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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: Re:Which of these "versus" movies would you most like to see? http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_versus_movies_would_you_most_l/657/42763/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: tinokiev
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Body: Keyser Söze vs Oh Dae Su !!!!!
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Post Date: 2/14/2008 8:42:14 PM
Body: My new addition is:" I am a false prophet and God is a superstition" --> There will be blood This are old ones but good ones " Love is the most painful thing in the world, when you don't have it" --> Hable con ella" The fucking regret and guild, these things.... Don't ever let anyone ever say to you: you shouldn't regret anything. You regret what you fucking want. Use that" --> Magnolia "Instincts, he gives man an extraordinary gift (...) and then he sets the rules in opposition ...Look, but don't touch, Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow." --> Devil's advocate
]]>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:42:14 GMTtinokievBest movie quotes2/14/2008 8:42:14 PMMy new addition is:" I am a false prophet and God is a superstition" --> There will be blood This are old ones but good ones " Love is the most painful thing in the world, when you don't have it" --> Hable con ella" The fucking regret and guild, these things.... Don't ever let anyone ever say to you: you shouldn't regret anything. You regret what you fucking want. Use that" --> Magnolia "Instincts, he gives man an extraordinary gift (...) and then he sets the rules in opposition ...Look, but don't touch, Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow." --> Devil's advocate Spout Post: 5 top movies I hated that everyone Loved http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/5_top_movies_I_hated_that_everyone_Loved/190/23969/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: tinokiev
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Post Date: 1/16/2008 10:50:35 PM
Body: I am just going to post 1 film, but i will think of another 4 !!I just don't know why so many people loved that film Atonementfirst of all, things that I liked about it 1. CINEMATOGRAPHY It had very nice shoots, nice light shadow play and color desaturation2. PERIOD EXPLORATION Looks like they did they homework, All dresses, buildings, context was pretty accurate.3. MUSIC The typewriting thing match with the music was very clever, in general the score was good.--- THINGS I DIDNT LIKE1. AFTER THE FIRST TURNING POINT, NOTHING HAPPEN So, this girl gets raped, he is charged, she is in love with a woman and promises to come back, instead of jail goes to war, they both die. A writer turns up and said, it was a fiction and i am dying.I mean. It took so long to start, and once it started, nothing happen, we just see beautiful shoots of the 2d war.2. NO CHARACTER TRANSFORMATION3. POINTLESS SCENES Like the first 5 minutes with the girl writing a play... the story of the twins... the chocolate episode, to broken jar... Then when they are hidding on a house at night on the war... When they walk around and find dead corpses.. When they arrive to london and everything is mad..Her scenes when she is training to be a nurse... When she meets this guy that is dying and speaks to him before he dies... 4. THERE WAS NO LOVE STORY.Actually we just see them figthing once, then having sex on a library, kissing outside a building, and thats it. No insight into why they liked each other or why they wanted each other so badly.5. THE JUMPING IN TIME CUTS DIDNT WORKIf it was suppose to confuse people or make it look like a super art film, it didnt work, and the revelation about fiction and non fiction was completely abrupt, like, you couldn't know what was happening.6. KEIRA LOOKED HORRIBLEtasteless.7. IT WAS SO FREAKING LONG8. I JUST HATED IT.
