Terminalcoffee discussion
note: This topic has been closed to new comments.
Feeling Nostalgic? The archives
>
Movies (duplicate thread)
message 1151:
by
Jackie "the Librarian"
(new)
Nov 12, 2009 10:57AM
Too bad, RA. I know your weakness now! Bwa ha ha!!!
reply
|
flag
Heidi wrote: "Hell yeah, I'm going. I can't wait to see Dakotah Fanning as the evil heartless cruel vampire, Jane...."What kind of names are these for vampires?
Edward? Jane?
Seriously lacking in scare factor.
Heh. "Hi, I'm Bob the vampire..."
That's the trouble with American vampires, isn't it? Instead of Angel or Lestat, you get Harmony. Or Bob. Hah!
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Heidi, the next movie looks pretty cool. I'd go with you, if I lived anywhere near you. :)"DOOOHH!!! We would have soooo much fun! I promise I wouldn't squeal and make loud noises (I'd just whisper them). :)
Saw Pirate Radio last night. It was long. Also funny, cute, entertaining, fluffy, and bland. It featured a whole lot of rousingly good music, some of which was made after the dates the film supposedly took place, but what are facts among friends?
The female characters were terrible, and many of the male characters were little but cliches. But inside those cliches? Some fun performances by some great actors.
I realize now that I will never see Bill Nighy again without wondering first whether he is a zombie.
Probably not worth paying for, but maybe watch it if it's on TV some time.
I dunno, KD. I kind of dug the trailer for the remake. I still think the remake is pretty unnecessary, but I get the impression the new Clash of the Titans isn't going to be as suck-tastic as I imagined it would be.
Of course it's going to suck. Just mildly, though.
Of course it's going to suck. Just mildly, though.
I'm with KD on this one. I loved the Harryhausen movies.
Mod
I would, because:
a. I love apocalypse movies
b. I love John Cusak in any/everything he does
c. The newest, latest CGI special effects make me go weak in the knees.
But I won't because we're super poor and I have 42 paper proposals to grade. But I want to hear about it from all of you who do go!
wonders if he's ever told his John Cusack police riot story here...thinks he has
Ok! Thanks for asking!Somewhere around, oh, twenty years ago I attended a Sonic Youth/Pubic Enemy concert at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. Oh, I just googled a little and found this reference under a "ten legendary concerts" list on Time Out Chicago:
3. Sonic Youth and Public Enemy Aragon Ballroom, December 29, 1990
This fantastic double bill sadly became best known for what happened afterward: An impromptu anti–Gulf War protest broke into a riot.
The concert was, in my opinion, only average...Public Enemy showed up an hour late, Sonic Youth were noisy, etc. Anyway, we walked out of the concert into a full-on riot...cops beating the crap out of protesters right on Lawrence Avenue. My friend Dan and I were trying to figure out how to walk the two blocks west to the bus stop without becoming close personal friends with a nightstick when I look up...and there's John Cusack standing next to me. I'm not kidding. I don't know what to do, you know? Say I liked his movies? Hide behind him? Anyway, I confirmed with my friend Dan that the person standing next to me in the Fishbone t-shirt was indeed John Cusack and later that week he wrote an editorial about the riot.
At the time this seemed like a normal weekend night. Only in retrospect does the experience seem slightly...wild.
So you didn't actually speak to him? tsk, tsk....Years ago my friend Kim and I were out club-hopping when who should we stumble into but Craig T. Nelson, in town for some celebrity golf tournament. We sashayed right up to him, took turns taking our pics with him (K always carries a Polaroid around with her for exactly these types of random encounters), and tried to get him to come with us. He very nicely declined but he did hang with us for a little while in the club where we were at the time.
I know, not as cool as John Cusack, but still.
Back on-topic, we watched Let The Right One In last night, pretty weird but oddly compelling. It was dubbed, of course, which always makes for a bizarre movie experience.
Mod
Sally wrote: "Who isn't > Craig T. Nelson?"Carlos Mencia.
Sally wrote: "Who isn't > Craig T. Nelson?"Pauly Shore.
everytime someone say CGI, Michael Bay comes to mind..afraid to ask but, any Almodovar fans?
Here! :)I love "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "Talk to Her", Her.
I like the one with Penelope Cruz.:)
(No, seriously, what was the one where she won all the awards and kept seeing ghosts or whatever? That one.)
Yep, I think that's the one. Thanks, Jacks.
Mod
I went to see the 2012, but all tickets were sold out!! ):
Not that I'm going to see 2012, and nor will I, because that's how fucking snobby I am, but what the FUCK is it with big-budget, CGI-riddled, disaster-and-blow-shit-up movies that run more than 150 minutes? Seriously, I can't think of any real legitimate reason why anyone would want to endure that kind of cinematic punishment for more than 2 hours.
