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"About Schmidt" = horribly unfunny, overrated, sentimental crap.

Today I saw: "Catch Me if you Can" = funny, underrated, enjoyable caper. balance has been restored! Hurrah!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Virgin Suicides (not bad)
Insomnia (pretty good)
Lord Of the Rings 2 (I got a little bored. It's probably better if you've seen the first, which I haven't.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 3 February 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

caught the last hour of the 6th sense and wasn't worried abt getting the twist. The scenes with the boy and bruce are really trmemndous. The whole thing is so well acted really.

yesterday I went across the road and watched Donnie Darko. I know there were threads on this so I might post.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 07:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw 'Narc' last night. I didn't really get much out of it. For the last half hour especially, I just kept thinking 'Now have I missed something or why the fuck would he do that?' every couple of minutes.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

that's what I thought during 'rush hour 2.' was 'nark' as good as that?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nark off.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw Catch Me If You Can last week. Did he really just abandon Brenda? That bit was odd.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Lady and the Duke - ohimigod this movie is so good

Russian Ark - ohmigod this movie is so good

Talk to Her - s'okay

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

I haven't been to the cinema yet this year, but then seeing as I only went three times last year it's hardly surprising.

― chris (chris), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

I taped The Ice Storm last night and watched it when I came in. I love that film.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I bought MASH on DVD and it was as good a film as I remember. If not better. Haven't watched the accompanying documaentaries yet though.

― chris (chris), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ohayo by Ozu on Tuesday, which was terrific, then About Schmidt last night, which I think is a genuinely wonderful movie that I recommend to everyone. Jack Nicholson's best, Kathy Bates' too (smallish role), loads of great and funny and moving details all the way through. Virtually perfect.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyone in the US planning on seeing "Daredevil" this weekend?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

probably next weekend if at all. the theater near me works like this: first weekend, every showing is full, second weekend, nobody is there, third weekend, stragglers, fourth weekend the movie is gone!

I saw the pianist recently, and it was good. i am planning on seeing "city of god" tonight.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really didn't get Talk to Her at all. I found it very dull compared to the rest of his movies. I didn't care about the two main characters--they were so irritating. The weepy macho reporter, the pathetic stalker nurse, bah. The only character I really liked was the female bullfighter. And Geraldine Chaplin's character, but she was barely in it.

Also saw About Schmidt, hated it. The way Payne poked fun at the crass aging hippie bohemian family was despicable. Really smug, I didn't sense any affection there at all.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I thought the trailers for 'Daredevil' looked pretty cheesy.
"I got it! Let's make a Matrix meets Tomb Raider meets Spiderman vehicle"
Of course, trailers have a way of pilfering any integrity a movie may posess.

I saw 25th Hour and 'Catch Me If...'
Thought 25th Hour was much better

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 February 2003 21:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyone seen "City of God"?
Is it worth seeking out a theater that shows it?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

i saw 'being there' at film forum last night. it was so so so so good

― maura (maura), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

i will tell you tonight or tommorrow, oops!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm gonna see Daredevil tomorrow. Then I might see Catch Me If You Can on Sunday. Still haven't seen Punch Drunk Love or The Man Without A Past.

Last weekend I watched The Man Who Wasn't There and Austin Powers II.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Arthur, those folks are jokes to an extent, a catalogue of grotesques - but surely they are also a loving family, JN's daughter is clearly happy and in love, they are all good to her. I didn't think it was sneery, really.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Recently saw a brilliant movie I am astonished hasn't been mentioned here - Waking Life. Its finally out on DVD in Australia. I was impressed not just with the unique animation method, but the concept/plot/what have you as well.

Also recently saw Ghostworld, was drunk, didn't enjoy it, know this is Very Wrong and must see it again.

Ah, and Bowling for Columbine. Everyone must see this. With a very open mind.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

i would like to suggest seeing "ratcatcher". it is about a poor family living in public housing ca. 1973 in glasgow. mildly depressing, beautiful imagery, some sweetie kids and some cockfarmer kids too

― ron (ron), Saturday, 15 February 2003 02:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin--I think you can portray a family as loving and decent, and still have a sneery attitude towards them. You're right about the daughter, though. She was the only dignified character in the entire movie. I have to say that there were some really devastating scenes dealing with grief and aging. But they were few and far between. My biggest problem with the movie, though, was that I just didn't find it funny. At all.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 15 February 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Double Jeopardy: "I'm gonna arrest you for stupidity!" = FUCK YOU YOU SQUARE. It was fine and unbearable really.

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Saturday, 15 February 2003 03:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just saw City of God. It was very good. I had gotten the impression that is was a bit darker than it really was. i am bad at critiquing mvoies but it is a good film.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 15 February 2003 06:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, Arthur, my chance to say: I larfed non-stop and so did Andrew L.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 15 February 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I watched sex and lucia lat monday. very funny. I liked that the middle aged couple walked out after abt half hour into the movie: I wondered if they did that beacuse it got 'too hot' and they wanted to try out some of the ideas in the movie or because they were disgusted at the sex scenes.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 15 February 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Horror of Dracula
Hound of the Baskervilles (w/Cushing and Lee)
The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers
Fargo

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 15 February 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

five months pass...

