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Aodan


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I've been on a major Documentary kick lately. Some of the films I've watched are:

Trained in The Ways of Men - a documentary about Gwen Araujo, a transgender teen murdered by 4 men when they found out she was a biological male.

Cropsey - an urban legend on Staten Island about a child killer turn out to be true.

Tying the Knot - a documentary about same sex marriage

Waiting for Armageddon - a documentary about people waiting for the rapture.

Outfoxed - Murdoch's War on Journalism - I think this one is self explanatory.

I also got to watch Cherry 2000 again.  It was just as awsomely horrible as I remembered it being. 


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Oh wow. Cherry 2000 looks spectacularly awful!

I rewatched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at the weekend as it was on Sky Movies. I can't remember what i thought of it in the cinema. probably 'meh'. But now I think it's an awful, awful movie! All confusing, wobbly specatacle and not much else. At least the first one had a tiny bit of plot and a smidge of character. This one eschewed all of that in favour of 16 extra giant robot fights and a couple of car-chases and a wobbly macguffin story that doesn't really make sense.

Oh well. I guess I could always watch Kenneth Branagh's 4 hour Hamlet if I want plot and acting!

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Cherry 2000 is so bad it's good. And it's supposed to take place in just a few years from now, which I get a big kick out of. I first saw it when I was much too young to see such a thing, and it was one of those movies that really stuck with me for whatever reason. I think I really liked Melanie Griffith's hair in it (still do). That was back when she was spunky and cute and not the surgically altered beast you see before you today.

I watched some more documentaries yesterday. Netflix has been keeping me well stocked on those.

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A double feature here last night...First we watched "Billy the Kid Trapped" with Buster Crabbe and Al St. John followed by "Vengence Valley" with the great Burt Lancaster and a fine supporting cast...In the first, Al "Fuzzy" St. John had settled into the familiar grizzled sidekick character that exemplified his later movies...

Great entertainment...clap...Ben

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Burt Lancaster rocks!

Well, this evening I watched A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers. Another movie that Ben woulda hated cos 'it doesn't end properly'.

A weird one this. It's about a Jewish schoolteacher who... well... does nothing. Throughout the whole thing. His wife leaves him for another man, he's bribed by a student. His neighbour mows a bit of his lawn with the intention of building a boat shed on it. And he does sod all.

I don't want to give too much away, cos the story as it unfolds is quite nice and the ending (despite not being a Ben-friendly ending) works quite nicely. Excellent performances. Beautiful cinematography. If you lie Coen Brothers movies then you'll like this. If you don't then... well...

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I don't want to give too much away, cos the story as it unfolds is quite nice and the ending (despite not being a Ben-friendly ending) works quite nicely.

Oh, darn it all...I think you've revealed enough already where I know the ending...This is the one where I wake up in my recliner with a lap full of snoring puppydogs and a stiff neck isn't it?...

I guess I'll watch "Painted Desert" with William Boyd in a pre-Hopalong Cassidy role tonight...I already know how it will end too, but 80 year old movies are better than any of today's movies produced in La-la-land by bearded, pot-smoking hippies who profess to hate capitalism but pocket the profit anyway...insanity...Ben

 



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What? Even Heat?

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What? Even Heat?


"Heat" is a great one amongst modern movies, but I still think I get more enjoyment out of B&W's..."Painted Desert" even had an unexpected treat as Clark Gable made an early appearance as a bad guy...clap...Ben

 



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We watched an action/gore flick called The Machine Girl last night. It was one of the best movies I've seen all year. If you like funny gorefests like Dead Alive, this one is right up there. I don't want to give too much away, but basically she loses an arm after confronting the yakuza that killed her brother, and has it replaced with a machine gun and she goes to get her revenge. The effects are hilariously bad, but don't seem to be pretending to be anything but. The dialogue is stilted, but that probably has more to do with the translation than anything (it's subtitled in English). Everyone in the movie looks to be about the same age (even though they're playing parents/children/etc) so it gives it a little bit of a college film crew feel, but it's super fantastic. There's also a Drill Bra. I'm not kidding.

Highly recommend it :)

Here's the NSFW/K trailer on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSpCWJnnWVI



-- Edited by Aodan on Monday 15th of November 2010 06:04:54 PM

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I saw the trailer for that a couple of years ago. I may even have posted it here. It looks truly awesome.

Drill bra... Buster Crabbe never made a movie with a drill bra in it!

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Buster Crabbe never made a movie with a drill bra in it!


Johnny Depp (sorry, that's the only name from the current bunch of loser wannabe's that came to mind) never won an Olympic gold medal and became a successful stockbroker and businessman...smile...Ben

 



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yeah but.. DRILL BRA! and MACHINE GUN ARM!

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I don't think he's listening. His mind can't cope with the full awesomeness of it.

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Aodan wrote:

yeah but.. DRILL BRA! and MACHINE GUN ARM!


I saw it on YouTube...There's not even a nod toward realism...Boring...The "Six Million Dollar Man" had more credibility...

What else ya got?...sleep.gif...Ben

 



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That's the point! That's why it's so amazing! it's a movie I could make with a sprinkler and some red food dye! :D

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The other day I had the dubious pleasure of watching Sudden Impact, the fourth Dirty Harry movie. it's not very good, but it did have another classic Dirty Harry line in it:

Crook: [during a diner robbery] What's you doing, you pighead sucka?
Harry Callahan: Every day for the past ten years, Loretta here's been giving me a large black coffee- except today she gives me a large black coffee and it has sugar in it. Alotta sugar. I just came back to complain.
Crook: Say what, sucka?
Harry Callahan: Well, we're not just gonna let you walk out of here.
Crook: Who'se we sucka?
Harry Callahan: [slowly drawing his .44 Magnum] Smith and Wesson... and me.

Clint rocks!



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