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[cruising for burgers]

End of Watch - 9/10 - Best buddy cop film ever. The chemistry between Jake and Michael is gold. The portrayal of the cop "brotherhood" is is filled with variant dynamics which makes the film have a depth i was not expecting. Really fucking good. Really made me feel uneasy about the rabid gun culture that seems incurable here in the states. And the fucked up corrupt/insider supported drug and immigrant trade. Very effective film making.

YES!!!

 

read YOYO review to know what you shouldn't do to fully enjoy this movie...

Edited January 25, 2013 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

[cruising for burgers]

End of Watch - The intentions of the filmmakers were to manipulate the viewers into crying and you can pretty much see it all coming since scene one and it becomes evident by the last scene of the movie. I don't like this kind of filmmaking because it doesn't really care about the story or the movie, it cares more about manipulating the viewers emotions by trowing a generic script and generic characters. You feel manipulated in the end and not in a good way, and once the credits start rolling you realize the movie was shit and boring. 0/10

you got it all wrong dude lol

 

the intentions were excellence acting between two buddies, and it succeeded in that 100%...

 

now, of course you saw it coming, it's on the movie synopsis...

 

 

manipulating viewers?? you obviously haven't watched biutiful and incendies...

Edited January 25, 2013 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

[eugene]

Into the abyss

finally caught up with this herzog documentary. not an enjoyable watch but I expected that. was hoping for something deeper perhaps. A really bleak look at small town america. I already think the death sentence is wrong so what do I take away from this film?

 

I just read that there was a series too. on death row. not sure i want more of this, although i do think that focusing on one crime/2 criminals worked against the film

yep, i remember feeling the same. he really blew it with his stupid questions, it should have been much more than another louis theroux episode.

[Guest Jimmy McMessageboard]

herzog's newest sounds odd. he didnt even shoot it:

http://www.musicboxfilms.com/happy-people--a-year-in-the-taiga-movies-55.php

[Guest Mirezzi]

Biutiful was fucking amazing, I don't care what any jaded, soulless WATMMer says.

 

[Guest zaphod]

Biutiful was fucking amazing

 

[Guest Mirezzi]

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dangerous days: making blade runner

 

3½ hours of blade runner porn

 

8/10, would've wanted to hear more about vangelis score / interview with vangelis. othat than that, top stuff.

[Guest Mirezzi]

I know that soundtrack is mostly amazing, but am I the only one who starts to puke in his mouth every time Love Theme comes on.

 

It's that rarest of moments in Blade Runner where I begin to question its greatness. Love Theme is a perfect soundtrack for a fat white 80's sales executive hitting on a little asian woman with dreams of putting her in his suitcase to bring back to America.

 

No matter how hard I try, I have to fast forward through that scene.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IArsKk7ElQo

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other words, I imagine Lumpy strutting around the streets of China, ghetto blaster held high on one shoulder, blaring Vangelis's "Love Theme" and trolling for 13 year-old tail.

Edited January 25, 2013 by The Overlook

[Guest zaphod]

when i think of androids having sex i want the woozy saxophone equivalent of a passing glance from a thai ladyboy. admit it, blade runner is some seedy 80's fetishistic shit. it's perfect the way it is.

[data]

i love that track, the subtle fm bass in the background, the rhodes parts. maybe you just hate saxophones?

[baph]

Considering how rapey Deckard is with Rachel, the only way Love Theme could be more appropriate is if it were re-titled Sex Work

[gaarg]

Watched this one

 

 

10/10, it got to me on so many levels, Hard 'n' powerful, just the way I like 'em

[Guest zaphod]

indeed. the part where the little green hill is broken in two as the top right of the page kind of folds over the sky is the most moving sequence in film history.

[Guest Mirezzi]

What is it? That image is broken.

[Guest Mirezzi]

End of Watch feels like a video game, albeit one I'd like to play.

[Guest Mirezzi]

I would very much like to see Anna Kendrick naked.

[Guest Mirezzi]

Gee, I wonder what's going to happen at the *end* of End of Watch.

 

It's gonna be a happy one, clearly.

[Guest Mirezzi]

Yeah, Cody, with regards to the sickening Assault Weapon culture, I agree that it's a bit shocking to the senses.

 

However, and this is a big however, this movie was horrible IMO. I can't stand this Training Day fucker and I hope to never see another of his films. Tedious, contrived, and just far too video gamey for my liking.

 

If you wanna watch a good icky cop movie, check out Kurt Russell in Dark Blue.

Edited January 26, 2013 by The Overlook

[syd syside]

 

Julian Assange calls upcoming Dreamworks film 'a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks'

 

By Bryan Bishop on January 25, 2013 07:16 pm Email @bcbishop 7COMMENTS

 

 

 

Earlier this week we got our first look at actor Benedict Cumberbatch

playing Julian Assange in the forthcoming WikiLeaks film The Fifth

Estate — but Assange himself has some particularly harsh words for the

production. In a speech before the Oxford Union, Assange revealed that a

draft of the script for the Dreamworks project had in fact been shared

with WikiLeaks, and he called it "a mass propaganda attack against

WikiLeaks the organization, and the character of my staff and our

activities, and so on."

 

 

 

Assange didn't stop there however; he went on to say that The Fifth

Estate was also "an attack against Iran" that "fans the flames to start a

war with Iran." In an interview with the Associated Press, Assange

explained that the film's plot focuses on a mole in Iran's nuclear

program who discovers the company has nearly completed building atomic

weapons — something which Assange says is not borne out by documents

WikiLeaks obtained. The film is also said to have the mole's identity

revealed when WikiLeaks publishes classified documents — another

falsehood in what Assange calls "a lie built on a lie."

 

 

 

The Fifth Estate is scheduled for release in the United States on

November 15th. It's being directed by Bill Condon — known for his work

on Dreamgirls and Twilight: Breaking Dawn — and Assange describes the

project as the result of a "war of corrupt media" driven by powerful

influencers. The antidote to this kind of influence, he told the Oxford

Union, is the internet itself. Check out Assange's full presentation

below.

 

 

 

[Guest zaphod]

the friends of eddie coyle - robert mitchum was a cool, world weary motherfucker and this seemed like it would be an authentic boston mob movie. unfortunately it's ruined by one of the cheesiest soundtracks this side of willie dynamite. inexplicable 70's funk music set to low key shots of people driving slowly and staring at each other.

[Atop]

I haven't seen Training Day but I am sorry I had you watch something horrible Mirrezzi, will check out the Russell film. You didn't enjoy Michael Pena in the film at all?

[cruising for burgers]

it's not even the same director as in training day but whatever...

Edited January 26, 2013 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

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