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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 6, 2012 9:52:57 GMT -5
I want to comment one more time on Audition.
Yeah, THAT was great acting. SPOILERSPOIULERSPOILER That scene where she says "Kirri, kirri, kirri" or whatever when she is all S&M-mode, well I had fallen asleep earlier in the movie and I opened my eyes to that. I woke up thought "oh shit what did I just see?", and I re-started the movie. SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER ends.
For a guy like me, where things like that ARE a mild phobia, that scene was a teaching moment for me. As my Poppa used to say, not my Dad, but the alcoholic abusive father figure/titty-bar Chef, "Don't trust something that bleeds every month". Wise words indeed. (He really was a chef and cooked prior to this for Lady Bird Johnson on a number of occasions and is a multiple time award winning salsa maker and local hall-of-famer, my Poppa, eold-school culinary school chef graduate, and my favorite best worst nightmare non-relative. I was his "wayward Son" or his "gay son" anitime he was interupting me hitting on a dancer, "Hi, I'm John Ra****, I see you've met my gay son". I loved the guy).
After work and hanging out with my brothers (one is visiting), I'm watching the American release of Godzilla with Raymond Burr injected into the scene, and than it's time for some classic samurai movies.
Cheers!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 6, 2012 10:55:58 GMT -5
Watched Sonantine which was a pretty good movie it's one third comedy, another third realistic Yakuza movie, and one third mind fuck. The music is also really good.
JAS-14
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 6, 2012 10:58:51 GMT -5
LOB it's called The Street Fighter.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 7, 2012 2:18:25 GMT -5
Just watched Godzilla, 1956.
I have so much to say about this movie, pages. But I won't. I will write a bit, but will suggest ya'll watch Gojira followed by Godzilla, and come up with your own conclusions and thoughts.
One thing, all the filmed specific for this version, i.e. the U.S. version looks cleaner. The rest, the original footage of Gojira was scratched and weathered to my detail seeking eyes, comparatively.
Another thing, this movie has Raymond Burr interjected into every single element of moving this story along except one short few minutes towards the end.
Burr, a reporter, apparently is a friend of every major character in Gojira and as a reporter EVERYONE from scientist to military heavy general-type contact him to give him fodder for his reporting to the American public.
In this way the whole movie can be delivered to a specific foreign audience. Fine. Burr did a great job..... but..... all the Japanese characters lost about 90% of their full bloom as characters.
That said, most of the messages that Gojira conveyed about Japan are lost. There is no introspection. It becomes the Japanese version of King Kong. Namely, man is a wee bit wrong, collosal monster wrecks havoc on a major population center, and man wins in the end over nature "as it should be".
I could say that this is a jingoistic American version, but it is (to my knowledge) it is the product of Japanese editing for an American audience, us as kids.
And I view this in two ways. The message sent to me is that America is the savior and apple pie and Jesus, so we suck and Japan gave us what we would rather watch or the Japanese view us as their intellectual inferiors and they took out all the themes to make it easier for us.
I am a cynic, but I won't decide between the two and I am open to other reasons. But to slam our people, you my fellow frankly smart brothers and many others excepted of course from this statement, our fellow Americans as a whole are too lazy and have a short attention span waaaaay too often, so this Americanized version was probably perfect for us.
And that was what it was for me nearly thirty years ago. As a little kid I watched this with laterer Godzilla movies that in Japan as a series became less somber in direction, much more fun and aloof, and Godzilla practically ended up becoming Japan's version of Super-Man, earth's protector-in-chief.
And truth be told, Godzilla was always great for me except that I watched both movies days apart this week. That sours me on this version. A lot.
Godzilla is a great movie but standing side by side with the original, it diminishes in size like Godzilla morphing into the Geiko gecko.
I could go on and on about my thoughts, but that was a bit of a soliloquey (sp).
Back to horror. This movie was a true horror film if you can put yourself in the time and enjoy the special effects (man in rubber suit). Tokyo on fire was a spectacle and part of that horror.
