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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 24, 2012 22:43:48 GMT -8
I as well like all of these movies we are talking about. Love Huckabees and totally subscribe to the blanket idea.
Election is so goddamn funny!
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 24, 2012 23:06:46 GMT -8
Stormy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check it.
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 25, 2012 8:43:26 GMT -8
Lump I'm not sure if I misunderstood your post, but 'He Needs Me' is not a Jon Brion song. It was written by Harry Nilsson for Robert Altman's Popeye.
Its perfect in the context of that film. That whole Fantasia sequence in Hawaii where it keeps swirling in and out of Brion's score is beautiful.
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Post by wompwomp on Jan 25, 2012 9:05:09 GMT -8
So I finally watched Hanna last night...holy shit. That movie is insane. It was so freaking intense! I loved it.
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Post by StormyPinkness on Jan 25, 2012 9:11:06 GMT -8
Stormy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check it. Nice! Guess I didn't look hard enough.
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Post by Lump on Jan 25, 2012 11:12:22 GMT -8
Lump I'm not sure if I misunderstood your post, but 'He Needs Me' is not a Jon Brion song. It was written by Harry Nilsson for Robert Altman's Popeye. Its perfect in the context of that film. That whole Fantasia sequence in Hawaii where it keeps swirling in and out of Brion's score is beautiful. You right. I somehow completely forgot the fact that he just remixed it. Good catch.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 25, 2012 23:08:50 GMT -8
Man oh man, I've trying to think of my top five movie list lately and it has been pretty damn hard. It is possibly...
Sunset Boulevard The Band Wagon Inland Empire 400 Blows Happy Go-Lucky
Huckabees is top 7 for sure.
So good. I actually have a tattoo that was based off of Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse from this scene.
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Post by Peter Gibbons on Jan 25, 2012 23:49:00 GMT -8
Love Huckabees and totally subscribe to the blanket idea. Vivian: Have you ever transcended space and time? Albert: Yes. No. Uh, time, not space... No, I don't know what you're talking about. Cue YouTube video that I'm sure everyone has seen. But I'm gonna post dat shit anyway.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 25, 2012 23:53:33 GMT -8
Apparently George Clooney knocked David O. Russell out on Three Kings.
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Post by Cbats on Jan 26, 2012 1:48:41 GMT -8
Not to derail the quality movie discussion happening here but I finally saw Harold and Kumar 3 (not D) and laughed way harder than I expected. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard at a ridiculousness comedy. Fuck pancakes
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 26, 2012 8:38:41 GMT -8
Yeah dude, it surprised even me. That shit was funny as hell.
Friendly D, The 400 Blows is certainly in my top ten somewhere. God though, it's been forever since I've seen that.
And Inland Empire... man, it's so weird because that film is so much like Mulholland Drive, except Lynch drained all of the color and took out most of the little things that gave Mulholland Drive that weird sense of fun. And it is so much better than Mulholland Drive. How does that work?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jan 26, 2012 8:39:23 GMT -8
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 26, 2012 15:12:29 GMT -8
And Inland Empire... man, it's so weird because that film is so much like Mulholland Drive, except Lynch drained all of the color and took out most of the little things that gave Mulholland Drive that weird sense of fun. And it is so much better than Mulholland Drive. How does that work? Have you ever seen that documentary about Lynch during the filming of Inland Empire? It is so cool to watch that man at work. An absolute hands on master. For those that don't know, he decided to shoot the movie, well actually this wiki blurb sums it a little better... " Lynch shot the film without a complete screenplay. Instead, he handed each actor several pages of freshly written dialogue each day.[3] In a 2005 interview, he described his feelings about the shooting process: "I’ve never worked on a project in this way before. I don’t know exactly how this thing will finally unfold... This film is very different because I don’t have a script. I write the thing scene by scene and much of it is shot and I don’t have much of a clue where it will end. It’s a risk, but I have this feeling that because all things are unified, this idea over here in that room will somehow relate to that idea over there in the pink room."[6] Interviewed at the Venice Film Festival, Laura Dern admitted that she didn't know what Inland Empire was about or the role she was playing, but hoped that seeing the film's premiere at the festival would help her "learn more."[3] Justin Theroux has also stated that he "couldn't possibly tell you what the film's about, and at this point I don't know that David Lynch could. It's become sort of a pastime—Laura [Dern] and I sit around on set trying to figure out what's going on." I love Laura Dern's quote about hoping that when she sees the movie she might "learn more". Ha ha. So cool. Normally this could be a pretty gimmicky thing, but once you see the movie you see how it suited the project down to the ground and gives its audience this absolutely mesmerizing intangible feeling (like Gramma was saying). I have never been more terrified and wowed while sitting in a movie theater. Obviously Lynch was exploring some sort of thing or idea and decided to film things off the cuff when he felt he was most ready to chase a certain idea. This feeling could not be telegraphed to the audience any better. You are always being drawn into the dark and want to desperately descend into it while also feeling scared shitless about what is in the dark and just wanting to get the scene over with before you have a heart attack. What a ride. The music is also pure fucking brilliance. The music is beyond frightening at times and not just because it is associated to scary images. In fact it is the opposite, the images seem innocuous but the music turns them down right terrifying. Case in point: When it is revealed that Dern's scene with the homeless girl is all part of a movie and then the director cuts and she exits off of the sound stage you are first totally mind fucked about what just happened and it makes you some what uneasy, but then as she walks off the set this music that could scare the devil just starts building and building and makes everything so incredibly terrifying. EDIT: "The images seem innocuous AT TIMES"
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 26, 2012 17:18:11 GMT -8
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Post by Rusty on Jan 27, 2012 23:30:22 GMT -8
Just watched "The Beaver" with Mel Gibson, that was interesting.
Edit: meow watching: We're the Weakerthans, We're from Winnipeg... it's really great , if you like that band.( also there is a guy named Rusty in the film)
Shaw on demand, for the Canadians, the for free shit is cool.
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Post by Friendly Destroyer on Jan 28, 2012 1:13:40 GMT -8
Just watched "The Beaver" with Mel Gibson, that was interesting. Edit: meow watching: We're the Weakerthans, We're from Winnipeg... it's really great , if you like that band.( also there is a guy named Rusty in the film) Shaw on demand, for the Canadians, the for free shit is cool. U Know Wat I Mean? ??
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Post by weenie on Jan 28, 2012 1:42:44 GMT -8
The thing I like most about my house is that if you want to do a shot you have to choose between a Weakerthans or Homer Simpson shot glass. I'm pretty fucking proud of my life choices.
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Post by Cbats on Jan 28, 2012 10:06:58 GMT -8
Saw The Artist last night, it was just as enjoyable as I expected
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Post by stamper on Jan 28, 2012 10:35:13 GMT -8
We watched the Descendants last night. Fantastic movie. Alexander Payne rulz.
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Post by Drew on Jan 28, 2012 11:10:48 GMT -8
My girlfriend's mom is a former actor and member of SAG, and so she gets all the nominated movies every year around this time. It's pretty awesome. She's sending The Descendants, The Iron Lady and a few others today, with the rest to follow after she watches them.
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