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James wrote:

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.

That was a terrible movie, although the concept was clever.

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Just finished Sideways. I didn't like it much.

Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira

- Paul Éluard

Henry Plainview wrote:

James wrote:

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.

That was a terrible movie, although the concept was clever.

All Cronenberg is good. I can see we diverge quite starkly in our tastes! Wink

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Tarquin Underspoon wrote:

Just watched Fargo. I found it strangely hilarious. I think it was a bit over-hyped for me, but a very enjoyable watch nonetheless

That is an excellent movie. I really love the Cohen brothers.

Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira

- Paul Éluard

I loved The Big Lebowsky. But Fargo and The Man Who Wasn't There were slightly better.

Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira

- Paul Éluard

A masterpiece indeed.

Food, Inc.--Pretty good movie (and even connected to Temple Grandin!), but they lost all credibility with me when the film actually believed that diabetic family's sh*t about being so poor they can only afford fast food. They wasted $3 on soda in that drive through segment, which admittedly is cheap compared to some things, but if you're so damn poor, why the hell are you buying soda in the first place? Northern Virginia is not really a low cost of living area, but I could easily buy 2 pounds of ground beef, a pound of spaghetti, and a bag of frozen vegatables for $11.50 at GIant, and you can drink a glass of tap water for a fraction of a cent, you morons. There's no need to go and show them at a supermarket pissing and moaning that oh sh*t a pound of on sale pears costs a whole dollar. And I'm 100% positive their teenage daughter could handle cooking that if they don't have time to, although I have to question that assertion as well since they were shown twice all together during daylight hours, yet they said they were always away from 6am to 9pm.

As you can tell, I think I completely missed the point, but if that family's story is real, it genuinely upsets me that there are people who are so unbearably ignorant about the most basic things, and that both the film makers and the reviewers are willing to accept that ignorance as the truth in order to prove a point about teh evil corporations.

Edited by Henry Plainview - February 19 2010 at 23:47

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Henry Plainview wrote:

Rant about Food, Inc.

That's why I stuck to reading The Omnivore's Dilemma instead of finishing Food, Inc.

Best in Show isn't bad, but I thought A Mighty Wind was better (almost like Spinal Tap 2)

I have absolutely no desire to see Across the Universe.

I didn't like Best in Show very much. Christopher Guest is awesome, but Eugene Levy is just atrocious and too much of the movie was poisoned by him.

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