pricey pricey
Wasn't Netflix something like $18 or $20 for 3 dvds when it started? Now it'll be the same price for 2 dvds and unlimited streaming? Until I can stream AMC shows and Fringe and the rest of the old foreign movies I haven't seen yet, I guess I'm doing fine. As for torrenting, I'm alright with that, too.…

On a related note: there's probably as many cuts and moving camera shots in Tree of Life as Transformers 3 (that's the one I was talking about). Transformers 3 has a strangely disconnected continuity to it as well. Each shot has no real bearing on what came before it, either emotionally or tonally or physically. I…

If this were Facebook, I would "like" this. I think because I had expected to weep most of the way through the film, I ended up remaining fairly dry-eyed (yet also wide-eyed). For some reason, hearing passionate reviews gets the tears going a little more- see Filmspotting; Ebert. Maybe it's the nature of the film…

On the other hand…
I felt like I wasted a valuable part of my life going to see the last Transformers movie. I would gladly take a refund for that. Talk about confusing, directionless and (worst of all) boring. Not to mention all the pretentious bullshit about "freedom" and "good vs evil". It was worse than…

missionaries
I was at home one afternoon when some religious missionaries came to my door. I considered asking them, before they could tell me about the Lord, if they wouldn't mind going to see Tree of Life with me. I imagined us going for coffee afterwords and discussing the various possibilities of what it means…

A Chimple Plan?

Trier.

@TCB, hey man! Look, I"m cool, I love Malick! I've seen Tree of Life twice! Come on, just tie me, I'm one of the good guys!

Can we stop with the hipster thing? You end up sounding like cry babies because some kid with good taste in music has cool shoes and a cute girlfriend. What happened to just calling assholes assholes? And if you're seeing a screening recently of Old Boy, you should probably assume everyone there has already seen…

In the end, I think it'll be ok.

She is. But sometimes I think she looks like Gael Garcia Bernal, who is himself a pretty fella. So you know, win win right?

well, shows how much i remember of that modern classic!

A movie where PBH walks around a room talking to himself and maybe barks like a dog is a must see!

speech
I'll wager that the first time we see one of the cartoon monkeys talk, it says "Get your filthy hands off me you damned dirty human". Not because I think it's funny, but because I don't trust most filmmakers to not want to try and be clever and some point. When that day comes, the apes have already won!

Ah, Hamsterdam..
Appropriately, I saw the first Hangover in Amsterdam. I'll get around to seeing this Part 2 at some point, it looks like a pleasing enough time-waster, much like the first. Sadly, it probably won't be in Europe. More likely Edina or St Louis Park.

chocolate
So are they referring to the one where she rebuilt her set out of fancy chocolate? Or the one about losing weight, again? Or the one where a bunch of depressed middle class women watch her talk to famous multi-millionaires about their troubles with other famous multi-millionaires? She's a fucking blight.

Trois Couleurs: Rouge, standing by.

That's totally what I was thinking. Except without all the necro/fecalphilia and spraying breast milk, I guess. Or maybe Natalie Portman's in to that, I don't know.

Real life is in color. With black & white, there's an obvious sense of the film's artificiality, or at the very least, a false idea of time separating what's happening on screen and the present. Like what Calvin's dad says, everything was in black & white back then, before they discovered color: http://tinyurl.com/42…

Composition
I know this is way too late for anyone to care, but does no one have anything to say about the square format she uses? I didn't read any reviews until after I finally saw it, so I was about to get up and tell someone at the theater their framing was fucked up. Turns out, it was intentional. But Tobias…