I'm repeating myself. Typical.
Finally caught IN THE LOOP and INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. Loved them both.
Not going to really waste time summarizing them. Why I liked them, that's another story.
IN THE LOOP just made me laugh. And it displayed to me, in a way I trully believe, how il--considered, off hand comments by our so-called leaders can lead to shit like Iraq. When you have pricks like the DAvid Rasche character willing to manipulate and falsify anything in order to back up their ignorant assertions....throw it all in a pot and asses get fucked.
Peter Capaldi, of course, was commanding. No doubt the biggest bastard in a movie since Daniel Plainview. Funnier though. His exchange with James Gandolfini was tense, funny and I fully believed Malcolm could possibly kick Tony Soprano's ass.
One more thing: Gandolfin calculating required troop totals and possible casulties on a little girls bed, on a little girls electronic, gleefully chiming math toy.....that says it all.
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS was as good as expected. It's Tarantino all grown up. It worked as plain entertainment and as another great dialogue piece. Fuck, the vast majority was people sitting around talking about what they did or are going to do. And the guts to have a good 30-40% in subtitles is admirable, too. I haven't enjoyed Pitt this much in years. Even that douchebag Eli Roth was fun.
As others have commented the movie is as much about movies as it is about WW2. It takes how movies permeate every facet of our society(s), how we view the world through movies, and sometimes resolve problems through film and, literally at the climax, with celluloid. Then subverts movie tropes when it resolves who lives, who dies, who are the "heroes," and, hell, where they are during the climax.
Well done. Nice to see Tarantino, and Wes Anderson as well, hitting their creative sweet spots in the same year.
So, updated list:
FAVORITES:
WATCHMEN (still)
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
DISTRICT 9
HURT LOCKER
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
OBSERVE AND REPORT
DRAG ME TO HELL
TRICK R' TREAT (inexcusable oversight on my part. A Halloween dream come true)
STAR TREK
BRUNO
ADVENTURELAND
PONYO
IN THE LOOP
ZOMBIELAND
AVATAR
CORALINE
UP
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
PUBLIC ENEMIES (forgot this one earlier....)
KNOWING (forgot this one too. Underrated genre fun)
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
I LOVE YOU, MAN
THE GOODS
CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE
SUNSHINE CLEANING
THE HANGOVER
THE LAND OF THE LOST (the haters are wrong. Another batshit insane entertainment)
TAKING OF PELHAM 1,2,3
EXTRACT
MEH
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
9
THE BOX
THE ROAD
HALLOWEEN 2 (more on this later whether you like it or not)
JENNIFER'S BODY
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE:
TRANSFORMERS 2....I will never watch this again, but I truly believe this is a massive "fuck you" from Bay to all of his haters. I think he intentionally ramped up the stupidity, retarded humor, leg-humping dogs, racial stereotype robots and everything else just to annoy movie critics and fanboys. And he did. Bravo.
May as well throw out the worst while I'm at it:
FRIDAY THE 13TH.....the laziest movie I've seen in years. Did they even try to do anything different??? I love slasher movies, but this was less a reboot than another shit sequel.
WOLVERINE....when Liev Schreiber splashes fake blood on Wolverines wife, and Wolverine doesn't pick up on it,what with his super mutant smell and all, that was that.
TERMINATOR SALVATION...a great world to play in, and they had no fucking idea what to do with it. And they waste Michael Ironside on a submarine. Fuck you.
ALIENS IN THE ATTIC....sub-par Joe Dante effort. *yawn*
THE UNBORN
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT
G-FORCE
ICE AGE 3
YET TO SEE:
MOON
HARRY POTTER AND THE WHATEVER.....
THE INFORMANT
THE INVENTION OF LIEING
WHIP IT
SHERLOCK HOLMES
UP IN THE AIR
BAD LIEUTENANT
2012
BLIND SIDE
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS
INVICTUS
I'm not gonna list the movies I don't care about because I don't care about them.
