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Your friend with benefits was seduced by the Quixotic Side of the Prudence. He ceased to be Anakin Creviceinvader and *became* Darth Analgashectomy.

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Interested in:Action, Avant-garde / Experimental, Comedy, Comedy Drama, Crime, Culture & Society, Epic, Fantasy, Historical Film, Science & Technology, Science Fiction, Spy Film, Thriller, War, Western

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Funny Games

Re:Michael Haneke Marathon
By unclefestering in Movie Marathons
"[quote user="leeroy711"] Oh yeah.... I guess I didn't specify which Funny Games to watch..... I've seen the original German version. I've heard the American remake was almost shot for shot the same so I guess it probably doesn't matter. I'll probably stick with the original because it will keep the schedule in chronological order but whatever. [/quote] I'm loaded for this, although I personally thought that Funny Games ws way overrated. I've gone with the original one this time. Maybe that will improve it. " [More]

Videodrome

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By unclefestering in Weekly Theme
"The first movie I thought of for this theme was Videodrome. It is one of my favorite early Cronenberg movies. If you see it, skip the R-rated version and go for the director's cut. It make everthing much clearer, well as clear as Cronenberg gets. I heard that someone is talking about re-making this. Not sure who or if it is beyond the rumor stage. To Die For is an uneven but enjoyable film about the merger of fame, television and obsession. " [More]

Tribulation 99 - Alien Anomalies Under America

Tribulation 99 -- Review
By unclefestering in unclefestering Blog
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"I came across this movie in an article in the New York TImes on the director, Craig Baldwin and his newer movie Mock Up on Mu. I threw both of these movies into my Netflix queue and forgot all about them. This movie was amazing fun. Told as if it is a documentary from a conspiracy theorist's vault, Tribulation 99 explores how an ancient race of aliens living under Central America has been actively working to destroy America. The footage that makes up the entire movie is a pastiche of Mexican Wrestling movies, Japanese monster movies, 50's science fiction and standard American history stock footage. The mix of all these sources are forged into a new story that washes over you like the ravings of a madman. It reminded me of the first time I read H.P. Lovecraft. It has that same weird sense of this is our world and yet not. I would hesitate to recommend this movie to everyone. One problem is that you get the feeling that in order to get around copyright protections on his sources, Bal ... " [More]

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By unclefestering in Movie Polls
"I was so close to Zatoichi vs The Matrix, because I love the idea of the blind swordsman who sees more clearly than the sighted around him going up against the machines which manipulate the senses. In the end I pulled the trigger on Harry vs. Hannibal. They are almost the opposites that always attract. " [More]

Re:What is your favorite movie ...
By unclefestering in Movie Polls
"[quote user="superdrive0"] I had to go with Blade Runner because, well... it's the only one of those that I've seen! It is a super awesome movie though, and it looks like everyone else thinks so too. :) [/quote] I also went with Blade Runner because it captures both the feel and essence of the Dick story, but made it completely it's own. I have to stick up for A Scanner Darkly. I thought the use of rotoscoping was a pretty inventive tool to visually present the movie. Much more effective than Waking Life. I can understand people who are underwhelmed by it since it has been co-opted by investment commercials. I also thought that the acting was pretty good. " [More]

Alphaville

Has anyone seen Alphaville?
By unclefestering in Friends of Foreign Flicks
"The other night I watched Alphaville as part of an effort to watch movies that I always heard were good, but I had avoided for some reason or another. I really enjoyed the movie, but found myself confused and it took me a long time to realize why. I was watching a science fiction movie with no visual effects. Despite being set in the future, Alphaville was clearly Paris and everyone was dressed in 60s fashions and driving 60s cars. The characters talk about traveling from galaxy to galaxy, but seem to do it by driving on highways. Has anyone else been confused by this disconnect that Godard clearly intended? " [More]

Bolt

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By unclefestering in Weekly Theme
"[quote user="mercurial"] Has anyone seen Bolt? I've heard only good things about and should probably see it before it leaves theaters. [/quote] I have to say that I've never been fond of animated animals so I'm not going near Bolt. For the dog movie that never fails to get me you have to go with Old Yeller. You would never get the movie made today at least not without a magical change at the end. And despite it being so incredibly flawed and ineptly done I should hate it, I secretly do enjoy White Fang. If you see it without having read the book, you've made a HUGE mistake. " [More]

A Boy and His Dog

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By unclefestering in Weekly Theme
"Well as I learned in A Boy and his Dog, you've got to put him in the best friend category, unless of course he gets really hungry. " [More]

Jaws

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"[quote user="Dr_Gor"] Moby Dick : Melville's classic story was actually based on a TRUE (!) occurence in which a large white whale intentionally rammed a whaling ship and sank it, killing most,or all of the crewmen! Jaws : The original. This was loosely based on the above story and is very much about revenge. Quint has dedicated his life to killing every shark he sees in revenge for the horrors that he endured following the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Chief Brody is seeking revenge against the shark that terrorized his community and ate some it's citizens. < GOR > [/quote] Isn't Jaws based on a series of shark attacks at the Jersey Shore during the summer of 1911? All the attacks were traced back to the same Great White. " [More]

Diabolique

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By unclefestering in unclefestering Blog
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"I had been meaning to watch Wages of Fear for a long time. One of the reasons that I kept putting it off was because, it is one of those movies that is universally praised. This always makes me nervous because I don’t want to be disappointed by setting the bar to high in my mind before I watch the movie. This movie doesn’t disappoint. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot, often compared to Hitchcock in his mastery of suspense, is clearly at the height of his craft here. It is a story of desperate men gambling with their lives in order to regain at least the sense of freedom and purpose. The movie takes place in an industrial town in South America. (The locations isn’t clearly stated, but it is implied that the town is in Venezuela) The locals who are lucky work for an American oil company. But aside from the locals, the town is also a kind of last haven for scoundrels who are forced to lie and cheat each other to survive, because they are unable to get work. The movie f ... " [More]

The Wages of Fear

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

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By unclefestering in Weekly Theme
"[quote user="rjsprague"] My sister pointed out to me that every Christopher Nolan movie is about revenge. :) [/quote] Another person who has made their career on revenge is Mel Gibson. From Mad Max (OK any of the Mad Max movies) to Braveheart to The Bounty and Ransom, almost all of his movies are about getting screwed over in the worst way possible and then getting his Payback. Of course I prefer the John Boorman/Lee Marvin tale of vengenge, Point Blank to Payback, but you can take your pick. " [More]

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