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Harry Nilsson doco. Usually these films make you want to get their stuff, this did too up to a point. He just became sort of annoying as it went on.
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Magic Magic. Effective Polanski-eaque psychological thriller about a woman with an unspecified mental disorder who begins to lose the plot on a holiday in Chile. Same director as the aforementioned Crystal Fairy. Impressive turns by Juno Temple in the lead and Michael Cera who plays another spoiled American acting the dick in Chile.
The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963)
Chris Lee, Nazi's, Hooded Maniacs in a spooky castle. More gothic madness by the guy who gave us The Long Hair of Death and Castle of Blood (not quite as good as those 2 but an enjoyable watch all the same).
Chris Lee, Nazi's, Hooded Maniacs in a spooky castle. More gothic madness by the guy who gave us The Long Hair of Death and Castle of Blood (not quite as good as those 2 but an enjoyable watch all the same).
Prisoners.
There's a scene at the very start of this where Wolverine (Sorry Hugh Jackman) explains his world view. It basically involves people going crazy if they can't get to the supermarket for a few days. This is supposed to explain why it's important that his son learn to fire a rifle. Yes, that's right, that actually happens.
From the get go this is the kind of american thriller which is performed at at an almost hysterical pitch.
It's got easily the worst trailer of the year and the film takes nearly 40 or so minutes to finally catch up with what the trailer show's you. Thankfully that's only about one third of the film so if you stick with it through what is really just it's opening act then it does finally settle down into a decent cop thriller with very strong performances. Hugh Jackman is excellent as a very unsympathetic father who takes the law into his own hands. Jake Gyllenhaal is also good as a driven and cop lacking in people skills. There's good support from Maria Bello as a woman having a nervous breakdown for two hours and Terence Howard as the films moral compass and of course Paul Dano is excellent as a weak simpleton. It looks great as all Roger Deakins films do and over all once the film settles down it's very watchable, suitably tense well paced and scripted and despite taking a few twists too many it does enough to keep you guessing without being just down right silly.
In the end this is a good thriller, probably one of the best of the year but to be frank that simply places it alongside Side Effects which is probably the only other out and out thriller worth it's salt. I guess we'll have to wait with bated breath until the next Ben Affleck effort arrives. Who the fuck would have ever thought you'd ever hear anyone say that ?
Worth a look but don't think too hard about it.
There's a scene at the very start of this where Wolverine (Sorry Hugh Jackman) explains his world view. It basically involves people going crazy if they can't get to the supermarket for a few days. This is supposed to explain why it's important that his son learn to fire a rifle. Yes, that's right, that actually happens.
From the get go this is the kind of american thriller which is performed at at an almost hysterical pitch.
It's got easily the worst trailer of the year and the film takes nearly 40 or so minutes to finally catch up with what the trailer show's you. Thankfully that's only about one third of the film so if you stick with it through what is really just it's opening act then it does finally settle down into a decent cop thriller with very strong performances. Hugh Jackman is excellent as a very unsympathetic father who takes the law into his own hands. Jake Gyllenhaal is also good as a driven and cop lacking in people skills. There's good support from Maria Bello as a woman having a nervous breakdown for two hours and Terence Howard as the films moral compass and of course Paul Dano is excellent as a weak simpleton. It looks great as all Roger Deakins films do and over all once the film settles down it's very watchable, suitably tense well paced and scripted and despite taking a few twists too many it does enough to keep you guessing without being just down right silly.
I'm putting this in spoiler tags in case you've managed to ignore the trailer.
The main flaw with this film and this kind of typically - American films of it's nature, is that this is at it's core - a film in which the central premise involves a vigilante torturing a simpleton for information (Yes that's in the trailer... for fuck sake) I mean, that could be the premise for a Michael Haenke film and yet here it's played without any sense of morals or judgment. There's rarely a sense that Jackmans torturer is actually wrong. Howards character offers scant debate as to his actions and there is never any recrimination for his behaviour. The opening scene in which Jackman explains his view that people turn on each other once the supermarkets stay closed for a few days is almost carries an implication that it's American society - a society in which the individual must protect his own interests at all costs and in which fear is almost currency, a factor which allows for the suspension of basic morality- which allows for this kind of action. That polite moral society is simply a veneer, as the Joker put it "once the shit hit's the fan these people will eat one another" (Or something to that affect) It's something you rarely see taken for granted so readily in European cinema. That in spite of the fact that Europeans slaughtered each other en masse three times in the last century.
