaw medicine man, in order to treat her mother’s epilepsy. Along the way she runs into BILLY, a former beau-turned-bootlegger, who she eventually must appeal to for help.
The one scene in 500 days of summer where it compares expectations and reality is much for me. I can't remember reality ever living up to my expectations.
I think I'm the only one who thought that movie was stupid.
WHAT! I love that movie.
I watched 21 Jump Street last night. Thought I would hate it, absolutely didn't. It was fun!
I like it but hate it at the same time, some stuff in it makes me cringe! But then again, it's also really lovely. Torn.
I think he was a fool because I hate it when I see my faults in others.
We watched Dear Zachary last night and it was really moving. Canada sucks.
we watched sky fall last night and it was a bit blah. javier bardem was awesome ugly though.
My girlfriend hates it too, it's a point of argument between us.
I watched Bellflower last night and that movie is something else. I'm still not sure about it and i'll have to watch it again.
My girlfriend hates it too, it's a point of argument between us.
I watched Bellflower last night and that movie is something else. I'm still not sure about it and i'll have to watch it again.
I enjoyed that movie. It's not the best but it has something about it...It actually reminded me of you when I watched it.
Hmm interesting. I definitely liked the movie, i just want to see it again.
Agreed. A lot of it was cool, but... the dialogue just wasn't clever enough. There were tons of plot holes and some bad editing that made some of it a bit confusing at first. For instance...
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... when he took out the bullet fragments and had them analyzed, we were all 'What the fuck? Didn't the freakin' girl shoot him? Why would that lead to some assassin?' I noticed a lot of people were giving off confused sounds in the audience, so we weren't alone. I let it go in hopes of that being explained later (like Bond knew something we didn't) but that never happened. It wasn't 'til later that we remembered he was shot before that in some small scene and we were like "Oooooh, okay. But now we can ask why the fuck a super assassin would use such a fucking rare kind of bullet?" I mean, I realize this is James Bond, but this is gritty James Bond.
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Si vis pacem, para bellum
Oh man, I loved that documentary. It sure took some unexpected turns. I might have teared up.
I downloaded it, but still haven't watched it!
It'll make you cry. It was really, really good.
I'll try to watch it this weekend then! 
I'm in a Christmas film mood!
Flight was good, if you can ignore the fact that it's a giant PSA.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
PSA = Papaya Scented Airplane
friends and i are gonna watch skyfall this weekend. i hope it's good.
= Vomit Scented Airplane
There are 107 post for me to catch up on
So I wont.
But last night my friends and I spent the night talking about The Land Before Time, Milo and Otis, and Snoopy. And how they affected our childhoods and how the different characters represented different things to us then and now.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
On Sunday, I watched:
The Warriors
New Jersey Drive
A Bronx Tale
The Expendables 2
Die Hard
All of which were awesome. I'm surprised to see New Jersey Drive is only rated 6.5 on IMDB. The actors are mostly nobodies, and the story is told in such a way that a lot of scenes aren't relevant to the overall plot, but it isn't at all a plot driven movie, more a portrait of a place and time. As such it should be judged, and a lot of people from that place and time agree with the movie's depiction of it. It deserves a 7.0 because a 6.5 on IMDB just looks ugly.
The Warriors is like getting hit with a 2x4 that secretes liquid kickass when it breaks open on your face. Today, every tough guy in a movie is actually a pampered Hollywood type with a personal trainer, a guy who is at his toughest in a temperature controlled gym doing one last set before heading into the sauna to loosen up for his massage. These guys in The Warriors are tall, skinny, starved looking coyote type motherfuckers, and even though one Dwayne Johnson would probably beat up everybody in this movie, it's great seeing them fight with beer bottles and chains and baseball bats, all over a dystopian backdrop; this is how bad guys looked in Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, old Spiderman comics, 80s action movies. I dig.
