What did you watch today? v 7.0

Tell everyone what you watched, what you thought of it, and what is up next for you.

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Permalink Reply by Pihk on May 12, 2008 at 10:38am: What is with the anti-Haynes bias at NF??? grrrr... At least they have Velvet Goldmine which I haven't seen yet.

I absolutely loved Far From Heaven as well.

And Dottie Gets Spanked is a TV short he apprently did that is on IW. woohoo!

Permalink Reply by Whatchawatchin on May 9, 2008 at 8:56pm: Resurrection. A great idea, wonderful storyline flawed by a god-awful performance by Christopher Lambert and really lackluster and sometimes cliched dialogue.

Permalink Reply by Secret Agent Gal on May 12, 2008 at 2:42pm: Thanks for recommending Whatcha, I saw it on instant watch. A decent B movie!

Permalink Reply by Aces on May 10, 2008 at 12:35pm: Last night:

Clean and Sober (3 stars) on NF Instant Watch. I like Michael Keaton and Morgan Freeman and it was an ok movie. As it ended I was looking forward to another IW but NF was down for maintenance so I checked HULU.com and found David Cronenberg's

Naked Lunch (4 stars) - an amazingly bizarre film. I'd recommend it to those who like Eraserhead, Brazil and Little Otik type films but Naked Lunch goes way beyond those and will not be for most people. I'm glad I saw it online at hulu but I see that NF has bonus features in a separate DVD. I may order that becasue I'm sure it would be fun to see how this was made.

Permalink Reply by Heliosity on May 10, 2008 at 10:35pm: barb Hershey shooting up in her boob is almost the exact same shot as debbi harry grinding a cigarette into hers in Videodrome. Have not been able to find another Cronenberg breast mutilation scene but maybe someone else has..or other strange examples of the same shot used by a director in different films

Permalink Reply by Pihk on May 12, 2008 at 7:35am: I loved both of those, even though I was expecting to hate the Keaton one. Don't watch the other real estate agent on coke movie on IW: Boost unless you want to spend the whole time laughing at the indirect humor in its preposterous storyline

Naked Lunch has got to be one of the best drug movies of all time. Its a minor miracle that Cronenberg actually made a movie from one of the most unfilmable novels ever written. That's putting it mildly. I am a very proud owner of the sublime Criterion version.

Permalink Reply by The Professor on May 10, 2008 at 5:01pm: I just finished "Get Outta Town" new release on NF. It's a 1960 film noir set in L.A. It's really amateurish and done on the cheap, but I think the noir folks out there will really like it.

Permalink Reply by Snorii on May 10, 2008 at 6:52pm: I watched Inherit the Wind on Watch Instantly. Very fun to watch Spencer Tracy and Fredric March go back and forth. One of the great courtroom dramas, but there are still a few I like better.

Permalink Reply by Secret Agent Gal on May 10, 2008 at 7:00pm: Really enjoyed The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. Jodie Foster in an early role is precocious, sexy and fiercely independent. Martin Sheen plays a dirty old man.

... and watched Absolute Power, one of my faves. Clint Eastwood directs and stars. Excellent character studies. A smart crime thriller.

Permalink Reply by Laur on May 12, 2008 at 5:53am: I love Absolute Power as well. I always feel like it takes a while to get going but I think it’s a great twist on behind the scene politics too.

Permalink Reply by Whatchawatchin on May 10, 2008 at 7:58pm: I just finished up The Sickhouse. It's a horror movie about a young archeologist excavating a plague hospital in London. Upon finding out that items removed from the site have tested positive for potentially infectious plague and that the health and safety people have shut down the site and intend to destroy the building for public health reasons, she returns to the building after hours to try to excavate one last sealed room. Stuck in the hospital with her are 4 very high teenagers who have crashed their stolen car directly in front of the hospital.

There are some very cool images in there, most notably the plague doctor with his historically accurate and scary bird's beak head covering stuffed with herbs to "filter" the plague. The idea and acting are not bad, but it's too convoluted to work well. There's a whole sub thing about everyone getting the plague and the drama surrounding the fact that the female teenager is pregnant and who the father is. Lots of choppy action camera work just adds to the feel that this is a fairly amatuer and derivative attempt. I still can't say I hate it though, because it has some nice qualities. It might be scary for people who don't watch a lot of horror films and who don't mind endings that try to be explanational, but fail.

Permalink Reply by tseeks on May 10, 2008 at 8:23pm: I watched "Finding Neverland", which was quite good. Excellent acting all around and what could have been a very slow movie turned out to be well paced and very touching.

I also watched "King Corn" online. A documentary about how corn is everywhere and that almost everything we eat has corn in it one way or the other. It was interesting in some ways and also informative, but in the end the documentary was just average.

For tomorrow, "Killer Killer" a horror movie about killers getting killed. Hence, the title.