What Movies Are You Watching?

[Jazzooo]

Judd Apatow's This Is 40. I enjoyed most of this very much. Yes, you've seen these actors play these types of roles before but they do it so well I wasn't bothered at all. Funny stuff, and dead on.

[Dickran (ran)]

Last night on Showtime they showed " Beware Of Mr. Baker. " It's all about the life and times of the first great Rock and Roll drummer , Ginger Baker. Not wanting to give away so much of this doc/auto flick , is that Baker would punch me for saying " Rock and Roll drummer ." It is perhaps one of the best films of its kind. Highly recommended and at the end very emotional , even reluctantly.

[stonemonkts]

Last night on Showtime they showed " Beware Of Mr. Baker. " It's all about the life and times of the first great Rock and Roll drummer , Ginger Baker. Not wanting to give away so much of this doc/auto flick , is that Baker would punch me for saying " Rock and Roll drummer ." It is perhaps one of the best films of its kind. Highly recommended and at the end very emotional , even reluctantly.

Thanks for sharing! I just set to record it in a few days.

[Dickran (ran)]

Last night on Showtime they showed " Beware Of Mr. Baker. " It's all about the life and times of the first great Rock and Roll drummer , Ginger Baker. Not wanting to give away so much of this doc/auto flick , is that Baker would punch me for saying " Rock and Roll drummer ." It is perhaps one of the best films of its kind. Highly recommended and at the end very emotional , even reluctantly.

Thanks for sharing! I just set to record it in a few days.

Stoney , let me know what you think. I am biased , my brother and I went and saw Cream in London. Aside from that , while not wanting to say much more , it is a story for the ages.

[Blue Train]

Recent films

Pacific Rim (awful!)

Emperor (not only awful, but most of it isn't even close to accurate. All they mostly got right was the names of the real people.) The most accurate part was about the Kyūjō Incident....speaking of which....check out Kihachi Okamoto's Japan's Longest Day.

Only God Forgives (basically a variation of Drive, but while the cinematography was was excellent...the film was boring as hell....the violence isn't anywhere as bad as the hype.) Kristin Scott Thomas makeup and outfits make her look like a drag queen.

[stonemonkts]

Last night on Showtime they showed " Beware Of Mr. Baker. " It's all about the life and times of the first great Rock and Roll drummer , Ginger Baker. Not wanting to give away so much of this doc/auto flick , is that Baker would punch me for saying " Rock and Roll drummer ." It is perhaps one of the best films of its kind. Highly recommended and at the end very emotional , even reluctantly.

Ran - It was very enjoyable and also oddly moving. Nostalgic too for me. Thanks again for posting about it.

[jaka]

We watched Jack Reacher yesterday, on one of these nights when we're kind of tired/depressed so we think any brainless entertainment will do. Pretty awful, but almost looked like a masterpiece compared to Die Hard 5 we had watched just ahead (yeah, depressed, as I said...).
Only fun thing was they both had this actor we had never seen before in common. Jay something, forgot his last name, but who cares, he sucks.

[sozamora]

Only fun thing was they both had this actor we had never seen before in common. Jay something, forgot his last name, but who cares, he sucks.

I haven't seen either, but a quick Google tells me you're probably referring to Jai Courtney. He was quite good as Varro in Spartacus.

[jaka]

Only fun thing was they both had this actor we had never seen before in common. Jay something, forgot his last name, but who cares, he sucks.

I haven't seen either, but a quick Google tells me you're probably referring to Jai Courtney. He was quite good as Varro in Spartacus.

Ok, correction then. He sucked in these two movies, but maybe there wasn't much to do about it.

[Jazzooo]

Pacific Rim--Guillermo del Toro makes a Michael Bay movie. Disappointing to say the least, but I didn't like his last one either.

[Blue Train]

You would think they have milked Rocky every way possible. Anyone ready for Creed?....as in, Rocky VII....with Rocky training Apollo Creed's grandson.

[Jazzooo]

Is that Rocky pitch for real?

[jaka]

Last couple of days:
Paolo Sorrentino's This Must Be the Place was a nice surprise. (Ok... Generally a sucker for every film Frances McDormand appears in...)
Enjoyed Paul Verhoeven's Black Book quite much too.

Just decided to watch Jacques Tourneur's Cat People later today.

[Jazzooo]

For this of us who enjoy seeing comic books on the big screen, the new Wolverine is pretty good. Oddly draggy in parts, but overall a decent and interesting story and setting. I enjoyed the way that it ended (including the coda)--felt very much like the old days of reading a comic...

[hornplayer]

Haven't seen a movie in a theater in AAAges, but Sunday we went to see Almodovar's new one, "I'm So Excited." Haven't laughed so hard in a long time!

[drumsolo]

Anyone watched The Turin Horse? I have it on blu-ray but haven't managed to watch it yet.

I wouldn't confidently recommend it to anybody but I loved it. A great deal of the movie is spent watching the grumpy old man and daughter eat boiled potatoes with their bare hands but there is something mesmerizing about it even though I couldn't tell you why. It's visually (and aurally) amazing especially the opening scene with the horse and the strong winds depicted throughout the film.

[drumsolo]

Pretty damn good. Do you recall the real-life event in SF a few years back where a black man was detained at a BART rail station and seemingly shot for no real reason and the cop only gets only a 2-year manslaughter sentence because the jury believes his claim that he thought the gun he shot was his Taser gun? It's way better than the TV movie of the week or Lifetime Network movie that it could have been. Jordan and Diaz prove to be quite captivating

[stonemonkts]

String! Where's Wallace?? String!

Caught this oddly diverting Abbas Kiarostami film, which I did think odd, but Binoche was so good, and the Tuscan locale so nice, it was ultimately worth it.

[mjb]

The Act of Killing.....watched a directors cut. I highly recommend this.


A documentary like no other. ....

Saw it yesterday. Surreal, funny, awful, giddy and consuming.

I really want to force people to go and see it.

[Jazzooo]

We saw Now you See It, a completely impossible but still entertaining big budget film about four young magicians who are involved in some kind of scheme that involves robbing banks in real time from 7,000 miles away. Lots of hokum but still some good laughs.

[Jazzooo]

Metal and Bone, an unusual movie that while good I can't actually say I'm really glad I watched.

[Monte Smith]

Red 2 is skippable.

[jaka]

Red 2 is skippable.

Too bad. The first one was quite enjoyeable, iirc.

[sozamora]

I saw Drive with Ryan Gosling. That was really good. Not particularly profound or anything, but it's a different take on the stylized genre tribute than, say, Tarantino.

[sozamora]

Also saw Cabin in the Woods. That was lots of fun. Especially once the slasher film conceit was mostly abandoned and things started getting increasingly crazier and crazier.