I'm at SXSW, tomorrow is my last day.

Highlights include: Sitting down for Ex Machina, I turn around and see Jay Krantz. This is super random as the theatre seats 1100 ppl. We nerd out after the film when it's over and he introduces me to Chilantro, a wicked awesome korean food truck. I had some kimchi fries and a big ole burrito. At a party on day 1 I ran into Macon Blair, the lead from Blue Ruin. We had a nice chat about movies, life, love and stuff. At the same party I sat next to an older couple. We chatted for a bit, they asked where I'm from and seemed genuinely interested in me. I ask what they're doing and the woman replies, "Our son is showing his film here." I ask, "Oh, which film?" "The Look of Silence. Josh! Come over here, come meet this young man." It was Joshua Oppenheimer. He made The Act of Killing and the follow up, The Look of Silence." Both films are outstanding. It was amazing to talk with him about such massive films. He was a kind soul which seemed (to me) shocking because he spent so many years around such ugly circumstances.

I have a letterboxd list of films I've seen so far. Four more to go tomorrow.

My favorite discovery at this fest is a film called A Space Program. It's the Shane Carruth/Wes Anderson crossover I never knew I wanted. A team sets out to send two women to Mars to explore. It's difficult to describe this film. It's like a mash between documentary/narrative. The sets are all built as if it came straight off the set of a Wes Anderson film. When the shuttle launches, they use toy rockets to show the launch. When they show the shuttle in space, a man with black leather gloves holds the model of a shuttle and moves it around. It's a wacky one but a ****ing blast. By far the funniest film I saw here.

Did you see "Excess Flesh" yet?

My buddy was the writer/director of it and I've worked with him on enough small projects to know that its going to be goddamn ridiculously insane!! All of the reviews I've seen (the ones they've posted on FB, so who knows if there are as many bad reviews) have been going nuts for it. And for a lot of different reasons.

Holy ****, Nightcrawler was amazing. Gyllenhaal kills it. Highly original story, very well executed. BRAVO. It was so well done, that even though


Must watch.

A space program sounds very interesting...

I consider Under Seige, Executive Decision, and The Glimmer Man to be good though absurd movies. Everything else is crap. Executive Decision might even be better than good because it was not a Seagal film, it just so happened to have him in a leading role (well, sort of; you know what I mean ).

I was hoping to see it but didn't have room for it on my schedule. =( Some of the big challenges here involve choosing venues. It's safer and sometimes wiser to stick to only 2 venues max per day. shuttles during rush hour are a total gong show.

Mschu18 - hope I didn't oversell it. It's not as smart and complex as a Carruth film, I meant that in a sense of the voiceover and style in the beginning of Primer. Obviously these guys are well researched but the intellect of Carruth is off the charts.

Yep. I just saw this a couple nights ago and was really impressed. I can see why people were shocked that Gyllenhaal didn't get nominated. What a really fun movie. Predictable in spots, but it also subverted some of my expectations of what might be going on. Fun stuff.

Also watched Eternal Sunshine for the first time since it came out. I didn't like it when it came out, but I figured I was a dummy because everyone seems to love it. So yeah...pretty good. Still find it pretty weird and bizarre, but it's enjoyable. Nice stuff by Carrey and Winslet.

I watched the great David Lean's Ryan's Daughter last night on TCM, and it was simply dreadful. A few visually striking images and that's about it. Seemed to last about 7 hours or so with maybe 3 or 4 things actually happening. And lots of literal idiocy from the village idiot, a role John Mills evidently won an Oscar for.

Also horribly offensive for the way it treated the Irish as disgusting animals.

But what about Hard to Kill and Above the Law? Both of those are awesome.

out for justice too.

Just got done watching this on cable..think it was amc.

man how do they edit a Segal movie for TV?

No love for Marked For Death??? Screwface GOAT!

Surprisingly it didn't seem too bad but I was half way paying attention.. just had it on the TV while doing random stuff. I had seen it before a long time ago.

Above the Law, Hard to Kill, Marked for Death, Out for Justice & Under Siege I've probably seen at least 5-6 times each.

The others I've tried to watch either sucked, or (very likely) I just outgrew my Seagal phase in high school like everyone else did. I have to give him credit for carrying it that far, seeing as he's an awful actor and basically did the same thing in every movie. Did he even change his clothes or hair for those parts? I know he had a cook uniform on at some point but he always wound up in black.

his movies are the perfect examples of movies you loved as a kid and can't watch as an adult (tho I can still sit thru under seige anytime it comes on. TLJ is just the nuts tho can watch him in anything but that godawful batman movie).

I quite enjoyed into the white (available on Netflix instant) a film based on actual events in which British and German air crews are forced to share a cabin in the Norwegian wilderness after they shoot each other's planes down.

nothing spectacular but it hits upon a number of my particular interests (WWI and enemy forces fratranizing).

worth a watch imo.

this isn't a movie but since I brought up the topic and this is prolly my fav thread on 2p2 figured I'd post it here.

stories like this are my absolute favorite to read.
restores a little faith in humanity.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/09/living...tary-chivalry/

This was my point in not including Hard to Kill, Above the Law, Out for Justice. His early movies entertained the hell out of me when they first came out, but now? I could put on the movies I initially listed and still enjoy them today. The others, they just make me think Jesus, the things we like when we're kids...

I remember liking all his movies until I saw On Deadly Ground in the theater. That was a steaming pile of horse **** that one

Watched A History of Violence and Eastern Promises over the past few days - quite a 1-2 punch by Cronenberg & Mortensen. Both performances by Mortensen are excellent with the latter movie particularly gripping.

The Spectacular Now A boy about to graduate from high school lives only for today. But things change when he meets a nerdy girl he falls in love with. His inner demons, however, push him towards self-destruction.

This movie is not spectacular. It's more like a Lifetime movie of the week. Don't get me wrong - it isn't horrible. The story they tell is ok but I just found the way they told it to be sort of bland.

First movie I remember seeing was Pink Floyd: The Wall at the drive in with my mom and her boyfriend, I don't know if it was the first or second movie but I do remember the walking hammers.

I remember standing in line for Return Of The Jedi too. I was born in 75.

I was also born in 75 and the first movie I remember in a theater was Empire Strikes Back

Mentioned my first movie was Last of the Mohicans a few days ago in this thread and as it happened it was on TV tonight.

Such an awesome movie with brilliant music.

The main thing I love is Magua, he has to be one of the greatest movie bad guys ever.