GLAKO-FAHN Escribi�:

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Just watched Green Mile



*weeps*

Having been a fan of the book(s), I wasn't expecting much of the cinematic take - but I was pleasantly surprised and quite pleased with the film. Didn't cry in the movie but the story was one of the few books that did make me a little teary eyed at the end.

have you read of mice and men? :'(

Yes! It's been so long... man, that was a sad read. And another tear jerker book - Where The Red Fern Grows. I used to read books about WWII and holocaust survivors, gawd, talk about opening up the tear ducts.

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I used to read books about WWII and holocaust survivors, gawd, talk about opening up the tear ducts.

yes, but that's asking for it. I either quite like or absolutely do not appreciate surprise emotion evocation in creative writing... I mean generally, I'm not sure if I like it. I do, but then I don't... I know that some poets are there just to move me. But,,



no, emotional work is good,

GLAKO-FAHN Escribi�:

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I used to read books about WWII and holocaust survivors, gawd, talk about opening up the tear ducts.

yes, but that's asking for it. I either quite like or absolutely do not appreciate surprise emotion evocation in creative writing... I mean generally, I'm not sure if I like it. I do, but then I don't... I know that some poets are there just to move me. But,,



no, emotional work is good,

Yeah, I know I was askin' for it. My intentions weren't morbid... It's very fascinating - for me anyway - to read and learn about people who have lost everything and have hit the bottom - yet they still have (or have developed) faith because it's the only thing they have to hold onto. The concept of faith is hard for me to grasp and hard to understand but it's something I've found interesting from the outside looking in - I guess I'm just not there yet if you know what I mean. So the emotional aspect of all those reads didn't necessarily lie in the treacherous acts against humanity, but seeing the kind of faith people had that allowed them to endure the worst humanity had to offer. Faith is just something I haven't found, and not really something I've been looking for, but I'm not closed to the concept should it find me later on.



I'm babbling.

siphilon Escribi�:

ey I just caught Inland Empire! (David Lynch's latest movie)....any Lynch fans here?

Dude! Is that out???? I haven't been keeping track of it for a few months now! Jeez. Well, I've got a new purpose in life.



I love Lynch's work. Ironically, I haven't seen anything earlier than Blue Velvet, but that one, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive capture something authentic within me so accurately I cannot begin to describe.



I've got the entire Twin Peaks series (and pilot and FWWM movie) on bootleg DVD. Been meaning to watch it again.



Something about the dark and sinister lurking among and in us that grabs me. Same reason I love Bret Easton Ellis' novels. (I'm reading 'Less Than Zero' again. A nice, short read.)

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Sweeeeet. Steve McQueen rocks (though admittedly I haven't seen his films lately). Best car chase in a movie ever is the one from Bullitt. Navigating the streets of San Francisco is terrifying as it is let alone driving like a nut down all those steep hills. The Mustang Fastback in Bullitt is drool worthy.

Frick! just walking around the streets of san fran can be confusing and terrifying (and exhausting). The hills rock! but suck at the same time. When I was there for the Oakland gig in april 05 I walked around SF for the morning and afternoon before the show and ran into some very intresting places.....Great City though. Also, I wanna go back to Berkely.

Now I know why you cry

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siphilon Escribi�:

ey I just caught Inland Empire! (David Lynch's latest movie)....any Lynch fans here?

I like Mulholland drive and The Elephant Man, I still need to see Eraserhead. :-//

oh..yah you really need to see eraserhead...the atmosphere in that movie is INTENSE!

whirlygirl Escribi�:

Darkstarexodus is a big fan of David Lynch!



I really liked Elephant Man (which is tear jerker central), Wild At Heart and Blue Velvet (somewhat hot and cold with that one). I'm a bit critical of David Lynch. I think he has great style, something I've noticed about the way he films scenes is that everything in the picture embodies near perfect symmetry. So as a viewer, your eye is drawn to events taking place center-screen. Also he has great use of light and dark, high impact filmmaking. I find that impressive from an art direction pov. But what drives me insane are the lingering shots - it's like, enough already we get the picture can we get to the next scene please? Anyway - last film I saw of his was Mulholland Drive. Maybe I'm dense or was scatter brained when I saw it... but that film lost me along the way, somehow. Maybe I just needed to be stoned or something. It was engaging don't get me wrong, the acting was great - but with all the praise that film got I guess I was expecting too much going into it.

Hrmmm. well I know before he got into filmmaking he was a painter so that explains a lot of what you said. Up until Inland Empire I think Mulholland is his best work. I know what you mean about feeling scatter brained after watching MD...that generally happens to me watching any Lynch movie but subsequent viewings usually help and its kind of fun, I like the way it makes you think more about the movie after you've watched it.

Darkstarexodus Escribi�:

Dude! Is that out???? I haven't been keeping track of it for a few months now! Jeez. Well, I've got a new purpose in life.



