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Babel

Bit boring. And I'm currently halfway through The History Boys which is also a bit dull... enjoying it more than the former filum tho.
 
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael.

Provoked a bit of outrage at Cannes. Dissafacted, bored youth in a seaside town. With anomie as a main theme the usual drugs, petty crime and gang rape. I thought the script and acting were mediocore. Not sure the film had much trajectory, storywise. Maybe that was the idea. It just seems to cover a couple days in these kids life. It only seems a film to shock. Which it does. The gang rape scene is fucking savage. My girfriend found it pretty objectionable and could barely watch it.
 
Two episodes of the Clangers - 2nd one was great.

a dandilion clock thing landed on the planet, so tiny clanger got the cotton wool cloud to water it, then decorated the cloud with picked flowers. But then it started raining pollen & they got chased of the surface by flowers, so sent a message to the Iron Chiken (via a tv aeral hat) who launched a firework rocket to blue flying horse ellephant sky-moos to come and eat them. :cool: :D

who needs drugs?
 
The last two films i've seen have been average when taken together.

That the first was "The good, the Bad and the Ugly" should tell you just how bad the second film really was.

Alien invasion - Arizona :cool:

A film with a plot line most porn films better, acting that was scarily bad and whoever produced and directed it should be shot for crimes against broadband.
 
earlier tonight I watched the live dvd that came with Bob Marley the roots of a legend cd good stuff
going by the credits (& voice over) it was origanally part of a US? tv special - any info?
 
tastebud said:
:eek: there's something seriously wrong with the world... it's an amazing film!

if you feel that strongly about babel (babble :p ) then im gonna watch it again as i must have missed something, some nuances that i just didnt catch, some plot i didnt grab hold of, whatever it is i missed it :( but it'll get another go cause i know youve got impeccable taste...



*seriously, gonna watch it again
 
MightyAphrodite said:
if you feel that strongly about babel (babble :p ) then im gonna watch it again as i must have missed something, some nuances that i just didnt catch, some plot i didnt grab hold of, whatever it is i missed it :( but it'll get another go cause i know youve got impeccable taste...



*seriously, gonna watch it again
Pheweee! I feel less of a tasteless cockmuncher now. Wouldn't watch it again tho.
 
MightyAphrodite said:
if you feel that strongly about babel (babble :p ) then im gonna watch it again as i must have missed something, some nuances that i just didnt catch, some plot i didnt grab hold of, whatever it is i missed it :( but it'll get another go cause i know youve got impeccable taste...



*seriously, gonna watch it again
aw, you're a sweetie :)
a few reasons really. i thought it was an amazingly accurate portrayal of rural moroccan life- the actors, who weren't even actors, were superb. i know if you watch say a moroccan film this is also likely to be the case, but for a pretty mainstream film i thought it was really well done & they avoided all the usual stereotypes that mainstream cinema usually puts on this kind of thing*. this contrasted with for example, the deaf japanese girl's story, and all the shots in japan, was a really great way of showing how cross-culturally fucked we are in this world (along with the english people getting so irrate in morocco - though this was a tad unrealistic; the script wasn't perfect, but what i liked about the film i really loved).

i thought the ending was a great reflection of how things are. the japanese, american & even the mexicans (although she had a slighter rough time- getting deported) had an almost typically hollywood style ending, whereas the moroccans got a pretty shit deal. i can't help but feel this wasn't an accident.

I also love his style of film-making... the connected stories, shown in such a disjointed way.

*the only bit ino that was a bit ridiculous was the brad pitt wife being sewed up by a vet... but i think that might have been to portray how lonely/alien they felt culturally, which i guess would happen to a western in a crisis in a foreign land. this whole story was slightly unrealistic, but the moroccans & their lives seemed quite accurate. besides, they had opium & that's :cool:

purves grundy said:
Pheweee! I feel less of a tasteless cockmuncher now. Wouldn't watch it again tho.
tbh, not many people seemd to rate it. particularly not film reviewers. but in truth, what do they know? two people whose film tastes i really respect, really loved it too.
 
rollinder said:
Two episodes of the Clangers - 2nd one was great.

