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| Movie: | In no particular order: Ravenous, Battle Royale, Croupier, American Psycho, Azumi, Videodrome, Collateral, Funny Games, Brick, Pulp Fiction, FIght Club, WIld Zero, Versus, The Rules of Attraction, The Host, Closer, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Eraserhead, Buffalo '66, The Descent, Feast, and many more. |
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| Actor: | I like Scarlett Johanson, Monica Bellucci, Christina Ricci, and Natalie Portman. As far as male actors are concerned Clive Owen is just about the coolest cat out there but I am very impressed with Viggo Mortenson and Mickey Rourke. |
| Director: | Danny Boyle, David Lynch, Shinya Tsukamoto, Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg, David Fincher, Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Smith. |
| Quote: | An artist creates his own moral universe. |
| I've been a film junkie and videophile ever since I was a kid mostly because I lived in a small town and I loved the worlds that film opened up to me. I would sit for hours on end watching action and sci-fi movies every summer while my parents were at work. As my taste matured I began to stray further into the realms of horror and foreign films and even today those are my favorite genres. I love watching movies at the theater; however, I would choose renting some bizarre Korean melodrama over paying ten bucks for some unoriginal, big-budget, Hollywood garbage any day. |
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Pathology
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A great concept but a fairly average film. I went in expecting something far more psychological than your standard gorefest and ended up being dissapointed. The characters are relatively inconsistant and most of their motivation is not fully explored. I would give the film a much lower rating except that I didn't actually think it was bad, I was just dissapointed. The unexpected and appropriately poetic ending, however, makes it worth a rental.
Righteous Kill
R
Like "88 Minutes" this retread, also by Jon Avnet, is a film of cliches that never engrosses the audience. There is no character develpoment, in a film where everyone is supposed to be a suspect, no one is interesting enough to care about. The audiece goes in expecting a twist ending, a fact that Avnet seems to know so he toys with us right away. Robert DeNiro tells us in a video confessional that he is the killer and the rest of the film is going to show us just how it all happened. For the next 90 minutes we find ourselves lead around by the arm furthur insulting our intelegence and the you-never-saw-it-coming moment is more elementary than a modern slasher film. Seeing DeNiro and Pacino on screen again is also relatively dissapointing as they try their hardest to keep the film afloat under the pressure of a badly written script and straightforward direction. This film is mostly not worth the time unless you want to see a trite, simplistic retread of "Heat" with none of the substance or style.
Series 7: The Contenders
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A brilliantly brutal and darkly funny satire on reality television in which five randomly selected people must hunt down and kill each other. The film is presented like a marathon of the 7th season of the show where contestants are playing for the only prize that really matters; their lives. The greatest thing about Series 7 is that it preempted the massive boom of reality television in the 2000's and it only becomes more poinient as time goes on.
Burn After Reading
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The Coen's can weave a convoluted maze of a yarn better than most of their peers. They have been creating wonderfully off-beat and darkly comic films since they reinvented the modern crime story with Blood Simple in 1984 and many of their films remain on my shortlist of favorites. Burn After Reading is definately more compairable to The Big Lebowski than No Country for Old Men, a fact that, given their recent success, is a pleasent reminder of where they came from. The complexity of the story is very well executed as it is in all of their films and rightly so given that it is a comedy of errors and most of the characters are complete nincompoops. I refuse to say anything about the storyline, suffice it to say that you get what you expect from the Coen's. Brad Pitt adds another fantastically quirky character to his resume as a meathead personal trainer and the rest of the cast is wonderful as well. The stand out performance comes from John Malkovitch who seems to thrive when playing irate, self-important assholes. The film is a great execrcise in frivolity and although we don't really learn anything from the journey we enjoy takeing another hilarious and bizarre ride with the Coen Brothers.
Role Models
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Had the oportunity to see this at a test screening and I have to say that I was pleasently surprised. Going in I had no idea that it was directed by David Wain, then I see him walking up the stairs of the auditorium to the reserved seats in the back. Role Models is definately the most mainstream and accessable picture that Wain has directed but that doesn't stop it from being just as funny as "Wet Hot American Summer" or anything he did with Stella. Judging from audience reaction this will probably bring him a bit farther out of obscurity and maybe even assert him as a comedic titan. Great performances from Paul Rudd and Jane Lynch help of course and even Sean William Scott holds his own. Wain's strongest suit is that he knows how to fill his films with funny supporting actors including Ken Marino, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and newcomer Nick Nervies. I definately think this film will surprise a lot of people.
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Pulp Fiction
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With his non-linear storytelling and fantastic writing Tarantino came into the mainstream hungry for blood. Pulp Fiction is one of those films that became an instant classic and it's tales of violence and redemption will forever resonate with popular culture. There are better movies out there but this one remains one of my favorites because everything about it is so gritty and well done. The violence and language blew my mind when I saw it for the first time and the snappy, flippant dialog was such a contrast to the lurid subject matter.
