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]]>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:33:02 GMTMovie MarathonsWed, 22 Jul 2009 01:35:58 GMT15022Group Spout Group:Movies we do not want to see - Try to convince us to see these movies! http://www.spout.com/groups/Movies_we_do_not_want_to_see/70/default.aspx Group Name: Movies we do not want to see - Try to convince us to see these movies!
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]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:31:56 GMTMovies we do not want to seeWed, 22 Mar 2006 14:27:50 GMT203190Group Spout Post: Gets Better The Older I Get http://www.spout.com/blogs/totoro/archive/2007/6/1/9904.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 6/1/2007 11:10:45 AM
Body: I first saw this story of culture clash at an early age. Back then I understood it as a tale of desert survival. As I get older, I realize more and more that it is a film about what gets lost in the drive towards modernization. While a lot of the "symbollism" is quite obvious and overblown, and the use of zoom is almost laughably dated, the film is on the whole so quiet and contemplative that it has survived its datedness to be one of my all time favorite films. It is one of the rare films that gets more interesting each time I rewatch it.
]]>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:10:45 GMTtotorototoro Blog6/1/2007 11:10:45 AMI first saw this story of culture clash at an early age. Back then I understood it as a tale of desert survival. As I get older, I realize more and more that it is a film about what gets lost in the drive towards modernization. While a lot of the "symbollism" is quite obvious and overblown, and the use of zoom is almost laughably dated, the film is on the whole so quiet and contemplative that it has survived its datedness to be one of my all time favorite films. It is one of the rare films that gets more interesting each time I rewatch it. Spout Post: Wooden Dialogue Offends the Most http://www.spout.com/blogs/totoro/archive/2007/6/1/9902.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 6/1/2007 10:53:54 AM
Body: There were so many things that were supposed to offend me about this movie. What I did not expect was to be most offended by the poorly written dialogue. Apparently, I am in the minority, because it seems to be accepted wisdom that this film features some of the world's greatest writing.Yes, the premise is quite interesting and I appreciate the investigation into the darker realms of humanity. But I cannot be the only person who feels that the dialogue was EXTREMELY unnatural and wooden.The discussions were so overloaded with exposition that they no longer sounded like two people talking to each other, but rather sounded like the screenwriter giving us a lecture about his ideas. Maybe this would have made a good book, but as a movie it fell flat for me. I never accepted the two main characters as anything but a mouthpiece for Labute to express some ideas. They never became living and breathing characters to me, and for that reason the film failed me.I realize that other people love this film, but whatever other people saw in it, I did not.
]]>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:53:54 GMTtotorototoro Blog6/1/2007 10:53:54 AMThere were so many things that were supposed to offend me about this movie. What I did not expect was to be most offended by the poorly written dialogue. Apparently, I am in the minority, because it seems to be accepted wisdom that this film features some of the world's greatest writing.Yes, the premise is quite interesting and I appreciate the investigation into the darker realms of humanity. But I cannot be the only person who feels that the dialogue was EXTREMELY unnatural and wooden.The discussions were so overloaded with exposition that they no longer sounded like two people talking to each other, but rather sounded like the screenwriter giving us a lecture about his ideas. Maybe this would have made a good book, but as a movie it fell flat for me. I never accepted the two main characters as anything but a mouthpiece for Labute to express some ideas. They never became living and breathing characters to me, and for that reason the film failed me.I realize that other people love this film, but whatever other people saw in it, I did not. Spout Post: Re: What anime have you seen? http://www.spout.com/groups/Anime_Lovers/Re_What_anime_have_you_seen/142/9821/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/31/2007 12:24:28 PM