a dandilion clock thing landed on the planet, so tiny clanger got the cotton wool cloud to water it, then decorated the cloud with picked flowers. But then it started raining pollen & they got chased of the surface by flowers, so sent a message to the Iron Chiken (via a tv aeral hat) who launched a firework rocket to blue flying horse ellephant sky-moos to come and eat them. :cool: :D

who needs drugs?


fukin rock on tommey :D
 
MightyAphrodite said:
so what dvd did you watch last night then frippeteer? :confused: :p
I did watch a frippet-featuring film actually, but only for about 15 mins or so :p

tastebud said:
i thought it was an amazingly accurate portrayal of rural moroccan life- the actors, who weren't even actors, were superb.
Actually I did enjoy the Moroccan story, excellent acting and a stunning backdrop. I found the other stories a bit... distracting. Found myself tap-tapping my fingers through them.

I've got Ghosts to watch tonight - lookin forward to that.
 
purves grundy said:
Actually I did enjoy the Moroccan story, excellent acting and a stunning backdrop. I found the other stories a bit... distracting. Found myself tap-tapping my fingers through them.
yeah, but they were wholly necessary to one of the points of the film, don'tcha think? i thought the tokyo story was fairly dull (the film isn't perfect, i guess it could be better - i'm just glad it exists, is all) but it made a great contrast to moroccan life.
 
just watched The History Boys, which - ultimately - pissed me off. It's excellent in places, but it never escapes the stage and it's like some weird wish-fulfilment job on Bennet's part. It has too many endings and the Daykin (sp?) just doesn't work - film goes wrong when he hits on Irwin / saves Hector's job. It's all too neat.

Which is a shame because the first half or so I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would. And Frances De La Tour was brilliant as ever
 
Art School Confidential

It lost it's focus a bit towards the end, but overall it was good stuff. Dark, misanthropic, funny. :)
 
Before everything went tits up, I watched a load of DVDs over the weekend on my dad's megasize flatscreen surround-sound-enabled tv:

Casino Royale (the new one) - really, really enjoyed this, the freshest Bond for decades
Alison Krauss + Union Station live - superb footage of jaw-dropping musicians having a good time hoedown in Kentucky
X Men 3 - as I knew it would be shit and I wouldn't enjoy it, I thought I'd take the opportunity to peruse this for free instead of renting and and being annoyed at spending the money. I was right, it was shit and I didn't enjoy it. If only Bryan Singer had stuck around instead of fucking off to do his vanity project/long-cherished dream (delete according to cynicism)
Serenity - a rewatch, saw it at the cinema and loved it, saw it on the massive telly and loved it again
Die Hard - obviously also a rewatch. I hadn't seen it for years and my dad's ridiculously oversized tv set-up was the perfect way to get reaquainted with this superlative action film
 
Dubversion said:
just watched The History Boys, which - ultimately - pissed me off. It's excellent in places, but it never escapes the stage and it's like some weird wish-fulfilment job on Bennet's part. It has too many endings and the Daykin (sp?) just doesn't work - film goes wrong when he hits on Irwin / saves Hector's job. It's all too neat.
I finished watching that last night. Had to do it in two sittings, found the smug repartee of 17 year olds too much to take. I'd expected this of an Alan Bennet play, but this was just too much.

So then I watched Touristas for a bit of linearity. Dreaful!
 
Miami Vice - boring, leaden, boring, dull, boring piece of shit, just like any other Mann film, but even more empty, flashy and boring. Did I mention that it was also boring?
 
Ghosts. very very good, quite shocking. The boss geezer was such a cunt, but eventually showed himself to be as much a victim as his 'employees'. Interesting, that whole micro-exploitation area. And the constant singing and whistling to a backdrop of utter despait made the characters and their situation seem all the more pathetic.

Top stuff.
 
How Art Made the World. BBC documentary series exploring the fundamental relationship between humans and the development of art, from ancient times through to the present.

The guy that presents it is a bit of a tool, but in my mind a wankey presenter adds to the charm of a documentary somewhat. Especially when baked :D
 
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