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Trainspotting.

I liked the movie, ... but ... there's something missing.

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?"

You can choose a decent life or you can choose to become trash. But when everything in life has lost its meaning and you don't want to become trash, what do you become? Or what can you choose to become?

I think I know what the movie is missing. (Hint: a shrink's phone number.)

Choose a direction. Choose a place. See if imagination, talent, and tolerance of unsatisfying jobs choose you ... or not. Wink


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The Cabin In The Woods
 
Joss Whedon co-directed and written film about a group of college students unknowingly used in an ancient ritual to appease the Old Gods. Interesting twist on the demonic horror film with pretty  good special effects...but ultimately turns into  your basic slasher film even with the different ideas involved.
For fans of Whedon.
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Italian 1980s horror movie about a mysterious cinema that while showing a strange horror film cause the audience to become possessed by demons and start attacking each other. It's not very long, but almost every scene is bursting with inventiveness in almost every aspect, and quite a bit of very morbid humour. Helps that like most Italian horror films it's very surrealistic in its entire sensibility and runs more on "dream logic" than traditional narratology.

Also, I love how damn 1980s it is right down to that soundtrack.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dayvenkirq Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 25 2015 at 14:29
^ I bet you are also into Lucio Fulci stuff.

Honestly, I didn't even find Demons innovative (aside from make-up, ... I think).


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Haven't seen any of Fulci's movies as a matter of fact, but a friend of mine from college who's something of an expert on horror films as she's studied it academically (having majored in film/media studies) happens to be an admirer of his.
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In the weekend, I watched this:


Swedish comedy about a young man who has becomes hopelessly square and upright as a reaction against his dysfunctional bohemian parents, then has to be shocked into thinking for himself by several friends who want to enlist him in getting their new business started. Along the road, he gets tangled up in a bunch of con artists trying to scam each other out of their money.

It's not bad at all and quite witty, just somewhat darker and nowhere as goofy as the advertising promises often touching on some rather serious subject matter in some of the later plot twists.


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This movie about a old rock star is hilarious at times mainly because of the Sean Penn character...
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I tried watching The Big Lebowski for the first time last night.  I am generally a fan of Coen Brothers movies, but this one I could not abide.  I turned it off just over half way through.  It seemed to have no point, was not very funny, and I simply did not enjoy it.  Am I wrong?

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Targets (1968)
An exciting psychological thriller about a mass killing spree. Quite unusual role for Boris Karloff who portrays a retiring horror movies star. This might be one of his best screen performances ever.


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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

The Cabin In The Woods
 
Joss Whedon co-directed and written film about a group of college students unknowingly used in an ancient ritual to appease the Old Gods. Interesting twist on the demonic horror film with pretty  good special effects...but ultimately turns into  your basic slasher film even with the different ideas involved.
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I believe this film was more of a spoof on slasher films, wasn't it? I found it quite funny.
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Originally posted by infocat infocat wrote:

I tried watching The Big Lebowski for the first time last night.  I am generally a fan of Coen Brothers movies, but this one I could not abide.  I turned it off just over half way through.  It seemed to have no point, was not very funny, and I simply did not enjoy it.  Am I wrong?

(yes, there are some quotable lines  LOL.)


This movie was not well received by all at first but it become a cult movie. I watched the whole thing 10 years ago and i remember that the story was a bit awkward, but there was funny moments as usual with the Cohen Brothers and the characters are interesting. It's a movie that you have to watch at least twice.
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Went and saw A Walk in the Woods tonight. Had the entire theater to myself (maybe because I went to a 10pm showing on a Monday night?) which really just added to the effect. It was an enjoyable movie, lots of laughs throughout. As they are middle-aged/older men, Redford and Nolte pulled off the middle-aged/older guys well. The movie made me realise two things: one, that I still haven't read the couple of Bryson books I've picked up over the years, and two, that I need to get out and hike more often. One of my fave quotes from the movies so far was something along the lines of "books are TV for smart people." The ending was a wee bit abrupt, but apart from that it was well done. Kristen Schaal's role was...a bit odd, but then there's not a problem with odd.
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Saw Dragon Blade earlier this evening. I assume part of it was seeing it right after the delightful movie which was A Walk in the Woods, but...the fight scenes were just "okay" compared to several other Chinese historical (note: the "historical" in reference to this movie may or may not be a bit exaggerated) martial arts related films, none of the main actors seemed quite on top of their game (Jackie Chan, for example, played his part pretty much entirely straight, and for me one of his strengths as an actor is the silliness he brings), and the child in the movie...I'm sure he was intended to bring on some sort of emotional response, and he did...annoyance/anger. I think they were aiming for more of a pity or something along those lines. He (and several other characters) seemed to have a bit of an issue with the audio of what they were saying and what their lips were saying matching up. The music was typical bland grandiose music you can associate with this sort of film, the special effects were sometimes pretty suspect...meh. Very mediocre movie overall, and to top it off I wasn't alone in the theater tonight (two others showed up right as the previews were starting and didn't shut up until the movie had been playing already for a few minutes).
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Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Chinese historical (note: the "historical" in reference to this movie may or may not be a bit exaggerated) martial arts related films


The word you're looking for is wuxia.
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A rare movie with no violence, no silly jealousy and romance. A good road movie in Iceland, funny, joyful...
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Originally posted by Toaster Mantis Toaster Mantis wrote:

Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

Chinese historical (note: the "historical" in reference to this movie may or may not be a bit exaggerated) martial arts related films


The word you're looking for is wuxia.

Yeah, I'm familiar with the term. I just don't know if most readers of the forums are or not, so I figured I'd just post it as a 'historical' film.
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Temple Grandin.

If you've done some cursory reading about this woman, then it's pretty much like seeing the film (though the optical illusion and the door-to-the-new-world parts are the ones I would have missed if I haven't seen it). It was pretty good. It gives an interesting and clear insight into the mind of an autistic person. Claire Danes did a very good job. Ditto for David Strathairn.

Too bad I couldn't rent it on iTunes, so I bought it for $14.99 + tax.


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^ It is pretty good, though the real Temple Grandin is far less eccentric than Danes portrayed her.  But that's showbiz I guess.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Dayvenkirq Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 19 2015 at 23:11
^ I suppose the young Temple Grandin is different from the old Temple Grandin. Could medication have something to do with that?
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Not sure, but today's Grandin definitely has little of the squeaky gesticulations of Claire Dane's version.
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