Finally caught IN THE LOOP and INGLORIOUS BASTERDS. Loved them both.
Not going to really waste time summarizing them. Why I liked them, that's another story.
IN THE LOOP just made me laugh. And it displayed to me, in a way I trully believe, how il--considered, off hand comments by our so-called leaders can lead to shit like Iraq. When you have pricks like the DAvid Rasche character willing to manipulate and falsify anything in order to back up their ignorant assertions....throw it all in a pot and asses get fucked.
Peter Capaldi, of course, was commanding. No doubt the biggest bastard in a movie since Daniel Plainview. Funnier though. His exchange with James Gandolfini was tense, funny and I fully believed Malcolm could possibly kick Tony Soprano's ass.
One more thing: Gandolfin calculating required troop totals and possible casulties on a little girls bed, on a little girls electronic, gleefully chiming math toy.....that says it all.
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS was as good as expected. It's Tarantino all grown up. It worked as plain entertainment and as another great dialogue piece. Fuck, the vast majority was people sitting around talking about what they did or are going to do. And the guts to have a good 30-40% in subtitles is admirable, too. I haven't enjoyed Pitt this much in years. Even that douchebag Eli Roth was fun.
As others have commented the movie is as much about movies as it is about WW2. It takes how movies permeate every facet of our society(s), how we view the world through movies, and sometimes resolve problems through film and, literally at the climax, with celluloid. Then subverts movie tropes when it resolves who lives, who dies, who are the "heroes," and, hell, where they are during the climax.
Well done. Nice to see Tarantino, and Wes Anderson as well, hitting their creative sweet spots in the same year.
So, updated list:
FAVORITES:
WATCHMEN (still)
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
DISTRICT 9
HURT LOCKER
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
OBSERVE AND REPORT
DRAG ME TO HELL
TRICK R' TREAT (inexcusable oversight on my part. A Halloween dream come true)
STAR TREK
BRUNO
ADVENTURELAND
PONYO
IN THE LOOP
ZOMBIELAND
AVATAR
CORALINE
UP
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
PUBLIC ENEMIES (forgot this one earlier....)
KNOWING (forgot this one too. Underrated genre fun)
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
I LOVE YOU, MAN
THE GOODS
CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE
SUNSHINE CLEANING
THE HANGOVER
THE LAND OF THE LOST (the haters are wrong. Another batshit insane entertainment)
TAKING OF PELHAM 1,2,3
EXTRACT
MEH
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
9
THE BOX
THE ROAD
HALLOWEEN 2 (more on this later whether you like it or not)
JENNIFER'S BODY
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE:
TRANSFORMERS 2....I will never watch this again, but I truly believe this is a massive "fuck you" from Bay to all of his haters. I think he intentionally ramped up the stupidity, retarded humor, leg-humping dogs, racial stereotype robots and everything else just to annoy movie critics and fanboys. And he did. Bravo.
May as well throw out the worst while I'm at it:
FRIDAY THE 13TH.....the laziest movie I've seen in years. Did they even try to do anything different??? I love slasher movies, but this was less a reboot than another shit sequel.
WOLVERINE....when Liev Schreiber splashes fake blood on Wolverines wife, and Wolverine doesn't pick up on it,what with his super mutant smell and all, that was that.
TERMINATOR SALVATION...a great world to play in, and they had no fucking idea what to do with it. And they waste Michael Ironside on a submarine. Fuck you.
ALIENS IN THE ATTIC....sub-par Joe Dante effort. *yawn*
THE UNBORN
RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN
HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT
G-FORCE
ICE AGE 3
YET TO SEE:
MOON
HARRY POTTER AND THE WHATEVER.....
THE INFORMANT
THE INVENTION OF LIEING
WHIP IT
SHERLOCK HOLMES
UP IN THE AIR
BAD LIEUTENANT
2012
BLIND SIDE
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS
INVICTUS
I'm not gonna list the movies I don't care about because I don't care about them.
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