My little fuckin' media corner
Come. Join me in a self indulgent conversation about what I've been reading, listening to and watching. For the two of you that actually read this, while the inevitable comments implying that I watch a multitude of porn are appreciated they are not wholly accurate or even necessary. When I post under the heading, 'My little fuckin' jerk shack', then feel free to issue statements implying the nature, orientation or expanse of my pornography. Until then just shut the fuck up and let's talk MOVIES! So I haven't been to a theatre in a while. I believe the last time I went I bore witness to the abortion called Fantastic Four. Hence my reluctence to return to a fucking theatre, lest I scratch my eyes out rather than watch a more painfully steaming hot chunk of shit indelibably burn it's images into the cornea of my minds eye. I'd rather focus on movies that are good. I won't get into TV series, just cuz I don't really watch TV. Not that I'm opposed to TV, I just don't have cable and my hours are contrary to any programming other than syndicated sit-coms (Will and Grace can really drown in a crashing avalanche of effluence that is their prime time slot) and satans little babble sessions called infomercials (Nod and smile, that's satan prince of lies). So here is the list of films that have made a real impression recently. Order does not dictate importance so fuck off if you think one should be listed before another.
1)Layer Cake: Watched it this morning. Enjoyable addition to the British gangster genre. Almost overly twisted plot. Nice character play though. Something that most of the other films in the genre miss. "Suprise" ending a little too derivitive of gangster films.
2) Ikiru: Holy fucking shit dude. I could go on forever like some prissy little film school bitch, but this is one of the finest films I have seen. It is personal, charming, evocative, and a slap to the old consciousness. Beatifully filmed, one of the most chillingly sweet scenes in any film. It's no Jerry "Pull your fucking strings my little marionette" Maguire. It actually evokes emotion not because some schlub is utilizing cinematic tools and cliches, but because Kurosawa stays true to the story and tells it honestly and so terribly humanly. Oh and we all gotta die sometime.
3) Seventh Seal: Just to stay on the doom and fucking gloom kick Bergmans study of one mans literal and internal confrontation with death is simply beautiful. Of course we're supposed to like it because everyone has said it's good. But sometimes it's true. THE MOVIE IS REALLY FUCKING GOOD! He pulls these characters out and gives them flesh bone and soul in little time, meanwhile issuing a very real question concerning existence, death and the afterlife. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm just a snobby pseudo intellectual fuck. At least I think. Besides it's not that hard to follow, if you have half a functioning brain.
4)Kung Fu Hustle: Kick ass fun. I'm always amazed when I see a film that does slapstick and sight gags well. It's a lost fucking art in Hollywood.
5)Requiem for a Heavyweight: Fuck right heavyweight. Jackie Gleason at his sleasiest, Anthony Quinn at his palookaist and Mickey Rooney at his lackiest. Great story and a real nice film from the creater of the Twilight Zone. No way in hell this movie gets made now. But then again I'm just a crumudgeon that likes a fucking story and some acting to go along with my eye candy.
6)Last Life in the Universe: A Thai film that has a disturbing pace and effect. An odd and sweet? story about a suicidal, OCD, Japanese librarian working in Thailand because his brother (Yakuza) got in a little trouble back in Osaka. Anyway he gets hooked up with a Thai girl who's sister has just died, in part because of the main character. It's a sweet melancholy story of misfits healing one another. The film Garden State wishes it was.
7)To Have and Have Not: Humphrey fucking Bogart and Lauren Bacall. I know, Bogey didn't really act, he just played himself, and Bacall played the same role over and over. But they both do it so well. Once again not to get all gooey about the golden age of Hollywood, but there is rarely that sort of on screen chemistry. The closest I've seen in recent film is Eyes Wide Shut. Were perhaps the real issues were influencing Tom and Nicole.
8) Underground: A long movie. A quick watch. It's over the top. It's absurd. It's a damn good movie. It follows a small group of Yugoslavians from WWII to the most recent conflict to hit the area. Two best friends are new members in the communist party. They steal from the rich to further the populist movement. After Germany invades Yugoslavia, one friend hides the other in a secret small arms factory in his basement. For fifty years the friend and a group of loyalists stay in the basement manufacturing small arms under the belief that the Nazis are still occupying Yugoslavia. It's a bucket of laughs, no really it's pretty damn funny. And an interesting view of what happened to the once nation of Yugoslavia.
1)Layer Cake: Watched it this morning. Enjoyable addition to the British gangster genre. Almost overly twisted plot. Nice character play though. Something that most of the other films in the genre miss. "Suprise" ending a little too derivitive of gangster films.
2) Ikiru: Holy fucking shit dude. I could go on forever like some prissy little film school bitch, but this is one of the finest films I have seen. It is personal, charming, evocative, and a slap to the old consciousness. Beatifully filmed, one of the most chillingly sweet scenes in any film. It's no Jerry "Pull your fucking strings my little marionette" Maguire. It actually evokes emotion not because some schlub is utilizing cinematic tools and cliches, but because Kurosawa stays true to the story and tells it honestly and so terribly humanly. Oh and we all gotta die sometime.
3) Seventh Seal: Just to stay on the doom and fucking gloom kick Bergmans study of one mans literal and internal confrontation with death is simply beautiful. Of course we're supposed to like it because everyone has said it's good. But sometimes it's true. THE MOVIE IS REALLY FUCKING GOOD! He pulls these characters out and gives them flesh bone and soul in little time, meanwhile issuing a very real question concerning existence, death and the afterlife. Yeah, yeah, yeah I'm just a snobby pseudo intellectual fuck. At least I think. Besides it's not that hard to follow, if you have half a functioning brain.
4)Kung Fu Hustle: Kick ass fun. I'm always amazed when I see a film that does slapstick and sight gags well. It's a lost fucking art in Hollywood.
5)Requiem for a Heavyweight: Fuck right heavyweight. Jackie Gleason at his sleasiest, Anthony Quinn at his palookaist and Mickey Rooney at his lackiest. Great story and a real nice film from the creater of the Twilight Zone. No way in hell this movie gets made now. But then again I'm just a crumudgeon that likes a fucking story and some acting to go along with my eye candy.
6)Last Life in the Universe: A Thai film that has a disturbing pace and effect. An odd and sweet? story about a suicidal, OCD, Japanese librarian working in Thailand because his brother (Yakuza) got in a little trouble back in Osaka. Anyway he gets hooked up with a Thai girl who's sister has just died, in part because of the main character. It's a sweet melancholy story of misfits healing one another. The film Garden State wishes it was.
7)To Have and Have Not: Humphrey fucking Bogart and Lauren Bacall. I know, Bogey didn't really act, he just played himself, and Bacall played the same role over and over. But they both do it so well. Once again not to get all gooey about the golden age of Hollywood, but there is rarely that sort of on screen chemistry. The closest I've seen in recent film is Eyes Wide Shut. Were perhaps the real issues were influencing Tom and Nicole.
8) Underground: A long movie. A quick watch. It's over the top. It's absurd. It's a damn good movie. It follows a small group of Yugoslavians from WWII to the most recent conflict to hit the area. Two best friends are new members in the communist party. They steal from the rich to further the populist movement. After Germany invades Yugoslavia, one friend hides the other in a secret small arms factory in his basement. For fifty years the friend and a group of loyalists stay in the basement manufacturing small arms under the belief that the Nazis are still occupying Yugoslavia. It's a bucket of laughs, no really it's pretty damn funny. And an interesting view of what happened to the once nation of Yugoslavia.
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