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A 'What are you watching' thread

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MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

16:13 / 03.01.07

I've been watching GANTZ, which is an ultraviolent Japanese anime about coming back from the dead and working for a giant black sphere with a coma patient inside it that dresses you up in a Cosplay outfit and sends you to kill aliens.

After the first couple of episodes I was ready to pack it in, but there's something compelling about it, but I won't get into it because it's spoilery. It's worth watching in that uncomfortable Elfen Lied sort of way -- you're not sure if it's nasty and ugly because it's just exploitative and horrible, or if there's something under that exploitative surface. But I'm leaning towards the latter. 10 episodes to go, probably whittling away a bit every evening this week.

Mistoffelees

17:01 / 03.01.07

I watched The Squid and the Whale yesterday

I saw that movie recently and I agree, the movie was quite sombre. Especially the younger son with his drinking and wanking was mildly disturbing. And the other son so blatantly copied his father´s behaviour, it couldn´t have been done more obvious.
And he must have been very stupid to use a Pink Floyd song for a contest and say it´s his own. Did he think he´s the only one who had listened to The Wall?

I liked Baldwin as the tennis trainer and of course Anna Paquin as the lively student the best. They were so down to earth, balanced and uncomplicated, especially in relation to this dysfunctional family.

In my opinion the director tried too hard. Maybe he wants to be the next Woody Allen?

Internaut

20:42 / 09.01.07

I recently purchased The Machinist, after someone describing it as "Fight Club meets Memento", two other films i adore. T'was not that, but it was a good film. It was more like "Fight Club meets something that looks suspiciously like Fight Club, but isnt"

i liked it, though. the idea of mental stress and conflict creating an alternate identity without the person knowing it, is, to say the least, interesting. its the second time its come up in a film that ive bought, and the second that ive really enjoyed.

Tsuga

21:42 / 09.01.07

In my opinion the director tried too hard. Maybe he wants to be the next Woody Allen?
From what I've seen, that is his M.O. Kind of like Whit Stillman, with that hyper-earnest, clever, over-written dialogue. I find them both kind of annoying, but also sometimes very entertaining.

Seth

22:09 / 09.01.07

I'm currently five episodes from the end of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, which is so far pretty wonderful and very funny. On her first day at high school the character for whom the show is named stands up in class to introduce herself, like everyone else has before her, only to say: "I have no interest in you unless you're an alien, time traveller or esper. If you're not one of those then don't bother speaking to me." She then forms a club called the SOS Brigade that solves mysteries, makes appalling amateur movies, cheats at baseball and sexually abuses its members.

It has its own thread and is probably downloadable/streamable via a number of sources. I'll write about it for the thread when I'm done watching it.

Also been watching Bleach. This also has its own thread. In my humble it's easily the best ongoing show on TV right now, and it's about to get a lot better than it has been for the last year. Yay Bleach!

Internaut

14:02 / 10.01.07

I've been having a Neon Genesis Evangelion marathon. giant robots, detailed psychological exploration and more giant robots go suprisingly well together =D

Triplets

14:17 / 10.01.07

"I have no interest in you unless you're an alien, time traveller or esper. If you're not one of those then don't bother speaking to me."

A loner protagonist in an anime? Originality award!

Captain Zoom

02:49 / 03.03.07

I've just watched Stranger Than Fiction with Will Ferrell and Emma Thompson. Brilliant movie, all the more so 'cause I've just finished vol. 2 of The Invisibles.
Both actors really shine in their roles, the story is consistent and moving. It was billed as a comedy, but it's not. It's a whole bunch of different things, and it's about life. I loved it.

Mistoffelees

19:50 / 16.03.07

I saw Nothing tonight, and it was good.

It´s about two guys living together, and the day one of them wants to move out to move in with his girlfriend, everything goes wrong for both of them. Catastrophe follows catastrophe, and when they are in the most dire straits, everything but them and their house (standing between two freeways) disappears.

The rest of the movie is about those two exploring the void outside their house, discovering uncanny powers, and going a bit mental.

This movie has one of the most unusual happy endings ever.

It´s also got a turtle (Stan), a Ginger Snaps easter egg, one evil kid, and dream sequences!

D Terminator XXXIII

12:07 / 17.03.07

I've just seen Me And You And Everyone We Know twice and I've been thinking about whether to start a new thread for the small, but unusually charming, movie that's a few years old or not, or consign myself with stating that I've seen it. Twice.

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