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V For Vendetta (2004)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:43:45 -0500

Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:32:00 -0500

By far one of the coolest dude movies. Ever.

My dad gave me this movie to watch as a kid alongside The Battle of the Bulge. These two flicks more or less sum up the two types of war movie. The behind the lines tough guys flick and the front lines tough guys flick.

Incidentally Telly is in both. Anyway, good film. Awesome characters. Good story and exciting action and nail biting tension when they gear up to infiltrate the Nazi hotel.

The story is this:

One dozen bad eggs from the US Army are offered a get out of jail free card, if they can prove their mettle.

Marvin plays Mjr Reisman, a disaffected but otherwise competent officer tasked to whip the dozen into shape for a behind the lines covert op in the wee hours before the D-Day Landings. If they can pull it off, they can return to the ranks as men. If they can get out of it alive, that is.

Most of the movie takes place in England where the boys train. The climax comes with the airdrop into Brittany where a plump nest of German officers will be taken out.

Highlights include Posey the man-giant who don’t like to be pushed and Donald Sutherland as The General…….neeever heard of it.

Also Telly Savalas as a perv on a mission pretty much illustrates my mental image of a degenerate rapist.

i was going through movies and filling in the descriptions when...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:08:24 -0500

i was going through movies and filling in the descriptions when i noticed that 2006 was a pretty impressive year. minus da vinci code of course.

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mmmmm Salò

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mmmmm Salò

Drive (2011)

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:41:13 -0500

i saw this movie last night. you should check it out, i guess. its kinda empty. and there isnt much driving in it. but it has a real “cool” factor going on. it’s the hipster’s car chase movie.

no nudity whatsoever though, so i hesitate to call it real CINEMA. brian cranston is in it. i sitll dont get how malcolm’s dad is constantly this designer drug/suburban gangster type. so odd. he looks mild mannered.

but then again baby bird-faced gosling is kind of a weird pick too.

ever notice how the white dude is always saving the day? the damsel in distress is this pretty white girl who’s “ethnic” looking ex-con baby daddy intimidates and recounts tales of banging the underage mother pre-run upstate while “the Driver” sits there mute. odd.

highlights include: his satin, embroidered jacket and his driving gloves. which were custom made by some italian (of course)

however when i take my Le Baron on the autobahnen i keep it real too:

me: "On your souls! Do not shed blood...in the house of God!"

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:32:57 -0500

me: "On your souls! Do not shed blood...in the house of God!"
him: What?
me: It's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
him: Get out of my face. You can quote Robin Hood.

Almost Famous (2000)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:49:00 -0500

I remember liking this movie when it came out. But I was a twat then. I know this because I’m a twat now. Just watched it again, and frankly I’m a little surprised at the publicity it got. I don’t get it.

That being said, if you look at all the movies about music that were coming out around the turn of the century, they were all pretty warped. Seriously. Everyone in SLC Punk looked like a Hot Topic employee’s living dissertation of what a punk looked like in real life. For that matter Adrien Brody only sorta comes off as anything like a punk in Summer of Sam (arguably not a music movie, I know). The only one that came kinda close was Rock Star and I think I might be wrong there. The whole thing looks too clean.

The same thing strikes me about Almost Famous. Too warm. Too hippie. Too even-keeled. I mean if you wanna walk away from rock and roll with a “feel good message” I suggest you do a remake of Forrest Gump where he travels the world with Hunter S Thompson.

Where to begin…..

I don’t know. Kate Hudson looks like Robert Plant with cute mini-boobs. As if that wasn’t distracting enough, her weird fairy-casting-casual-sex magic routine and actiing like rock will save everything is about as pretentious as it was to make this movie.

Of course somewhere near the end of the second third the movie seems to right itself and something about the spirit of rock comes through. It’s pretty diluted but if you listen to Phillip Seymour Hoffman you can catch a couple glimpses.

A movie about Lester Bangs probably would’ve been cooler. But then again, writers don’t have groupies….

laughingsquid: 1980′s Film Alphabet, Poster That Quizzes Your...

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:19:12 -0500

laughingsquid:

1980′s Film Alphabet, Poster That Quizzes Your 1980s Movie Knowledge

another Hackers GIF. sorry.

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another Hackers GIF. sorry.