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Post by straf on Jul 31, 2012 22:40:24 GMT -5
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Post by straf on Jul 31, 2012 22:41:22 GMT -5
 Pseudo art film with minimal plot a la Tree of Life, which is actually written and directed by the same fucking guy, and I had no idea of that when I watched this but now that I do know, I'm not really surprised. It's a beautifully filmed film, and it's really short but everything happens so fast that looking pretty is all that it has going for it. Some people love this shit, and it isn't bad, but it's not good and I don't understand all of the fapping to this and Tree of Life that goes on. 5/10 |
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Post by Diabet on Jul 31, 2012 22:42:29 GMT -5
Great review.
Review a Zappa film.
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Post by straf on Jul 31, 2012 22:42:38 GMT -5
 Pseudo art film with minimal plot and very little dialogue, and what little dialogue there is is whispered. It might the most pretentious piece of shit ever filmed, and yet people really seem to like it. These same people probably also like to read picture books because this movie is a fucking picture book. You get two lines of dialogue and then a montage of outer space for thirty minutes before it decides to introduce the "plot" and goes into more senseless montages while pieces of story are interspersed, but they're few and far between. If I were to take out all the pictures of space and fire and dinosaurs we'd have about twenty minutes of film at most, the length of a half-hour episode of a soap opera with commercial breaks, which is essentially what this movie is but the commercials can be ten minutes at a time and they aren't selling a product. Honestly, late-night hour-long infomercials are far more entertaining than this, and honestly the Magic Bullet is fucking cooler than Sean Penn anyway. You want to see this movie? Watch the fucking trailer. Literally all of the story is in that shit, exactly as it is presented in the movie, complete with fucking space montages. I swear to god that what you know after watching the trailer is exactly how much you'll know after wasting all your goddamn time watching Tree of Life. NO FUCKING EXAGGERATION. Save yourself two hours. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRYA1dxP_01/10 |
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Post by straf on Jul 31, 2012 22:47:23 GMT -5
 Cheesy 80's thriller a la Absolute Power, but done right. A movie like this really makes me wonder how John Travolta hasn't acted in better movies and instead ended up in shit like Look Who's Talking Now or Old Dogs or fucking Hairspray. I mean, he does so awesome in this and Pulp Fiction, and does a great job in Face/Off, which is an otherwise terrible movie, but far more becoming of him than a fat dancing lady. The antagonist in this reminds me a lot of John Cleese if he were a psycho rapist. At least this doesn't have your average "shit goes bad but then gets fixed at the end and the main character gets the girl" type of ending. If it did, then I think that I would like it far less, but instead Johnny's girlfriend gets raped and murdered and he uses her scream he recorded through a wiretap to finish the movie he was hired to work on. Holy fuck. This is something to watch on a rainy day, and I'd watch it again, but in the end it's just another thriller and no Seven Samurai, but at least it's not trying to pretend to be something it's not. 7/10 |
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Post by straf on Jul 31, 2012 22:49:06 GMT -5
Great review. Review a Zappa film. I don't wish to have my toes curl and hair fall out, thank you. |
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Post by Diabet on Jul 31, 2012 22:50:48 GMT -5
Great review. Review a Zappa film. I don't wish to have my toes curl and hair fall out, thank you. Yeah his movies are trippy af. 200 Motels Heh. |
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Post by nogatoyumi on Aug 1, 2012 16:24:22 GMT -5
The Tree of Life is great wat u talkin bout (though I guess it's like Mulholland Drive in its polarizing reactions, you either love it or hate it. But I ultimately think it will get the respect it deserves)
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Post by straf on Aug 1, 2012 20:16:18 GMT -5
 Cliche and angst-filled story of a "misunderstood" asshole kid who does everything wrong and wonders why adults don't like him. All of Antoine's problems could have been avoided if he just hadn't acted like every "misunderstood" asshole kid does, and I really wonder why this was even filmed anyway. Despite its drawbacks, this is a well -- but not thoroughly -- entertaining hour-and-a-half, but it pains me to think that people actually put this up there with Breathless as the two defining French New Wave films. Angsty kids really aren't defining material. 6/10 |
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Post by straf on Aug 1, 2012 20:25:21 GMT -5
 Flowery-ass rip-off gangster film. Gets points for being cool as fuck because Quentin Tarantino is cool as fuck. He's so fucking professional. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Xi3ioasik8/10 |
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Post by Diabet on Aug 1, 2012 20:42:00 GMT -5
Do a James Bond marathon.
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Post by straf on Aug 2, 2012 13:57:02 GMT -5
I'd like to, but I only have the Sean Conn Bonds. :(
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Post by SMAP on Aug 2, 2012 17:55:12 GMT -5
The Room
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Post by straf on Aug 4, 2012 1:21:16 GMT -5
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2WK_eWihdU&list=PLA1EC9692E5B92C14Let's not mince words here. Even though basically everything in a Quentin Tarantino movie was lifted from some other movie and there's enough references crammed into this two and a hours to make my head spin, Quentin Tarantino is the King of Cool. He breathes cool, he shits cool, he eats cool for breakfast. Everything thing he touches is fucking cool, and all of that cool makes up for his lame-ass name. The only thing missing from this movie is "Little Green Bag". Whatever you think you know about movies is wrong until you've seen this. Exquisitely made, and you wouldn't think that until you've really watched it. Great dialogue, fucking brick jokes ("The only person Marcellus Wallace wants to get fucked by is Mrs. Wallace"), and a fucking great soundtrack. There's a reason why storing dead niggers ain't his business. 10/10 |
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Post by straf on Aug 4, 2012 1:26:06 GMT -5
Why is the Tree of Life link fucked? It's the same as all the other links, I checked multiple times.
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