that movies fucking wicked, so there
awesome style and cinematography, cool soundtrack, mindless cartoon violence, and uma thurman in a yellow catsuit ...how can that be bad?? :)
and fucknuts David Lane (of Society for Promotion of Community Standards) is trying to ban it, so better see it now
gee...i havn't seen it yet but i had heard it was rather good...on a sidenote everyone go see UNDEAD - aussie zombie film....best zombie flick i've seen since braindead!!
speaking of cheesy, does anyone remember an 80's horror called 'The Burning' ? it's about this group of campers that canoe up a river and then get attacked by a psyco with hedge clippers. it's probably really dumb but when i was 10 years old it scared the shit outta me.
Haven't seen it, but it's been billed here as an ultra low-budget slasher. It came out around the time of '48 days later' and there were lots of double-reviews of the two films as new spins on zombie flicks, normally favouring 'Undead'.
it most certainly is a comedy...very funny!!! low budget but looks surprisingly good..the main character marion has a triple barrel shotgun amongst other weapons and is brilliant!! Not sure if its getting a cinema release here or if its going straight to video....
yea...i probbaly preferred undead to 28 days later...28 days later was good but very familiar in a dawn/day of the dead way...whereas undead starts out a bit night of the living dead but then goes a bit scifish and unexpected things start happening...
manamana.....the burning is fucking awesome...cropsy is the caretaker who they burn in a prank gone wrong and he comes back for revenge using a big pair of hedge clippers. do you remember that scene when a group of kids row out on the river to retrieve a canoe which has drifted out.....little do they know that cropsy has set a drift the canoe and he is waiting inside it. then he jumps up and there is that cool shot of cropsy with his hands raised above his head holding his hedgeclippers and one of the kids puts his hands up in fright and cropsy chops them off..great fucking movie! and a very young holly hunter is in it as well as jason alexander (george from seinfeld)with a full head of hair...he plays like one of the high school jocks.
i kind of have issues with the cartoon version of Japan depicted in Lost In translation. On one hand its funny, but on another its terribly stereotyped. Sofia Coppola must have had some heavy shit breaking up with Jonze cos she seems to be a very gifted filmmaker but the mantle of "japan" as something to feel so alienated from does not really gel with my own experience of that country... However, the shot of Johannsen sitting in the bath in silhoutette with the grainy Tokyo sky behind is burnt indelibly on my retina.
Yeah, I was wondering about that. I've never been to Japan, but it does fit with how friends have described it and also fits with other times I've been somewhere I didn't want to be...
There were a couple of Japanese women in the theatre when I saw it and I did wonder what they thought of people laughing at some of the "here's Japan being weird" scenes. But I don't think it's racist. Maybe even mentioning that word dooms reasonable conversation. I guess what I mean to say is that I don't think the film paints a negative picture of Japan or suggests all Japanese people are the same. Are you worried it does? As I say, I'm not operating by first hand experience of the place so your take may well be different from mine...
hmmm no i don't think she is racist. i mean, i couldn't imagine a racist making such a nice little movie. its a mood piece i guess.
it just seems to be easy to accentuate the 'weird' aspects of japan rather than actually engage with the culture. and, its true, it is about alienation so heightening the sense of isolation through language and culture seems a reasonable filmic device, and makes sense in terms of Lost in translation. I just thought it was little bit lazy. like, in that hotel the showerheads do actually go higher, she didn't need to make that joke, y'know?
all the young japanese people i know are fucken cool, albeit crazy. Japan IS a head fuck, i'll admit that
and the scene where the dude sings the sex pistols almost made me piss my pants. Although, that was the longest piece of 'dialogue' a japanese person gave in the entire film.
when i go to other countires i like looking at the things that are the same but different, like bus tickets or packaging on crisps
My take on the almost perpetual weirdness of the Japanese in "Lost In Translation" is that rather than being a documentary-like representation of Japan, it's an exaggeration to represent not just a time and a place, but a feeling as well.
In my experience, if I'm in a foreign city for a very short time, the things that stick out are all the differences. The little things that totally catch you and make you feel like a stranger in a strange land.
So by exaggerating these things, Coppola has emphasised the way an ordinary city feels like a strange, alienating city for Murray and Johansson's characters. If they were to feel totally at ease in Japan (even with their marital problems), there would be less of an excuse to spend time with each other.
