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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:Ask Matty http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmspotting/Re_Ask_Matty/304/19909/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: schulen
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Body: Do you prefer straightforward storytelling or more experimental attempts at telling the story?
]]>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:30:39 GMTschulenFilmspotting9/19/2007 11:30:39 AMDo you prefer straightforward storytelling or more experimental attempts at telling the story? Spout Post: Re:Re:Top 5 Bad Movies by Great Directors http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Re_Top_5_Bad_Movies_by_Great_Directors/190/19846/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: schulen
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Post Date: 9/17/2007 2:11:58 AM
Body: Hulk was fucking awful... I considered it but I've never gotten Ang Lee. I've never been in to any of his movies, that I've seen, so I left it off.
]]>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:11:58 GMTschulenTop 59/17/2007 2:11:58 AMHulk was fucking awful... I considered it but I've never gotten Ang Lee. I've never been in to any of his movies, that I've seen, so I left it off. Spout Post: Top 5 Bad Movies by Great Directors http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Top_5_Bad_Movies_by_Great_Directors/190/19827/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: schulen
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Post Date: 9/16/2007 2:43:09 PM
Body: Planet of the Apes - Tim Burton.The Brothers Grimm - Terry Gilliam Bad News Bears - Richard LinklaterPsycho - Gus Van SantMost Woody Allen Movies Strange how great directors fuck up so many remakes. What do you think?
]]>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:43:09 GMTschulenTop 59/16/2007 2:43:09 PMPlanet of the Apes - Tim Burton.The Brothers Grimm - Terry Gilliam Bad News Bears - Richard LinklaterPsycho - Gus Van SantMost Woody Allen Movies Strange how great directors fuck up so many remakes. What do you think? Spout Post: Peculiar. http://www.spout.com/blogs/schulen/archive/2007/9/9/19553.aspx Post By: schulen
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Post Date: 9/9/2007 1:36:00 AM
Body: Imagine if the big ending in Hot Fuzz got turned in to an almost-2 hour movie, but more ridiculous.Then make that movie a whole lot stupider and you get this one.It wasn't bad... I guess. It was well made. Roughly every action scene had a gimmick and each one was clever. Mostly, though, the movie was fucking weird. Weird that it got made, weird that someone could think of it in the first place... everything that happened was weird...If it had been half an hour shorter it might have played as a brilliant satire on modern action flicks... but it was too long, the plot (while retarded) was too talked-about, and the score was too serious. At some point in between writing scenes about sniping babies and having sex during giant firefights, he tried to make things make sense. And, again, it was just fucking weird.
]]>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:36:00 GMTschulenschulen Blog9/9/2007 1:36:00 AMImagine if the big ending in Hot Fuzz got turned in to an almost-2 hour movie, but more ridiculous.Then make that movie a whole lot stupider and you get this one.It wasn't bad... I guess. It was well made. Roughly every action scene had a gimmick and each one was clever. Mostly, though, the movie was fucking weird. Weird that it got made, weird that someone could think of it in the first place... everything that happened was weird...If it had been half an hour shorter it might have played as a brilliant satire on modern action flicks... but it was too long, the plot (while retarded) was too talked-about, and the score was too serious. At some point in between writing scenes about sniping babies and having sex during giant firefights, he tried to make things make sense. And, again, it was just fucking weird. Spout Post: Re: Top Five Movies About Music http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_Five_Movies_About_Music/190/19540/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: schulen
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Post Date: 9/8/2007 9:41:19 PM
Body: Almost Famous - Philip Seymour Hoffman, explaining the relation of the music geek/journalist to the bands they revere is the moment that this film grows from an excellent comming-of-age story in to a profound and incrediby insightful examination of pop music, people who make pop music, and people who love pop music. Heartworn Highways - Country music was the original punk rock. it was honesty, gritty, rebellious, and aimed at the lowly. Then, it became the most commercially consistent and artistictically-lifeless genre of music not sung by earnest teenage boys. However, country as country was still exists. Rebranned as Americana or another half-dozen other names, there is a thriving community of artists blending folk, Hank Williams era country, and Buddy Holly era rock'n'roll, in to music too twangy for most, and too honest for CMT. This film follows some of the first, and some of the best, very early in their careers. If Townes Van Zandt's sing-along with his elderly neighbor doesn't make you cry, you're a weird fucking person.Velvet Goldmine - I'll defend the hell out of this incredibly misunderstood movie. Movies like Ray and Walk The Line do a fine job telling the story of interesting and remarkable musicians. This movie, however, does more. It brilliantly dramatizes the glam-rock culture of the time, both critically and with affection. Glam rock was art, and it was cheap shock. Glam rockers got it, at first, and then went too far. This movie isn't a movie about David Bowie, it's a movie about everything David Bowie's career, at that time, represents. From heartbreaking moments (Christian Bale screaming "That's me dad!" as he's longing to be outted) to asinine theatrics, this is a flick that doesn't just tell you about interesting characters, it assumes their personality. One get's the sense that if you asked David Bowie in 1972 to make a movie about David Bowie in 1972, he might have come up with this exact film. With something as abstract as music, and specific as glam rock music, taking that approach is inspired.High Fidelity - Maybe overrated, maybe fucking perfect. The Last Waltz - The Band. Good enough?