Body: Despite being a major lover of Japanese things, I actually don't like most Anime I've seen. These are the anime I like:Genshiken - I love this reality based anime, although, it does kind of drift into too much fanservice in later episodes. His and Her Circumstances - at least the first 10 episodes are genius. It falls apart in a big way midway through its run, but the poor quality of the latter episodes does not detract from how good the first episodes are! Seriously, that is it. I have tried many others and always wind up disappointed. I don't like mechs, violence, monsters of the week, androids or fanservice. I just like the reality based Anime, of which unfortunately very few seem to have been made. I think of Ghibli as a different category from Anime. Of their films I most like:Kiki's Delivery ServiceMy Neighbor TotoroSpirited AwayNausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Grave of the Fireflies
]]>Thu, 31 May 2007 16:24:28 GMTtotoroAnime Lovers5/31/2007 12:24:28 PMDespite being a major lover of Japanese things, I actually don't like most Anime I've seen. These are the anime I like:Genshiken - I love this reality based anime, although, it does kind of drift into too much fanservice in later episodes. His and Her Circumstances - at least the first 10 episodes are genius. It falls apart in a big way midway through its run, but the poor quality of the latter episodes does not detract from how good the first episodes are! Seriously, that is it. I have tried many others and always wind up disappointed. I don't like mechs, violence, monsters of the week, androids or fanservice. I just like the reality based Anime, of which unfortunately very few seem to have been made. I think of Ghibli as a different category from Anime. Of their films I most like:Kiki's Delivery ServiceMy Neighbor TotoroSpirited AwayNausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Grave of the Fireflies Spout Post: Unflinching Portrait of Neuroses http://www.spout.com/blogs/totoro/archive/2007/5/31/9815.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/31/2007 12:13:06 PM
Body: This film totally captivated me. I was expecting it to be very self indulgent and quirky for the sake of being quirky. What I did not expect to see was a portrait of a man, Stephane, trying to make it in the world despite having a nearly debilitating inability to distinguish reality from fantasy. He also has a very difficult time relating to other people and I liked how the movie gave us a fully rounded portrait of both his good and bad points as he struggles with his feelings for his next door neighbor Stephanie. Charlotte Gainsbourg does a great job showing us how hard it is for Stephanie to decide what to do about a guy who is so interesting, but also clearly a neurotic handful.
]]>Thu, 31 May 2007 16:13:06 GMTtotorototoro Blog5/31/2007 12:13:06 PMThis film totally captivated me. I was expecting it to be very self indulgent and quirky for the sake of being quirky. What I did not expect to see was a portrait of a man, Stephane, trying to make it in the world despite having a nearly debilitating inability to distinguish reality from fantasy. He also has a very difficult time relating to other people and I liked how the movie gave us a fully rounded portrait of both his good and bad points as he struggles with his feelings for his next door neighbor Stephanie. Charlotte Gainsbourg does a great job showing us how hard it is for Stephanie to decide what to do about a guy who is so interesting, but also clearly a neurotic handful. Spout Post: Re: The MOST OVERATED MOVIES... 1 and 2 ... http://www.spout.com/groups/Totally_Over_rated/Re_The_MOST_OVERATED_MOVIES_1_and_2/170/9751/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/30/2007 2:32:39 PM
Body: [quote user="radiogerbil"]Crash - Too fragmented to be wholly effective. While some vignettes were decent, the whole was un-affecting. [/quote]I thought Crash was a fun suspense film. However, I think it's status as a commentary about american racism is overrated. The film is so unrealistic in its manipulations that I feel it veers too far into fantasy to be able to have anything interesting to say about real-life race relations. I have the same complaint about Babel.I think Lost in Translation is the most overrated movie of the last few years. That film was too devoid of anything insightful to say to get the praise it did. Everyone I know who has been to Tokyo (including myself) finds the film pretty annoying in it's superficial portrait of that city. For the lead character to be in one of the premiere hotels in the world (Park Hyatt) in Tokyo and to just mope around being bored all the time is just pathetic and completely uninteresting to watch.I think with E.T., you had to be there. I think it is very hard to overstate how big that movie was for people who were between 5-11 years old in 1982. All I have to do is talk to someone my age about the pale E.T. lying in a ditch to get a few little tears developing. But I can understand how someone who missed it might not quite understand the hype about the movie. Also, there was a certain power to the fact that none of the previews or posters of the movie showed what ET looked like, so the people who saw it in it's first run only got to see him when he first shows up. Like the shock of Psycho's shower scene, that emotional shock is a hard thing to replicate later on.
