Have you ever thought to yourself that while you were watching the sublime Coen Brothers film “Blood Simple” that there would be a different take on the film? Maybe wondering what it would look like if say a famous international director decided to pay tribute to the movie with his/her vision of the story line? Well folks your prayers are answered as Zhagng Yimou decided that Blood Simple needed to be remade with some Asian period piece flair and today I will talk about the exciting and wonderful remake, A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop.
I thought that this would be a fun post to promote my part-time place of employment and show you all who don’t have a Drafthouse in your neck of the woods, a little of what I do there in terms of hosting and promoting. Enjoy the montage folks!
I don’t think that I enjoyed a movie more this past year than Argo. I realize that is some high praise to give a movie that comes from Ben Affleck and is not a Spielberg, Tarantino or Paul Thomas Anderson movie, but damned if I am not still talking up this movie leading up to the Oscars. Argo for me, might as well have been the movie of the year in my mind, topping all others with it’s fascinating story, intricate details of one the most successful and bizarre rescue attempts, and a compelling array of performances from phenomenal actors. You don’t agree? ARGO GO FUCK YOURSELF!
I DID IT! I DID IT FOLKS! I survived an entire month of some of the most awful, terrible movie that I have purposefully avoided because I would hate myself if I ever watched them. I suffered through Sandler movies, Twilight, shitty science fiction movies, terrible comedies, and even movies where exposed breasts couldn’t make it enjoyable.
For those that submitted movie suggestions, I both thank you and hate you for giving these to me. For those that followed and commented with words of encouragement and chiding, thanks. I know I said I would live tweet one of my viewings but I have been very busy with my new gig at The Alamo Drafthouse hosting movies and shit. It’s an awesome time doing that, but also cuts into some of my free time to do a few more movie reviews. I hoped though, you all enjoyed one man’s quest in watching nothing but horrible ass movies for one month. It’s the end of the road today with another M. Night movie, The Happening.
A part of me really was hoping that Argo was going to be a prequel to Die Hard where we got to see how Harry Ellis got to be in the position he was in at the Nakatomi Towers before being tragically killed by Hans Gruber. A man can dream, but then again the appearance between Ben Affleck in Argo as Tony Mendez and Hart Bochner as Harry Ellis is uncanny. But I digress and Argo itself deserves to be talked about this awards season. A captivating tale about a hostage rescue plan that could only be dreamed up in Hollywood, but executed precisely by the CIA. It’s the sort of story that Hollywood executives would dream of having come up with.
Lyin’ in my bed I hear the clock tick
And think of you
Caught up in circles confusion
Is nothing new
Flashback warm nights
Almost left behind
Suitcase of memories
Time after
Sometimes you picture me
I’m walking too far ahead
You’re calling to me I can’t hear
What you’ve said
Then you say go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting
Time after time
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting
Time after time
After my picture fades and darkness
Has turned to gray
Watching through windows
You’re wondering if I’m okay
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting
Time after time
You said go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting
Time after time
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you I’ll be waiting
Time after time
I have no words really to use to express my love of this movie. It is the pantheon of so bad, it’s good territory that even trying to describe this movie is beyond my vocabulary. It’s a movie that is made for ripping on, a movie meant to be ridiculed while booze induced friends start making peanut gallery remarks at the expense of the film while adding to the overall enjoyment.
If you have never heard about this movie, then you are in for a treat. Rated as one of the worst movies ever made and one of the best Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, Manos: The Hands of Fate is without a doubt an amazing spectacle to be seen and today I just want to showcase both the theatrical cut of the movie and then a the MST3k episode.
Prepare for an amazing time my readers. I don’t think that I could even managed to muster enough verbs, adjectives and other words to describe my love for this terribly awesome movie.
Amongst all the death and carnage of the Final Destination series has given us over the decade or so it has been around, the real catalyst for fear of death came from the first film. It introduced the notion that death will come for us when it is our time and there is no way to avoid it. Now I am aware that we will all die, unless we get some sort of technology that will allow us to live forever, but in this case we will die in the most Rube Goldbergian way possible and it will look utterly spectacular.
The destruction of the world never seemed so elegantly breathtaking. It’s not unfair to the viewers and readers to say that this film is about the end of the world. I am not spoiling anything since the destruction of the Earth happens in the first 5 minutes of the film set to some of the most gorgeous cinematography that von Trier has ever done. Imagery that is both haunting and serene at that same time, sets the ultimate mood for a film that chronicles the the lives of a family learning to deal with this oncoming celestial body. Lars von Trier promised to deliver a film with no happy endings and I guess destroying the world is the only way to give us a truly sad ending.
It is that ominous feeling of the unknown which frightens most people. That eerie feeling you get and you can’t really explain why. We all have those moments, either in the dead of night or just going through the motions of the day, but sometimes it is just us who has these feelings. Everyone you turn to are oblivious or don’t know what you are feeling, it dawns on you that maybe something is off with the world or life. It is a weird struggle to understand those feelings and even more complicated when you can’t tell discern between your emotions and what you feel is wrong. They bleed into one another, ultimately taking over.
