A few films recently watched.

[lumpenprol]

Pi had a great soundtrack for the time. The story was preposterous, but maybe fun, depending on your viewpoint. Haven't watched it since it came out, I'm pretty sure my opinion may have changed. It showcases some really effective low-budget filmmaking (in a somewhat similar way to Tetsuo: Iron Man), but as to whether it's good or bad, well...arguably Aronofsky's best work tho

[Guest RadarJammer]

will i like Pi if i hated the fuck out of requiem for a dream, got rather bored by the wrestler and barely enjoyed black swan? i kinda want to see it but then again i kinda don't at all. guide me, watmm.

 

Out of all of those Pi seems the most self indulgent but it's got the best aura to it. If I was going to watch it again I would save it for when I was stuffed up and on a double dose of cough syrup.

[cloud capture]

A bunch of new movies on hbo go, I watched "Paul" last night. Seth Rogan plays an alien. He, and the two british leads weren't that funny. But the rest of the cast, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Joe Lo Trugilo, and Jane Lynch had some funny bits.

[ktait2]

21 jump street - 7/10 - fun !

 

I threw it on last night thinking it would be something to fall asleep too. I ended up staying awake to watch it, so surprisingly it wasn't that bad.

 

I fell in love with Das Boot. I watched the 3 hour director's cut, I want to get my hands on the whole BBC series.

[Guest RadarJammer]

21 jump street - 7/10 - fun !

 

I threw it on last night thinking it would be something to fall asleep too. I ended up staying awake to watch it, so surprisingly it wasn't that bad.

 

I fell in love with Das Boot. I watched the 3 hour director's cut, I want to get my hands on the whole BBC series.

 

I blew through the TV version without any sort of boredom. Would watch again.

[kinski]

thanks for the pi input

 

teeth - i expected a slasher comedy, got semi-arthouse coming-of-age sex drama. it was pretty bad.

[cruising for burgers]

Primer - best indie fim ive seen since Special. Up there with Pi in terms of low budget concept sci-fi - 8.5/10

 

thumbs up watmm

have you watched Nothing?

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/

[tec]

The original The Silent House. Good first hour but if the twist ending remains in the remake it'll be a massive flop, what a load of old arse.

[murve33]

Primer - best indie fim ive seen since Special. Up there with Pi in terms of low budget concept sci-fi - 8.5/10

 

thumbs up watmm

have you watched Nothing?

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/

Nothing - 1/10

I didn't finish it, but what I saw was awful. Got over halfway through though.

[cruising for burgers]

Primer - best indie fim ive seen since Special. Up there with Pi in terms of low budget concept sci-fi - 8.5/10

 

thumbs up watmm

have you watched Nothing?

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/

Nothing - 1/10

I didn't finish it, but what I saw was awful. Got over halfway through though.

that's a pretty sad story :(

[kaen]

shame - 9/10 - Fassbender is easily my favourite actor at the moment, regardless of what role he is playing he always seems to stand alone, away from everything and has an aura of greatness. This film only concretes that further for me showing his diverseness and ability to truly be comfortable with a role many would shy away from.

Spoiler ahead

 

As a lot of people have mentioned it is hard for the average nerd to feel sympathy for someone who can have sex with anyone he chooses but for him it is an addiction and a flaw in his character, being unable to make a deeper connection with anyone, being unable to love because of obvious abuse when he and his sister were younger. These are serious problems and experienced by many, I don't think it helps to trivialize it.

 

[Guest Mirezzi]

arguably Aronofsky's best work tho

WTF.

 

I loved The Wrestler.

 

Pi was really lame. Less lame in 1999 I guess, but still lame. In 2012, it's positively awful. lol.

[lumpenprol]

I see you took the term "arguably" as a big fat invitation :)

 

I'd hesitate to classify Pi as "really lame" as the soundtrack basically defined an entire IDM generation:

 

1. Pi (Symbol)r2 - Clint Mansell 2. P.E.T.R.O.L. - Orbital 3. Kalpol Intro - Autechre 4. Bucephalus Bouncing Ball - Aphex Twin 5. Watching Windows - Roni Size 6. Angel - Massive Attack 7. We Got The Gun - Clint Mansell 8. No Man's Land - David Holmes 9. Anthem - Gus Gus 10. Drippy - Banco De Gaia 11. Third from the Sun - Psilonaut 12. A Low Frequency Inversion Field - Spacetime Continuum 13. 2Pi (Symbol)r - Clint Mansell

 

The movie is hysterically over-the-top, I'll give you that. But the Wrestler being way better? Hmmm...it's kind of like arguing "Eastern Promises" is way better than "Videodrome", or "Straight Story" is way better than "Blue Velvet." They're stylistically really different flicks.