]]>Wed, 30 May 2007 18:32:39 GMTtotoroTotally Over-rated5/30/2007 2:32:39 PM[quote user="radiogerbil"]Crash - Too fragmented to be wholly effective. While some vignettes were decent, the whole was un-affecting. [/quote]I thought Crash was a fun suspense film. However, I think it's status as a commentary about american racism is overrated. The film is so unrealistic in its manipulations that I feel it veers too far into fantasy to be able to have anything interesting to say about real-life race relations. I have the same complaint about Babel.I think Lost in Translation is the most overrated movie of the last few years. That film was too devoid of anything insightful to say to get the praise it did. Everyone I know who has been to Tokyo (including myself) finds the film pretty annoying in it's superficial portrait of that city. For the lead character to be in one of the premiere hotels in the world (Park Hyatt) in Tokyo and to just mope around being bored all the time is just pathetic and completely uninteresting to watch.I think with E.T., you had to be there. I think it is very hard to overstate how big that movie was for people who were between 5-11 years old in 1982. All I have to do is talk to someone my age about the pale E.T. lying in a ditch to get a few little tears developing. But I can understand how someone who missed it might not quite understand the hype about the movie. Also, there was a certain power to the fact that none of the previews or posters of the movie showed what ET looked like, so the people who saw it in it's first run only got to see him when he first shows up. Like the shock of Psycho's shower scene, that emotional shock is a hard thing to replicate later on. Spout Post: Thought Provoking http://www.spout.com/blogs/totoro/archive/2007/5/29/9633.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/29/2007 11:17:39 AM
Body: The greatest thing about this film is that every character in this film has good and bad qualities. Even the convicted sex offender managed to evoke a little bit of sypathy from me. More interesting to me, however, were the two lead characters played by Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson. Although they were the romantic leads in the film, we were by no means meant to view them as guiltless lovers escaping bad marriages. In a somewhat surprising twist, both their spouses actually seemed to be halfway decent people. At least, they didn't ultimately seem any worse than the lead characters. The bad marriages weren't the result of a terrible spouse, but just the result of an unfortunately pairing of incompatible people. This type of moral ambiguity made the film really interesting to watch and think about later on. Without any easy answers, or easy judgements, Little Children is a far more interesting film than other films which cover the same subject matter.
]]>Tue, 29 May 2007 15:17:39 GMTtotorototoro Blog5/29/2007 11:17:39 AMThe greatest thing about this film is that every character in this film has good and bad qualities. Even the convicted sex offender managed to evoke a little bit of sypathy from me. More interesting to me, however, were the two lead characters played by Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson. Although they were the romantic leads in the film, we were by no means meant to view them as guiltless lovers escaping bad marriages. In a somewhat surprising twist, both their spouses actually seemed to be halfway decent people. At least, they didn't ultimately seem any worse than the lead characters. The bad marriages weren't the result of a terrible spouse, but just the result of an unfortunately pairing of incompatible people. This type of moral ambiguity made the film really interesting to watch and think about later on. Without any easy answers, or easy judgements, Little Children is a far more interesting film than other films which cover the same subject matter. Spout Post: Re: Top 5 Sea/Water Movies http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmspotting/Re_Top_5_Sea_Water_Movies/304/9538/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/28/2007 12:11:40 PM
Body: Master & Commander is a piece of great filmmaking. It isn't necessarily a subject matter that everyone can get on board with, but whether you like the subject or not, I don't see how any film lover could deny that it may be the most perfect movie about 19th century naval combat ever made.You just have to appreciate how rare it is to get a film with such a big budget about that era in history that is also so historically accurate. At least for me, that is why I love the film so much. It is similar to Quiz Show in the sense that I don't understand how anyone who cares about the craft of filmmaking can actually find fault with the film.
]]>Mon, 28 May 2007 16:11:40 GMTtotoroFilmspotting5/28/2007 12:11:40 PMMaster & Commander is a piece of great filmmaking. It isn't necessarily a subject matter that everyone can get on board with, but whether you like the subject or not, I don't see how any film lover could deny that it may be the most perfect movie about 19th century naval combat ever made.You just have to appreciate how rare it is to get a film with such a big budget about that era in history that is also so historically accurate. At least for me, that is why I love the film so much. It is similar to Quiz Show in the sense that I don't understand how anyone who cares about the craft of filmmaking can actually find fault with the film. Spout Post: Re: Top 5 Sea/Water Movies http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmspotting/Re_Top_5_Sea_Water_Movies/304/9350/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/25/2007 3:58:28 PM
Body: Thanks for getting on the soap box about Master and Commander. I agree that the film is tragically underappreciated. Also, Sam, Dead Calm is actually decent as far as 80's films go. It is worth renting again. Did you know it was partly based on Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water? It is a film I keep meaning to watch.The only film I would add to your list is Cast Away, which I felt had some of the most powerful shots of water I have ever seen.
