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Tell us about the last film you watched, mate!

Straw Dogs

it was entertaining. i watched it in three sittings, which is terrible way to watch a movie. though i just about perfectly watched each act in one sitting.

it seems like it cannot make up it's mind between low and high brow. and it's not a like a cool or interesting blend of the two. i had a really hard time deciding whether peckinpah just is not much of an intellectual, or if there was really tons more going on than it appears. because:

david never really gets tough. he is a coward at the beginning, and a fool at the end. he puts the concept of "his house" and the life of a handicap pedophile over the safety of his wife. when an attacker sticks his head and gun through the window, david swings his club at the attackers shotgun barrel instead of the attacker--does the director peckinpah just not have an internal gorilla and really think that's how a man defends his home and wife, or is david still supposed to be coward on some level? what makes me think more is going on his david crawls to his wife (literally) when the fight comes down to one man v one man with fists. so when he decided he was going to fight everyone when they had guns, was he just being an idiot? why does he seem to care more about the (lennie-style) pedophile than his wife? i know at first it is about the concept of a man''s home, but after it is all over he seems to have a stronger connection with the lennie-character (who attacked his wife) than his wife.

and his wife is so hesitant to stand by him. she is afraid he cannot protect her--for obvious reasons. but he feels completely alienated from her and the country at the end of the movie, telling lennie he does not know his way home either.

i just do not understand what peckinpah is getting at. the wife seems at home in ireland, unlike david. she has a strange connection with one of her rapists (before and after). is she wrong in not standing by him, or is he wrong in feeling alienated by her? or is it just supposed to be tragic that he does not understand the trauma that is causing her behavior? it does not feel that way. i think david is a pussy with poor priorities from start to finish.

is Straw Dogs high brow enough that peckinpah is trying for deformation of mastery and we are supposed to have a protagonist who goes through a unhelpful enlightenment and leaves the movie only changed on the surface but still the same at the core? and what is who he is supposed to be say about the wife? anything?

sometime i gotta do some blog searching and see if anyone can convince me that the way this film turned out was intentional.

anyway, the actress who played the wife was a beauty and worked well on the screen. i'll be keeping an eye out for her.
 
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The set design and the way it was shot took my fancy but had little tolerance for the '50's dialogue(purely because my attention span is negative at the moment, so I didnt see the end~ I abhor the plastic 1950's, stereotypical dialogue; however this was poignant as it highlighted the fake atmosphere of the enviroment the characters were in ) but gave a great insight into social ignorance/naivety in the face of socio-political powers and juxtaposed this with human frailty, innocence with a kind of 'honest' romance.

* look out for the part, when the Dennis Quaid's Character's Secretary finds the Lamp in his office. ha ha ;)

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Repeated viewing for lulz =D<3


hydroazuanacaine said:
Straw Dogs

it seems like it cannot make up it's mind between low and high brow. and it's not a like a cool or interesting blend of the two. i had a really hard time deciding whether peckinpah just is not much of an intellectual, or if there was really tons more going on than it appears.
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This is exactly what makes it so interesting IMO! It's meant to make you feel uncomfortable, that is the intention; it draws out the viewers sense of ambiguity :)
 
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And the award for Worst Beard in a Film goes to . . . JAMES FRANCO! Come on up you no facial hair having mothafucka!

Seriously, it looked like a six year old took a sharpie and went to town on his face. This is 2011 people, you'd think a few decades after Teen Wolf came out they would have perfected this thing by now.

Anyways, the animations interjected throughout the movie really took away from the film as a whole and this is coming from someone who likes all this artsy fartsy kinda stuff. Although it did help me understand the poem a bit better, so take it for what its worth. It also came as a surprise to me, even being a fan of the Beat Generation, that Ginsberg was gay and going all Brokeback Mountain with none other than Neal Cassady himself. Mr. Dean fucking Moriarty!!

Decent flick, not great but worth looking into if you're a fan of Kerouac et al.

2/5
 
i saw bridesmaids over the weekend. it was rather terrible and i ended up falling asleep about 3/4 the way thru.
 
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Brest fortress.

As far as Russian movies go it was quite good on par with 9th company and better then Admiral (easy).
 
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I watched it expecting nothing and nothing is what I got. It's one of those movies that falls into Three's Company territory. Sample dialogue, not verbatim:

Vegas Baby - "Hey, I need to talk to you about something important. I will only take a minute and will save us from all the bullshit that's going to happen for the next hour and twenty minutes. Your..."

