So what movies did you see when ILX was offline?

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I watched:

Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster
Dig!
Auto Focus
Donnie Darko - the director cut
Zero To Sixty
Strays

and a couple more I'm forgetting. Comments to follow shortly

Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 July 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Only two
How to Deal - interesting, flawed, messy, but oddly affective Mandy Moore teen film about divorce death love abandonment and birth. Maybe I'm retarded but the funeral sequence made me teary eyed.

I also re-watched Blow Up. I've found it's consistently rewarding to re-watch Antonioni. Though there are a lot of filmmakers whose films are specifically designed for successive viewings.

theodore fogelsanger, Friday, 16 July 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

50 First Dates--I was in a bad mood, thought that seeing a silly romantic comedy would put me in a better mood. It didn't. I suppose it was kind of cute, but it generally seemed like a waste of time.

Casablanca--I can't believe I hadn't ever seen this before! It's, y'know, said to be a good movie. And it is.

Three Kings--Loved it, was stunned. Started a thread on it.

Anatomy of a Murder--I really like Jimmy Stewart. I liked the line he says about liking a "womanly jiggle" (or something like that), referring to a woman (gasp)not wearing a girdle.

Mon Oncle--Turned out I'd seen it before and forgotten having seen it. Endearing and funny, but a bit slow-moving for my taste.

The Color of Paradise--A sweet movie. In a way, it was cool that it's in a foreign language that I don't understand at all because of the importance of sound in the movie (it's about a blind boy). Reading rather than hearing the dialogue emphasized the other sounds that much more. Maybe I'm entirely full of shit, but that was my feeling.

Under the Tuscan Sun--An optimistic movie, which was exactly the sort of thing I needed that day to cheer me up a bit. Typical Hollywood mainstream predictable whatever? Yeah, but entertaining nonetheless.

Ghost World--Liked it. I'm just going to list now.

The Razor's Edge

Following

Happiness--(I said something about it in a chat and someone said, "oh yeah, the jizz movie!")

(yes I am a netflix addict)

JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Fahrenehit 9/11
The loose 'facts', questionable editing techniques and general air of smugness from Moore still get to me, but his lessened on-screen presence is a positive and on the whole, his best film to date.

Morvern Callar
Didn't grab me at all. Reasonable soundtrack.

Dude, Where's My Car?
I was expecting a lot more than this.

Tube
Lacklustre Korean Speed / Money Train inspired flick. And dubbed too! Jesus, in this day and age that's just unforgivable.

Men Suddenly In Black
Enjoyable sleaze comedy on infidelity, lampoons HK film / culture

A Page Of Madness
Have seen very little silent cinema, but this impressed me tremendously. Way ahead of its time with compositing / visual effects.

Also: Suture, Ritual In Transfigured Time, Tornado!, Voices Of A Distant Star, Tampopo, Sodomites, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, New Tenant, Black Hawk Down, The Backyard, Friday Night.... yes, I've had a lot of free time on my hands lately ;)

Mil (Mil), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Weird, I also watched Anatomy of a Murder within the past two weeks.

St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Friday, 16 July 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

casablanca (again, but on the big screen for the first time)
supersize me
kill bill vol. 2
wild strawberries
sullivan's travels
blood of a poet
orpheus
la bete humain
hannah and her sisters (again)

i dont quite have the energy to detail which where crap/okay/good/fantastic right now. i think thats it. but i have no concept of time so there may actually have been more/less.

tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Saturday, 17 July 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I really love Orpheus. His character was the best thing about the Matrix.

PVC (peeveecee), Saturday, 17 July 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

None at all. I haven't seen a movie for months now, and no tv for years.

Fred (Fred), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and the weeping camel.

tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't going to post because i haven't seen much lately, but i find this brief list kind of funny:

touching the void
all the real girls
tokyo story
anchorman

a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, so much.

spiderman 2 (good)
blade runner (not as good as i'd hoped, after all the expectation)
the fifth element (wonderful! madcap!)
the usual suspects (ok, but i guessed the end, or i think i did. i may have needed to pay more attention)
chronicles of riddick (to be honest, it played like mediocre fan-fic)
jan svankmeyer's alice (out of control)
the stepford wives(1975) (wonderful, esp. soundtrack. well paced)
bullet to beijing (horrid. it's the second sequel to the ipcress file. still with michael caine, but absolutely nothing else.)

definitely more that i'm forgetting.

derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw All the real girls the other day. Today I watched Henry fool. I just happened to be eating slightly-overripe fruit salad during an especially romantic scene. If you've seen it you might be able to guess which.

JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

lately

spiderman 2
the corporation
fahrenheit 911
bukowski: born into this

todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 22 July 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

roughly... (this all comes from my list of the movies i've watched since 5/10/04 (for the first time) in chronological order, but i didn't date them so i might be off a few days):

chicken run
spiderman 2
bad santa
eurotrip
puce moment
broken down film
fear of fear
julien donkey-boy
meshes of the afternoon
le corbeau
anchorman
the creeping terror (mst3k)
last life in the universe
lady chatterley's lover

joseph (joseph), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

todd, how were: the bukowski film, the corporation?

a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 22 July 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

the corporation: it was actually quite good and it had more than just the regular liberal talking heads. a lot of great information and it kept me interested the whole way through. i have a much better understanding of how corporations actually work now. michael moore was in it... he was stupid.

born into this: i think that anyone who has any interest at all in bukowski should see the documentary. a lot of great footage that shows you how bukowski actually was. great great stuff.

all in all, fahrenheit 911 shouldnt have a chance of winning the oscar for best documentary.

todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 22 July 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Boondock Saints - amusing, but also offensively dumb

Evil Dead 3 - also amusing, and not offensive (though it is dumb :)

Aliens - always great

Fahrenheit 9/11 - 2nd time I saw it, this time I took conservative friends; all were converted except one. xpost: All of the "facts" are in fact, facts, and have been extensively researched, by many independent parties. Perhaps by 'facts' you mean opinions.

I, Robot - terrible

Van Helsing - even worse

Richard K (Richard K), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Door in the Floor (awful)
Before Sunrise (hideous)
Trembling Before G_d (good, but flawed)

And six seasons of Buffy. Hey--it's shot on film.

Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Before Sunrise (hideous)

Wow. You're the very first person I've ever heard describe this film in this way.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.citypaper.com/film/review.asp?id=3879

Prelude to a Kiss: Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy talk, talk, talk, talk, talk through Before Sunset.


For thirtysomething narcissists who look back
fondly on the memory of their romantically feckless early 20s, Before Sunset is hard to beat. For everyone else, it’s likely to be an endurance test of the most trying sort.

Filmed in a fuzzy-focused, sunny glow once reserved for tampon commercials, its dialogue—co-written by director Richard Linklater (Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Waking Life) and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy—is post-bong-hit, faux-heavy pabulum. Which is really bad news in a movie that’s basically one 80-minute-long conversation.

Ian Grey (Ian_G), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
is 'suicide club' any good? at least i think that was the title i saw when ILX was down. somehting about mass suicide in Japan

kephm, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

what a dead board

kephm, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I don't know what the hell happened to this place.

jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)


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