Oh, OK. I can't remember, were you one of Land's supporters or detractors (or ignorers)?
― Eric H., Friday, 14 September 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
detractor!
― s1ocki, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, i thought diary had one or brilliant moments but they just served to illuminate how dismal the rest of it was. land was like that too, only with more good stuff.
C'mon, even I like Land.
This authentic-camera stuff sounds mighty familiar (lame complaints vs Spielberg's WOTW).
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:25 (sixteen years ago) link
spielberg's wotw is a different thing though... i love that movie's POV.
― s1ocki, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Eric, Uhlich at 'House' sez it's "labyrinthine and multifaceted"
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
the premise of diary is basically that it's one of those "loose change" get-the-truth-out internet amateur docs.
― s1ocki, Friday, 14 September 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link
although in the context of what the movie's about it doesn't make that much sense.
OK, now that I know you were not a Land fan, I can be excited again. Dawn had dismal moments. Night had even more dismal moments. Day had tons of dismal moments. I think they're all brilliant.
― Eric H., Friday, 14 September 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I could definitely see Romero running with the "Loose Change" premise.
Morbs, I just found out The Man From London will have a screening at the Walker in late October ... when I planned my trip to Chicago! Ah well.
― Eric H., Friday, 14 September 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
the dismal : brilliant ratio in dawn of the dead is inversely proportional to same in diary of the dead.
― s1ocki, Friday, 14 September 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Forget Romero, forget De Palma. It sounds like the (totally expected) big fat misfire in play here is Argento's ill-advised trilogy-completing Mother of Tears.
― Eric H., Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
M'DA on the Romero (via private MB):
[Glenn Kenny's] review is about 16 kinds of dumb. As someone already noted, Kenny somehow got the impression that the movie admires its gaggle of dumbass college kids, which is a bit odd since he (Kenny) then goes on to call it "one of the most revealing and fascinating critiques of image-making since Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM." Uh, Glenn, those are the same kids you think Romero thinks are our future (in a positive sense) doing the very image-making you say the film is critiquing. Except this "critique" consists entirely of (a) one character refusing to ever put down the video camera and (b) various other characters noting aloud that he's obsessed with filming everything, in case we hadn't noticed. An arresting idea -- or so it seemed eight years ago in BLAIR WITCH, which is to DIARY OF THE DEAD as DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY is to CQ.
I want my Wack Experiment back. Show this movie to people with some unknown name on it rather than Romero's and I feel confident they'd recognize it for the mediocrity it is.
― Eric H., Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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ehhh seems like elizabeth and/or across the universe are the big WTFs this year.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Across the Universe was planned to be WTF though, it seems like.
― Eric H., Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
come on and dario argento movies aren't?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
ppl's reactions to elizabeth were pretty hilarious tho. i was planning to go see it drunk sunday night but i was too late for teh screening.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"Planned to be WTF," not just WTF. I don't know if I think Argento's movies are planned to be anything in particular at all.
― Eric H., Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Whereas Across the Universe looks forcibly WTF-ed.
― Eric H., Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
the argento movie features evil monkeys, a women strangled by her own bowels, and udo kier as a priest. that's wtf-planning if i've ever heard it.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, that sounds pretty good.
― Eric H., Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I may miss the Tarr at NYFF after all (I forgot I was going to the Mekons show).
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 17 September 2007 12:58 (sixteen years ago) link