But having said that, I can understand why some Japanese are uncomfortable with the way Japanese are shown in the film.
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I recommend you give them to me....
I recommend you give them to me.
failing that - kill bill pt1 is wortha ...
failing that - kill bill pt1 is wortha watch
ok and can i please buy all your other ...
ok and can i please buy all your other friends tickets as well?
you know that won't cost you a lot of ...
you know that won't cost you a lot of money.
Reeaally want to catch Kill Bill Pt ...
Reeaally want to catch Kill Bill Pt 1....
My usual technique for making friends ...
My usual technique for making friends is to shout them to the movies. manamana, the list's in the mail.
really heather, i thought you took them ...
really heather, i thought you took them to the deer stalkers ball.
thanks samflux, kill bill it is....
thanks samflux, kill bill it is.
> kill bill it is. don't waste ...
> kill bill it is.
don't waste your ticket.
//don't waste your ticket that ...
//don't waste your ticket
that movies fucking wicked, so there
awesome style and cinematography, cool soundtrack, mindless cartoon violence, and uma thurman in a yellow catsuit ...how can that be bad?? :)
and fucknuts David Lane (of Society for Promotion of Community Standards) is trying to ban it, so better see it now
can't wait for part two
gee...i havn't seen it yet but i had ...
gee...i havn't seen it yet but i had heard it was rather good...on a sidenote everyone go see UNDEAD - aussie zombie film....best zombie flick i've seen since braindead!!
really is it a comedy? cause i LOVED ...
really is it a comedy? cause i LOVED return of the living dead etc...
BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAINS!
speaking of cheesy, does anyone ...
speaking of cheesy, does anyone remember an 80's horror called 'The Burning' ? it's about this group of campers that canoe up a river and then get attacked by a psyco with hedge clippers. it's probably really dumb but when i was 10 years old it scared the shit outta me.
Haven't seen it, but it's been billed ...
Haven't seen it, but it's been billed here as an ultra low-budget slasher. It came out around the time of '48 days later' and there were lots of double-reviews of the two films as new spins on zombie flicks, normally favouring 'Undead'.
it most certainly is a comedy...very ...
it most certainly is a comedy...very funny!!! low budget but looks surprisingly good..the main character marion has a triple barrel shotgun amongst other weapons and is brilliant!! Not sure if its getting a cinema release here or if its going straight to video....
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yea...i probbaly preferred undead to 28 ...
yea...i probbaly preferred undead to 28 days later...28 days later was good but very familiar in a dawn/day of the dead way...whereas undead starts out a bit night of the living dead but then goes a bit scifish and unexpected things start happening...
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manamana.....the burning is fucking ...
manamana.....the burning is fucking awesome...cropsy is the caretaker who they burn in a prank gone wrong and he comes back for revenge using a big pair of hedge clippers. do you remember that scene when a group of kids row out on the river to retrieve a canoe which has drifted out.....little do they know that cropsy has set a drift the canoe and he is waiting inside it. then he jumps up and there is that cool shot of cropsy with his hands raised above his head holding his hedgeclippers and one of the kids puts his hands up in fright and cropsy chops them off..great fucking movie! and a very young holly hunter is in it as well as jason alexander (george from seinfeld)with a full head of hair...he plays like one of the high school jocks.
'Lost in Translation' is the only ...
'Lost in Translation' is the only film I've seen in the last 12 months that I liked enough that I'd want to see it again.
I really wanna see that!!! I don't ...
I really wanna see that!!! I don't even know ifs its made its way here...i take it you saw it in aussie?
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Yeah.. but a friend told me he was off ...
Yeah.. but a friend told me he was off to see it in Wellington last week, so it must be out somewhere.
It's actually the only thing -released- in the last 12 months that I wanted to see again.
rialto has been playing it over the ...
rialto has been playing it over the weekend. although im not sure it has general release yet
it was on in Wellington as advance ...
it was on in Wellington as advance screenings at Rialto.
If you can't wait you can get it, if not now very soon, off Amazon on DVD, region 1.
I don't really go to movie theatres ...
I don't really go to movie theatres but I might make an exception for something with Bill Murray in it.
I saw "Lost In Translation" on ...
