list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

jampa17 wrote: Dalezilla wrote: I too loved Goodfellas when I saw it. Just watched In Bruges for the third time. Amazing film, amazing location and funny as hell.   I have that movie since a week ago but I don't have time to see it.... my friends told me that is a s funny as Snatch, one of my favorites movies, so, I have too much expactation about this particular movie, so, I hope it won't let me down... collin Farrell is always a problem with me... I don't like his acting, but well... all I need is two hours of relax time and I will be fine...

In Bruges is nothing like Snatch, English gangsters don't make movies to be alike.

I recently went to see The Book of Eli, and was quite let down.

I finally got to see My Name is Bruce...I thought it was a great movie, very funny.  

SaltyJon wrote: I finally got to see My Name is Bruce...I thought it was a great movie, very funny.

I saw it here in Madison, WITH Bruce Campbell doing a Q&A afterwards (in person) in which he proceeded to humiliate just about everyone- because most of them asked lame questions...

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Henry Plainview wrote: Reversal of Fortune--This is the 18th best movie of all time on Metacritic, which I think is ridiculous, but I can see how it would be critically praised at the time since it was topical. As someone who is completely removed from those events, it is merely average to good, even though Jeremy Irons was amazing in the final sequence.   45 minutes of Eraserhead--How can anybody in the whole world think this is a brilliant movie? There was kind of an atmospheric thing going in the first few minutes with the noise, and that was nice, but then nothing happened. Then there was a mutant baby, but there was still nothing happening.

Lynch and his Eraserhead movie are conceptualists and conceptual pieces.... similar to avant garde and RIO music, except in a film format.  It's more about the presentation and the individual trip then the message or what happens per se.  For me, I rarely sit down for a Lynch movie with an expectancy of a cogent ending or even coherence.... it's more of a form of moving abstract artwork (to me).  I'm not saying your point is not valid.  In a psuedo-hollywood sense, nothing did happen.  But that is the same with a lot of artwork, it may not grab you, but often it is more about the artist's concept and how they got there than it is about the finished product.
The only films/shows of his that follow a sensible formula are Twin Peaks; Fire Walk With Me and the Twin Peaks show.  Elephant Man and Dune are fairly reasonable and follow a script and normal pacing moreso than his others. His artwork (paintings) are amazing.  My wife works at the local art museum, and has an even deeper understanding of all things art, yet she dislikes his movies (likes his art though).  It's certainly not for everyone.  I'm not trying to sound like some sort of pretentious film school artfag, but I like his stuff.  Perhaps it's because it is so far removed from mainstream film-making that it is appealing to me.  I love abstract art though.  Must be why I like my avant garde music as well.  It's the novelty of the experience.  Maybe you need to be on drugs to appreciate his stuff more.  Eraserhead was one of his earliest films and as such is probably his most avant creation.   Like I said, avant garde doesn't always resolve; in music as it is in art!

Well I can't stand abstract visual art, so I guess that's the problem. What does the opening segment and the woman with the cheeks and the dream with his brain being turned into erasers even mean? Is it even supposed to mean anything?

That song the girl sings in Eraserhead -can't remember the name right now- is amazing!

I've not seen Eraserhead but I did once see Cronenberg's Videodrome but that was when I was in my teens.  I may have to explore Lynch one day.

On a slightly related note, Jennifer Lynch (David's Daughter?) has put out a film (2008) with David as Executive Producer; it is called Surveillance, and it looks downright creepy yet awesome!  (with- gasp- a real story!)  I want to see this!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409345/

Also, I saw a film last night that was based on the viking discovery of America in 1007.... super realistic, down to accurate armor, clothing, weapons, what they would have done to survive the wild, etc.  Sort of like Man vs. Wild meets National Geographic.  It got accolades from several museums and was in several film festivals.... It's from '07.... Severed Ways-  8/10.  those who are into norse mythology/history/paganism/metal music will appreciate it.  It has some metal but mostly ambient and folk music.  really cool.