What have you watched lately?

[Ran]

No one will care other than anarky, but Zorro, The Gay Blade was on Fox Movie Channel tonight.

[Diabolical]

No one will care other than anarky, but Zorro, The Gay Blade was on Fox Movie Channel tonight.

Its been on tv quite a bit lately.

[anarky]

Really? The rest of you bastards should watch it. Funny movie.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

We watched 2001: A Space Odyssey in my film class as our last movie today. It had some amazing moments (the sequences accompanied by the booming score) but I nearly fell asleep due to occasional boringness and just being tired on my part. Then the goddamn fucking alarms and repeating, annoying sounds like Dave's breathing got under my skin really quick. And I thought it was pretty interesting about technology's role in both the creation and destruction of man, but then Dave goes all LSD-y and turns into a floating fetus and I had no idea what the fuck was going on.

[anarky]

2010 is a much better movie, as far as sheer viewing enjoyment goes. 2001 is all artsy-fartsy. It's great for what it is, but it's not an especially interesting watch.

[vynsane]

it's an interesting take on the repetitiveness and isolation of space travel with the added bonus of a deranged robot, but then it goes batshit insane at the end. even people tripping on acid go 'dude, enough already'.

[Rollo Tomassi]

HAL is great movie villain. The rest of the movie is meh. I enjoyed 2010 immensely when I first saw it, having never seen 2001 first ( I was 10 when it came out). The Cold War aspect of it is what woke me up to what was going on in the real world at the time.


I watched M. Night Shamalamadingdong's The Village last night. I had avoided it since it came out in theatres on account of I figured out the twist from watching the trailer. But, I was in the mood to watch something I had never seen before. Interesting movie, with a wonderful cast. And knowing the twist actually makes everyones performances better.

[Ran]

For me, 2001 was like Dune because I had to watch them both 4 times before I made it all the way through without falling asleep.

[Rollo Tomassi]

The only Dune I've seen is the mini series on Sci-Fi (?). I bought the DVD cheap.

[anarky]

The Village was the first one I went into knowing there'd be a twist, and consciously watched for it. I picked up on it about 5-10 minutes in, when someone made a comment that simply wouldn't have been made in the 17th century.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

Today in class my film professor was giving his take on it. According to him, it showed how people don't know the difference between tools and weapons and often use the former as the latter, and how nothing really, truly changed between the monkeys and 2001. He also said it was about the evolution of man, from the "dawn of man" up to Dave and beyond. He said that humans were ready for the next stage of evolution once they found the second monolith buried on the moon (as the first had been given to them). He said that Dave proved himself to the aliens (or whatever put the monoliths there) to be worthy of going to the next level of evolution when he defeated HAL. Thus the acid-freak-out "star gate" sequence and his visit to another planet (that looked curiously like Earth with the colors fucked up). Then they put him in that room to wait out the rest of his existence until it was time to change. He saw himself at different ages because of the weird bending cyclical time shit going on in space (or whatever). Then the monolith allowed him (or taught him) how to go to the next level, which is apparently a floating fetus. Huh. I guess that explanation is as good as any.

[anarky]

Saw a flick last night called "But I'm a Cheerleader," about Natasha Lyon being sent to a rehab camp for young gays and lesbians. It was sorta a "nothing's on, I want to watch an actual movie, and I'm too lazy to pick a DVD" thing, but it wasn't bad. Not great--there were some pretty serious flaws, most notably the lack of any resolution for all but two of the characters--but I didn't feel like I'd entirely wasted 90 minutes. It was more fun visually (both for the quirky set and costume designs and for the scenes of girls making out) than as an actual story, and the music wasn't bad (mostly soundalikes of the Pixies and Belly).

I'm really wanting to see Last Man Standing again, after reading Red Harvest. It's been a while, and I'm not sure how closely it follows the story.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Watched The Wrestler. Everyone's touting this as Mickey Rourke's big Oscar winner. I wouldn't go that far, but he does lay on a good performance. My only issue is that it seems like Rourke is just playing himself ( a rugged looking burnout past his prime "wrestler" (wrestler meaning actor) looking to make a comeback) so it's not so much an acting gig as it is autobiographical therapy. As it is, after awhile you forget you are watching Rourke because he IS the Randy "The Ram.

Oh, and Marisa Tomei shows her tits throughout. She plays a stripper that Rourke's character has a thing for. Damn, for being 44, she's got a kickin' bod. Cougar for sho'

[Diabolical]

Oh, and Marisa Tomei shows her tits throughout. She plays a stripper that Rourke's character has a thing for. Damn, for being 44, she's got a kickin' bod. Cougar for sho'

Word.
Screencaps.

[vynsane]

I'm really wanting to see Last Man Standing again, after reading Red Harvest. It's been a while, and I'm not sure how closely it follows the story.

i doubt it's that close... LMS is more based on 'yojimbo' than on anything else. sure, it's said that red harvest was the inspiration for 'yojimbo', but kurosawa himself said it was more 'the glass key', another hammett vehicle.

basically, last man standing is to yojimbo as star wars is to hidden fortress.