Phuck, the Phantom Menace sucked ass.

doesn't matter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom...ce_performance

Yeah well if someone paid me $431 million for one of my craps, I'd be happy about the money, but it would'nt mean that the crap wasn't still crap.

I do not think wikipedia adjusts for inflation

I read the worldwide grosses for Dark Knight were around 600 million, but adjusted for the inflation and the lowly dollar that would not even put it in the top 20 of all time earned.

I think the same goes for Phantom Phuckface

your wife sounds seriously awesome. My girlfriend couldnt even tolerate plan 9... come tot hink of it we dont really get along that well..

"Yes Man". I say 'yes' to ZOOEY DESCHANEL OH MY FUCKING GOD

Inland Empire.

Love that movie. Rabbits is awesome, too.

You're sorta right. Phantom Menace barely made it in; Dark Knight didn't. Weird.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_the_United_States_and_Canada#Hig hest-grossing_in_the_US_and_Canada.2C_adjusted_for_infl ation

"Felon".
Actually pretty good.

haha, thanks man/sorry man. We actually met on a smoke-break and started talking about 80's horror movies and it sort of just clicked from there.

When I first watched Rabbits it freaked me out... I'm really glad he worked it into Inland Empire. After some of the short films (The Darkened Room for example) that he had been working on, I was a bit worried that he had lost his touch. And it bothered me that he was making Inland on cheap digital cameras. But then I saw Inland and it just blew me away. Incredible.

adjusted for inflation:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

#19 - still pretty substantial.

Dark Knight #27

doña flor & her two husbands

cute, charming kinda, and maybe it was revolutionary when it came out in the 70s, but i found it lacking by today's standards. visions of sonia braga naked kept me going, but the structure of the story seemed to be mutilated eh. still, another one i was meaning to check out for a long time.

Out of Sight w/ Clooney and J. Lo circa 98. Not bad. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel.

DV sucks.

red rock west - 7/10

you just watched that int he past 90 minutes didn't you?

btw what is "DV"-- digital video? or did you mean something else?

Digital Video? Yeah it does suck. But a few films have been good regardless of the poor medium. Inland Empire is a good example. I think Terror Firmer was shot on DV, wasn't it? Hell even Jason X looked better than most of the crap shot on DV.

Also, my friend gave me the blind dead box set and I watched all of them last night:


tombs of the blind dead - 7/10



return of the evil dead - 8/10


ghost galleon - 5/10



night of the seagulls - 6/10

No Troma film directed by Lloyd Kaufman has ever or will ever be directed in DV. He hates it.

A lot of Japanese films are shot on DV and look great. Inland Empire, for whatever artistic merits it has, looks pretty .. soap operaish.. for a lot of it. Doesn't really effect the movie itself,I just hate that look.

And yeah I did !@#$%!, howdjaknow?

i looked at the time between your last 2 posts in this thread.

anyway not all digital video is created equal. the one called
DV" is an SD format with low bandwidth (25Mbps or about 13GB/h) and about 5:1 compression, it's ok for documentaries and guerrilla filmmaking but it's bad quality for blowing up in a big screen.

HDV is a gimmicky shit kind of format that creates "high def" images (highly compressed) at a similar bandwidth- to me, it's a fucked up codec.

anyway, things get nicer & nicer as you move up the money chain, and there's raw uncompressed high definition video shot with cinema lenses these days, not bad at all.

if you wanna see great cinematography shot in video, check out "before the devil knows you're dead". holy fuck. it's good.

Video in itself isn't a bad look, but Lynch's look of Inland Empire sucks. The actual film is a pretty good little mess, but god.. I dunno... the more soap opera-looking shitty scenes are awful. I dunno what camera he used, but...

i think inland empire is crap in more ways than one

It's pretty decent for the most part. Probably a 6/10

6/10 is 60% is a D-

that's about right!

i fucking hate that movie. 3 hours of wankery. you could cut it down to 45 minutes and make a decent short.

I think it had at least an hour and a half of GREAT stuff in it. And way more than that that's bullshit -- and it was originally an extra hour long! His worst film ever (not counting Dune since he doesn't even acknowledge it anymore).

I dnt know why I thought Lloyd used DV recently. I thought in one of his 2 books he mentioned how they were really affordable. I read them both like 5 years ago, though so it's been a while.

I know Troma has put out DV-shot releases, though. Not meaning in-house films.

lloyd hates video & loves film.

Lloyd likes to go swimmin with bowlegged wimmin.

dune rules

sharkskin man and peachhip girl - 8/10

this film kicks ass.

No it doesn't. But it doesn't suck either. It's definitely the worst film in Lynch's filmography, but that's not his fault. He needed the film to be 2 films, and he couldn't do that so it got all cut up and fucked up.

it still rules. for it's time it was extremely odd and weird and crazy.

but I hate most Lynch films, finding them lacking in story, and overwhelmed by his "dreamlogic" bullshit.

I love Dune. I love the book and the movie.
The Sci-Fi channel TV show sucked.

I want to see this one,and also like to see 'Labyrinth Of Dreams' with Asano -

Why does every low budget sci-fi/action movie from the 90s look like it was made in the mid-80s ... in a disco?

Didnt he have fucking toto supply the soundtrack for dune.. if so... god I dont even know.

I dont know why, but when I watched Ichi I didnt like it much.
I was kind of distracted, but from what I got it wasnt that radical or shocking and it was kind of confusing.
It just didn't live up tot he hype for me. I probably need to give it a better, honest watch though.