Sure. The answers aren’t new and exciting and maybe they could’ve stuck it to someone else for using too gdam much. But that was the lacking part, you’re right.
Again, I thought it opened very strongly and was going to kinda’ be like Koyaanisqatsi but with commentary.
Anyone seen Samsara?
Still working on getting Samsara. I thought I found it but it turned out to be that seen it all before drama about a Buddhist monk.
Finished watched The Comedy (2012) very good dark comedy drama (best way to describe it) focusing hipster existentialism. Tim and Eric are pretty good actors too.
Been wanting to see The Comedy for a while now but ATT refuses to put it on our On Demand for some reason. I would just get it off a game console but then I’d have to buy MS points or a PSN money card because I refuse to give either of them a credit card number.
About Midnight Meat Train
It was interesting how with so many big enough names, it didn’t break thru, or make people go out to see Ichi the Killer or other Japan/AZN cinema stuff in this vein. Basically it didn’t garner any buzz and fell under everyone’s radar. Sad to hear about a horror movie they were actually trying to do right and flesh out a small short story by Clive Barker fell in line with his not being so popular, and instead weakstuff with no story gets millions IE: “Stupid Horror + 3D!”
It also lacked a distributor for a long time until FEARnet put it up for free.
Strangest sex scene ever possibly. Not even awkward but ‘what is this a rape?!’, or exactly like Niji’s sig says.
Oh, I thought the director Kitamura was someone else with a different resume. Versus guy, that one that was fun and weird but kinda boring and of course made no sense.
& it just hit me, Midnight Meat Train was kinda like classic videogames plot, “Go save your girlfriend” but with that “you become a monster” twist, like one of my favorites, Splatterhouse.
Recently watched Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. I think his best film. Just wow. I think I put off watching it for so long because it’s three hours long and the marketing at the time of release (A love story/drama I believe) put me off.
It was so much more than a dumb love story.
Probably his best but hard to compare to something like There Will Be Blood.
Did you catch any of the Exodus 8:2 Easter Eggs scattered throughout the movie?
I really enjoyed Rubber. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/
Unique, Lynchian, and has a sense of humor. I love horror flicks that go into radically different territories.
Louis on an unrelated note…
Metropolis
The Conformist
Human Centipeed 2
GO!
The original Metropolis is a masterpiece. Not much more to say. It’s like reviewing The Godfather. I didn’t like the Anime Metropolis if that’s what you’re referring to.
The Conformist is not my favorite Bertolucci. I understand its importance in Italian cinema but I thought Last Tango in Paris, 1900, and The Dreamers were better films. I should watch The Last Emperor.
Human Centipede (correct spelling, cough) Part 2 I thought was better than the first film. Part 1 relies almost entirely on the concept of how horrible being stitched ass-to-mouth would be and doesn’t really go anywhere with the concept. Plus the acting and pacing is terrible. Part 2 has the bad acting of the first, but it’s not nearly as distracting. Partly because our leading man never speaks. I thought the idea behind it was a little more interesting and it got to the point much quicker and reveled in the gore. I wouldn’t call it a great film, but it knows what it is and delivers a fuck you gory nihilistic piece. So, if you’re in the mood for a gory “humanity is fucked” film I’d recommend it.
Yes original Metropoliis of course. Amazing what they did with the sets and special effects at that time. Excessive budget but still amazing and beautiful. Iconic really. Godfather is over rated cough cough
The Conformist has an interesting story but more importantly it still has some of the best cinematography I’ve ever seen. Italian film isn’t my thing but this was.
My buddies and I started a movie night series of stuff we wouldn’t normally watch on our own or classics or grinds and so on. It started with human syntapeeed and soon we moved onto stuff like the two above or the Secenth Seal or Enter The Void. Human centopud 2 has been looming but wanted it to be better than the first one. So thanks for recommendation.
Might drop El Toppo on them if no one else has seen it.
Good pick. Can’t go wrong with Jodorowsky’s other films like Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre, or Fando Y Lis.
If you really want to mind fuck them you might want to try Dr. Caligari:
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BTW: finished watching Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight and I liked the first 50 minutes then it took a hard right turn and became a different movie. Not bad, not great either.
You know, I’m not a fan of Will Ferrell comedies but I really like The Other Guys. Probably his best comedy.
I’ll try to watch Samsara by tomorrow.
I just watched Looper recently. Wow, what a great movie. I loved that they strayed from the usual “Time Paradox” excuse and instead kept it moving forward with a split. It was really great. Twists all around and the “action junkie” theme was brought in full force through the camera work and story telling. Like, his adrenaline rush had already taken the best out of him already and he was living on the scraps his dropping allowed. His dropping didn’t even incorporate itself into the story very well except when he started fiending at the barn. Those times he was at the bars dropping and at home dropping, it could easily have been alcohol only and the withdrawal scenes would’ve been worthless. I loved how they used it to give the film a greater meaning in the context of itself. Kinda like looped back on itself. So awesome.
What made it even better was the decision to finally make the killers seem like who they really are. Just a bunch of lame gangsters with nothing else in life but to find money for drugs and partying and the easiest way possible. How does the director/writer make “the perfect life” seem not so perfect? He adds a time limit. Holy shit, I did not see that one coming. It was interesting to me how even within the “time travel” theme they didn’t once really even give into it as deeply as most time traveling movies do. They continued the narrative and just kept the time as an aside, to complement any questions you might have. What a great film. Except for when he was counting down the time, I guess it went full force there but that’s a timing anyone can relate to. It was a quick life but we were able to fully relate with the character in that time because though it was only 30 years and even then only like 5 minutes to us, we saw it all. We already knew what he was doing when he wasn’t at the bar/club. That idea of knowing when you’re going to die and not knowing what. if anything. you can’t do. It’s like, sure I got one new limit but what about the rest. They’re virtually non-existent, those other limits. But how do you invite people into that life? Typical gangster life is a lonely life. Especially after time when you come to realize just how much potential for good you actually had. When you realize that your good wasn’t really that good at all. Knowing that the good woman you want will never be there for you because you were just too bad. The dread, the remorse, the yearning and in the end, the desire satisfying. He wasn’t left wanting. It was fulfilled. ( sorry if it sounds like a 5 year old wrote this, I just don’t like to decorate an intended authors meaning with my words. )
Did anyone find it funny that the time keepers for the rainman were sick jewish monks?
God, what a great film. We should drunk stream it one day, I think I can figure out a way to host it.
Finally watched Samsara. Fantastic pure visual film but like Koyaanisqatsi you have to be in the right frame of mind to properly experience it. Perfect 3S-stoner fuel though. Watching it may bring some kind of enlightenment or level you up to Parry-God status. Either/or.
The greatest Kung Fu Gore Comedy ever created.
i really need to watch that movie. I feel like I’ve been seeing clips of it for half my life, and its on NF now so I have no excuse.
The version on Netflix is not the English Dubbed version. It’s in Cantonese with subtitles and I gotta’ tell ya’ watching The Story Of Ricky (or Ricki or Ricki-ho or whatever) without the English Dub track is not nearly as much fun.
Rate in order ploxx:
Baraka
Samsara
Koyaanisqatsi
Manufactured Landscapes
Only saw Baraka (bought it on DVD many moons ago) and it’s still amazing. Manufactured Landscapes seemed boring but maybe I should give it another go.