the division of joy

Nice. I have it downloading. I may watch it/something equally as foreign tomorrow, depending on how busy I am.

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With my beard on the return, I figured I might as well kick shit up a notch, watch a film and get my critical brain a working. I started off with something easy, something I know I love. Something I know everybody should love. A film that is missing nothing for what it is. City of God would be in my top 5 of films ever made. It starts off in a Favela, outside of Rio documenting the lives of three stick up or hold up artists and who and what they effect. They eventually bring along the films main antagonist, Li'l Dice or as he is latterly known, Li'l Zé. During this time we're introduced to a number of characters, notably Rocket, who aspires of being a photographer when he grows up. He becomes the main protagonist of the film. The turning point in the opening few scenes is a botched motel stick up job and having Li'l Dice go missing afterwards and everyone in the motel ending up shot dead. This forces a police search around the Favela and ultimately coming to a mild creschendo. The film snaps forward a few years. I don't really feel like I should review past this point as it gets hard to do so without spoiling some of the film. In conclusion. WATCH THE FUCKING THING. IT IS ESSENTIAL FUCKING VIEWING!!!

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In no way what I'm saying at all. I'm just saying that sometimes its better not to question things and appreciate that you've seen what you've seen and move on, rather than dwell on shit.

Just before I exeunt the thread, on the point with David Lynch, I don't even try understand his films. I sit in fear after watching them thinking "OH SHI" and just be happy its a film and not IRL shit. Eraserhead makes me glad he's only a film director and not some government torturer or something.

Jax has posted everything I can find on google images...

This went well....

So its like Donnie Darko in just being strange for the sake of it and fucking with peoples heads because people will want to try "discover the meaning" of the film?

I don't get why movies can't just be experienced rather than picked apart and analysed.... It takes the fun fantasy and sci fi element out of it all.

Hot Rod is fucking awesome.

Panch?

Consider the OP updated.

Since everyone and their mum has a review thread, I'm gonna add my own to the stack. Mine however, will be entirely foreign language films that people probably won't have seen or won't want to see. But however, I SHALL FUCKING PERSERVERE YOU BUNCH OF SHAMELESS CUNTS!!!! I shall watch something in the next few days and give a three to four word review as to why its FUCKING ESSENTIAL VIEWING AND WHY YOU'RE ALL CULTURALLY INBRED!!!! The end.

I've kinda sat on this thread with skepticism until I caved after seeing it on a friends FB wall. Glad I caved.

Having set rules kinda goes against the "use your common sense" that was generally inferred around here for as long as I can remember...

Paprika is a J-Anime film to do with entering peoples dreams and helping them...

So is it really the Paprika cum Dark City my friend in work said was pretty alright, or is it really much better than his potentially misguided cynicism?

Only got into this recently... Do like. A lot.

Something not thrash/death/whateverotheradjectivesoundscool metal Haku should try and enjoy. Brought to you by your friendly irish ex-lumberjack.

I like

I liked this for the most part. Some of it was a bit "wtf like?" but I'd be let down if there was none of that. Essential viewing in my opinion.