Mercenary Dinosaurs bred to take the earth back from the dinosaurs
running rampant and ripping apart little children at baseball games...
http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18166
The promise of Ash being given the opportunity to rip Jason and Freddy
a new one...
http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18164
and a new trailer for the guy who I think might be my favorite current
director, Wes Anderson
http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18172
life is good for a movie geek like me.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
Monday, July 26, 2004
The devil's playground
Ang and I took a bit of a break from the list this weekend just
because we had people over and didn't necessarily want to impose our
cinematic torture on them. But in the 3 for 20 bin at Hollywood over
the weekend I picked up The Fast Runner, Monsoon Wedding and The
Devil's Playground... we watched Monsoon Wedding saturday night and
the movie I was most looking forward to The Devil's Playground
yesterday. I guess Ang and I have been on a bit of a documentary kick
lately, from Capturing the Friedmans to A Decade Under the Influence
to Lost in La Mancha to Stevie we've either watched or got quite a few
documentaries in the viewing queue.
Devil's Playground follows a group of Amish youth as they go through
Rumspringa... basically their time to see if they want to "become
english" or get baptised into the Amish church. They get to drive,
drink, smoke, go to the mall, hook up and do just about everything
else that isn't condoned by the church, and at first glance I thought
it was going to be something along hte lines of "Amish Girls Gone
Wild". I suppose it is in a way, but not in the same way. The partying
reminded me a lot of the time I spent working Texas Week on South
Padre Island running drunk busses. Everything looks fun until you see
the guy who's having a bad trip on ecstasy and is having what looks
like a seizure on the ground, or the girl who's so mind blowingly
drunk that she can barely function. I guess the Amish consider it a
matter of getting the world out of their children's system so that
they can choose the Amish life without regrets, but in a world where
it's much easier to go to extremes, it's surprising that they still
have a 90% retention rate (the highest it's been in centuries)
The film was shot on DV, and what looks like low end DV at that, but
it's interesting enough that you can forgive it's technical
inadequacies. Anyway, it's worth checking out. It doesn't rise to the
level of Lost in La Mancha or Capturing the Friedman's, but it's an
interesting little story nonetheless. It's also one of the first
documentaries that's been allowed to film Amish life.. capturing
interviews with older Amish as well, so it's interesting to look into
a pretty foreigh culture.
Have any of you seen an interesting documentary lately? Mayor
Hickenlooper's brother's Mayor of the Sunset Strip is still probably
in my top 10 documentaries of the year.
Don't forget Colorado Springs Film Society is tonight with a screening
of The Manchurian Candidate. Come check out the original before seeing
the remake this weekend. The doors at Vanguard Church open at 6:30
with the movie starting at 7 and a discussion following afterwards.
Vanguard is behind Gunther Toodys off the corner of Austin Bluffs and
N. Academy.
Hopefully see you tonight!
Brian
because we had people over and didn't necessarily want to impose our
cinematic torture on them. But in the 3 for 20 bin at Hollywood over
the weekend I picked up The Fast Runner, Monsoon Wedding and The
Devil's Playground... we watched Monsoon Wedding saturday night and
the movie I was most looking forward to The Devil's Playground
yesterday. I guess Ang and I have been on a bit of a documentary kick
lately, from Capturing the Friedmans to A Decade Under the Influence
to Lost in La Mancha to Stevie we've either watched or got quite a few
documentaries in the viewing queue.