I saw "Lost In Translation" on Saturday. It is sublime
It was previewed last weekend, and I think it properly opens this Thursday.
i went to see Lost in Translation too ...
i went to see Lost in Translation too on Saturday - but it was sold out by the time we got there :(
i kind of have issues with the cartoon ...
i kind of have issues with the cartoon version of Japan depicted in Lost In translation. On one hand its funny, but on another its terribly stereotyped. Sofia Coppola must have had some heavy shit breaking up with Jonze cos she seems to be a very gifted filmmaker but the mantle of "japan" as something to feel so alienated from does not really gel with my own experience of that country... However, the shot of Johannsen sitting in the bath in silhoutette with the grainy Tokyo sky behind is burnt indelibly on my retina.
Yeah, I was wondering about that. I've ...
Yeah, I was wondering about that. I've never been to Japan, but it does fit with how friends have described it and also fits with other times I've been somewhere I didn't want to be...
There were a couple of Japanese women in the theatre when I saw it and I did wonder what they thought of people laughing at some of the "here's Japan being weird" scenes. But I don't think it's racist. Maybe even mentioning that word dooms reasonable conversation. I guess what I mean to say is that I don't think the film paints a negative picture of Japan or suggests all Japanese people are the same. Are you worried it does? As I say, I'm not operating by first hand experience of the place so your take may well be different from mine...
hmmm no i don't think she is racist. i ...
hmmm no i don't think she is racist. i mean, i couldn't imagine a racist making such a nice little movie. its a mood piece i guess.
it just seems to be easy to accentuate the 'weird' aspects of japan rather than actually engage with the culture. and, its true, it is about alienation so heightening the sense of isolation through language and culture seems a reasonable filmic device, and makes sense in terms of Lost in translation. I just thought it was little bit lazy. like, in that hotel the showerheads do actually go higher, she didn't need to make that joke, y'know?
all the young japanese people i know are fucken cool, albeit crazy. Japan IS a head fuck, i'll admit that
and the scene where the dude sings the sex pistols almost made me piss my pants. Although, that was the longest piece of 'dialogue' a japanese person gave in the entire film.
when i go to other countires i like looking at the things that are the same but different, like bus tickets or packaging on crisps
My take on the almost perpetual ...
My take on the almost perpetual weirdness of the Japanese in "Lost In Translation" is that rather than being a documentary-like representation of Japan, it's an exaggeration to represent not just a time and a place, but a feeling as well.
In my experience, if I'm in a foreign city for a very short time, the things that stick out are all the differences. The little things that totally catch you and make you feel like a stranger in a strange land.
So by exaggerating these things, Coppola has emphasised the way an ordinary city feels like a strange, alienating city for Murray and Johansson's characters. If they were to feel totally at ease in Japan (even with their marital problems), there would be less of an excuse to spend time with each other.
But having said that, I can understand why some Japanese are uncomfortable with the way Japanese are shown in the film.
What about 'School of Rock' ?...
What about 'School of Rock' ?
It's exactly what you expect it to be....
It's exactly what you expect it to be.
good songs thou...
good songs thou
It was slightly better than I thought ...
It was slightly better than I thought it was going to be.
But, if you don't like Jack Black then don't go see it...
I thought it was cool, go see it....
I thought it was cool, go see it.
it's awesome, the bassist rules and ...
it's awesome, the bassist rules and she should have got a solo part at the end. GRR.
funny the lights came on & people ...
funny the lights came on & people stayed to watched, they should have put the lights on after the credits, they would have known!!
List of movies yet to see but have ...
List of movies yet to see but have heard are worth seeing:
Cabin Fever
Master and Commander (warning Russell Crowe)
Torque (dumb but smart enough to take the piss)
Cold Mountain (opens 29 Jan)
and from the money you have saved from the free ticket go and see Big Fish opening beginning of Feb.
oh yeah and while you are killing time ...
oh yeah and while you are killing time doing nothing check out some random blue screen Star Wars EpIII stuff to the backdrop of AC/DC's Back in Black.
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Stink. From that web site: "We have ...
Stink. From that web site:
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d'oh. I only d/led it last night. It ...
d'oh. I only d/led it last night.
It was poor quality but the AC/DC song made it moderately interesting.
Cabin Fever was funny, not the normal ...
Cabin Fever was funny, not the normal way people would react in that movie
i recommend dogville. probably too ...
i recommend dogville. probably too avante garde for oscars 2005, but very cool. nicole kidman will be on the shortlist already for best actress.