damnit…what’s with all the delays lately?! the road was one of the few upcoming films i was looking forward to…
i’m guessing this is sigley…
i read that the movie didn’t screen well so they’re re-editing it and fixing some things
probably will turn into I Am Legend
at least they can’t delay Zack and Miri since they’ve been promoting the hell out of it all month
fanboys has been delayed since aug 2007 and now its not coming out until feb 2009, ridiculous
plus they’re erratic with their HD releases canceling stuff
did they ever resolve the issues with fanboys? which release are we getting?
Oldboy is a dope movie.
last night I watched a classic i hadnt seen in years…Man’s Best Friend. Ally Sheedy, Lance Henrikson…movie cant eb more than 87 minutes long but it’s all good.
“We’re no dealing with man’s best friend anymore…”
Also Underworld 3 trailer looks somewhat enjoyable.
saw5 any good?
I’m sure it will live down to the first four.
I’m of the opinion that Charlie Kaufman is perhaps the greatest living screenwriter, so I’m really excited to see this:
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If my town doesn’t get it, I’m gonna kick a puppy.
i agree with your opinion of kaufman’s writing.
I liked Burn After Reading enough, not one of their best, but fun none the less. It almost felt like a goofy Altman film, or even a parody of one.
Any word on when Martyrs is hitting DVD?
I loved Burn After Reading. One of my fave films this year. Top 5 for sure.
I just watched a shit load of Shakespeare movies. My thoughts on them:
Throne of Blood (Akira Kurosawa’s Macbeth as Samurai flick with Toshiro Mifune)
- Toshiro Mifune exudes emotion despite his face being constantly fixed in Noh-like expressions.
- Lady Macbeth is way more evil than usual.
- The movie would have been much better if Kurosawa followed the movie rule of showing, instead of just telling. This is probably the censors fault instead of his.
- Instead of Macduff killing him, Macbeth is instead shot full of arrows by his own men as the armies of his enemies approach the castle.
- The film is similar to Polanski’s Macbeth in that it ends pessimistically with a lamentation for Macbeth’s castle, which has been razed and its inhabitants presumably enslaved/massacred (basically what usually happened when your castle got sacked in the Middle Ages). After all, wasn’t it every samurai’s ambition to be the lord of his own castle?
Macbeth (Roman Polanski one)
- probably the best screen Macbeth
- excellent cinematography
- The imaginary dagger as some kind of arrow guiding Macbeth was cheesy.
- The crowning of Macbeth as king was awesomely paganistic
- I don’t understand the fuss about the nude sleepwalking scenes
- The voiceovers could have been better integrated into the film.
- Jon Finch was excellent as Macbeth. Francesca Annis was mediocre as Lady Macbeth. She was probably cast for her looks.
- The final scene was fucking epic. One of my favorite final fights in any movie ever.
- The pessimistic epilogue where Donalbain (?) is about to consult the witches was an interesting touch of Polanski’s.
Henry V (Kenneth Branagh one)
- Probably the best Shakespeare adaptation ever.
- Lots of epic scenes.
- Derek Jacobi has a fucking epic voice.
- Branagh’s massive ego shines through sometimes though and you can easily see how he could go from such heights to a Frankenstein movie consisting of him running around shirtless for two hours.
Hamlet (Franco Zeferelli one with Mel Gibson)
- Mel Gibson is surprisingly competent as Hamlet.
- Disturbingly Oedipal.
- Mel Gibson’s Hamlet has the best reason for not killing Claudius while he prays: He killed his father and fucked his mother which is all Hamlet ever really wanted to do throughout his entire life. Claudius took this away from him. Hamlet doesn’t want to kill him while he is praying as that will send Claudius to heaven and Hamlet wants him to burn in hell for all eternity.
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh one)
- Jack Lemmon sucks. Billy Crystal does too but not nearly as bad as Lemmon. To open the film with him was a huge mistake.
- Charlton Heston as the Player King is probably his best role ever.
- Branagh needs an editor.
- Nice interiors
- not Oedipal at all. more like a struggle between good and evil
- Best to be or not to be scene ever
- Hamlet’s depression has a reason in this one.
- The Kenneth Branagh cliche shot of the camera randomly circling around Branagh in his movies is still here. Not as bad as Frankenstein but still there.
- The film has moments of brilliance but is deeply flawed.
Scotland, PA
- so much blown potential
- Walken is great as always
- only amusing when it could have been ROFLMAOOL while shitting my pants kind of funny.
so i watched the counterfieters (sp) for the 2nd time and damn if that movie is fucking amazing…
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In the Halloween spirit, I rewatched 1408 last night. It loses points for not doing anything especially new or memorable, but it’s a well-made little thriller that makes use of real suspense instead of blood ‘n’ guts.
1408, like most movies of it’s genre, was much scarier at the beginning than the end. it seems once they let the movie take control instead of your imagination, it just stops being so frightening. this is why movie like the haunting(OG) are so frightening, they let your imagination do part of the work…i thought some parts of the short story should have been in the movie, especially the part about the hotel room door seeming different each time he looked at it…
It helps a lot that John Cusack is both talented and likable. His personality gives the audience something to invest themselves in after the narrative starts to peter out.
pride and glory was pretty good. I think I like it better than departed(falls in the same category)
“thursday” was awesome. its pretty random like tarantino movies http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124901/
my favorite shakespeare movie is tromeo and juliet.
watched Halloween 4 over the weekend and most of Halloween 6. I forget just how bad H6 is on a purely filmmaking level. And Paul Rudd’s acting…wtf? I’ve seen the movie probably 20 times and I still dont know wtf is going on.
Agreed, and I’ve been waiting for this movie for a long time now, looks great. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is probably the greatest collaboration in recent years.
This weekend I was helping my friend shoot a movie for his film class and as always we got into a heated debate about our favorite topic MOVIES! anyways why is it that screenwriters don’t get the recognition producers and especially directors do? I understand directors are responsible for everything you see on screen and producers also deserve recognition to a lesser extent for their investments but it’s the screenwriter from which the film spawns from it’s his/her IP from which everything follows so why do directors get much more public acclaim?