rolling movie thread

[xfer]

i saw a lot of movies while i was abed, most not so good. here are some i remember.

identity--good for a rainy sickbed day, i guess.

whalerider--good, in that it made me think, although i was disturbed that it had this kind of feminist posture but its actuality was very anti-feminist. i mean, in the seventies it would have been an ass-kicking feminist film, but in the aughts....I think that nowadays cultures that don't have equality-of-women ideals are aberrant, not the objective standard, and i think movies should treat them as aberrations.

 

[chupe666]

i read yesterday that john woo is doing a HeMan movie?

and that machinist movie looks kind of interesting.

 

[avi]

He-Man? as in he-man and the masters of the universe?! wtf?

 

[xfer]

is that so strange? he-man is kind of popular now with kids, isn't he? they have a new line of toys and all.

 

[avi]

oh? i had no idea

 

[chupe666]

http://moviepoopshoot.com/news/oct04/22.html

 

[xfer]

well i mean my li'l cousin likes he-man and not just because we gave him our old toys. the new he-man is kind of monstrous-looking, actually; even more steroidal/muscular.

 

[chupe666]

that link is not as bad as it looks like it might be. it's just a blurb on the heman movie.

 

[avi]

will John Woo ever make a decent movie in Hollywood? Signs point to no.

 

[chupe666]

one rumor says nick cage was interested in skeletor but he'd have to lose weight better than christian bale.

 

[xfer]

shit, for a moment i thought you meant nick cave!!!

 

[avi]

well, if cage confirms it's pretty much a confirmed disaster from the start

 

[gekko]

What was the movie that Bale lost so much weight?

 

[AndICried]

Speaking of films depicting aspects of contempory Maori culture (whalerider), has anyone seen once we were warriors? I've been meaning to rent it for a long time.

2001 space odyssey for the first time a few nights ago... Either I was really tired and fell asleep, or there was no real conclusion to the "evil computer" sequence of events.

Saw The Stranger also - excellent, if not quite the as excellent as the third man.

 

[xfer]

avi, nic cage was in "Adaptation", though.

i saw the first half of "Once Were Warriors" when it came out, but didn't finish it. i think i remember it was good.

i also saw "Attack of the Clones".

 

[xfer]

2001 is amazing. it used to be my favourite film maybe. not really anymore but it's still pretty genius.

 

[The Dope]

Finally saw Team America tonight. So funny!

 

[0sm0se]

FUCKxYEAH!

 

[Draft Dodging Scarecrow]

I saw Blade Trinity the other night. Pretty much just a bunch of flashy stuff, cheesy lines, and shameless promotion for the apple ipod.

But Dracula did look might cool in his armor.

 

[xfer]

was it as bad as Blade 2?