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[side_show]

Yeah, plus it always creeps me out when a movie only appeals predominantly to Caucasians.  There's something scary about white lines when you've got red blood.

[Drygioni]

I watched City of God for the first time recently. Film's great, those Brazilians are notorious aren't they? The excellent cinematography means you have a really great view to a kill throughout the shootouts, I hope the film makers got to meet El Presidente and receive the recognition they deserved, it's a great document of some really wild boys in one of the most troubled hotspots upon planet Earth.

Too much information at times maybe; I'll certainly save a prayer for two poor unfortunate youngsters, a harrowing scene I won't spoil. Friends of mine felt it was a big thing to show such a serious scene, but if they had omitted such details I'd have to ask myself, is there something I should know? This world will further come undone unless we truly understand the ugly side of crime and passion.

[Nabubrush]

That's some fine work right there, J.

[side_show]

The King's Speech was awesome. My friends all came out of it pissed off that the idea of royalty still exists. I realized... it really doesn't bother me.

First movie I have seen in a while where I cannot think of any flaw.

Okay, this post made me think I should check it out and it's the reason I'm now I'm about to watch this movie.  I will report back.

[theinevitable]

Yeah, plus it always creeps me out when a movie only appeals predominantly to Caucasians.  There's something scary about white lines when you've got red blood.

I have no idea what this means.

[side_show]

I have no idea what this means.

We're all riffing on a theme Inev:White Lines.

As for The Kings Speech, I did enjoy it.  Colin Firth is almost always good in everything, especially in those awkward roles.  I was contrasting the portrayal of King George VI as a warmly loving father against the stiffness of Queen Elizabeth and thinking about that during the movie.  I did wish that there would be more of the Queen Mother in the film though.

[pmcd9]

We're all riffing on a theme Inev:White Lines.

That was pretty cool.  I had never heard that song.  It kinda got bogged down in the second half with the pointless, tacked on rapping.  They should remix that without the raps.

[theinevitable]

oh, I mostly meant the part about how that movie appeals predominantly to caucasians.

Yeah, I actually know nothing about the movie - I was just trying to work in the song in a way that wasn't an allusion to doing cocaine.

[Nabubrush]

Watched The (T)Rite on the plane. So now Anthony Hopkins is going to be the guy who makes any movie for a paycheck? Ok. I don't mind that at all - I do whatever they want for a paycheck, too. I just like knowing, so I don't go into a movie thinking it's going to be good because he's in it.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. I read this book when it came out, and it was great. The movie's fantastic as well. Sam Rockwell is so good. And yes, that is Michael Cera playing a young Chuck Barris. He's never been better. Johnny Depp was purportedly up for the role - that would have been an interesting movie, too.

The Crazies, Romero's original. There were good things about this movie, but I was surprised at how clunky it was, considering Night of the Living Dead. We're going to watch the remake today, as well as King's Speech.

[side_show]

oh, I mostly meant the part about how that movie appeals predominantly to caucasians.

Yeah, I actually know nothing about the movie - I was just trying to work in the song title in a way that wasn't an allusion to doing cocaine.

[theinevitable]

OK, good. I have been thinking about that for several weeks.

[Nabubrush]

Crazies sequel was better than the original, but not great. King's Speech was fantastic, although I was a little distracted by some minor historical inaccuracies and some glosses.

[Doc]

Source Code was pretty good, but not as good as Moon. This is definitely the blockbuster he made to pay the bills. It was still a good film and pretty gratifying, the last ten minutes are just kind of dumb. There's actually one shot that really seems like the end of the movie to me, and then it keeps going, so I wonder if that got the heck focus grouped out of it.

[Nabubrush]

Oh man, Moon was great.

Observe and Report was ok. Some funny bits. I saw it because I read an article on Anna Faris in the New Yorker. She does a lot more with her part here than Rogan does with his. He's pretty ham-fisted. Aziz was good, as was Michael Peņa.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Fun kind of whiz-bang deal. I was kind of surprised to see Johnny Depp in this - or I should say, I was surprised at what the movie ended up being considering he was in it. A little too cartoony for me, but I like the series. I'm a pretty big Salma Hayek fan.

[Doc]

I spent a lot of Observe and Report waiting for it to go darker than it did. Not necessarily saying it would have been a better movie for it, just that I felt like it spent a lot of time teetering between 'goofy comedy' and 'Taxi Driver' and would have been interested to see where it went if it crossed that line.