Devil's Playground follows a group of Amish youth as they go through
Rumspringa... basically their time to see if they want to "become
english" or get baptised into the Amish church. They get to drive,
drink, smoke, go to the mall, hook up and do just about everything
else that isn't condoned by the church, and at first glance I thought
it was going to be something along hte lines of "Amish Girls Gone
Wild". I suppose it is in a way, but not in the same way. The partying
reminded me a lot of the time I spent working Texas Week on South
Padre Island running drunk busses. Everything looks fun until you see
the guy who's having a bad trip on ecstasy and is having what looks
like a seizure on the ground, or the girl who's so mind blowingly
drunk that she can barely function. I guess the Amish consider it a
matter of getting the world out of their children's system so that
they can choose the Amish life without regrets, but in a world where
it's much easier to go to extremes, it's surprising that they still
have a 90% retention rate (the highest it's been in centuries)
The film was shot on DV, and what looks like low end DV at that, but
it's interesting enough that you can forgive it's technical
inadequacies. Anyway, it's worth checking out. It doesn't rise to the
level of Lost in La Mancha or Capturing the Friedman's, but it's an
interesting little story nonetheless. It's also one of the first
documentaries that's been allowed to film Amish life.. capturing
interviews with older Amish as well, so it's interesting to look into
a pretty foreigh culture.
Have any of you seen an interesting documentary lately? Mayor
Hickenlooper's brother's Mayor of the Sunset Strip is still probably
in my top 10 documentaries of the year.
Don't forget Colorado Springs Film Society is tonight with a screening
of The Manchurian Candidate. Come check out the original before seeing
the remake this weekend. The doors at Vanguard Church open at 6:30
with the movie starting at 7 and a discussion following afterwards.
Vanguard is behind Gunther Toodys off the corner of Austin Bluffs and
N. Academy.
Hopefully see you tonight!
Brian
Thursday, July 22, 2004
Oddcoupling pt1
As I write this, Angela is commenting about all of the little
similarities that she found in the movie... six degree esque things...
nothing that could add up to a cohesive whole, yet it's my job to find
some common theme between two movies that let's admit, have absolutely
nothing in common.
Hoffa and Pumpkin... movies that have both been named with names. But
I think that these two flicks have common threads; class and
leadership.
In Hoffa, we have Jack Nicholson portraying a man who wants to turn
the Teamsters into the nations most powerful union. For better or
worse, he's organizing the truck drivers against their 'evil
opressors' the owners. In Pumpkin, we have a sorority that wants to
claim the sorority of the year award from the sorority that's won it
the previous 20 years.
Hoffa, decides that he's going to work with the Mafia in order to
attain his goals of winning over the company owners. Jeanine
Kryszinsky (Dominique Swain) decides that she (and her sorority
sisters) are going to work with special ed students in order to win
P.C. points with the Greek Council and boost their chances of winning.
Both, through their choices instigate their eventual doom.
The mafia, once Hoffa gets out of jail and realizes that he's not
going to be able to regain the Teamster presidency, takes Hoffa out
because he won't quiet down. Christina Ricci's character's
relationship with Pumpkin, ruins any chances of the sorority winning
the yearly award.
I know that these seem like tenuous connections at best, but no one
said that finding connections was going to be easy. Angela drew the
next number tonight, but since I have a really early meeting, we
watched a movie that accidentally didn't make it into our pool,
_Miracle_. I grew up hearing the story of the 80 olympic hockey team
pretty often because a lot of the guys were Minnesotan and Herb Brooks
was a Minnesotan... even if you don't play hockey in Minnesota (I
didn't) there's still an appreciation of it amongst a large percentage
of the population. Plus, there's always a bit of a "train wreck"
phenomena with movies that are shot in your own hometown. Even if
you're not that interested in the movie (read: Joe Somebody, Drop Dead
Fred) you watch because you want to see the scenery. I'm glad that
Miracle was better than that.
Tomorrow's movies... when we have more time. 21 Grams and Pieces of April
21 Grams
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Written By Guillermo Arriaga
Starring
Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro (I dig him)
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an
ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré
(Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban
housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack
Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith
the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a
terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame,
none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about
love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our
worlds irretrievably, forever.
and
Pieces of April
Written and Directed by Peter Hedges
starring
Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke and Oliver Platt
April Burns (Holmes) invites her family to Thanksgiving dinner at her
teeny apartment on New York's Lower East Side. As they make their way
to the city from suburban Pennsylvania, April must endure a comedy of
errors - like finding out her oven doesn't work - in order to pull off
the big event.
