General film discussion thread

Now the director of JP IV^. I thought it was a bit uneven, but I liked it.

That's particularly funny, because I also saw that they are releasing a CC release for Repo Man. It's safe to say that I was quite surprised.

Repo Man makes a lot more sense for a CC than The Room, at least in my mind.

The Room one is definitely fake. They're still banking on their DVD release and it just got its first Blu Ray release in December (suggested retail for the thing is near-Criterion levels, anyway).

For Repo Man, it is a legit cult classic and a Criterion release seems a good bit more understandable, still caught me attention and stands out from their usual releases. I know CC has put out oddball flicks like Hausu (which makes perfect sense), Salo (who buys this?), and the aforementioned Armageddon (yeah, I've got nothing as to the why of this), but nothing quite like this. It's about like seeing Re-Animator, Frankenhooker, or Street Trash get a Criterion Release.

For some reason I read this in Tommy Wiseau's voice.

Watched Sexy Beast last night. Incredible. I love Jonathan Glazer.

I've always really liked this movie, I rented it multiple times when it first came out on video. Kingsley is unreal, some great chewing of scenery here... Winstone is good, as well. One of very few English language movies that I absolutely have to see with subtitles... it may just be me, but these are some thick, almost unintelligible accents in this thing.

There were parts where it sounded like they were speaking a foreign language.

Sexy Beast is basically perfect until the final act. The ending is fine, but the film loses a lot of steam after you know what happens.

^It was one of my favorite releases from last year... not really because it was an amazing documentary, but because I was already a fan of his before this thing was put into motion, and 1) it was really awesome to see him on film and talking about his music and everything along with it, 2) the part about how popular he was in South Africa was news to me and something that I found really interesting, and 3) that the actual technical quality of the piece was great. Nothing outstanding or really new in the sense of being a documentary, but I still loved it... the last 20 minutes drag a bit, but I think that was more my ADHD.

Don't know if this has been posted or talked about, but man does this look good. I can't wait for this to come out.

Mike Patton is doing the score for it.

So has anyone seen Spring Breakers yet? I seriously considered leaving the theater about 30 minutes in. Then, once James Franco's character emerged (possibly his best acting performance to date), the movie actually got really awesome, albeit ridiculous. I would hate-f*ck this movie.

Spraaang Breeeaaak.