FAST

film criticisms/review!

Little Miss Sunshine
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449059/
10/10
-comedy/drama for the off-key sub-masses

Snakes On A Plane
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417148/
9/10
-marked down due to lack of surfing

Slasher
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375073/
6/10
-YOU DIRECTED THE FUCKING BLUES BROTHERS. YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN A BORING DOCUSUCKFEST!

Liam
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0255321/
10/10
-The director of High Fidelity makes one of the most balanced, tightly written and cinematographed films I’ve ever scene. A tiny bit too much color toning, but not enough to make me puke like Gladiator.

The Big Lebowski
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/
10/10
-single best film ever made.

Repoman
9.5/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/
-An amazing cult film with Emelio Estevez singing Black Flag songs, aliens, and air freshners.

“come” can be used as a verb

I’m gonna fuck you so hard, you’ll be coming out of your ears. Fuck you…

today’s movie study was the first third of The Triplets of Belleville, it was going to be Closer , but my parents are around and I didn’t think they needed to know that Jude Law’s cum tastes sweeter than Clive Owen’s. Sorry! Was that a spoiler!

Tonight is poker night. Oh yes. I enjoyed Triplets of Belleville (I’ve seen the first hour 3 times now, but still not the ending). I think it does well structurally while not being too predictable.

That’s the dangerous thing about movies, if you write purely archetecturally the piece ends up with no soul – Another generic stupid run of the mill hollywood movie that requires Jim Carrey to make it even marketable (Jim Carrey is not worth 20 million, sorry). If you go to the other extreme you end up with pieces that are too unwatchable or just a mesh of abstraction.

Sam Fuller screamed “Story!” when asked what made a good movie, but I think it’s a bit more, story being the most important. Yet storytelling as an art, is so much of the same thing. I don’t know where I’m going with this.

Superman

Enough Superman Returns plotholes to keep you laughing

Quick movie review

Old Boy (2003)

This amazing Korean film is slated for a U.S. remake in 2006 by some hack director. After watching the brilliant cinemathography, acting, blocking, mood, style, it’s really obvious that the U.S. version is going to be a complete pile of crap.

Dear Americans:
Learn to read fucking subtitles without bitching!

Dear Holywood[sic]:
Learn to remake movies only 50 years old or older!

Skeezy capitalist fucks. They’d whore your grandmother on the corner if it could get them $5. But back to the topic. I think parts of this film will definately be lost in an American remake, but as an American without a vast knowledge of Korean culture, I found the movie VERY accessible. Lastly, if you don’t like plot twists and thinking during movies – don’t watch this one.

Final score: 9.5/10

stuff

Happy birthday Mike K. Keep up the good work, whatever it is you do.

in the news: UK agency tech head points out that it would be cheaper to give each citizen a free iPod for digital authentication than to issue ID cards.

Crotch’s May day wish list:

later we’ll be playing this:

both images stolen from Thrifty Cent

Steve’s no shit movie reviews!

What the Bleep do we know?: 1/3 good physics movie 2/3 new age crap. Why do I say it’s ‘new age crap’? Because Ramtha the conquering spirit of atlantis is one of the “talking head” experts of the film!!! Yeah, that’s right, a cult figure con artist is to be taken seriously. Also much of what they say about Emoto is taken at face value and even Heisenberg’s work (which is well on it’s way to being disproven by modern physics) is considered fact. Any scene with Marlee Matlin (the star) is crap as well.

Rating: 5/10

Dogville
If you can sit through 3 hours of this movie (it doesn’t get too boring, but I’d take a slight intermission halfway), it really does pay off. There are few films that I see which I would call innovative, which Dogville is. It’s peculiar in the minimalist sets, but you get used to them quickly and it’s a great STORY, which is what I think the Dogme 95′ing Lars Von Trier was trying to highlight by underscoring the set and location. Also using the stage the way he does he’s able to use some very creative devices to help the story.

Rating: 9/10

I’m thinking of getting a new LJ. Suggestions for livejournal names???

Quick Film Reviews!

King Kong (2005)

The first half hour = 10/10
The other 2.5 hours = 0/10

total = 3 out of 10

Quick Movie Review

Syriana (2005):
This movie runs 126 minutes. If you watch both hours I rate this movie a 2/10. If you watch only the second hour 7/10.

Dodgeball (2004)
You’ve already seen this movie, so don’t bother reading my review! (7/10) The best B-movie I’ve seen hollywood make in a while! A lot of this film is limp, but it’s funny, which is the point.

No one will read this til I’m famous, but hey… I’m big in Japan.

A letter to me about the Black Mail Pictures”

Dear Mr. Pseudonym,

You wrote:
“If you would like to work for us/with us you must agree to our 3 core philosophic views:

1. We believe in independent film. We believe that independant film consistantly overreaches Hollywood in quality of art and creativity.

2. We are against the status quo. “Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it” – Bertolt Brecht.

3. We create films for their contribution to art and argument, not for the money. We hope to one day be able to live off of our film work, but if not, then so be it.”

As to point #1, I can tell you that I don’t believe in “independent film.” Nor do I believe in branding dozens of competing film/television/record/interactive media studios under one name “Hollywood.” I believe in good movies, be they made by James Cameron or by John Cassavetes. It really doesn’t matter much to me, just as long as they’re good.

Short Review

Dummy (2002).

7/10 stars, romance comedy with really colorful splashes of ingenuity. Milla Jovovich as a jewish headbanger made me swoon. Also Illeana Douglas is in the movie which made me go “who the fuck is that?!?!?!” the whole movie, then after a trip to IMDB I realized she’s the art teacher from Ghost World.

Best line not on IMDB:

Are you Jewish?
-I’m Italian.
Same thing!

How’d I miss this one?

This is one of the best articles on art I’ve read in a while. One of the few Alan Woods articles where he starts talking about one thing (Breton) then goes off on a tangent (to surrealism, then to marxism/art).

Surrealism expresses a contradictory (illogical) view of reality. It seeks to express the element of violence and savagery that lurks underneath the thin veneer of bourgeois civilization. The polite manners and “good taste” of bourgeois society is really just a façade that conceals the most terrible suffering, exploitation and repression. Surrealism tears aside the veil of polite hypocrisy and reveals the ugly and repulsive reality that lies behind it.

Paradoxically, the man whose name is most frequently associated with this revolutionary school, Salvador Dali, was a servile defender of the status quo, politically right wing, an admirer of Hitler and Franco, a monarchist and a lackey of the wealthy establishment. Luis Bunuel, by contrast, was a genuine revolutionary. He was sacked for making an atheist film, from which Dali typically disassociated himself, for which Bunuel rewarded him with his fists.

The rest of the article:
http://www.marxist.com/death-andre-breton-revolutionary290905.htm