So anyway, that's the current scoop. Don't forget the Colorado Springs
Film Society meets this Monday evening with a showing of the
Manchurian Candidate. There's a new print that just came out on DVD
this week and it will be interesting to see it in light of the new
version that comes out next Friday (surprisingly, I hear the new
version is actually quite good in it's own way)
More later,
Brian
similarities that she found in the movie... six degree esque things...
nothing that could add up to a cohesive whole, yet it's my job to find
some common theme between two movies that let's admit, have absolutely
nothing in common.
Hoffa and Pumpkin... movies that have both been named with names. But
I think that these two flicks have common threads; class and
leadership.
In Hoffa, we have Jack Nicholson portraying a man who wants to turn
the Teamsters into the nations most powerful union. For better or
worse, he's organizing the truck drivers against their 'evil
opressors' the owners. In Pumpkin, we have a sorority that wants to
claim the sorority of the year award from the sorority that's won it
the previous 20 years.
Hoffa, decides that he's going to work with the Mafia in order to
attain his goals of winning over the company owners. Jeanine
Kryszinsky (Dominique Swain) decides that she (and her sorority
sisters) are going to work with special ed students in order to win
P.C. points with the Greek Council and boost their chances of winning.
Both, through their choices instigate their eventual doom.
The mafia, once Hoffa gets out of jail and realizes that he's not
going to be able to regain the Teamster presidency, takes Hoffa out
because he won't quiet down. Christina Ricci's character's
relationship with Pumpkin, ruins any chances of the sorority winning
the yearly award.
I know that these seem like tenuous connections at best, but no one
said that finding connections was going to be easy. Angela drew the
next number tonight, but since I have a really early meeting, we
watched a movie that accidentally didn't make it into our pool,
_Miracle_. I grew up hearing the story of the 80 olympic hockey team
pretty often because a lot of the guys were Minnesotan and Herb Brooks
was a Minnesotan... even if you don't play hockey in Minnesota (I
didn't) there's still an appreciation of it amongst a large percentage
of the population. Plus, there's always a bit of a "train wreck"
phenomena with movies that are shot in your own hometown. Even if
you're not that interested in the movie (read: Joe Somebody, Drop Dead
Fred) you watch because you want to see the scenery. I'm glad that
Miracle was better than that.
Tomorrow's movies... when we have more time. 21 Grams and Pieces of April
21 Grams
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Written By Guillermo Arriaga
Starring
Sean Penn, Naomi Watts and Benicio Del Toro (I dig him)
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an
ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré
(Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban
housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack
Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith
the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a
terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame,
none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about
love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our
worlds irretrievably, forever.
and
Pieces of April
Written and Directed by Peter Hedges
starring
Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke and Oliver Platt
April Burns (Holmes) invites her family to Thanksgiving dinner at her
teeny apartment on New York's Lower East Side. As they make their way
to the city from suburban Pennsylvania, April must endure a comedy of
errors - like finding out her oven doesn't work - in order to pull off
the big event.
So anyway, that's the current scoop. Don't forget the Colorado Springs
Film Society meets this Monday evening with a showing of the
Manchurian Candidate. There's a new print that just came out on DVD
this week and it will be interesting to see it in light of the new
version that comes out next Friday (surprisingly, I hear the new
version is actually quite good in it's own way)
More later,
Brian
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Oddcoupling
Ang and I were talking yesterday night and decided we REALLY needed to
pare down the number of DVDs we own that we haven't watched yet. This
evening we sorted out the movies and came up with 32 that we either
haven't seen since they were in the theater, or haven't seen at all.
From that we decided to randomly pair the movies and see what kind of
strange threads these movies could have when thrown together in ways
that they were never meant to be combined.
Here are the pairings that we've numbered off and placed into a hat....
