Some movies I just saw

[dejavroom]

So you like horror movies but you're also a discerning adult that enjoys sophistication and subtlety and so you have to endure lengthy periods of time without anything to placate your creepy cravings? Then there's two of us! And I should stop yammering right now and just direct you to Kill List, which is so good a movie I'm pairing it with Rosemary's Baby in the groin-grabbingly good department (just so you know where I come from, I consider "Rosemary's Baby" the best horror movie ever made). It's funny how there are so many inverted parallels between the two movies (just an example, in "Kill List" it's the husband that's put through the grinder).

If you go see the user reviews at imdb, you'll notice that it's 10% people writing extensive, well-written and thoughtful analyses on the movie's merits and overall awesomeness, and 90% angry people fighting with their keyboards. That's the tell-tale sign of a movie that doesn't give you all the answers in the end, even though it's all there for you to pick up, even if only in a suggestive manner - more than enough to keep you mulling over it long after it's finished (and if you've seen "The Wicker Man" and "Rosemary's Baby", you'll see what's afoot pretty early on).

Things that I absolutely loved about it: The improvisational feel of the dialogue; all the main cast; the delirious and yet understated use of symbolism (there's an absolutely unnecessary, mad and gorgeous shot of the two main actors stepping out of a car under a rainbow that is just the stuff of genius, considering what's happening); the soundtrack; the photography; the humor, so dark it's blue; and even though I'm not one to praise the depiction of graphic violence when that's all a movie has going for it, the violence in "Kill List" is well-earned. Go go see see it it now now.

[pmcd9]

Good horror movies are so few and far between.  I love horror movies, but most of them suck so hard.

I will watch this movie.  Thanks Deja!

[Nabubrush]

Did you see Caché?

That was for Deja, and just because the movie was open-ended like that.

[Jaded Tersk]

I watched the first 15 minutes of Where the Wild Things Are, despised the child and his mother, and turned it off.  I didn't even get to see a monster.  Weirdly, I actually bought the DVD on a whim, so I guess that taught me a lesson.

[dejavroom]

I haven't Nabu, but it is being immanentized from the digital aether as I type this (I have watched half of Haneke's "The White Ribbon", but had to stop because everybody suddenly started behaving horribly with no discernible motive. But I might give it another shot).

[side_show]

I watched the first 15 minutes of Where the Wild Things Are, despised the child and his mother, and turned it off.  I didn't even get to see a monster.  Weirdly, I actually bought the DVD on a whim, so I guess that taught me a lesson.

That film did weird things with implications about an absent father figure that were unnecessary to the story. The monsters are incredible to look at and basically perfect in design, but both the aforementioned implications and the voice of the main monster being done by the Tony Soprano dude ruined that movie for me.  Also, although I'm a fan of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, I wasn't totally sold on the sound track being done by Karen O.  There were a few too many times where I felt things went too far toward the artistic thumb print of Spike Jonze.  The whole thing felt manipulated into something else entirely.  I'm typically a fan of his work, but when it comes to this story, I love the children's book too much for any distortions of the original to feel right to me.  The film version also left out what were (to me) some of the most important aspects of the book.  I was so excited when I heard about this film getting made, and so disappointed at the final product.  I consider Where the Wild Things Are to be one  of the greatest failures in adaptation that I've seen actually.   

[Jaded Tersk]

Yeah, I bought it because I like Spike Jonze, so I assumed it would be on the money.  Maybe I should play it on mute until such time as a monster appears.

[Nabubrush]

Huh, i really liked White Ribbon.

[miles]

I will watch this movie.  Thanks Deja!

I'm sold too. But it's not on Netflix and it costs $9.99 to "rent" on Amazon. Where do you people find movies these days?

I mean, aside from torrents.

[side_show]

At the grocery store last night I saw a combo DVD of "The Gingerdead Man" and "The Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust" in the discount bin for $4.99.  I was too distracted with other things at the time, and later that evening my hubby was reading up on these films on the internet, and now I regret not picking up that DVD.  It sounds like that special kind of awful that I might like.  

[dejavroom]

Where do you people find movies these days?

I mean, aside from torrents.

Sorry, torrent is all I use.

[Nabubrush]

I get my movies from my locally owned video store, Movie Madness. That website sucks, but it's a great store.

[Nabubrush]

I saw The Shining.

This guy did too, but I think he may need his medication adjusted.

Maybe this is what I saw.

[pmcd9]

This guy did too, but I think he may need his medication adjusted.

Good Lord that was crazy.  I couldn't make it to the end and I was using the scroll bar.

[miles]

Dude, I just saw Room 237 last night. It was pretty good. I love weird pop culture obsessives and conspiracy theorists though.

That trailer never gets old. I was severely disappointed that it didn't make it into Room 237. Also, it's been so long since I have seen the actual movie that I forgot how fucked up those scenes are. I mean, I remember that the movie is pretty fucked up, but forgot a lot of the specifics.