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Nov 7, 2009

Primal on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
I really liked Donnie Darko, but still haven't seen Southland Tales. It doesn't seem like a movie I'd enjoy based on the group of podcasters I go to for for reviews. I guess he is a bit overrated for sure, but he seems like a personable guy when I heard him on the slashfilm cast podcast. If I had to pick one director and label him a "Visionary" it would be Guillermo Del Toro.

rus in chicago on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
He got sucked into the Joseph Campbell hero structure of storytelling to the point it became more important than simply evaluating his writing as "clear and concise so the audience could follow along". Donnie Darko succeeded because the weird didn't over power the narrative. Southland Tales had way to many themes fighting for space. In this way he and M. Night have made the same mistake were they believe they were "master storytellers" that could get away with writing over the audiences head. (M. Nights Lady in the Water) We will see with both directors next films if they have learned their lesson. Writing is like developing a new entree - you can push the limits of the flavors but at some point it turns to shit.

Mike on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
hahaha @Ovenball

Bob The Slob on Film Junk Poll: What is Your Favourite Jim Carrey Movie?
I love the Cable Guy. Wanna fight about it? lets go!

Bob The Slob on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
the box is barley out, how could this question be answered on the merits of 2 films? 3 would be the minimum to start formulating his talent.

hungSolo on Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me Trailer Starring Casey Affleck
If I were a money man, I'd be pulling that trailer from the web too ... disjointed, overlong and, like you said, Sean, rough around the edges. And it doesn't appear that Jessica Alba is getting much better as an actress. I like Michael Winterbottom, though, so I'll likely catch this at some point.

jaime on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
Will "the Box" Top the boxoffice? this weekend.

jaime on Danny Boyle to Direct Stranded Mountaineer Story 127 Hours
About 3 year's ago this was going to be a TV movie.

Tommy on A Serious Man Review
I will probably buy it used (DVD). Looks good and I can relate to some of it.

aspioaokassodsøkasdkøl on Movie Poster Round-Up: The Wolfman, Green Zone, Kick-Ass
Capitalism: A Love Story was a great poster

aspioaokassodsøkasdkøl on Film Junk Poll: What is Your Favourite Jim Carrey Movie?
I can't believe why so many people voted for Eternal Sunshine. He never was himself there! Jim Carrey plays himself best in Dumb & Dumber and Ave Ventura.

aspioaokassodsøkasdkøl on Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me Trailer Starring Casey Affleck
Who the fuck made this trailer? The same guy behind Avatar? Fuck that guy!

Joe on Movie Poster Round-Up: The Wolfman, Green Zone, Kick-Ass
i would have like to see an actual wolf in the wolf man poster. call me crazy

Ovenball on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
Richard Kelly, seen above plotting an attack on the Pentagon, is capable of making a film. He is capable of instructing actors on what to do and say. He is capable of making sure everybody on set gets some food. He is capable of providing enough light such that a scene can be filmed and he is further capable of combining the images captured into some kind of narrative that can be stored as content on a DVD. Beyond that? Well, I'd have to go with Hack. I'll watch The Box on DVD. I never want to see anything like Southland Tales again.

Napalm on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
just noticed that his hoodie has BOX written on it.

Napalm on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
i've never seen southland tales but i've seen donnie darko. and to me it didn't seem all that special. the plot seemed like a clusterfuck of ideas all cramped together. direction wise, i thought it had some good suspense. and as for his new movie The Box, i can't say that it looks out of the world, but it does have enough interesting elements for me to check it out.

Drew on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
A severed penis

Napalm on Movie Poster Round-Up: The Wolfman, Green Zone, Kick-Ass
House of the Devil posters look amazing! I'm also impressed by the Lightening Thief one.

Ian on Film Junk Poll: What is Your Favourite Jim Carrey Movie?
Eternal Sunshine is probably my favorite on the list but Dumb and Dumber is more Careyesque ... I guess. Truman show was also good though I liked the anime version better since it had giant robots.

jaime on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
What's in the Box?

Nov 6, 2009

Justice on Movie Poster Round-Up: The Wolfman, Green Zone, Kick-Ass
I personally like the last House of the Devil poster the best. The Daybreakers one looks too Matrixy. The Kick Ass Ones look lame as well.

Goon on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
Kelly has talent, but not enough to match his ambition. he needs to hook up with writers who can carry it out better, or cast better, or just scale back the ambition a bit into more manageable projects.

Alice Keymer on Children of the Corn Remake Coming To A Theater Near You!
Somebody shoot Bob Werinstein. One crap remake is enough. What a knob. The original is a classic. Missed opporuntiy my ass.

Josh on Danny Boyle to Direct Stranded Mountaineer Story 127 Hours
Seconded.

Phrakture on Open Forum Friday: Is Shaky Cam Good or Bad for Action Movies?
Personally, I'm over shaky cam. I think it ruined Transformers : Revenge of the fallen, espcially in a theatre - it also ruined Gamer. It's rarely ever done right, how can nausea ever be done right. Eeew, fuck you shaky cam! Fuck you hard!

Phrakture on Open Forum Friday: Is Bruce Willis Officially Washed Up?
Bruce rocked in Live Free Or Die Hard, did anyone see Lucky Number SLevin, or 16 Blocks......oh wait, shit did anyone see Perfect Stranger...meh, bruce might just be fucked.

Phrakture on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
I agree with Ryan (although I am yet to see a horrid feature by David Lynch). Donnie Darko is a timeless rarity - Southland Tales is, well - a rarity in bad... I can't say The Box looks to be amazing, but I'm sure as hell interested to find out.