1. Toxic Avenger 4:Citizen Toxie / Auto Focus
2. Bubba Ho Tep / Dirty Pretty Things
3. CQ / Willard
4. Signs / Lost In La Mancha
5. Dark City / The Last Samurai
6. Pumpkin / Hoffa
7. Stevie / 13 Conversations About 1 Thing
8. Novocaine / The Contender
9. Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Ripley's Game
10. Vanilla Sky / Sexy Beast
11. 21 Grams / Pieces of April
12. Northfork / The Last Starfighter
13. Millenium Actress / Metropolis (2002 Japanese version)
14. The Quiet American (remake) / The Kid Stays In The Picture
15. The Heist / The Pianist
16. Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil / Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Tonight, we drew #6 out of the hat and then randomly chose to watch
Hoffa and then Pumpkin. I have NO idea how they could potentially tie
together, but that's part of the (torture) fun.
Movie #1
---------------------------------------------------------
Hoffa http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104427
Directed by Danny Devito
Written by David Mamet
starring Jack Nicholson and Danny Devito
Danny DeVito's portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen
through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa
through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all
the way to a conclusion that negates the theory that he disappeared in
1975.
Movie #2
---------------------------------------------------------
Pumpkin
Directed By Anthony Abrams & Adam Larson Broder
Written By Adam Larson Broder
Perky, perfect Carolyn and her Alpha Omega Pi sisters plan to win
Sorority of the Year by impressing the Greek Council with a killer
charity: coaching mentally challenged athletes for the regional
Challenged Games. When Carolyn's assigned to coach Pumpkin she's
terrified at first, but soon sees in him something she's never seen
before: a gentle humanity and honest clarity that touches her soul. To
the horror of her friends and Pumpkin's overprotective mother, Carolyn
falls in love, becoming an outcast in the process. As Carolyn's
"perfect life" falls apart, Pumpkin teaches her that perfect isn't
always perfect after all.
Play along! Make your own pairings and let's talk about them... I'll
try and post some thoughts at the end of the evening.
Brian
--
not getting enough of my blather?
check out http://flabbyironman.blogspot.com
and check out Lakeland Leadership League Presents
Mondays and Fridays on Sky Angel ch 9701
pare down the number of DVDs we own that we haven't watched yet. This
evening we sorted out the movies and came up with 32 that we either
haven't seen since they were in the theater, or haven't seen at all.
From that we decided to randomly pair the movies and see what kind of
strange threads these movies could have when thrown together in ways
that they were never meant to be combined.
Here are the pairings that we've numbered off and placed into a hat....
1. Toxic Avenger 4:Citizen Toxie / Auto Focus
2. Bubba Ho Tep / Dirty Pretty Things
3. CQ / Willard
4. Signs / Lost In La Mancha
5. Dark City / The Last Samurai
6. Pumpkin / Hoffa
7. Stevie / 13 Conversations About 1 Thing
8. Novocaine / The Contender
9. Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Ripley's Game
10. Vanilla Sky / Sexy Beast
11. 21 Grams / Pieces of April
12. Northfork / The Last Starfighter
13. Millenium Actress / Metropolis (2002 Japanese version)
14. The Quiet American (remake) / The Kid Stays In The Picture
15. The Heist / The Pianist
16. Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil / Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Tonight, we drew #6 out of the hat and then randomly chose to watch
Hoffa and then Pumpkin. I have NO idea how they could potentially tie
together, but that's part of the (torture) fun.
Movie #1
---------------------------------------------------------
Hoffa http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104427
Directed by Danny Devito
Written by David Mamet
starring Jack Nicholson and Danny Devito
Danny DeVito's portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen
through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa
through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all
the way to a conclusion that negates the theory that he disappeared in
1975.
