tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post113753019940977799..comments2024-02-23T05:17:08.682-05:00Comments on The Film Freak Central Blog: Ch. . Ch. .. ChaaaainBill Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137978343377017832006-01-22T20:05:00.000-05:002006-01-22T20:05:00.000-05:00HiLong time reader and fan of FFC.you´re one of th...Hi<BR/>Long time reader and fan of FFC.you´re one of the few bastions of thoughtfull and smart movie criticism in the internet.So thanks for 3 years of meaningful insights even if i might not always agree,your reviews are always a deeply fascinating read.<BR/>My two cents on Cameron´s Titanic:<BR/>it´s been said a thousand times before but i love how the movies harkens back to silent melodramas.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137977243551506442006-01-22T19:47:00.000-05:002006-01-22T19:47:00.000-05:00My problem with True Lies actually lies in the mis...My problem with <I>True Lies</I> actually lies in the mistreatment of the Jamie Lee Curtis character, which frankly startled me after Cameron showed so much sensitivity to women in <I>Aliens</I>, <I>The Abyss</I>, and <I>T2</I>. And her every humiliation is played for laughs.Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137968613961838132006-01-22T17:23:00.000-05:002006-01-22T17:23:00.000-05:00Saw "Hybrid". Great doc. Wish it was on dvd.Saw "Hybrid". Great doc. Wish it was on dvd.Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137951333611254282006-01-22T12:35:00.000-05:002006-01-22T12:35:00.000-05:00Re: Rip TornAnd don't forget BeastmasterRe: Rip Torn<BR/><BR/>And don't forget BeastmasterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137948015811912672006-01-22T11:40:00.000-05:002006-01-22T11:40:00.000-05:00Do "important" films recognized as such at the tim...Do "important" films recognized as such at the time really become unimportant? Or do they change/influence the environment they're born into so that their own importance becomes a given, and therefore part of the wallpaper?Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137938408618413582006-01-22T09:00:00.000-05:002006-01-22T09:00:00.000-05:00Re: Albert Brooks' Defending Your LifeI agree that...Re: Albert Brooks' <I>Defending Your Life</I><BR/><BR/>I agree that <I>Defending Your Life</I> is the Brooks film that doesn't suffer from the writer/director/star's more annoying tendencies. The great supporting cast (Torn, Streep) helps. It gets way too sentimental towards the end (and the Brooks' character's redemption isn't fully earned because no real risk was involved) but the clever visionJames Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964207789326645793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137919792307988902006-01-22T03:49:00.000-05:002006-01-22T03:49:00.000-05:00Bill:Ah, thanks for confirming my vague suspicion....Bill:<BR/><BR/>Ah, thanks for confirming my vague suspicion. Sometimes it is dangerous to throw out an opinion on a movie that you loved before you started really thinking about movies. I said it before, but I must say it again: Rip Torn never disappoints me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137916498499034262006-01-22T02:54:00.000-05:002006-01-22T02:54:00.000-05:00Duly noted, but consider any list we put up an imp...Duly noted, but consider any list we put up an implicit invitation to post your own, folks.Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137914135728724722006-01-22T02:15:00.000-05:002006-01-22T02:15:00.000-05:00The conversation drying up so fast; I'm hoping the...The conversation drying up so fast; I'm hoping the next blog posting will invite us to post our Bottom 10's for 2005, but in the meantime, here's a question for all: what do you all like/hate about James Cameron's <B>Titanic</B>?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137901156027214352006-01-21T22:39:00.000-05:002006-01-21T22:39:00.000-05:00I don't know, Nate. Maybe it's just me because I a...I don't know, Nate. Maybe it's just me because I am really starting to annoy my friends too. I just can't seem to like most films these days, even the ones that I'm supposed to like or atleast would have loved a year ago (The New World, Nobody Knows etc.). Somehow I feel that film-makers are just not putting their balls on the line. <BR/><BR/>Most of my dissapointment was made up for by the "Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137821716412837882006-01-21T00:35:00.000-05:002006-01-21T00:35:00.000-05:00Saw "The New World". Wouldn't say that I was blown...Saw "The New World". Wouldn't say that I was blown away, but certainly impressed. Few major problems: <BR/><BR/>Colin Ferrel sucks. <BR/><BR/>For the first time Terrence Malick had a hint of irony in his tone. Prime example of that would be the royal palace scene where he ends it by Pocahantas looking at a caged animal. It's clever and subtle but strange coming from the guy who believes in Hollow Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16027400445729272871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137812687222718462006-01-20T22:04:00.000-05:002006-01-20T22:04:00.000-05:00Glover has a gift for putting the absolute zaniest...Glover has a gift for putting the absolute zaniest spin on the most pedestrian dialogue. I'm also partial to his "I'm making my lunch!" from <I>Wild at Heart</I>.<BR/><BR/>That reminds me: how inexplicable is it that Crispin G. is in Robert Zemeckis' new movie? Even as recently as last year they were still nursing their decades-long feud.Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137806918043440372006-01-20T20:28:00.000-05:002006-01-20T20:28:00.000-05:00Defending Your Life is sensational, and probably t...