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Have you seen Incendies? I think that's a terrific movie.
Didn't realise he was remaking Dune, now very excited.
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Have you seen Incendies? I think that's a terrific movie.
Didn't realise he was remaking Dune, now very excited.
challenge_everything
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I still wish Jodorowsky realised his vision of it though. The thought of a collaboration between him, Magma, Giger, Dali, Welles and Jagger is just....drool...
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Top 5 quotes from the NZ band Cage Demise's low budget doco on YouTube:
5. "All our band money was going in the pokie machine"
4. "We called ourselves Rush, and it's not a name that I decided because I had a couple of you know, vinyls of the original British band called Rush"
3. "As far as live bands is concerned, I never witnessed anythink until that day that a certain Mr Freeman dragged me along to 8 Foot Sativa show and it just broke my arse"
2. "You've had like a fuckin' mean roast on a Sunday night and it's about 7:30 and you hit the fuckin' toilet for a mean poo"
1. "Gotta try and be the brutalest cunt anyone's ever seen, you know? That's what I try and do."
5. "All our band money was going in the pokie machine"
4. "We called ourselves Rush, and it's not a name that I decided because I had a couple of you know, vinyls of the original British band called Rush"
3. "As far as live bands is concerned, I never witnessed anythink until that day that a certain Mr Freeman dragged me along to 8 Foot Sativa show and it just broke my arse"
2. "You've had like a fuckin' mean roast on a Sunday night and it's about 7:30 and you hit the fuckin' toilet for a mean poo"
1. "Gotta try and be the brutalest cunt anyone's ever seen, you know? That's what I try and do."
CiG
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Current favourite 5 films from the 2010's:
1. Mad Max: Fury Road (I don't see much chance of this one being toppled)
2. The Raid
3. Blackhat
4. Green Room
5. Only God Forgives
1. Mad Max: Fury Road (I don't see much chance of this one being toppled)
2. The Raid
3. Blackhat
4. Green Room
5. Only God Forgives
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ALLY TO GOOD, NIGHTMARE TO YOU
1. Margaret
2. You Were Never Really Here
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
4. Cosmopolis
5. Train to Busan
Oblivious Maximus
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The Ozzman
Melted by feels
I love Circumstances!
All good choices. Mine:
1) Between the Wheels
2) Secret Touch
3) Open Secrets
4) Cold Fire
5) Prime Mover
The entire Counterparts album is significantly underrated as is Hold Your Fire. The only truly skippable song on HYF is Tai Shan. Open Secrets is definitely underrated from a lyrical perspective.
Between the Wheels is probably their best album closer in the entire discography.
Oblivious Maximus
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After listening to it a lot the past few months, I'm now of the opinion that Hold Your Fire is kind of a masterpiece. Those keys are fucking lush. I was thinking of putting "Second Nature" on the list too but didn't want 2 songs from one album.
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1) margaret
2) cosmopolis
3) romancing in thin air
4) inside llewyn davis
5) blackhat
6-10: the act of killing, tabu, the unspeakable act, every paul thomas anderson, every wes anderson
CiG
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Oblivious Maximus
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Good to see Cosmopolis on another list. Nice knowing it didn't fly over everyone's head as the wretched reviews would lead one to believe.
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it's a pretty intimidating film and not conventionally cinematic in the slightest, so i understand why it got panned in a lot of places. i'm sure i don't fully understand it myself, but i did try to write about it here.
CiG
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Top 5 films I didn't expect to like as much as I did (and even outright expected to hate):
1. Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
2. Weather Woman (Otenki-Oneesan)
3. Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h
4. Cleopatra Jones
5. Boxcar Bertha
When I first discovered Troma like most I loved the first Toxie film and was disappointed by the two followups so I pumped the brakes on buying the fourth film, years later I finally grabbed it and basically was blown away by how much of an insane roller-coaster ride it was and ever since it's been my favourite Troma film. I'll defend that orgy of retardation 'til my death at this point.
Weather Woman was something I grabbed last year (I think) because I'll just buy any Asian shit reissued by Eastern Eye and this one turned out to be a god-tier pink film that made no sense but also 100% sense somehow. Probably helps that the film's titular character completely appealed to the femdom lover in me.
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h was a very recent discovery (last week) which I bought on the strength of a very short trailer after seeing it at a thrift store and made a note to look it up later. I didn't grab it in the moment because the DVD details/aesthetic made it look pretty shitty. Watched the trailer, penis tingled, rushed back the following morning to grab it and watched it that night. This one reminded me why I love old school meat & potatoes action films and was a very satisfying watch, this is one of those movies I'll be coming back to probably for years and years.
