What's the last movie you've seen?

[fezzyfestoon]

Eraserhead

Awesome

[Gustaf]

Winter's Bone.

Excellent.

[Boris]

The Social Network

The trials and tribulations of a group of rich, successful people portrayed by a different group of rich, successful people. Made me envious

[Eraserhead]

Eraserhead

Awesome

I'm glad you enjoyed my namesake.

[Eraserhead]

Casino

Not a great movie but pretty decent. Pesci is hilarious. Trying to believe that Robert De Niro is a jew requires more of a suspension of disbelief than I can muster though.

[JohnnyLongtorso]

Restrepo -- it was pretty interesting, but they really screwed up evening out the volume levels in post. I had to keep turning it up to hear people talk and down when they came under fire. It made the movie kind of hard to follow at times.

[Boris]

True Grit

Hailee Steinfeld was awesome. Can't wait to see her in more films.

[Eraserhead]

The Squid and the Whale

This has been on my list of things to watch for a long time and my brother just happened to find a copy of the DVD for $3 somewhere. It was excellent.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Squid and the Whale

This has been on my list of things to watch for a long time and my brother just happened to find a copy of the DVD for $3 somewhere. It was excellent.

It's almost a de facto prequel to Adventureland as the Jesse Eisenberg character is basically the same. It's just pre-college as opposed to post-college. It's even set in the same time period.

[Eraserhead]

The Squid and the Whale

This has been on my list of things to watch for a long time and my brother just happened to find a copy of the DVD for $3 somewhere. It was excellent.

It's almost a de facto prequel to Adventureland as the Jesse Eisenberg character is basically the same. It's just pre-college as opposed to post-college. It's even set in the same time period.

Yeah, that's pretty weird. I didn't even notice that until they went to see Blue Velvet. This movie hit close to home in some ways.

Did you like this or Adventureland better? Pretty tough call for me.

[fezzyfestoon]

Watched Tromeo and Juliet and Wristcutters on my snow day yesterday.  Pretty insense shtuff.  Very interesting and cool to watch.

[Eraserhead]

The Runaways

Decent for what it was. The girls looked great. This will probably be on VH1 in a year though.

[Nhoj]

The Illusionist the one with Edward Norton of course, it was entertaining.

[Eraserhead]

Machete

A ridiculous and fun B-movie (as advertised).

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I Love You Beth Cooper... yes, quiet night in watching cable... not as bad as expected.

[fezzyfestoon]

Machete

A ridiculous and fun B-movie (as advertised).

I still haven't seen it, thanks for reminding me!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Squid and the Whale

This has been on my list of things to watch for a long time and my brother just happened to find a copy of the DVD for $3 somewhere. It was excellent.

It's almost a de facto prequel to Adventureland as the Jesse Eisenberg character is basically the same. It's just pre-college as opposed to post-college. It's even set in the same time period.

Yeah, that's pretty weird. I didn't even notice that until they went to see Blue Velvet. This movie hit close to home in some ways.

Uh, how did you not notice? There's a big title card near the beginning that says "BROOKLYN 1986". If you mean you didn't notice anything 80s in it that makes sense since it had such a low budget they didn't even really try, just about all the cars were post-80s. There's even a 9/11 memorial visible on the ambulance near the end.

Did you like this or Adventureland better? Pretty tough call for me.

Probably Adventureland since it focuses more on the humor and storytelling instead of occasionally diving into being pretentious like here. Still great though.

[Lief 🗽]

I had no idea the Squid and the Whale was set in the 1980s until I looked it up on Wikipedia after watching it, though it makes sense in retrospect. Good film though.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's pretty obvious that the script merely put it in 1986 because Noah Baumbach based it off his own experience with his parents' divorce (Eisenberg's character is basically a stand-in for him), which was around the same time period and they didn't have the budget to do anything to pretend it was 1986. But there is also a huge title card near the beginning stating that...

That also makes me wonder if Baumbach has any serious issues with his own father. If the dad in the movie is based off him it's not exactly flattering to put it mildly.

[King]

The movie starts out by saying "Park Slope 1986."  But yeah the S&W was a bit pretentious at points, but that had a lot more to do with its oddly short running time.  If Baumbach had bothered to go into all (or at least some of) the subplot points he introduced, it would've been far easier to swallow.

It makes me believe that it's a lot of a true story and he didn't want to write any fictional explanation scenes for any of their behavior.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The movie starts out by saying "Park Slope 1986."  But yeah the S&W was a bit pretentious at points, but that had a lot more to do with its oddly short running time.  If Baumbach had bothered to go into all (or at least some of) the subplot points he introduced, it would've been far easier to swallow.

It makes me believe that it's a lot of a true story and he didn't want to write any fictional explanation scenes for any of their behavior.

So Baumbach played a Pink Floyd song at his high school's talent show and claimed it was one he wrote himself? If so he's even cooler than I thought before.

[King]

The movie starts out by saying "Park Slope 1986."  But yeah the S&W was a bit pretentious at points, but that had a lot more to do with its oddly short running time.  If Baumbach had bothered to go into all (or at least some of) the subplot points he introduced, it would've been far easier to swallow.

It makes me believe that it's a lot of a true story and he didn't want to write any fictional explanation scenes for any of their behavior.

So Baumbach played a Pink Floyd song at his high school's talent show and claimed it was one he wrote himself? If so he's even cooler than I thought before.

Perhaps.  Wikipedia says, however, "Baumbach originally wanted to use the Who's "Behind Blue Eyes" instead but he could not secure the rights."

Maybe he did that with the Who.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You know I realized that setting movies in a time like the 80s and mostly ignoring the setting still gives the advantage of that you can also avoid elements of the modern day that would be kind of annoying and detracting to the plot. There is no Fridge Logic over things like why teenagers aren't texting each other constantly or going on Facebook and you can actually focus on the plot instead of teenagers' shallow interest. Granted I suppose the 90s would work better here. Of course if I wrote a high school movie I would unquestionably set in the 90s just because I would look like an idiot trying to imitate modern day teenagers (kind of the whole point behind Totally Radical.) Much like how the movie Mean Creek has a rare spot on portrayal of that age group in a movie...except it's a spot on portrayal of teenagers in 1991, not 2004 (except they listen to Death Cab for Cutie.) And the director graduated high school in 1991.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Inception

Should have been called Masturbation. Outside of showing how the mind of the writer of this movie can be complicated, I don't really see the point of this movie.

The big Lebowski

Had already seen it a decade ago, but it was on a bad VHS and I hadn't seen the end. Quite enjoyable.

Human traffic

About some youngs who take pills to party in Cardiff, in the 90s apparently, rather fresh and enjoyable.

[Hash]

I've been watching the third season of Un village francais recently, because it's like my favourite TV series and because all other current movies are largely useless.