Movie recommendations

[voodoolily]

One of these days I'm gonna run a 21+ beer-serving movie theatre... one of these days ...

We have a shitload of them. They're mostly owned by the McMinneman's Bros. (who are brewers), and serve their own micros. They have Sat. and Sun. matiness where kids can get in with a parent, but they're expressly 21+. And they have pizza. Second-run flix for $3. Yay!

[Murgos]

The Tampa Theater serves beer plus it has a Wurlitzer pipe organ.  Oh, and it's haunted.

It wins.

[voodoolily]

YEah, well a cultist propaganda film (What the Fuck Do We Know) was filmed at the Baghdad. pwned!

[Viin]

Well damn, we don't have any of those in Denver-metro.

We do have a 21+ bowling alley called Lucky Strike, which is way over priced but swanky with a full bar and restraunt-bar food. Oh and the servers are all (mostly) hot girls in fishnet stockings ... mmmm.

[Signe]

There's a new James Bond.  His name is Daniel Craig.  How come you guys didn't tell me?

[stray]

Because he's not Clive Owen?

[Soln]

There's a new James Bond.  His name is Daniel Craig.  How come you guys didn't tell me?

when was this released?

[stray]

There's a new James Bond.  His name is Daniel Craig.  How come you guys didn't tell me?

when was this released?

She's referring to an announcment of a casting choice. The movie isn't out yet.

[schild]

There's a new James Bond.  His name is Daniel Craig.  How come you guys didn't tell me?

when was this released?

She's referring to an announcment of a casting choice. The movie isn't out yet.

I think Soln understood that. I'm still coping with how oddly Clive Owen is spelling his name. Daniel Craig. Weird.

[Soln]

There's a new James Bond.  His name is Daniel Craig.  How come you guys didn't tell me?

when was this released?

She's referring to an announcment of a casting choice. The movie isn't out yet.

I think Soln understood that. I'm still coping with how oddly Clive Owen is spelling his name. Daniel Craig. Weird.

yes, correct.  This is disappointing.  I don't know this guy, but Owen would've been a solid Bond IMO.  Ah well.

[stray]

I heard it was Owen himself who rejected the part (it would have been handed to him), so what can you say?

[schild]

so what can you say?

Fuck you, Clive?

[MrHat]

I don't blame him for not captaining a sinking ship.

[Shockeye]

I saw Chicken Little in digital 3D yesterday with the kids. 3D has come a long way from the red and blue glasses. Very enjoyable and some very good 3D effects.

[lamaros]

I saw 'The Proposition' the other month and thought it was simply awesome.
I saw 'Wolf Creek' last night and walked out of it. Worst film I've seen in years.

Both Australian films, don't know where/when/if they're released in other parts of the world. Though I think Proposition might be around..

[Kenrick]

I've only seen two movies recently...

-Chicken Little  (5.5 / 10)
Something about this movie just didn't do it for me.

-Walk the Line (7 / 10)
This film was refreshingly well made.  It's flaws are few and forgiveable.  The music is great.  I predict Oscar nomations for Phoenix, Witherspoon, and best picture.

By the way, has anyone seen Garden State?  I caught some of it on HBO late last night and it looked really good, but I was too tired to watch it through.

[Merusk]

I saw Chicken Little in digital 3D yesterday with the kids. 3D has come a long way from the red and blue glasses. Very enjoyable and some very good 3D effects.

Wait.. it was 3-d but without the red and blue glasses?  I didn't think they could do that without the special polarized screens.  It'd be nice if they'd transfer that to the kid's movies you take-home... daughter loves watching Spy Kids 3-D, but it always looks wrong with the glasses, and it gives a headache if you watch it without them.

[Rasix]

By the way, has anyone seen Garden State?  I caught some of it on HBO late last night and it looked really good, but I was too tired to watch it through.

I liked it. Good acting, good writing, mixed in ridiculous moments and sight gags, and fairly entertaining plot.  Peter Sarsgaard kicks ass and it kind of makes you forgive Portman for her job in the Star Wars prequels.

My only problem with the movie is that the end is a little too predictable.  I'd recommend catching it again and watching it through.

