Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 12:44 am

TROPICAL THUNDER IS AMAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

d_three · Post by **d_three** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 11:57 pm

watched "Human Traffic" once again

Koop wrote:This could turn Hare Krishna into a Bad Bwoy!

betamaxnomates · Post by **betamaxnomates** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:11 pm

DJ Sinc Vision wrote:
Diss04 wrote:just bought in bruges
get. in. there. fucking incredible film. toooooooo many good lines. hope it doesn't get a whole 'lock, stock' kinda following and become cliched mind you, though it doesn't have the whole 'double 'ard bastards' themed usp so that probably won't happen.

Can't recommend 'In Bruges' enough. It really is a gem of a film. Hopefully it might get a bit more exposure now on DVD since it seemed to flop pretty badly in cinemas. Not surprising though considering the terrible marketing it had.

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:37 pm

L'Atalante.

silentk · Post by **silentk** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:32 pm

d.three wrote:watched "Human Traffic" once again

Koop wrote:This could turn Hare Krishna into a Bad Bwoy!

is that quote from the film? coz i'm sure i've seen/heard that line somewhere recently, on tv, in a film or something?

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:48 pm

Saw ''The Dark Knight'' last Wednesday, was duly impressed by the scale and brutality of it and by Ledger's performance, but felt it was a little incoherent at times and almost too complex to work as an action film. Still, great film.

The other night saw ''Zidane'' (when the camera follows him for the whole match) which was hypnotic and (at times) fascinating, ''Spirited Away'' (seen many times before, still brilliant) and finally - on weakish mushrooms - ''Apocalypse Now''. I've never really watched ''A.N'' that intently before and understood it more than before... the finale is so messy and drawn out but given the steady slide into insanity that the rest of the film represents, totally fitting. Such a dark film, too, really brought the mood down lol

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:48 am

Saw "Dead Mans Shoe's" last night, really sad

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:07 am

Paranoid park

Pretty good, a thinking film i guess.

Reminds me of juno.

Would like to watch this zidane film?

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:49 am

I watched the hive......

WARNING, MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS!
Some funny thiings i picked up in the movie like: the operator women had a sound mixer for video editing lol!
And they already have like this super high tech super gun deluxe n shit, why dont they have pheromone detectors?
Thats what ants communicate through!
WHY NOT?
And another thing, even if the ants could do all of that...THEY DON'T MOVE SO FAST!
Like super fast, they can form a spiral thing super duper fast!
they wouldn't, are they on amphetamines or something?
Even though you see stuff that will annoy you as a viewer, the concept in it is interesting(but abit far fetched)!

This movie is not that good, its like....ok.....

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 2:26 pm

saw raging bull again yesterday, definately de-niro's best performance in a film...unbelievable, the way he portrays himself as being so on edge is fantastic, you just cant tell what he is thinking...

LEQ · Post by **LEQ** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:26 pm

I'm gonna watch Babel later on I reckon, anyone see it?

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:41 pm

LEQ wrote:I'm gonna watch Babel later on I reckon, anyone see it?

nh i havent was tepted 2 get this on demand the other night

datura · Post by **datura** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 4:20 pm

Kubrick's 'The Killing', fantastic heist movie.

I have Babel on the Sky+, not seen it yet, hopefully is as good as Amores Perros.

dj cal cutta · Post by **dj cal cutta** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:57 pm

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters- First time seeing this, probably one of the better examples from the "loud, colorful 80's!"(prime example: Would Mishima *really* have worn that turquoise lame bathrobe that Ken Ogata wears near the beginning of the film?!). Ogata is, of course, wonderful as Mishima(even if he wasn't necessarily the best physical match for the role), Phillip Glass's score is one of his better works, and I liked how Paul Schrader tries to show his life through 4 of his prime subjects in his literary(and other) works.

Patriotism- The one surviving film of Mishima's(and the only he directed). This was FASCINATING! Even without taking into account the almost unbelievable sense of foretelling this film provides, the sense of love Mishima has for the story and subject matter of Hara-Kiri is something these Western eyes were both unprepared, shocked(not in a bad way), and intrigued. The simplistic staging feels appropriate, along w/the lack of dialogue. Highly recommended...(plus, Criterion crammed this and Schrader's Mishima biopic to the gills with extra materials providing much further interesting study on Mishima.)

Titticut Follies- Not the first time I've seen this, but I got to see a better-looking avi than what I'd seen before(a 3rd or 4th gen vhs dubbed tape?). Heartbreaking, hard to watch, yet still endearing(as Frederick Wiseman does a great job of reminding you that these folks aren't machines or animals to be discarded, they're people like you or I). This is always one of the first things that pops into my head whenever I see shitheads in the media like Brit Hume espousing general nonsense about how vaguely "great" this country is.

I've watched a few other things I'm either forgetting or declining to comment on(the new Criterion release of Vampyr, which is a revelation, Bergman's "Hour of the Wolf" and "Shame", etc.)

In short, I'm now a fan of Yukio Mishima!

reverendmedia · Post by **reverendmedia** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 6:28 pm

DJ Cal Cutta wrote:Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Wow - forgot about this one - saw it over a decade ago. Still have it on vhs somewhere, along with Eat The Kimono (a documentary on the Japanese feminist performer Hanayagi Genshu which I still haven't watched).

I remember that my Japanese tutor swapped me that vhs for my copy of Silent Mobuis: The Movie, which was never returned to me (never mind - got it on LD anyway

).

Cheers for that post. Mishima San, investigate further, I shall.

slim · Post by **slim** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:45 pm

Saw the dark knight again, good a second time round, but some of the acting was a bit shocking, only realised my aunt's boyfriend is in it this time, missed it the first time.

All the same, damn good film (still laughed at the pencil gag, glad i found that animation)

dj cal cutta · Post by **dj cal cutta** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:01 pm

reverendmedia wrote:Eat The Kimono (a documentary on the Japanese feminist performer Hanayagi Genshu which I still haven't watched).

well this quote sounded interesting(along w/the title), and I could find almost *nothing* on the internet about this. Think I'm on a quest now...

gwa · Post by **gwa** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:27 pm

Course i watched City Of Men last night.

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:37 pm

gwa wrote:Course i watched City Of Men last night.

And what ya think of it?

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