Friday, 13 March:

Slumdog Millionaire.

3/14:

The Wrestler

MARISA TOMEI'S TITS! (I LIKE SEX!)

3/15, sticking with Oscars 2009 theme:

"Milk"

3/16:

Office Space (1999)

"Back up in your ass with the resurrection"

Porker, check out "Before The Devil Knows Your Dead" if you like her tits. The movie is not even a minute in and there's Marisa getting it doggy-style. She's topless elsewhere in the movie as well.

Great pick, TJphoenix. The first time I saw it was actually on an airplane and they CUT that first scene. When I downloaded it and watched it again, it was like "WHOOOAAAH!"

She looked even better in that movie than in the Wrestler, and that first scene is full on PORNO!

3/17:

Quentin Tarantino written "True Romance", featuring Gary Oldman in his greatest role ever, IMO.

3/18: My favorite movie of all time: Pulp Fiction

"Pulp Fiction" is a great movie (as well as a great soundtrack) but I can't say it's my favorite. That choice changes periodically and right now it goes to "LA Confidential".

3/19, sticking with a theme:

Jackie Brown, 1997.

The DeNiro/Bridget F. fuck scene was CLASSIC!

Bridget also utters one of the greatest comebacks in film history:

Samuel L. Jackson:

"Pot kills your ambition"

Bridget: "Not if your ambition is to get high and watch TV!"

"Jackie Brown":

Ordell: "AK-47! The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes.".

Ordell: "My ass may be dumb but I'm no dumbass!".

And, speaking of PSE's in mainstream movies, Billy Bob throwing it to Halle Berry in "Monster's Ball"!

I don't know if there's one on that DVD but BB is known to go into his "Sling Blade" character in other scenes from his movies. They usually have them in the "Special Features" section on the DVD. They also have them on YouTube. There's a great on on the "The Ice Harvest" DVD...which also is a kick-ass movie.

3/20, sticking with Samuel L. Jackson (always LOVE his characters),

P.T. Anderson's first movie: Hard Eight

You can't go wrong with any movie featuring Philip Baker Hall!

"I will fuck you up if you fuck with me, OK? I know three kinds of Karate: Jujitsu, Aikido, and regular Karate.".

I thought it was perfect casting when Samuel Jackson stepped into the shoes of John Shaft. If there already hadn't been a "Shaft", Jackson would have made it.

I like Marisa's tits a lot, but it is a damn shame she won her oscar so early in her career. It guaranteed that she wouldn't need to get nekkid until she was well into her thirties.

Just imagine how firm her small tiddies were back in the day.

Sorry, no clubhombre access at the internet cafe on Revolucion and 4th. Guess our discssuions are culturally offensive...

Monday, March 23, Oliver Stones 1987 Wall Street.

Gekko = Madoff

"A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place."

"Greed is good"

GG: "I MAKE NOTHING. I OWN... EVERYTHING"

Not for long!

A severely underrated Oliver Stone film (merely won him a best director Oscar, which I would actually have given to Spike Lee):

Born on the 4th of July. Like many dramas, it's hard for me to watch twice, but I really loved that film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJK9KnL_94s

The Spike Lee alternative, "Do the Right Thing".

BTW, John Turturro is one of my all-time favorite actors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDzd5Sw5HU

I loved Turturro's small part in "The Big Lebowski." He was classic!

EA

"Dios MIO"

"Don't FUCK with d Jesus"!!! :D

All good films you guys are referencing. Porker, just caught a little indie diddy from 2005 on DVD that won major film festival prizes but was amazingly not theatrically released...called "ESL (English as a Second Language)" - its about mexican immigrants, both illegal and gentrifying, coming together in East L.A. Fucking great movie and I'm thinking about volunteering my services to teach ESL in L.A.

Recommending a film I will see 2morrow (aka not YET!):

Gran Torino.


Anybody seen it yet?

Gran Torino was worth the 2 bucks I paid for admission in Mexico, but actually glad the Academy didn't buy the Golden Globes hype about it. Too much cache riding on Eastwood's clenched teeth epithets and pedestrian acting by the "undiscovered" nobodies in the cast.

Today:

Animal House!

I enjoyed "Gran Torino" if for nothing else to see what Clint's character Harry Callahan would probably be like retired. Yes, definitely not Oscar-worthy but a very good movie.

Trivia: The young white guy who was with the Korean girl when they got "involved" with the black guys was Clint's son. Which brings up his daughter Allison who used to act. She was very hot and got nekkid a few times.

