what are you watching today?

[HGS]

[frasier oiseau]

Saw back-to-back Busby Berkeley double feature @ the Gallery of Modern Art today, and it's got me in the mood for more musicals

 

[Northwest]

I had a fantastic time.

[Ecotrons]

this was good. fuck want to see gone girl bad

 

[Northwest]

Despite the beauty of its animation, a great deal was lost in translation. Version offered was dubbed not subbed (ugh) and used Chloe Grace Moretz for the voice of Princess Kaguya. Not a Moretz fan, and even less of a fan of her voice acting. Slow paced movie as well.

[gollygee]

better than expected

[Lukenstein]

 

I really liked this movie.

[SSchadenfreude]

^resinous never even seen shit and he neg.  fuck negga

[glasslights]

Finally gotten round to watching it, just reached series 3 and seems good so far

[Northwest]

First off, any comparisons to Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing to this movie are a stretch of Mr. Fantastic proportions. This movie doesn't have even a hundredth of that movie's honesty, style, and cultural importance. Anyone who pretended this movie could compare in order to sell this movie's tickets, shame on you.

 

I don't enjoy sitting through mediocre films (who does) but the fact remains that I have sat through many more mediocre films by white directors than I have mediocre films by black directors. And in the spirit of "never hate a movie" there are the moments that made this movie worthwhile. The struggle for identity is something is real and can be traumatic, especially when you are confronted with situations that demand you choose who you are. Dear White People is at its best in these scenes.

 

The movie's biggest problems stemmed from the characters themselves, who seemed to be reverse engineered from stereotypes rather than being characters who happened to fit into certain stereotypes.

 

The movie also suffered from tonal shifts that didn't fit the mood of the majority of the movie at all. It could have played it straight and simply parodied the experience of black students at an ivy, but had to throw in a heavy-handed sick father storyline (which we are given zero reason to care about, because we don't know who he is beyond "protagonist's dad) as well as a classic heist wrap up for NO REASON. It wasn't a heist movie. At all.

 

I'd much rather recommend Fruitvale Station than Dear White People, but both have their place.

[Lukenstein]

Finally gotten round to watching it, just reached series 3 and seems good so far

This has the greatest plot of all time if you just sit there and watch every epp.

Not many people get there.

[CASSAVA PIECE]

[otlyaa]

 

[historyofmyworld]

[ritzkurd]

Boyhood

[Northwest]

Anyone who paid any attention to the news/daily life has hopefully already gone through the process of realizing our country has drastically changed, but to watch Edward Snowden quitely stare out his hotel window as the scope of what he has revealed his country has done mentally crashes over him might be one of the saddest things I've seen this year on film.

 

I don't want the American legacy to be "by any means necessary," which certainly seems to be our approach to security. Security which, in the pursuit of a promise that cannot be kept ("never again") has damaged the economic viability of American companies, continues to blur the line between "ruler and ruled" versus "elected and electorate," and will prove to be continuously disastrous for foreign policy as we discriminate between American citizens and foreigners, further reinforcing the rhetoric of us against them.

[tylortakahisa]

amazing!

[frasier oiseau]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8Q1R2QZkHU

[FatCook]

 

first time seeing this classic

[tylortakahisa]

[I told a mod to fuck off]

 

 

[CHINESEGOLD]

 

Anyone know where I can find this? it was probably shown at a film festival but I can even get Haofeng's Sword Identity in a torrent or DVD but this has nothing anywhere 

[Mr.Sander]

 

EDIT. dat happy end ~

Edited November 9, 2014 by Mr.Sander

[CASSAVA PIECE]

Anyone know where I can find this? it was probably shown at a film festival but I can even get Haofeng's Sword Identity in a torrent or DVD but this has nothing anywhere 

 

despite being 2 years old, this was supposed to have an extremely limited release in china in august, but i'm not even sure it did

[I told a mod to fuck off]

This was underwhelming as shit

 

 

 

[frasier oiseau]

[wrong_move]

 

[SSchadenfreude]

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtO0EunG0IQ

Edited November 15, 2014 by SSchadenfreude

[aymerikmd]

last dayss 
 

   

[jyoni]

 

first time seeing this classic

 

I envy you.  A friend was over who'd never seen it and I couldn't find the damn thing so we watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  He'd never seen that either and man I envy that too!!!