http://www.materialculture.com/movieposters.html
Handpainted Ghanaian movie posters.
I rented “Swimming Pool” last night. Haven’t watched it yet, but I hear that Tinker bell is nude throughout the movie.
I almost rented that, but instead chose to go fluff with House of 1,000 Corpses. It sucked, naturally, but I gotta say, it was almost good. I saw some potential for Rob Zombie to do something different; unfortunately, he didn’t.
I’ll try to watch it tonight when I get back from class. Saw “Something’s Got to Give” this weekend and it was entertaining. Not great, but enjoyable. Jack is a natural choice to play a womanizer that never dates a woman over the age of 29.
“Words of wisdom, Lloyd; words of wisdom.”
I watched “Spider” and “Hero” this weekend. That was an excellent, if not exactly coherent thematically, double bill.
Cronenberg’s still got it! (That’s for “Spider”)
Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
[B]I watched “Spider” and “Hero” this weekend. That was an excellent, if not exactly coherent thematically, double bill.
Cronenberg’s still got it! (That’s for “Spider”) [/B]
I’ve been wanting to see both of those. Swimming Pool was pretty good. You can tell it had a French Director, but that’s not a bad thing.
It’s funny, cause a couple of weeks ago I’d watched “Red Dragon” which also features Ralph Fiennes going batsh!t crazy, and which isn’t really terrible, but certainly nothing special (especially compared to “Manhunter” which might even be better than “Silence of the Lambs”) but “Spider” really focusses on him, and he totally inhabits the role, and he hardly has anything to say at all. It’s too bad it didn’t get a wider release - it never would have made any money, but it might have gotten a little more attention. In the documentary extra features, it’s revealed that almost all the creative talent on the movie waived their fees just so they could get it made - Cronenberg, Feinnes, Miranda Richardson, Lynne Redgrave, John Neville…some real heavy hitters, ya know?
IMDB sez Cronenberg’s next flick is with Feinnes as well, about a performance artist who distorts his own body into his art by surgical procedures. It’s based (loosely, I suppose) on the real artist Orlan.
I liked Manhunter better than Red Dragon (but not better than Silence of the Lambs) but I think Mann F@cked up the ending with a convential shootout. I think it would have been better if they had used the ending from the book (similar to what Red Dragon tried to do). Also, the Miami Vice lighting and music is a little dated and distracting.
No argument there, for the most part. But the scenes with the killer are so great, especially where he’s falling in love with the blind girl and getting to where he’s nearly human in his outlook as the detective gets meaner and crueler while trying to match the mindstate of the killer. I don’t blame Fiennes for the failure to humaize the killer in “Red Dragon” since he’s obviously a good enough actor to do it (see “Spider”) so I assume the fault lies with the director. And the “Manhunter” version of the tiger scene totally blows the “Red Dragon” version out of the water.
Well I agree that the killer in Manhunter was closer to the books version in stature and character, but Manhunter never provided a background to explain what created this monster. I think Fiennes did a good job humanizing him despite the shortcomings of the director. Honestly, I found Ed Norton distracting as the detective. I didn’t feel him teetering on the edge the way the character is supposed to. Plus, Hopkins was playing Lector as a caricature by that point. He was great in Silence, but Brian Cox did a better job of the character in Manhunter v. Red Dragon.
I’m not a big Ed Norton fan. He pulled a prima donna act on American History X in which he tried to get the producers to let him edit the film because he felt the director was cutting out too many of his scenes. He even went so far as to actually make a rough cut of his own version.
If you are hired to act, then act, and let everyone else do their job.
That was a b!tch move for sure, and it wasn’t gonna be a great movie no matter what, so you kind of wonder why he bothered. But I do think he’s a great actor.
He saw Oscar in his eyes…
Several poor performances were done with Oscar in the eyes.
I don’t think his performace was bad in AHX. But I do think he takes himself a little too seriously as an ‘artist.’ Most actors take themselves a little too seriously as ‘artists.’ Of course, most artists take themselves too seriously as ‘artists.’ Then there are wannabe writers who think just because they wrote a few things they can comment on movies, music, and painting, as if it were all the same thing. Those guys are the worst. :rolleyes: 
Well, I picked up “Swimfan” at 2 for 1 movie night at my fave local video store, at Judge Pen’s recommendation. Then I come back and discover what he actually recommended was “Swimming Pool.”
Nice work, Austin.
Anyway, I’ll let you guys know if it’s any good.
lol
Well, I’ve been curious if Swimming Fan was a decent movie or your standard teen slop.
Well, I can at least recommend “The Swimmer,” an older Burt Lancaster picture based on a John Cheever story. I’m guessing it’s a late 60s vintage, since I’m feeling to lazy to imdb it at the moment.
You guys going to see any movies this weekend? I’m going to try to watch Open Range as I haven’t seen it yet. I like westerns, but Kevn Costner can be heavy handed sometimes.
I bought my wife a day-spa package, so looks like I’ll be at home with the baby. No movies for me. 