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The Midnight Meat Train
by Kellyposted 2 days ago -
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Audition (Ôdishon)
by AmandaTakashi Miike's "Audition" has to be one of the best Japanese horror movies I have ever seen.Ryo Ishibashi plays Shigeharu Aoyama,a lonely middle-aged man.After many years of being loyal to his deceased wife is the right time to begin dating again.His friend Yasuhisa decides to set up a fake casting audition in hopes that his friend can find new wife.Aoyama then goes through countless portfolio's looking for women to audition,but as soon as he sees the beautiful Asami's picture he knows that she is the one.Soon they begin dating.Everything seems perfect at first,but is Asami all that she seems?"Audition" isn't as violent and outrageous as "Fudoh" or "Ichi the Killer",but it certainly delivers some of the most harrowing scenes of violence ever captured on screen.The film is atmospheric and artistic,so if you're looking only for gore and violence avoid this one like the plague.However if you're a fan of Miike's works this masterpiece is not to be missed.
Hey, you should really see this!
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The Strangers
by AmandaThe Strangers is a movie that delivers everything it promises it would. It scares you. Simple as that. Instead of relying on buckets of gore and an over-contrived premise, it keeps things simple and thats what makes it work. For an hour and a half, the viewer is subjected to a slowly mounting sense of dread that just keeps building without ever pulling back. The story never falls victim to the usual horror movie clichés, but at the same time , it doesn't make any ridiculous attempts to go against them. Perhaps the best thing that the movie has going for it is it's believability. There isn't really any thing to distract the viewer from buying into the premise wholeheartedly. Considering that this is the director's first ever movie, it's a feat that's even more impressive. This is the kind of movie you shouldn't watch at home alone in the dark.
Hey, you should really see this!
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Calvaire (The Ordeal)
by KellySurvival horror for the art house crowd, Calvaire has a unique oddness that drives its deranged story straight into the eyeballs of viewers. The horror here is in the insanity of the captors and the atmosphere of the area where the main character is stranded.
If you want silly excessive gore, this is not your movie. If you want a captive survival horror narrative that dares to flirt with believable mental illness and bothers to use the camera and cinematography to tell the story as much as dialogue, this is it.
This is middle of nowhere backwards crazy people done to a perfect chime; look no further for your pigfucking scene needs. I hereby declare that I believe this film is superior to "Deliverance".
"Most fucked up" highlight: the village dancing around the pianoToo many scenes from this movie have lingered with me, and I must conclude that there is something substantial and worth sharing about this film. Then again I may be too distracted by the fact that a captive survival horror bothers with cinematography.
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thanx for the recommend. Turns out I have "A Boy and His Dog" in my collection but didn't remember I had it. Haven't watched it yet, my most anticipated apocalyptic watch next to a silent flick recommended me.
posted 41 days ago -
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This is a request for recommendations. I'm doing this list: http://www.flixster.com/movie-list/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it-4
I am looking for absolute end of the world movies, not just a dystopic society (got a list for those at http://www.flixster.com/movie-list/the-best-of-dystopia )though some like 'Quintet' can chill on both lists. And my BIG caveat: NO studio movies from 1990 onward, only indies and foreign. If I get a suggestion for 'The Day After Tomorrow' or SpielCruiseberg's 'War of the Worlds', I will find you and beat you down 'Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back' style. The thing I'd most like to find is a silent flick about the end of the world.
And if you are one of the few people who hasn't seen the uberclassic Vincent Price's 'The Last Man on Earth', you won't regret it no matter what your taste in film, as it is a solid movie.posted 44 days ago -
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A Certain Kind of Death
by KellyThis is a superb documentary, not interested in probing its subjects (indeed no documentarian or film crew member is ever heard from) but instead settles to observe. The people interviewed seem to be allowed a free forum for their thoughts, like the director told them, "just do what you would normally do and help us understand what your job requires you to do".
"Faces of Death" can totally suck on it because this crew ALSO got LA county morgue access, and they got just as awesome footage as you guys did, cept it wasn't all heavy handed and laced with shock value like the FoD series. This is a film that shows what is - what a modern pauper's death and burial looks like, exactly. Not much sentimentality, just what we find out about the person from recovered legal forms or papers left in their houses. We first meet these people as decaying remains. The camera is not afraid of dead bodies, even extreme cases and bodies left to decay as long as most of these are usually much more severe to look at than other corpses. So there are many things here you may not want to see in our bubbled modern world, and that luxury is afforded to you because of the people who work for coroners and mortuaries. This movie shows us exactly what these jobs entail; the best example in the sequence in which bodies are prepared for cremation and then cremated. It's a beautiful naturalistic filming technique and the result is pure reality. This is what life, and death, are really like, and it may take a hell of a lot to watch this. But if you're a sick objective fuck like me, you're just going "those are some great shots of blood filled body bags" or "look at that...died on the shitter. Probably what'll happen to me. I better make some skydiving arrangements ASAP if I get bowel cancer instead of waiting around my shitty apartment and making mounds of 'gonna die' documents."A solid modern doc for my cinephile friends and a challenge of sorts to the "horror fiends" on my list to see if yall can stomach the real deal. This is an Instant Watch on Netflix, so added accessibility there.
No one on my friend's list has seen this yet, and I did send to a few people who marked 'Not Interested' and yall especially are totally welcome to bitch me out for impishly promoting something so unnerving and bleak, but I just think seeing this film or something like it (preferably in real life) is essential for people who are not aware of what real death is like and how our society currently deals with it.posted 56 days ago
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