Movies!

[Lance]

Thanks Lindsay, (and goatcee) that was great!

[L.O]

Midnight in Paris was delightful. I loved Hemingway, and Adrien Brody as Dalí.

Saw The Social Network for the first time last night, really surprised me(in a good way). Great dialogue.

[mike_b]

Hadn't heard about this movie until I learned of the American remake coming this year.

[keith]

Just got this on Blu Ray, so good.

[Robin]

Watched The Artist last night....incredibly solid piece of film that struck me on many levels as to what is possible in this day and age of film making. Highly, highly recommended for anyone that likes watching "movies".

[doomfulstace]

I'm kind of surprised that no one has mentioned Fincher's "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." I just saw it for a second time last night because I couldn't stop thinking about the cinematography or the characters. Love it.


I also saw "We Need To Talk About Kevin." The story was somewhat horrible, but the presentation wasn't too bad. Definitely a movie that made me depressed (another reason why I went to see Dragon Tattoo again). The pacing is slow and agonizing, such a change of pace from all the other movies out there.

[Emanu]

Im slightly intrigued now, but that trailer really told me NOTHING what the movie was about. can you say anything more?

[ocean]

I caught We Need To Talk About Kevin the other night and fuck me was it uncomfortable.

Just...fuck.

Makes me never want to have kids.

[SLiD3]

doomfulstace: pretty sweet interview with blur on the opening titles:
http://motionographer.com/2012/01/16/blur-talks-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-titles/

[cimax]

uhm, hai.

Question for you guys, does anyone know what anime this gif is from?


http://www.the54thcell.com/ad/1235799.gif

edit:hmm weird, I tried posting the gif, but it doesn't seem to work with the img tags.
Can you see it with the link or doesn't it show there either?

[SLiD3]

image not showing up cimax?

[Jackwhat]

Nichijou is the anime

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?sh ... e&aid=8168

Its a laid back / comedy series, pretty fucking funny at times.

[Noodle!]

I think this scene, that I think I've posted before (?!) is one of the funniest I've seen in an anime.

[cimax]

hey, thanks guys.

I vaguely remember seeing some of those before.
Might have to make an effort to watch some of that.

[Katheryn]

The artist!! Oh my god it's so wonderful!! I haven't thoroughly enjoyed a movie like that in a really long time. It's so stylish and thoughtful and just plain brilliant.

[tek!]

seriously weeeiiirrd ending

[Alexander]

This is . . . dark comedy. Really dark. But I kind of really want to see it. BTW, if you have headphones, this video is SFW if your only concern is sex/nudity, but pretty NSFW as far as violence goes, but there's no overt blood and gore.

P.S. This is a movie by Bobcat Goldthwait.

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

[Pootivic]

I just hope he doesn't put in a lame ending like he did in World's Greatest Dad.

[Khor]

The Thing (2011).

Perfect example of where the Uncanny Valley effect should apply. The Carpenter's Thing was weird, its transformations unpractical, the human parts it mimicked looked so fake, it moved like a wooden puppet, but those were actually qualities, things that made it horrific.
The new one feels like it knows how to use a face, understands human expressions, mimics them perfectly, while the old one was so awkward, even when it was hidden under a human appearance. To me that's what made it really look alien, that creature trying to blend in but eventually so obviously failing. The fact that the SFX weren't so perfect back then made it look like it didn't know how to deal with the situation. It copied faces but didn't know what to do with those, at least that's the feeling I got back then. With the layer of nice CGI, I wonder why it even bothers to attack...

The movie does a decent job at being a prequel, even it I have a few beefs with it, but well, the Carpenter's one is far from perfect. I mean, the main character fries a computer because it won at chess, the guy's straight off a Frank Miller comic, they carry guns and flamethrowers (is that a standard equipment in Antarctic research stations ?)...
But when you follow up a movie like that, you have to up the ante a bit. That one just does its best not to copy its past sequel, which is good enough I guess. It perfectly ties in where it has to, and explores new situations here and there...

[endophyte]

khory, well said.

they actuallly went with animatronics, but replaced them with CGI later on.



according to imdb:
"The creature effects were done primarily with cable-operated animatronic robots on the director's insistence, since it would improve the performances of the cast if they saw what they had to react to. Computer-generated images were used to add elements to the animatronics (such as tentacles), or in some cases, to replace the entire animatronic if it didn't behave convincingly."
"The producers convinced Universal Studios to allow them to create a prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing instead of a remake, as they felt Carpenter's film was already perfect, so making a remake would be like "painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa". However, the prequel still has the title of the original film, because they couldn't think of a subtitle (for example, "The Thing: Begins") that sounded good."

[LiL QoH]

Man... the cgi in that movie was SO GOOD!

[Khor]

Oh yeah, compared to the tentacles in The Mist, those CGI were awesome, that's my problem, to some extent... The way they were handled defined the creature too much. It runs, jumps, hunts, things the previous Thing just couldn't do, it could merely crawl and twitch, but that's also why it was so creepy. You never really knew if it was an intelligent creature or just some sort of crazy replicating mass of alien cancer... Now you know, and that breaks the charm a bit.
But well, if they used some animatronics only, I probably would have thought "what a cheap-ass straight-to-streaming pile of shit", so that's a case of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" I guess.

Endo : I knew about the animatronics, but wow, amazing work...

[Pootivic]

I just picked up Driver on Blu-ray and I'm love with it all over again. Don't be surprised too see some Drive fan art showing up in the sketches thread.

[Emanu]

KILL LIST... ok, that was wierd. and hello predictable ending. always a sucker for cult stuff though.

[akida]

Just saw Valhalla Rising, I found it to be very interesting, very beautifully shot and, for me, it had just perfect balance between the obvious story and the underlying plot

and i think the way the Odin parallel was portrayed was also neat. What do you think happened to One Eye in the end? (if you have seen the movie that is)