Recently Watched Films

I always suspected listening to to much Boris did something in your brain.

In my ADM-craze I just watched Total Recall... nyahl nyahl nyahl!

J-Man wrote: Watched this for the first time while I was home sick today: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A hell of a lot more abstract and trippy than I was expecting, but I ended up enjoying it. Though the first hour or so was a bit too slow (IMO), it ended up leaving a very positive first impression. I sense that this one needs to be watched a few more times before I can formulate a definite opinion. For now it's a 4/5.

Ha, I just watched Dr. Strangelove yesterday for the first time. Gonna get 2001 from the library soon as well.

J-Man wrote: Watched this for the first time while I was home sick today: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) A hell of a lot more abstract and trippy than I was expecting, but I ended up enjoying it. Though the first hour or so was a bit too slow (IMO), it ended up leaving a very positive first impression. I sense that this one needs to be watched a few more times before I can formulate a definite opinion. For now it's a 4/5.

I've seen it a couple of times and read the novel (I even wrote a paper on it back when I was a student), too, and, yeah, it's very very veeeeeeeeery slow. It deals with some very interesting themes, to be sure, but it never impressed me to the same degree that it seems to have impressed most people.

J-Man wrote: Kinda... I think. The fact that the protagonist is showed at four or five different (increasingly older) ages sort of implies that he ends up living in the room for years and years until his death. It seems like the monolith (which appears a few other times throughout the film) takes him away, and he's changed into an embryonic state, thus re-beginning his life?

Whenever the monolith appears, a new era or phase or whatever in the human evolution is sparked off. The first time it appears, the apes start using tools, and when it appears on the moon, it sparks off human intergalactic traveling (embodied in the expedition to find the source of the monoliths [as far as I remember]) and when it appears floating in space, and everything gets trippy, and Archer appears in the embryonic state this really represents another stage in human evolution and embryonic Archer, or the Star Child, is the next step in the human evolution (so from apes to humans to the Star Child).


Edited by Time Signature - 06 Dec 2011 at 7:56pm

It's a zoo

I watched the GG Allin documentary "Hated".  What a fucked up guy.

Watched There Will Be Blood last night.  Possibly the best movie ending ever.

The Invention Of Lying.

Much better than I expected it to be, to be honest.

Watched this tonight:


Horrible Bosses (2011)

Really solid movie IMO. While fairly predictable, it had an enjoyable plot and plenty of hilarious scenes. 3.5/5