 |
Flipside Movie Emporium
Discussion Forums Locked & Archived for Browsing
|
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Erickson
Camera Operator
Joined: 15 Mar 2004
Posts: 81
|
 Posted: 09.22.2004 2:28 am Post subject: |
 |
|
Pink Panther series...
_________________
I hate quotations; tell me what you know |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
beltmann
Studio Exec
Joined: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 2341
Location: West Bend, WI
|
| Posted: 09.22.2004 3:33 am Post subject: |
|
|
| the night watchman wrote: | | Went bargain bin diving again and secured The Whole Wide World, the Robert E. Howard bio-pic, with Vincent D'Onofrio as REH. |
Thanks to your reminder, I made sure to pick this one up, too. ($5.50) Dunno when I'll actually get around to watching it, but I'm looking forward to catching up with it. Have you watched it yet, NW? If so, what was your take?
I also confess I bought the new Star Wars set, mostly to satisfy the 8-year-old boy that still resides in me. I was looking at a few favorite scenes, and I think it's painfully obvious that the new cycle's over-reliance on CGI looks pitiful compared to the verisimilitude once achieved through traditional means. Putting nostalgia aside, I genuinely believe the original trilogy is visually superior; rampant CGI has ruined far more movies than it has enhanced, in my opinion. (Let's ignore the newly added effects for now -- okay, let's just ask, couldn't Lucas have at least given us a purist option, much like Spielberg did with E.T.?)
Eric
_________________
"When I was in Barcelona they showed pornography on regular television. I'm assuming it's the same way in Mexico since they also speak Spanish." - IMDb user comment |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Danny Baldwin
Studio Exec
Joined: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 1354
Location: San Diego, CA
|
| Posted: 09.22.2004 3:59 am Post subject: |
|
|
I need to pick up the set. They have some Blockbuster rental deal with it, that I might take advantage of (if they're not...fullscreen).
_________________
Danny Baldwin
View My Reviews |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the night watchman
Studio Exec
Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Dark, run-down shack by the graveyard.
|
| Posted: 09.22.2004 5:09 am Post subject: |
|
|
| beltmann wrote: | The Whole Wide World
Have you watched it yet, NW? If so, what was your take?
|
Yes, I've seen it around three times since it was released. I like it, partly because I'm a fan of REH's yarns, and because I think the man himself was strange, sad, and interesting. D'Onofrio does a splendid job of bringing him to life; the scene in which he describes Conan to Novalyne (Zellweger) is as wonderful a moment as any I've seen.
On the other hand, the drama is hobbled by the movie's staggered structure. Essentially, it's just a series of scenes involving two people getting together between interims of separation and chatting, growing interested in one another or getting irritated, then parting for another stretch. This isn't exactly the script's fault; the movie is based on Novalyne Price's memoir of Howard, and, really, that's how their relationship went. Still, because of it, the drama doesn't quite pick up the momentum it should to be really affecting. Anyway, D'Onofrio's performance in the backbone of the piece.
At the end of the day, it's maybe a movie whose parts are greater than the whole (like Howard's oeuvre, maybe), and there are some pretty good parts, I think.
Let me know how you like it.
_________________
"If you're talking about censorship, and what things should be shown and what things shouldn't be shown, I've said that as an artist you have no social responsibility whatsoever."
-David Cronenberg |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the night watchman
Studio Exec
Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Dark, run-down shack by the graveyard.
|
| Posted: 09.28.2004 3:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
The Legend of Hell House (Hough, 1973)
_________________
"If you're talking about censorship, and what things should be shown and what things shouldn't be shown, I've said that as an artist you have no social responsibility whatsoever."
-David Cronenberg |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Monkeypox
Cinematographer
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
Posts: 156
Location: TX
|
| Posted: 09.28.2004 10:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Repo Man: I watch it over and over again, with no idea how I feel about it. Odd.
_________________
Rattlesnake's Texas Cobra, you sonofabitch! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the night watchman
Studio Exec
Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Dark, run-down shack by the graveyard.
|
| Posted: 09.28.2004 10:50 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Very odd. And yet, I blame society.
Repo Man is one of my all-time favorite movies.
_________________
"If you're talking about censorship, and what things should be shown and what things shouldn't be shown, I've said that as an artist you have no social responsibility whatsoever."
-David Cronenberg |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the night watchman
Studio Exec
Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Dark, run-down shack by the graveyard.
|
| Posted: 10.08.2004 9:04 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Das Experiment (Hirschbiegel, 2001)
Taut, nervy thriller with surprisingly deft characterization. The quasi-romantic subplot wedged awkwardly in never seems to be part of the rest of the movie, but isn't too distracting.
Auto Focus (Schrader, 2002)
Superb performances from Kinnear and Dafoe (who, like Whittaker, seems incapable of turning in anything less than compelling), highlight this sometimes creepy yet sympathetic portait of addiction and need. This was my favorite of 2002.
