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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 7, 2012 22:58:57 GMT -5
As for the Cowboy Bebop opening yeah the guy who made that show is a master of scoring music and blending different genres together.
Edit: Ever since watching An American Werewolf in London during the last contest I've had moondance by Van Morrison stuck in my head.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 8, 2012 1:20:42 GMT -5
First off, EDIT: I type drunk and otherwise discombobulated as a habit. My last postings were misleading for what's it's worth. Watched AAWIL last night at home, but had the pleasure to watch it once on the regal screen of the Paramount Theater which I believe you can wikipedia. This is my favorite theater, and I have had the pleasure to watch scores of classics over the last two decades there during their summer classics runs.
Back to the competition.
"When you dance with the Devil, you wait for the song to stop, y'know what I mean?"
I'm glad the Botanist made off alive with his efforts.
"Big" Chris is one of those screen toughs that you have to love, and only he has delivered a screen curb stomping that I can cheer.
Machine guns make much noise and gun powder produces much smoke.
I love to insult lame-ass Limeys with the term "muppet" which I stole from this film.
Some movies rob you of a day off your life in two hours, they suck so bad and hard. Movies like this add two days to your life. Watch often, it's like taking antioxidents and pre-probiotics. Just saying.
James Brown will always bring it.
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. It will add two days to your lifespan just like Slapshot. Got to repeat the health benefits derived from movies like this. They make you grin.
Drank three beers during this movie, a Real Ale Rio Blanco Pale Ale, a John Courage Imperial Russian Stout (the best Limey beer I have had since the last time I had this beer, a decade and a half ago.... Seek this little powerful, Dark as My Soul, beer out). Jake, thank you for the motivation. Cheers!
LOB-9
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Post by loverofbeers on May 8, 2012 1:28:18 GMT -5
Oh yeah, not hating on the Brits (okay, I am), but Yankees make the best beers in the world now. Sorry Belgium, but at least we still respect ONLY you in the Old World of brewing, and for that Prost!
Forgot to mention the beer I followed the best Limey beer I have had in fifteen years with. I followed it with ANOTHER Russian Imperial Stout, this one aged in whiskey oak barrels and from Avery, a brewery out of Colorado. The name of the beer?
Mephistopheles, ABV 16.43%. Sorry to be crass, but fuck you Europe, we got you beat. Cheers to the American Craft Movement! Europe, I see you in my rear view mirror. Bah-Bah.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 8, 2012 5:06:48 GMT -5
Watched Pierrot Le Fou a French film from the 60s which I'd been meaning to see since seeing the Cowboy Bebop episode. Have to say I didn't find it that particuarly good the cinematgraphy is pretty good ,but none of the characters are that likeable. One of the major themes is existentialism which reminded me of Cowboy Bebop again.
Well at least I finally saw it.
JAS-8
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 8, 2012 5:17:57 GMT -5
It really reminded me of the stereotypical French New Wave pretentiousness.
This Monty Python skit pretty much sums it up.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 8, 2012 7:58:35 GMT -5
Watched Man of the Year a Brazillian film about a guy who after losing a bet dies his hair blond and becomes a vigilante. This was a great film and very realistic. For some reason going in I thought it'd be Australian. Murilo Benicio does a great job playing the main character.
JAS-9
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 8, 2012 16:16:22 GMT -5
Watched Troll Hunter a very good Norwegian shaky cam horror movie. The acting and special effects for the trolls are both very good for the low budget that this movie had.
JAS-11
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 9, 2012 6:49:10 GMT -5
Watched The Slit-Mouthed Woman a low budged Japanese horror film that isn't that good an borders on porn at points. As mentioned in a post a few months back the scary possesed and/or killing effect is laughably bad.
JAS-13
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Post by loverofbeers on May 9, 2012 13:18:37 GMT -5
The Longest Day. Five directors spanning four countries, three languages used, and great actors from Sean Connery to Robert Mitchum.
Credit the following to IMDB, the film's shooting locations.