I found myself contemplating a race of Godzillie (plural) a Godzilla herd living in the deepest depths of the ocean emerging on land simultaneously and taking out every major coastal city in the entire world. Call it "Godzilla 2012: Apocalypse Right Freakin' Now!"
Kracken Rum and tropical fruit juice. Strong and Yum. Cheers!
LOB-5
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 7, 2012 2:50:57 GMT -5
About to start Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. I have watched it once before.
The Good, it is an Akira Kurosawa film.
The Bad, nothing.
The Ugly, that nerf-herder from Modesta ripped off this movie so bad, it makes my sparkly-eyed inner-child miss the days of ignorance that the great Creator was really the best thing since sliced bread and not just the fraud/hack hiding behind the curtain and special effects.
Damn, I've been in a mood tonight. I've been on these kind of tirades all night. Grrrr.
Kracken will soften me, beasts always do. And on that note, a hearty Cheers to our Brother Wulf! This mango/papaya/black-as-my-soul-rum concoction beverage in my hand is all for ya! Prost!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 7, 2012 3:09:42 GMT -5
Goddamit. A few minutes into this movie and all I see is R2-D2 and C-3PO quarreling on Tatooine.
That is a lie. I see Kurosawa's artful hand. I can see every thing Old Man Lucas stole even the scene wipes to switch settings, but that said, Kurosawa is god. These first ten minutes are the best ten minutes of film I have seen since watching The Shining in October.
Still drinking Wulf's drink. Cheers! Over and out like Shelly Duvall would say.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 7, 2012 3:30:27 GMT -5
Well they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery hell even the Vader name I've heard comes from Japan.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 8, 2012 4:12:02 GMT -5
You are right about Vader but it is German for father. Darth Vader is the dark father.
Lucas really ripped off this movie not only with EpisodeFour, but he used the warrior princess motiff and decoys for Amidala in Episodes 1 and 2. Pretty sad and hackish.
Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress made me smile over and over. A classic. I reccomend.
Drinking Bulleit Rye Whiskey with some healthy knock-off of Sprite. Well, healthy for a soda, and mixing whiskey with anything but ice cubes makes me a pussy tonight, but drinking a beer with my Sunday politics in the morning will soften my shame. Cheers!
LOB-6
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 8, 2012 10:12:12 GMT -5
Yeah I remember reading that ,but I also remember how the name for Vader the wrestler was taken from some Japanese warrior.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 8, 2012 23:52:44 GMT -5
I need to look that up and that makes since. I remember the promos from Japan on WCW Saturday Night before he debuted. I loved his smoke-emitting metal animal torso he wore on the way to the ring.
Ichi the Killer. Kakihara reminded me of a cross of the Joker and a human pirahna. Good and gory and surreal at times movie.
LOB-8
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 9, 2012 1:31:03 GMT -5
Yeah I don't really know what to think of Ichi the Killer I mean it's funny ,but just like so fucked up hell Kakihara ain't that good of a guy.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 10, 2012 0:12:17 GMT -5
I'm counting Woody Allen's first movie "What's Up, Tiger Lilly".
Fun, fun, fun. Here's the trailer.
Drinking one of my favorite Limey beers, Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome Ale. Cheers!
LOB-9
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 10, 2012 6:04:46 GMT -5
Lol why not I counted movies with people talking over it for December.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 10, 2012 23:16:46 GMT -5
Just watched my possibly favorite Kurosawa film, Rashoman. Watch this movie people. With that said, I ain't gonna comment on this movie, so as not to spoil any of it.
Drinking a pretty good Limey ale, St. Peter's Cream Stout. I'd rather be drinking a Rogue Shakespear Stout or a Sam Adams Cream Stout. Limey beer has the aftertaste of stale soy sauce. Cheers!
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 10, 2012 23:18:13 GMT -5
Oops, to quote my LOSER Governor Pointy Boots. I forgot.
LOB-10
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