EGF's Most Watched Movies of the second half of 2012
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- Justacrazyguy
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The Death Note movies: They were much better then I expected.
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Me earlier today: "Oh jeez, what's this pretenious asian crap Ran and the 'Finn's keep going on about? Love Exposure? Oh Jesus this is going to be more Japanese girls doing stupid shit, isn't it? It's how long? Let's start this train wreck I guess..."
*Several Hours Later*
Me: 0_0 "..."
Me: 0o0 "That was f**king awesome. I believe I have a new top 10 favorite."
Conclusion: Love Exposure is beyond awesome. Gotta get that Blu-Ray when it comes out...
*Several Hours Later*
Me: 0_0 "..."
Me: 0o0 "That was f**king awesome. I believe I have a new top 10 favorite."
Conclusion: Love Exposure is beyond awesome. Gotta get that Blu-Ray when it comes out...
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"Ran and the Finns"
Seems like the perfect name for a anime JPOP group, if you ask me
Seems like the perfect name for a anime JPOP group, if you ask me
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Ran's persistent irony is a coping mechanism he uses to try and create some understanding of his paradoxical attraction to and disgust of the elitist bourgeois slaughterhouse in which he's forever trapped. --Muggy
Vanity of Vanities
Every post in Evageeks automaticaly becomes masturbatory material. It's nothing new. ~Justcrazyguy
Ran's persistent irony is a coping mechanism he uses to try and create some understanding of his paradoxical attraction to and disgust of the elitist bourgeois slaughterhouse in which he's forever trapped. --Muggy
I wonder just how many victims Love Exposure has claimed on EGF alone. I've lost count over the years. The number must be somewhere between 10 and 15. Seriously. Then there are those real life friends of Bomby who have been forced to watch it. 
"I'd really like to have as much money as you have, Oz" - robersora
"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
- Bomby von Bombsville
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6 of them, to be exact.
I had begun hearing about Love Exposure and was interested in seeing it months before I joined EGF, but I didn't get around to actually watching it until after a few others around here beat me to it.
I had begun hearing about Love Exposure and was interested in seeing it months before I joined EGF, but I didn't get around to actually watching it until after a few others around here beat me to it.
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If you let me, here's what I'll do: I'll take care of you.
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If you let me, here's what I'll do: I'll take care of you.
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Contemporary critics don't really "get" pink cinema and Sion Sono, and most of the recent avant-garde Japanese cin as far as I've read. Underwater Love only got critical praise because of Doyle's camerawork.
Our generation is probably going to be the one that invigorates critical energy to addressing these films.
Speaking of which, we should rev up the blog again
Our generation is probably going to be the one that invigorates critical energy to addressing these films.
Speaking of which, we should rev up the blog again
Punished "Venom" Ran1
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Ran's persistent irony is a coping mechanism he uses to try and create some understanding of his paradoxical attraction to and disgust of the elitist bourgeois slaughterhouse in which he's forever trapped. --Muggy
Vanity of Vanities
Every post in Evageeks automaticaly becomes masturbatory material. It's nothing new. ~Justcrazyguy
Ran's persistent irony is a coping mechanism he uses to try and create some understanding of his paradoxical attraction to and disgust of the elitist bourgeois slaughterhouse in which he's forever trapped. --Muggy
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I'm all for revving up the blog again. It's been a while since I've written any straight up reviews of anything. If I do any academic writing or anything, it'll probably be on my own blog, though.
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If you let me, here's what I'll do: I'll take care of you.
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If you let me, here's what I'll do: I'll take care of you.
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Ah yes, Love Exposure. The perennial favorite that I downloaded a year ago and still haven't watched. Someday. Someday...
Double-featured the Coen Brother's The Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading, both of which are hilarious, blackly comic farces in the style of a noir/detective yarn and a spy thriller respectively.
In the former, Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski gets assaulted in his house and his rug is peed on, forcing him to seek reparitions from millionaire also named Jeff Lebowski, and from there, he gets tangled up in a convoluted web of German nihilist techno-pop artists, porn directors, feminist avant-garde painters and a shell-shocked Vietnam vet trying to make it big on the local bowling league against a flamboyant pederast known only as De Jesus!