]]>Fri, 25 May 2007 19:58:28 GMTtotoroFilmspotting5/25/2007 3:58:28 PMThanks for getting on the soap box about Master and Commander. I agree that the film is tragically underappreciated. Also, Sam, Dead Calm is actually decent as far as 80's films go. It is worth renting again. Did you know it was partly based on Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water? It is a film I keep meaning to watch.The only film I would add to your list is Cast Away, which I felt had some of the most powerful shots of water I have ever seen. Spout Post: Re: Top 5 Movies Directed By Women http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmspotting/Re_Top_5_Movies_Directed_By_Women/304/9166/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/22/2007 1:31:48 PM
Body: [quote user="Jymkata"]The '80s are generally mocked as a shallow time in film, but at least women were given a chance to direct mainstream films and a few of the movies are among my favorite 80's and early 90's films:[/quote] Its nice to see another Near Dark fan! I totally agree about the 80's having been a better time for women directors.Big, directed by Penny Marshall, is a great example of a movie directed by a woman that did extremely well and wasn't a typical "chick flick". As for "Triumph of the Will", I think it was off limits for the list because of the restriction on documentaries.
]]>Tue, 22 May 2007 17:31:48 GMTtotoroFilmspotting5/22/2007 1:31:48 PM[quote user="Jymkata"]The '80s are generally mocked as a shallow time in film, but at least women were given a chance to direct mainstream films and a few of the movies are among my favorite 80's and early 90's films:[/quote] Its nice to see another Near Dark fan! I totally agree about the 80's having been a better time for women directors.Big, directed by Penny Marshall, is a great example of a movie directed by a woman that did extremely well and wasn't a typical "chick flick". As for "Triumph of the Will", I think it was off limits for the list because of the restriction on documentaries. Spout Post: Re: Favorite Foreign Scary Movie http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Favorite_Foreign_Scary_Movie/222/9102/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/21/2007 1:04:58 PM
Body: I have to wholeheartedly agree with the recommendation for Riki-Oh. The resolution of the final fight is one of the most gruesome scenes I can ever remember seeing. I cannot share the recommendation for the US version of the Vanishing. It should be stressed that the US remake makes some rather crucial changes to the plot. For me, the changes turned a masterpiece into just another mediocre Hollywood film. It is either the original Dutch/French version of the film or nothing.
]]>Mon, 21 May 2007 17:04:58 GMTtotoroHORROR MOVIES 1015/21/2007 1:04:58 PMI have to wholeheartedly agree with the recommendation for Riki-Oh. The resolution of the final fight is one of the most gruesome scenes I can ever remember seeing. I cannot share the recommendation for the US version of the Vanishing. It should be stressed that the US remake makes some rather crucial changes to the plot. For me, the changes turned a masterpiece into just another mediocre Hollywood film. It is either the original Dutch/French version of the film or nothing. Spout Post: Re: Favorite Foreign Scary Movie http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Favorite_Foreign_Scary_Movie/222/9064/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/20/2007 4:19:38 PM
Body: The Vanishing (the original foreign language one) is possibly my all time favorite scary movie. I just love how the film is structured to show us so much of the villain of the film. Watching him practice his techniques was just unbelieveably creepy and disturbing in a very real way. The overtly shocking stuff like The Grudge doesn't really scare me very much. It is the super realistic stuff like The Vanishing that does it to me.
]]>Sun, 20 May 2007 20:19:38 GMTtotoroHORROR MOVIES 1015/20/2007 4:19:38 PMThe Vanishing (the original foreign language one) is possibly my all time favorite scary movie. I just love how the film is structured to show us so much of the villain of the film. Watching him practice his techniques was just unbelieveably creepy and disturbing in a very real way. The overtly shocking stuff like The Grudge doesn't really scare me very much. It is the super realistic stuff like The Vanishing that does it to me. Spout Post: Re: Top 5 Movies Directed By Women http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmspotting/Re_Top_5_Movies_Directed_By_Women/304/8998/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: totoro
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Post Date: 5/18/2007 5:09:39 PM
Body: Near Dark directed by Kathryn Bigelow would be on my top 5. While the film does have its flaws, it is always the first film that springs to mind when I hear "woman director". I love how she depicts vampires as a rag-tag group of punks and lowlifes. And I also loved the way she depicted the brutality and violence that they take part in.