]]>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:41:19 GMTschulenTop 59/8/2007 9:41:19 PMAlmost Famous - Philip Seymour Hoffman, explaining the relation of the music geek/journalist to the bands they revere is the moment that this film grows from an excellent comming-of-age story in to a profound and incrediby insightful examination of pop music, people who make pop music, and people who love pop music. Heartworn Highways - Country music was the original punk rock. it was honesty, gritty, rebellious, and aimed at the lowly. Then, it became the most commercially consistent and artistictically-lifeless genre of music not sung by earnest teenage boys. However, country as country was still exists. Rebranned as Americana or another half-dozen other names, there is a thriving community of artists blending folk, Hank Williams era country, and Buddy Holly era rock'n'roll, in to music too twangy for most, and too honest for CMT. This film follows some of the first, and some of the best, very early in their careers. If Townes Van Zandt's sing-along with his elderly neighbor doesn't make you cry, you're a weird fucking person.Velvet Goldmine - I'll defend the hell out of this incredibly misunderstood movie. Movies like Ray and Walk The Line do a fine job telling the story of interesting and remarkable musicians. This movie, however, does more. It brilliantly dramatizes the glam-rock culture of the time, both critically and with affection. Glam rock was art, and it was cheap shock. Glam rockers got it, at first, and then went too far. This movie isn't a movie about David Bowie, it's a movie about everything David Bowie's career, at that time, represents. From heartbreaking moments (Christian Bale screaming "That's me dad!" as he's longing to be outted) to asinine theatrics, this is a flick that doesn't just tell you about interesting characters, it assumes their personality. One get's the sense that if you asked David Bowie in 1972 to make a movie about David Bowie in 1972, he might have come up with this exact film. With something as abstract as music, and specific as glam rock music, taking that approach is inspired.High Fidelity - Maybe overrated, maybe fucking perfect. The Last Waltz - The Band. Good enough? Spout Post: Re: Re-makes....... http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Re_makes/222/19511/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: schulen
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Post Date: 9/8/2007 12:48:13 PM
Body: "I would say another argument against remakes is the fact that studios are only going to greenlight so many movies a year and by doing so many remakes and sequels that is just that many less potentially more interesting original ideas that have been denied production." Now that I can see. Good point.
]]>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:48:13 GMTschulenHORROR MOVIES 1019/8/2007 12:48:13 PM"I would say another argument against remakes is the fact that studios are only going to greenlight so many movies a year and by doing so many remakes and sequels that is just that many less potentially more interesting original ideas that have been denied production." Now that I can see. Good point. Spout Post: Unexceptional, but good. http://www.spout.com/blogs/schulen/archive/2007/9/8/19510.aspx Post By: schulen
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Post Date: 9/8/2007 11:40:27 AM
Body: This flick is solid all the way through. Great performances across the board, well paced, and well shot. It's just not great. It's a middle-of-the-pack film with a wonderful cast, but it never rises to the level of it's talent. It lacks flare - visually, while competent and well shot, there's nothing especially interesting. The acting, which, again, is the only exceptional part of the film, simply doesn't have an interesting-enough story, engaging-enough screenplay, or cleverly-staged-enough scenes to make this movie as good as I wanted it to be. Entertaining, nonetheless.
]]>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:40:27 GMTschulenschulen Blog9/8/2007 11:40:27 AMThis flick is solid all the way through. Great performances across the board, well paced, and well shot. It's just not great. It's a middle-of-the-pack film with a wonderful cast, but it never rises to the level of it's talent. It lacks flare - visually, while competent and well shot, there's nothing especially interesting. The acting, which, again, is the only exceptional part of the film, simply doesn't have an interesting-enough story, engaging-enough screenplay, or cleverly-staged-enough scenes to make this movie as good as I wanted it to be. Entertaining, nonetheless. Spout Post: Re: Re-makes....... http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Re_makes/222/19225/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: schulen
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 9/1/2007 2:11:58 PM
Body: You're right that adding more gore and blood to make them modern is asinine. That's bad direction, though, and bad directors are gonna make shitty movies regardless, remake or originals. I'm not convinced that even the shittiest, most blatant attempts to cash-in remakes are a bad thing, though.Mainly because I'd seriously doubt that a terrible remake would damage the respect people hold for the original, and it might drive people to the original. Like The Invasion. It was an awful movie, but my roommate went out and rented the old Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers, which he'd never seen before, just to compare. Nobody dislikes the original because of the crappy remake, and now some new people (at least one) have watched an older movie they probably would never have seen and loved it. So who loses there? Everyone who wasted their time on the new one, sure, but that's true of any bad movie, remake or not, and the original flick has some new fans. So they can remake whatever they want and I won't complain, I'd just prefer they give the projects to people like Zombie, who at least actually care about them.In the first post you asked what we'd like to see remade, and I'd fucking kill for an Eyes Without A Face remake.
