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Re:Manda Bala
By TheWorkingDead in Spout Mavens
"Here is my totally tardy review of Manda Bala. Read it and weep. " [More]

Manda Bala

Spout #11: Manda Bala
By TheWorkingDead in TheWorkingDead Blog
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"This review is a long time coming. A very long time. It's been weeks since I saw, and loved, Manda Bala, and yet I haven't gotten off my ass(or, to be truthful of my actions right now, ON my ass) to write up a review, or even a collection of thoughts. Manda Bala was excellent, more than I expected in every way possible, and yet I find myself grasping for things to say about it. The movie speaks for itself so perfectly that I don't think I could add anything that would heighten the experience. Or maybe I'm just having trouble finding a way into the movie.Manda Bala is a documentary about... well... just what is it about? It opens with a man being interviewed about frog farming in Brazil, and he good-naturedly refuses to answer questions about some sort of scandal involving frog farming. So is it about frog farming and government corruption? Yes. The movie then shows us a young businessman who has invested thousands of dollars into protection, walks with a dummy wallet for random(and ... " [More]

Re:Top 5 weirdest movies
By TheWorkingDead in Top 5
"[quote user="Risselada"] I'm just realy surprised that nothing by Alejandro Jodorowsky has been mentioned. Surely he must trump even Lynch, and certainly some of the kind of midly weird not not THAT weird folks like Gilliam or Junet. [/quote] Well, c'mon then, you can't just dismiss our choices as 'not weird enough' and not put up any of your own choices. Educate us. " [More]

Inland Empire

Re:Top 5 weirdest movies
By TheWorkingDead in Top 5
"Gozu/Izo: I know, I'm cheating by putting two films on here in one spot, but I can't decide which is weirder, and they're both by Takashi Miike. So if you're #5 spot can contain a whole list of movies, than I can include one tie. Gozu is a weird road trip as a yakuza tries to find and dispose of the body of his mentor in the weirdest small town this side of Twin Peaks. A man who collects the skins of dead Yakuza members for their tattoos, a woman who runs an inn and sells her breast milk to the town, and a giant minotaur demon are only three of the increasingly strange people he runs into. Izo is the tale of one man's rampage as he kills his way towards heaven, moving through time and space with every camera angle. There is not one 5 minute stretch of the film that takes place in one time period, and often past and future exist in the same setting. And, I have to be uncool and admit, I don't understand a lick of it. Inland Empire You had this as an honorary mention, and I'm putting ... " [More]

Wanted
By TheWorkingDead in The Film Library
"First off, no, this isn't becoming the comic book film club. I have some none comic related stuff in the works, but I just saw Wanted this past weekend and had a few thoughts. Also, it's the summer movie season, so this is the type of film we're getting. In the fall it'll be different. I haven't read all of Wanted, but I've read enough of the issues to know that the movie is drastically different, while fundamentally similar. In the comic, the main character learns his recently deceased father was part of the Fraternity, not a league of assassins, but a league of honest to god supervillains. Seems awhile back, the supervillains won the war with the heroes, and rewrote history so that everyone believes superheroes are only the stuff of comic books, leaving the villains to comfortably rule the world from behind the scenes. In movie form, directed by Timur Bakmembatov(director of the similarly insane Nightwatch over in Russia), Wesley Gibson(James McAvoy) isn't invited into a club of ... " [More]

Re:Wall-e
By TheWorkingDead in I Love Childrens Movies
"Well, Abby(or Indie? How would you like your name shortened for convenience?), I have to say that I was excited about Wall-E from the start. Something about that early trailer, and the way he said his name, it gave me a chill. But, I've also learned to just trust Pixar. I stayed away from Cars in the theatre because it looked kinda dumb, and I have an intense dislike of Larry the Cable Guy. And yet on video I thought it was sweet and funny, and obviously made with love. Probably the slightest of their films, but still great. And Wall-E. Wow. I think I say, about every Pixar movie, that it's the greatest, so expect me to be saying this again next year, but Wall-E knocked my socks off. I loved every damn minute of it. Forget the animation(which blew me away at parts), and forget that Wall-E looks like Johnny 5(which is excusable, because it's a pretty convenient design for emoting), the story and artistry and experimentalism were miles beyond what we normally expect in our summer mov ... " [More]

Re:Wall-e
By TheWorkingDead in I Love Childrens Movies
"[quote user="indieabby88"] I just got back from seeing "Wall-e," and I thought it was a great balance of thoughtful post-apocalyptic re-imagining, space adventure and cute kid's movie. About a year ago, I wrote in a post regarding "Ratatouille" in another group saying that I wasn't convinced by "Wall-e's" concept. It seemed a little far-fetched. By the time the actual full trailers came out, I had changed my mind a bit, and now that I've seen the movie, I'm a total convert. Any thoughts? Agreement? Disagreement? Let's get talking, people! [/quote] Oooh, I can't wait to give you a full reply tomorrow, when I get home from watching it. We've been counting down the days in this house, because my daughter is super ultra excited for it. Every time we go to the store or work(leaving her with grandma, of course, not neglecting her), she asks if we saw Wall-E without her. She's so sad about it. But tomorrow we're gonna go see it, and I'm super ultra excited, too. " [More]