"Animal House": One word...CLASSIC!

3/28:

Doubt.

PSH mano-a-mano with Meryl Streep. PORKER LIKES! Nice plot too... The black mom got rave reviews and oscar buzz. I thought it was better written than acted.

TJ phx, you got good taste in movies!

Well, I just watched today another film with PSH (early role!) that is in my top 5: "Scent of a Woman". Fucking great story and the speech at the end rivals Jack's "You can't handle the truth" one.

Guilty PSH pleasure:

Along Came Polly. "I Sharted", "Spank Her", and basketball scenes were "shart msyelf" good!

To compare, contrast, though, the ending monologue was beyond weak!

Hank Azaria made up for it!

Sharted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm2DcWerIVg&feature=related

Doubt u tube trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BceEz9ytmI0&feature=related

PSH has always been on my radar as a great actor. His role in "Along Cam Polly" was hilarious. To use a cliche, he "ate the scenery" in every minute he was on the screen.

3/30, low hanging fruit today: No Country For Old Men

Tommy Lee Jones closing monologue in No Country For Old Men haunts me to this day. This is Cohen Brothers at their finest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrC7KRDy3w8

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NCFOM - one of the few movies that I've seen that is almost as good as the book. ALMOST!

EA

I've seen it 5 times and still don't understand it 100%. Tommy Lee Jones' whole character seemed like a red herring to me. Best I can see, it's all about Bardem personifying evil, and the message seems to be at TOP F'ING VOLUME, when you're confronted by EVIL GTF OUT OF ITS WAY?

El-Ap, still own said book (hint hint!)

Re: Coen Bros., hit and miss IMO. The Brad pitt/clooney debacle was bad woody allen, and I HATE woody allen.

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3/31:

Spent the lunch hour with a look at the Sierra Madre foothills:

Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Be sure to count the women you see in the film. Makes a fun (and not excessive!) drinking game! Far funner than my 1x upon a time to join PI@night's professional drunks' 'centurion' club!

Plus, TLJ was piggybacking on Melquiades Estrada role. Not fair!

I cried foul similarly when all the nazis in Valkyrie were 10x better in the far, far better HBOfilm "Conspiracy". Maybe the producers were hoping that no one saw it?

NCFOM and Burn After Reading are the Coen brothers worst two movies IMHO. Poor dialogue and oversimplistic characters. I think the academy must be a bunch of sheltered idiots to think that Slumdog Millionaire or NCFOM were the best movies of the year. Great direction from Danny Boyle but the hype came from academy voters who likely never traveled in their lives and loved the poverty porn. Switch that cast to American actors in an American ghetto and it goes straight to video.

I wish Academy voters would give more notice to comedies and smart action movies. How does NCFOM get best picture and The Big Lebowski not even get nominated....same goes for Office Space. I would have taken the Bourne Ultimatum any day over NCFOM. I also wish the Academy would diversify its membership. Seems to be the easiest way to get nominated is to make a movie with gay or Jewish themes...or both. Makes me want to write a script about a gay holocaust survivor.

Blaze, it would be a lock for the trophy. Although I did like NCFOM...

I really liked "Burn After Reading", good cast and a lot of dark humor.

I really liked "Burn After Reading", good cast and a lot of dark humor.

Better bowling movie - The Big Lebowski or Kingpin? My gut says to go with Lebowski but any movie that makes fun of the Amish is a keeper in my book.

I'll call this one a push.

EA

big lebowski, that's an easy one.

I can't label "TBL" as a "bowling movie" as it was more a great character study with bowling scenes. Yes, the new DVD set comes in a faux bowling ball case...but still.....

"Kingpin" was definitely a "bowling movie".

I just watched a brutal movie that was a fantastic study of the human condition. "Blindness"! Not for the morally squeamish.

Continental's in flight package EWR-HKG came with 300+ in demand movies, and numerous TV shows:

I will give a shout to a movie with a lot of recent buzz, though I'm not even sure if I liked it or not. If Blazers hated on NCFOM, I'll hate on this one: I couldn't dedicate 3 of my ASS-NUMBING 15.5 hours on that flight to a movie I remembered as having a HORRIBLE ending:

Unforgiven (eastwood/hackman)

More homage to "Do the Right Thing", and I, again, agree, was easily the best film of 1989:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_do_the_right_thing_anniversary

AGAIN, Do the right thing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDzd5Sw5HU