<I>Defending Your Life</I> is sensational, and probably the least narcissistic of Brooks' movies. Nice work from Rip Torn while we're at it. The "Past Lives Pavilion" kills me every time.Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137804274447616832006-01-20T19:44:00.000-05:002006-01-20T19:44:00.000-05:00All this talk about Albert Brooks makes me wish I ...All this talk about Albert Brooks makes me wish I had a copy of <I>Defending Your Life</I> squirreled away somewhere. I love it, but I've seen it so many times, over so many years, that I don't dare trust my own opinion on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137790031015864612006-01-20T15:47:00.000-05:002006-01-20T15:47:00.000-05:00Hee hee--I'd been down on Foundas since his pan of...Hee hee--I'd been down on Foundas since his pan of Oldboy but he redeems himself here.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07586745705845953173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137787147084935712006-01-20T14:59:00.000-05:002006-01-20T14:59:00.000-05:00Re: Scott FoundasVery nice retort from Scott, alth...Re: Scott Foundas<BR/><BR/>Very nice retort from Scott, although shooting holes through Ebert's paper thin argument was akin to shooting fish in a barrel. Had to be done though. I still wonder why Ebert threw such a grenade into the crowd to begin with.<BR/><BR/>And speaking of Ebert, he's on another 3-star kick the last couple weeks (his lists of "current reviews" and "Ebert Recommends" are the James Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03964207789326645793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137778974004942312006-01-20T12:42:00.000-05:002006-01-20T12:42:00.000-05:00Bill C said...Not as big on River's Edge as I was ...<I>Bill C said...<BR/>Not as big on River's Edge as I was when I was a kid, but it does have one of my favourite lines of dialogue in any movie, uttered by His Woah-ness Keanu Reeves: "All you do is eat my food and fuck my mother, you food-eater motherfucker!"</I><BR/><BR/>The inexpressiveness of the kids in the movie always pleased me ... Keanu may have been the best at it. These kids, like all Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137775693585371232006-01-20T11:48:00.000-05:002006-01-20T11:48:00.000-05:00Scott Foundas goes back at La Ebert.<B><A HREF="http://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&task=view&id=12416&Itemid=47" REL="nofollow">Scott Foundas goes back at La Ebert</A></B>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137774684996134522006-01-20T11:31:00.000-05:002006-01-20T11:31:00.000-05:00Incidently, Alan Clarke's Made in Britain and Scum...Incidently, Alan Clarke's Made in Britain and Scum are on my Netflix cue to be watched after I plow through eight more 2005 releases in preparation for my Best Of list. <BR/><BR/>Harmony Korine led me there first.Alex Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13028946403342782184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137773113918096172006-01-20T11:05:00.000-05:002006-01-20T11:05:00.000-05:00Hey Chad - if you still have Out of the Past - cue...Hey Chad - if you still have <I>Out of the Past</I> - cue up that early scene on the beach and watch as Mitchum subtly gets framed against a fishing net like a bug on a web. Brilliant flick - the prototypical example of the form in my head - particularly love Kirk Douglas' baddie: chiseled, angular, razor-sharp.<BR/><BR/>Delinquent flicks, huh? A whole genre in the '50s, of course, with stuff Walter_Chawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14314737706201691225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137769170489956852006-01-20T09:59:00.000-05:002006-01-20T09:59:00.000-05:00You might wanna try "Better Luck Tomorrow." That ...You might wanna try "Better Luck Tomorrow." That certainly has its own perspective on things.<BR/><BR/>--KimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137741219042727472006-01-20T02:13:00.000-05:002006-01-20T02:13:00.000-05:00Not as big on River's Edge as I was when I was a k...Not as big on <I>River's Edge</I> as I was when I was a kid, but it does have one of my favourite lines of dialogue in any movie, uttered by His Woah-ness Keanu Reeves: "All you do is eat my food and fuck my mother, you food-eater motherfucker!"Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137738981896964752006-01-20T01:36:00.000-05:002006-01-20T01:36:00.000-05:00Bad Boys is an '80s classic of juvenile delinquenc...<I>Bad Boys</I> is an '80s classic of juvenile delinquency-exploitation, if you ask me. Looks at the system from within and without. But ultimate props to Alex for his masterful list, in particular <I>River's Edge</I> -- one that haunted me at the time but didn't emerge from memory right away.<BR/><BR/>Gus van Sant's <I>Elephant</I>, maybe?Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137730120797932742006-01-19T23:08:00.000-05:002006-01-19T23:08:00.000-05:00Off-topic, on an older one, thought you all might ...Off-topic, on an older one, thought you all might be interested in this:<BR/><BR/>http://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&task=view&id=12416&Itemid=47Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-1137714570584260352006-01-19T18:49:00.000-05:002006-01-19T18:49:00.000-05:00I had a similiar assignment for my class in adoles...I had a similiar assignment for my class in adolescent development and I chose <I>River's Edge</I>. I think that that's still a good pic as far as sociological content goes.<BR/><BR/><I>Kids</I> is an obvious choice, but it's a goodie; illustrating Bandura's (was it?) theory of encapsulation. Clark's next three films <I>Another Day in Paradise</I>, <I>Bully</I>, and <I>Ken Park</I> take kind of Alex Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13028946403342782184noreply@blogger.com