On "Fearless", one of my favorite movies

Alderan shoots first

"But I will say that it was a comfort to me when I heard that the Coen Brothers were thinking of making a film about the NY Folk scene in the 1960’s and I didn’t have to worry that they might cast Blake Lively to play Joni Mitchell and Miley Cyrus to play Joan Baez..."

mostly aussies, fun

a pretty good list of films to see, though unfortunately they won't be surprises after you read this

movie barcode == creating a thin colored line for each frame (?), then stacking them side-by-side to create a single image

visualization of harry potter movie actors; which movie has the most?

"Admittedly the guys in the audience get off a little easy -- gestation of a normal human takes 9 months and involves a lot of bloating, puking, and hormonal surges that generally make women miserable. But Kane's man pregnancy results in a sore throat and the need to eat spaghetti. Note the 'sore throat' comes as a result of an alien wang having been forced down his throat, which he fortunately does not remember."

"5. Statham hacks off your hand, then uses your own severed hand, which is holding your own gun, to shoot you in the head. (Crank)"

in case you need more dramatic background noises

"Bolo is a huge beast of a man who could crush your face between his iron pecks, and it's a good thing he left competitive bodybuilding for an acting career, because he makes one hell of an intimidating bad guy. If I had to choose between fighting the Incredible Hulk or Bolo Yeung's "Chong Li" character in Bloodsport, I'd choose the Hulk. The Hulk would smash me, sure, but at least he wouldn't be an asshole about it. "

I love that animated GIFs have come back; these are a collection of subtle movements from movies

"A crew member glanced at the monitor and shook his head. “Werner doesn’t want to use it,” he reported.
“Oh, just cover it with a banana leaf,” Susanna Lenton, the script supervisor, suggested. “Werner will never notice it.” Within seconds, the monitor was camouflaged—a trick that would be repeated often during the shoot. Harry Knapp, who replaced Josef Lieck as first assistant director, developed various ruses to distract Herzog, in order to take footage that he deemed unnecessary. (“Look at these wild mimosa plants, Werner . . .”) ...before long, even the actors were in on the game. More than once, Herzog figured out what was going on and stood directly in front of the second unit’s camera, to ruin a shot. “You’re blocking the audience,” Knapp would say. Later, Knapp told me that ten per cent of the footage that Herzog would view in the editing room—closeups, backup takes, establishing shots—had been filmed on the sly."

just in case you need a few hours to kill...

some notables: Phi Slamma Jamma, Flynn's Arcade, Dr. E.Brown Enterprises, Sweep the Leg!, Hickory/15

"And Yori, the female, who hugs people a lot and acts mostly as a GPS device. Because in the 1980’s, liking computers meant you had no idea what a vagina looked like. It doesn’t help matters that shit starts unfolding with a randomness that made it look like they were writing the script with a Choose Your Own Adventure book and a 20-sided die. Hurry and ride our skyship down the laserbeam so we can throw a Lite-Brite at a giant computer face before the big stompy giant with the party favor head crushes you like he did poor Wally."

"ELLEN PAGE: I hear you need me for a mission.  I assume the mission is “be the audience surrogate for the next hour,” right?" (lots more awesome stuff...)

"We searched high and low, across millions of miles of virtual space; we worried that we'd never succeed. But we found him: The architect of the best infographic explanation of Inception, the summer's most complicated film."

"Further, his reputation for profanity spills right into his daily vocabulary, according to Omar Doom, who reveals that Jackson drops an “MF bomb” within 3 seconds of entering a room and even does so “at the gym.” (I even like to imagine those weightlifting reps as a matter of “One motherfucker, two motherfucker….”)"

ouch

you will believe a piranha can fly: "Anyway, here’s the trailer for the newest slice of awful, Mega Piranha (oh, right. They all have hyperbolic titles that use Mega- or Giant- or Super-something). It stars Tiffany Darwish (yes, that Tiffany), Barry Williams (aka Greg Fucking Brady), Paul Logan, and… oh, who gives a fuck who else is in it. It’s Tiffany and Greg Brady and giant goddamn piranha. And it looks awful. No, seriously."

despite the disrespect for Wargames, the comments sections has this gem: "Nobody puts Baby away from her M-60."

"An ancient cycle / In the nuclear age / It begins anew..."

worth reading just for this photo caption: "The Hulk learns the iPad doesn't support Flash."

what, no IniTech?