Pretty funny that the director went on to only make one other film, some shitty-looking romance film lmao but anyway Tom Doty fucking rules and this photo basically sums up the whole vibe of the movie:
T.N.T. Jackson kinda burned me out recently on blaxploitation films because the martial arts choreography was so bad and there wasn't anything else to balance it out. It just became a bad, painfully low budget film. Well, I put off watching Cleopatra Jones for ages because I thought it would basically be the same so I was really surprised that it ruled. The fight scenes featuring Tamara Dobson are pretty shitty (though better than T.N.T. Jackson IMO) but the rest of the film completely makes up for it, with insanely bad ass car scenes, a cool cast of support characters (many familiar faces if you love the genre) and the music and antagonists are hilarious. The main villain is a lesbian kingpin nicknamed "Mommy" lmao.
I know it might sound retarded to put a Scorsese film in a list like this because at the very least you should expect to like a Scorsese film, but I saw this after I saw Mean Streets which I felt was overall a pretty disappointing film and so I went into Boxcar Bertha expecting it to be even worse because I felt the biggest issue with Mean Streets was that it was all of Scorsese's classic elements in embryo form thrown together with little finesse and so, logically I thought, Boxcar Bertha would be even more clumsy and embryonic. Turned out it was a lot better than Mean Streets and while it had the typical aimless vibe that many independent 70's films have, the moments where it switched on the focus were amazing and the ending itself was fucking apeshit.
1. Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
2. Weather Woman (Otenki-Oneesan)
3. Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h
4. Cleopatra Jones
5. Boxcar Bertha
When I first discovered Troma like most I loved the first Toxie film and was disappointed by the two followups so I pumped the brakes on buying the fourth film, years later I finally grabbed it and basically was blown away by how much of an insane roller-coaster ride it was and ever since it's been my favourite Troma film. I'll defend that orgy of retardation 'til my death at this point.
Weather Woman was something I grabbed last year (I think) because I'll just buy any Asian shit reissued by Eastern Eye and this one turned out to be a god-tier pink film that made no sense but also 100% sense somehow. Probably helps that the film's titular character completely appealed to the femdom lover in me.
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h was a very recent discovery (last week) which I bought on the strength of a very short trailer after seeing it at a thrift store and made a note to look it up later. I didn't grab it in the moment because the DVD details/aesthetic made it look pretty shitty. Watched the trailer, penis tingled, rushed back the following morning to grab it and watched it that night. This one reminded me why I love old school meat & potatoes action films and was a very satisfying watch, this is one of those movies I'll be coming back to probably for years and years.
Pretty funny that the director went on to only make one other film, some shitty-looking romance film lmao but anyway Tom Doty fucking rules and this photo basically sums up the whole vibe of the movie:
T.N.T. Jackson kinda burned me out recently on blaxploitation films because the martial arts choreography was so bad and there wasn't anything else to balance it out. It just became a bad, painfully low budget film. Well, I put off watching Cleopatra Jones for ages because I thought it would basically be the same so I was really surprised that it ruled. The fight scenes featuring Tamara Dobson are pretty shitty (though better than T.N.T. Jackson IMO) but the rest of the film completely makes up for it, with insanely bad ass car scenes, a cool cast of support characters (many familiar faces if you love the genre) and the music and antagonists are hilarious. The main villain is a lesbian kingpin nicknamed "Mommy" lmao.
I know it might sound retarded to put a Scorsese film in a list like this because at the very least you should expect to like a Scorsese film, but I saw this after I saw Mean Streets which I felt was overall a pretty disappointing film and so I went into Boxcar Bertha expecting it to be even worse because I felt the biggest issue with Mean Streets was that it was all of Scorsese's classic elements in embryo form thrown together with little finesse and so, logically I thought, Boxcar Bertha would be even more clumsy and embryonic. Turned out it was a lot better than Mean Streets and while it had the typical aimless vibe that many independent 70's films have, the moments where it switched on the focus were amazing and the ending itself was fucking apeshit.
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Oblivious Maximus
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I'll have to read that later. It's a fascinatingly odd film even by Cronenberg standards. I consider it to be part of a loose trilogy with Crash and eXistenZ. I also love the fact that some people saw it solely for Pattinson (who's excellent, by the way) only to have their brains fried.
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it's kind of amazing where pattinson's career has gone after harry potter and twilight. two cronenbergs, a herzog, a denis, a gray, a bunch of niche genre movies. he could've just relaxed and enjoyed being a sex symbol but he's ended up doing barely any mainstream roles at all outside of the twilight sequels, which is weird for a guy who's hardly the most expressive out there.
Oblivious Maximus
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Exactly why he was perfect for Cosmopolis. Just the right kind of robotic, though the entire cast was purposely acting like that.
CiG
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Yeah Pattinson's career never ceases to surprise me. Do you think this is part of why Cosmopolis was panned by reviewers?
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i wouldn't be surprised if cronenberg's starting point for casting that character was "get me someone who's typecast as a vampire"
kristen stewart has turned into a terrific actress too, unlike basically all the kids from harry potter lol
kristen stewart has turned into a terrific actress too, unlike basically all the kids from harry potter lol
