I like it more than I don't like it...

6.5/10

Without Fred Durst... well, I would have never rented this, but even if I did, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it at all. Durst makes the film, literally. Just check the IMDB page for this one, everyone is praising the hell out of Durst's performance, even those who hate Limp Bizkit. He did a decent job in Population 436, but he really proved his chops with this one.

The movie is bearable at best, but Fred Durst's performance is AMAZING! I'm not even exaggerating! If you enjoyed his Kirby Chitwood character on Tom Green Live, you're going to adore his role as Ledge in this film. I'm definitely going to have to check out The Education of Charlie Banks (which Durst directed) ASAP now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS2gBVYjgu4

Very funny.

First time I saw Slow Motion, I gave it a solid 8, but it just stuck with me and stuck with me, and now it's my all time favorite. You have to keep in mind it was the first film of his "2nd period", after not making any real films for 14 years (his last film of his brilliant 1st period was Weekend). He came back like a completely different director.. dark as hell.. but just as brilliant, if not more so. Godard's the director when talking about "Watching once is simply not enough."

story of sorrow and sadness - 10/10

A psycho-sexual drama about GOLF by Seijin Suzuki, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time (and is a huge influence on Takeshi Kitano, so you know he's gotta be good). This was his one film of the entire 1970's, and this is one truly mindblowing flick.

Frustrating. It was pretty great, and had some FANTASTIC scenes and beats, but I couldn't help but feel that it kind of succeeded in spite of Schumacher and it's time of making. Like the script and central performances could have made it a true classic, but there are just all these little bad 90s touches in the way it's shot, or the totally over the top music at points, various other things. Also there are certain characters (I'm thinking mainly of the 'annoying' cop and the latino gangsters) that are just suddenly so characture and awful that they really pull you out of the film. I don't know, it was a great idea, kind of an American 'Weekend', and it so almost gets it right that you end up slightly angry at, even though on it's own terms it's still a solid film...

Inception.

Well I'm a bit disappointed actually, it's good but I don't think it's a masterpiece (or maybe I expected too much). I'd give it 7,5/10.

yeah, didn't think Incept was all that good either. Liked most of the actors but Ellen Page and the 3rd rock from the sun kid were poor choices, IMO.

Saw Disgrace, which I would recco for the Malcovitch portrayal of Coetzee, but the story is pretty hard to take (as was the booK)

Yeah, Inception was a letdown.





7/10

Enjoyable. Lots of homages to Ren & Stimpy, Looney Toons, and even School House Rock. Plenty of monsters, gore, and tits. Great cast. The short running time works in it's favor. I had a good time.

Manic
6/10

I love Falling Down but I haven't watched it in years... It reminds me of good times. Not the movie itself but when I was younger, there was a music video on heavy rotation on TV at late night by a French rapper (Disiz la Peste) that parodied parts of the movie. When I finally watched the movie, I was like "That's where it comes from !" so yeah, good memories.

For those who are interested, this is the music video I'm talking about :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D3_Bp5YyUU

Scream 2 y'all.

2nd disc, behind the scenes stuff, while I brainstorm, write, and gnaw on my inner right cheek 'cuz of the adderall.

Do you own Inland Empire, or did you borrow it or netflix it or something? I honestly am thinking of getting rid of my copy. I don't like that movie, it's just taking up space.

Own it. Paid 2.99 at a vido store for the 1st disc. Bought a 2nd copy for the other disc for $1 at a flea market.

Yeah, my friend came down from Indy last night and we had a long discussion about Lynch -- his onetime favorite director. He said, "Yeah, you know, I was thinking -- Inland Empire is probably the worst film ever, isn't it?" and we had a really great, long conversation about why the film doesn't work at all and just feels like some immature, amateur DV experiment... The biggest problem, of course, is how Mary Sweeney didn't edit it. Since she edited everything from Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive -- taking Lynch's 4 or 5 hours of footage and always chopping it down to compelling 2 hour films -- she was the biggest contributor to how his films look and feel. And since she wrote Straight Story, she is responsible for his best film, period. Lynch shots 65 hours for this movie, and, uh, good sense must have prevailed -- I am guessing she looked at the 65 hours he had shot and was like, "There's nothing I can do with any of this!" If anyone's ever curious about how important editing it is, look at Mary Sweeney's masterful editing versus Lynch's sloppy jarring cuts. Also, if you watch any of Lynch's old films, there are so many little things going on -- characters in bars sitting around and chatting, you know.. all kinds of little details, since there was, like, a script. Since there was no script -- either things were improvised, or wrote on napkins -- there isn't much to the film besides Dern walking around a movie set, with extreme close ups of her face. Also, the Beck scene is probably the worst scene ever filmed by anyone, ever. I used to respect the film as a big fuck-you -- like, "fuck plots. Fuck characters. Fuck studios. Fuck development. Fuck my fans." You know, like the whole point of the film was to just destroy everything -- almost like how Kitano made the challenging, impenetrable Takeshis' immediately after making his biggest success, Zatoichi (and he also made his insane, ridiculous Getting Any? after the HUGE success Sonatine); he designed these films to fail, like big jokes, very cathartic for him. The thing is, they ended up being great films, but naturally they bombed. Inland Empire, to me, was almost like Lynch having a great big laugh, while playing with his DV camera. "Let's see what I can get people to buy, heh heh heh." The film has haunted me for years -- I've had it since it was released (purchased from Wal-Mart -- with a discount car!). It's always stuck with me -- like, I had to keep rewatching it.. I was trying to figure out why it didn't do anything for me... it just has this cold, weird atmosphere. I've watched it 7 times now -- obviously, it's not that big of a failure, or really the worst film ever (I didn't say I agreed with my friend, though I do agree the film doesn't work), if I have felt compelled to keep watching it. I guess the biggest thing that confuses me is why the Rabbits footage he used in the film is the best-looking, -feeling, and -sounding part of the movie, when it was shot like 2 or 3 years before the rest of the movie. Strange.









Underworld Beauty - 7/10









eros plus massacre - 9/10



Yes, Scream 2 -- absolute garbage!

Hahaha, I have a film called DON'T GIVE A DAMN playing on tv, and it's kind of a badly dubbed Hong Kong martial arts film, and some dubbed guy just said "YOU MAKE FART STINKY AND WET." Er, I think that's what he said.

For, I dunno, the 15th time? 10/10.