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Film What's the Last Film You Saw? v. Tell Us What You Thought!
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MrGrunge
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Cannibal! The Musical - From Matt Stone and Trey Parker this film is a musical rendition of the tale of Alferd Packer, the first man in the United States to be convicted of cannibalism.
This is essentially Matt and Trey's first real film. Trey plays Alferd Packer, a man falsely accused of murdering and cannibalizing his traveling party after getting lost in the mountains in winter. It was shot on a really meager budget while they were still students at Colorado University (which, incidentally, caused them to fail a few classes), but aside from a few hackey performances and editing gaffes, the production quality is actually really good. If anything, the B-Movie quality gives it a bit of charm, which is probably why it was bought by Troma (that, and some pretty awesome bloody make-up effects). The songs are all as catchy and hilarious as you would expect from these guys. The songs, along with the ridiculous dialog and clever gags, make for a very interesting counter to a story which is actually pretty dark and brutal (although not as overtly offensive as their later work). Really, this whole movie is typical Matt and Trey fare, but it's got this wonderful sense of ambitious whimsy that can really only come some truly talented people who were given their first big shot. They poured their heart and soul into this movie, and it really shows. In that sense, it reminds me a lot of "South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut", and while I don't think "Cannibal!" is quite as good, it's got a certain spirit to it that isn't very common these days.
Shpadoinkle Recommended.
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aww yeah.
I should start posting reviews. McGrunge you make me look bad. Let's see, lately it's been Drive, Argo, The Apartment, Fist of Legend, North by Northwest, Moon, The Graduate, Fail Safe, among others. Argo was by far the worst. Cliched and a letdown after how much I enjoyed The Town.
poopie
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It's not MrGrunge making you look bad.
I still have yet to see Drive. Maybe today if it's still on Netflix.
thoroughly enjoyed my Bladerunner (final edition) DVD on the new tv/sound system last night because i finished reading "do androids dream..." again yesterday.
felt like a new experience.
*eyes rest of my old dvd collection and wonder when i can do a revisit*
felt like a new experience.
*eyes rest of my old dvd collection and wonder when i can do a revisit*
poopie
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That's like telling the sky to stop being blue.
Drive was okay. Good soundtrack. Ryan Gosling is well, every woman shares the same feelings for him. I'd like to see him in a more laid back role, though.
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its slant is clear before it starts--modeling is turning out little russian girls. that's cool. didn't think fashion was fair trade. the debt thing actually has me curious. there is a line during the recruiter's interview with the press that makes it sound like starting a contracted, foreign modeling career is somewhat acknowledged as a financial gamble despite efforts to prevent this exploitation. i have my doubts as to what extent those debts are true or recognized and about how legit this modeling agency is. doesn't ring any bells like IMG, women, supreme, ect. though i totally wouldn't notice some small agency, i don't think switch is anything real. it's true that japan loves fresh faces and that lots of little models strengthen the foundations of their careers there. maybe i don't hear about the girls that are nothing. even katishua was huge in a relative sense. according to this documentary, these girls are not even getting credited for their editorials (or paid). and whatthefuck about lying about their ages? if an agency has a girl they think is too young, they just don't release that info. the consumer doesn't expect them to. and these clients clearly didn't care. no reason to lie.
because it is offering a very biased, skewed view of the industry, it's a profile of this crazy woman more than anything else. at first i thought the recruiter is depressed but a regular, reasonably smart person. she's batshit. makes all these reaching insinuations, is completely willing to provide the filmmakers with anti-modeling lines but has and continues to profit bigtime, and often just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
she says she doesn't have any interest in the fashion/modeling industry, that she's was once it's biggest hater. she loves that little freak look. blames it on japan. she's really good at finding it and that's why it's her job. her voice is sharp when she comments about how cute a girl is.
the agent is such an idiot and nothing he says can be counted for much. the agency owner is a sham and only interested in not obviously hiding. neither of them add anything to the film.
i was trying not to do any googling about the film until i made this post; i couldn't help but check switch models' website. they have eastern european girls' pics up, but then at the bottom of the page it says in google translate, "Womochimashite 2013/3/31, our we pause the handling of foreign models" and directs to another site with only japanese models. then i couldn't help but let google add "nadya" to the search, and before i could think better i saw a headline that says she is not happy with the way her career is portrayed in the documentary. i wonder what ends up happening with her. changes her name to nastya and makes it big? the documentary gets real vague at the end. probably because her points don't support theirs. anyway, she is adorable. i'm gonna see if i can't find any legit work featuring her. i'm more interested in figuring out to what extent their is truth in this documentary and to what extent it applies to the magazines i buy. i suspect little.
she looks like a juvenile inmate in this pic, but this is her casting sheet in the film and this jpeg actually from the japanese agency's site, switchmodels.co.jp--unlinked but pulled up through google...
