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[TSD]

I watched some films this weekend.



Prom - my 10 year old daughter thought it was manna from heaven. I don't think my brain has recovered yet.



The Eagle - Had potential, but fizzled the longer I watched it. Wait for it on cable/netflix



Hanna - Easily my favorite of the 3. Nice action sequences.

yeah it lamed out for me too. When they started using roman battle tactics in the completely wrong situation just to show it. i.e. when he ordered the testudo formation. It was only used to defend against projectiles not to actually engage in melee.

 

[Ymono37]

Finally got around to seeing Cowboys and Aliens... it was much better than I anticipated and frankly was more than your standard "popcorn" movie. I thought Favreau did a great job telling a Western story with elements of science fiction in it. Daniel Craig plays a great badass and I think Harrison Ford was born for the role of a grizzled, war-veteran in the Old West. While Olivia Wilde was great to look at, I felt that she was the weakest link in the movie... she never really seemed like she fit in with the rest of the cast, but (without giving any spoilers) that could have been by design.



Definitely some Sergio Leone influences here... if you like classic Westerns, this plays right into them... with an added element that shouldn't work, but does. A reviewer commented that this movie wouldn't have worked nearly as well had the cast not played it "straight" throughout the movie and I have to agree.

 

[MassHavoc]

Stilll working at seeing cowboys and indians, anyone see Conan yet? Wife wants to go, she thinks Drogo is hot.

 

[CaveMan]

I did enjoy the new COnan, it kept my attention the whole way through. Got to see it in 3d. 3d boobs ftw.

 

[bookjones]

I'm a Siskel member! Isn't it an awesome place to catch very small films? Anyhoo, tickets to this have been TOO hot and hard to come by so I decided to wait until they bring it back for a return engagement for one week in October. Can't wait.

Yea I love the place, and glad that it is coming back. I think this should have a much wider release. It is that good.

Going through a shitload of mail and just read the October Siskel film guide and Biscuit you will be happy to know that they won't be bringing The Interrupters back for just a one-week return engagement but have instead decided on TWO weeks! 10-07-11 thru 10-20-11. YES!



And speaking of the October Siskel calendar but HOLY CRAP is there a lot of shit going down---their annual Iranian Film Festival (there are several films that sound fantastic that I am going to spy), the beginning of their New Spanish Cinema Festival (which carries over into Nov.), the new Woody Allen film, the newly-restored 70's Fassbinder sci-fi epic flick "World on a Wire" courtesy of the Fassbinder Foundation (which is being shown in two parts to cover the 3 hr run time), and the MOST exciting thing ever which is a showing of the new Errol Morris documentary "Tabloid" !!! I love, love, LOVE EM films.



Also Biscuit, don't know if you and the Mrs. do the annual month+ Chicago Humanities Festival (and God did it ever take me forever to get through the catalog) but this year's topic is "tech*knowledge" and I know you love your archaeology so take a

looksee: http://www.chicagohu...cal-Record.aspx



Besides having that one tentatively on my itinerary I am stoked that Umberto Eco and Jared Diamond are also speakers this year. I am totally digging the presentation on the Uncanny Valley, Shakespeare By The Numbers, the history of telescope technology, the fabulous Chicago architect Jeanne Gang from Studio Gang speaking about technology and urban architecture/planning. The list goes on and on---alas, I have difficult decisions to make as my CHF itinerary has multiple date/time conflicts from my multitudes of preliminary selections.

 

[Ymono37]

Besides having that one tentatively on my itinerary I am stoked that Umberto Eco and Jared Diamond are also speakers this year. I am totally digging the presentation on the Uncanny Valley, Shakespeare By The Numbers, the history of telescope technology, the fabulous Chicago architect Jeanne Gang from Studio Gang speaking about technology and urban architecture/planning. The list goes on and on---alas, I have difficult decisions to make as my CHF itinerary has multiple date/time conflicts from my multitudes of preliminary selections.