In the latter... God, where do I start. A CIA cubicle stuffer gets demoted, ostensibly for having a "drinking problem" so he quits his job and decides to write a book he thinks will be a steamy tell-all, because everyone in this film is deeply delusional and that's the only way the plot can work. His wife meanwhile is doing George Clooney, whose wife is a children's book author, and Clooney also likes to score with desperate women on dating sites, one of which is a vain gym employee who needs to have a ton of plastic surgery she can't afford to feel pretty again, so when she and gay Brad Pitt find a disc with the CIA guy's book on it, they think they can blackmail him and all the subplots collide with each other in nonsensical ways that I can't even begin to describe.
Purely as far as the writing goes, both films are utterly fascinating in how fast and loose they play with plot, giving far more attention to character quirks and indulging in bizarre tangents, which only add to the humor. Despite the fact that Lebowski comes closer to having a traditional plot--despite non-sequiturs like the utterly baffling cowboy narrator--I have to say I slightly prefer it due to its more constant barrage of comedic spectacle. Burn After Reading, while playing out like a train-wreck you can't really divert your eyes from, is more of a comedic slow burn, taking time to build up multiple angles, culminating in only two truly gut-wrenching moments of hysteria, both of which involve JK Simmons as a very confused CIA boss.
Double-featured the Coen Brother's The Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading, both of which are hilarious, blackly comic farces in the style of a noir/detective yarn and a spy thriller respectively.
In the former, Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski gets assaulted in his house and his rug is peed on, forcing him to seek reparitions from millionaire also named Jeff Lebowski, and from there, he gets tangled up in a convoluted web of German nihilist techno-pop artists, porn directors, feminist avant-garde painters and a shell-shocked Vietnam vet trying to make it big on the local bowling league against a flamboyant pederast known only as De Jesus!
In the latter... God, where do I start. A CIA cubicle stuffer gets demoted, ostensibly for having a "drinking problem" so he quits his job and decides to write a book he thinks will be a steamy tell-all, because everyone in this film is deeply delusional and that's the only way the plot can work. His wife meanwhile is doing George Clooney, whose wife is a children's book author, and Clooney also likes to score with desperate women on dating sites, one of which is a vain gym employee who needs to have a ton of plastic surgery she can't afford to feel pretty again, so when she and gay Brad Pitt find a disc with the CIA guy's book on it, they think they can blackmail him and all the subplots collide with each other in nonsensical ways that I can't even begin to describe.
Purely as far as the writing goes, both films are utterly fascinating in how fast and loose they play with plot, giving far more attention to character quirks and indulging in bizarre tangents, which only add to the humor. Despite the fact that Lebowski comes closer to having a traditional plot--despite non-sequiturs like the utterly baffling cowboy narrator--I have to say I slightly prefer it due to its more constant barrage of comedic spectacle. Burn After Reading, while playing out like a train-wreck you can't really divert your eyes from, is more of a comedic slow burn, taking time to build up multiple angles, culminating in only two truly gut-wrenching moments of hysteria, both of which involve JK Simmons as a very confused CIA boss.
"Now, from Nature we obtain abundant information about ourselves, and precious little about others. About the woman you clasp in your arms, can you say with certainty that she does not feign pleasure? About the woman you mistreat, are you quite sure that from abuse she does not derive some obscure and lascivious satisfaction? Let us confine ourselves to simple evidence: through thoughtfulness, gentleness, concern for the feelings of others we saddle our own pleasure with restrictions, and make this sacrifice to obtain a doubtful result." -The Divine Marquis
"I agree Hans, but we have talked about those anal fisting analogies." -Werner Herzog
"I agree Hans, but we have talked about those anal fisting analogies." -Werner Herzog
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I subjected a friend of mine to Love & Pop a few hours ago.
I like this movie more and more each time I see it. There are several other filmmakers, I imagine, who would love to just take a few cheap camcorders and shoot something as stylistically innovative and free form as this. It's refreshing to watch, really.
I like this movie more and more each time I see it. There are several other filmmakers, I imagine, who would love to just take a few cheap camcorders and shoot something as stylistically innovative and free form as this. It's refreshing to watch, really.
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If you let me, here's what I'll do: I'll take care of you.
"we have Bomby, voted by People magazine as the sexiest man alive." - TehDonutKing
If you let me, here's what I'll do: I'll take care of you.