i gotta figure out to what extent the film is nonsense before posting in the fashion thread. and hopefully find a badass nadya editorial too. that sheet doesn't do her justice. huge eyes. doll.
its slant is clear before it starts--modeling is turning out little russian girls. that's cool. didn't think fashion was fair trade. the debt thing actually has me curious. there is a line during the recruiter's interview with the press that makes it sound like starting a contracted, foreign modeling career is somewhat acknowledged as a financial gamble despite efforts to prevent this exploitation. i have my doubts as to what extent those debts are true or recognized and about how legit this modeling agency is. doesn't ring any bells like IMG, women, supreme, ect. though i totally wouldn't notice some small agency, i don't think switch is anything real. it's true that japan loves fresh faces and that lots of little models strengthen the foundations of their careers there. maybe i don't hear about the girls that are nothing. even katishua was huge in a relative sense. according to this documentary, these girls are not even getting credited for their editorials (or paid). and whatthefuck about lying about their ages? if an agency has a girl they think is too young, they just don't release that info. the consumer doesn't expect them to. and these clients clearly didn't care. no reason to lie.
because it is offering a very biased, skewed view of the industry, it's a profile of this crazy woman more than anything else. at first i thought the recruiter is depressed but a regular, reasonably smart person. she's batshit. makes all these reaching insinuations, is completely willing to provide the filmmakers with anti-modeling lines but has and continues to profit bigtime, and often just doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
she says she doesn't have any interest in the fashion/modeling industry, that she's was once it's biggest hater. she loves that little freak look. blames it on japan. she's really good at finding it and that's why it's her job. her voice is sharp when she comments about how cute a girl is.
the agent is such an idiot and nothing he says can be counted for much. the agency owner is a sham and only interested in not obviously hiding. neither of them add anything to the film.
i was trying not to do any googling about the film until i made this post; i couldn't help but check switch models' website. they have eastern european girls' pics up, but then at the bottom of the page it says in google translate, "Womochimashite 2013/3/31, our we pause the handling of foreign models" and directs to another site with only japanese models. then i couldn't help but let google add "nadya" to the search, and before i could think better i saw a headline that says she is not happy with the way her career is portrayed in the documentary. i wonder what ends up happening with her. changes her name to nastya and makes it big? the documentary gets real vague at the end. probably because her points don't support theirs. anyway, she is adorable. i'm gonna see if i can't find any legit work featuring her. i'm more interested in figuring out to what extent their is truth in this documentary and to what extent it applies to the magazines i buy. i suspect little.
she looks like a juvenile inmate in this pic, but this is her casting sheet in the film and this jpeg actually from the japanese agency's site, switchmodels.co.jp--unlinked but pulled up through google...
i gotta figure out to what extent the film is nonsense before posting in the fashion thread. and hopefully find a badass nadya editorial too. that sheet doesn't do her justice. huge eyes. doll.
one benefit to being mostly hetero is that women are this for me. chicks are weirdos, and so i just had to marry one to make sure i keep it.
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Belisarius
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Elysium.
Powerful ideas, outstanding music, F/X, imagery, and world-building, but hindered by uneven writing and flat characters. Very much worth seeing, though, especially on the big screen.
A just-there four out of five stars.
Powerful ideas, outstanding music, F/X, imagery, and world-building, but hindered by uneven writing and flat characters. Very much worth seeing, though, especially on the big screen.
A just-there four out of five stars.
MrGrunge
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a real human bean.
"I drive."
So.....do you like stuff?
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finally saw:
i'd come close to seeing it many times but something better always seemed to trump it. i love richard linklater's work and this was no exception. great script, some quirky scenes, very natural characters.
alasdair
i'd come close to seeing it many times but something better always seemed to trump it. i love richard linklater's work and this was no exception. great script, some quirky scenes, very natural characters.
alasdair
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^ great film. Never saw the sequels. Linklater actually based the film on a real woman and their ephemeral relationship, sadly she died before the movie was released. Have you seen Waking Life?
[video=vimeo;16121539]http://vimeo.com/16121539[/video]
The movie was developed after a free local newspaper wrote a great piece in '99 on what transpired. Very good read, check it out:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/specia...-new-times-story-to-michael-bay-film-1890864/
[video=vimeo;16121539]http://vimeo.com/16121539[/video]
The movie was developed after a free local newspaper wrote a great piece in '99 on what transpired. Very good read, check it out:
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/specia...-new-times-story-to-michael-bay-film-1890864/
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Nice!!!! I've heard of this gang and 1995 right, I was in grade 5 lols. I think they are still on death row. I was laughing my ass of the entire time I was watching the movie, just never thought these guys actually did what they did because man it was pretty stupid lols!
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I might have to check out pain and gain.
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