https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86-vveE9DI4
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
the fact that you corrected "comments" is what's really killing me
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
This is me Arnold S. This is me on the screen here, riding towards the camera.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
omg THANK YOU GOOLE
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit, why didn't I vote Conan? Also, I see that Point Break is not on my list. Let's delete this thread and start over.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
"I was getting laid a lot in this movie. It was amazing."
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
he sounds like hes on pills in the conan track
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
I never saw Conan. I tried to read one of the books at some point (there were like a million of them, right?) and it was so rapey and snuff-filmy and awful that I never looked back. Although it occurs to me now that maybe it was a Conan imitation series trying to cash in but being worse than the original. Anyway. Too bad. Couldn't deal.
― one little aioli (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
i saw conan a few times when i was a kid, feeling like maybe i need to rescreen
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
it's a great movie. i could talk about it forever. will wait to see if it even places tho!
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
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LE SAMOURAI
Jean-Pierre Melville1967France(284 points, 9 votes)
see Le Samourai, but be prepared to be slightly dissapointed. At least i was. I dont mind it being all about style, but the style wasnt too interesting or imaginative to me. I cant think of any reason why that film is admired more than, for a random noir example, "Out of the Past." but i need to see it again.
Melville's films seem to portray a 15 year old's sense of "existential cool" (as the critics say) but i find them a little shallow. as draining a standard noir story of all incident or action somehow makes it philosophical? i dont know, maybe it does.
― ryan (ryan)
just don't think JPM is at his best with Army of Shadows, he does the existential gang thing best, and I like that when it's most stylized (hence, LE Samourai).
― Dr Morbius
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah there are a million Conan books. some of the comics are allright. but yeah it's pretty heavy on the misogyny/racism/ultraviolence
xp
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
I watched conan for the first time a few years ago and loved it.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Conan is fucking amazing
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
Conan has a giant bowl of soup with human body parts in it. Does Yojimbo have that? Does Citizen Kane? I don't think so.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
I'm actually asking, I don't know if they do or not.
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
ilxors, tell me about le samourai
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yojimbo has a dog with a human hand
... for a head?
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Throw that in a pot with some vegetables, you got a stew!
― The Large Hardon Collider (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah it's pretty heavy on the misogyny/racism/ultraviolence
Seriously there was implied tentacle rape ending with the victim's murder at the hands of a subterranean monster. But it's not really rape because she liked it. At least up until the murder. I was like, this is writing?
― one little aioli (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Le Samurai is one of my favourite films of all time, but I thought of it when Tuomas said an action film is a film that uses action to resolve plot (or w/e) and I was going to say, really? Because Le Samurai is p much about inaction, invisibility, until he decides/is forced to take action, which brings about the end of the film. Action resolves it but you wouldn't call that an action film, surely.
(Feel the same way about this as Get Carter - love it, but not an action film.)
Well ok, but the metro chase scene is amazing.
― The Winged Devil Ape (Fizzles), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
havent seen le samourai in a really long time, barely remember
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
Is that the one where he lives in a hovel with a bird?
― one little aioli (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
The original Howard Conan books were pretty tight, I was surprised to discover. I mean, they're pretty much what you would expect, but they're well done and straightforward. Kinda reminded me of, like, Barbarian Bourne. Man as pure expression of will, drilling his way through all obstacles. Pretty effing fascist, I guess. Ha.
― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
this exact same scene happens in the movie "Forbidden World" (aka "Mutant")
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
le samourai an example where action/thriller line getting blurred
― I GUESS THAT CINNABON GETTIN EATEN (Edward III), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing existential film noir, where motives are completely obscure and can only be inferred by the action that Jeff (is it? Delon anyway) eventually takes. Full of coded ambiguous decisions and looks, and as a consequence the viewer is kept in a perpetual state of uncertainty. Great grey-green Paris.
― The Winged Devil Ape (Fizzles), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
the o.g. conan books are kind of energetic and fun but you can tell they were written in the 30s, a bit creaky and impolitic, yes.
(speaking of which, has anybody on earth seen the biopic of robert e howard??
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118163/
vincent d'onofrio and renee zellweger)
(this is my last derail i promise)
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
late to thread but here's Alex Cox on seeing The Wild Bunch as a kidin Liverpool (he was sneaked in by masons!)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_JRTwP4J0
― piscesx, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
jesus christ i just almost downloaded the 2011 conan
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
i saw it a long ass time ago goole. i liked it but i was like 12 or something
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yes. Inaction movie is bang on
― Number None, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah Forbidden World was pretty WTF.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Robert E. Howard was a weird dude. lived with his mom, shot himself when she went into a coma etc
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
PS speed 2 probably would have benefited from an aelstorm soundtrack
^alestorm
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of which, has anybody on earth seen the biopic of robert e howard??
xp That's kind of an amazing film if you're familiar with REH's work and sad short life.
― Brad C., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
i am willing to bet that Speed 2 is a better movie than speed despite never having seen S2 because well at least it isnt Speed 1.
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
smh
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
well then yr nonvote cancels out mine
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
haha
i also talked myself down from the ledge of "if starship troopers doesnt make top 5 you are all filthy animals" rant by hey asshole remember when you didnt vote so stfuing myself so
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
jjj did you ever see Forbidden World? I know AP and I saw it together and I'm pretty sure you weren't there, but it also seems like the type of movie you would have seen on your own anyway
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
lemme chk imdb
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
it is aka "Mutant"
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
it's a ripoff of Alien with a lot of boobs in it, as well as the world's worst interspecies sex scene
Are there any good interspecies sex scenes?
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
On second thoughts don't answer that.
it is aka O.o
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
i have not!
xposts and maybe i wont! nah who am i trying to kid, thats like 10 levels less O_O then 90% of the stuff i choose to watch
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link