]]>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:50:35 GMTtinokievTop 51/16/2008 10:50:35 PMI am just going to post 1 film, but i will think of another 4 !!I just don't know why so many people loved that film Atonementfirst of all, things that I liked about it 1. CINEMATOGRAPHY It had very nice shoots, nice light shadow play and color desaturation2. PERIOD EXPLORATION Looks like they did they homework, All dresses, buildings, context was pretty accurate.3. MUSIC The typewriting thing match with the music was very clever, in general the score was good.--- THINGS I DIDNT LIKE1. AFTER THE FIRST TURNING POINT, NOTHING HAPPEN So, this girl gets raped, he is charged, she is in love with a woman and promises to come back, instead of jail goes to war, they both die. A writer turns up and said, it was a fiction and i am dying.I mean. It took so long to start, and once it started, nothing happen, we just see beautiful shoots of the 2d war.2. NO CHARACTER TRANSFORMATION3. POINTLESS SCENES Like the first 5 minutes with the girl writing a play... the story of the twins... the chocolate episode, to broken jar... Then when they are hidding on a house at night on the war... When they walk around and find dead corpses.. When they arrive to london and everything is mad..Her scenes when she is training to be a nurse... When she meets this guy that is dying and speaks to him before he dies... 4. THERE WAS NO LOVE STORY.Actually we just see them figthing once, then having sex on a library, kissing outside a building, and thats it. No insight into why they liked each other or why they wanted each other so badly.5. THE JUMPING IN TIME CUTS DIDNT WORKIf it was suppose to confuse people or make it look like a super art film, it didnt work, and the revelation about fiction and non fiction was completely abrupt, like, you couldn't know what was happening.6. KEIRA LOOKED HORRIBLEtasteless.7. IT WAS SO FREAKING LONG8. I JUST HATED IT. Spout Post: I will never eat a blueberry pie without a smile http://www.spout.com/blogs/tinokiev/archive/2008/1/16/23968.aspx Post By: tinokiev
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Body: Just finished watching Wong Kar Wai My Blueberry Nights . It was all the signatures of the director, subtle and not so subtle sexual analogies. The whole film is an allegory to attach and deattachment in relationships. In 2046, Days of Being Wild and In the mood for love he explored similar aspects of life, but this movie approaches love on a total different way, being his first English speaking film. It follows the story of a girl trying to forget about a love on a road trip, this journey starts on a Cafe where he is desperately looking for his ex-partner, but her search turns into a very curious friendly relationship with the Cafe owner, who seems to have his own theories about forgotten loves. During her trip she meets different characters that somehow are experiencing relationship problems and are desperately finding a way to cope with them, as she travels around the country she learns from them and grows with them, always writing postcards of her experiences to the Cafe owner.The cast was extraordinary, Natalie Portman was radiating, and Jude Law was at long last playing a romantic character he deserved, his performance was so natural it remind me a bit of "closer". During the film there is many "cameo" shots from his other films, specially being on the same cafe environment as Chunking Express, and I definitely loved that, He also had some color experimentation very similar to what he did on Fallen Angels. I believe the movie its going to feel very slow for many western people who are not used to his style, but its definitely more "generic" or easy to follow and get engaged than his other films. It will be a great start to getting to know Wong Kar Wai. So if you haven't seen any of his films, this is the one to watch first.The cinematography was meticulously perfect, as usual. Again, many "borrowed" shots of his other films, but to watch them on a Western environment and cast its a whole new experience. The score was not impressive, but most of it worked pretty well, A very nice signature song composed and performed by Norah Jones, another one a beautiful piano and singing by Cat Power and curiously an harmonica version of a song he used for a commercial in Japan.And you will never think of a blueberry pie the same way you did :). Ivan.
]]>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:08:50 GMTtinokievtinokiev Blog1/16/2008 10:08:50 PM Just finished watching Wong Kar Wai My Blueberry Nights . It was all the signatures of the director, subtle and not so subtle sexual analogies. The whole film is an allegory to attach and deattachment in relationships. In 2046, Days of Being Wild and In the mood for love he explored similar aspects of life, but this movie approaches love on a total different way, being his first English speaking film. It follows the story of a girl trying to forget about a love on a road trip, this journey starts on a Cafe where he is desperately looking for his ex-partner, but her search turns into a very curious friendly relationship with the Cafe owner, who seems to have his own theories about forgotten loves. During her trip she meets different characters that somehow are experiencing relationship problems and are desperately finding a way to cope with them, as she travels around the country she learns from them and grows with them, always writing postcards of her experiences to the Cafe owner.The cast was extraordinary, Natalie Portman was radiating, and Jude Law was at long last playing a romantic character he deserved, his performance was so natural it remind me a bit of "closer". During the film there is many "cameo" shots from his other films, specially being on the same cafe environment as Chunking Express, and I definitely loved that, He also had some color experimentation very similar to what he did on Fallen Angels. I believe the movie its going to feel very slow for many western people who are not used to his style, but its definitely more "generic" or easy to follow and get engaged than his other films. It will be a great start to getting to know Wong Kar Wai. So if you haven't seen any of his films, this is the one to watch first.The cinematography was meticulously perfect, as usual. Again, many "borrowed" shots of his other films, but to watch them on a Western environment and cast its a whole new experience. The score was not impressive, but most of it worked pretty well, A very nice signature song composed and performed by Norah Jones, another one a beautiful piano and singing by Cat Power and curiously an harmonica version of a song he used for a commercial in Japan.And you will never think of a blueberry pie the same way you did :). Ivan. Spout Post: Re: Top Five Movies with Budgets under $10 million http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_Five_Movies_with_Budgets_under_10_million/190/16919/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: tinokiev
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Body: El mariachi !! -- rodriguez spent 2.000 $Clerks, The Blair Witch ProjectThe Idiots
]]>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:44:20 GMTtinokievTop 57/31/2007 12:44:20 AMEl mariachi !! -- rodriguez spent 2.000 $Clerks, The Blair Witch ProjectThe Idiots Spout Post: Re: Top Five deceptively intriguing trailers http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_Five_deceptively_intriguing_trailers/190/16700/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: tinokiev
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Post Date: 7/27/2007 10:55:18 PM
Body: 1. Transformers !!! The trailer looked awesome, like there was gonna be a sort of a good story and less cheesy acting and plot. I remember watching the trailer i went like I HAVE to see this movie.2. The Village, this looked like a monster thriller movie that was gonnna be full of sick scenes like sixth sense and the 10 minute happy dancing sequence really made me think: They cheated me !3. Ocean's Twelve Well the traielr was just Colors, Text and good music. It just had a feeling that it was gonna be a great film, and the trailer itself was so good, like: Hey i am not showing any scene you have to wait and see. And well, I wait and see and ... .. What can you do4. Alien Vs Predator5. Dreamcatcher looked like it was a really good horror-thriller, and ...
