i did watch it! it's weird!
― scott seward, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
i can't remember how i watched it. someone must have put it on facebook.
babylon a.d. was not very good. i kept falling asleep. it seemed to last forever. the only "sci-fi" in it was blade runner billboards on the sides of buildings. talk about saving money. Faster was pretty good. pretty brutal. i liked billy bob in it. i mean it was bad but i enjoyed it well enough.
― scott seward, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:57 (ten years ago) link
babylon a.d. is on netflix now? I'd rewatch it. It's not very good, but the book it is sort-of based on has some interesting goofy stuff
― mh, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
no, its not on netflix. sorry. i bought dvds. i listed them upthread.
― scott seward, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
ah, I missed that, continue on
― mh, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:22 (ten years ago) link
I wish the movie took place in s1ocki's neighborhood like the book did
which book??
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:31 (ten years ago) link
oh cool, an intentionally awkward/stilted film in which pretty much nothing happens but lol the uptight nerds hang out with a pair of new age swingers thats just classic material
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:49 (ten years ago) link
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/babylon-babies
mostly kidding, I think they are in the other part of MTL although they do blow up a house
obviously the edition on Semiotext(e) is twice as cool as the movie cover, even if it does feature Vin Diesel
― mh, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Watched Denzel's drunk pilot movie Flight last night. Very effective at being a super downer. Well mostly effective. Egregious abuse of "Gimme Shelter" blasting over slomo walking down hallway bits. And when the son visits him in prison at the end I just had to turn the thing off. Couldn't stand to watch the final four minutes if that's how it was all gonna go down. Will say that it had one of the most breathless plane wreck sequences I've seen since 'Lost', haha.
― andrew m., Monday, 11 November 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
Couldn't make it through Computer Chess. Switched to Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
Watched the docu about the filipino guy who became Journey's singer. Pretty fluffy but I guess bc of my soft spot for Journey I had a dece time.
― Pressgang Wolf (Jon Lewis), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
Deen Castronovo seems like a person with something bad behind the eyes
― Pressgang Wolf (Jon Lewis), Monday, 11 November 2013 19:17 (ten years ago) link
started watching skyfall last night and zzzzzzzzzzzz....i still have 50 minutes to go tonight! yeesh, longest movie. not very good either. dreary bond. Dame Lady M kinda my least favorite character in film though. stiff upper bulldog thing with her is just dreary. she's kinda one of my least fave britsters.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
they should have had an action movie director direct that movie. the only sam mendes movie i like is road to perdition.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
Europa Report was all right! despite what some dudes are saying on the internet, very much not horror, although, you know, bad things happen to people and stuff.
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
I thought Europa Report was Blair Witch Project in space. Really great while you were watching it, totally vacuous in retrospect.
― john. a resident of chicago., Friday, 15 November 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
Barbara, Only God Forgives, A Hijacking, and Frances Ha are all up.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 15 November 2013 02:03 (ten years ago) link
this is my fave netflix movie right now:
what maisie knew - loved this movie - so good
― scott seward, Friday, 15 November 2013 02:13 (ten years ago) link
i tried to start a thread on I Love Film about Barbara but i'm banned from starting threads on that board.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 November 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
Whoa only god forgives?! Awesome
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Friday, 15 November 2013 03:49 (ten years ago) link
damn that was quick!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 15 November 2013 04:03 (ten years ago) link
only god forgives is a terrible movie
― gbx, Friday, 15 November 2013 04:13 (ten years ago) link
I like you, but I don't want to believe you
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Friday, 15 November 2013 04:23 (ten years ago) link
would dr gbx lie to you
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 November 2013 04:24 (ten years ago) link
It's beautiful ridiculousness. I'm a fan but I realise it could just as easily fail in the wrong mood.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 15 November 2013 04:37 (ten years ago) link
Frances Ha is a terrible movie
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 November 2013 05:50 (ten years ago) link
I liked it.
― dan selzer, Friday, 15 November 2013 07:32 (ten years ago) link
it's got stylish visuals and all, which I'm usually a sucker for, but that wasn't quite enough for me.
― gbx, Friday, 15 November 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
It doesn't quite work as a narrative, for sure
― mh, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
the salinger doc is pretty useless
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 15 November 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
jeezus two days of trying to start a thread on the film board and i don't know why i just don't give up. this might be a good time for a break. done listening to eagles songs. thank god. oh well.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 November 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
my issues with Frances Ha were mostly with the last fifteen minutes where our lead character magically gets her act together in a fucking montage. it feels deeply anti-humanistic to spend all this manic pixie dreamtime with your lead character and then resolve the story with #2: ? #3: Profit!
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 November 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
what?
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 15 November 2013 16:58 (ten years ago) link
Oh so is that what happens at the end of that movie I have at the top of my queue
― polyphonic, Friday, 15 November 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link
dont worry, thats not what happens really
― johnny crunch, Friday, 15 November 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
ymmv i guess but i thought it was disingenuous, twee and coyly sitcom-in-indiesheep's clothing stuffi actually did a full on Morbs rant at the end of the screening and stormed out of the theater
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 November 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
woulda paid to hear that. you should do a commentary track on the Criterion!
Barbara is splendid.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 November 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
i was at one of the opening screenings; baumbach was doing a talk-back after and my date was frantically shushing me as i left the theater yelling "we're all just so fucking QUIRKY aren't we"
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 November 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
this is not behavior i'm proud of exactly but it pretty accurately reflects my lack of appreciation for that movie. a week later i ended up sitting next to baumbach and gertwig at a show that involved baumbach getting motorboated by the lead singer. i refrained from yelling "we're all just so fucking QUIRKY aren't we" that time but it was maybe applicable then too.
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 November 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
"motorboated" is a new verb to me.
oh hey the Criterion is out.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 November 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
xp haha *daps*
― Nhex, Friday, 15 November 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
You have got to be kidding me. Motorboated? What was the band?
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
No lawyer would ever sign off on it, but I honestly wish all DVDs had separate commentary tracks from the film's proponents and detractors.
― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
I think The Matrix did that?
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
lechera:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bh5QAg4ZCUon this song as i recall
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
wow -- that's something else. i'm pretty sure frances ha would churn my stomach, so i'll continue to not see it.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
i have a deep and abiding love for bridget everett and have been trying to take her out for years now
― ill never click this homo erotic site again (forksclovetofu), Friday, 15 November 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
Dear God. I started watching License to Drive. Hahaha. WHY.
Stopped half way.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Saturday, 16 November 2013 05:28 (ten years ago) link