This is an adult film, aimed at adults and yet it never manages to engage with it's most adult themes. What's surprising is that unlike Zero Dark Thirty which was somewhat ambiguous in it's approach to it's depiction of torture and was debated and often castigated by liberal media. this film and many like it, however, can be filed more comfortably under straight fiction and thusly ignored. This in spite of the fact that it's depictions of loaded moral issues and subtle suggestion that it's an inherent part of the wider society are far more pernicious than anything that the frankly equally fictitious ZDT had to offer.
The main flaw with this film and this kind of typically - American films of it's nature, is that this is at it's core - a film in which the central premise involves a vigilante torturing a simpleton for information (Yes that's in the trailer... for fuck sake) I mean, that could be the premise for a Michael Haenke film and yet here it's played without any sense of morals or judgment. There's rarely a sense that Jackmans torturer is actually wrong. Howards character offers scant debate as to his actions and there is never any recrimination for his behaviour. The opening scene in which Jackman explains his view that people turn on each other once the supermarkets stay closed for a few days is almost carries an implication that it's American society - a society in which the individual must protect his own interests at all costs and in which fear is almost currency, a factor which allows for the suspension of basic morality- which allows for this kind of action. That polite moral society is simply a veneer, as the Joker put it "once the shit hit's the fan these people will eat one another" (Or something to that affect) It's something you rarely see taken for granted so readily in European cinema. That in spite of the fact that Europeans slaughtered each other en masse three times in the last century.
This is an adult film, aimed at adults and yet it never manages to engage with it's most adult themes. What's surprising is that unlike Zero Dark Thirty which was somewhat ambiguous in it's approach to it's depiction of torture and was debated and often castigated by liberal media. this film and many like it, however, can be filed more comfortably under straight fiction and thusly ignored. This in spite of the fact that it's depictions of loaded moral issues and subtle suggestion that it's an inherent part of the wider society are far more pernicious than anything that the frankly equally fictitious ZDT had to offer.
In the end this is a good thriller, probably one of the best of the year but to be frank that simply places it alongside Side Effects which is probably the only other out and out thriller worth it's salt. I guess we'll have to wait with bated breath until the next Ben Affleck effort arrives. Who the fuck would have ever thought you'd ever hear anyone say that ?
Worth a look but don't think too hard about it.
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Blackfish
I recently got into trouble for suggesting that Human beings are dreadful and should be culled. Then I got in more trouble on this forum for suggesting that killing a Lion was equivalent to killing 3,000 people and so the perpatrators should be summerearilly executed Bin Laden style. So it's not surprising that Blackfish made my fucking blood boil.
This is a documentary about a killer whale. Not a "Killer Whale" a KILLER whale. Got it ?
Considering the name of the species has the word "killer" in the fucking title whale it's pretty amazing to me that humans ever get surprised when one kills something. Of course they're always refered to here as Orcas rather than Killer Whales. That would just be confusing right ? Or maybe it would just seem too fucking ridiculous to be making a film about a killer killer whale.
How they ever got to the point where they thought It would be a good idea to capture these animals and then "train" them to perform tricks for baying idiots who spend a fucking fortune watching one of natures greatest, most intelligent, graceful animals swim in fucking circles in what's the equivalent of a fucking jail cell. It beggars belief really. Haven't these cunts seen King Kong ?
Zoos are somewhat different and there is an ambiguity to their historical existence. Seaworld on the other hand baffles me. I mean where as humans and lions tigers and bears (Oh My!!!) do share the same space and thusly it's important to know as much as you can about their physiognomy (which is the reason that zoos where invented) the only thing you really need to know about whales is to stay out of their way and not kill them. Fucking simple. I don't see what you can learn from having them wave a flipper at half wits and frankly from having watched this film I don't get the impression that the only thing ever learned by anyone at Seaworld is that commercialism and capitalism has no fucking heart.