Hulk
The Tuxedo
Audition
Rambo II

to see:
MST3K the movie
Battle Royale

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 27 July 2003 08:33 (twenty years ago) link

the hulk
charlie's angels full throttle
punch drunk love
charlie's angels
blue crush
do the right thing
the last boy scout
girls just wanna have fun (x2)

― minna (minna), Sunday, 27 July 2003 08:40 (twenty years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Legally Blonde 2
Visitor Q (didn't finish this, it was too sick)
Battle Royale

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 25 August 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

water drops on burning rocks
masked and anonymous
blood work
fury

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 25 August 2003 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator

― hstencil, Monday, 25 August 2003 19:38 (twenty years ago) link

Mutiny on the Bounty
Swimming Pool
Scarface (Sosa's assassin = Sol from Pi, wtf)
La Grande Bouffe

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

25th hour
the hulk
bowling for columbine
phone booth (urgh)(that's an expression of discomfort btw)
donnie darko
terminator 3
all about my mother

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 25 August 2003 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Dances With Wolves
Bull Durham
Halloween
A Decade Under the Influence

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 25 August 2003 22:09 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

last night i watched SHAKEDOWN with PETER WELLER and SAM ELLIOT in GRITTY 1988 NYC. terrible and often implausible and incomprehensible but totally fun to watch. obligatory action sequence on the cyclone!

― get bent, Friday, 8 February 2008 04:50 (sixteen years ago) link

i think alex in nyc would like this movie, though.

― get bent, Friday, 8 February 2008 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Film Comment-style, what are the last ten films you saw?

Nothing Personal (2009, Urszula Antoniak)
Sadgati [Deliverance] (1981, Satyajit Ray)
Get Out of the Car (2010, Thom Andersen)
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010, Peter Miller)
Poison (1991, Todd Haynes)
Bad Girl (1931, Frank Borzage)
Let Me In (2010, Matt Reeves)
Morning Glory (2010, Roger Michell)
The Tin Drum (1979/2010, Volker Schlondorff)
Summer and Smoke (1961, Peter Glenville)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Let Me In
Le Cercle Rouge
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (I have an excuse)
The Secret of Kells
Alphaville
Straight Time
Sensation (Irish movie with no real release yet)

I'm drawing a blank beyond these 7, watched a lot of old/new TV dramas lately so not as many films.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link

Zatôichi (2003, Takeshi Kitano)
Day of the Dead (1985, George A. Romero)
Despicable Me (2010, Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud)
The Legend of Drunken Master (1994, Chia-Liang Liu & Jackie Chan)
The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky)
Scanners (1981, David Cronenberg)
Nosferatu (1922, F.W. Murnau)

All I can remember too

― Harry Boors (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 November 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link

The Project
Something Wild
When will I be loved?
Mulholland Dr
Scenes From a Marriage
Friday
The Sender
The Rachel Papers
Into the Night
Soul Kitchen

― johnny crunch, Monday, 15 November 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link

Two Mules for Sister Sara
Cosmotropia de Xam's SU (Surrealistica Uniferno)
Vincent & Theo
Lust for Life
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Dario Argento's Inferno
Repo Man
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Angel Heart
Simon King of the Witches

(no real dogs, except for Lust for Life)

― David Allah Coal (sexyDancer), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link

mccabe & mrs miller
lift to the scaffold
les amants
le feu follet

this weekend saw

red desert
in the realm of the senses
the river
barry lyndon

all on a big screen

and

days of heaven
juliet of the spirits
the house of mirth

coming up next weekend. psyched, esp for my 1st big-screen malick.

― rent, Monday, 15 November 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Cropsey (2009, Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman)
The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
Kings of Pastry (2009, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker)
Catfish (2010, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman)
The Town (2010, Ben Affleck)
About Last Night... (1986, Edward Zwick)
Whip It (2009, Drew Barrymore)
Mother (2009, Bong Joon-ho)
No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Runaways (2010, Floria Sigismondi)

― jaymc, Monday, 15 November 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link

Have been watching one a day: Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, The Fog, Escape From New York
Tonight: The Thing
Tomorrow: Christine
Lined up for the days after that: Starman, Big Trouble in Little China, Prince of Darkness, They Live, In the Mouth of Madness, Village of the Damned, Escape from L.A., Vampires, Ghosts of Mars

(12 on DVD, 4 as avi)

― StanM, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link

I'm Gonna Explode (2009, Gerardo Naranjo)
The Boy With Green Hair (1946, Joseph Losey)
I'll Come Running (2006, Spenser Parons) - Left me freaked out because my best friend is a ringer for Melonie Diaz
Unmade Beds (2009, Alexis Dos Santos) - It falls apart when you think about it (homeless immigrants in London will likely not find themselves living out the hipster dream), but still exhilirating.
Marie Antoinette (1938, W. S. Van Dyke) - This movie should have lauched a thousand camp revivals by now.
Earrings of Madame De... (1953, Max Ophuls)

― R Baez, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link

Nenette and Boni (Denis, 1997) (print)
I Can't Sleep (Denis, 1994) (print)
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (Costa, 2001) (print)
The Aviary/Nymphlight/Fable of Fountains (Cornell/Burkhardt, 1957-1970) (prints)
Dripping Water (Snow/Wieland, 1969) (print)
Straight and Narrow (Tony/Beverly Conrad, 1970) (print)
Razor Head (Tom/Ken Chomont, 1984) (print)
Dervish Machine (Er0s/Li0tta, 1992) (print)
Garden Path (Reed/ Brakhage, 2002) (print)
It Felt Like A Kiss (Adam Curtis, 2009) (.avi)

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 15 November 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link

been hittin up the IFC Ctr, eh Colin?

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 November 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link

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