]]>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:11:58 GMTschulenHORROR MOVIES 1019/1/2007 2:11:58 PMYou're right that adding more gore and blood to make them modern is asinine. That's bad direction, though, and bad directors are gonna make shitty movies regardless, remake or originals. I'm not convinced that even the shittiest, most blatant attempts to cash-in remakes are a bad thing, though.Mainly because I'd seriously doubt that a terrible remake would damage the respect people hold for the original, and it might drive people to the original. Like The Invasion. It was an awful movie, but my roommate went out and rented the old Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers, which he'd never seen before, just to compare. Nobody dislikes the original because of the crappy remake, and now some new people (at least one) have watched an older movie they probably would never have seen and loved it. So who loses there? Everyone who wasted their time on the new one, sure, but that's true of any bad movie, remake or not, and the original flick has some new fans. So they can remake whatever they want and I won't complain, I'd just prefer they give the projects to people like Zombie, who at least actually care about them.In the first post you asked what we'd like to see remade, and I'd fucking kill for an Eyes Without A Face remake. Spout Post: Re: Re-makes....... http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Re_makes/222/19221/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: schulen
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 9/1/2007 12:19:50 PM
Body: If you can have remakes as good as Halloween, why not?The classic horror movies, Halloween included, become more dated, and in turn less effective, every day. If somebody sees Zombie's flick, then watches the original, and appreciates it versus thinking it's just an old boring horror film, that's ideal.I adore Psycho, but what are the odds that any casual movie-watcher is gonna be even remotely scared by it? Same for so many of the great horror flicks. I don't think remakes are anything to worry over. A good remake will both be a new film to love, and will up the respect the original gets from people who aren't horror fans necessarily. A bad remake will at least leave people saying "They fucked that up. It wasn't nearly as good as the original."
]]>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:19:50 GMTschulenHORROR MOVIES 1019/1/2007 12:19:50 PMIf you can have remakes as good as Halloween, why not?The classic horror movies, Halloween included, become more dated, and in turn less effective, every day. If somebody sees Zombie's flick, then watches the original, and appreciates it versus thinking it's just an old boring horror film, that's ideal.I adore Psycho, but what are the odds that any casual movie-watcher is gonna be even remotely scared by it? Same for so many of the great horror flicks. I don't think remakes are anything to worry over. A good remake will both be a new film to love, and will up the respect the original gets from people who aren't horror fans necessarily. A bad remake will at least leave people saying "They fucked that up. It wasn't nearly as good as the original." Spout Post: Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Guilty_Pleasure_films/190/19219/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: schulen
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Post Date: 9/1/2007 11:28:10 AM
Body: Red Dawn... fucking love this flick. So much 80s cheese. Charlie Sheen shoots a commie with an arrow. So rad.Factory Girl.... everyone hates it, I dig it. Anything with Warhol's name on it, and I'm in.. and I feel like the film really got Warhol. Hackers... there's pretty much nothing good about this movie, but I love it so much. I can't even really say why. I'll watch ten times in a row without getting sick of it, though.Open Water... There's so much in this movie that I hate. Typical indie pointless close-ups (zoom in on keys turning!), pointless nudity, laugh-track worthy marital dialogue... but for some reason, as a whole, I really love this film.Most Owen Wilson/Ben Stiller/That Crew In General movies... they've had some classics, sure (Zoolander, Dodgeball)... but I adore their crappy pictures just as much. Starsky and Hutch? Love it. Night at the Museum? Kept me entertained, thoroughly. Shanghai Noon? Ate it up. Wilson, or Stiller in a flick, and I'll love at least one aspect of it. Just keep Will Ferrell the hell away from it.