A Bronx Tale is the best of the five movies I watched. It's about a boy who is torn between two father figures: one is played by Robert Deniro who directs the movie; he plays a bus driver who values working class tradition and is the boy's natural father; the other father figure is a mafia boss played by Chazz Palminteri, who wrote the script. So while Deniro and Palminteri portray fathers to a boy, they're also both fathers of the film.
There's real wisdom in this movie. I remember seeing it as a kid and could never remember what it was called, but a scene stuck with me. The kid is about to go on his first date and the mafia guy lends him his car and tells him about a 'test'. He says to lock his own door, go around the car to open the door for his date, and then walk back around to his own door. If she doesn't reach over to unlock his door, dump her: she's a selfish broad and you're only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
That's the mafia guy's advice on a first date. It always seemed extreme to me. The working man's advice is this, spoken with all the sincerity of Robert Deniro: Sometimes in the heat of passion, the little head tells the big head what to do, and the big head should think twice about what you are doing.
The Expendables 2 was just my kind of ridiculous. Infinite bad guys, Jean Claude as villain, Arnold and Bruce Willis in a smart car, Chuck Norris saying a Chuck Norris joke and being OP.
Die Hard, of course, is the best Christmas movie ever. You should have heard your brother scream when I broke his fucking neck.
I rewatched A Bronx Tale recently, too. It really is a pretty great film. Also, that casting... C looks exactly like you'd imagine Robert DeNiro's kid to look. I think that guy is in jail now. Too bad.
The Hobbit: Part One opens this week. These are in Bucharest:
University Square
Largest shopping mall
Other shopping mall
You mean next month? 
Me and Pål Martin want to go see it when we are in The Netherlands, but I haven't figured out yet how to buy the tickets.
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I'm way excited about watching it by the way. If it's as beautiful as the LotR movies, I'll be happy.
Oh, you're right. Bummer 
I somehow lived under the impression that it's December already, although some trees are still green, but a few stores already have their winter decorations on display.
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.
This was an after school special from the 80s.
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.
This was an after school special from the 80s (same name and everything).
This scene stuck with me for a long time (though it doesn't hold up with automatic locks).
I want to see The Warriors
Watching Amelie, again.
But I kinda like this creepier version, too.
I watched Teeth and it was weird and funny and I'll probably watch it again. It had that creepy kid with the fluffy eyebrows from Nip/Tuck.
That movie is one of those really horrible yet entertaining movies.
God! That movie is terrible, terrible TERRIBLE!!!! I mean it was good. But never EVER again!!!
There are some things you just don't joke about.
I want to see The Warriors
I have that movie. Been a while since I watched it but it was really good.
I never understood the hype around it.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
It's just a fun movie. That's it. There's nothing to understand. Can you dig it?
I just watched Cabin in the Woods. It was not scary at all. Interesting, but not scary.
Now I am watching Thor. It's a Chris Hemsworth kind of week.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
Then I don't understand what's fun about it.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Just found out PJ Harvey is not in my friend's movie. Its PJ Marshall. That was a huge typo, and they are actually hiding the promos from the actor until its corrected!
whoops!!
Then I don't understand what's fun about it.
have you been to New York? It's infinitely more fun if you have.
I am not going to lie. I hooked up with a girl with that movie on in the background.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
Noah, you've balls of steel.
Anyone here seen Killing Them Softly? I'll probably go see it at the movies tomorrow, because it seems to be an okay movie and yay for Brad Pitt.
I just saw Brad Pitt in a Chanel no 5 commercial. Weird.
Let's not go there. I can't believe how freaked out people were about that.
I didn't hear anything about it before I saw the commercial the other night. It was sad.
insert Tuffy's 'BOO YOU WHORE' sign
Not yet, but I'm a huge fan of George V. Higgins, the author of the book (titled Coogan's Trade). Best dialogue ever.
My friend, Julia, finsihed her thesis for AFI! wOOt!!
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I think PJ Harvey is in it.