_________________
"If you're talking about censorship, and what things should be shown and what things shouldn't be shown, I've said that as an artist you have no social responsibility whatsoever."
-David Cronenberg |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
beltmann
Studio Exec
Joined: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 2341
Location: West Bend, WI
|
| Posted: 10.08.2004 11:56 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| the night watchman wrote: | Auto Focus (Schrader, 2002)
Superb performances from Kinnear and Dafoe (who, like Whittaker, seems incapable of turning in anything less than compelling), highlight this sometimes creepy yet sympathetic portait of addiction and need. This was my favorite of 2002. |
Auto Focus is hypnotic on many levels. Kinnear and Dafoe (as his partner-in-lechery) develop a friendship of mutual need and loneliness; Crane's personal and professional descent is charted with an increasing sense of doom (but also compassion); visually the movie devolves from a static, scrubbed, sitcom-style look into a grainier, smuttier look, and then finally into a paranoid, dirty, jarring look. Each phase mirrors Crane's life status, but also reflects the onset of the video revolution (as well as what that revolution meant for both individuals and society). It's a complex, cautionary masterpiece. I think it's one of the great American movies of the last decade.
Eric
_________________
"When I was in Barcelona they showed pornography on regular television. I'm assuming it's the same way in Mexico since they also speak Spanish." - IMDb user comment |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the night watchman
Studio Exec
Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Dark, run-down shack by the graveyard.
|
| Posted: 10.09.2004 5:55 am Post subject: |
|
|
| beltmann wrote: | | Crane's personal and professional descent is charted with an increasing sense of doom (but also compassion); visually the movie devolves from a static, scrubbed, sitcom-style look into a grainier, smuttier look, and then finally into a paranoid, dirty, jarring look. Each phase mirrors Crane's life status, but also reflects the onset of the video revolution (as well as what that revolution meant for both individuals and society). |
I hadn't noticed that before. Good observation. I'll keep that in mind when I watch it again.
Funny thing is, I didn't really have much interest in this movie before I saw it. It got good notices but for some reason it just struck me as meh. Then one night I had insomnia and was flipping around the channels looking for something that might mildly interest me yet put me to sleep. (It's a trick I've developed to fool myself into "just resting my eyes.") I happened upon this about ten minutes in, decided to stick around (hadn't realized it was about "Hogan's Heroes's Bob Crane," whose "mysterious death" I caught on some biography program a year or so before), and it kept me watching until the end credits. I was tired the next morning, but it was worth it.
_________________
"If you're talking about censorship, and what things should be shown and what things shouldn't be shown, I've said that as an artist you have no social responsibility whatsoever."
-David Cronenberg |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
beltmann
Studio Exec
Joined: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 2341
Location: West Bend, WI
|
| Posted: 10.09.2004 2:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| the night watchman wrote: | | Then one night I had insomnia and was flipping around the channels looking for something that might mildly interest me yet put me to sleep. (It's a trick I've developed to fool myself into "just resting my eyes.") |
I'm familiar with this method... for me, Jackie Chan flicks usually do the trick.
Eric
_________________
"When I was in Barcelona they showed pornography on regular television. I'm assuming it's the same way in Mexico since they also speak Spanish." - IMDb user comment |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the night watchman
Studio Exec
Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Dark, run-down shack by the graveyard.
|
| Posted: 10.10.2004 3:24 am Post subject: |
|
|
Heh. The O'Franken Factor practically turns me into a narcoleptic.
_________________
"If you're talking about censorship, and what things should be shown and what things shouldn't be shown, I've said that as an artist you have no social responsibility whatsoever."
-David Cronenberg |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Danny Baldwin
Studio Exec
Joined: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 1354
Location: San Diego, CA
|
| Posted: 10.10.2004 3:59 am Post subject: |
|
|
| the night watchman wrote: | | Heh. The O'Franken Factor practically turns me into a narcoleptic. |
_________________
Danny Baldwin
View My Reviews |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
pesty_ramona
Grip
Joined: 03 Jun 2004
Posts: 13
|
| Posted: 10.28.2004 3:38 pm Post subject: My latest movie choices |
|
|
| I have to say my latest DVD buy is Van Helsing, Dawn of the Dead and Make A Wish. These movie are great, really loved them and plan on watching them over and over. Van Helsing- what can I say.. its a vampire flick thats enough for me. Dawn of the Dead- freaking zombies everywhere, cool. Make A Wish- one word sick, funny and scary, totally loved it. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the night watchman
Studio Exec
Joined: 27 Jun 2003
Posts: 1373
Location: Dark, run-down shack by the graveyard.
|
| Posted: 10.28.2004 7:09 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I was surprised by how much I liked the Dawn of the Dead remake. I walked into this movie unwilling to give it a whit of a break, and walked out thoroughly entertained. Worlds better than the dreary and spineless TCM remake.
_________________
"If you're talking about censorship, and what things should be shown and what things shouldn't be shown, I've said that as an artist you have no social responsibility whatsoever."
-David Cronenberg |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001-2007 phpBB Group
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
