Red Mosquito

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:In fairness, it's an entirely forgettable movie though, len.

i liked it ten years ago *shrugs*

I did not like it ten years ago. Maybe I'd like it more now? *shrugs*

i would think your flatbush gardens experience would cause you to view film differently

All film? Or just this one?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:In fairness, it's an entirely forgettable movie though, len.

i liked it ten years ago *shrugs*

I did not like it ten years ago. Maybe I'd like it more now? *shrugs*

i would think your flatbush gardens experience would cause you to view film differently

All film? Or just this one?

73% of film

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:In fairness, it's an entirely forgettable movie though, len.

i liked it ten years ago *shrugs*

I did not like it ten years ago. Maybe I'd like it more now? *shrugs*

i would think your flatbush gardens experience would cause you to view film differently

All film? Or just this one?

73% of film

That feels like an arbitrary number, len. It's like you're not even taking this seriously.

durdencommatyler wrote:That was a pretty good post, len. But Michael Mann sure does makes me wince.

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

durdencommatyler wrote:I've seen:

1. Last of the Mohicans (7/10)
2. The Insider (6/10)
3. Heat (5/10)
4. Collateral (3/10)
5. Manhunter (1/10)

It's this dismal display that has kept me from exploring his body of work further.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I've seen:

1. Last of the Mohicans (7/10)
2. The Insider (6/10)
3. Heat (5/10)
4. Collateral (3/10)
5. Manhunter (1/10)

It's this dismal display that has kept me from exploring his body of work further.

Mann is a master you rube

LetMeSleep wrote:Heat was a damn good film.

durdencommatyler wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:Heat was a damn good film.

Half of it was okay. Half of it was not. And none of it really stuck with me. I'm not sure I could tell you a single thing that happens. Maybe Val Kilmer is in it? Is he? Al Pacino probably yells. Does DeNiro shoot someone? Who knows.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

LetMeSleep wrote:Heat was a damn good film.

Half of it was okay. Half of it was not. And none of it really stuck with me. I'm not sure I could tell you a single thing that happens. Maybe Val Kilmer is in it? Is he? Al Pacino probably yells. Does DeNiro shoot someone? Who knows.

i found it overrated a few years ago when i saw it for the first time...i've had it recorded on dvr for at least a year and keep meaning to re-watch it

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:finished all the miyazaki full length features and figured i'd rank 'em:

1.spirited away - love pretty much everything about this..just a wonderful, surreal, sometimes frightening, sometimes delightful world he created
2. my neighbor totoro - i love the imagination yet simplicity of this movie...kind of a fantasy "slice of life" type work...it looks fantastic, even for the 80's
3. porco rosso - a wonderful blend of comedy, adventure, romance, political intrigue...i'm pretty sure i had a smile on my face the whole time, and not that it needed to be but i wished it were longer...love the noir-esque porco character
4. princess mononoke - i wish i had seen the subtitled japanese version of this, because the english dub is distracting at times...overall a really great epic type film...the message boarders on being a little heavy handed at times, but still really well done
5. the wind rises - just a gorgeous film...definitely his most adult work and i doubt younger kids would enjoy it much
6. nausicaa of the valley of the wind - i saw it after princess mononoke so i couldn't but feel like it was a bit of a forerunner for it, but it's a very good film on it's own and nausicaa is a wonderful heroine
7. howl's moving castle - this looks fantastic, but it felt a bit jumbled at times...i'm not sure how i feel about the howl character and his romance with sophie
8. ponyo - the ponyo/sosuke relationship is totez adorbz, but the plot is a bit weak...still really enjoyed it though
9. castle in the sky - this is 3/4th's of a really good movie, but is ultimately bogged down by too many similar action scenes and is just too long
10. kiki's delivery service - this one just didn't click with me like his others...nothing inherently wrong with it, i just don't see myself longing to watch it down the road
11. the castle of cagliostro - it's fun, but easily his least ambitious

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:finished all the miyazaki full length features and figured i'd rank 'em:

1.spirited away - love pretty much everything about this..just a wonderful, surreal, sometimes frightening, sometimes delightful world he created
2. my neighbor totoro - i love the imagination yet simplicity of this movie...kind of a fantasy "slice of life" type work...it looks fantastic, even for the 80's
3. porco rosso - a wonderful blend of comedy, adventure, romance, political intrigue...i'm pretty sure i had a smile on my face the whole time, and not that it needed to be but i wished it were longer...love the noir-esque porco character
4. princess mononoke - i wish i had seen the subtitled japanese version of this, because the english dub is distracting at times...overall a really great epic type film...the message boarders on being a little heavy handed at times, but still really well done
5. the wind rises - just a gorgeous film...definitely his most adult work and i doubt younger kids would enjoy it much
6. nausicaa of the valley of the wind - i saw it after princess mononoke so i couldn't but feel like it was a bit of a forerunner for it, but it's a very good film on it's own and nausicaa is a wonderful heroine
7. howl's moving castle - this looks fantastic, but it felt a bit jumbled at times...i'm not sure how i feel about the howl character and his romance with sophie
8. ponyo - the ponyo/sosuke relationship is totez adorbz, but the plot is a bit weak...still really enjoyed it though
9. castle in the sky - this is 3/4th's of a really good movie, but is ultimately bogged down by too many similar action scenes and is just too long
10. kiki's delivery service - this one just didn't click with me like his others...nothing inherently wrong with it, i just don't see myself longing to watch it down the road
11. the castle of cagliostro - it's fun, but easily his least ambitious

i hope to do this soon and we can compare notes

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