]]>Fri, 18 May 2007 21:09:39 GMTtotoroFilmspotting5/18/2007 5:09:39 PMNear Dark directed by Kathryn Bigelow would be on my top 5. While the film does have its flaws, it is always the first film that springs to mind when I hear "woman director". I love how she depicts vampires as a rag-tag group of punks and lowlifes. And I also loved the way she depicted the brutality and violence that they take part in. Spout Post: Re: What was the FIRST film that scared you? http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_What_was_the_FIRST_film_that_scared_you/222/8673/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: totoro
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 5/13/2007 4:15:53 AM
Body: Barbarella - I was only about 4 years old and my mom had taken me along to see this. There is a scene in which some little dolls start attacking Barbarella by biting her. I got so freaked out that I decided the film wasn't for me anymore and so I closed my eyes and just fell asleep for the rest of the film. The first horror film to scare me was Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was maybe 7 years old when I saw it on TV with my dad and brother. That film still freaks me out.
]]>Sun, 13 May 2007 08:15:53 GMTtotoroHORROR MOVIES 1015/13/2007 4:15:53 AMBarbarella - I was only about 4 years old and my mom had taken me along to see this. There is a scene in which some little dolls start attacking Barbarella by biting her. I got so freaked out that I decided the film wasn't for me anymore and so I closed my eyes and just fell asleep for the rest of the film. The first horror film to scare me was Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I was maybe 7 years old when I saw it on TV with my dad and brother. That film still freaks me out. Spout Post: Re: Most disturbing, discomforting scene? http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Most_disturbing_discomforting_scene/222/8672/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: totoro
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 5/13/2007 4:07:14 AM
Body: I Spit On Your Grave - just in case you are one of the world's 2 people who were not disturbed by the rape scene, the bathtub scene later on in the film is capable of ensuring that nobody leaves this film without being in pain. Dario Argento's Phenomena - towards the end of this film is a sequence of Jennifer Connelly swimming in a pool of decomposed corpses and maggots that is extremely difficult to watch.
]]>Sun, 13 May 2007 08:07:14 GMTtotoroHORROR MOVIES 1015/13/2007 4:07:14 AMI Spit On Your Grave - just in case you are one of the world's 2 people who were not disturbed by the rape scene, the bathtub scene later on in the film is capable of ensuring that nobody leaves this film without being in pain. Dario Argento's Phenomena - towards the end of this film is a sequence of Jennifer Connelly swimming in a pool of decomposed corpses and maggots that is extremely difficult to watch. Spout Post: Re: Top 5 Character Introductions http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmspotting/Re_Top_5_Character_Introductions/304/8644/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: totoro
Post To: Filmspotting
Post Date: 5/12/2007 4:13:21 PM
Body: My all time favorite character introduction is Marion Ravenwood in Raider's of the Lost Ark. First, she wins the drinking dual, THEN she punches our beloved Indy in the face. In my opinion, she was coolest person in any of the Indy films. In addition, I have a sub-genre of greatest introductions of monsters:Alien - William Hurt dinner table sequence Jurassic Park - the T-Rex introduction with the famous vibrating waterTexas Chainsaw Massacre - Leatherface and the dreaded sliding door of death.
]]>Sat, 12 May 2007 20:13:21 GMTtotoroFilmspotting5/12/2007 4:13:21 PMMy all time favorite character introduction is Marion Ravenwood in Raider's of the Lost Ark. First, she wins the drinking dual, THEN she punches our beloved Indy in the face. In my opinion, she was coolest person in any of the Indy films. In addition, I have a sub-genre of greatest introductions of monsters:Alien - William Hurt dinner table sequence Jurassic Park - the T-Rex introduction with the famous vibrating waterTexas Chainsaw Massacre - Leatherface and the dreaded sliding door of death. Spout Member:The_MOW - Mickey Micklon http://www.spout.com/members/148616/default.aspx Identity: The_MOW
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