[voodoolily]

I'm a huge Zach Braff fan, but thought the movie a little sleepy at times. Excellent soundtrack though. And proper shout out to the SHins ("they will change your life.")

My film geek friends can't stop talking about Sympathy for LAdy Vengeance, History of Violence (which I guess actually didn't ass-rape the comic book) and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

[HaemishM]

I heartily recommend Garden State to anyone who likes quiet, character study type of movies. It had a really good heart, and except for 5 minutes of Natalie Portman being really fucking annoying, the movie was great.

[shiznitz]

I saw 'The Proposition' the other month and thought it was simply awesome.

Do you mean this one? Netflix blurb:

"A 19th century widow (Theresa Russell) fights to go on with her life and take care of her children as she moves a herd of cattle through the infinite Welsh landscape in attempts to settle the debt her late husband acquired from gambling. During her journey, she fends off a sleazy sheriff and greedy cattle thieves with some help from a young ranch hand (Patrick Bergin). "

That sounds just awful. Theresa Russell used to be hot but now she is just desperate for work, apparently. Please tell us what was good about it.

[voodoolily]

Heh, speaking of blurbs, I saw the best one ever on the Sundance Channel (when you hit the "info" button on DirecTV) for Requiem for a Dream:

"Brooklynites attempt to better their lives."

[WayAbvPar]

Heh, speaking of blurbs, I saw the best one ever on the Sundance Channel (when you hit the "info" button on DirecTV) for Requiem for a Dream:

"Brooklynites attempt to better their lives."

Heh. That reminds me of seeing Burt Reynolds on Carson talking about Deliverance- he said he saw it on broadcast TV, and with all the editing, it looked like a movie about 4 guys on a camping trip.

[Johny Cee]

-Walk the Line (7 / 10)
This film was refreshingly well made.  It's flaws are few and forgiveable.  The music is great.  I predict Oscar nomations for Phoenix, Witherspoon, and best picture.

Walk the Line  is a very solid movie.  Joaquin Phoenix is channeling Johny Cash,  and he and Reese Witherspoon do all their own singing.  Less music than Ray,  more focus on Cash and Carter and their fucked up lives.

I loved the way they portrayed alot of famous musicians in the background, without focusing in on them. 

"Hey Johnny, try these!"
<offers pills>
"Elvis loves 'em!"
<Elvis in background smirks>

But then,  I've always had a soft spot for Cash.  He covered "Rusty Cage", for fuck's sake.

[Merusk]

But then,  I've always had a soft spot for Cash.  He covered "Rusty Cage", for fuck's sake.

Johnny is a God.  Walk the Line, and Ring of Fire are 2 of my alltime favorite songs.  I heard a cover of NIN's "Hurt" he did the other day in the background of something and didn't even realize how appropriate a song it was for him until I'd heard it. 

[stray]

Yup, yup, Johnny is the man.

I may check it out this week. I never would have thought Joaquin Phoenix could have done it even a little well, but the trailers say something else.


Put my vote in for History of Violence (but I think I may have mentioned it in another thread before). If you value your manhood, then you will see this (doesn't hurt to be a Cronenberg fan either). It won't win awards or anything...It'll be one of those movies that gets nominated for a lot of shit and never wins.

[Johny Cee]

But then,  I've always had a soft spot for Cash.  He covered "Rusty Cage", for fuck's sake.

Johnny is a God.  Walk the Line, and Ring of Fire are 2 of my alltime favorite songs.  I heard a cover of NIN's "Hurt" he did the other day in the background of something and didn't even realize how appropriate a song it was for him until I'd heard it. 

I couldn't convince some Cash fans that "Rusty Cage" was a Soundgarden cover.

The video for "Hurt" has been described as one of the greatest videos ever made.  And they're right.  I had to pick up Cash's last CD to actually watch it (included DVD),  since no music channel plays videos anymore.  I'm not going to stoop to browsing CMT.  <shudder>  And MTV is firmly aimed way out of my demographic.  VH1 is just stuck in some wierd nostalgia/reality TV schtick.

It might be the saddest thing you ever see.....  Just black and white,  alot of old pictures,  and Cash and wife looking old.

