Well Susan I think we mostly agree then...especially when it comes to Team America - that was just *Gold*.

Best moment for me would be between the "I'm sow wownwee" song of lament from Jung-Il, and the "Screen Actors Guild Medley" near the end.  Clever stuff.

^^^
That's "the Film Actors Guild" . I didn't think the movie was that funny, especially compared to South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut. Though I'd wager a guess that it was probably funnier than Orgazmo and BASEketball.

But I own the Team America soundtrack, and it is gold.

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Okay, Booth, I'm going to take your advice and give your Frenchman a try. Which of these two would you recommend for my next Netflix pick. (As soon as I'm finished with Born Into Brothels) I'm leaning toward the chucklehead with neoteric (???) gadgetry. Did you write this synopsis, Booth?

Mon Uncle: (1957) Jacques Tati plays Monsieur Hulot, a self-absorbed chucklehead wrestling with neoteric gadgetry -- and losing -- in this satirical masterpiece that makes sport of mechanization, class distinctions and modernity. While visiting his sister's surreal, ultra-trendy home, Hulot finds himself incessantly at odds with newfangled contraptions that get the better of him. The tongue-in-cheek French comedy garnered a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Playtime: (1967) The celebrated Jacques Tati directs and stars in this brilliantly eccentric ode to humanity. Tati plays Monsieur Hulot, a Parisian who's befuddled by the changes he witnesses in his beloved city, which has grown increasingly touristy. As Hulot roams the uncomfortably modern Paris with a group of American tourists, his story epitomizes the struggle of modern man to maintain a soul in the face of an impersonal world.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Damn - it lost half the humour in my mistranslation... 

Haven't seen the SouthPark flick, so can't compare really.  I've never watched a whole episode, and the show hasn't really grabbed me.

Well, I've got the first two at the top of my queue, Booth.  But "light" is not a description that usually induces me to see a film.  Neither is "cute." 

But I trust you, so I'm trying them both in chronological order.   I do one Netflix a week so this weekend we've got Born Into Brothels and then next weekend -- Les Vacances.

Expect a fair and balanced, a little more in-depth, review soon after! 

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Vanity Fair, with Reese Witherspoon.  I had actually forgotten it was on my rental list, but thought I would give it a try.  I wanted to like it, but it was all over the place.  Even at over two hours long it was flicking backwards and forwards between plot threads and of course changed the ending to suit the film. 

 
I'm sorry but I just don't get why anyone would make a film based on a classic novel and change it to suit.  Either you like the ending or you don't, so if you don't leave the damn thing alone!  They did this with Pride and Prejudice as well (Keira Knightley version) and I hated that too...

...grrrr... 

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300

A more kick ass movie has never been made. Its funny that all the criticisms for it are the exact reasons I think makes it so class. 

I see your point but then think of Wild at Heart for example... change the ending and you get a film better than the book (which is good in itself).

And even if not better for someone, then definitely the Lynch ending casts a wholly different light on the story and presents quite a different view of the world.
 

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It's been a long time since I haven't seen an american movie. I think that's a good thing, because lately most of them are terrible.

300, for example, could have been a better movie if it was less action-packed and with those alienating heavy metal music pieces during the battles. I mean, it's Sparta vs the Persians. Not Matrix. Anyway, I didn't see the movie, only excerpts there and there on the internet and on Tv, some friend told me it was amazingly done if you consider only the technical aspects. But it's not the only thing I look for in a film. I think a good contemporary film on Sparta is yet to be made. Or maybe I'm just not really into epic movies.

Anyway, the only one I liked more of this genre was Stone's Alexander, and I read that in the U.S. the final director's cut  is coming out with a whole part that was cut out, depicting the homosexual relationship between him and a friend I don't remember the name. I'm curious to take a look at the film as Stone intended it to be.

I still haven't seen Wolrd Trade center but I read and heard it's nothing revolutionary or that very much interesting. 

I'm curious about Letters from Iwo Jima, The Hottest state, Bobby, Hollywoodland and Borat (but I wanna wait the dvd 'cause I'd like to watch it only in English, apparently the italian dubbed version is terrible).

I totally abandoned my enthusiasm about The Fountain as soon as I watched the theatrical trailer.

The last English-spoken movie that really left me satisfied, of course after IE, was NOTES ON A SCANDAL.

"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey) 

"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)

That is such bullshit. You havent even watched 300, I cant stand when people do that. Express an opinion on a movie they havent even seen. If you watched it and said the same thing I would have understood, but you havent seen it, so shut up.

Borat

This had some funny moments, but it has nothing on the short clips from Ali G.
I found the bits about the Jews funny, the running of the Jew, and the "they've changed shapes" bit in the B&B.
The giggling weatherman was funny and that's about it. Oh, and the village person that gets the rubber fist as a new arm.

The uncomfortable comedy worked better in the show, and the nude fight was just boring gross-out. How fat was that guy?

"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love." 

Booth, what can I say?  ...up to your Borat review.  I'm feeling a gust of confidence that I'm going to enjoy my mini-Jacques Tati fest! 

Whenever I think of the medical term "keloid" I think of OJ Simpson's old football injuries. 

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

The Big Lebowski

So I finally sit down and watch this, uncensored and uncut for the first time, and... I wasn't disappointed.*

It's still second to Barton Fink as my favorite Coen Bros. flick (sorry, Booth), but there's a lot more to entertain here. The plot is convoluted, but that's not the point, the real interest is in seeing how the Dude reacts to each new link in the chain. The movie is very quotable, but I think, for the sake of the Internet, we should maybe cut down on the references a bit. But, you know, that's just, uh, my opinion, man.

Also- I'm not sure why the "What Condition My Condition Was In" musical number makes me so happy, but I think it has something to do with Jeff's dance moves. Not to mention the wide-eyed look of joy he sports throughout.

*Well, I was a little disappointed over the abscense of the stranger in the Alps. They should edit that into the original cut. 

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Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

Idiocracy

The strange thing about this movie isn't that its distribution was mishandled, but that it was made at all.
Starbucks dealing in handjobs? Fuddruckers becoming Buttf*ckers? It boggles the mind.

It wasn't as good as I had hoped, but the satire was biting, and it was a real nice middle finger to many things I hate about contemporary (pop)culture.

Watch it or f*ck off!

300. 

I thought it was visually stunning, considering the whole thing was shot against blue and green screen.  To be honest I don't think it's fair to compare it against a film such as the Matrix.  Yes, it is the legend of the Spartans vs the Persians, but Frank Miller's version of it inspired by his viewing of The 300 Spartans .

Let's face it, the man has an exceptional imagination anyway, and the film adaptation was bound to be stylised to be as close to the graphic novel as possible.  I didn't find the music intrusive; rather I thought it suited the mood of the film.

My theory by A. Elk, brackets, Miss, brackets. This theory goes as follows and begins now. All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is my theory, it is mine, and it belongs to me, and I own it, and what it is, too.

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wow really? That bad?!  I was actually planning on going to see this because it's like forever since I've seen anything, was looking forward to doing so and am a big Nic fan (even though The Wicker Man re-make especially the ending was also complete tripe), but maybe now I will save my money,  thanks for the heads up Ray.

Trying to think what the last film I saw was. I think it was just FWWM or MD actually I watched both recently and have reviewed them to death so I won't bore you to death with another review/synopsis apart to say "they rock". 

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