 

I can't believe I haven't seen Pi since it came out though. Jesus how time flies.

[Candiru]

shame - 9/10 - Fassbender is easily my favourite actor at the moment, regardless of what role he is playing he always seems to stand alone, away from everything and has an aura of greatness. This film only concretes that further for me showing his diverseness and ability to truly be comfortable with a role many would shy away from.

Spoiler ahead

 

As a lot of people have mentioned it is hard for the average nerd to feel sympathy for someone who can have sex with anyone he chooses but for him it is an addiction and a flaw in his character, being unable to make a deeper connection with anyone, being unable to love because of obvious abuse when he and his sister were younger. These are serious problems and experienced by many, I don't think it helps to trivialize it.

 

 

 

I wasn't trivilalizing it, just pointing out that this movie presents a romanticized, safe version of a problem that would be too ugly to realisitcally portray in a film that would have to find a large enough audience. Fassbender and Mulligan did a fine job, but my soul didn't end up in the gutter from watching it or anything.

 

[lumpenprol]

so in the film he was sexually abused as a youngster? Figures. Why can't they have a film about happy, non-traumatized sex addicts. Oh right, I guess that's called porn.

[Squee]

For fuck's sake, you guys... use spoiler tags.

[awepittance]

Overlook looses argument by praising wrestler while trying to insult Pi, news at 11

[roasty]

soylent green is people

[Guest Mirezzi]

Overlook looses argument by praising wrestler while trying to insult Pi, news at 11

 

Yeah, in fact, The Wrestler is his only good film. The rest has either aged poorly or sucked from the get-go!

 

YOU LOOSE!

[kinski]

this is not a story about me watching cabin in the woods, this is a story about how i saved the day. because they put iron sky isntead. and i just stood up, went to the ticket lady and told her about the mistake so they could play the movie we paid for. i wonder if the 50+ people in the theater just awkwardly assumed they made a mistake and were in a wrong room. anyway, great movie. most fun i had since cabin fever. loved the classic feel with a modern twist to things.

 

EDIT: the 2-3 minutes of iron sky looked rubbish, though.

[Atop]

I like that.

[dr lopez]

wow seeing return of the king on the big screen again made me remember how boring that movie is.

 

CANT STAND THE 3 HOURS OF BOYKISS

[kinski]

big fan - 2009 was a weird year for chubby comedians, because they suddenly got serious. seth rogen ended up doing gross, sinsiter drama (observe and report) and patton oswald ended up here. playing a sad, obsessive fan who puts nothing before his fav sports team, EVEN HIS OWN HEALTH. it's pretty great, although whole fandom in the us seems pretty uneventful. in poland we have regular wars and stuff. not that it's better to have wars. but anyway, great movie. and a lot better than o&r too.

[Guest Deep Fried Everything]

martha marcy may marlene - 8.4/10

 

very very suspenseful, i loved the dissonance that crept in and would leave just as quietly which helped to punctuate a lot of those (and other) moments. elizabeth olsen was very good (*schwing!*, also), and i think it's kind of pointless to complain about the ending because it's pretty clear there's no easy (re)solution coming, it's just not that kind of film.

[Guest Deep Fried Everything]

 

Re: Martha marcy...

 

Atop's spoiler, jejeje:

 

 

Data, I don't think the ending is cliché. Just a statement on her paranoia and how it was more her reality than we thought before. The car she keyed and broke the window of might not have been real. The man on the shore might have been a hallucination. The bartender at the party was most likely not a member of her cult family. The rocks being thrown at her window were not real. The end was an extension of all of these hallucinations due to her fragile mental state.

 

 

that's interesting; i was wondering about the bartender, and what you say makes sense in light of the behaviors that were/were not displayed (no one else wakes up to the rocks being thrown? as an example).. good point!