The "I Can't Believe You Never Watched That!" Movie Club

SLOW you are truly a woman after my own heart.  My entire concept is "not having seen any movies" and yet the only movie in that list I haven't seen is DARYL...and possibly Go if you're not talking about the one that had that one No Doubt song on the soundtrack.

I can't watch tonight, for I have a date.

But you guys have all the fun!

Paleu I’ve also never seen Die Hard. I’ve seen Work Hard or Die Trying, Girl, if that’s any substitute

Over big lacunae include:

• Kurosawa samurai films (with the exception of The Seven Samurai), also missing Ikiru

• The Magnificent Ambersons

• Zodiac

• Various cool sixties/seventies movies I’d probably be into (The Thomas Crown Affair, The Italian Job, The French Connection)

• My Dinner with André

• Nausicaä & the Valley of the Wind

• Fight Club (though I think I’m about ten years too old for this one now)

• A lot of horror classics (Renaimator, Suspiria, Kwaidan)

• Miller’s Crossing

Recent AVC/Dissolve/TI favorites I’ve missed out on (but wanted to see and intend to catch up on):
• Drive
• Looper
• Europa Report
• The Immigrant and Two Days, One Night

Only seen in butchered, censored, mainland China form:
• Lust, Caution

Lethal Weapon reviews:

oppy all along - 4/10

@gordonfrohman - 8/10

Nudeviking - Better than The Shining, but Worse than Alien/10

Next Saturday: Battlefield Earth!

Even delirious on flu medicine and listening to the Rifftrax, I barely made it through the last hour of Battlefield Earth. Best of luck to those attempting the journey. I wouldn't wish that kind of pain on anyone.

Jean-Luc Lemur You must see Lust, Caution in its original, complete form. An astonishing movie, maybe Ang Lee's best. Certainly my favourite of his.

Oh, I'm seeing a screening of Spotlight tonight at my school, right when Battlefield Earth starts. Sorry. Next week!

Awful. The sex scenes are the best part of the movie. And that is not a joke. I think Ang Lee's strongest points were made in those sex scenes.

I loved the book when I was in 6th grade so I was curious to see it when it finally came out. Ignoring all the bad press I convinced some friends, including another fan of the book to see it in the theater. Dear god it was awful. I won't get into it much until you guys finish but trust me in that the book, while pretty bad in retrospect ,was infinitely better. It was like they took all the worst parts of the book, the stupid names, the anti-psychology, the nonexistent plot and amped it all up to 11.

I cannot even imagine how much more nonsensical the movie is if you have not read the book. The book was stupid but at least you knew what was going on.

i saw fight club in the theater (w/o having read it) and was really into the 1st half w/marla and the meetings, and the actual fight club-- when things took a turn that i suppose will be spoilage, i lost interest, and there are aspects that made me feel the plot was more conducive to being a 44 min ep of outer limits.

that being said, my complaints were seemingly common enough that my followup reading made me feel like i hadn't watched it deeply enough b/c buddhism.  however-- the same was said about the matrix trilogy, and again, that whole business was too long by half even going into it with more well-founded expectations.

tl;dr:  fight club needed more fight club