DISQUS

Woah Gareth, I was going to go to this movie at the Castro this very night, but I had to reschedule because one of my friends forgot about dinner plans. We'll instead see it tomorrow at the Sundance Kabuki, but hold up - you're in San Francisco right now? Want to grab a coffee?

Wow, it's like my worst nightmare come true.

Hey Jett - are you sure that link is right? I sure don't hear it around 15:00.

Maybe you could try a video cast at some point. It seems weird that comments have more content than shows these days. :)

Better check that hat for surveillance equipment. They could be trying to read your brain waves.

They've kept your stuff for this long? That really sucks dude. Glad you got it sorted out.

man on wire

Not a fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's style then? I thought Amelie was excellent, but you could certainly argue it was weaker on story than on style and visuals.

Ha, I was going to mention City of Lost Children, so 10 points for beating me. Also, I'm not sure a film looking better than its content is necessarily a bad thing. If we enjoy visual art and photography and good use of color and form, why not enjoy a movie that does these better than anything else? I'll add Hero and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to this category.

:) Well you've all convinced me, another chance for 2001. Honestly though, if you were to ask me to look back at my life and tell you when I was most bored out of my mind, it would be during 2001. We watched it at home, and I remember begging my parents to pause the movie so I could get a break to do anything else - read a book, go outside, anything. Interestingly, my father said it also bored the hell out of him. He said he remembered being so excited when it first came out - waiting in line, thinking it was so incredible and such a breakthrough. But he said that magic was all gone, now it just seemed dated and slow. Maybe neither of us has a good appreciation for cinema.

Heh, yes, I know, I'll check them out. I've really seen embarrassingly very few films - a problem genius boy's been working on.

The only Kubrick film I've seen is Space Odyssey, and I hated it... am I alone here? Though I also a kid at the time, so maybe it deserves another shot. I did read Jon Ronson's book where he describes making that documentary about the boxes in the Kubrick home - so that plus your Film Talk should pique my interest enough to check out another movie.

Seems like the selection lately, aside from Wall-E and Batman, has been very poor.

Definitely - Zoolander and Royal Tennenbaums were the ones that made me say alright, maybe he's warranted all the roles. But then, there was this terrible night... I believe it was in a museum...

You've ruined my year and possibly my life.

Maybe people can become less funny after periods of being in way too many films. For some, it seems they're so happy to be in the spotlight they say yes to more roles than they should. I can't stand Ben Stiller anymore... Night at the Museum was the final blow. I don't know if that or Speed Racer is the worst movie I've ever seen.

Hmm, video comments ain't working...

Definitely a curse. I think the show's blessed me though - I turned down my friend trying to get me to go to both of these films and clearly I was right to do so.

Oh I forgot - another big reason video comments aren't picking up online is they are hard to fake. Photoshopping your picture to look better or having another identity entirely are much harder with a camera on your face. :)

video doesn't suck

but is it actionpacked?

The problem with video is that it's faster for the person making the comment and slower for everyone else. You can't "skim" a video, so I bet you'll find people don't listen rather than waste 30 precious seconds of their ever dwindling life.

Yeah, there's but a bit of uproar in Australia because Dark Knight toys are being given away with Kid's Meals. I agree with you Phil - the technicality of blood is much too simple a metric for determining what's ok for kids. When I saw the movie, as the title sequence played and one had mooing in the background, I heard a 5-year-old yell out "it's a COOOW" and couldn't believe she was there... hopefully she's not scarred for life, afraid of pencils.

Hello from the top of the Vancouver Lookout. Another homage to DOA is an insane film called Crank, with Jason Statham. He's also poisoned and dying and in LA, but the movie's very tongue in cheek about it and doesn't pretend to be taken seriously. For a lunatic B-movie, I found it pretty entertaining. :)

Professor doctor Gareth Higgins knows the webcam steals your soul. That's why he's the professor doctor.