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11-11-2014, 10:16 PM #651
STRETCH
This flick has a solid cast, quick pacing, and is pretty damn entertaining. It's written and directed by Joe Carnahan, best known for Narc and Smokin' Aces. Oh yeah, this film almost forgives his cinematic ransgressions The A-Team and The Grey...
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11-12-2014, 09:01 AM #652Banned
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11-12-2014, 11:40 AM #653glocal
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New season of SOA...
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11-12-2014, 11:49 AM #654
Shit, I'll admit it. I went through Diary of A Nymphomaniac Vols 1 &2 despite really thinking Lars Von Trier should just do everybody a favor and just off himself already.
Really not at all hot but I guess an interesting character study. Although the scene where the two hung African guys are arguing about who gets which hole in the DP was kinda funny I guess."Great barbecue makes you want to slap your granny up the side of her head." - Southern Saying
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11-12-2014, 11:54 AM #655
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11-12-2014, 12:22 PM #656"These are crazy times Mr Hatter, crazy times. Crazy like Buddha! Muwahaha!"
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11-12-2014, 04:48 PM #657
Okay. But it's a pretty contrived allegorical vehicle. Figuratively, it needs both the subsequent sushi scene and the Ed Harris scene for retrospective context. Except that, literally, it didn't make any sense within the scene where it occurs. I say all this having nevertheless enjoyed the scene for its weirdness. I think that kind of sums up Snowpiercer for me: Logically unsound in so many ways but still enjoyable in its weirdness and originality.
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11-12-2014, 05:46 PM #658
If you Google "sushi allegory in Snowpiercer" you get a grip of reviews touching upon the subject:
http://www.google.com/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
PS
AKbruin:
the first paragraph of this review pretty much echoes everything you posted about Snowpiercer earlier:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-...b_5562282.html
Would be interesting to see if the whole sushi thing is contained in the original source material, the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige...
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11-12-2014, 05:58 PM #659
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11-12-2014, 06:04 PM #660
okay, i'mma go out on a limb here (and I didn't bother to read all those reviews I linked to above, fwiw, so as far as I know, this is an original thought I just came up with):
the fish = the train.
a train has a head, middle, and tail, just like a fish.
in many cultures the eyes and cheeks of the fish are considered a desirable delicacy.
meanwhile, the tail is usually discarded.
in Snowpiercer, the front (head) of the train was the promised land, highly desired and a delicacy experienced by few.
the tail of the train is where all the discarded people were kept.
not sure what the middle of the train represents, since in sushi terms that's the meatiest part of the fish, but I'm just riffing here...
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11-13-2014, 02:48 PM #661Banned
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head = brain
tail = ass
"you got your head up your ass" isn't a compliment
middle = middle, middle-manager, person who makes boss's whims palatable to those tasked with implementing them (other middles), or person who metes out punishment to those to be punished (tails/asses)
I thought the allegorical shit in Snowpiercer was old & tired and Barney-Purple-Dinosaur simplistic, the only thing that almost kept me from falling asleep was the Terry Gilliam vibe of Tilda Swinton's appearance for the first time she's on screen
the mood being something like Blade Runner / Brazil was cool, I just don't think fairy tale & sci fi themes mesh well, they remind me of 21st c pop / indie music, just throwing awkward shit together then calling it "ironic"
this probably means I'm just old, live long enough and what was innovative in your youth becomes regurgitated in the next generation's young adulthood
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I started watching Stretch last night but started too late and fell asleep, up to where I dozed off it was wild, funny, interesting.
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11-13-2014, 09:07 PM #662glocal
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Kind of a drag they rode that train for so long only to find out in the end that they would be lunch.
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11-13-2014, 09:24 PM #663
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11-14-2014, 08:36 PM #664glocal
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Stretch.
Good shit. Kinda reminded me of that Russel Brand whack job rock star movie.
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11-15-2014, 05:47 PM #665
Can't wait to stream this Dam film after catching an ad earlier today on the Dirtbag Diaries:
http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70305212?trkid=13462100
Also, Infierno was a very solid call, thanks for the tip. I usually don't like watching subtitles away from the big screen but it didn't really bother me at all here.j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
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11-16-2014, 12:19 AM #666
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11-16-2014, 08:57 AM #667
I'd never heard of Snowpiercer until this thread. Tried watching - it was terrible. Nonsensical plot (it's so cold that the last survivors are living on a moving train? Seriously?) , no character development (why do we care about our protagonists?), video game looking CGI effects...
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11-16-2014, 09:36 AM #668glocal
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Helix - SyFy series that popped up. Not bad.
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11-16-2014, 11:14 AM #669
just marathoned all 13 episodes this week.
my sentiments, exactly: not bad.
it sucked me in, that's for sure, despite lots of familiar tropes borrowed from the likes of John Carpenter's The Thing, The Andromeda Strain, Highlander, and [insert your choice of zombie film here].
still, it was nice to see The Rocketeer getting some work...
it got greenlit for Season 2, btw, which is supposed to hit SyFy early 2015...
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11-16-2014, 03:42 PM #670
Starts slow but gets really good imo. Some of the footage is incredible....lots of undercover, hidden camera footage of oil company employees trying to justify why they essentially invade these foreign countries for their oil. The paltry bribes to buy off officials is also enlightening. Why not steal the oil if it only costs a couple thousand in bribes?
This documentary basically provided a nice, succinct 'script' as to why so many countries in Africa and the Middle East are so fucked up.
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11-16-2014, 05:27 PM #671
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11-22-2014, 12:01 PM #672
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11-22-2014, 12:08 PM #673
^^^^nice - thanks, been waiting for that. Funny show.
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11-24-2014, 01:05 AM #674
Just watched The Last Days. Spanish apocalypse flick with a pretty interesting premise: what if everybody suddenly got severe agoraphobia (fear of open spaces) so basically got stuck inside wherever they happened to be at the time.
"Great barbecue makes you want to slap your granny up the side of her head." - Southern Saying
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11-24-2014, 10:04 AM #675
Creaky Fossil recommended this one awhile back, but he mistakenly referred to it as a French film.
I watched it a few months back and was kind of non-plussed by it. I found the premise to be the most engaging aspect of the film, but didn't feel that the overall execution/story lived up to the clever premise: i viewed it more as a commentary on today's society where everybody spends way too much time sitting behind a desk in a controlled office environment and as such they acquired an immune deficiency toward nature/the outdoors.
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