What did you watch today? v 8.0

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

The first post in this thread is # 1548.

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Permalink Reply by mattjacks on May 29, 2008 at 9:09pm: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Been a few years since I rode this horse. This baby is the end of a barrel pointed at the Nanny State, Socialized Medicine, the over extended rights of the Federal Government and in some cases the State; to dictate what is normal behavior.

YOU! -- whatever end of the right or left or leftist or right-wing, green, libertarian 3rd party you sit, stand, or dance on... this film points to you.

.. this masterpiece proclaims...

don't medicate me,
don't strap me down,
and don't steer me into some liberal-socialist-darwinist "good for the community bullshit"

Liberalism and "big government" if untethered, will suck you into a hole no matter what your beliefs are.

mattjacks

Permalink Reply by Jo17ie on May 29, 2008 at 10:06pm: i watched almost the entirety of Weeds season 2 in the past 8 hours. I feel like i am injecting into my eyeballs with a needle. Don't get me wrong, I love Weeds, but i have to watch it for class, and i am overwhelmed. I can't wait until season 3 is out on DVD, but i am going to have to watch that the same way too: double edged sword.

Permalink Reply by Whatchawatchin on May 29, 2008 at 10:08pm: I finally got around to watching Night of the Living Dorks. Every review compares it to Shaun of the Dead. That should be justifiable grounds for kicking them in the shins. This is really Revenge of the Nerds (not the first one, that was actually kind of funny...think the 3rd one). Utter crap. It has every cliche used by teen movies since Animal House. There's an attractive older woman, in this case a teacher, that the belching stoner lusts after (thing Stiffler's mom), the good dorks vs. the evil popular kids, the dorks getting revenge on the jocks, the main dork stealing the hottie gf of "the" guy on campus only to realize he really likes the sweet girl next door, the overzealous male gym teacher who turns out to be heavily into gay S&M...yep, you've seen it before. The dub is unbelievably bad (I watched on IW and that was the only option, but the DVD has subs), but it's so cliche and even the zombie angle doesn't put enough of a twist on it to think the sub would help.

Permalink Reply by spiderpig on May 30, 2008 at 5:34am: Aw Watcha! I just finished giving this movie a good review on the previous page. I thought it was hilarious. I'll give you that it was cliche but I still thought it was pretty funny. The dubbing puts it way over the top - but in a good way. :) Unless you really like subtitles, I think it's perfect for IW.

Permalink Reply by Opinionated-Gal on May 29, 2008 at 10:49pm: I watched "River's Edge" for the first time since 1986. It was a different movie after 22 years. How does that happen? Anyway, this time I saw it in a much larger context -- it was very much about what has happened to this country since Viet Nam, and how Dennis Hopper's character's madness is significantly distinguishable from the next generation's because he loved the girl he killed (metaphor for activism). Very disturbing politically, ultimately deeply sobering. Tiny flicker of hope represented by Keanu Reeve's willingness to assume responsibility. Imperfect movie, and a fantastic work of art.

Permalink Reply by Firewater on May 30, 2008 at 4:31am: Derailed, with Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston. Better than I expected, but not as good as it could have been.

Permalink Reply by The Real Uncle Bob on May 30, 2008 at 9:47am: A brand-new release, Noriko's Dinner Table, a follow-up to Suicide Club.

When malcontent teen Noriko decides to leave home, it is not due to abuse, or to any profound difficulties in her home life. There is family strife, but it is of the typical variety...rather, Noriko's urge to leave seems to stem from some nebulous disatisfaction, an emptiness that even she cannot define. Though she lives "out in the country," she is not too far to run away by commuter train to Tokyo. Once in the big city, she soon falls in with a group that earns their keep by selling a simulated experience of family life to lonely men. While the business model resembles prostitution, Noriko's gang performs more like a theater troupe, playing a chastely loving family for their desperate clients. This follow-up to Sion Sono's "Suicide Club" is nowhere near as morbid as the previous film, though it has its share of blood spatter. Sono seems most interested in exploring the first film's repeated philosophical question, "Are you connected to yourself?" The implication seems to be that connecting to yourself requires transcending connections to family...but that is wide open for interpretation. Those whose intellects were aroused by the quizzical nature of "Suicide Club" will find answers to some of that film's pointed questions, and plenty more food for thought here.

It's good, but my favorite Sono film is still Strange Circus.