More good movies we've seen.

[Pappa]

Soylent Green, pretty cool.

[Rum]

Well I never go to the cinema in the week. It still feels like I am skiving even though I went part time last October! Anyhoo, today it has tipped down with heavy rain all day so I said sod it and went to see Black Swan!

Absolutely mesmerising! If you have wavered thinking ballet is not your thing, don't! It is riveting and a bit scary too in places! See it!

[devogue]

The Legend of 1900.

Like a fucked up mad dream.

[Animavore]

Just watched this Australian film...



About a Melborne crime family. It was really good. If you've ever seen an Aussie film you'll know the type. Everyone's laid back and move really slowly. Even when they get aggressive it's like hey chill, man.
The main character is a teenage boy, Jaye, whose mother dies of a heroin overdose. He goes to live with his grandmother and uncles who are all into dodgy stuff like armed robbery and drugs. They start getting worried when Australia's cops start getting gun happy on criminals (this is supposed to be based on a true story, did this happen in the 90s?). Things turn bad when one of the brother's gets shot. The others retaliate by shooting two police officers. The atmosphere around them changes, the oldest brother becomes increasingly paranoid and things aren't looking safe for Jaye. Meanwhile the police are on to him trying to help him out.
The character Jaye is probably the least interesting but the guy playing him does it very subtly. He just mopes around a lot and grunts. Like any teenager. There's a fair few faces in there from various soaps. And Guy Pearce is the concerned police officer looking a bit Gary Oldman with his moustache.
All in all it's made in a very realistic way. There's no over the top violence or any of that. Much better than the recent crime family film The Town, over-rated silly film that it was. Well worth a look.

[Pappa]

I've watched 5 films today, and I really enjoyed this one:



The trailer really doesn't do it justice though.

[Animavore]

I want to know about the Stonehenge one.

[Pappa]

I want to know about the Stonehenge one.

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6116664 ... XviD-VoMiT

[Pappa]

I'm currently watching "October: Ten days that shook the world", a Soviet propaganda film made in 1927 by Sergei Eisenstein to celebrate the October Revolution ten years earlier. It's not the easiest thing to follow, but I can see why it's regarded so highly by many modern film directors. It's a pretty amazing bit of film.

[Animavore]

I just got back from seeing The King's Speech. As a bit of a republican (read abolish monarchy, not political conservative Mericans!) I was not sure about going, but I had read such good reviews I thought I would take the risk.

It is a simply superb piece of film making, and particularly of acting.

If Colin Firth doesn't get Best Actor Oscar there is something very badly wrong. What a superb film!

Did anyone read The Hitch's article on this?

The King's Speech is an extremely well-made film with a seductive human interest plot, very prettily calculated to appeal to the smarter filmgoer and the latent Anglophile. But it perpetrates a gross falsification of history. One of the very few miscast actors—Timothy Spall as a woefully thin pastiche of Winston Churchill—is the exemplar of this bizarre rewriting. He is shown as a consistent friend of the stuttering prince and his loyal princess and as a man generally in favor of a statesmanlike solution to the crisis of the abdication.

In point of fact, Churchill was—for as long as he dared—a consistent friend of conceited, spoiled, Hitler-sympathizing Edward VIII. And he allowed his romantic attachment to this gargoyle to do great damage to the very dearly bought coalition of forces that was evolving to oppose Nazism and appeasement. Churchill probably has no more hagiographic chronicler than William Manchester, but if you look up the relevant pages of The Last Lion, you will find that the historian virtually gives up on his hero for an entire chapter.

[cont.]

http://www.slate.com/id/2282194

[drl2]

I'm looking forward to this one: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/ ... e/1291796/

[Evabot]

"Go passionately fuck yourself."

Had a Gregg Araki night:

Nowhere:



Doom Generation (my personal favorite):


Smiley Face:


Great music, great visuals, great dialog

[FBM]

I've watched 5 films today, and I really enjoyed this one:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN7-tepnIfY/youtube]

The trailer really doesn't do it justice though.

I checked it out. Really good flick.

[Rum]

I bought Social Network on DVD - only a tenner in Tesco, because I missed it in the cinema. It was enjoyable enough, but I really didn't think it deserved all the hype - or success come to that - that it has received. Not having a sympathetic main character didn't help. In fact all the main characters came over as arseholes for the most part. Not a bad film however and worth seeing.

[Animavore]

Saw True Grit in the cinema today. It was great. Wasn't really a typical Coen brother's film, though. Although it was laced through with humour and sporadic and unexpected violence. It just wasn't "quirky". Not that that mattered. It wasn't the type of film for that. The film was character driven. All the acting was great. There was a lot of attention to detail and it ticked along at a perfect pace never getting dull.

Well worth seeing. Top marks.

[Millefleur]

Saw True Grit in the cinema today. It was great. Wasn't really a typical Coen brother's film, though. Although it was laced through with humour and sporadic and unexpected violence. It just wasn't "quirky". Not that that mattered. It wasn't the type of film for that. The film was character driven. All the acting was great. There was a lot of attention to detail and it ticked along at a perfect pace never getting dull.

Well worth seeing. Top marks.

I was going to ask if it was worth seeing, watched the old version the other day on my Dads recommendation and although it wasn't bad it didn't seem to fulfil the full potential of the story. The ending was a bit 'meh' too. Might give this one a go then.