rolling movie thread

[ricochet]

Northern Exposure is just okay. Not bad, I just don't need to see it as a dvd rental. if it came on tv in syndication, I'd probably watch.

I don't remember too much about Branded to Kill, but I thought it was kind of a let down from how much I've heard it talked up. I didn't think it was too special compared to other kooky private-eye kind of movies of the same era.

fair enough.

You can always download those too, you know.

I looked everywhere, but there were no subs around at the time. so, I deleted it due to space issues. :/

 

[xfer]

i got Kurosawa's Ran and Dreams from the store last night...watched about half of Dreams and it was pretty great! but i had to go to sleep...i'll finish it today.

 

[Ominous Luminous]

Dreams has to be one of my all time favorite films.
So far this weekend I have watched The passion of the Christ, which I thought was alright, but it's nothing I'll ever watch again. Also another Mel Gibson film, The Patriot.
As always I watched more cartoons than anything else. Lots of Futurama vol. 4 and a bit of Adult Swim last night.

 

[avi]

My favorite Kurasowa films are the ones with Mifune, except for the Hidden Fortress. Not that Dreams is bad or anything (hell no), I just love the stuff that's more flim noir or like Yojimbo.

 

[AndICried]

i got Kurosawa's Ran and Dreams from the store last night...watched about half of Dreams and it was pretty great! but i had to go to sleep...i'll finish it today.

Shit, Ran is extraordinary.

 

[Ominous Luminous]

Ran is the one that's based on King Lear right? Great movie!

 

[xfer]

I still haven't seen The Passion, but I will pretty soon now that it's out for (free) rental.

 

[avi]

Bombay Talkie pretty much sucked, but the included documentary "Helen, queen of the nauch girls" was great.

 

[Ovesen]

Ran is the one that's based on King Lear right? Great movie!

That's Throne of Blood.

Ran has exceptional sound design, but otherwise not nearly as good as Throne...

The last movies to enter my eyes:

Decasia (Bill Morrison)
Solaris (Tarkowsky)
Spectres of the spectrum (Craig Baldwin)
Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky)
Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (Fassbinder)
Die Marquise von O... (Eric Rohmer)
Såsom i en spegel aka Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman)
+several others, but those were the good ones...

 

[Nut Butter]

now I'm gonna watch more episodes of 6 ft. under

Man I had me a season 2 marathon this week-end... Awesome.

 

[Nut Butter]

Northern Exposure is just okay.

I for one am a HUGE fan... I didn't know they were on DVD!! I've been waiting for them to come out for a while.

A Jew in Alaska, who'd've thunk it?!?

 

[Firedwarf]

That's Throne of Blood.

Ran has exceptional sound design, but otherwise not nearly as good as Throne...

I think you have them confused. I'm 100% positive Ran is based on King Lear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_(1985_movie)

Ran (&#20081 ("Chaos") is a film by Akira Kurosawa, based on William Shakespeare's King Lear but set in Sengoku-era Japan.

 

[Ovesen]

I think you have them confused. I'm 100% positive Ran is based on King Lear.

And you're 120% fucking bloody right!!!!!

Throne is Macbeth....

It's getting late here up-north... if it's any excuse....

 

[Firedwarf]

Ah, I didn't know Throne was based on Macbeth! I'll have to see that one. I was trying to find Yojimbo the other day but I couldn't.

 

[avi]

I think the copies of Northern Exposure I rented via Nicheflix were R2 fwiw, but I believe R1 versions just came out as well.

 

[inkybmistro]

i bought triplets of belleville on dvd the other day. definitely one of the best animated films i've ever seen...it's up there with hayao miyazaki's, imo.

 

[chupe666]

um.. i watched strange brew again last night.

and master and commander, which was ok - and secret window which was sort of interesting for half an hour and then really predictable. at least those were borrowed from family & i didn't pay for them.

we need a better video store here.

 

[chupe666]

ooo, that house of flying daggers looks dece. anyone see it yet?

 

[xfer]

I got another third through Dreams last night before falling asleep. I was totally exhausted! the movie was really exciting and he was going into a tunnel full of SAVAGE DOGS when i drowsed!

 

[chupe666]

picked up an asian copy of Hero on dvd for like $7.25 shipped; it said Region 0. hope it works.

i hate english dubs of asian films. need to get the asian dub of iron monkey and legend of drunken master and others. big asian film kick lately.