"What I find so interesting about Die Hard—in addition to unironically enjoying the film—is that it cinematically depicts what it means to bend space to your own particular navigational needs. This mutational exploration of architecture even supplies the building's narrative premise: the terrorists are there for no other reason than to drill through and rob the Nakatomi Corporation's electromagnetically sealed vault. "

includes "#2: Get retarded!"

wow, miss daisy's driver below being incarcerated?

more like a summary... in LOLcats

"When you aliens are watching Independence Day, I hope what you really take away from it is this: Randy Quaid can kill you. That’s not good news, space monsters. Randy Quaid isn’t our best human. Here on Earth, we make Randy Quaid wear a helmet when he tries to think. Of Mice and Men was actually a Randy Quaid reality show. When a casting director can’t get an orangutan for a part, they call Randy Quaid, and they have to use a special summoning horn to do it because Randy Quaid eats anything that rings. Randy Quaid once farted from April of 1991 to November of 1993. The point is, if he can stop your space invasion, you are fucked. Randy Quaid thinks anything with more than three letters is a suppository."

directorial debuts, that is

people generally have no problem asking knowledge workers to do these sorts of things, because it's not 'real': "You are not owed a read from a professional, even if you think you have an in, and even if you think it's not a huge imposition. It's not your choice to make. This needs to be clear--when you ask a professional for their take on your material, you're not just asking them to take an hour or two out of their life, you're asking them to give you--gratis--the acquired knowledge, insight, and skill of years of work. It is no different than asking your friend the house painter to paint your living room during his off hours."

'A self-described "Tarantino geek," Tarantino said Jack Rabbit Slim was conceived as a tribute to his idol, and is deeply influenced by Tarantino's blaxsploitation movies of the late 1990s, Tarantino's classic multi-volume kung fu pictures, and the grindhouse films of the late 2000s that Tarantino made famous.'

mobile app + website documenting good times to take a whiz during a movie; android app coming soon...

includes "Physical Transformation (AKA Hot Chick Goes Ugly, Hot Dude Starves Himself/Gets Fat)" and "When All Else Fails... Go Gay"

I had no idea so many people hated "Mars Attacks" so

nice story from woman who was pen pal w/ John Hughes in late 90s

neat visualizations of movies as kids books

ouch! "If he brings The Invasion, Friday the 13th, City of Angels, Prom Night, Planet of the Apes or The Longest Yard, and they’re not the original versions, wait until he’s eating something, then punch him in the neck and hope he chokes to death. Then wipe away your fingerprints and get the hell out of there."

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Could you sum up the film in one line of its dialogue?
"I am standing directly beneath the enemy's scrotum."
'''''

I gotta say, discussion like this only makes me want to see it [Wicker Man]: "What starts as a decent enough thriller soon devolves into one ludicrous sequence after another, culminating with Cage punching a woman out to steal her bicycle, masquerading in a bear costume to infiltrate a cult ritual, and finally being subjected to torture by bees -- the bees!! -- before the islanders stage their own version of Man on Fire. Cage's histrionics only make the finale more ludicrous and unfortunate since the same basic ending worked fine in the original film. "

'Do not be fooled by the credit “Directed by Martin Scorsese”, you are still watching a bad Nicolas Cage movie. Turn it off and go watch The Departed instead.'

"Critical consensus on Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is overwhelmingly negative. But the critics are wrong. Michael Bay used a squillion dollars and a hundred supercomputers' worth of CG for a brilliant art movie about the illusory nature of plot....Oh, and I would warn you that there'll be spoilers in this review — except that, really, since I still have no idea what actually happened in this movie, I'm not sure how much I can spoil it."

a bunch of fake toy (and other) movies, including: "David Lynch's Koosh Ball" and "John Carpenter's ALF"

wolverine and optimus prime in snuggies, nice

'Wigs or no wigs, It’s a good thing they got it right. I can totally picture myself standing up in the theater yelling, “EXCUSE ME, THIS DYSLEXIC NAZI’S PUSSY ISN’T HAIRY ENOUGH!” But I do that at most movies.'

"One movie - four frames. That's it."

lots of great stuff; example: "7. Mexican/Sicilian/Indian/Iranian children running through streets without a care in the world, smiling and laughing, running right by a mother who hardly notices them, so busy is she hanging laundry"

"My expectations were high, and I sat down to watch a show that proved smart, inventive and enjoyable, but for one key detail: ZOMBIES DON'T RUN!"

really nifty graphic showing the week-by-week takes for movies

some suprising ones on there: Passion of the Christ? House of Wax?

"A film buff tells a friend that he's finally broken "the code" - the mystery behind the character & story threads that bleed from one Quentin Tarantino movie or screenplay into the next. "

YOW

awesome, awful

"And that, is how Gene Wilder became “The Waco Kid” in Blazing Saddles and how Mel Brooks got signed on to Young Frankenstein." - but better than "Blazing Saddles"?

entertaining thread about actors you normally hate... except for one or two roles

at kottke said, lots to disagree with, some interesting choices

reviewers wait YEARS to write something like this... awesome

good quote to remember (from TorgoX)

won't be that funny unless you're an Alien fan

modern actors in photos recreating classic hitchcock scenes

someone's desktop, with this note: "Movie I am listening to/watching while working. Only movies I have seen x1000 need apply!" There's some music I can barely listen to while working!

great review of "Phantom of the Opera" movie that Barb and I have been laughing about since it originally came out

redoing a 7-11 as a Simpsons mainstay, smart