lumpenprol
-
Posts
9,170 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Downloads
Store
Everything posted by lumpenprol
-
okay, keen to hear your thoughts, as always. Just to be clear about what I thought of the end, I did read the abrupt cut just as he's about to start his speech as the directors finally making a judgment on his character: he's a hollow guy, you don't need to hear what he's about to say as you've heard it all before. He no longer deserves your attention; his story has been told. Still, it didn't seem to quite jive with how appealing they made him throughout the rest of the film. I haven't seen Shame yet. I was just thinking that There Will Be Blood might be a good film to compare it to. They sort of have inverted structures in the sense that (spoilers) . Both leads have a similarly "stop at nothing" ambition.
-
Just saw Moonrise Kingdom. What a nice little film nearly undone by the director's absurdly self-conscious stylistic flourishes. The first 15 minutes made me want to punch Wes Anderson's face in; I have to admit it takes a special kind of director to elicit that sort of hatred from me. Stop your stupid tracking shots and 4th-wall-breaking narrators and just tell your fucking story! Once the story got underway it was mostly ok, and actually hit a high point once the runaway couple got captured; he managed to have a few sequences of decent dialogue without excessive formalism getting in the way. This is a film that would benefit from a remake without all the gimmickry. Loved the colors and the period design. 6/10.
-
you know you're a troo fan when you start having creepy fantasies about your idol's wife's hymen
-
yeah, dunno why people be dissing it. It's a humble but successful genre film. Reminded me a bit of that McCaulay Culkin film I saw like 20 yrs ago, The Good Son. I don't think that got much respect either, but I remember it being good for what it was.
-
lol, perfect mental image
-
orly?
-
maybe you missed his oversteps mania. pre-release: ae suck, they aren't capable of delivering anything new, i can make fake tracks as good as the new ae post-release: hallelujah! I'm so sorry I ever doubted you! (it was almost literally something like that) *note: just having a little tease, nothing wrong with being a fanboy, we all are*
-
Good point, though his biggest problem in the film (apart from his cash-flow merger problem) is more of a "rich person problem". Not to give too much away for those who haven't seen it.
-
I was talking about the Orphan. I watched it with my wife, she was scared, the end. Lol. Basically what I'm saying is I'll review your movie favorably if it scares my wife. It was a pretty well-crafted movie for what it was, though. If you take a scene like the scene where the orphan pushes the daughter off the play set, the director was good at creating tension in a fairly ordinary, everyday environment. I like movies where they pull that off. Which brings me to - Arbitrage: another one of those flicks where they need to create tension and keep it going, without a lot of "action". Basically tight and well-done, but it's one of those films that will give you deja vu: haven't we seen Richard Gere in this very kind of movie like 20 times before? He's probably even wearing the same suits he wore in Primal Fear. It's a bit uncanny, but Gere pretty much created the mold for the "sleazy lawyer", so can't blame him for milking it. He and his beady little eyes do a fine job. The movie was strange though, in that it wants you to root for the "bad guy". It does a very good job of that, as Gere is both crafty and sympathetic. There's also the vicarious thrill of watching someone trying to escape being punished for "doing something bad" - we've all been there, even if it was just stealing from the proverbial cookie jar, so I'm sure it resonates. I did have one problem with the film, though, which is with the character of the black kid. It was nice to have a splash of humanity in the film, but at a few points I did end up wondering if the filmmakers had ended up actually buying into the mythology of the Gere character. It seemed a bit implausible that he would have helped this kid out so much in the past (given that he was an asshole), and the kid's very "forgiving yet cheerful" demeanor seemed like a bit of a stereotype. Something about it bugged me. I thought the heart of the film was showing how very powerful people often get to their positions through force of will, taking foolish risks, and often being ADD or sociopaths or both. Not talking about the "management types", but the "self-made men". Now that I'm a "boss" I've come in contact with more of these types, and I think Gere does a good job of playing one. The bargaining scene with the other tycoon, the moment where he talks about how much of winning is simply projecting confidence, and the conversation with his daughter where he gushes about the money he could have made and brags about being the patriarch of the family, were very well done and seemed "true to form". That mixture of overblown ego, but justifiable competence. The gambler's high. Loved that stuff. Did not like the 11th hour "now we have to give him the slap on the wrist the audience thinks he deserves" convo with his wife. Incidentally, Susan Sarandon has become really annoying. Maybe she was always that way, but she used to also radiate sensuality. Now she's just this old broad with chicken legs who seems like an insufferable yappy "feminist" type - and I'm talking about outside the film role. Though her film role was obnoxious too so I guess she was well cast. Seeing her in both this and Cloud Atlas, I'm wondering if she's starting to become a bit senile...she gives off that vibe. I had to wonder about the point of the film, if it had one. It was more like an episode of "rich people's problems." But I guess we can all enjoy that if it's filmed well enough. Still the higher moments of the film hinted at a more dark comedy/social satire movie-that-might-have-been. I should probably watch Margin Call, that might be the film I'm looking for. 8.5/10, It's like a Grisham film without a hero, or courtroom (lol).
