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watched super high me last night. very few lols. absolutely no interesting findings. i wasn't high when watching, was probably my mistake

 

Such a boring movie. Doug Benson made a joke - a good one, I might add - and someone turned it into a movie. Now that's probably the dumbest idea ever. Plus, Doug Benson looks like a fucking jerk. I turned it off after 40 minutes or so.

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a prophet - awesomely grim, claustrophobic portrayal of a prison governed by the in-mate mafia. the guy in the lead role becomes so convincingly cold after his short schooling in prison law and ultra-violence. the end was slightly over-romantic but a welcome sigh of relief after the relentless darkness.

 

i was completely riveted throughout but need to see it again to get a better understanding of the double-crossings and a few details i think i missed when i had to go to the toilet to unload 3 pints of guinness.

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Inside-4 out of 10

Martyrs-7 out of 10

Frontiers-7 out of 10

Haute Tension-8 out of 10

Watchmen-6 out of 10

Face (2004 jap)-4 out of 10

Sleeper-9 out of 10

play it again sam-8 out of 10

evil dead trap (jap)-7 out of 10

the muppet movie-9 out of 10

Amateur pornstar killer 3-0 out of 10

Mr73-8 out of 10

Revenge(GER/AUSTRIAN)-8 out of 10

 

hm any reason you preferred haute tension to martyrs? I thought the latter of the two was the best French horror flick I'd seen for awhile.

 

deliverance - 7/10

thirst - 7 or 8/10

gonna watch kynodontas tomorrow, got a screener copy. PUMP'D

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deliverance - 7/10

 

 

this is a surprisingly low score for what is a close to perfect film. what d'you score it down on?

 

I liked it but i felt like it hasn't really aged well. But it was incredibly suspenseful and I loved the scenery.

 

Big trouble in little china - awesome / 10

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watched super high me last night. very few lols. absolutely no interesting findings. i wasn't high when watching, was probably my mistake

 

Such a boring movie. Doug Benson made a joke - a good one, I might add - and someone turned it into a movie. Now that's probably the dumbest idea ever. Plus, Doug Benson looks like a fucking jerk. I turned it off after 40 minutes or so.

 

oh, i loved that movie. i don't know much about marijuana and the controversy surrounding it, so it taught me a lot.

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coming home - 8.5/10 - an incredibly moving film about soldiers dealing with the mental trauma of war. would have been 9/10 but jane fonda annoys me slightly.

 

the king of marvin gardens - 8/10 - a pretty damn good film from the guy that did five easy pieces. jack nicholson plays a 'straight' guy that gets sucked into his older brothers sleaziness.

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500 days of summer. This was actually a decent portrayal of late teen/early 20s relationships, so I don't know why they felt the need to muck it up with pretension and cliche. I'm weirded out by current day 20-somethings listening to the same stuff I did in high school - you know, when it came out. I'm 36, wtf are 20-somethings doing listening to Joy Division and the Smiths? I don't know if it's emo or hipster or what but it's disturbing. Or maybe I just missed that it was set in the 80s/early 90s? The name dropping in the dialogue - "who's your favorite Beatle?", having her read Portrait of Dorian Gray - felt like it was written by someone much older than the characters. 7.5/10.

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i saw inglourious basterds in blu ray. oh my god. that was the first time i've ever actually seen blu ray. it's a little weird. yes the picture is wonderful, but the movement and motion of everything seems so fluid and perfect. it's hard to describe, but it almost makes it look like it's not even a movie

 

are you sure you didn't watch it on one of those bizarre 'flo-motion' capable HD tvs made by Samsung or Sonyt hat ads 6 extra new frames into a 24 frames per second film?

 

if so those do look fucking weird and i cannot enjoy watching movies on them, it makea professional movies look like made for TV video taped transmissions.

 

 

that must've been it. it almost looked like there was no motion blur

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500 days of summer. This was actually a decent portrayal of late teen/early 20s relationships, so I don't know why they felt the need to muck it up with pretension and cliche. I'm weirded out by current day 20-somethings listening to the same stuff I did in high school - you know, when it came out. I'm 36, wtf are 20-somethings doing listening to Joy Division and the Smiths? I don't know if it's emo or hipster or what but it's disturbing. Or maybe I just missed that it was set in the 80s/early 90s? The name dropping in the dialogue - "who's your favorite Beatle?", having her read Portrait of Dorian Gray - felt like it was written by someone much older than the characters. 7.5/10.

 

if youre 36 joy division is a bit before your time as well, no? i mean you were 6 when the last record was released

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Sure, but they're evoking a very particular cultural time and place - I may have been 7 when Ian Curtis hung himself, but New Order were still active, and the other acts on the soundtrack - Smiths, Pixies, etc - were all part of that very specific teen period. Felt weird to me.

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It is probably a lot like how kids will 'really' be into Nirvana in the 10's...

 

and how I was 'really' into Led Zeppelin in high school....

 

20 year generation gaps...

 

W S Burroughs said something about this, something to the effect of genius always being recognized, in mass numbers, after the fact...a lot more eloquently stated though

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Sure, but they're evoking a very particular cultural time and place - I may have been 7 when Ian Curtis hung himself, but New Order were still active, and the other acts on the soundtrack - Smiths, Pixies, etc - were all part of that very specific teen period. Felt weird to me.

 

i havent seen the film cause it didnt look that great but i think i see what youre getting at... maybe its just todays popular youth culture running out of ideas.. but if theres modern stuff mixed with the classics then maybe its just recognizing the greatness of the past teen cultures, instead of just cannibalizing them

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