Mall Cop - "Shut up! I don't have time to listen to anything. Even it only takes a minute. I have to do stuff and whatnot."

Wedding Crasher - "OK. I understand, but.."

Forever Mall Cop - "Loud noises! Tantrums. Must...not...let...you...SPEAK! If you try and tell me again, I will rape your entire family! "

Fred Clause - "Well shit. Guess we have to do the rest of the movie now. Sorry audience, but you're watching a movie with me and fucking Mall Cop in it. Did you expect anything else? What? An ass to ass scene between Connelly and Ryder? Oh yeah you wish, pal."

Annnnnnnd scene.

I've got to stop letting my friend pick movies. She's really bad at it.
 
The Bunny and The Bull

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The Bunny and The Bull is an indie film made by Warped productions. The main character played by Edward Hogg (yes the mighty boosh) is a young male who has a case of agoraphobia to where he will not leave his house. This is due to a traumatic event on a European adventure with 2 close friends. Most of the movie tells of his flashbacks to the trip where it reveals what had happened, and all of the crazy things in between.

For the most part you can kinda guess the main parts of the story, but at the same time there is a bunch of stuff that you would never guess in a million years would ever come across these poor characters paths.

I rate it a 8.5/10 it kept my attention. Also the style they use for the flashbacks is amazing.
 
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Watched Donnie Darko for the first time last night. It was good, but I was watching it with friends and we kept chatting throughout the movie, so I wasn't paying the best attention (in a movie which pretty much demands that you pay attention!!).
I'll have to watch it again.

I must say that every time I watch a movie with Mollie Gyllenhaal in it, her appauling acting skills seriously distract me from being able to fully enjoy the movie. She is just awful :|
Jake is marginally better and I thought he was good as Donnie.
 
Molly > Maggie Same diff I suppose. Maggie was at her best bent over the desk in The secretary.

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Oh woops, yes I meant Maggie :)

Still, terrible actress :D


Oh and now I can say that I know where HisNameIsFrank's username comes from! =D
 
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n3ophy7e said:
Watched Donnie Darko for the first time last night. It was good, but I was watching it with friends and we kept chatting throughout the movie, so I wasn't paying the best attention (in a movie which pretty much demands that you pay attention!!).
I'll have to watch it again.
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You should watch it again--Excellent movie. :)

Also, have a peek at the website.
 
n3ophy7e said:
Watched Donnie Darko for the first time last night. It was good, but I was watching it with friends and we kept chatting throughout the movie, so I wasn't paying the best attention (in a movie which pretty much demands that you pay attention!!).
I'll have to watch it again.

I must say that every time I watch a movie with Mollie Gyllenhaal in it, her appauling acting skills seriously distract me from being able to fully enjoy the movie. She is just awful :|
Jake is marginally better and I thought he was good as Donnie.
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You should check out S. Darko next, its the movie about Donnie's younger sister, good movie, I bust'd a tear.. :[. good movie...

last movie i watched was
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good movie! once again it has highschool chicks in it! every good movie i've seen recently has abunch of highschool chicks.
i know megan foxx is over 18. so that was really nice LOL.
creepy movie, kinda weird at times. the sexy times made things a lot better :)
 
^ She's got some solid calf muscles going on there......... wonder if they're impants as well ;)
 
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You should check out S. Darko next, its the movie about Donnie's younger sister, good movie, I bust'd a tear.. :[. good movie...
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I thought S. Darko SUCKED--I know I finished it (I had to see where it was going), but I don't remember the ending. Maybe it was just my mindset but I didn't think it was anywhere near as good as Donnie Darko.
 
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easily my favorite film just because it's so fucking hot. James Spader is so swoon-worthy. <3

n3ophy7e said:
Watched Donnie Darko for the first time last night. It was good, but I was watching it with friends and we kept chatting throughout the movie, so I wasn't paying the best attention (in a movie which pretty much demands that you pay attention!!).
I'll have to watch it again.
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if you're able, n30, watch the director's cut with commentary. it made much more sense to me when it was explained. :)
 
^The Secretary! :) Hot and didnt take itself too seriously...

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Ally Sheedy(Havnt seen her in anything watchable for years!), Charlotte Rampling, Shirley Henderson, Cairan Hinds, Alison Janney and Paul(aka Pee Wee Herman) Rubens.

Dark, Multi-layered and comedic. Bad rating from IMDB-6.5-what do they know... I liked this alot. :) Like Solondz' Films.
 
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