lumpenprol
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keep in mind I was looking at it on one of those tiny airline screens. But yeah, I think I'm just starved for quality. I basically only liked the idea of the tops of the buildings being the new ground level. Didn't make much logical sense, but was cool to look at, the idea of current civilization becoming geological strata. His vehicle design was cool too, the bots and climactic enemy not so much. I think I need to see Europa Report.
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took a flight to the US and back, so caught up on a lot of viewing: The Last Stand: recent Arnold Schwartzenegger flick, just as bad as you'd expect, but a very curious piece of cinema that had me going "wtf" repeatedly. For one thing, the supporting cast, among them: Forest Whitaker, Luiz Guzman, Peter Stormare, Johnny Knoxville, Harry Motherfucking Dean Stanton (looking one foot in the grave) - you'd be forgiven for thinking from cast alone that it might be the next PT Anderson or Coen Bros flick. Another weird thing is the blatant product placement for two American cars (Camaro and something else iirc), yet in the climactic chase both cars are destroyed by...a corn harvesting machine. Really odd film, maybe it was the Korean director. 2/10 on quality, but 5/10 for curiosity factor. The Campaign (Zach Galifianakis and Will Farrel) This was actually pretty entertaining, though the laughs dropped off towards the end. 6/10 Oblivion: Made no logical sense but was great to look at. Overlong at points, could have been edited better. Would love a video game set in the world, though...most original-looking post-apocalyptic setting in a while. Very happy at least to see this sort of sci-fi being made. If only they could restrain themselves from some of the 'splosions. The Croods: this was actually a great children's flick, with an impressive visual imagination. Suffers from the same hyperactive ADD pacing and animation as other children's flicks (why is Miyazaki the only one who can tell a children's film at a normal, intelligible pace?). Ending was a bit dull but otherwise a very nice film. Dreamworks is now better than Pixar, there I said it. This is leagues better than Brave. 8/10 Louis CK: Oh My God (HBO special, also shown in-flight): I haven't been as impressed by Louis CK as others here, I bought his Louis series and found it to be a bit lacking, but this was pretty funny. I don't often find Louis CK to be laugh-out-loud funny (maybe because many of his thoughts are things I've also thought about, and so are familiar and not "surprising"), but I was smiling throughout. I think it was the best stand-up of his I've seen, and pretty consistently funny. 7/10
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wow, I really hated it, thought it was unmitigated trash wonder about you guys sometimes, lol
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yeah I have my doubts too but I squelch them mercilessly
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sorry, trailer looked that way to me. maybe it's a great movie, i'm just distracted by the only two stars being enormous names. it's a movie that sounds cool on paper but then when i saw the trailer i was like "well, this could actually be very bad". maybe it isn't, i'm just going on what i saw. lot of people in the theater were laughing, drag that out to two hours, so i'm not sure how effective the movie really is. and really dude? you go off on movies constantly, i'm miserable for extrapolating that movie looks kind of tedious? and we're all totally agreeing with critics now? lol I dunno, being miserable wretches means we have to pick out at least a few pearls from the dross. I think Cuaron is one of those, and deserves the benefit of the doubt. If anything it almost makes me more interested to watch it, as I'm curious to see what he can do within the constraints he's set for himself. I've always liked the short story "Kaleidoscope" by Ray Bradbury, I'm guessing Cuaron's idea came from that? http://www.scaryforkids.com/kaleidoscope-by-ray-bradbury/
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lol you miserable man...the reviews I've read are glowing
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indeed. not that you can compare, say, tomorrow's harvest and exai, but if you could, then tomorrow's harvest would be the weakling whimpering in the corner as exai takes his lunch money
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yeah I wouldn't go that far, but it felt like it was reaching for something universal that it just couldn't quite reach. My interest faded after the Gosling bit, once it became clear what they were setting up. maybe I should watch again.
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fucking lol, I've read your name for years always as "Pseudolux" Maybe you should consider a name change, heh
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I'm not sure I like him as an actor. He sort of a blank-eyed muppet. His little slash mouth looks just like a muppet talking, I've decided.
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lol tend to agree, but we're all clutching at straws these days. Oneohtrix Point Never isn't really very good either... Last album to bring my heartrate up close to the old classics was Exai, and even I don't pretend that was exactly on the same level as previous masterworks.
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*knocks on skull* Chen! Is there anyone in there? Chen, come back...
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lol in the great outdoors, acid eats you!