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I adore Love & Pop. I really have to do some research into where the film stands in the history of digital cinema. I recently saw the documentary Side by Side & while it had a few perks the documentary itself was a bit disappointing. It really never compares film to digital & is instead a layman's walk through of the digital process. For someone like myself the only real perk was seeing professional filmmakers make their personal stance on film vs. digital even though it's apparent based on their work where some fall. Steven Soderbergh & David Fincher bury film. Martin Scorsese plays the perfect wise old "it's all about the art" card. And Christopher Nolan is 100% anti-digital. As is 'Batman & Robin' director Joel Schumacher too curiously enough.
Anywho, I have to research 'Love & Pop's place in digital cinema because the documentary makes a pretty bold declaration that 1998's La Festen (Celebration) from the Dogme 95 movement was the true start of the digital revolution as it was "the first". I of course call bullshit because Anno's film came out a good 6 months before. I'll have to do some research in the future but don't have the time at the moment. Anywho, it's a decent documentary. It can be found on demand at iTunes.
Also- love the Coen Brothers! I'd argue they're the best writers working in Western cinema right now. Not to mention they're geniuses at getting everything they want to say to come across economically. I'm pretty certain (though could be wrong) that they don't have one film in their body of work that runs over 2 hours. 'No Country For Old Men' is exactly 2 hours I believe but that's WITH credits. Looking forward to their 'Inside Lleweyn Davis'. Don't know when that's coming out but worked a few days on it and looked like it will be another great film in their resume.
Anywho, I have to research 'Love & Pop's place in digital cinema because the documentary makes a pretty bold declaration that 1998's La Festen (Celebration) from the Dogme 95 movement was the true start of the digital revolution as it was "the first". I of course call bullshit because Anno's film came out a good 6 months before. I'll have to do some research in the future but don't have the time at the moment. Anywho, it's a decent documentary. It can be found on demand at iTunes.
Also- love the Coen Brothers! I'd argue they're the best writers working in Western cinema right now. Not to mention they're geniuses at getting everything they want to say to come across economically. I'm pretty certain (though could be wrong) that they don't have one film in their body of work that runs over 2 hours. 'No Country For Old Men' is exactly 2 hours I believe but that's WITH credits. Looking forward to their 'Inside Lleweyn Davis'. Don't know when that's coming out but worked a few days on it and looked like it will be another great film in their resume.
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The Thing(Blu-rei): The developers commentary was one of the funiest things I have ever heard.
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Yeah, the film was also great.
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Yeah, the film was also great.
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Love Exposure is too damn long. I keep wanting to see it, but then I'm like "I don't have time for that shit."
For my post-3I fic, go here.
The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
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Bagheera wrote:Love Exposure is too damn long. I keep wanting to see it, but then I'm like "I don't have time for that shit."
I just had to pause it in the middle, take a leak, make some coffee and nuke the Twinkies in the microwave, then come back and play again how our hero has to win back his boner.
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You could, you know, do what a sane man does and watch 2 and 1/2 hours, apply the general rules of intermission, approach life again, and then, a half hour after getting the house in order, jump right back in. That's what I do. Few sane people actually sit through the five hours consistently
Punished "Venom" Ran1
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Ran's persistent irony is a coping mechanism he uses to try and create some understanding of his paradoxical attraction to and disgust of the elitist bourgeois slaughterhouse in which he's forever trapped. --Muggy
Vanity of Vanities
Every post in Evageeks automaticaly becomes masturbatory material. It's nothing new. ~Justcrazyguy
Ran's persistent irony is a coping mechanism he uses to try and create some understanding of his paradoxical attraction to and disgust of the elitist bourgeois slaughterhouse in which he's forever trapped. --Muggy
^ It's "only" four hours long, though. I have always sat through the whole thing in one go - except taking short break(s) for WC.
"I'd really like to have as much money as you have, Oz" - robersora
"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
- backseatjesus
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I don't do either for that long. This is why I'm keen on anime, in fact; I get decent stories in manageable chunks. With this I find myself watching part of it, getting stuck doing something else, then coming back to it a few days later wondering what the hell's going on and starting over. Bleh.
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For my post-3I fic, go here.
The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law. -- Akane Tsunemori, Psycho-Pass
People's deaths are to be mourned. The ability to save people should be celebrated. Life itself should be exalted. -- Volken Macmani, Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra
I hate myself. But maybe I can learn to love myself. Maybe it's okay for me to be here! That's right! I'm me, nothing more, nothing less! I'm me. I want to be me! I want to be here! And it's okay for me to be here! -- Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion
Yes, I know. You thought it would be something about Asuka. You're such idiots.
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