]]>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:28:10 GMTschulenTop 59/1/2007 11:28:10 AMRed Dawn... fucking love this flick. So much 80s cheese. Charlie Sheen shoots a commie with an arrow. So rad.Factory Girl.... everyone hates it, I dig it. Anything with Warhol's name on it, and I'm in.. and I feel like the film really got Warhol. Hackers... there's pretty much nothing good about this movie, but I love it so much. I can't even really say why. I'll watch ten times in a row without getting sick of it, though.Open Water... There's so much in this movie that I hate. Typical indie pointless close-ups (zoom in on keys turning!), pointless nudity, laugh-track worthy marital dialogue... but for some reason, as a whole, I really love this film.Most Owen Wilson/Ben Stiller/That Crew In General movies... they've had some classics, sure (Zoolander, Dodgeball)... but I adore their crappy pictures just as much. Starsky and Hutch? Love it. Night at the Museum? Kept me entertained, thoroughly. Shanghai Noon? Ate it up. Wilson, or Stiller in a flick, and I'll love at least one aspect of it. Just keep Will Ferrell the hell away from it. Spout Post: Different flick, great flick. http://www.spout.com/blogs/schulen/archive/2007/9/1/19218.aspx Post By: schulen
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Post Date: 9/1/2007 11:06:17 AM
Body: This isn't a remake as much as it is a genre pic... it just so happens that Halloween IS the genre. It manages to give you the backstory without being sympathetic, convenient, or trite (Hannibal Rising couldn't pull it off) and when we cut to 15-years-later, it's the Michael everyone knows, done about the best as it's been done since the original. Whether it was worth making is arguable, but it's definitely worth seeing.
]]>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:06:17 GMTschulenschulen Blog9/1/2007 11:06:17 AMThis isn't a remake as much as it is a genre pic... it just so happens that Halloween IS the genre. It manages to give you the backstory without being sympathetic, convenient, or trite (Hannibal Rising couldn't pull it off) and when we cut to 15-years-later, it's the Michael everyone knows, done about the best as it's been done since the original. Whether it was worth making is arguable, but it's definitely worth seeing. Spout Post: Re: Total Film's Greatest Directors Ever List http://www.spout.com/groups/Directors/Re_Total_Film_s_Greatest_Directors_Ever_List/406/19015/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: schulen
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Post Date: 8/28/2007 3:53:33 PM
Body: I don't see the point of such an expansive list. Trying to word this properly... the 100 greatest directors is, essentially, name every director you can think of with more than one great film under his belt and then order them, right? Obviously that's not strictly, across the books true, but if you're allowing for 100 directors, you're not making any tough cuts. It's really just, think of directors. As for the top 10, the important part, I don't see anything very risky there. PJ and Fincher haven't earned their way on there yet, but other than that, it's the list you usually hear. Generally, at least.
]]>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:53:33 GMTschulenDirectors8/28/2007 3:53:33 PMI don't see the point of such an expansive list. Trying to word this properly... the 100 greatest directors is, essentially, name every director you can think of with more than one great film under his belt and then order them, right? Obviously that's not strictly, across the books true, but if you're allowing for 100 directors, you're not making any tough cuts. It's really just, think of directors. As for the top 10, the important part, I don't see anything very risky there. PJ and Fincher haven't earned their way on there yet, but other than that, it's the list you usually hear. Generally, at least. Spout Post: Re: Top 5 Tear Jerking Scenes http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Tear_Jerking_Scenes/190/18998/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: schulen
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Post Date: 8/28/2007 12:49:10 PM
Body: In The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada, when they arrive at the town and find the woman from the photo and she refuses to talk to them, and Tommy Lee Jones says, "Please. He was my friend," I teared up. Jones, in that movie, was so heartbreaking. Same movie, when the blind mind, without even a hint of sadness, asks to be shot, my heart just dropped. And, in Chumscrubber, which was definitely a hit-or-miss flick, the big scene near the end when he tells the mom all about her son really hit me hard. I don't know if I teared up, but for such an uneven movie it was a remarkably strong emotional payoff. "He liked you," was such a great line, against the grain of the movie completely. If its a top 5, trying to keep it recent, the end of Rescue Dawn had me good, and in Talk To Me where they all find out Martin Luther King Jr has died and start weeping, that was really heavy. Only truly great scene in that film, really, but one of the best scenes of the year.
]]>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:49:10 GMTschulenTop 58/28/2007 12:49:10 PMIn The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada, when they arrive at the town and find the woman from the photo and she refuses to talk to them, and Tommy Lee Jones says, "Please. He was my friend," I teared up. Jones, in that movie, was so heartbreaking. Same movie, when the blind mind, without even a hint of sadness, asks to be shot, my heart just dropped. And, in Chumscrubber, which was definitely a hit-or-miss flick, the big scene near the end when he tells the mom all about her son really hit me hard. I don't know if I teared up, but for such an uneven movie it was a remarkably strong emotional payoff. "He liked you," was such a great line, against the grain of the movie completely. If its a top 5, trying to keep it recent, the end of Rescue Dawn had me good, and in Talk To Me where they all find out Martin Luther King Jr has died and start weeping, that was really heavy. Only truly great scene in that film, really, but one of the best scenes of the year. Spout Member:The_MOW - Mickey Micklon http://www.spout.com/members/148616/default.aspx Identity: The_MOW
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