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Synecdoche, New York

brilliant, mad, self indulgent rubbish, not sure what, not even sure if I enjoyed it, I think I did.
 
Started watching Antichrist cos daughter had bought it and watched with her mates night before. They warned me it had all kinds of weird nasty shit in there, but I thought 'hey ho', until I started watching it and realised that all the weird nasty shit was only going to be brought on by what happens at the start of the film - and I couldn't cope with what happened at the start of the film, so stopped after about 5 minutes!!

Watched 2 episodes of Deadwood S2 instead
 
heh, I started rewatching deadwood and got to episode 6 before sleep beckoned. Previously I had ony been able to find streaming sources that were so quiet it was pointless. Now I've found better. Poor bill. :(
 
I can't remember wether aptly named al commisioned Hickocks murder or just benefited by it. He wasn't to happy about it, seemingly but then angry is his default mode
 
i watched logan's run and it was a bit shite, despite the presence of york, ustinov, agutter and some cats.
it looks like it's filmed in a shopping centre (some of it is) and it's rather tedious for a sci-fi action films.

i then watched a fine prison film from the 70s called short eyes. it has an interesting backstory - the location, cast and writer are worth looking up.
it's unusual as it asks us to identify with a child molester played by bruce davison and has the gritty feel of oz (it even has a brief appearance by mark margolis as a guard and a very young luis guzman can be spotted sporting an afro as an extra in crowd scenes).
the slang is a bit impenetrable at times and it's an uncomfortable watch but it's worth sticking with.
there is a perfunctory curtis mayfield score and he even makes a brief appearance as an inmate.
 
I can't remember wether aptly named al commisioned Hickocks murder or just benefited by it. He wasn't to happy about it, seemingly but then angry is his default mode

Nah, it wasn't an organised killing, just Jack McCall getting pissed and being a bolshy cunt.

It seemed to work in Al's favour though (as most things usually do).
 
Synecdoche, New York

brilliant, mad, self indulgent rubbish, not sure what, not even sure if I enjoyed it, I think I did.

I was fucking loving it, thinking it was the best thing that had happened to my eyes and brian. It was rolling along at a cracking pace and I was lapping it all up like a hungry film eating dog. Then about half way though it started going nowhere, it got really slow and just got worse and worse until it just ended. By the time it finished I couldn't remember what was good about it.
 
i watched excalibur last night cos my flatmate unbelievably hadn't seen it before.
i loved it when i was about 14 - i thought all 14 year old boys were obsessed by it but it seems it was only me. it was my star wars.
it's totally ridiculous - the lighting, the pompous corny classical music, the hammy acting, the blatant (teenage boy) audience pleasing sex and gore and it's way too long, but i still loved it.
nicol williamson's bizarre performance as merlin is what nails it - it really is extraordinary and often hilarious- dropping tones halfway through sentences and sounding creepy as hell. nigel terry's arthur is almost as weird - before he is king he acts all wide eyed and irish like father dougal, then he just hams it up as the king, much like patrick stewart, liam neeson et al. most of the actors seem to be deaf and just shout at each other. brian blessed is conspicuous by his absence.
 
I was fucking loving it, thinking it was the best thing that had happened to my eyes and brian. It was rolling along at a cracking pace and I was lapping it all up like a hungry film eating dog. Then about half way though it started going nowhere, it got really slow and just got worse and worse until it just ended. By the time it finished I couldn't remember what was good about it.

it did feel like it was 17 years long at some points :D
 
i watched "Blow Up". made me think everyone in the 1960s were wankers and i am very glad not to have lived then. kind of boring, a lot in there to think about if you were so inclined though,i would probably have loved it if it had been a subtitled european film, but there you go.
 
i watched excalibur last night cos my flatmate unbelievably hadn't seen it before.
i loved it when i was about 14 - i thought all 14 year old boys were obsessed by it but it seems it was only me. it was my star wars.
it's totally ridiculous - the lighting, the pompous corny classical music, the hammy acting, the blatant (teenage boy) audience pleasing sex and gore and it's way too long, but i still loved it.
nicol williamson's bizarre performance as merlin is what nails it - it really is extraordinary and often hilarious- dropping tones halfway through sentences and sounding creepy as well. nigel terry's arthur is almost as weird - before he is king he acts all wide eyed and irish like father dougal, then he just hams it up as the king, much like patrick stewart, liam neeson et al. most of the actors seem to be deaf and just shout at each other. brian blessed is conspicuous by his absence.

I love Excalibur - it's completely fucking hatstand from begining to end.
 
Last time I saw it it was on at about 3am on Christmas Eve. It ruined my excellent plan of an early night and not being hungover for me Xmas dinner. :D
 
I have Anvil: The Story of Anvil! to watch but I can't get my arse together for it.

Need to be in the right mood for stuff, you know.
 
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs-for the second time. It really is an ace movie.

MILK which I loved thought Penn was outstanding as per usual.
 
Phantasm, whist doing the ironing, yesterday. Enjoyed big time, although i'll need to re-watch as there was some intense duvet ironing going down.
 
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