Movie #2
---------------------------------------------------------
Pumpkin
Directed By Anthony Abrams & Adam Larson Broder
Written By Adam Larson Broder
Perky, perfect Carolyn and her Alpha Omega Pi sisters plan to win
Sorority of the Year by impressing the Greek Council with a killer
charity: coaching mentally challenged athletes for the regional
Challenged Games. When Carolyn's assigned to coach Pumpkin she's
terrified at first, but soon sees in him something she's never seen
before: a gentle humanity and honest clarity that touches her soul. To
the horror of her friends and Pumpkin's overprotective mother, Carolyn
falls in love, becoming an outcast in the process. As Carolyn's
"perfect life" falls apart, Pumpkin teaches her that perfect isn't
always perfect after all.
Play along! Make your own pairings and let's talk about them... I'll
try and post some thoughts at the end of the evening.
Brian
--
not getting enough of my blather?
check out http://flabbyironman.blogspot.com
and check out Lakeland Leadership League Presents
Mondays and Fridays on Sky Angel ch 9701
Sunday, June 27, 2004
The Echo Chronicles pt 2
discussing Fahrenheit 9/11, there are yet still more examples about people showing their bias.
576:778) Erin a.k.a. EB 27-JUN-04 18:47
Touching article in today's Times about a couple from Kokomo, Ind., who
drove 50 miles to the nearest "art house" to see F9/11 with like-thinking
people in a red state.
Is she feeling sorry for the fact that these "Blues" have to live in a "Red" state? I don't understand. Ugh. I just don't understand why I'm not human because I'm conservative. Why is anything I do a "Stupid" thing? Can I not be intelligent and conservative? It makes me mad.
and another note from "Kev Dawg"
576:770) Kev Dawg 27-JUN-04 11:44
It will make them upset, it might make them angry. It might make them feel
the president made some bad mistakes.
As far as propaganda goes, I'm not sure what that means anymore, or if it's
being used the same way as it was in WW II for example. Is opinion
propaganda now?
Isn't Moore's propaganda the exact same kind of propaganda that the
Government uses in ALL the official information they release? Just from the
other side. The same official information the media NEEDS to function, and
has to cowtow the White House to get continue to have access to? And when
they don't cowtow or ask a few hard questions, they're cut off?
Isn't the official White House press breifings propaganda? But propaganda we
pay for out of our taxes?
When the White House inserts campaign slogans directly from the RNC on the
cover of official Government budget reports, and that's NOT called
propaganda by the media... but a filmmaker showing live footage, real
footage, real events, just film that has been censured by the Government, is
accused of using propaganda by the media... I don't know what's up.
Why is the media attacking Moore? Why are they against opinions?
- - - - -
Moore does bring out the moonbats, I guess.
576:778) Erin a.k.a. EB 27-JUN-04 18:47
Touching article in today's Times about a couple from Kokomo, Ind., who
drove 50 miles to the nearest "art house" to see F9/11 with like-thinking
people in a red state.
Is she feeling sorry for the fact that these "Blues" have to live in a "Red" state? I don't understand. Ugh. I just don't understand why I'm not human because I'm conservative. Why is anything I do a "Stupid" thing? Can I not be intelligent and conservative? It makes me mad.
and another note from "Kev Dawg"
576:770) Kev Dawg 27-JUN-04 11:44
It will make them upset, it might make them angry. It might make them feel
the president made some bad mistakes.
As far as propaganda goes, I'm not sure what that means anymore, or if it's
being used the same way as it was in WW II for example. Is opinion
propaganda now?
Isn't Moore's propaganda the exact same kind of propaganda that the
Government uses in ALL the official information they release? Just from the
other side. The same official information the media NEEDS to function, and
has to cowtow the White House to get continue to have access to? And when
they don't cowtow or ask a few hard questions, they're cut off?
Isn't the official White House press breifings propaganda? But propaganda we
pay for out of our taxes?
When the White House inserts campaign slogans directly from the RNC on the
cover of official Government budget reports, and that's NOT called
propaganda by the media... but a filmmaker showing live footage, real
footage, real events, just film that has been censured by the Government, is
accused of using propaganda by the media... I don't know what's up.
Why is the media attacking Moore? Why are they against opinions?
- - - - -
Moore does bring out the moonbats, I guess.
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