Movie Discussion Thread

[Brent]

I love Thin Red Line


as well as the other two

[fenikz]

just finished I'm Here a short film my Spike Jonze based off The Giving Tree, Loved the art direction and it's well done overall as well. If you have 30 minutes go watch it

[HeavyLeggedWaistBender]

I went and watched it, cool movie. Good, not great, but like you said the artistry was great. I had no idea how they did it until I watched the behind the scenes thing right after.

[jayceheathman]

Pretty awesome how they pulled off some of the shots. It is 38 minutes long though.

[LizardState]

Originally Posted by BuckNaked

Just finished The Sunset Limited..an hour and a half of straight dialogue.

Which is why it's brilliant.

Profoundly depressing, like a lot of Cormac McCarthy, but effing brilliant.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by BuckNaked

Just finished The Sunset Limited..an hour and a half of straight dialogue.

I really liked it a lot. Also, of course there was a lot of dialogue, it's a play.

[JF4]

Anyone who hasn't watched Inside Job or Exit Through The Gift Shop should do so immediately. Inside Job does a great job of dumbing down some pretty complicated economics jargon and really puts perspective on the immense impact that the financial industry has not only in the US but around the world.

I knew next to nothing about Banksy or the world of underground street art before i saw exit through the gift shop but I still loved it. Very original approach to a documentary. Kind of got me interested in that stuff, and makes you realize that there is a lot more meaning behind some 'graffiti' than you would think.

[CashmoneyDrew]

I'm cautiously optimistic for Super 8.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by JF4

I knew next to nothing about Banksy or the world of underground street art before i saw exit through the gift shop but I still loved it. Very original approach to a documentary. Kind of got me interested in that stuff, and makes you realize that there is a lot more meaning behind some 'graffiti' than you would think.

for a guy with no graffiti credibility making a documentary, he sure had a large showing for his art showing didnt he? Hmm...

[JF4]

Originally Posted by Brent

for a guy with no graffiti credibility making a documentary, he sure had a large showing for his art showing didnt he? Hmm...

Are you alluding to this doc being staged/fake? I remember reading something like that but don't really know enough about the subject to pass judgment.

Could you give me a brief summary of the conspiracy here? I'm intrigued.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by JF4

Could you give me a brief summary of the conspiracy here? I'm intrigued.

essentially, the guy is Banksy

[thefalconer]

Originally Posted by Brent

essentially, the guy is Banksy

no way. i refuse to believe banksy is that french pos.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by thefalconer

no way. i refuse to believe banksy is that french pos.

What if he's acting it up, or rather that's not the french dude's art, it's Banksy's?

[JF4]

Originally Posted by Brent

What if he's acting it up, or rather that's not the french dude's art, it's Banksy's?

If he is banksy he deserves the award for best actor lol.

[LizardState]

Originally Posted by Brent

for a guy with no graffiti credibility making a documentary, he sure had a large showing for his art showing didnt he? Hmm...

Taggers are upscale now, pick a Juxtapoz mag sometime. Too much graffiti, not enough actual painters, I let my subscription lapse.

I always marvel at the elaborate lettering they did upside down hanging from the rail on the fwy. overpasses in CA at 3 AM, completing a mural-scale work of many man hrs. & not getting busted for it, pretty remarkable.

Very glad that Inside Job won an Oscar though.

[Draft King]

Watched Mad Max today with pretty high expectations. Thought it was kinda ******.

[Brent]

Mad Max II is the one you want to see, not the first.

[Brodeur]

Yeah, Mad Max is kind of.......slow. Road Warrior is greatness though, like Brent referred to.

[Splat]

Ya, Mad Max sucks tried to watch it not to long ago for the first time didn't even finish it.

[LizardState]

Originally Posted by Brodeur

Yeah, Mad Max is kind of.......slow. Road Warrior is greatness though, like Brent referred to.

I read that the film Gibson did before MM was terrible, his Australian accent so bad they had to dub his lines like Schwarzenegger's in Hercules in NY.

Max looks like it was the victim of a severely limited low budget.



The Road Warrior is arguably the best ever Mel Gibson role, an equal with his Hamlet. It's a terrific improvement over MM & a cinema classic.

That movie is unsettling, very disturbing, gave me nightmares. It set the tone for the much imitated post-apocalyptic dystopia-setting archetypal hero films. Great script & cinematography, best chase scene filmed on a hwy. ever at the end.

Not a big fan of Thunderdome though.

[JF4]

Hall Pass was dece, 7/10. **** you RT reviewers for not understanding this type of potty humor.

Smokeshow's everywhere in that movie. Paige the babysitter might have been the finest though.

[SuperMcGee]

With exception to Almost Famous, I can't ******* stand Kate Hudson. Not attractive enough for some sort of physical reprieve, either.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by SuperMcgee

With exception to Almost Famous, I can't ******* stand Kate Hudson. Not attractive enough for some sort of physical reprieve, either.

has she been in anything of note besides that?

[A Perfect Score]

Originally Posted by SuperMcgee

With exception to Almost Famous, I can't ******* stand Kate Hudson. Not attractive enough for some sort of physical reprieve, either.

I don't like her as an actress either, but Ive no idea what you are talking about with that not attractive business. Kate Hudson is absolutely gorgeous. Naturally gorgeous too, not manufactured looking.

[SuperMcGee]

I hear that all the time. I, personally, just don't see it.

Originally Posted by Brent

has she been in anything of note besides that?

In my mind - no. But my sisters always seem to have something on with her in it.