movies (Page 23 of 31)

Yeah, Brick was supposed to sound like old film noir.  I haven't seen it either, I just read about it and saw the trailer.  I just always get a kick out of these movies that take place in Orange County, CA.  Brick takes place at San Clemente highschool.  I mean, to me that would be like seeing my old highschool in OC being featured in a movie. Weird! 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0393109/

EDIT:   Found the info. on "Slacker" over at imdb.com, which Wandering1 was mentioning in his post before mine.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/

Saw Scanner Darkly last night.  True to my plan, we did the mini roadtrip to get there.     This movie really is in limited release, and small theaters will get it but only have it for a few days before it moves on to the next theater.  So we managed to find it playing at a small theater 40 miles away from us, but they were only playing it this week until Thursday.  So off we went to Staunton, Virginia, on I-64 west, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, practically into West Virginia it seems!      It's a really neat looking town actually, and these pics I found on the 'net don't convey it entirely because the town is surrounded by all these green hills, which you can't see here:

But anyway, so the movie itself.....it was okay.   I thought there'd be more of the emphasis on the future locked down society and the totalitarian monitoring since that's what people kept emphasizing when it was first coming out, but it really was more about drugs.  The conversations between the three druggie roomates (Reeves, Downey Jr. and Harrelson) reminded me of other drug movies like "Spun," but a little more low key, since Spun was about meth.  But anyway, there was less plot than I thought there'd be, more focus on a lot of the nonsensical, illogical drug induced conversational ramblings between the friends, and Arctor's work happenings.  None of which was terribly interesting.   I'm not disppointed, but I'm not wow'd either.  I guess on a scale of 1-5, I'd give it a 3.   What ended up making the movie imo were the actors' performances.   Robert Downey Jr. did a great job, because in every scene he was in he had to deliver all this fast paced, wordy dialogue and say it with a certain syntax, to convey that he's high.  Woody also did well...laughed out loud in the scene where Robert Downey Jr.'s got him whipped up into a paranoid frenzy about the idea that somebody may have broken into their house and planted drugs and now the feds are probably on their way to bust them!...just the way Woody hurls himself head down onto the couch going "AHHHHHH!" conveying "it's just too much!  I can't take it!" was funny.     And Rory Cochrane (as Freck) was funny too, just his facial expressions and the way he talked.  Keanu was better than his normal performances.  More emotion, less wooden delivery.    There was one bit of dialogue that Keanu had towards the beginning of the movie that was quite poetic.   I believe it was the flashback scene that showed his life before he went into drugs, and where he had his revelation that his life and wife and kids was boring, perfect and stagnant, with no hope for change or anything new to ever happen.  So he threw it all away.  And now he lives in that dump...but there's always something new happening.  I liked that bit of narration.  Also felt bad when Alex Jones got tasered and tossed into the paddywagon.

So anyway, the people made the movie more so than the plot.  I enjoyed our road trip, and all in all it was a fun experience. 

New movie out in very few theatres called "Idiocracy"...

Idiocracy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Idiocracy is a 2006 comedy film directed by Mike Judge, his second live-action feature following his 1999 cult-hit Office Space. It stars Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph. Luke Wilson plays a supremely average guy from the year 2005, who is used as a guinea pig for a government project which places him in hibernation for 500 years. Upon waking up in the year 2505, he discovers he is now by far the smartest person in the world.

From the FilmJerk.com script review published online in January 2004:

    "The film begins with a shot of Earth from space, as an announcer explains that the evolution of man, which so long relied on the process of natural selection to keep the population strong and intelligent, faltered when the smart people stopped breeding. This evolutionary change is shown in a split screen, as one yuppie couple talks about their decision to wait for the right time to have kids, while a white trash couple get hot and heavy on a couch. The right side of the screen splits into four smaller frames, as the white trash couple starts having kids, as the yuppie couple on their left, now slightly older, talk about their prosperity. More little screens pop up on the right, as the white trash couple realizes they can get more from welfare and more food stamps if they have more children. As time moves on, the right side increases exponentially, as the white trash younglings start to grow up and start multiplying like rabbits on their own. The right side becomes so crowded, it starts to push into the left side of the screen, until the yuppie woman, who by the time she is in her fifties is widowed and childless, is forced into oblivion by the ever growing generations of dumb-asses."

The film was originally titled "Uh-Merica" and later referred to as "3001" (this title was always known to be a place holder title), and was shown to test audiences around March 2005. There were unofficial reports of very poor ratings from that viewing. Some re-filming purportedly took place in the summer of 2005. Release was even further stalled, possibly relating to a civil suit in which several companies (Costco, Starbucks and Fuddruckers) were unhappy with the way they were satirized in the film.

In April 2006, a release date was finally set for September 1, 2006. But less than a month before it was set for release, numerous articles [1] revealed that the film's release was to be put on hold indefinitely. Although the release went ahead as planned, it was only a limited release (125 theaters), as opposed to a wide one (2,500-3,000). Initially, the film has been released only in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago and three cities in Mike Judge's home state of Texas--Dallas, Houston, and his hometown Austin.

According to the Austin American-Statesman, [2] 20th Century Fox, the film's distributor, has done nothing to promote the movie -- no trailers, posters, television spots or even press kits for media outlets are being provided. This has led to speculation in some quarters that 20th Century Fox may be actively trying to keep the film from being seen by a large audience, or that they may be reluctantly fulfilling a contractual obligation to release the film in theaters before releasing it on DVD."

Too bad it is only a limited release, looks like a good movie!

First its the Celestine Prophecy, now its... conversations with god?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independe … d/trailer/

I find it intresting at the surge of "spiritually" oriented films coming out now.  Same with all the movies about how the system we live under is false.  "The corporation" "from freedom to fascism" "the US vs john lennon" "supersize me" (although at the end it seemed to be promoting it )
and then theres "fast food nation" in the works.

Then we could compare these movies which attempt to inform(????) people, with other more metaphorical movies that seem to say more.. meaning they have more "ummph!" to them... like Kubrick!

All very intresting.

What does everyone think is up with these new movies?

Number 23

A new movie with Jim Carey, in it he starts seeing patterns in numbers - the sort of thing that often gets discussed at NR.  Looks like it will be worth a watch; even though the message appears to be backward and twisted around.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rMUWZWxBfIc

A better quality trailer can be found here:  http://mp3content03.bcst.yahoo.com/b02r … D=29805812

Pan's Labyirnth

Not sure if this has already been metioned in this thread (and I don't fancy looking back right now )

Appears to be quite a dark film - that contains a very backward "good is bad, bad is good" message.  Quite a common theme in many recent movies.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e0zJxL0CHa0

Download here:  http://trailers.picturehouse.com/pansla … 40x360.mov

Hi all. I dont know if this have been noticed here or elsewhere..but last night i was watching V for vendetta for the second time and i just became aware that the final scene were the parlament or house of representatives( ..sorry about my english...) was bombed by the masked guy... i mean  that this scene is exactly the same that the new tv spot made by Sony (the new bravia tv model) were a building is coverered by paint with explosions..Even the music is the same!!!! The two locations are in the UK in the film and in the tv spot..and the same music...strange not? comments welcome

Nacho