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*watmm snobs sharpen knives*
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Boards of Canada Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
lumpenprol replied to Alzado's topic in Boards of Canada
Sometimes people aren't contrarians, they're just right (heh). Popular opinion tends to be quite dull after all, and as Theodore Sturgeon said "90% of everything is crap". Though opinions are like assholes and all equally valid (invalid?) and stinky. Some are just better considered than others. I loved MHTRTC for a long time, but I hardly ever revisit it these days. I loved IABPOITC ep and have never stopped loving it (especially Kid for Today). I loved Geogaddi for about two weeks (though it's one of the few records to actually make me nauseous from listening to it too much), and still respect it but don't really "like" it in the sense of wanting to relisten to it all the way through...I do really love several tracks though, Julie and Candy, Beach at Redpoint, and Dawn Chorus being standouts. I really liked TCH and have listened to it more than any other BoC album for sure. It didn't quite have the "wow" factor that MHTRTC or Geo had when they were released, but it somehow managed to repackage some of the BoC mystery into a more pop or easy listening format, without "selling out" or getting watered down (for the most part). Quite the trick they pulled with that one, as I think some of it sounds a bit too premeditated, and some of the "tricks" (like the fading volume on Farewell Fire) seem a bit too precious by far. But somehow, quite against my expectations, it ended up being my favorite BoC album. I liked the TCH ep, but I didn't like that they put the remix on it (though I actually like the first part of the remix a lot!). That spoiled a bit of my appreciation of the ep, as I always felt BoC were above the 1990's fad of cd singles, their eps always seemed more unique, like artifacts, and artifacts shouldn't have "hit tracks" and "hit track remixes" on them imo. But that quibble aside, the music is pretty good - though for some reason the ep feels very very overthought and drained of energy to me. Like "Heard from Telegraph Lines", wow that's so lovely....but why do I get the feeling I've been here before? Same thing with Skyliner, it's so "uptight" (hard to think of a better way to describe it), that it feels annoying rather than expansive to me. But whatever, the music is pretty damned good. I just rarely revisit it. I think some of their unreleased live tracks are some of their best work. Hi Scores is damn great, as is Twoism. I've never decided if I like Maxima better than MHTRTC or not. Most of the old tunes stuff is killer, though it doesn't quite gel in "album" form. So yeah, TH. Don't think I was predisposed to go one way or another on it. I admit I'm a bit surprised at how many people thought it was a "big return to form after the failure of TCH." That I don't get at all, there are so many sonic details on TCH, and many nice short tracks. TH just seems a bit content-light to me. differn't strokes.... -
tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants are related as part of the "nightshade" group of flowering plants
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That film is dark, I watched it once and couldn't watch it again. i sometimes like to play in the dark. jacki weaver might well be the best part of this film for me, she is so amazing. i'm hoping she'll team with david lynch as something Yeah good call, also you probably thought of that because Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom bears a bit of a resemblance to Grace Zabriskie, that he uses in quite a few of his films:
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lies. I thought you were going to link to an actual study or something. even if it's just the coldness affecting the pleasure factor, doesn't that fall within "tasting better?"
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lol, that's exactly what he does
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TA definitely pegged Alec Baldwin for what he really is, when I first watched it I thought "Alec Baldwin as the villain, that's a bit random", but now it makes perfect sense. Which makes you wonder if Matt Damon is truly retarded.
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oh come on, I didn't believe the "wmd myth" at the time it was being created (I marched against all those lying neocon cunts in SF), but the scene with Hans Blix is still comedy gold Hans Briiix
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lol
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hmm, I watch that video and feel "crazy stalker trying really hard to make his obsession seem like a joke, and failing"
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harsh yeah, I think that is a bit harsh. I didn't find him repulsive at all, in fact I kind of identified with him even as a younger person (I think I was about 22 when I first saw the movie). I'm sure I bring quite a bit of baggage to watching him in a role but there was something about his suspiciously healthy, wig-like, bang-heavy haircut, coupled with his sunken cheeks, that kept making me think "pedo". Then of course there's stuff like this:
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just watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for the first time (I know, I know, I'm late to the party). As an only sometimes fan of both Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry, and a somewhat non-fan of both Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey, I wasn't expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised. The dream sequences were handled much better than Inception (and you can see Nolan pretty blatantly ripped this off, with the houses-crumbling-into-the-sea bit, among others). Overall a really nice film, liked the sequences with Kirsten Dunst and Mark Ruffalo too (probably one of Kiki's best performances). Occasionally too emo, or even too dark (the parts with them listening to each other's cassettes and arguing was a bit intense). Quite a good film about the inevitable ennui that hits relationships at some point, and how the only way through is to put in a good faith effort to remember/focus on the positive. I think this must have been during one of Carrey's "down" bipolar periods, as he looks and acts like a worn-out homeless dude in it; he also looks about 15 yrs older than Winslet. Makes it a bit difficult to identify with him as his charm has soured and he's just a bit repulsive. 8.5 or 9/10
