Red Mosquito

I went to see part of the Noir City event the Alamo Drafthouse near me is doing this weekend. Six Film Noir movies introduced by Eddie Muller and James Ellroy in person. It was pretty great. After they introduced the movie, they came up into the theater to watch the movie, and they sat two seats away from me. So I pretty much sat there and watched a movie with Eddie Muller and James Ellroy. And the movie (Wicked as They Come) was great! And it was shown in 35mm!

Going back tonight for round two - a 35mm showing of He Walked by Night, which I’ve seen and love.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I went to see part of the Noir City event the Alamo Drafthouse near me is doing this weekend. Six Film Noir movies introduced by Eddie Muller and James Ellroy in person. It was pretty great. After they introduced the movie, they came up into the theater to watch the movie, and they sat two seats away from me. So I pretty much sat there and watched a movie with Eddie Muller and James Ellroy. And the movie (Wicked as They Come) was great! And it was shown in 35mm!

Going back tonight for round two - a 35mm showing of He Walked by Night, which I’ve seen and love.

That sounds amazing!! Wow!! So happy for you.

Den of Thieves - pretty generic

LoathedVermin72 wrote:I went to see part of the Noir City event the Alamo Drafthouse near me is doing this weekend. Six Film Noir movies introduced by Eddie Muller and James Ellroy in person. It was pretty great. After they introduced the movie, they came up into the theater to watch the movie, and they sat two seats away from me. So I pretty much sat there and watched a movie with Eddie Muller and James Ellroy. And the movie (Wicked as They Come) was great! And it was shown in 35mm!

Going back tonight for round two - a 35mm showing of He Walked by Night, which I’ve seen and love.

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE

That's fucking outstanding. I goddamn love the Alamo Drafthouse so much. What a fucking amazing experience.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Blade II is the best one!

This is true. That's going to be next weekend, maybe.

My Friend Dahmer.

It was ok. It wasnt as visual or macing i was expecting but it made a good job creating the Dahmer guy. The scene with him at the end in the house is fucking creepy.

i watched the first 45 minutes of the warriors

Ten best and ten worst movies I've seen for the first time in 2018 so far:

Best:
1. The Human Comedy (1943)
2. A Hole in the Head (1959)
3. The Post (2017)
4. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
5. Wicked as They Come (1956)
6. Ah, Wilderness! (1935)
7. Wake in Fright (1971)
8. Picnic (1955)
9. The Commuter (2018)
10. Jumanji (1995)

Worst:
10. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
9. Vegas Vacation (1997)
8. Jason Bourne (2016)
7. Phantom Thread (2017)
6. Lady Bird (2017)
5. The 15:17 to Paris (2018)
4. Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
3. The Shape of Water (2017)
2. Black Panther (2018)
1. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

I was wondering about the 15:17 to Paris

OMG it’s so bad. Staggering levels of bad.

Annihilation wasn't as good as it should have been. The trailers were better than the movie.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:OMG it’s so bad. Staggering levels of bad.

Was it because of who the actors are?

durdencommatyler wrote:Annihilation wasn't as good as it should have been. The trailers were better than the movie.

Its mostly boring right? And the acting was...not good. What happened to Natalie?

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Annihilation wasn't as good as it should have been. The trailers were better than the movie.

Its mostly boring right? And the acting was...not good. What happened to Natalie?

I thought the four women were strong but the script didn't really give them a lot to work with. It thinks it's this character driven film but it really never gives the characters any room or time to bond.

Well, neither did the book. They were after each other almost immediately.

I know, it's a different medium. But it was there in the source.

durdencommatyler wrote: I thought the four women were strong

ALL women are strong.

durdencommatyler wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Annihilation wasn't as good as it should have been. The trailers were better than the movie.

Its mostly boring right? And the acting was...not good. What happened to Natalie?

I thought the four women were strong but the script didn't really give them a lot to work with. It thinks it's this character driven film but it really never gives the characters any room or time to bond.

I thought it was mostly boring. Both Portman and Jason Leigh seemed so bored.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:OMG it’s so bad. Staggering levels of bad.

Was it because of who the actors are?

The writing was horrendous and everyone (including the professional actors) gave terrible performances.

theplatypus wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote: I thought the four women were strong

ALL women are strong.

I thought the four lead women delivered strong performances.

durdencommatyler wrote:

theplatypus wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote: I thought the four women were strong

ALL women are strong.

I thought the four lead women delivered strong performances.

I heard Jennifer Jason Leigh's performance is confusing. Is this true?