A purely by accident Elizabeth Banks double feature (I didn't realize she was in the second one):
Zack & Miri Make a Porno (2008; Kevin Smith) 6/10
Role Models (2008; David Wain) 6/10
They kind of balance each other out: Smith is, hands down, a vastly superior director than Wain--at least Smith knows how to shoot a movie so it looks professional, and as a writer, gives deeper characters for his actors to play (especially Ms. Banks, who's thoroughly radiant here)--but Role Models is, without question, the more laugh-out-loud, consistently hilarious film (though I could've gladly done without the homophobic jibes--at least Smith has the graciousness to include us gays in on the joke).
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Last Seen Movie - The Latest Movie You Have Seen; ratings
From earlier...
Tropic Thunder
5/10
Too low or way too high. Parts of it were fun but 'Tropic Thunder' becomes its own Tropic Thunder after not too long. It reveals itself as a self-absorbed celebration of its own assholery by the end of it, kind of a big mess. Robert Downey Jr.'s motormouthed persona hasn't gotten old for me but this is genuinely the first time since 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' that he's done anything new.
Tropic Thunder
5/10
Too low or way too high. Parts of it were fun but 'Tropic Thunder' becomes its own Tropic Thunder after not too long. It reveals itself as a self-absorbed celebration of its own assholery by the end of it, kind of a big mess. Robert Downey Jr.'s motormouthed persona hasn't gotten old for me but this is genuinely the first time since 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang' that he's done anything new.
"How's the despair?"
Big Magilla wrote:The Tracey Fragments - 1 0ut of 10, only because 0 out of 10 isn't an option.
I had to read a synopsis of this dreadful Canadian film by Bruce McDonald’s from Maureen Medved’s novel on the IMDB to figure out what I had just sat through.
Bruce MacDonald only had two good movies in him, Roadkill and Hard Core Logo. Too bad.
Sabin wrote:'Wild Reeds'
10/10
Saw this one again. One of the best movies of the nineties. Just beautiful. Techiné is very successful in creating novelistic experiences out of film and this one is especially poignant.
Agreed, it really does stand up. I rented it again a year ago or so after having not seen it for years.
Last movie seen: (not counting Synedoche NY which I saw this aft) was The Roaring Twenties 6.5/10 (had not seen for 22 years). Interesting to see Cagney end up the good guy. It took Bogart a bit longer to get those roles.
exactly what i thought.Sabin wrote:Kill Bill, Vol.2
5/10
Generous. Tarantino is known for his theft of trope as much as archetype, and while his stronger use of the latter is 'Jackie Brown' by far, 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1' is the dude's best mix-tape. It's a lot of fun. 'Kill Bill: Vol. 2' is an incredibly dull experience.
'Wild Reeds'
10/10
Saw this one again. One of the best movies of the nineties. Just beautiful. Techiné is very successful in creating novelistic experiences out of film and this one is especially poignant.
Kill Bill, Vol.2
5/10
Generous. Tarantino is known for his theft of trope as much as archetype, and while his stronger use of the latter is 'Jackie Brown' by far, 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1' is the dude's best mix-tape. It's a lot of fun. 'Kill Bill: Vol. 2' is an incredibly dull experience.
'Wild Reeds'
10/10
Saw this one again. One of the best movies of the nineties. Just beautiful. Techiné is very successful in creating novelistic experiences out of film and this one is especially poignant.
"How's the despair?"
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The Tracey Fragments - 1 0ut of 10, only because 0 out of 10 isn't an option.
I had to read a synopsis of this dreadful Canadian film by Bruce McDonald’s from Maureen Medved’s novel on the IMDB to figure out what I had just sat through. It’s a schizophrenic bunch of crap about a 15 year-old girl played by twentyish Ellen Page on a bus supposedly looking for her missing 7 year-old brother. According to the IMDB, however, it’s really about the girl cutting the umbilical cord, the brother representing her younger self. You’re supposed to be able to figure that out by the way her nutcase mother holds the phone cord when she calls home. The scenes of the girl’s home life are truly pathetic with the girl yelling at the mother and the father yelling at the girl. Believe me when I say you'd rather be Patrick Wilson's character opposite Page in Hard Candy than any of the characters who appear with her in this woe-begotten mess.
Watch it at your peril.
I had to read a synopsis of this dreadful Canadian film by Bruce McDonald’s from Maureen Medved’s novel on the IMDB to figure out what I had just sat through. It’s a schizophrenic bunch of crap about a 15 year-old girl played by twentyish Ellen Page on a bus supposedly looking for her missing 7 year-old brother. According to the IMDB, however, it’s really about the girl cutting the umbilical cord, the brother representing her younger self. You’re supposed to be able to figure that out by the way her nutcase mother holds the phone cord when she calls home. The scenes of the girl’s home life are truly pathetic with the girl yelling at the mother and the father yelling at the girl. Believe me when I say you'd rather be Patrick Wilson's character opposite Page in Hard Candy than any of the characters who appear with her in this woe-begotten mess.
Watch it at your peril.