-
Oh c'mon. Smiles everyone, smiles!
-
haha, I thought Orphan was good, lol.
-
just start with Postal. the movie opens up with a scene inside the cockpit of United 93 on 9/11 where the terrorists decide not to crash the plane or do a suicide bombing, but then the american guys ram the cockpit door down and crash the plane themselves. this is one of the better scenes from it ain't gonna lie, I laughed. Funny how no-one has really challenged the fact that it's ok to laugh at Asians. I guess that's because they tend to be successful. That, and avenging angel Bruce Lee is dead.
-
that, and they secretly delight in the hate that Ed Norton so articulately spews. It's basically a movie where he says a lot of what the audience has already thought. It's like watching Scarface, sure crime lords are bad, but Al Pacino makes it all look sooooo sexy. It's sort of a subgenre of films I'd call "criminal porn".
-
it's not, but knock yourself out
-
man that Lucy Liu video is really cringe-inducing 7 Psychopaths: well, that was a letdown after In Bruges. Kind of a bummer. Sort of like "Pulp Fiction" lite. Colin Farrell was surprisingly under-used and sleepwalking, after his brilliance in In Bruges. And I think Sam Rockwell was the wrong choice for his character, though I understood why they chose him. He didn't come off as nearly psycho enough. Even Christopher Walken, whom I normally adore, was pretty bad - he's seemingly had a new-ish facelift, so his face is strangely puffy and he looks like an old queen. Basically I felt they had a great ensemble cast that was almost entirely wasted. The writing was often embarrassing (such as Rockwell burning his neighbor's flag, but inexplicably the neighbors left it flying, halfway burned? what? It even becomes the icon that ends the film.) The film got a lot better at the climactic shootout ("your dog has a gay head") but even then the pacing was slightly off, and it wasn't enough to save the film. Overall 6/10 One take-away from the film: Abbie Cornish is pretty hot, and I look forward to seeing her in Robocop
-
interesting review. The reviewer is at least familiar with their previous work, name dropping Gantz Graf, Bine, and Gescom. Sounds like it could be a good album...he at least likes Bladelores. He's less convincing about the rest...he says "X could be on Tri Rep" or "Y could be on Amber"...I don't find words like that encouraging.
-
hahaha, yeah that too. Hey, at least Tucker is back to acting again (though one could argue that's a mixed blessing)
-
I was just going to say, great reviews Peon. Especially hit the nail squarely on the head with Silver Linings. Good on you for calling out Deniro, the oscar push, and the insultingly oversimplified view of mental illness.
-
that heavy rain clip practically made me piss myself
-
Obel, don't worry about splitting it off, it'll end when more news about exai arrives
-
I like RIP and I like ae. Can you dig? That said, that actress interview made me want to club him like a baby seal. Though, ae often sounded like snotty jerks (especially in earlier interviews. And RDJ is a twat. Since when did we start judging IDM stars on personality?
-
I have no idea what's going on any more, but I think we should deffo post more abjectly tasteless comparisons between the musicians we hate, and real-life Vietnam era suffering. Waiting for "Actress self-immolation", "Actress running naked from napalm" and "Actress getting shot in the head by Vietnamese commandant"
-
since the oversteps thread is locked, I just dropped in to say: qplay is loverly! *heart* oversteps
-
here's a slightly different shitty translation of the previous jap review (this time in bing not google): In a career more than 20 years in the charisma of the electronic music scene always aloof units will continue to be, Autechre. So far, hip-hop-and from all angles torsion various musical elements based on a deep love of beat music and has been sublimated and funkiness of another dimension, and beautiful soundscape. Masterpiece 'incunabula', "amber", Thom Yorke led the artificial intelligence of the early ' 90s and professed their impact and became a historical masterpiece "Kid A" strategic move "コンフィールド" and the Memorial became the 10th should be "オーヴァーステップス". Latest work followed by "エグサイ" is "what is Autechre? "That extend to more than two hours answering questions about the origin of such pair of ultra has been spectacular. It made now "Autechre:" Melody unabashed hardcore cut-up beats lead the person listening to the perspective distorting time and space away from the ordinary people and ignite, and euphoria washed up suddenly etc just exploded. Trace the history of Autechre have made it feel like and further tests of, say a true masterpiece. Or stick a finger of Instant Internet music, picture-perfect in the calculated sound image, sound pressure, beat, and beautiful soundscape composed now made "エグサイ". History of electronic music is once again updated by Autechre. text: yk
-
I think whichever remaining half of BoC still wants to make music should join ae and form an IDM supergroup.
