More good movies we've seen.

[tattuchu]

Added to my amazon cart

[tattuchu]

I don't know anything about Tintin, as he's not popular here in the States, though as a comics geek I am aware of him. And neither am I a fan of Steven Spielberg. But this looks kinda good

[rachelbean]

I now have a new favourite film.



Mary and Max are two pen pals from Australia and New York respectively. Mary, a lonely and odd child, sends a letter to Max, who she picked at random from a New York phone directory, asking him to be her pen pal. Max is a lonely middle-aged man who suffers from Aspergers and also loneliness. The story revolves around their exchanges.
I haven't enjoyed a film this much in ages. I loved everything about it. It's macabre sense of humour. It's grim sense of reality. The artistic style. This film is like a dysfunctional Wallace & Gromit, it is the anti-Postman Pat. The script is amazing, especially when read by Barry Humphries and Philip Seymour Hoffman, both of whom add all the right emotions to the characters. It is incredibly witty, I laughed all the way through it, with lines like (Max writing to Mary) - "I live with...[a bunch of animals]... and a cat named 'Hal'. Because of his halitosis" ( ). But it also had some really intensely sad moments as well as joyous ones.
I dare anyone to look at this film and not feel moved by it.

I adored this movie from the first time I watched it, it became one of my all-time favorites

[Animavore]

Some guy on RatSkep dared say Mary and Max was 'tedious' and 'repetitive', even 'scatalogical'.
I put him straight on a couple of things and he hasn't replied yet, but any more back-lip like that and he'll taste the wrath of my self-opinionating.

[tattuchu]

Some guy on RatSkep dared say Mary and Max was 'tedious' and 'repetitive', even 'scatalogical'.
I put him straight on a couple of things and he hasn't replied yet, but any more back-lip like that and he'll taste the wrath of my self-opinionating.

Well I just ordered it, so I'll see for myself.
But...what's wrong with scatalogical

[Animavore]

He was from India and English isn't his first language. I think a lot of it was over his head. For instance; he said it was 'too depressing to be an animation' when it isn't depressing at all. Quite the opposite.

[Millefleur]

I don't know anything about Tintin, as he's not popular here in the States, though as a comics geek I am aware of him. And neither am I a fan of Steven Spielberg. But this looks kinda good

First I'd heard of it, the girls are going to pee their pants when I tell them tomorrow. They'll be

[Jason]

I watched Mongol the other night.. it was.. odd. Not bad, but different. Plot development was rather slow and indirect and the hero/anti-hero component was never entirely clear - that is there was no definitive point in the movie where I could chose to identify with the main character or his nemeses (taking into account that what happened to him was simply a normal development in his culture). Regardless, it was interesting and I didn't fall asleep even though it was rather long - usually a good sign.

[tattuchu]

He was from India and English isn't his first language. I think a lot of it was over his head. For instance; he said it was 'too depressing to be an animation' when it isn't depressing at all. Quite the opposite.

Just watched it last night. I thought it was definitely depressing, but that's okay because I like depressing. I also don't think animated films have any sort of obligation to be cheerful. Animated films aren't necessarily kids' films. And even if they were, why should a kids' film happy to be happy? A film can be anything it wants to be. Anyway, besides being depressing, which I liked, I thought it was extraordinarily well done. Funny, dramatic, poignant, and I cried at the end.

Also watched The Iron Giant. Good lord, talk about gorgeous animation.

I put two films in my amazon cart. They were trailers for them on the Mary & Max disc. They are: I Sell the Dead, and The Good the Bad and the Weird. Both look like a lot of fun, and I love discovering cool new films I've never heard of.

[Pappa]

I saw this a couple of nights ago. It's the best "college kid" horror I've ever seen. Very funny too.

[Gallstones]

I watched this one yesterday.



I wish I had a huge flat screen to watch it on, all I have is my monitor.
A huge TV would make his work closer to the majesty in which he painted it and intended it to be seen. Rothko painted experiences rather than pictures.

[rachelbean]

I watched this one yesterday.



I wish I had a huge flat screen to watch it on, all I have is my monitor.
A huge TV would make his work closer to the majesty in which he painted it and intended it to be seen. Rothko painted experiences rather than pictures.

When Pappa came to LA in October, I got to take him to MOCA, which had a huge Rothko exhibit. He is one of my favorites

[Rob]

Winter's Bone
Source Code
13 Assassins

-just making a list of movies to watch so i can remember it when I get home from class.

[Animavore]

Source Code sucks but the other 2 are awesome.

[Millefleur]

I have Winters Bone for tonight. Need more suggestions, I've run out of spaghetti Westerns and all the films I want aren't available to *ahem* obtain..