Lost Highway

The Church of Cinema: Lost Highway
By TheWorkingDead in TheWorkingDead Blog
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"In the spring of 1997, my life was changed forever.In the spring of 1997 I was out of high school, and doing nothing but lounging around and hanging out with my friends, working the occasional odd job for a temp agency here and there for spending money. Larger and more verifiable changes would be coming in the fall and winter, after I started going to college and began to expand my horizons past my basement apartment in my mom's house. And yet the spring of 1997 marked an important shift in both my perception of the world and my habits within it. Most of the time revelations are seen in hindsight, people rarely recognize life changing moments as they happen. But this time I did.In the spring of 1997, Lost Highway came to town.Lost Highway may seem like an odd film to lionize as much as I'm about to, especially considering it's reception, which ranges from outright hatred to bored indifference. A hardcore David Lynch fan is unlikely to point out Lost Highway as a pinnacle of his car ... " [More]

The Shining

The Church of Cinema: A Preamble
By TheWorkingDead in TheWorkingDead Blog
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"I love movies, obviously, and I love my home entertainment center. I love DVD(and, slowly, I will come to love Blu-Ray), and I love popping a disc into the player in the wee hours before I go to bed at night. But above all, I love going out to the theatre. I don't do it as often as I once did, or as often as I'd like. Partly that's due to the consequences of having an 8-5 job, a child, bills, and a healthy ongoing relationship. But it's also partly due to the changing theatre experience. And yet, despite the fact that theatre chains are charging us more for less, and all major chains now play television commercials and military propaganda advertisements-sometimes under the guise of an exclusive 'short film'- I will continue to treasure the theatrical experience above the home theatre experience. There's just something to be said for surrounding yourself with strangers in a dark room while this fantasy plays out in larger than life scales, knowing that for those few brief hours you ... " [More]

Re:How has horror scarred (yes, ...
By TheWorkingDead in HORROR MOVIES 101
"Spoilers still in effect for the Village. Due Warning. [quote user="Dr_Gor"] [/quote] I am going to talk about this again in another discussion in reply to our 'Divine Ms Junebug'. I actually like the fims of M. Knight Shyamalan. 'Signs' is my favorite but it is not a 'great' movie by any means. As for 'The Village' , I saw that one shortly after it's release and I deliberately didn't read anything about it or the 'surprise ending' ... * SPOILERS HERE >>> ... I saw that ending coming from about 100 miles away. I pretty much had it figured out from the previews and once I started watching it, within about 10 to 15 minutes, I knew how it was going to end. But one thing kept bothering while I was watching this, no matter WHERE in the world you are living, how could it be possible that NO ONE in this village has ever seen an airplane flying overhead !?! ... But that is neatly explained at the end ... I STILL LIKED it and I thought it had a lot of GR ... " [More]

Re:The Incredible Hulk
By TheWorkingDead in The Film Library
"Ok, well, I just went to see this last night, and I can't say I was surprised. In the end I liked it, enjoyed it even, but it was less of just about everything the first movie offered. Less drama, less style, less originality, less emotion, less talent, less ambition. Even the music was bland in comparison to Danny Elfman's music, which had a great mad scientist vibe to it. The only thing this film had more of was action. A whole bunch of stuff blowed up real good in this film. But, it wasn't bad. It wasn't The Fantastic Four, or Spider-Man 3, or X-Men 3. But I did enjoy myself. And I got a bit of a geeky thrill when I realized who the villain for the next film would be. Now, obviously they're setting this all up for the big Avengers movie in 2010. They've set up the Mandarin as the next Iron Man villain, and they've set up the villain for the next Hulk movie. I'm wondering if they might actually be setting up the story for the Avengers, if it will be a huge catastrophic event mast ... " [More]

Re:Iron Man
By TheWorkingDead in The Film Library
"Iron Man isn't a comic I pick up, but I do read it every now and then. I would go buy the Iron Man: Extremis graphic novel(or download it, or check it out from the library). It's a really awesome storyline that recaps a bit of his origin while also laying the template for the current way Iron Man is portrayed in comics. It's all types of awesome. I actually think that the comic movies will avoid the continuity heavy stuff, knowing that the average fan will be someone not reading the comics for the past 30 years. That's also probably why they're doing all the individual characters movies first(aside from Capt. America), so that general audiences will be primed for a movie featuring this established super team(on a related note, Ant-Man directed by Edgar Wright will be so damned awesome). I, like you, am a DC person, although lately you need a PhD in comic book history to understand the current stories. I had a real big change of heart about Superman a few years back, and really love ... " [More]

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