LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Watched the Dukes Of Hazzard Movie earlier. It sucked ass.
Carry on.
Carry on.
anitram said:U2 3D. 20/10.
So awesome. I wanted to reach out and touch them all.
Lancemc said:As Tears Go By
For the first 25 minutes here I thought I was in trouble. After that, it was pure WKW through and through. It seems fairly obvious that he didn't have nearly as most creative control as he did throughout the rest of his career, but for a debut, this is rock solid. The soundtrack is pretty terrible, but it's an 80's flick...so I typically just expect such. It also suffers from being a pre-Chris Doyle film, and it's remarkably noticeable given the fact that every other WKW film till My Blueberry Nights has been filmed by him. Just the same, WKW has a natural eye for cinema, and certain scenes here are just gorgeous. It's past-paced, the characters are likable, the action is cathartic, and the story is always just different enough that it never feels stale. Perhaps not a great film, but it's vintage Wong Kar-Wai and I love it.
If you shout... said:
You are a far more forgiving viewer of this film than I was, when I saw it, many moons ago. The only thing I liked about it was the soundtrack! It's interesting, though, to see his ambience in an embryonic stage.
No spoken words said:
Out of sheer curiosity, what do you actually like? Every post of yours is a criticism of someone else liking something, be it TV, music, film. You are so persistently negative that I wonder if you actually ever derive pleasure from anything.
No spoken words said:My Bond-a-thon continues....am up to Live and Let Die......which I always liked and look forward to re-watching after so long. I remember Moore sliding nicely into the role.
Liked On Her Majesty's Secret Service a lot more than I anticipated, especially the final scene, which was, as Laz said, hardcore. Forgot how meh I felt about Diamonds are Forever until re-watching it. Tiffany Case, though, was not meh.
No spoken words said:
Out of sheer curiosity, what do you actually like? Every post of yours is a criticism of someone else liking something, be it TV, music, film. You are so persistently negative that I wonder if you actually ever derive pleasure from anything.
If you shout... said:
As far as Wong Kar-wai goes, I think that Happy Together is, far and away, his best work. It's one of my favorite movies of the '90s, and the main reason why I consider Tony Leung to be the best living actor we've got, in this world. Amazing stuff. He'll never be that great, again. Chungking Express is also another of my favorite, from the decade. My favorite romantic comedy (of sorts) of all time.
I watched No Country For Old Men, a few weeks ago, as far as more contemporary stuff goes, and I enjoyed its brazen reimagination of Wenders's Texas, as I saw it. Maybe even saw a bit of Hitchcock's American landscape, buried in there. Very intriguing. Terribly beautiful, not too underwritten, and generally well-performed (although Tommy Lee Jones was a bit too Morgan Freeman, at times, for my taste).
Anyway, I apologize for not having the same taste as you, and, of course, for being honest about my own opinions. I won't be back in this thread any time soon, so no worries. I didn't know that we were only supposed to post positive reviews and avoid commenting about what we thought about other films being reviewed; nothing wrong with that, but I didn't get the memo. Word up.
If you shout... said:
You are a far more forgiving viewer of this film than I was, when I saw it, many moons ago. The only thing I liked about it was the soundtrack! It's interesting, though, to see his ambience in an embryonic stage.
If you shout... said:
Fair enough, I suppose, NSW. I would, all the same, encourage you to explain to me how this post is pissing on anything, or even how it seems "persistently negative." As far as three-sentence posts go, I feel that I was, as always, even-handed and reasonable. There's a wink in there, for fuck's sake, you know? What else does a brother gotta do?
lazarus said:I LOVE that movie. When they're asking people on the street what they would choose as an alternate name for San Francisco, and Older Stewie says "Considering all the shoe stores here I'd have to say 'Heaven'!"
The whole thing is hilarious.
And BTW, how is lukewarm 7/10? You must be on Lance's grading scale.