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| Marc |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:41 am |
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Marj wrote: Thanks, Joe and Billy.
I'm going to move State and Main down and The Room up my queue. Normally, I'd just drop the film all together, but I'm just too curious to do that.
Was The Room already in your queue? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:42 am |
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It might be more (or less) fun to see with a crowd. The first time I saw it it was just Dolores and me and it was a hoot. The second time we added two more people for twice the fun. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:00 am |
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| Just ordered The Wizard of Speed and Time from Amazon. I saw a bit of it at a science fiction convention in the 1980s and haven't seen or heard of it since. Apparently there's never been a DVD release. So there are definitely reasons to still have a VCR. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:11 am |
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I’m enjoying Michael Palin’s journey through the Himalaya. In the first episode he went through the Khyber Pass by railway, a few dozen leagues of where Osama bin Ladin is holed up, and he stops at Darra which you can hear miles away because of all the gunfire. Not because of the terrorists, but because Darra is a great producer of hand-made guns and people like to test them before they buy them. Palin says they can make an almost exact copy of any gun on Earth. He jokes about James Bond guns and someone promptly produces a pen gun. In Peshawar, he visits all the bazaars, each of which has its own specialty, including one devoted to dentistry (there are models giant billboards of teeth and gums everywhere.)
This is from the first fifteen minutes, and I know from his other series he’s capable of keeping this up all the way to Bangladesh, which will take him six hours. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:49 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Marj wrote: Thanks, Joe and Billy.
I'm going to move State and Main down and The Room up my queue. Normally, I'd just drop the film all together, but I'm just too curious to do that.
Was The Room already in your queue?
Yes. But now you're giving me second thoughts about that too.
I doubt that it matters much. Since I haven't been able to get to a theater this season, there a bunch of 2009 films coming to DVD in December and The Room will get pushed way down. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:16 pm |
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Marj wrote: billyweeds wrote: Marj wrote: Thanks, Joe and Billy.
I'm going to move State and Main down and The Room up my queue. Normally, I'd just drop the film all together, but I'm just too curious to do that.
Was The Room already in your queue?
Yes. But now you're giving me second thoughts about that too.
I doubt that it matters much. Since I haven't been able to get to a theater this season, there a bunch of 2009 films coming to DVD in December and The Room will get pushed way down.
You will appreciate all the good movies coming out much more after seeing The Room, and your life will be changed. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:31 pm |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:35 am |
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billyweeds wrote: Joe Vitus wrote: It's terrible, Marj.
Agreed. I had forgotten it existed, and now it's been forced back into my memory. Darn.
Sorry Billy. For me, it wasn't a great movie, but I liked it and enjoyed the performances from most.
I may have to revisit Heist again. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:47 am |
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If anyone has a gaming system or a Blu-Ray or TV that supports Netflix Instant Watch, it's pretty cool.
We have a Playstation 3 and Netflix just released support for Instant Watch for it this last week.
I've been doing Instant Watch on the laptop and it's not bad, but I have to say it's pretty nice to be able to sit on a comfortable couch instead of at my desk an in my not-so-comfortable chair for almost 2 hours.
And with the service included in all unlimited plans (we are currently doing the $8.99/mo plan), it's a great way to catch up on some films without having to wait for DVDs to ship in the mail. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:00 pm |
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THE ROOM has instantly gone to the top of my WTF list. It's truly a first of it's kind. I'm just trying to figure what kind of first it is. While Tommy Wiseau's directorial debut has been compared to the films of Ed Wood, I would favorably compare THE ROOM to the work of auteur Herschell Gordon Lewis....if Lewis had made soap operas instead of splatter films. Wiseau and Lewis both share a fondness for garish colors, amateurish acting, cuisinart editing and dialogue that could have been written by a 13 year old girl in the throes of her first menstrual period.
In front of and behind the camera, Wiseau has the chops of a one-armed martial artist. Wiseau leaps from scene to scene with the grace of a tasered chimpanzee. In the entire cast of "actors", there is not a single performance that could be credibly called acting. These performances are to acting what stick figure drawing is to portraiture.
Wiseau has mistaken autism for auteurism. Scattered throughout the film are sweeping long shots of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco's majestic skyline while an orchestra swoons epically on the soundtrack. This gives The Room a big budget look. None of these scenes have anything to do with the plot by the way. When the film shifts to interior shots, the cheesiness of the sets is flea market Sirk. Exterior scenes on the terrace and roof employ ultra-synthetic looking green screen. These shots reminded me of "Vertigo" if that film had been composed using an Etch and Sketch instead of a storyboard.
THE ROOM's two leads are more methhead than method actors. The leading lady is repeatedly referred to as being "beautiful" when, in fact, she looks like the Pillsbury Doughboy after a sex change. Wiseau, who plays the male lead, is the spitting image of Harvey Keitel in "Taxi Driver". Unfortunately, there's no Travis Bickle to take him out. The sex scenes between Wisseau and Doughgirl are about as erotic as watching Basset hounds roll around in their own shit.
THE ROOM has deservedly gained a passionate cult following with fans seeing the film multiple times at midnight screenings. I would love to be in an audience of stoned freaks watching this potboiler on pot. It is a new trash classic that will be lovingly embraced by audiences for decades to come. Tommy Wiseau, dimwit or dadaist, has done something that few film makers can claim to have accomplished; he has created a film that is unlike anything you've ever seen. Rent the DVD and be prepared to be astonished.
"This year, the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies colloquium included a paper entitled “Oh Hi Movie!: The Limits of Authorial Possession and the Aesthetics of So Bad It’s Good in The Room,” which fruitfully analyzed the film through the lens of camp theory." Wikipedia |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:24 pm |
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| I'm just glad I wasn't drinking anything during that review. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:06 pm |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:37 am |
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| Marc--Now that you've seen The Room, I can tell you that Dolores and I have taken to saying "Oh, hi, Mark," at every possible opportunity, when we're not saying "Hi, doggie," "You're my favorite customer," "I definitely have breast cancer," or "By the way, how's your sex life?" |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 12:39 am |
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| The Room is better than Plan 9 from Outer Space, Valley of the Dolls, and Road House. That's saying something fierce. |
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