I'd be very interested to hear more about that one... it's a subject that fascinates me especially regarding science fiction movies.

 

[bookjones]

I'd be very interested to hear more about that one... it's a subject that fascinates me especially regarding science fiction movies.

Ummm. . .the CHF website?

Just giving you grief because I can and because I enjoy it---here ya go: http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Philosophy/2011f-Facing-Up-Uncanny-Valley.aspx

 

[Ymono37]

Ummm. . .the CHF website?

Just giving you grief because I can and because I enjoy it---here ya go: http://www.chicagohu...nny-Valley.aspx

My apologies - I didn't realize it came off as through I were asking you about said event. I was going to click the link.



Sheesh - if I didn't get grief from you - FSM knows I wouldn't get it anywhere else...

 

[mikita's helmet]

THE 10th VICTIM



Elio Petri's Black comedy, LA DECIMA VITTIMA (1965), based on Robert Sheckley's wonderful novella, The 7th Victim, and starring Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita, 81/2) and Ursella Andress (Dr. No) is a futuristic satire in which war has been been abolished and replaced by The Hunt, a government sanctioned event in which humans hunt each other for monetary prizes and fame, while allowing Society to release its violent tendencies simultaneously. Piero Piccioni's fabulous score was Andy Warhol's favorite record, and this great is available again on blu-ray through Blue Underground.



Happy Hunting!

 

[mikita's helmet]

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[TSD]

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I hope this wasnt intended to get anyone to want to watch this. The trailers almost made me fall asleep. Then again maybe it just isnt my cup of tea.

 

[TSD]

My apologies - I didn't realize it came off as through I were asking you about said event. I was going to click the link.



Sheesh - if I didn't get grief from you - FSM knows I wouldn't get it anywhere else...

You guys really need to take your sexual frustration with each other to a bar or something.



I know theres going to be a BJ/ymono marriage in the future.

 

[mikita's helmet]

I hope this wasnt intended to get anyone to want to watch this. The trailers almost made me fall asleep. Then again maybe it just isnt my cup of tea.

 

[bookjones]

You guys really need to take your sexual frustration with each other to a bar or something.



I know theres going to be a BJ/ymono marriage in the future.

Oh hush you. You just don't know how to be actual friends with women as you yourself have admitted. . .and as your zombie apocalypse survival team bears out! I take delight in giving ALL of you mo-fos here grief---it's like a recreational hobby.

 

[JOVE23]

Oh man I forgot how much of a shitburger Flyboys is.

 

[Ymono37]

You guys really need to take your sexual frustration with each other to a bar or something.



I know theres going to be a BJ/ymono marriage in the future.

Hehehe... "bj"

Oh hush you. You just don't know how to be actual friends with women as you yourself have admitted. . .and as your zombie apocalypse survival team bears out! I take delight in giving ALL of you mo-fos here grief---it's like a recreational hobby.

Yeah, that's where I'm a viking.

Saw a movie called, "The Signal" this weekend. Interesting take on the zombie genre. The movie revolves around a signal coming through televisions and phones and amping up parts of their personalities, for many this includes getting overly aggressive/psychotic. The filmmakers use three vignettes to explore the different reactions to the event, the second of which is pretty fucking funny. If you can catch this one for free and you like your horror with a little humor, I definitely recommend it. Also filmed entirely in Atlanta... so there's that.

 

[bookjones]

Hehehe... "bj"



Yeah, that's where I'm a viking.

You need to find a surefire way to flip the switch with the ladyfolk and make it more like this. . .

 

[MassHavoc]

Move Thread BJ... MOVIE!

 

[bookjones]

Move Thread BJ... MOVIE!

Get your Mod on with TSD---he's the one who started the derailment.

 

[MassHavoc]

Do you try to justify a bare-chested book cover in this movie thread young lady... especially when those are not the boobs I am looking for.