]]>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:55:18 GMTtinokievTop 57/27/2007 10:55:18 PM 1. Transformers !!! The trailer looked awesome, like there was gonna be a sort of a good story and less cheesy acting and plot. I remember watching the trailer i went like I HAVE to see this movie.2. The Village, this looked like a monster thriller movie that was gonnna be full of sick scenes like sixth sense and the 10 minute happy dancing sequence really made me think: They cheated me !3. Ocean's Twelve Well the traielr was just Colors, Text and good music. It just had a feeling that it was gonna be a great film, and the trailer itself was so good, like: Hey i am not showing any scene you have to wait and see. And well, I wait and see and ... .. What can you do4. Alien Vs Predator5. Dreamcatcher looked like it was a really good horror-thriller, and ... Spout Post: Definition of Art and Entertainment http://www.spout.com/groups/Asian_Art_Cinema/Definition_of_Art_and_Entertainment/412/15657/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: tinokiev
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Post Date: 7/23/2007 11:58:03 PM
Body: Once on film school I was suppose to give a presentation on " Un chien Andalu" by Luis Bunue, the topic of the presentation was "Made to shock ?". Some people argue that he made the movie just to shock people, and that it was that fact who made him famouse rather than the actual aestethics or imaginary behind the film. It was such a hard topic to discuss. On one side, like Dali, he put so many subtext on the art direction revealing aspects of his own psique, but in the other side, they were the new surrealist wave and in fact did wanted to shock people as well, for the sake of it, as an instrument of revolution I guess. The problem with art I pointed then, is that you can put an apple on an empty room, take a photograph, hang it of an art gallery and people will think "oh that is art", and everyone will find diferent meanings to it. But many people will think, that is just an apple, and it doesnt try to say anything. The ultimate truth about whatever something is art or not i think is on the perspective of the author and his own definition of art. If the director of a film believed that this shot, this scene, this lines, where his artistic expression, I think it gives it more chances to be recognized as art to others. Like, many commercial asian Kung Fu films are so focused on the Action, the Special Effects, etc, and most of the time they are not directed by the writer, they even use different directors for the fight sequences and for the dialogue. But there is not a clear "Vision". I think Vision is the key to the art paradox. If the director had a vision, it connected with the actors, with the cinematographers, and we the audience also connected, even for a moment of even on separate scenes, it gaves us the sensation of art. I guess it is like the magic of film. The 7th art. I liked the idea achance42 gave us. [quote user="achance42"]I think the problem is that we think the quality of art is directly proportional to whatever intellectual or emotional stimulation it wears on its sleeve. [/quote]
]]>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:58:03 GMTtinokievAsian Art Cinema7/23/2007 11:58:03 PM Once on film school I was suppose to give a presentation on " Un chien Andalu" by Luis Bunue, the topic of the presentation was "Made to shock ?". Some people argue that he made the movie just to shock people, and that it was that fact who made him famouse rather than the actual aestethics or imaginary behind the film. It was such a hard topic to discuss. On one side, like Dali, he put so many subtext on the art direction revealing aspects of his own psique, but in the other side, they were the new surrealist wave and in fact did wanted to shock people as well, for the sake of it, as an instrument of revolution I guess. The problem with art I pointed then, is that you can put an apple on an empty room, take a photograph, hang it of an art gallery and people will think "oh that is art", and everyone will find diferent meanings to it. But many people will think, that is just an apple, and it doesnt try to say anything. The ultimate truth about whatever something is art or not i think is on the perspective of the author and his own definition of art. If the director of a film believed that this shot, this scene, this lines, where his artistic expression, I think it gives it more chances to be recognized as art to others. Like, many commercial asian Kung Fu films are so focused on the Action, the Special Effects, etc, and most of the time they are not directed by the writer, they even use different directors for the fight sequences and for the dialogue. But there is not a clear "Vision". I think Vision is the key to the art paradox. If the director had a vision, it connected with the actors, with the cinematographers, and we the audience also connected, even for a moment of even on separate scenes, it gaves us the sensation of art. I guess it is like the magic of film. The 7th art. I liked the idea achance42 gave us. [quote user="achance42"]I think the problem is that we think the quality of art is directly proportional to whatever intellectual or emotional stimulation it wears on its sleeve. [/quote] Spout Post: Definitions of Art. Unclassificables movies Art, Sex & Violence and others http://www.spout.com/groups/Asian_Art_Cinema/Definitions_of_Art_Unclassificables_movies_Art_S/412/15454/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: tinokiev