I love Lynch's work. Ironically, I haven't seen anything earlier than Blue Velvet, but that one, Lost Highway, and Mulholland Drive capture something authentic within me so accurately I cannot begin to describe.



I've got the entire Twin Peaks series (and pilot and FWWM movie) on bootleg DVD. Been meaning to watch it again.



Something about the dark and sinister lurking among and in us that grabs me. Same reason I love Bret Easton Ellis' novels. (I'm reading 'Less Than Zero' again. A nice, short read.)

Yep, its out in limited release, Lynch is doing all the distribution. I caught it in DC...

you can get more details here: http://www.inlandempirecinema.com



I still need to see FWWM and the Twin Peaks series...never seen those..



Oh, you also reminded me that I need to start reading Less than Zero, been sittin' in my bookcase for a while. tanx.





_siph

Lynch is an overrated, boring, pretentious hack.



IMO, of course.

Siphilon: Thanks for the headsup, hopefully it'll play our local art theatre soon.



'Less Than Zero' is an easy, quick read, but while I didn't quite "get" it the first time around, it's really affected me this time.

toomuch'stash Escribi�:

Lynch is an overrated, boring, pretentious hack.



IMO, of course.

I don't think he's either boring or pretentious, but I can see why his work isn't for everyone. I don't think he intends to make consciously difficult movies so much as, coming from his painting background, he attempts to visually portray elements of his subconscious. Sometimes he can be bothered to weave a plot through it, sometimes not. Visually I find him a stunning director, from an emotional perspective I find myself all too easily identifying with his characters, and sonically his collaborations with Angelo Badalamenti are haunting and memorable.



Overrated? Perhaps. But I dig it.

I used to say that I loved Eraserhead, because where I came from, if you didn't like Eraserhead, you just weren't cool. And also because I was taking acid 3 or 4 times a week during that period. Same with 'Blue Velvet', if you didn't pretend to like it, you weren't cool.



That hideous period of enforced conformity was brought to an end with the advent of 'Twin Peaks', a period during which I did not own a television. I was able to tell anyone who asked my opinion on it that, *sniff*, no I hadn't seen it, I don't own an idiot box, thank you very much, and if David Lynch was making television shows, than his integrity had clearly been compromised, and he was no longer worthy of consideration as an artiste. Thus I was able to maintain my facade of artsy-ness by saying that his pre-twin peaks work may have been good, but everything after was tripe.



God, I really used to talk that way.

heh. I hear you. I try to stay away from that sort of crowd these days as much as possible, but I was an undergraduate Liberal Arts student in the recent past, so....



I just enjoy his work on a visceral level that I struggle to explain.

That's cool then man.

Just seen Flushed Away...made by Dreamworks and the makers of Wallace & Gromit - absolute genius!! dunno why its so underrated in the UK.

mc marsh Escribi�:

Just seen Flushed Away...made by Dreamworks and the makers of Wallace & Gromit - absolute genius!! dunno why its so underrated in the UK.

I love just about anything from the Wallace and Gromit guys and we all loved Flushed Away. It was absolutely darling and so well done. Unfortunately it tanked here in the States, too. It is a shame because the animation was so clever and the story was really, really cute. A kids movie but something the parents can enjoy too.



The soundtrack is available on Astralwerks. ;)

whirlygirl Escribi�:

I love just about anything from the Wallace and Gromit guys and we all loved Flushed Away. It was absolutely darling and so well done. Unfortunately it tanked here in the States, too. It is a shame because the animation was so clever and the story was really, really cute. A kids movie but something the parents can enjoy too.



The soundtrack is available on Astralwerks. ;)

What the....that sounds kinda fishy.....astralwerks and a kids movie....





anywho...watched idiocracy with my roomate last night. then argued how Mike judge was making a response about what he did with beavis and butthead in that movie......and all of his other works. He makes movies about the 'AVERAGE' man was the point of the discussion.

Oh man, Idiocracy is awesome. I watched it again last night, turning on 3 friends who hadn't seen it.



A frightening vision of the future.

just saw this film on a bittorrent site



Fifty Pills (2006)



Darren Giles has lost his college scholarship, can't work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams and can't even afford to stay in college another semester. Unless he can survive the teenage dominatrix, New York's largest drug mogul, convince his parents he's not gay, write a paper on Dante's Inferno, escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy in time to make his tuition payment

Long film? X-D

Oh yeah! Danny Boyle is at it again!



http://www.foxsearch...t.com/sunshine/



looks brilliant, like 2001, but not boring.

toomuch'stash Escribi�:

just saw this film on a bittorrent site



Fifty Pills (2006)



Darren Giles has lost his college scholarship, can't work up the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams and can't even afford to stay in college another semester. Unless he can survive the teenage dominatrix, New York's largest drug mogul, convince his parents he's not gay, write a paper on Dante's Inferno, escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy in time to make his tuition payment

Wow. How did I not get royalties when they made this?