[choc e-Claire]

 

I'm definitely on board with Fincher's directorial vision by now (I'll have to rewatch The Social Network to compare which one I like better). This was really compelling, and I loved how it was more of a human drama about obsession than it was about the killings themselves. Plus it's always great when Robert Downey Jr. locks in to being a paranoid sleazebag.

[Skuj]

Furiosa. Criminally overlooked. How the fuck was this a box-office bomb? This film is brilliant, and the best of the Max Mad series. Miller gets better and better with age.

[Skuj]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Watched Furiosa
then watched Fury Road Mad max
thedn watched Road Warrior
then watched Mad Max
then thunderdom

And? Imho this gets better and better chronologically. Fury Road was brilliant. Furiosa tops it!!

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

I've been trying to get "into film" in the last few months, [...] Sorry for such a long post but this is fun to get passionate about!

hell no, dont apologize! of course it's superfun, that is the point

i'd love to answer in detail, but i can't right now. the politics thing has used up my internet forum writing budget and now i have work

but just wanted to say cronenberg is one of my superfavorites. only i am not crazy about crimes of the future but whatever. from that era i prefer stereo, a predecessor to scanners. shivers, rabid, the brood, all amazing. i have not seen fast company. he has some good early shorts too. his 80s 90s work is better known and no need to mention. you seen m. butterfly though? thoughts?

i have not seen maps to the stars

OH WAIT, a new crimes of the future? i have only seen the original hahahhaha. i need to see this one now!!!

anyway please keep up the excellent work watching/writing. it's refreshing and much welcome

[choc e-Claire]

For a change in quality, I watched Deck the Halls (2006) today - it's been on TV basically every year, but this was the first time I actually sat down and watched it. Wish I hadn't - the nicest thing I can say about it is that it's the second best film where Matthew Broderick's character hangs out with a guy wearing a Detroit Red Wings jersey.

[_tunic_]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

basic instinct is of course the great paul verhoeven. see if you can find "the fourth man", which is a very unusual movie hahaha. showgirs is often panned as trash but i think it's pure genius. and if you watch starship troopers try to remember that it was satire--problem is reality has exceeded satire by now. we are so degraded, we are beyond satire

I watched "the fourth man" when I was a child (wish I could remember how old I was), and the image of someone getting decapitated in a car has stuck with me ever since. Except that after seeing the fragment, I thought it was glass plates, perhaps that was in a different movie? Would like to see it again, but only if it was shown on TV, which it never is. His best or at least most famous Dutch movies are Turkish Fruit and Soldier Of Orange. Both star Rutger Hauer but the content is entirely different. Lots of nakedness in the first, Second World War in the other.
Actually don't think I've ever seen either of them, because I dislike watching Dutch language movies in general.



Instead i watched this one yesterday:

 

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

For a change in quality, I watched Deck the Halls (2006) today - .

ew. why?

Originally Posted by _tunic_

I watched "the fourth man" when I was a child (wish I could remember how old I was), and the image of someone getting decapitated in a car has stuck with me ever since. Except that after seeing the fragment, I thought it was glass plates, perhaps that was in a different movie? Would like to see it again, but only if it was shown on TV, which it never is. His best or at least most famous Dutch movies are Turkish Fruit and Soldier Of Orange. Both star Rutger Hauer but the content is entirely different. Lots of nakedness in the first, Second World War in the other.
Actually don't think I've ever seen either of them, because I dislike watching Dutch language movies in general.

ah! here it's called turkish delight. yes that's like a long erotic movie with a sad ending, i cant remember completely but yeah it's hm well, like a movie made by a hippie kinda, hahaha. not the same spirit as his other films. i have not seen soldier of orange


i think the decapitated glass plate is the exorcist? or the omen? the omen maybe in the excavation site or something?

ok i found it hahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLlSjyZupzU

[Antagon]

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

For a change in quality, I watched Deck the Halls (2006) today - it's been on TV basically every year

Ah, yes. The classic "Let's just air movies that are cheap for the network to show"-spiel. Every country seems to have their own mainstays of varying (mostly shitty) quality. Austrian channels really loved to shove the Sister Act movies down our throats for some time, apparently. Same goes for the gazillion Police Academy movies. German channels loved to show The Last Unicorn during Christmas all the time - that's at least something I could get down with. Don't know if it's still the case - haven't watched TV in ages.