Monday, April 28, 2008

Mid Shift Fourth/Fifth Night

Some more John Wayne stuff I cant really remember. You can only take so much Wayne. I think it was Wings of eagles(3/5(got muddled at the end) and Wake of the Red Witch(2/5 he fights a giant squid like the thing in Ed Wood).

Fellini's 8 1/2 finally got snuck in. Its a delicious amount of fantasy and movie industry personalities makes for a great watch. Not to mention the killer stylish direction.

5/5

Once upon a time in America
Possibly Leone's best film, mainly due to the fact the our Protagonist is plainly a monster of a man. You can still respect him a little bit because he seems to live his life by some kind of code but god what an asshole. Almost shocking in its depiction of sex and violence which I'll have to give Leone some serious credit for.Its a damn tragedy we lost Leone so early cause he was really becoming something amazing.

5/5

Saturday, April 26, 2008

New Oshii

On of my favorite directors is back with a new piece. Its looks decent, I hope for some spacey malickey moments ive come to love from Oshii.


Mid Shift Third Night

The commancheros

John Wayne meh fest directed by Curtiz. 2/5

Broken Arrow
Decent but a bit wonky Jimmy Stewart helps the Apache Indians film.
3/5

Little Big Man
Hilaroius and occasionally sad forest gump of westerns starring a young ass Dustin Hoffman.

4/5

Friday, April 25, 2008

damn



Jean luc Godard once interviewed John Ford for les caheirs du cinema...

Jean Luc Godard:"What brought you to Hollywood?"

John Ford:"Train."

Mid Shift Second Night

John Ford back to back action

First up is the undeniable classic The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin and Vera Miles in a entertaining and intelligently composed western about legends and truth. SO GOD DAMN GOOD. UGHHH! "There is nothing to good for the man who shot liberty Valance" last line. Watch the damn flick

5/5

They Were Expendable was next with Wayne and Ward Bond and the girl from White Christmas Donna Reed. Its got a few decent scenes but its over long and muddled as hell in the middle. Probably the worst John Ford movie I've ever seen.

2/5

hopefully tonight I can sneak 8 1/2 in while the other guys arent looking. But I doubt it.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Mid Shift First Night

1941- Steven Spielbergs WW2 paranoia comedy. It's Crap. It's a big budget explosion laden disaster with a joke success ration of about 1 in every 20. Makes for an annoyingly long and boring ride

2/5

White Heat - James Cagney as a cold blooded gangster with mommy issues. Lots of twists and turns and Cagney is fun to watch. Deserves the Departed treatment to really capitalize on some of the grit the story has but washes over.

4/5

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

True Dat: !!!!!!!

Screw Superhero movies till the die. I think i'd rather watch a pg-13 teen slasher flick then another damn b-grade marvel comics flick. Not that I really saw many of them but about ten minutes of fantastic four 2 set me to a tiff for about 3 hours. Stick with your A-game and leave all this hulk bullshit in the gutter.