If it means the original one will be destroyed so future generations will never have to watch it, I'm all for it.

Finally got around to watching a Dardenne bros film:



And it was worthy of the hype. Really good, very moving. Olivier Gourmet was fantastic.

Also watched The Fighter, which was a really pleasant surprise. For some reason I didn't expect much from it, but I thought it was great, actually.

Never Let Me Go

A soulful, depressing film. The last line redeems the film as much as anything could, but you will immediately need to wash this down with an episode of Futurama.

Elizabethtown

Goddamn what a horrible film. How was this made by Cameron Crowe? It is atrocious.

You know a movie is bad if a whole new movie term was invented to describe it's clichéd characters (manic pixie dream girl).

This was one of those films I could not finish. If it ever got any better, that is a shame, because the first half hour was so bad I will never give it another chance. If I am on my deathbed and the nurse says, "Why don't we put something nice on for you to watch?" and she puts on that film, I will close my eyes and hold my breath and spare myself the suffering.

It doesn't get better. I remember being very surprised by how bad it was. I think the main culprit was the complete lack of chemistry between Bloom and Dunst -- they did not click at all.

Yes, let us please blame it all on Bloom and Dunst, who cannot act worth a damn. Cameron, your scapegoats have arrived.

Personally, I blame Orange. Mother****er ruined a perfectly good Cameron Crowe film!

An Angel at my Table (Jane Campion, 1990)

I didn't think I'd like this movie, but I decided to give it a shot anyway. I'm glad I did, because it's definitely a great movie. I think the main reason I was so drawn to the movie is because I identified to closely with the main character, author Janet Frame. She is a ginger, with emotional troubles, shyness issues, and has been institutionalized...which is basically like me. Except I'm a dude and I have no artistic talent of any kind. Meh, w/e. It's a great character study and believe it or not, it doesn't descend into ridiculous melodrama. It just tells the story of the main character, through heartbreak and failure to success. It's also a true story, which usually makes for lame movies (unless the filmmakers just make stuff up), but this movie worked.

You doubted the quality of a Jane Campion film? For shame!

well I didn't really like The Piano...

Well that explains it. You never had your head on straight in the first place if you didn't like The Piano

well, clearly

I love Cameron Crowe. I hate f-ing Elizabethtown. Unwatchable.

Jackass 3-D

Amazing. Very hard laughs for an hour and a half. Watching movies like this makes me not care that I'll be dead for eternity in 100 years, because I got to spend some of my short life enjoying it so thoroughly.

I just watched the final cut and it was really good. There was a lot less exposition but if its your first time watching it might make sense to watch the original directors cut if you want more of the back story. I havent seen that cut in a long time though so I forget if it is much worse. I think im going to rewatch the old cuts sometime next week.

The Director's Cut is not any different from the Final Cut, except in small ways and in unfixed SFX that was done specifically for the Final Cut.

The exposition you're talking about is in the original Theatrical Cut with a voiceover narration that has been removed in the subsequent cuts.

Cronos Guillermo Del Toro's take on the undead. It reminded me a lot of one of Cronenbergs early films Rabid minus Marilyn Chambers of course. Neither film is all that good really, but I couldn't turn them off. I'd like to have seen what Del Toro could've done with a Pan's Labyrinth type budget here.

also:

I read that del Toro's intention with Cronos was to tell a vampire story that was completely void of any and all sexuality. So I guess it would be kind of weird to criticize the movie for doing exactly what was intended.

Yeah, that was just a joke about the horrible SV sub genre.

ah, gotcha. Carry on then.

I also felt like the dudes speech at the end was much shorter. I could just be misremembering the original cut though.

35 Rhums

It was beautiful.

He must be a film snob. I love this one.

I posted this same scene somewhere right after seeing the movie a little while ago. Isn't it wonderful? Denis uses music so well in her films.

Finally got around to watching Gosford Park, and it's a lot of fun. I loved Ivor Novello's character, based on the real Ivor Novello who starred in Hitchcock's 1929 silent film, The Lodger, which is also referenced in the film. I didn't realize, though, that Novello composed all of the music that he plays in the film.