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Post Date: 7/20/2007 9:30:27 PM
Body: Personally I often find myself trying to classify or rate a film, specially asian ones and not finding a term or a category to put it on. It is like " a wong kar wai" film. Wong Kar Wai himself is a category of his own approach to aesthetics's, or you could said a "takashi mike" film and you know you are going to expect lots of blood. But still are hard to categorized. You cannot say "The postmen in the mountain" is a father-son movie only, or that "scent of the green papaya" is maturity. Etc. I think everyone is clear that there are just movies that do not fall into a genre and explore here and there into different categories that we recognize. And many of those movies ended up being referred to as "Art Film" or "Experimental". Anyway, I called this group "Asian Art Cinema" and while I was looking through some of the films I put in I found myself wondering. Is this and this film an "Asian art" film ?. And many people will probably argue and disagree with my concept or art. But being this an open group I kind of put any Asian film that I have watch. So please feel free to add films to the list even if you don't believe it is "Art" To take an example, we have "Oldboy" . I personally loved that movie. It was escene of extreme violence as well as what I consider to be extreme beauty (Hugging couple in the snow), It was a combination of sex and romance that i finded very well managed for being involved with "incest". There is Action, Comedy, Romance, Horror, Suspense, Dobule Personalities, and Detective like genre. But I still think this movie is an Art film, for his contemporary and different approach. Do you think that is art ? "In the realm of the senses" and "Lies"for example really makes people think what the whole film wanted to say or was about, apart from showing a lot of sex. Is that art ? Takashi Kitano Is one of the directors that mix the pure Art scenes by definition, with extreme violence, and it is not hard to classify "Hana Bi" (Fireworks) as an Art film. But will you say the same about his film "Violent Cop" ?So this discussion with myself is not going anywhere, but I hope you understand the confusion I have. To what point violence & Sex overcome a movie and tags it for it, How much until it goes in or out the "art" category. Is it ok to show extreme violence if is beautifully shot ? Or can we justify a rape scene by letting the rapist say a haiku ?Let me know what you think ! PD: I didn't mention western films with similar "dilemmas " like "irreversible " or "9 1/2 weeks". But I think the discussion can include same category of films even if they are not western. Ivan
]]>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:30:27 GMTtinokievAsian Art Cinema7/20/2007 9:30:27 PMPersonally I often find myself trying to classify or rate a film, specially asian ones and not finding a term or a category to put it on. It is like " a wong kar wai" film. Wong Kar Wai himself is a category of his own approach to aesthetics's, or you could said a "takashi mike" film and you know you are going to expect lots of blood. But still are hard to categorized. You cannot say "The postmen in the mountain" is a father-son movie only, or that "scent of the green papaya" is maturity. Etc. I think everyone is clear that there are just movies that do not fall into a genre and explore here and there into different categories that we recognize. And many of those movies ended up being referred to as "Art Film" or "Experimental". Anyway, I called this group "Asian Art Cinema" and while I was looking through some of the films I put in I found myself wondering. Is this and this film an "Asian art" film ?. And many people will probably argue and disagree with my concept or art. But being this an open group I kind of put any Asian film that I have watch. So please feel free to add films to the list even if you don't believe it is "Art" To take an example, we have "Oldboy" . I personally loved that movie. It was escene of extreme violence as well as what I consider to be extreme beauty (Hugging couple in the snow), It was a combination of sex and romance that i finded very well managed for being involved with "incest". There is Action, Comedy, Romance, Horror, Suspense, Dobule Personalities, and Detective like genre. But I still think this movie is an Art film, for his contemporary and different approach. Do you think that is art ? "In the realm of the senses" and "Lies"for example really makes people think what the whole film wanted to say or was about, apart from showing a lot of sex. Is that art ? Takashi Kitano Is one of the directors that mix the pure Art scenes by definition, with extreme violence, and it is not hard to classify "Hana Bi" (Fireworks) as an Art film. But will you say the same about his film "Violent Cop" ?So this discussion with myself is not going anywhere, but I hope you understand the confusion I have. To what point violence & Sex overcome a movie and tags it for it, How much until it goes in or out the "art" category. Is it ok to show extreme violence if is beautifully shot ? Or can we justify a rape scene by letting the rapist say a haiku ?Let me know what you think ! PD: I didn't mention western films with similar "dilemmas " like "irreversible " or "9 1/2 weeks". But I think the discussion can include same category of films even if they are not western. Ivan Spout Post: First and only movie I cried with http://www.spout.com/blogs/tinokiev/archive/2007/7/18/15183.aspx Post By: tinokiev
