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perunamuusi Grand Master

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St Elmo's Fire (rental inspired by the saxophone thread) Rob Lowe's out of hand saxophone antics. Demi Moore nearly "dying" by sitting in a room with the windows open. Andrew McCarthy's one dimension. Mare Winningham's intact hymen. Emilio (change my name and hope nobody notices that I look exactly like Martin Sheen) Estevez aggressively stalking Andie McDowell (source of many of my teenage boners in the 80s). Judd fucking Nelson.

 

Ally Sheedy's hairstyle out of 10.

 

Heathers. Christian Slater playing Jack Nicholson (again). Winona Ryder trying to act (again). Absolute Classic. Brilliant in its day and possibly even better now with the haircuts and clothes viewed through a 20 year window. I love my dead gay son out of 10

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watched Cave of Forgotten Dreams. kinda blows my mind that these drawings were preserved for so long.. eerie and fascinating to think how long it has endured

 

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two lane blacktop - goddamn masterpiece. seen it so many times and it still holds up.

 

i like this, spot on- Ten (sixteen, actually) Reasons I Love Two-Lane Blacktop.

By Richard Linklater

 

 

 

01 Because it’s the purest American road movie ever.

 

02 Because it’s like a drive-in movie directed by a French new wave director.

 

03 Because the only thing that can get between a boy and his car obsession is a girl, and Laurie Bird perfectly messes up the oneness between the Driver, the Mechanic, and their car.

 

04 Because Dennis Wilson gives the greatest performance ever . . . by a drummer.

 

05 Because James Taylor seems like a refugee from a Robert Bresson movie, and has the chiseled looks of Artaud from Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc.

 

06 Because there was once a god who walked the earth named Warren Oates.

 

07 Because there’s a continuing controversy over who is the actual lead in this movie. There are different camps. Some say it’s the ’55 Chevy, some say it’s the GTO. But I’m Goat man, I have a GTO—’68.

 

08 Because it has the most purely cinematic ending in film history.

 

09 Because it’s like a western. The guys are like old-time gunfighters, ready to outdraw the quickest gun in town. And they don’t talk about the old flames they’ve had, but rather old cars they’ve had.

 

10 Because Warren Oates has a different cashmere sweater for every occasion. And of course the wet bar in the trunk.

 

11 Because unlike other films of the era, with the designer alienation of the drug culture and the war protesters, this movie is about the alienation of everybody else, like Robert Frank’s The Americans come alive.

 

12 Because Warren Oates, as GTO, orders a hamburger and an Alka-Seltzer and says things like “Everything is going too fast and not fast enough.”

 

13 Because it’s both the last film of the sixties—even though it came out in ’71—and also the first film of the seventies. You know, that great era of “How the hell did they ever get that film made at a studio?/Hollywood would never do that today” type of films.

 

14 Because engines have never sounded better in a movie.

 

15 Because these two young men on their trip to nowhere don’t really know how to talk. The Driver doesn’t really converse when he’s behind the wheel, and the Mechanic doesn’t really talk when he’s working on the car. So this is primarily a visual, atmospheric experience. To watch this movie correctly is to become absorbed into it.

 

16 And, above all else, because Two-Lane Blacktop goes all the way with its idea. And that’s a rare thing in this world: a completely honest movie.

 

 

 

this is the best reason-

 

"Because Warren Oates, as GTO, orders a hamburger and an Alka-Seltzer and says things like “Everything is going too fast and not fast enough.”

 

yes indeed

 

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zabriskie point - as a sometimes Antonioni fan (well, basically just a fan of L'Avventura) I figured I'd finally check this out...well...hm...it certainly gets 10 hippie counterculture points/10. I'm more curious about Antonioni the director than the film itself. How did dude go from directing pretentious b&w euro art films to very earnest hippie flicks? I'm guessing acid played a role... 7.5/10 in terms of cultural curiosity, 4/10 taken by itself...

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there will be blood

 

i forgot how much i love this movie. i actually do a pretty good daniel plainview impression and my wife hates it which makes me do it more. i have been yelling "eil..." and "give me the blood lord, give me the blood" all weekend.

 

10/10 for me.

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I took my kid to see Tin Tin in 3D. Very very pretty and quite entertaining. I don't like the look of Tin Tin or Captain Haddock, but Haddock was an awesome drunkard in the film, so he's forgiven. Tin Tin felt completely lifeless though, still... 7/10. I hope they make more of these.

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Oh you mean the korean one? I downloaded that by accident but haven't watched it.

 

(Hung Tran's movie is titled "Norwegian Wood")

 

The Japanese one...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270842/

 

Mmmm Rinko Kikuchi/10

 

Recently Watched:

 

"Afghanistan's Opium Trail" - short documentary about opium production in Afghanistan. Dirt poor farmers, drug overlords, corrupt government officials. Decent - good focus on how opium production rules rural Afghanistan.

 

"Midnight in Paris" - Neat little Woody Allen flick. Good premise, and lots of good cultural references. Could have developed the characters a little more. 7.5/10

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