Phrakture on New To Theatres This Weekend: Extract, Gamer, Carriers
Gamer is a tickling concept at best. What they don't tell you in the trailer is that shaky cam shots (which ruin all potential breath-taking action), more plot-holes than a kitchen sive and a wooden Butler completely fuck this movie up. It's pretty much a rehash of Running Man, Brainscan with all the antics of Neveldine/Taylor (Fast becoming the worst writer/director team) psuedo-edginess , a.k.a - big sweaty tits, cheap gore and not much else.

Phrakture on Crank: High Voltage Review
Chev Chelios may have an indestructable heart, but it's not rocket science figuring out that one who falls from a chopper and hits the ground like he did in the first entry, ain't ever walking again - let alone beating, shooting and fucking the shit out of everyone. Crank 2 was many thing's, none of them good. Almost ruins the genius tastelessness of the first.

Phrakture on G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Review
Oh and Megan, Channing Tatum is a plank! His stupid lips and clenched jaw have nothing to do with quality (no quality) of the movie

Phrakture on G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Review
I feel compelled to say nothing positive about this nostalgia-killer of a heap.

Phrakture on TIFF Review: Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers
Ah, great, as if after Gummo and Ken Park (Yes I know Korine only penned it.) we need more pretentious meandering around another fucked up village. Will there be any rednecks wrestling chairs this time? Who has to explain their movie before it's screened anyway?

jaime on Alfonso Cuaron to Direct The Tourist Starring Johnny Depp
Any movie with Depp seem's to work(for me).

jaime on Film Junk Poll: What is Your Favourite Jim Carrey Movie?
Jim Carrey made 2 maybe 3 good movie's.(maybe)

jaime on New To Theatres This Weekend: A Christmas Carol, The Box, The Men Who Stare At Goats
@ Sean, will "the Box" be Reviewed on the next podcast?

jaime on Dan Aykroyd, Anna Faris and Justin Timberlake Join Yogi Bear
One more Movie with "Justin Bicthalake" in it & i'm giveing up on movie's.

jaime on Movie Poster Round-Up: The Wolfman, Green Zone, Kick-Ass
Blunt look's so hot,ahrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Ashley Townsend on Alfonso Cuaron to Direct The Tourist Starring Johnny Depp
I *love* Children of Men and Y Tu Mama Tambien, and though I'm not a Potter fan (anymore), Azkaban is easily the best of the films I've seen. This is mostly good news, but I would prefer to see it with Worthington and Theron. Call me crazy, but I'm not a Depp or Jolie fan.

Neil M on Alfonso Cuaron to Direct The Tourist Starring Johnny Depp
@finaljoe I thought the exact same thing when I first came across this story. Can you imagine if Cuaron tackled that? I'd lose my shit.

Ryan M. on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
I only watched an hour of Southland Tales last night; but judging from what I saw, it is a hacky abomination that makes Lady in The Water seem like a masterpiece. Almost every director makes a film that is far below the bar of their other films, and Southland Tales may be as low as it gets for Kelly. Let's hope that The Box is a return to form like Raimi had with Drag Me to Hell.

Brett on Film Junk Poll: What is Your Favourite Jim Carrey Movie?
Sean is right. His comedy was cutting edge even when the movies he was in weren't that good. And then he's done something that many "A-list" actors never do: evolve and take risks. And it is commendable that he can be a successful comedian first and then become a good dramatic actor. You know why? Because most serious actors can't reverse that and do comedies well. Doing both comedy and drama well is hard to do. I think he is a great actor who chooses shitty projects more than he should. But my favorite movies of his aren't comedies. They are "Man in the Moon" (about a comedian but not a comedy) and "Eternal Sunshine ..." and I like them because they are good films with good directors who know how to get great performances out of actors like Carrey.

Billy Boyd Cape on Open Forum Friday: Richard Kelly... Visionary Director or Flash in the Pan?
This does seem to be pretty similar themes of Donnie Darko so may just check it out. But will wait for a few reviews to find out.

Mike on Movie Poster Round-Up: The Wolfman, Green Zone, Kick-Ass
funny, i thought the boondock saints was the worst one

Scott on Weekly Poll Results: Best Anime Film
I'd have gone with "My Neighbor Totoro" over "Princess Mononoke" and "Spirited Away". It was the first anime I ever saw and it really influenced my interest in the genre.

finaljoe on Alfonso Cuaron to Direct The Tourist Starring Johnny Depp
Aw man, I thought this was going to be the Clair Noto script finally being made.

Sophie on Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief Teaser Trailer
I half agree with rose and half agree with everybody else.maybe three-quarters with rose. i am going to see it, but come on! someones gotta talk some sense into that director! he cant leave out half the scenes and add new ones! we shold do something!

rus in chicago on Movie Poster Round-Up: The Wolfman, Green Zone, Kick-Ass
hate to admit it but Boondock Saints is the best from this bunch

Reed Farrington on Film Junk Podcast Episode #241: Paranormal Activity and The House of the Devil
I've only become a fan of recent Asian cinema. Most film critics would place Zhang Yimou films like Raise the Red Lantern in their Top 200, but I prefer the action stuff more with the exception of The Road Home. I like a lot of films, but I have a very selective taste when choosing what I would consider "masterpieces." I'm not so interested in the historical importance of films so much as how a film affects me. I've been slowly watching films that are generally considered to be masterpieces, and I have been very disappointed by films like 8 1/2, Lawrence of Arabia, and Rashomon. I admire films like Citizen Kane and Casablanca, but no more than other films that aren't considered masterpieces.

Sean on Film Junk Poll: What is Your Favourite Jim Carrey Movie?
Hey I'll admit that nowadays Jim Carrey's comedy does very little for me, but back in the days of Ace Ventura and Dumb & Dumber, he was pretty cutting edge.

Sean on Alfonso Cuaron to Direct The Tourist Starring Johnny Depp
Oops, thanks for catching that Ross. I will correct it right now.