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Film What's the Last Film You Saw? v. Tell Us What You Thought!

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Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.
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With the rock, Omar (the guy who plays him on the wire) and Jon Bernthal (the walking dead)

Enjoyed it, worth a watch I thought.
 
side effects. steven soderbergh is pretty hit and miss for me, but i liked this one. the story is told in a compelling way and jude law, who i normally don't care for, was pretty good in it. all around a solid 6/10.
 
^told you, bro.

best film of 2012.

tell you what, if you come over, i'll get a copy in 3d!
 
Yeah I enjoyed it, funny how there's that one guy on the imdb forums who just keeps mocking it, he seems to think it was utter shit. Is he right that it lost alot of money? And there probably wont be a sequel? That's a shame.
 
^ Yeah, it flopped in theaters. It made back only 36 million of its 45 million budget - the production company stipulated it would only fund a sequel if the movie grossed a total of 50 million. So, despite critical and fan acclaim, we probably won't be seeing a Dredd 2.
 
at first they said no sequel. karl urban hinted at a chance of one during a star trek press junket. we can only hope.

see you soon, bel. <3 ;)
 
Just watched Eraserhead. It was very slow, but interesting. I might watch again sometime, IDK. That's how I feel about his other film I saw, too, Inland Empire. Jack Nance played his awkward drone character quite well, and according to wiki kept that hairstyle for like 5 years or summat until filming was complete. +1!
 
^one of my all time favourites (seriously top three stuff). the sound is where it's at.

the suckling puppies and the suitcase under the bed are two utterly hilarious wtf moments. there are others, but those stand out.
 
^ My favorite part is the dinner scene.

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What a fucking movie.
 
Ahaha that fucking family, soooooo awkward...

Indeed, the sound makes the film. I have speakers & a sub hooked up to my laptop, so I got the full effect %). That movie's old as hell, but her song "In Heaven" could easily pass as some shit Pitchfork reviews if it had proper instrumentation behind it.
 
back in the day it was my favourite acid film (along with monty pythons the meaning of life, but for entirely different reasons). that high pitch synth in the radiator is the most mentally stimulating thing in the universe.
 
Late Autumn

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Three men attempt to set-up their dead friend's daughter (and eventually his wife) for marriage despite her reluctance. That's pretty much the whole movie, but like every other Ozu film, there's so much emotion and upheaval that churns under the surface of the seemingly stoic disposition of the actors that it feels deeper than my pithy plot description would suggest. In addition to the austere Japanese drama that Ozu is known for, there are also quite a few comedic moments which help drive the film's pace. The actress who plays Ayako (pictured above) is fantastic and perfectly portrays the "Modern Japanese Woman (of the 50s)" opposite to her mother's (Setsuko Hara) more traditional roots.

It really is amazing that Yasujiro Ozu managed to make so many films about the same topic (a daughter reluctant to marry) and still make them all feel unique and special. I love Ozu's color films - his composition technique benefits so much from an actual color palette (not to mention the great work from his Lighting Director) that I have a hard time investing myself in his earlier black and white efforts. It's too bad Ozu is so inaccessible for most Western audiences, because I think his films stand the test of time very well - you just really have to be familiar with Japanese society and tradition (as well as its post-war cultural shift) in order to truly appreciate his films. Shit, I can't even convince my friends to sit through a Kurosawa movie, let alone Ozu.

If anyone reads this and decides to check out a Yasujiro Ozu film, I would recommend 'Late Autumn', 'An Autumn Afternoon', 'Ohayo' ('Good Morning' in English), and Tokyo Story (which has held the #1 spot on the BFI's Sight & Sound poll "Best Films" list [the most respected film rankings in the world] more times than any other movie).
 
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Just saw Dredd for the first time, a DVD rental.

God, do I regret not seeing this blood-soaked gem in the theaters.
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Thank god I didn't. I watched it tripping. Gross. In 3D, on a screen ~10Xs as big, I would've likely puked in public. Highly detailed slow-motion gratuitous blood-letting and psychedelics don't mix. I watched it again just high and really enjoyed it, though. I've never read the comic but I watched the Silvester Stallone version as a kid and if this movie is representative of the tone of the comic like I've read then the earlier version was even more of a mockery than I imagined. Stallone's was like a kid's cartoon as I remember it, and despite the over-the-top violence and psychic partner this one has some fairly nasty themes n' scenes that almost push it into hard R "action-horror" territory.
 
I just got back from The Purge.

Though the film is uneven--horror movie cliches abound--its weaknesses are, IMO, offset by a strong and interesting premise that demands more exposition than the movie delivers. I give a solid three stars out of five, and would see it again; judging by the crowds and the reaction at tonight's showing, I think it will do quite well. Ethan Hawke needs a hit.
 
^the trailer gives me that exact impression. interesting concept, but how on earth does it make sense!
 
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Sense? It doesn't. But, I'm already seeing the critics saying stuff along the lines of, "WTF is going on here? Why the hell isn't this movie flopping?" As I already said, my experience of the audience reaction on opening night told me all I need to know about how this film will do at the box office. It will smash clearly superior flicks like "Dredd", and no one will know will know why, save for those who recognize that it appeals directly to what the American public wants, on some level. Christ, I haven't seen an audience respond like that to any movie on Friday like it did since "Scream", which of course was a big hit. Critics aren't going to know what to do with the popular response to "The Purge", and I'm eager to see the analysis.
 
makes perfect sense to me. isn't it a common fantasy over there to have wave after wave of bad guys attack you on a night where you have carteblanche use of firearms and other means of violence?

so, lots of violence + honourable motivation + no responsibility or negative consequence = winwinwin (yeeeeehaw!).
to me it makes sense to be a box office smash. :|

i just want to know what in that universe does such a night actually "purge" from society. :\
 
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