Film Flam

[LMNO]

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yup.  Both creepy and boring, alternately.

[Medford Shmoo]

 

[Medford Shmoo]

It is slow paced I'll admit but that is for the purpose of creating atmosphere, which it does excellently.

[LMNO]

Were you stoned while watching it?




Honest question.  It would probably make it more enjoyable.

[Medford Shmoo]

I actually wasn't.

You're goddamn right about the creepiness though.

[Triple Zero]

It is slow paced I'll admit but that is for the purpose of creating atmosphere, which it does excellently.

Something which took the Earth several hundred millions of years.

I just checked, the movie is only 72 minutes, how can that be boring? Anyway the synopsis and screenshots look cool, I'm gonna check it out.

In the category of older movies that are pretty cool, but definitely way cooler when you're stoned (I saw it in multiple sittings, was stoned during one of them), I recently saw Liquid Sky ... as long as you can stomach the atonal proto-electro soundtrack permeating the whole movie (it's awesome, I downloaded the OST, but not for everyone I guess).
It's about the early 80s post-punk club scene in NYC where everybody is shooting heroin all the time, being all fashionable models and nihilistic before the hipsters did it before it was cool, and then tiny invisible aliens land and the main character gets raped a lot (though not gratuitously, it turns out to be part of the plot) all the while accompanied by a maddening disharmonic synthetic soundtrack that must have inspired Alec Empire when he created Nintendo Teenage Robots - We Punk-Einheit on a hacked/modified Gameboy plugged into a DAT-recorder.

[LMNO]

Liquid Sky was a blast -- The acting/direction/cinematography kind of sucked, but it had a spirit to the thing that made it enjoyable.  And yeah, the plot was mostly unexpected, which I liked.

[Medford Shmoo]

I've heard of Liquid Sky but I haven't seen it. Fantastic Planet has a great soundtrack too. Also, Forbidden Zone. Good god Forbidden Zone.

[Jenne]

Contagion = Pandemic II, The Movie! I really hope they slipped a scene about Madagascar in there.

  Troof.  I went and watched it yesterday.  It just reminded me of the movie with Dustin Hoffman in the 90s/early 2000s...forget the name of it.  Too lazy to imdb.  Anyway, it was good...and yeah, the instant-ookook-then-police-state was interesting, and



SPOILER ALERT






they kill off a buncha high-paid actresses.  But it was a pretty good flick.



I also saw "The Help," for which I read the book first.  AS ALWAYS the book was much better.  But still, not a dry eye in the theater, so that says something...

[Don Coyote]

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yes.

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yup.  Both creepy and boring, alternately.

This

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Just a "for the record".....

I'm not a huge Will Ferrell fan.  I think his best work was SNL and he's gone downhill since.  In any event the kids like him so we rented "Everything Must Go" this weekend.

It's not a comedy.  It was good, but it's not a comedy.

On another weird as shit movie note.  "The Beaver" with Mel Gibson.  Yeah, I think movies about insanity can be done funny, stupid or scary.  This is a prime example of "crazy shit man" movie.  Mel plays the part well, but that may be because he's insane in reality as well......

[Medford Shmoo]

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yes.

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yup.  Both creepy and boring, alternately.

This

[Suu]

Will Ferrell can act when he's not being annoying. Like in Stranger than Fiction.

[Don Coyote]

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yes.

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yup.  Both creepy and boring, alternately.

This

This reminds me that I need to subject my GF to this.

[Medford Shmoo]

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yes.

Anyone seen Fantastic Planet (the french title is Le Planet Savage')?

Yup.  Both creepy and boring, alternately.

This

This reminds me that I need to subject my GF to this.

What kinda flims do you like then smart guy? Huh? Huh?