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| Name | Kelly King |
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| Gender | Male |
| I'm From | Gretna/New Orleans, LA |
| Member For | 174 days |
| Last Login | Fri. Jul 25 |
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| Age | 22 |
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| Movie: | Dawn of the Dead (Zombi Cut), Casablanca, Fellowship of the Ring, American Beauty, Lawrence of Arabia, Jason and the Argonauts, la Cite des Enfants Perdus, Breakfast on Pluto, Spirited Away, Lost in Translation, Shaun of the Dead, Nochnoy Dozor, Clerks, Tideland, Alphaville, The Seventh Seal, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Amadeus, The Lion in Winter |
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| Actor: | Sir Ian McKellen, Kevin Spacey, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Grant, Ricky Gervais |
| Director: | Ingmar Berman, David Lynch, Terry Gilliam, Richard Linklater, Alfred Hitchcock, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Woody Allen, Wes Craven, Kevin Smith, Tim Burton, Edgar Wright, Jean-Luc Godard, Georges Melies, Lucio Fulci, Marc Caro, Alexandre Aja & Gregory Levasseur, Ricky Gervais & Steve Merchant, Wes Anderson |
| Quote: | "Life sometime acts like it's seen too many bad movies." - Humphrey Bogart |
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!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!! If you spam me in any way, you will not simply be blocked, you will be REPORTED. I have a solid record of aiding in the ACCOUNT DELETION of those who use Flixster for INAPPROPRIATE PURPOSES , and that even includes the 'hi how are you' bots and widget-crazy creations. Sorry to be ?-ist, but "Only REAL people and movie fans need apply". It's one thing when people on my friends list send me trailers, links to their blogs, polls, or announce a new list because that is awesome, and what Flixster is for!It's another thing to send me fifteen sparkling gaudy "I Love You" widgets per day when you're not even on my friends' list or have 2112 ratings but they're all 5 stars and say "pretty cool" for the review and you want me to add you as a friend; that is pointless nonsense and NOT what Flixster is for.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFILE BEGIN. -------------------------------------------------------------------- _addicted to the horror genre, particularly zombies; tend to watch foreign, documentary, dark comedy, classics, dystopian sci-fi/fantasy, independent, experimental, animation, extreme - my birthday, May 24, was also the release date of Dawn of the Dead but I was born 7 years (fashionably) late for the premiere. - I got Steve Merchant added to Flixster, so that'll probably help his career. So Smerch, once you've got your Brando billions, remember the little Karl Pilkingtons, like myself, who made you what you are. My Top Favorite Films Please Visit:..... Hyperfocal:A Series of Serious Analyses
Share Film Knowledge \\\ -------------------------------------------------------------------- I only add a featured video to my scrapbook if it's one of my favorite scenes/shots of all time (or is outright hilarious satire). Most of my pic scrapbook is stuff I've uploaded. I try to revise my ratings often to reflect any changed perspective on the movie. My above favorite directors and actors are people whom I feel compelled to digest their entire filmography as something about their artwork truly engages me. My movie lists are ongoing projects, and most are intended for public audience to promote the selections; I do not list outright awful movies, and I love getting suggestions for the lists. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hyperfocal:The Current Watch Project - JULY08 Karl Pilkington Returns to Podcasting this Winter! This Raving Imp wrestles paradoxical drivel, and at The Transience of Life Presents: thoughts on existence. Current project: tales of a modern hermit in sudden metropolises |
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Planet Terror (Grindhouse Presents)
R
7-27-08
Re-screened this over my NY/DC trip last week with a huge Rodriguez fan, and I actually taught HIM some things about this movie and gave him a quick education on what the "grindhouse" genre actually is.
Comments I've always needed to write about this film: Not only is this a perfect tribute to its genre, it would fit right along the films it glorifies had you released it 30 years ago. Rodrigues not only fully understands these films, he fully understands how to make one. This is by far the superior movie of the Grindhouse Double Feature, and you can teach people all about grindhouse, exploitation, and giallo simply by going through the film scene by scene and discussing which movie(s) that scene is alluding to. Even for people who don't have an internal image database of those classic flicks, this is still one helluva fun ride that also bothers to treat us to some great dialogue and wonderfully absurdist script. A must see for SO many people, ESPECIALLY fans of the general horror or action genres; this is a great gateway flick to introduce you to the films of days gone by.
"So Fucked Up" highlight: the babysitters
The Departed
R
biggest waste of time and talent since.....ever
should have been called "Duh Retaaawded" instead of "Teh Depaawted"
Eragon
PG
I could not get past the first reel of this film. Maybe there were some really cool dragon scenes I missed out on, but this was TOO papercut in terms of acting/character development and I couldn't see a plot worth shitting on.