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Post Date: 7/18/2007 6:28:18 AM
Body: I went to watch this film with my dad, I was 11 or 12 years old. I didnt actually cried until I met my dad after the film ( cinema was full and we had to sit in different chairs). This film showcase a series of injustices comited against an Irish man and his that who happened to be at the wrong time in the wrong spot. It features a very strong and difficult relationship between father and son ,without trying to be its primary objective. It is a very well made combination of politics, prision stories, family, social classes, love and discrimination. The main cast it is incredible and there are many particular characters all around the film. It has really strong scenes of torture that contrast with other beautiful scenes like the burning papers falling down the prision windows. It is a film worth to watch.
]]>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:28:18 GMTtinokievtinokiev Blog7/18/2007 6:28:18 AMI went to watch this film with my dad, I was 11 or 12 years old. I didnt actually cried until I met my dad after the film ( cinema was full and we had to sit in different chairs). This film showcase a series of injustices comited against an Irish man and his that who happened to be at the wrong time in the wrong spot. It features a very strong and difficult relationship between father and son ,without trying to be its primary objective. It is a very well made combination of politics, prision stories, family, social classes, love and discrimination. The main cast it is incredible and there are many particular characters all around the film. It has really strong scenes of torture that contrast with other beautiful scenes like the burning papers falling down the prision windows. It is a film worth to watch. Spout Post: How to turn a 10 minute film into a 2 hour epic. http://www.spout.com/blogs/tinokiev/archive/2007/7/12/13720.aspx Post By: tinokiev
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Post Date: 7/12/2007 3:28:01 AM
Body: Loser with stupid parents is in love with hot chick interested in muscles, finds himself a robot car who choses him to save the world from an invasion of evil robots, during the process he gets the girl and saves the world.So first you get a terrible cast, fix them into cliche stereotypes, then come up with a bunch of punch line jokes about sex, puberty and robots. Spend one hour and a half trying to discover the secret of where the mistery, why the robots want it, etc., and suddenly make a random team of secret agents come and explain everything in 5 minutes.Take the secondary characters that you involved while trying to explain the whole thing (blonde fake australian girl and big fat hacker) and dissapear them from the existence. Take the main girl and turn her into a super tech geek, Get the good soldier to come back out of nowhere and help the hero to save the earth.Spend millions of dollars in animating random fights that look real and are no longer than 5 minutes in total, and spread them around the whole film.Spend the last 10 minutes on a voice over - epilogue of hapiness and lessons of life.
]]>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:28:01 GMTtinokievtinokiev Blog7/12/2007 3:28:01 AM Loser with stupid parents is in love with hot chick interested in muscles, finds himself a robot car who choses him to save the world from an invasion of evil robots, during the process he gets the girl and saves the world.So first you get a terrible cast, fix them into cliche stereotypes, then come up with a bunch of punch line jokes about sex, puberty and robots. Spend one hour and a half trying to discover the secret of where the mistery, why the robots want it, etc., and suddenly make a random team of secret agents come and explain everything in 5 minutes.Take the secondary characters that you involved while trying to explain the whole thing (blonde fake australian girl and big fat hacker) and dissapear them from the existence. Take the main girl and turn her into a super tech geek, Get the good soldier to come back out of nowhere and help the hero to save the earth.Spend millions of dollars in animating random fights that look real and are no longer than 5 minutes in total, and spread them around the whole film.Spend the last 10 minutes on a voice over - epilogue of hapiness and lessons of life. Spout Member:The_MOW - Mickey Micklon http://www.spout.com/members/148616/default.aspx Identity: The_MOW
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