CarrieMpls said:

Those parts ruined the movie!

Best: "Sicko"
Worst: "Live Free or Die Hard"

Best - "Blades of Glory" is the funniest movie I've seen in TWENTY YEARS, not just this year. I also liked "Next".

Worst - The last hour of "Transformers". The first hour was really good. I had a Camaro just like the old one when I was in high school! But once the transformers entered the movie, things got confusing and went downhill fast.

However, the scene where the mom asks Shia Lebouf if he's been masturbating is HILARIOUS.
[Edited 7/24/07 10:14am]

Wow, apparently Transformers is really divisive. Four (and a half) of us think it's the worst movie we've seen this year and three people think it's the best (!)

Spooks said:

heartbeatocean said:

Was it stylish but non-sensical like some people have claimed or did you get something out of it beyond Lynch's usual bizarre characters and events?

728huey said:

Those are some pretty high hopes.

retina said:

It's completely daft. A pure experience not really categorizable. If you have to ask, you probably won't like it.

It's similar to Mullholland Drive but not as tightly constructed. It goes further though. Whereas Mulholland Drive reverses reality, or has a reality within a reality...Inland Empire does this by going about 7 layers deeper. Reality within reality within reality. I did feel it was a bit loose and too long, and blame it on the ease/laziness of shooting digital... But it's a piece of work, a contender, that's for sure.

heartbeatocean said:

Don't say that. I like a lot of his previous work and in some cases style is substance, like in Eraserhead for example where the nightmarish world had its very own cohesive and consistent weirdness. However, I didn't like Mulholland Drive very much and that's because there was a seed of logic in it that was underdeveloped, and as much as I'd like to see him make something cerebral, I'd much rather have him run with the style and tone and do it well rather than to start on something else that he doesn't quite follow through on.

I'll go and watch it either way though. I'm intrigued.



Was it dogma-style crap digital, or was it real film wannabe digital?

best was probabyly ROCKY

worst...was Fashionista totally overrated...got all them banging biutches in it like belladonna but it ddint do much for me thioguh I usully dig her shittz

RudyIsBackForGood said:

My top ten movies I've watched this year so far in order:

1. The Golden Door

2. Inland Empire

3. Highwater Trilogy


4. The Student Prince of Old Heidelburg


5. Chungking Express


6. Bed-In


7. Rescue Dawn


8. The Lives of Others


9. Delirious


10. The Lookout




A few of those will fall off by the end of the year.

sextonseven said:

yu nahmean ? gots all them hoes in it directed by the one and only john staggliano ansd them studs like roocco sifredi but i don´t likke him anyway his sexing is soo overrated and he be fuckjing up biutches brutally with that spitting shit makes me wanna vomit not bust a nut serriously..theres waaaaay better studs than him...theres legions of young blood hott blooded new talent studs out there buttt bithces still fall for that sifredi shit like he some academy award winner shit..fuckkk it its about to deliver the raw shit not the disgusting shit dont nobody wanna seee you spiitng in some chikcs throat ...john kinda lost me on this one man. you shoulda seen some of his classic beladonna shiot back when she was seruosly fuckking and nott on some artsy fartsy bulshitt

i kinda dug Manhandled thoguh.....she back wit some strong shit...she fucking like a banshee again...bout time

heartbeatocean said:

Hey, that's Herzog's latest one, isn't it? So it was actually good? I thought he'd gone all mainstream and boring on us when I read about it.

retina said:

Style is substance in this case. But it's VERY long. I'm not sure if you'll dig it if you didn't like Mulholland Drive, which to me, is the be-all and end-all of all films ever made.



I'd say much closer to dogma style. As much as people seem to worship the benefits of digital, I still think it looks crappy compared to film. I don't care what they say, I can always tell the difference. Inland Empire actually has a more low-grade digital look and the fact that it's my number 2 film of the year is extremely forgiving, considering this fact. It has a real intimacy and immediacy, but the scenes of David shooting Laura in a hallway (no crew etc) improvising terrors, get a little much.

retina said:

Yes. It's amazingly good and then at the end, it gets all mainstream and boring at the last minute. Too bad, because it could have been fantastic. Well, it is fantastic. But it has that Western gaze thing happening, the white hero in the jungles of Vietnam, and the Vietnamese are somewhat demonized...seems like he could have done better in complicating things or making a political statement/parallel to what's going on now. Missed opportunity, but for a hardcore torture/war drama, it's great.

heartbeatocean said:

Wow. Well in that case I'm sorry I insulted your "baby".



Me too.



I'll make sure I sit in the back of the theatre, lol.

heartbeatocean said:

i read a new yorker article on the making of this film, and since herzog was working with a major studio for this film, they required him to make some major changes in the script. the mainstream-y stuff was way out of his control, unfortunately.

heartbeatocean said:

Ugh. That's exactly what I feared.



I try to avoid hardcore torture these days. I just can't "appreciate"/handle it the same way as before. It is Werner though, and since you liked it I might go anyway.

retina said:

I saw it with sosgemini and he had a bit of snooze... And make sure you don't sit in a seat full of gum like I did.

Anxiety said:

That makes sense, because it really turned the corner at the end and I was like "Wha...?" How sad, because if the studio people were a little smarter it could go down in history as a masterpiece. It was heading somewhere deep philosophically, entering another state of consciousness. I still would recommend it.

retina said:

I know, right? It seems like at least art cinema, at least Werner Herzog, would have gotten over this by now. Really, that's it's biggest flaw and it's sad. Otherwise it would have been higher on my list and I'm not a big fan of war movies at all.

heartbeatocean said:

Actually, I take that back. It's already high on my list. No way, it could beat out Bed-In.

heartbeatocean said:

*keeping my fingers crossed for a director's cut dvd*

I never go to the movies anymore. All I have seen so far is

Harry Potter
Sicko

Both of those were ok.

I should say I REALLY wanted to go see...but never did

Inland Empire
The Host
Grindhouse
Transformers

Anxiety said:

Oh hell yesssss.

oh, and Welcome Back!

Best: Evan Almighty.
Worst: 1408 (too much goddamn hype, not enough satisfaction for me.)

superspaceboy said:

gridhouse was so cool!!!

SnakePeel said:

awww, crap. i forgot sicko. sicko would be better than hairspray (which i LOVED), just for the heavy substance it has that hairspray has less of.