This isn't quite as good as Project Nim, but it is as infuriating. The treatment of the animals and the humans is beyond deplorable and the film suggests that whales only kill humans when the humans charged with their "care" essentially abuse them over a life time. It makes for disturbing watching. Unfortunately the fact that Seaworld decline to be interviewed makes the film unbalanced. Some of the actions of the corporate giant have to be seen to be believed and it would have been fascinating to see how the fuck they can defend some of their actions.
This is a CNN film and as such it suffers from some of the mawkish tendancies for which U.S TV news is renowned. Still it's worth a look. Especially as propaganda for my human culling campaign.
I recently got into trouble for suggesting that Human beings are dreadful and should be culled. Then I got in more trouble on this forum for suggesting that killing a Lion was equivalent to killing 3,000 people and so the perpatrators should be summerearilly executed Bin Laden style. So it's not surprising that Blackfish made my fucking blood boil.
This is a documentary about a killer whale. Not a "Killer Whale" a KILLER whale. Got it ?
Considering the name of the species has the word "killer" in the fucking title whale it's pretty amazing to me that humans ever get surprised when one kills something. Of course they're always refered to here as Orcas rather than Killer Whales. That would just be confusing right ? Or maybe it would just seem too fucking ridiculous to be making a film about a killer killer whale.
How they ever got to the point where they thought It would be a good idea to capture these animals and then "train" them to perform tricks for baying idiots who spend a fucking fortune watching one of natures greatest, most intelligent, graceful animals swim in fucking circles in what's the equivalent of a fucking jail cell. It beggars belief really. Haven't these cunts seen King Kong ?
Zoos are somewhat different and there is an ambiguity to their historical existence. Seaworld on the other hand baffles me. I mean where as humans and lions tigers and bears (Oh My!!!) do share the same space and thusly it's important to know as much as you can about their physiognomy (which is the reason that zoos where invented) the only thing you really need to know about whales is to stay out of their way and not kill them. Fucking simple. I don't see what you can learn from having them wave a flipper at half wits and frankly from having watched this film I don't get the impression that the only thing ever learned by anyone at Seaworld is that commercialism and capitalism has no fucking heart.
This isn't quite as good as Project Nim, but it is as infuriating. The treatment of the animals and the humans is beyond deplorable and the film suggests that whales only kill humans when the humans charged with their "care" essentially abuse them over a life time. It makes for disturbing watching. Unfortunately the fact that Seaworld decline to be interviewed makes the film unbalanced. Some of the actions of the corporate giant have to be seen to be believed and it would have been fascinating to see how the fuck they can defend some of their actions.
This is a CNN film and as such it suffers from some of the mawkish tendancies for which U.S TV news is renowned. Still it's worth a look. Especially as propaganda for my human culling campaign.
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Don Jon. I lasted 15 minutes. Godawful.
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Drinking Buddies. Average comedy drama about the romantic lives a bunch of hipsters who work at a brewery in Chicago. Didn't care much for any of the characters except for Ron Livingstone who's a bit of an aul smoothie. It's been on a few best of 2013 lists but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.
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Revanche. Excellent Austrian thriller. The less you know about the plot he better but it involves an ex con and a prostitute planning a robbery and takes many unexpected turns from there. Johannes Krisch, the lead in this is brilliant. He has a great face, sort of like a depressed, Austrian Robert Carlyle. One for fans of the likes of Michael Haneke and Jacques Audiard.
Despicable Me 2. Probably not as good as the first one, but VG all the same.
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That's a lot longer than Don Jon having a wank.
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Horror Hospital on VHS. Very ropey but enjoyable british horror from 1973. Was Robin Askwith really only 22 when he made this film? He has that Sid James type of complexion.
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Elysium. I really liked it. Great effects. Well staged action scenes which were way more coherent than District 9 which I thought was a bit of a mess. Jodie Foster is terrible though and Diego Luna is the least convincing gang member in cinema history.
Cormcolash
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It's no District 9PRAWWNNSSSS
jofy fosters' accent in that is a total shocker
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The Frozen Ground. Decent police procedural thriller based on a real life serial killer in Alaska. Made the mistake of watching this with my parents. It features a fair whack of nudity and sex talk : (
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yep
Bridesmaids. Yes, you heard. I'll admit there was laughter in places.
Last Days On Mars. Decent scifi / horror movie directed by the bloke that made this:
This:
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Worth a watch.
This:
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Worth a watch.
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