What movie did you see last night 2

[phillyidol]

The other thread was 14 pages long so I figured I would streamline.

I rented a GREAT movie with...gulp...Freddie Prince jr! It also had Alec Baldwin. It was called Brooklyn Rules. About 3 friends growing up in Brooklyn in the 70'2 and 80's. If you don't know Brooklyn this is a good guide for you. I loved this movie. It was a mob movie but it was also friends and...lots of Brooklyn. It kind of spells out how it is here. Rent it.

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[zill]

I just rented "Hot Fuzz", an English flick about an outstanding metropolitan London police officer who gets transfered to a remote village because he's so good he makes the rest of the London police look bad. Not all is as it seems in the English countryside. Very entertaining.

[enzfan]

Watched Knocked Up a couple days ago. Pretty good flick.

[phillyidol]

I watched that today. I laughed out loud! The scene where he is on the phone with the girl and all his friends are pretend screwing each other? Funny as shit.

Oh Marv! You never told me about the end of The 25th hour..........

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[enzfan]

I loved all the comments they made about the guy and his beard. My wife was watching it with me and I would laugh, she kept asking me what was so funny. It wasn't worth trying to explain all references they were using. My fav was "Your face looks like one of Robin William's knuckles".

[phillyidol]

Dude! The same thing happened here. My wife started cleaning the room during the first half. I was like watch the show and she said it was a total guy movie. But then the second half became a woman movie.
I love when they did that. The guy says I'm getting fed up, its hurtful man. The other guy says yea...and your face looks like a vagina. Even the girls got into it saying he lives with the uni bomber and stuff. Very funny!It was very much like me and the guys at work.

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[Bitter Almonds]

<p align="justify">I saw a preview for the dvd of [i]I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry[/i][xx(]

My initial response to it was: There's gotta be an easier way to beat the system. I mean, couldn't kevin just go on disability for being the [i]fat fuck[/i] (I quoted blirwin[8D]) that he is?[}:)]

[design_femme]

I saw [i]King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters[/i] recently.

I think it might be one of the most entertaining things I've seen this year. Hilarious, gripping (yes! gripping!), and touching.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/pictureho ... g/trailer/

[enzfan]

Vacancy, the title says it all. It was vacant of a script and acting, a formulatic dud. I did watch Wickerman today, it was actually pretty good.

[WolverineSyr]

I watched "Darkness Falls." It had that girl who played Anya on Buffy the Vampire Slayer - always liked her. I guess it was an ok movie...something about an old woman who used to collect kid's teeth when she was alive & now she's an evil murderous ghost with a porcelain mask. Sometimes you just have to suspend all hopes of plot clarity to enjoy a ghost movie.

[Frau_Blucher]

Control.

[schwenko]

"Soredemo boku wa tattenai" (But I Didn't Do It)

from the director of Shall We Dansu (later remade as Shall We Dance with J-Lo and Richard Gere)

A young man gets arrested as a chikan (groper on a train). He proclaims his innocence, and then has to battle the corrupt Japanese legal system to prove it. The director was present at the screening (also being shown at The NY Film Festival)and stated that the story was a composite of a number of people's experiences.

Totally riveting! I had seen "Control" less than an hour earlier, but was sucked into this film for 2+ hours. see it if you can!

http://www.soreboku.jp/eng/

[edisonoside]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Control.
[/quote]

AND?! Don't keep us in suspense..What D'Ya think?

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by edisonoside[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Control.
[/quote]AND?! Don't keep us in suspense..What D'Ya think?
[/quote]
Copy and pasted from here:

http://nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.asp?TO ... hichpage=1

Well...would anybody here possibly think that I wouldn't say this was a great film?? It definitely was, but it also definitely wasn't "epic" or any other over-the-top adjective. It's just perfectly and brilliantly well-balanced. It's definitely not a Joy Division film either. It's an Ian Curtis film, and it neither glorifies nor crucifies him. Kinda just "there you go, this was him." I found it completely satisfying for those reasons, without a single complaint. It treated the material and the audience intelligently I guess. How often can you say that?

It also felt really personal, like I was peeking into a very private thing in the middle of a movie theater. I can't imagine what it was like for those involved to have watched it. The biggest emotional impact I felt was Curtis' palpable fear and loss of control, which of course was likely a key objective of Corbijn's. Before this, reading about his growing fame, epilepsy, infidelity and suicide were kinda spare historical facts. But this movie really conveys how increasingly fucked he must have felt.

There's plenty of Joy Division music in there of course. None sparked me up more than the first track that cut in at around 20 minutes, "No Love Lost". Holy fucking shit did I want to leap out of my chair and play some convulsive air guitar! What a powerful track, and what a killer first selection. The boys in the movie played all the songs really well too, although not all to the same level of success. I don't think Riley perfectly nailed the "Transmission" scene, although it was freaking great to watch regardless. Another weaker cover was the studio scene of "She's Lost Control" - it didn't have the bite of the original vocal, but maybe the almost sullen or conceding sleepwalk through it was the effect Corbijn was going for. They absolutely nailed "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - I really thought it was the original just being played as soundtrack until it panned over to the characters doing the song. But "Dead Souls" more than anything else made me wish like hell that I had seen the band back in the day.

There's also plenty in the movie for just pure movie fans. It's not just that it's shot in black and white. It's a particularly harsh and high-contrast black and white. The blacks are really black, the whites are often blown, and the midtones just seem really gritty and realistic. Not unnaturally so, but it certainly conveys its own characteristic mood. Almost all of the movie also seems to be shot at wide-open apertures, meaning the depth-of-field to almost all the shots are sliver thin. Corbijn makes more use of deliberate selective focus than in any other film I can remember, which makes sense since he's a photographer. A character's eye would often be in dead focus and literally nothing else, not even their nose or ear. A written page would have only one word in focus. Many shots would have the characters walk into the focus point from the background, which dramactically draws you to, um, focus on specific parts of the scene. Sometimes the action and dialogue would move off the focus point while the camera stayed on focus on some other interesting but not necessarily primary part of the scene. I think a film buff will absolutely love the cinematography in this movie. And jeez, who knows how many cool period mementos were in the background - a real childhood photo of Curtis, Buzzcocks/The Fall/Throbbing Gristle concert posters, Roxy/Iggy/Bowie soundtrack snippets, etc.

I'll have to watch it again. Obviously a big thumbs up from me. [:I]

[Frau_Blucher]

I was periodically peeking over at American Beauty while it played on HBO tonight. I hadn't seen it since it first came out. Pretty unsettling in places but never when dealing with the daughter or the neighbor's son. I always thought it was pretty cool how they seemed to have it the most together while everyone else was insane. They had an almost new wave ethos about them, especially the daughter's assertion to her friend:

Friend: Jane, he's a freak!
Jane: Then so am I. And we'll always be freaks and we'll never be like other people...

Very cool.