An Inconvenient Truth
PG
umm....... I already understand global warming to my satisfaction, so I don't need to hear Gore's idea of it as well
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La Cité des Enfants Perdus (The City of Lost Children)
R
One of the best films of all time, and also a science fiction flick!
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Shaun of the Dead
R
The best satirical genre movie about a movie genre - as classic as Young Frankenstein or Spinal Tap.
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When Strangers Appear
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This is not the trailer for this movie but MARTYRS.
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Hey, you should really see this!
This is not the trailer for this movie but SEXYKILLER from Spain. This movie looks fucking crazy!
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Hey, you should really see this! This is not the trailer for this movie.
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Hi,Good Day!
My name is Miss.veronice , I saw your profile today and was moved and become interested in you, I will like you to send me an email to my address ( veronice_ed@yahoo.com ) so that i can give you my pictures for you to know whom i am.
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The Dark Knight
by IraThere have been very few instances in my life during which I considered a movie to be perfect. The times when I saw 300 and Lord of War are a few of them. I'm happy to say that I'm going to add this day when I saw The Dark Knight to those memorable periods.
When Christopher Nolan went ahead and chose to direct this film along with Heath Ledger and Aaron Eckhart being cast along side Christian Bale, Micheal Caine, and Gary Oldman; it was like the planets literally aligned themselves to herald this movie's greatness. Honestly, This is how good The Dark Knight was for me.
On one side, this film was visually stunning and showcased impeccable cinemotgraphy, the pacing of the storyline was flawless, the musical score was superb, the special effects were terrific, the script was awesome, the film's entire story was unbelievably good, and the performances of the entire cast were spectacular. But you probably all know this by now. So allow me to mention a few more things about this film that you probably haven't read about.
First off, I applaud Christopher Nolan's unbelievable brilliance in inter-connecting so damn well the stories between Batman, Joker, and Harvey Dent in this film. As you watched, you literally see many stories unfold simultainously right before your eyes that are all equally engaging and poignant. By effectively doing so, Nolan gave this movie such substance, you'll almost forget that you were watching a mere Batman flick due to how deep and complex the storyline of this movie is.
With the mention of this, though Heath Ledger literally steals the entire show with his perfect performance as the Joker, along with Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and Gary Oldman's superb acting, I was very surprised that it was the portrayal of Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent that really swept me off my feet. For me, he was the perfect choice to flesh-out the rise of Harvey Dent as The White Knight of Gotham 'till his tragic, yet inevitable fall into his alter ego, Two Face. As this story unfolded onscreen, I couldn't help but get swept up in a maelstrom of emotions for Aaron Eckhart's character. That was how effective and convincing he was.
Not only that, I just loved the way Nolan created this film from a very cerebral perspective, making the viewer think beyond the whole film's super hero premise into such diverse topics as human nature, life, death, and psychology, but with out making it seem pretentious by becoming too analytical.
Yet sadly, I personally think that these are also the very reasons why I can't give The Dark Knight a perfect score.
Even with all of these said, I wasn't exactly as bowled over by The Dark Knight as I initially thought I'd be.
By being too perfect, I was rendered unable to point out anything significant about this film, unlike when I'd rave about my other favorite movies by pointing out a thing or two about them which I really liked. To state it plainly, I can't really say anything great about this film because everything about it was great, thus cancelling-out all of its aspects, making nothing stand out.
Even though, I still consider this movie perfect, despite my one bias.
With this film, Christopher Nolan has taken the super hero genre of movies to a whole new dimension that, I believe, many will be hard-pressed to follow.Hey, you should ABSOLUTELY see this!
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Secretary
by Cruz"An unusual sadomasochistic love story"
The 1st 15 minutes of the film were a complete waste, it introduced Maggie Gyllenhal as a dorky-innocent-mental-pervert that feels pleasure out of pain but somehow something felt boring, but when the main characters (Spade and Gyllenhal) meet each other the movie gets interesting. You may think I'm a pervert to say this: but Perversion never felt rare, and thats because you get to care about the character (well played by Maggie) whose innocence makes perversion anything but evil or depraved.The only complain is that the monotonic-sad music wasn't appropriate for some scenes, and even some of the scenes felt comedic, which made me think that the movie would've worked better as a full comedy drama. aside from that (and as I said the 1st 15 mn.) the film is quite pretty darn good!Hey, you should really see this!