Her, Almodovar is always welcome here.
Her, Almodovar is always welcome here.
The last 45 minutes of Transformers 2 was the most painful moviegoing experience of my life. So I'm with Gus on long CGI movies.
Jackie "the Librarian" wrote: "Here! :)I love "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" and "Talk to Her", Her."
Hello fellow fan :)
Gus wrote: "Not that I'm going to see 2012, and nor will I, because that's how fucking snobby I am, but what the FUCK is it with big-budget, CGI-riddled, disaster-and-blow-shit-up movies that run more than 150..."
but don't you, sometimes, crave watching these, disaster ..blow-shit-up flicks? I do, it's like a need.
I was leaning toward watching 2012, changed my mind though. "Broken Embraces" is coming out, and that's a well spent two hours.
Sometimes I do crave, but not at the expense of taking too much time away from me. There should be a time limit on the running time of these kinds of movies.
saw Men Who Stare At Goats with my dad on Saturday. it stunk. one of those movies where all the funniest parts are in the trailer and are still not in context with the rest of the movie
Oh, too bad, Kevin. I had that experience with "The Whole Nine Yards".
Mod
i took my dad to see it for his birthday (his movie choice) after watching him participating in a horseshoe pitching tournament (which he totally choked at and got 2nd place). right at the very end of the movie he stood up and said "well, that sucked" and walked down the aisle. yup, that's my dad
Mod
Kevin, I felt that way after Indiana Jones and the Shameless Attempt to Rake in More Dollars by Making a Lame Movie Featuring Shia LeBoeuf. I really wanted to leave after that scene where Indy survives a nuclear blast by hiding in a refrigerator. I'm done, thanks.
Sally wrote: "How about Pirate Radio? I'm rawther excited to see that one too."See 1205 for my review. I was excited about it, but it was ehhhh...not awful, just mediocre.
"Saw Pirate Radio last night. It was long. Also funny, cute, entertaining, fluffy, and bland.
It featured a whole lot of rousingly good music, some of which was made after the dates the film supposedly took place, but what are facts among friends?
The female characters were terrible, and many of the male characters were little but cliches. But inside those cliches? Some fun performances by some great actors.
I realize now that I will never see Bill Nighy again without wondering first whether he is a zombie.
Probably not worth paying for, but maybe watch it if it's on TV some time. "
Bill Nighy was the funniest thing about Love, Actually, which is a very funny film to begin with. He stole every scene he was in.
Bill Nighy is great, and he was definitely fun in Love, Actually. He was kind of wasted in this part (as in, there wasn't a lot to work with, not 'he was kind of baked').
RandomAnthony wrote: "The last 45 minutes of Transformers 2 was the most painful moviegoing experience of my life. So I'm with Gus on long CGI movies."I completely agree. I tipped sideways on the sofa and dozed off, woke up, dozed off again--and didn't miss a thing. IDK, Megan Fox may have put on some Daisy Dukes and stripper shoes and run around some more with her boobies jiggling enticingly but then again I care about that considerably less than I should.
Mod
RandomAnthony wrote: "The last 45 minutes of Transformers 2 was the most painful moviegoing experience of my life. So I'm with Gus on long CGI movies."I didn't like Transformers 2.However, I liked The Day After Tomorrow, so I hope that 2012 would be like that+mayan calendar+astrological allignments+ Nastradamus+ Hopi+ Other prophecies.
Has anyone seen
One Fast Move or I'm Gone - Kerouac's Big Sur
? I found a bit on The Allen Ginsberg Project's blog about it. Apparently, Jay Farrar of Son Volt and Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie composed and wrote the music for it, inspired by the novel Big Sur.
The trailer looked really good. I think I need to track this one down.
Here's a link to the blogspot: http://ginsbergblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Mod
Gabby81 wrote: "Watched 'The gamer' last week. Such a horrible movie though the basic concept was not so bad but poor execution. i felt arghhhhh after watching it."Terminator Salvation. my "arghhhhhhh" moment of the year.
I'm giving The Fourth Kind 2 "aaaaarrrrrghhh"s. We went to see it last night. I'm not sure if the "aaarrrrggghhhh"s are for the movie itself or for the trashy people in the theatre who talked and laughed and threw candy around the whole time.
Mod
This topic has been frozen by the moderator. No new comments can be posted.
Terminalcoffee
Books mentioned in this topic
I Am Legend (other topics)Water for Elephants (other topics)
Long Walk to Freedom (other topics)
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation (other topics)
The Thief Lord (other topics)
More...
