Movie thread
  • OatsOats
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    Just saw Social Network, loved it. One of those movies that on paper sounds droll and boring, but turned out to be pretty riveting. And all the people involved are mostly offensive or wrong somehow, but the whole thing seems so true to life you can see the human element through out. A really good biopic. Feel free to post whatever you've been watching and how you feel.
  • KunkemonsterKunkemonster
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    I've heard it's pretty good. I'll watch it one of these days. I haven't' seen any good movies recently.
  • gordsellargordsellar
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    Ha, has anyone here seen "Gentlemen Broncos"? My girlfriend was talking about it a while back, assuming I knew what it was, and I had no idea.



    It may not appeal to those who (a) hated Napoleon Dynamite, or (b) don't care for science fiction, and I have to say there is something very skin-crawly about it, but at the same time, it's funny as hell, lampoons SF fandom in a very fun way, and it features a (sub)plot centered on yeast. When I met up with Dax to pass on a yeast sample, my SF writer friends were laughingly making "Yeast Lord" references from the film.



    The other film I saw lately worth recommending was this bizarre documentary called Grizzly Man, directed by Werner Herzog but it's all in English, and it is just freaking weird. I don't really know how to explain it except to say it's very funny, very sad, very bloody weird, and it's about a guy possessed by the same crazed passion a lot of us are for making beer. But, well, his passion is for bears. Or, I should say, was. Er, no, won't spoil it more than that.
  • daxdefrancodaxdefranco
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    "gordsellar" wrote: very funny, very sad, very bloody weird, and it's about a guy possessed by...crazed passion



    That's a fair description of Werner Herzog generally...have you seen eXistenz? I think it was Cronenberg, that's a pretty good sci-fi-ish film
  • gordsellargordsellar
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    It may also be a good description of Herzog, but I was talking about Tim Treadwell, the focus of the documentary.



    And yeah, I saw eXistenZ (?) in the theaters but I wasn't crazy about it. Not really my kind of SF, but I have funny tastes in genre films (considering I'm a genre writer, though, it makes sense... many SF authors I know seem to like far fewer SF films than SF fans seem to like--for example, I mostly hatred Avatar, pretty onscreen as it was). I'd say my favorite SF films are Blade Runner, Code 46, Children of Men... well, and I have high hopes for the upcoming TV production (by the BBC) of Phil Dick's The Man in the High Castle.



    That said, I saw the Back to the Future trilogy back to back at a midnight movie marathon a couple of weekends ago, at the Gwacheon SF film festival (first annual) and while I'm not so nuts about those films, it was a lot more fun with a Korean audience that was very, very into it. They were cheering everytime time travel happened, they were howling with laughter at all the jokes... it was kind of not like being in a cinema in Korea, in some ways. Except of course that it was.
  • OatsOats
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    Hey, there's a Man in the High Castle miniseries in the works? Sweeeeeet! Just reread that one and a few from his valis days last year. I am a huge PKD fan, read at least 2/3 of his output. Hard to track a lot his stuff down in my small town, but I did my best. Even went and visited his grave, not far from my college, once.



    Not really a movie, but I recommend you all check out The Walking Dead. New series from AMC based on the comics. So far they have an awesome pilot, a rather groan-worthy second ep, and a series-worthy 3rd ep. They are getting some momentum.
  • KunkemonsterKunkemonster
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    So I watched Social Network and it was a pretty good movie. Even though I think Zuckerberg is a prick in real life and this movie I felt slightly sympathetic for him.



    Walking Dead has been pretty good so far, I don't know how may episodes they can get before it turns into a drama though. I do love me some zombie killin'!
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