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The Dark Knight
by GaryWhile I wont go so far as to call this a masterpiece, this exceptional addition to the Batman franchise is a very good film and lives up to some very high expectations. The cast is uniformly great and the action is spectacular. A clever story is well told and the dark noir spirit of the source material is well maintained. Heath Ledger deserves special mention for his brilliant portrayal of The Joker and I loved the Two Face origin story. It perhaps feels about half an hour too long, but it's such a fun ride.
My turn! I don't really need to recommend this do I?
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Meet the Spartans
by BarryOMG.........You have to see this to beleive how daft it is.....I laughed out loud on a couple of occasions but its way too short of laughter throughout.
Hey, you should probably see this! Jesus H Christ can they get any sillier? I have always been a fan of daft spoof movies but they are really starting to scrape the barrel now. Dont get me wrong, there were moments when I was laughing out loud, but for the majority of the all too short film I sat there with a grimace spread across my features.The scenes with the son are hilarious, it just goes downhill from there.
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Once
by Cruz"Once is an independent film by excellency" and because its indie tone the movie pays-off well, that tone goes along with the sweet&sour theme of the movie. It's a mixture of good things that form a simple story and the simplicity itself is another of its good things. Even the songs are excellent, they play an important role: they tell you how to feel and react to the images or sequences. In other words "Once" is a once in while movie experience!
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The Good Earth
by Veronique"the good earth" is the earliest massive hollywood productions for oriental epic in exclusion of fu manchu series. it has great ambition to interpret the national spirit of china, its farming business under a bunch of stagy performances from caucasion yellow-face. and the issue has no relevance of its chinese authenticness but how old america views china.
it is a story about wang lung the farmer(paul muni), who marries a slavegirl in the big house named o-lan. and together they strive for their rocky future with mettle with their conventional chinese virtues. they've been thru harvest prosperity, drought, famine and the revolution of republic china as well as wang's illict affair with courtesan lotus.
mostly it depicts the condescending perspect of man's derogatory viewpoint on women which is actually true in ancient china, and women are merely usable products who help men to plow the rice fields and bring them extensions. without that, a woman could be considered worthless, and the dichotomy of benevolent saint and malevolent siren reflects on the two major female characters: o-lan, the slavegirl turning to the farmer's wife; lotus, the insidious temptress who drains men's wealth. eventually the conclusion would be good woman is like earth which provides everything with endless flourishments.
the earliest chinese star then anna may wong was keen to obtain the role of virtuous o-lan to alter her dreary image of malicious sirens in a bunch of negative orient-themed movies where she has to die "a thousand times" in the end. but the studio refuses to grant her that becuz of the racial segregation principle then: a caucasion male cannot make love or pair licitly with a oriental female on screen (so asian women are neither mistresses or villainy on screen), even as roles of yellow face. even the temptress lotus goes down to another actress with approved ethnicity despite the role lotus is literarily inspired by the oriental femme fatale image in wong's early silent pictures.
the point of making "the good earth" itself is a campy articce, so why bother to use a real chinese or not since the story won't present the real china anyway? as for anna may wong, she is thorough america-nourished american except her ethnicity, and she doesn't even conform to the corny chinese virtues of obediency or dependency on man anyway, further more she has never been with a chinese man for all her life at all. so in exclusion of her chinese outlook, there's not really any that much of traditional chineseness in her. so it won't be really a shame or a pity for her abscence as o-lan in this piece, but she would probably make an adequate lotus.
the title song for "the good earth" would be "the jasmine song" which has nothing to do with farming but a common folk song praising the beauty of jasmine flower in spite of its melodius smoothness. and in the scene of new infant birth, it's accompanied with the song celebrating the feng-yang drum which is my father's regional folk song in old china. so it would be highly phony to deem "the good earth" as a chinese epic, and even pearl s. buck who writes the original novel might have some bias for china. but it does bare some worthwhile process of collecting crops from the rice fields which i have never paid attention before. and the photography has its contived oriental aesthetism under the helm of four directors, including victor fleming from "gone with the wind".
so allow me to put it this way, the pleasure of "good earth" would be the brass flatulency of vintage caucasion hollywood's eccentric perception on "the inscrutable orient". ABSOLUTE CAMP!for me, watching "good earth" might be like watching charlie chen, sometimes you just have a deviant curiosity to watch how others perceive chinese as if you were an outsider without relevance. perhaps this outsider spirit is totally against zen which is to view things from the inward toward the outward, but i'm doing the opposite as an escapic fun.
in a nutshell, worth watching for its apparent FAKENESS. a A CAMP.posted 2 days ago
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