( -_- ) /( o_o )\ ( o . o ) [Liam]
Hi. How are you?
...
That's good. I'm back, by the way.
Yeah. Mm-hm, I do suck.
That being said, it's about to be a list-format entry. Best for clearing out all the half-cocked blogs that I've had in my head.
-DBo got me netflix for christmas. I am terrible about stuff that requires days of downtime, but for a better selection that Union City Hollywood Video it's totally worth it. This same purchasing ADD is why I am a fan of e-books and one-item comparison shopping (hm this looks good. (blink) still looks good. SOLD)
Here is my starting out netflix queue:
-watched-
1) Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
Early Wong Kar Wai, requires a lot of the viewer in terms of attention. He has a love for really complicated and cluttered urban landscapes, something I always found particularly beautiful. I've always felt that there's a certain way to look at anything that can make it appealing or pretty, simply sometimes it's harder to find. There's a complex, even challenging beauty to the way WKW's movies are shot.
His storytelling reflects this as well. Revolving around chance encounters and the shared situations of a densely populated city like HK, you get a feel for the layered experiences and subjective worlds a cityscape of lit windows suggests.
[5 minute ramble warning] You also get the sense watching Wong Kar Wai movies that he planned everything he ever made or will made at the same time. His continuity constantly references movies preceeding and following the one you are watching, though not in the consistent logic of a single universe or storyline. For example, in this movie Takeshi Kaneshiro plays a mute who at one point recollects in his inner monologue that he's unable to speak because he ate an expired can of pineapple as a child-- in Chungking Express he plays a cop who every day collects a can of pineapple dated the day his girlfriend dumped him (May 1st) and then eats them all at midnight on the expiration date.[BZZZZZZZZZZZ next]
2) Infernal Affairs 3
Third sequel to a wildly popular series of cop movies from HK (yes two chinese movies at 1st and 2nd on my list... the suggestion list on netflix is already racially profiling). Definitely the "Matrix Revolutions" of the series. Terrible doesn't begin to describe a movie that has no true protagonist and spends most of the time on the unsympathetic and totally un-engaging villain before seeing him brought to justice in a horrible plot twist in the end. I wanted to get through the series before the american remake hits the streets though... the mentioned at the golden globe awards that leonardo dicaprio is starring in "the departed," so i'm guessing it's coming up-- he and matt damon are set to replace tony leung and andy lau in a nypd / irish mob remake.
3) Winged Migration
Haven't watched it yet but I've got it at home.
-queued-
4)Nomads (1980s John McTiernan)
5)Barcelona
6)Happy Together (WKW)
7)Love Me If You Dare (Nutty French movie, looks like a mean-spirited rated-R Amelie)
8)Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
-I've always felt that Mos Def, Eminem and Pharoahe Monch (among others) could be the greatest emcee alive. Sean "Slug" Daley of Atmosphere actually IS the greatest emcee alive.
-Doing stuff that involves strangers will definitely start to fuck with you if you let it. Or maybe just me. Some of these activites include driving in rush hour, voting, reading user-submitted yahoo movie reviews, caring within reason about adults' mastery of the english language, driving in a parking lot and trying to sit on a toilet in any men's bathroom on earth.
-I just scored a 3' x 150' roll of white paper from work. I'm going to draw on all of it. I'd say the biggest limitation facing me right now is the amount of wastebasket space i can muster.
-I had funny stuff to say, I'm sure of it. Shit. Oh well. I'll be back in the swing of things soon enough.
...
That's good. I'm back, by the way.
Yeah. Mm-hm, I do suck.
That being said, it's about to be a list-format entry. Best for clearing out all the half-cocked blogs that I've had in my head.
-DBo got me netflix for christmas. I am terrible about stuff that requires days of downtime, but for a better selection that Union City Hollywood Video it's totally worth it. This same purchasing ADD is why I am a fan of e-books and one-item comparison shopping (hm this looks good. (blink) still looks good. SOLD)
Here is my starting out netflix queue:
-watched-
1) Fallen Angels (Wong Kar Wai)
Early Wong Kar Wai, requires a lot of the viewer in terms of attention. He has a love for really complicated and cluttered urban landscapes, something I always found particularly beautiful. I've always felt that there's a certain way to look at anything that can make it appealing or pretty, simply sometimes it's harder to find. There's a complex, even challenging beauty to the way WKW's movies are shot.
His storytelling reflects this as well. Revolving around chance encounters and the shared situations of a densely populated city like HK, you get a feel for the layered experiences and subjective worlds a cityscape of lit windows suggests.
[5 minute ramble warning] You also get the sense watching Wong Kar Wai movies that he planned everything he ever made or will made at the same time. His continuity constantly references movies preceeding and following the one you are watching, though not in the consistent logic of a single universe or storyline. For example, in this movie Takeshi Kaneshiro plays a mute who at one point recollects in his inner monologue that he's unable to speak because he ate an expired can of pineapple as a child-- in Chungking Express he plays a cop who every day collects a can of pineapple dated the day his girlfriend dumped him (May 1st) and then eats them all at midnight on the expiration date.[BZZZZZZZZZZZ next]
2) Infernal Affairs 3
Third sequel to a wildly popular series of cop movies from HK (yes two chinese movies at 1st and 2nd on my list... the suggestion list on netflix is already racially profiling). Definitely the "Matrix Revolutions" of the series. Terrible doesn't begin to describe a movie that has no true protagonist and spends most of the time on the unsympathetic and totally un-engaging villain before seeing him brought to justice in a horrible plot twist in the end. I wanted to get through the series before the american remake hits the streets though... the mentioned at the golden globe awards that leonardo dicaprio is starring in "the departed," so i'm guessing it's coming up-- he and matt damon are set to replace tony leung and andy lau in a nypd / irish mob remake.
3) Winged Migration
Haven't watched it yet but I've got it at home.
-queued-
4)Nomads (1980s John McTiernan)
5)Barcelona
6)Happy Together (WKW)
7)Love Me If You Dare (Nutty French movie, looks like a mean-spirited rated-R Amelie)
8)Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
-I've always felt that Mos Def, Eminem and Pharoahe Monch (among others) could be the greatest emcee alive. Sean "Slug" Daley of Atmosphere actually IS the greatest emcee alive.
-Doing stuff that involves strangers will definitely start to fuck with you if you let it. Or maybe just me. Some of these activites include driving in rush hour, voting, reading user-submitted yahoo movie reviews, caring within reason about adults' mastery of the english language, driving in a parking lot and trying to sit on a toilet in any men's bathroom on earth.
-I just scored a 3' x 150' roll of white paper from work. I'm going to draw on all of it. I'd say the biggest limitation facing me right now is the amount of wastebasket space i can muster.
-I had funny stuff to say, I'm sure of it. Shit. Oh well. I'll be back in the swing of things soon enough.
1 Comments:
Infernal Affairs > Infernal Affairs2 > Infernal Affairs 3 > The Whole Matrix Trilo.
On the subject of WKW,
In the Mood for Love >> 2046
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