Calvados, France Château de Chantilly, Chantilly, Oise, France (Kommandantur scenes)
Cyprus Fox Boulogne Studios, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France (studio)
France La Pointe du Hoc, Calvados, France La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France Orne, France Ouistreham, Calvados, France Plage de Lotu, Saint-Florent, Haute-Corse, France Plage de Saleccia, Saint-Florent, Haute-Corse, France Pont-du-Bessin, Calvados, France Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Manche, France Île de Ré, Charente-Maritime, France
LOB-10
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 10, 2012 4:39:19 GMT -5
Watched the Roger Corman dubbed version of Galaxy Express, an animated movie from Japan that was apparently the highest grossing film in Japan in 1979. It was pretty good ,but it's obvious Corman messed up some parts trying to make money.
JAS-14
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Post by loverofbeers on May 11, 2012 2:35:24 GMT -5
So in the mid-nineties here in Austin I heard of a man who raised $6000 as a human guinea pig at Pharmaco, a pharmaceutical research company of the past now with a new name. He used this money (Wikipedia says $7000, but I am telling you $6000 because I distinctly remember this as the number always touted locally) to shoot a movie that I watched at the now former Dobie Theater (R.I.P.) and also in a Spanish class at UT Austin. I've watched it since a few times.
Today while watching it, I realized quite a bit through the movie that I forgot the sub-titles. Ladies and Gentlemen, it took me thirty years but I am now truly bi-lingual again. A Cheers! to me.
Now take it away Wikipedia.....
El Mariachi is a 1992 American action film that is the debut of writer/director Robert Rodriguez. The Spanish language film was shot in the northern Mexican bordertown of Ciudad Acuña with a mainly amateur cast. The US$7,000 production was originally intended for the Mexican home video market, but executives at Columbia Pictures liked the film so much that they bought the American distribution rights. Columbia eventually spent several times more than the 16 mm film's original budget on 35 mm transfers, promotion, marketing and distribution.
The success of Rodriguez's directorial debut led him to create two further entries, Desperado (1995) and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), in what came to be known as the Mexico Trilogy. In 2011, the film was inducted into the Library of Congress to be preserved as part of its National Film Registry for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
Finished a solitary can of Red Stripe. Started my new job, plus started a part-time job as a bartender. Worked 14 hours today. The days of being broke are hopefully behind me. Time to open up a night-cap of Real Ale Sisyphus Barley Wine vintage 2011, watch a third of a movie and sleep. Cheers!
LOB-11
One last note, future hopeful directors should watch the commentary tracks of this movie and the Blu-ray version of A Clockwork Orange. Both are truly educational, and have genius hints for students.
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Post by luditesupreme on May 11, 2012 3:31:37 GMT -5
i've been a human guinea pig ; the money was alright but for the life of me i can't figure out why they kept making me run around that little wheel
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 13, 2012 22:03:23 GMT -5
Hey LOB and Ludite I was wondering what your favorite Sergio Leone film is, mine was Duck You Sucker!
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Post by loverofbeers on May 14, 2012 0:59:11 GMT -5
To be honest, I've only seen his Clint Eastwood trilogy and possibly a few more westerns. I'd have to check, but easily, hands down, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Three bad mothers....
I'm working on Once Upon a Time In China, what so far I consider the best kung-fu movie I have seen. It is MUCH better to be over-employed than under employed or unemployed. Working 13 days, my lucky number, days in a row. I'm somewhere right dab in the middle of that. Trying to keep Sundays off. But I'm still about to get back in this game. Banzai!
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Post by loverofbeers on May 14, 2012 3:25:23 GMT -5
Close to the end of an epic movie and I am exhausted and a wee bit drunk. And that is Goode.
Drinking a 750ml bottle of Boulevard Rye on Rye, a 11% abv Rye behemoth aged in rye whiskey barrels. God, or Satan, America rocks. Which brings me to me pausing the movie close to it's end.
First off, Once a Time in China is an epic film I recommend to you all especially JAS. Watch this someday and Persepolis. And Dance with Bashir.
Now for why I paused the movie. I couldn't believe the Limeys fired on us Yanks. Again. And died quickly.
Getting back to the end of the movie. A hearty and rye immigrant-American Cheers! to ya'll! Banzai, Salud, L'Chaim, Prost, and obviously, Cheers! And insert any other language here.
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