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Saw it again last night - cheesier than I remembered but there's no doubt that it was meant to be mostly comedy. The action was hilarious - a grenade blowing up an entire hallway so they have to jump out a window and shoot an UZI on the way down to blow up the ice, shooting tires out while ice skating across a lake, etc, etc. Watching the tables being turned on "Bad Mother####er" Sam Jackson is priceless.
Yeah, not much to see there. It didn't start out very well, and it never was all that interesting. That opening scene with Woody in the drive-in was so disgusting, it reminded me that extreme violence and misogyny in films is really dull and cliche at this point.KarmaPolice said:
I don't know what to say. I loved this movie.KarmaPolice said:
Spike is a director that's hard to figure out. Much as I loved Do The Right Thing, I hated Bamboozled in equal measure. His Oldboy remake was decent. Of the recent Spike films, I highly recommend Inside Man. That movie was a lot of fun.saintfool said:
I only saw Mo' Better Blues one time. But I remember that movie had a really offensive Jewish character in it. It was so obvious and anti-Semitic, I couldn't help but wonder if Lee realized how bigoted it looked on screen.El Floppo said:
Inside Man and especially 25th Hour are better then most movies you'll see in any given year.
These are two good posts that portray what I was feeling as well. Thought the movie was interesting, but way too one dimensional and preachy. Keep seeing in on "best of decade" lists, and one of the podcasts I was listening to recently kept gushing over it as well, so I had that in my head also. IMO a great movie needs to: 1. present ideas, but ultimately make the audience think for themselves. 2. stand on it's own and not need to be thought of in context or year it was from to understand it's greatness. Do the Right Thing missed on both of those for me.
Apparently I posted in the wrong thread. I think I was on the phone in the bathroom at the time if it helps explain it...
I liked this one quite a bit. Could be because i saw it on a theater undetracted. I thought the tone, set through the cinematography and art direction was perfect for the message/movie. SlickNess and a more rapid fire narrative would have been an inappropriate voice for what i think they were trying to say. Definitely flawed, gloomy and plodding, but I thought it all came together and worked, fairly well. It was a tough task making the protagonist so flawed and still getting me behind him (for a while, anyway)3.35/5 stars
Gave this a try. Don't try watching this drunk. I was sober and had trouble keeping up.
I'm sure LA does.
My city isn't huge (like 180,000). The local multiplex plays cult double features every Thursday.
oh yeah- lots of theaters here in NYC do this too, almost exclusively the indie-houses (of which, thankfully, there are still a lot).
Saw it last night.Or AmazingNot terrible, just not special in any way.I was entertained.
, possibly one of the best actors of his generation, who unfortunately is probably best known as Mel Gibson's big cousin from Braveheart.
Saintfool posted about this recently.Saw Calvary this weekend. One of the most thought provoking movies I've seen in a very, very long time. For those who can stand non-action, I highly recommend (and would be interested in reading your thoughts on it). It starts a bit slow, but stick with it. Brendan Gleeson is
Professor Alastor Moody for me, although his work in In Bruges was outstanding.Saintfool posted about this recently.Saw Calvary this weekend. One of the most thought provoking movies I've seen in a very, very long time. For those who can stand non-action, I highly recommend (and would be interested in reading your thoughts on it). It starts a bit slow, but stick with it. Brendan Gleeson is
Sounds like something I should check out... and that my wife will NEVER check out.
eta: I think of gleeson as the guy from In Bruges at this point.
Look for non-profit arthouse type theaters. I live close to Nashville, and have this one. They play all kinds of old stuff, anime, and cult classic movies. They have midnight showings of all kinds of crazy things. They have a full bar inside with a fantastic selection. Big fan. If I was balling, I would be one of their benefactors.
yeah, the Belcourt has been one of those places for decades now. I lived within walking distance of it and went there regularly as a kid in high school. the other place that showed art-house, indie flicks back in the day was the Vanderbilt student union theater. I caught Nosferatu, Stop Making Sense and a slew of other films for a long time.
Forgot that down on campus at the UW-Madison there is a small place that shows cool stuff.
Madison seemed like a cool town, the one drive-by I did there long ago. Better than Waukesha, at least.
If Tilda Swinson doesn't get Best Supporting Actress, there is no justice in this world.
