| Name | El Hombre Invisible |
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| I'm From | Texas |
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| Movie: | The Big Lebowski, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eraserhead, Seven Samurai, Alien |
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| Actor: | Harvey Keitel, Robert Duval, Gene Hackman, Frances McDormand, Madeline Kahn, Kurt Russell, Godzilla, James Woods (his name is fun to say) |
| Director: | Stanley Kubrick, The Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Takeshi Kitano |
| Quote: | Okay, I get the picture White Tigers, Lords of Death, guys in funny suits throwing plastic explosives while poison arrows fall from the sky and the pillars of heaven shake, huh? Sure, okay, I see Charlie Chan, Fu Manchu and a hundred howlin' monkey temples, and that's just for starters, right? Fine! I'm back! I'm ready, goddammit let me at 'em! |
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Parents
R
Where does the meat come from? While it's funny as hell, Parents also plays on a number of childhood fears, and Balaban's direction, combined with Angelo Badalamenti's moody score, make this a fun, creepy, twisted tale of life in the suburbs circa 1954.
Dead or Alive: Final
Unrated
While not as fast-moving as earlier Miike thrillers like Shinjuku Triad Society, Dead or Alive: Final does pick up the pace from its two predecessors, and replaces the brutal violence of the first with some exciting martial arts/gunplay.
There's a confusing climatic attempt to draw all three movies together, plus some pretty cool mecha-violence complete with a jaundiced skyline. Overall, a nice finish to an insane trilogy.
Love Object
R
What does an office worker living a dull, routine life without friends or a woman do?? Orders one of the life-like silicone love dolls and models it after a female co-worker. More of a hilariously dark psychological thriller than straight-out horror, this is one interesting and deranged film that's unsettling, especially when the main character Kenneth begins to suspect his love-doll "Nikki" is becoming jealous. The addition of a manipulating sex doll always turns the fun level up in any film. Funny and gory.
Madame Satã
Unrated
Very gritty film that takes place in the 1930's about João Francisco dos Santos, the legendary Brazilian cross gender dresser, pimp, loving father, outlaw and local hero who became Rio De Janeiro's Queen Of Carnaval in the 40's until his death in the 70's. The gay sex is very raw as is the lifestyle in the Lapa district of Rio. João Francisco dos Santos lived from 1900 to 1976, adopted about a dozen children and spent some 27 years of his life in prison.
Most of the story here is Joao's struggle to overcome the cruelty that comes his way because he is black, poor and gay; endlessly fighting, defending himself and getting into trouble with the law because he refuses to be treated like a second-class citizen.
Redbelt
R
Looking forward to Mamet's latest and the colorful language that goes along. Oh yeah, it has Alice Braga in it, too!
Iron Man
PG-13
An expected good performance from Downey. Terrence Howard was awful but the movie was entertaining enough to make up for it. 4 stars for the matinee popcorn flick appeal. Does Jon Favreau have to be in his movies??
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The Big Lebowski
R
Jeff Bridges is The Dude, and it's hard to imagine anyone in the role. Someone else would've come off as just a pot-smoking hippie with some funny lines. Roger Deakins, the cinematographer, is a craftsman of unsurpassed skill and an artist with an amazing capacity to transform the mundane (like um, bowling) into something truly beautiful to behold. The plot is an afterthought and is more about the journey than the destination.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
G
Even if you don't know what it all means, even if it's ultimately puzzling and unexplainable, there is a feeling, an emotional response that persists. There is a strange logic to this film. A logic of death, of evolution, of birth. This is the strangest kind of logic that must be felt and seen, instead of pondered.
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Eraserhead
Unrated
A visual-sound experience rather than a narrative or story, a film that is more about conveying a very specific and powerful mood and atmosphere. A feeling that we are ultimately alone.
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The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai)
Unrated
This movies' inspirations drew from western influences and, ironically, was remade in the U.S. as "The Magnificent Seven". On the surface, it's a great action-adventure film, but also a great character study. I can't help but smile when I see Takashi Shimura on screen, and Toshiro Mifune is to Kurosawa what DeNiro is to Scorsese. Every character is very well developed and their motivations understood. The farmers are also explored as individuals and as a group. Clocking in at approx. 3 1/2 hours, Kurosawas' masterful filmmaking and pacing seems to make time just fly by.
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Alien
R
Still blown away by Star Wars in '77, later around 1980, I was a kid staying over my tio and tia's for the summer. This is back when I had that one relative who had cable. It was late at night, everyone was asleep except for my cousin and I who were about the same age. Alien was about to play on HBO, and because our parents wouldn't take us to see it, made us want to watch it even more. We were so spooked by the slow, creepy atmosphere and the suspense building up, but not a clue as to what was coming. It's dark, dank atmosphere really made me feel like this is what travelling in space might be like. Dirty, oily, grumpy workers and constant repairs. When the famous chestbursting scene played we were speechless and in complete awe. As scared as children could be, we watched the newly hatched alien run off the table and immediately turned and high-fived each other. We quietly celebrated what we had just experienced. To see this film with no preconceptions really had an everlasting effect. I couldn't imagine what seeing any of the sequels or knowing what was going to happen beforehand would be like. From Ridley Scott's dark vision to H.R. Giger's design and even having an new kind of hero, this film will continue to stay in my top favorites. If Star Wars is The Beatles, Alien is The Rolling Stones.
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Blue Velvet
R
In this world, creepiness and perversions aren't disorders, they're a presence below the surface of Anytown, U.S.A. Too much effort can be wasted in the attempt to interpret instead of just experiencing another world that is so strange and dream-like, it feels true.
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
by Alexander''Legend says that a crystal skull was stolen from a mythical lost city in the Amazon, supposedly built out of solid gold, guarded by the living dead. Whoever returns the skull to the city temple will be given control over its power.''
Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
Harrison Ford: Indiana Jones
Cate Blanchett: Irina Spalko
Karen Allen: Marion Ravenwood
Shia LaBeouf: Mutt Williams
Ray Winstone: 'Mac' George McHale
John Hurt: Professor Oxley
Crystal Skull may i say is a breath of fresh air in one glorious stroke of genius by Steven Spielberg once again.
His fun ideas like Indy being saved by a fridge from an Atomic Blast to him blowing back a dart in some pygmy/Aztec's mouth to Indy clutching at a snake for dear life, is entertainment fun at it's best. Not to mention chases laden with effects that effortlessly stream across the screen. Crystal Skull has that magic from the other chapters and we see an older but still determined Jones out to save the World once again.
Shia LaBeouf as Mutt( Echoes of Superman Returns family wise plus Mutt wasn't Indy named after the dog? :P) is sensational bringing youth and experience together with Ford. He's got attitude, spunk and charisma in his fresh approach, looking like something out of Grease but way more cooler.
Cate Blanchett as Irina seductive and beautiful even when playing a villain. She was fun along with Ray Winstone and John Hurt who added to fun upon fun.
Karen Allen has some good chemistry with Ford, showing a bickering but loving couple.
Look out for the reference to Raiders Ark Of The Covenant in the warehouse, bloody genius!
Music Skull has the flair of its predecessors which blends with the action and fast paced story. Effects are used but not overly while stunt work is not noticeable.
Raiders was Jewish, Doom was Hindu, Crusade was Christianity. And Skull is out of this world!
Skulls is a masterpiece and Indy whips back out of retirement!See the new Indy!
It exceeds everything big time!
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