i thought it wasn't going to be really gory at first cos the first "kill" they cut away from quickly but it's got some decent stuff in it, about as gory as the TCM remake but of course there's more kills in it. i think jason looked a little better when he had the "bag head". his hair was a little distracting. there's a lot of tittays in it too.

does anyone now the documentary it might get loud? I discoverd it in the programme of the "berlinale", which is a film festival right now. It's about the history of the electric guitar and contains a jam with jack white, jimmy page and teh edge... the description sounds like fun. (not only this jam)

Saw Gran Torino last weekend (we had actually gone to the theater to see Slumdog Millionaire) but they had STB on the listings online.

It was ok, typical Eastwood directorial fare where he oversimplifies everything to make a larger point. I enjoyed the Eastwood character simply because well written out racism is funny as shit.

"What're you spooks doin'?" Seriously, i lollered.

Watched "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" yesterday and I'm as pissed off about the greed and selfishness of my generation as I've ever been.

i'll go see this now.

I definitely learned some new racist slurs - spooks, zipperheads, zips, swamprats, etc.

Also, this joke:

haha

Finally watched the whole "Fast, Dirty, Crazy". Documentary of Guilty Connector. I think the whole thing is posted in bits on youtube though I could be wrong. Decent flick. So strange to see how quiet and reserved he is off stage.

yeah those audio tapes of the traders are really irksome

I watched Footloose last night. I defy you to watch that movie and not get up and dance.

In Bruges - frikkin' great movie.

Saw The Break-Up on DVD the other night. Not bad, but the ending was kind of sad. Loved seeing fat thirtysomething Ralphie and also The Old 97's. D'Onofrio was underutilized.

hahaha

How this movie attained any sort of following is beyond me. Perhaps the worst plot structure and editing I've ever seen. Literally unwatchable. I turned it off about 3/4's through. Avoid at all cost.

Ask and Ye Shall Recieve:

I love the tendency of the 20 years on remake to be unable to resist cramming every cliché and standard line into the piece. It’s as rote as aging rockstars doing “The New Materialâ€

Watched W last night. Entertaining as only Stone can provide. Brolin was really great, but the portrayal of Condi was truly awful, not in an accuracy sense, just in terms of performance. Ghastly and very distracting.

i went to a best picture nominee marathon yesterday and saw them all.

milk was pretty good, but i say that as much out of admiration as shock since i am not a gus van sant fan. the reader really impressed me and even held enough "oh my god" moments. benjamin button was pretty good, but some time could've been cut. (that was the only one i'd already seen.) slumdog was cheesy and predictable and i still enjoyed it, despite plodding away a few times. and i had a lot of trouble getting into frost/nixon, but that may have just been because i'd been in a theater for 12 hours at that point. even though i wasn't crazy about it then, it's the one that's stuck with me most the next day.

You are crazy. It's just supposed to be fun to watch.

I finally saw Tora! Tora! Tora! last night. Fantastic.

We watched this last weekend and I actually agree with you on all points. Personally, I was surprised that I was as entertained as I was by it since my wife basically had to shame me at gunpoint to watch it.

That's the whole point of my post. It wasn't fun.

I did, however, have fun watching Overnight, the documentary on Troy Duffy, the director of The Boondock Saints. He's even a bigger asshole than I expected.

Saw this for like the hundredth time. Saw it for the first time in, like, three years, though...


O Brother Where Art Thou

It's still awesome. And amazing.

Its the same phenomenon that begat The Crow and countless other cult hits. Plus, support from Hot Topic merchandising doesn't hurt. I like to refer to Boondock as Scorcese light.

I just watched Primer, and my head hurts.

I watched it twice and still didn't understand it.