Got to love lines like "I shot a man in Reno,  just to watch him die" too.  The scene in the movie where Cash has his studio audition,  and the producer runs down the crap country/gospel he was playing, is great. 

[lamaros]

I saw 'The Proposition' the other month and thought it was simply awesome.

Do you mean this one? Netflix blurb:

"A 19th century widow (Theresa Russell) fights to go on with her life and take care of her children as she moves a herd of cattle through the infinite Welsh landscape in attempts to settle the debt her late husband acquired from gambling. During her journey, she fends off a sleazy sheriff and greedy cattle thieves with some help from a young ranch hand (Patrick Bergin). "

That sounds just awful. Theresa Russell used to be hot but now she is just desperate for work, apparently. Please tell us what was good about it.

I most certainly don't mean that one. :)

I mean this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421238/

[Sky]

Boom chicka boom chicka boom chicka.

The video for "Hurt" has been described as one of the greatest videos ever made.  And they're right.  I had to pick up Cash's last CD to actually watch it (included DVD),  since no music channel plays videos anymore.  I'm not going to stoop to browsing CMT.  <shudder>  And MTV is firmly aimed way out of my demographic.  VH1 is just stuck in some wierd nostalgia/reality TV schtick.

MTV still plays videos? Even MTV2, which was expressly made to play videos as MTV got sucked into series like the Real World (heh) isn't playing videos. VH1 is definitely in some 80s time warp, which my girlfriend loves.

CMT may as well be pop, what with the fucking Kenny Chesney shit. Chesney was on the 20th anniversary Farm Aid. They gave Buddy Guy one song. Emmylou got one song. Susan Tedeschi...one song. Shit, even Dave Matthews only got two. Chesney got three or four, hard to tell since I fast forwarded, I hate this modern country pop bullshit. I like vintage country through outlaw country.

Ovation is a great channel, all kinds of nice artist spotlights. BET Jazz is often good, too. HDNet plays a TON of music, though it's HD (good for me, bad for most people). PBS is good with music right now because they're in a pledge drive (about the only time they play good music).

Wait...this isn't the television thread!

[Bunk]

Re: Johnny Cash

I'm assuming that most of the people here aren't exactly pro wrestling fans, but some of you may have heard that a wrestler by the name of Eddie Guererro died two weeks ago of heart failure at the age of 38. He was a well known drug, painkiller, and alcohol abuser for years, but had been sober for the last four years. Unfortunately, years of abuse and the strain on the body of his profession took its toll and he died in his hotel room of a heart attack.

The reason I mention this, is that the following night, the WWE ran a show dedicated to Guerrero, and they opened it with a video montage of his career - played to Cash's version of Hurt.

Fucking powerful song is all I can say.

[ClydeJr]

The reason I mention this, is that the following night, the WWE ran a show dedicated to Guerrero, and they opened it with a video montage of his career - played to Cash's version of Hurt.

Fucking powerful song is all I can say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=PNKeFLFETtM

[Jimbo]

The video for "Hurt" has been described as one of the greatest videos ever made.  And they're right.  I had to pick up Cash's last CD to actually watch it (included DVD),  since no music channel plays videos anymore.  I'm not going to stoop to browsing CMT.  <shudder>

Ah come on...check out GAC or CMT in the morning...or the show at about 2300 EST called outlaw country.  True that rockabilly/southern rock/rock and country blend is mixing in... but then you have some of the new acts that went back to the sounds of the older stuff.  Little Big Towns Boondocks, Ray Scott's My Kind of Music sounds like a fucking Cash song and has his humor in it!  Sure were hokey, but we laugh at ourselves, and think mostly about drinking, loving, guns, momma, dogs...err okay I know there is a David Allen Cole song here somewhere.

If my sweetie and I ever get a decent amount of time off, we want to check out the Cash movie.  But since we both have children, were more apt to see Harry Potter or Chicken Little.  Next movie for us will probably be the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.  My child asked why they didn't make them in order, since we are reading the series.

[Shockeye]

Who the fuck is Kenny Chesney and why do I see him on TV all the time now?

[Bunk]

I believe he is country music's current version of Kyle Troy.

[Shockeye]

I believe he is country music's current version of Kyle Troy.

You lost me at country.