films n shit

[djsynchro]

No you can't wipe your own butt you are the Emperor -->>
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No you can't change your weirdo hairstyle and the funny hat -->>

[LoopStationZebra]

DJ YOU ARE VERY FUNNY TODAY

[oblique strategies]

a cringe worthy world premiere at a London BEP after party that was well worth reposting here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg4Cr1Rw ... re=related

YUCK

It seems like a cold, lonely place where Tom Cruise keeps showing up and you share awkward moments with all kinds of weirdos.

For many that is the textbook example of what fame is like. It's why a lot of sensitive people become very twisted. The fame game is not for the weak.

[dhilsabeck]

The amount of times Black Eyed Peas can sell out is astonishing. They're in a perpetual state of humping the leg of what was popular 2 months ago.

To me it seems like they're confused. Interscope made them fuckloads of money and they can kindof release anything they wanted and it's gotten to the point that nobody has the balls to tell them that their recent shit isn't very good. Of course one could argue that they make a lot of money and if I knew any better I should be doing what they do. However I don't know if I could go down that road. It seems like a cold, lonely place where Tom Cruise keeps showing up and you share awkward moments with all kinds of weirdos. There was a time that the BEP showed some promise ("Bridging the Gap" era) so it's been a tough train wreck to watch.

From a business perspective I don't think you can say the music isn't good because it does sell and when you get to their level of the music industry and are bringing in big bucks you are going to be surrounded by people telling you that you are a genius. The reason nobody in their circle is telling them their music went sideways is because most of them probably don't think it did.

Or they were just saying fuck it and laughing all the way to the bank.

[siliconarc]

just watched Salt. dogshit.
now watching Machete. AMAZE.

[oblique strategies]

Planet Terror! Yes man, yes!

[Machinesworking]

now watching Machete. AMAZE.

Cool, it looked fun in the trailer.

[LoopStationZebra]

I'm going to watch Inception tonight. It better fucking be good.

Halfway through this movie tonight I completely, totally, and utterly stopped giving a shit about the characters/plot. What a bunch of overwrought drivel. To think that so many people marveled over this film. I couldn't wait for it to fucking end.

For strange reality bending, Dark City FTW.

[dhilsabeck]

Didn't want to tell you that Inception was crap. Not just not very good. Just crap. Christopher Nolan is severely overrated in my opinion.

[LoopStationZebra]

Christopher Nolan is severely overrated in my opinion.

Thank You.

I thought I was the only one who thought so....

Those fucking Batman movies were the same way. Overwrought drivel. I can't recall a filmmaker in recent memory who makes films that take themselves more seriously than his.

[dhilsabeck]

[oblique strategies]

For strange reality bending, Dark City FTW.

A masterpiece.

I'll never forget sitting in a dark theater & seeing THIS for the first time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpowoKqSzc

Thankfully director Alex Proyas released a director's cut of Dark City on DVD which removes the completely unnecessary prologue the studios imposed on the film. This director's cut is the version to see if you've never seen the film, or to show others who have not seen it.

[Machinesworking]

Those fucking Batman movies were the same way. Overwrought drivel.

Not at all because he died, and honestly I didn't see either until a few months ago, but Heath Ledger as the Joker in the Dark Knight is a fucking brilliant performance, great lines, great creepy music every time he's about to do something fucked up, about a million times better than the lame ass Jack Nicholson Joker. Better than any Joker on screen ever.

Now the Batman? whatever the fuck that actors name is, he kills the movie for me far more than the heavy handed directing.

[LoopStationZebra]

Those fucking Batman movies were the same way. Overwrought drivel.

Not at all because he died, and honestly I didn't see either until a few months ago, but Heath Ledger as the Joker in the Dark Knight is a fucking brilliant performance, great lines, great creepy music every time he's about to do something fucked up, about a million times better than the lame ass Jack Nicholson Joker. Better than any Joker on screen ever.

Now the Batman? whatever the fuck that actors name is, he kills the movie for me far more than the heavy handed directing.

Absofuckinlutely. Somewhere ages ago there was a Dark Knight thread and I said almost the same thing: The only problem with Nolan's Batman movies is Batman. It should have been titled The Joker. I just watched that thing again about a month or so ago and it's just amazing how there's two movies going on at once: An admittedly amazing Joker story with an evil fucked up character for the ages, and a wretched Batman story in which he's constantly whining like a girl and getting his ass kicked left and right and going through some indecipherable and hamfistedly written personal and moral crisis.

Nolan's Memento and The Prestige were great. Gotta give him props there. I'd read The Prestige years ago and was worried about the film version. He and his brother changed up the story quite a bit, but actually made an amazing companion piece to the book.

(If you want an utterly fantastic read, one that takes a very cool and rarely used narrative style, check out The Prestige.)

[Pitch Black]

^^Thanks for that Loops, I never knew The Prestige was a book! My wife gets sick of my bad Michael Caine impression from that film... "A bullet-catch... is suicide!"