anyway
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
the 'red riding' novels are kinda going for some brit 'l.a. quartet'-era ellroy, at least from what i've read, and the films try the same thing w/diminishing returns. they're supposed to be sort of a single story over the three films but they don't hang together very well and the grimness is a bit much and the depiction of 'the north' seems to be the depiction of the south in a lot of american cinema, as this place where you go to die violently at the hand of basically anyone you is not you if you have morals of any kind. the bad guys are so evil is almost comic.
― omar little, Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
I think that it is inevitable that movies that could place on a romantic comedy poll would place on a comedy poll. And they shouldn't be excluded from one because they were on the other.
Bringing up Baby comes to mind.
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
xposts: The Descent is cool as hell. And fkn love love Dog Soldiers
Ray Winstone/Colin Farrell are in a sorta actiony thing called London Boulevard, came out last year I think. But I don't know if it's any good. Anyone sen it?
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
*seen
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. it's not very good iirc.
― Jibe, Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
most hollywood comedies are "romantic comedies" even though the "romcom" is like an 80s-born thing. so i'd just do "comedies" or something.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://meetinthelobby.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/queensblvd.jpg
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
can we do a best farce poll
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
lol s1ocki
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
hur hur best farts poll
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i liked dog soldiers too.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
so i'd just do "comedies" or something.
I kinda agree with this but then if a Farrelly Bros film placed higher than The Philadelphia Story I'd Morbs-out worse than he ever did.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
but arguably a lot of farrelly bros movies are romcoms so what diff would it make
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i mean all american mainstream comedies have a romantic plot or subplot.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
i mean there's something re. mary is a romcom no? also that jimmy fallon one.
ya zacks
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
is ravenous considered a british movie? man, i love that thing. okay, brits are good to go as far as low-budget horror/action goes. i notice nobody mentions guy ritchie. i don't know if i've ever seen one of his movies from beginning to end. just caught parts of them on cable.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know if i would vote in TWO comedy polls. maybe just one big one. obviously i would have no problem coming up with 50 great comedies that i love. they would all involve zombies. just kidding.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
ravenous is a good movie. i rented that back in 2000 or so, my roommate mocked me for renting it. the next day i came home and she was like, "oh, that movie? i saw it sitting on top of the VCR and got tempted. it is surprisingly awesome."
guy ritchie isn't so bad, really.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
I like guy ritchie - lock stock and snatch are good fun. I haven't seen rocknrolla
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
i enjoyed the red riding movies, i mean i wouldnt necessarily recommend them and theyre not very good but theyre kinda, i dunno. if youre ever in the mood for that kind of thing they hit the spot.
― max, Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Dead Man's Shoes a decent but patchy descendant of Get Carter but as per above that's maybe pushing 'action' a bit too far.
― woof, Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Red Riding is the only worthwhile thing I've seen Andrew Garfield in.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, Dead Man Shoes is closer to horror than action. It's great though
― Number None, Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, February 18, 2012 12:58 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what a strange thing to say
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
why?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Guy Ritchie is appalling! But only someone who lives in this grim island of ours would understand..
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
i love jeffrey jones in ravenous, cracking walnuts with his bare hands
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Saturday, 18 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
antonia bird who did ravenous did that movie *face* with robert carlyle. i think i remember liking that one? its been awhile. she should do more action movies.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, February 18, 2012 1:14 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i can't figure out if its a backhanded compliment to the red riding series, a dis of the social network, or a meditation on andrew garfield
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
a dis of Andrew Garfield, who's a cute kid.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
his voice is my text message alert sound, you know
(him angrily yelling "MARK!!!" in the social network)
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
anyone want to come over and eat adult brownies and watch westerns tomorrow? i can't hardly wait.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
like... porn brownies?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
my kids can't leave town fast enough!
yes, they are laced with porn.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
*raises hand* I would like to do that
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
seconded!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
god I would so do that
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
The suggestion earlier involving a pile of coke, nine packs of cigarettes, and a week off is now tantalizing to me. I think those days are past, for me, but goddamn.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
i would so be in for that, scott, if not for the matter of 3000 miles of ocean, etc
― the world is just a racist onion (stevie), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
right?
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
i had a cookie from the same, um, baker, and it was quite a cookie. almost psychedelic. i wasn't driving or anything. i don't really "do" you know "drugs" anymore. but sometimes its fun to indulge a little in something as harmless as an innocent brownie. and watch netflix. children safely whisked away by my deranged parents who are constantly hopped up on prescription medicine.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
the last time i ate a baked good like that i ended up stuffing $1000 down my pants and running home in a snowstorm
― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:59 (twelve years ago) link
nice!
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
what was the last great u.k. action movie? that didn't involve james bond.
Attack The Block? (if we're calling John Carpenter "action")
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:07 (twelve years ago) link
xpost No amount of drugs ingested while watching "Commando" can possibly match the amount of drugs surely ingested making it.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://dvdmedia.ign.com/dvd/image/RedHeat_pic4_1100292371.jpg
― White 'Poop' Jesus (snoball), Saturday, 18 February 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link