...Well, fuck.

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Originally posted by Bravus:
And I see I'm badly outnumbered on 'The Boat That Rocked'. In discussions with others I've wondered whether that's due to being just-post-Baby-Boomer... I've had 'The Sixties, Greatest Decade EVAR!!!' stuffed down my throat from birth and have developed something of an allergy to it. Those a little older than me like the movie for nostalgia, those younger can appreciate it on its own terms. I dunno... I loathed it with an undying passion.

What's worse is that it's made by a bunch of Gen Y wankers who are nostalgic for a decade they were never in. Po-mo fuckers.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
The 60's were fuckin' lame, and I am not even remotely interested in having yet another masturbatory nostalgia propagandafest rammed down my throat.

If they were really so goddamned revolutionary, they wouldn't have become the man.

I'll buy you a beer for that.

I always like to remind people that it was because of the counter-cultural movement the Vietnam War ended in the sixties. Oh, wait...

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
Go finish getting your high school diploma, dipshit. If you think anyone on this board needs a definition of a word that obvious, your dumber than a sack of hammers.

I think you mean, ‘you are dumber than a sack of hammers’, or perhaps ‘you’re dumber than a sack of hammers’? (I learned that in H.S. )

Revisited a couple of heavyweights over the long weeekend:

X-Files - completed Series 4: the introduction to the alien/genetic engineering thread and a move away from the darker topic of Scully's cancer.




Apocalypse Now - always good. Coppola's personal post 'Nam nightmare rolled up, dissected and chugged out as an atmospheric movie, well shot on a seemingly huge budget for the year ('79). Wow, those copter scenes, but for me, the "Charlie don't surf..." scene steals the show. Class.




Sin City - more heavyweight acting alongside some wicked editing make this one of my favourite movies. Gritty, violent and just plain down and dirty. Love it.

Flirting (1991)




Drama. Well executed Aussie coming of age film in the late ‘60s.

Filming was good. Scenes were well-done. Props, costumes and stage settings were very good. Not knowing what Australia was like in the 60’s, I assume everything was to period. Nudity. Violence. Fake blood is too red.

A rather geeky looking Taylor did very well in this film. Newton (recently in 2012) was equally good. Kidman was a non-entity. The rest of the cast are up to the part.

I didn’t think I was going to like this film, but I got sucked in. The Lord of the Flies boarding school environment was well portrayed. Direction got a lot out of some very young actors. The inter-racial romance was deftly handled. The last 10-minutes of the film were particularly good. But, that was done with voice-over, and I’m a sucker for that.

Recommended.

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS - while hanging out with a friend last night they mentioned wanting to see this. I recalled it as being available instantly on Netflix, correctly, and so we did! This is bat country....


THE ROAD - not quite the book.

Zatōichi (the 2003 film)

I was expecting something else... something Black and white and then this showed up from Netflix- I was unaware of the plethora of Bind Swordsman films... silly me

This was of course, color and pretty damn fun to boot.

REPO MAN - strangely enough, I had never seen this, though I do recall seeing commercials for it on HBO as a youngster....

Repo Man quote that has stayed in my head all these years.
" Look at 'em, ordinary fucking people, I hate 'em."

Paper Heart - Super-cute "hybrid documentary" about love, in which Charlyne drives around the country interviewing various people about what love means to them, interspersed with her own personal quest for love.

Whether it works well as a film is open for argument. (I thought so, but I bet the split will run 50/50 for and against.)

Whatever else I took away from it, Charlyne Yi is awesomely crazy and funny, imho. And she has the hugest laugh for such a tiny person!

The Machine Girl



Woah, one absolutely over the top revenge movie. I've never seen such gratuitous violence and ultra gore, especially from a young high school girl Funny, if only for the poor acting, English language dubbing, good looking Japanese props and 70's Monkey-like violence. Set to a theme of extreme blood spurting torture with sexual overtones, i imagine a very limited Western audience. It could easily disgust, but i had to laugh along at the shear audacity of the barrage of cartoon violence. Bleak, cheap backdrops, cracking graphical gore.

An experience.

The Guild S03E01-E12



Comedy. 12 internet shorts on a WoW centered theme.

Filming is OK. Props are OK. Sets are OK. This is a very slim-budgetted enterprise. No violence. No nudity. No fake blood.

Most of the cast are amateurs. Acting ranges from good to abysmal even with the OTT nature of the stories. Day is probably the best of the lot. Her performances are uneven. Her eppy intros are the best part.

For the internet this is actually pretty good. I've followed all three seasons of this for a tongue-in-cheek poke at WoW and RPGers. This season is the most salacious. Also, this season the story expanded and got more ambitious. This is due to Microsoft picking-up the show. The MS money did improve production values. Still, 'The Guild' is a work-in-progress.

Recommended if you're interested in what can be done with non-Pr0n intarWeb flicks.

Latest movies I've downlo.... eh, bought a ticket to see. District 9, which I found very interesting, with many good ideas. I didn't appreciate the low budget alien creatures, but I got used to it fairly quick. And yesterday I saw Gamer. What a huge waste of ideas and money!

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I didn't appreciate the low budget alien creatures

I imagine most of the detail apparent in the theaters would be lost in a download but I thought the aliens were pretty outstanding.

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It could easily disgust, but i had to laugh along at the shear audacity of the barrage of cartoon violence.

Yeah I believe my friend's and I's reactions throughout were basically "WTF?!?!?!" and " No way!!??!!" Almost makes me want to sit through TOKYO GORE POLICE or SAMURAI PRINCESS just to see what else the production company came up with. Almost.

Thirst - Vampires, morality and relationships. True love can be a hell of thing. I enjoyed it all in all. Definitely not for the squeamish though!

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Originally posted by electricdragon/ madevilbeats:

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It could easily disgust, but i had to laugh along at the shear audacity of the barrage of cartoon violence.

Yeah I believe my friend's and I's reactions throughout were basically "WTF?!?!?!" and " No way!!??!!" Almost makes me want to sit through TOKYO GORE POLICE or SAMURAI PRINCESS just to see what else the production company came up with. Almost.

I wholeheartedly endorse watching Tokyo Gore Police. It's makes minimal sense and continually amazes by upping the absurdity levels to heretofore unseen heights.

Yellowbeard - just released on DVD. It was as I remembered, uneven but with some very funny bits. Peter Cook is outstanding in a fairly small role, and Spike Milligan funny just to look at in a smaller one. At least now the kids understand why they sometimes get called the 'prawn of our loins'.

The Mentalist - couple of eps of the first season on DVD. Kinda cheesy but still fun. I picked both the killers very early on...

Johnny Mnemonic - first time for the kids, who enjoyed it - they like movies with intriguing ideas and are willing to forgive any other flaws for that. Always good to see Rollins and Ice-T...

Does anyone 'down under' have a copy of The Year My Voice Broke (1987)?

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Originally posted by electricdragon/ madevilbeats:

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I didn't appreciate the low budget alien creatures

I imagine most of the detail apparent in the theaters would be lost in a download but I thought the aliens were pretty outstanding.

720p. But I might misexpressed it. Not necessarily low-budget, but not blending in with live shooting CGI alien creatures, they seemed more vivid, bright... fake.

LOVE IS THE DEVIL - biopic abut painter Francis Bacon. Pretty dark stuff.

POWER OF MYTH - PBS series about Joseph Campbell's works on mythology. Always fun!