Schoolio's Movie Corner

[AlecEiffel]

What are your favorite swashbucklers/cinematic sword fights?

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

Oddly enough, the first one to pop in my head was the crazy sword fight that happens in the middle of the time warp in Ice Pirates

[HowToDisappear]

Errol Flynn vs. Basil Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood (I loved all Errol Flynn swashbucklers - until the point he gets old and alcoholic/bloated-looking and ought not to be wielding a sword)

The Black Knight vs. King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Liam Neeson vs. Tim Roth in Rob Roy

All of the swordfights (both serious and slapstick) in The Three Musketeers with Michael York, Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed, Frank Finlay, Faye Dunaway, etc. I LOVE that movie.

[frizzlefry]

The first one to pop in my head was the final duel in Cutthroat Island but I think that's really more nostalgia.

Besides some of the great ones already listed I still love the sword fight in Princess Bride despite how overplayed that movie has been.

[TallGuyCM]

Seeking a quality flick to take in while enjoying a few drinks tonight, I randomly happened upon Louis Malle's Zazie in the Subway.

Absolutely. Fucking. Perfect.

[ods..]

I liked Brick more for the comedy then for anything else. I thought the dialogue was hilarious and the entire idea was clever. Gimmicky, I can understand. I dug it though.

[frizzlefry]

Yeah I liked it too. I don't think they were trying for anything other than a comedy with the high school setting/

[xanman86]

I liked Brick more for the comedy then for anything else. I thought the dialogue was hilarious and the entire idea was clever. Gimmicky, I can understand. I dug it though.

I enjoy the film but it came out during the brilliant first season of Veronica Mars and pales in comparison in just about every way.

I'm still at that early stage. All I've seen of his are Mouchette and now Pickpocket, and I thought both were good but not necessarily great. And I did prefer Mouchette by a small margin.

My favorite of his is probably Au Hasard Balthazar



I rewatched all of the Indiana Jones films for the first time since I was a kid this last week. I had forgotten how much fun these films are and apparently I also forgot the whole first hour of Temple of Doom, great to revisit this series. It was my first time seeing Crystal Skull but I felt it fit with the rest of the films pretty well.

I started Pasolini's Trilogy of Life with The Demarcaron which was entertaining but seemed very disjointed. After viewing I read that the source material is a collection of a 100 or so stories and Pasolini just filmed a few of his favorites which puts things in better perspective. Looking forward to the next two films in the series.

[ThatGirl]

What are your favorite swashbucklers/cinematic sword fights?

The sword fight in the Princess Bride between Wesley and Inigo Montoya is my all time favorite.

[HowToDisappear]

I've never understood all the love for The Princess Bride; I've never even been able to sit through it from beginning to end.

[Tubesock Shakur]

I've never understood all the love for The Princess Bride; I've never even been able to sit through it from beginning to end.

Amen. Terrible movie.

[Tubesock Shakur]

Im super excited for Les Misérables.

[chairmenmeow47]

Im super excited for Les Misérables.

this morning i was worrying about whether the star's singing will be as shitty as sweeney todd though.

[Dogvolta]

Amen. Terrible movie.

The world's obsession over that movie has always perplexed me. This is one of the first times I've heard/read someone sharing my opinion on that god damned movie.

[zircona1]

What are your favorite swashbucklers/cinematic sword fights?

The only good thing about the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie was the swordfight on the water wheel.

[ThatGirl]

this morning i was worrying about whether the star's singing will be as shitty as sweeney todd though.

I learned that the actors sang live in each scene instead of lip synching to a recording. It will certainly make it more authentic, but hoping for really good performances. I'm excited to see it also.

[kreutz2112]

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

Even though it borrows heavily from the marketing aesthetics of both the Nolan batman series and the transformers series, that is is still a bad-ass poster.

[xuclarockerx]

Ha nice hidden Starfleet emblem. Interesting that the Star Trek motifs seem to end there. I'm not a Trekkie though.

[cutterbutter]

Bill Murray just signed on for Ghostbusters 3 apparently. The Toronto sun ran an article but pulled it from their site. Guess we'll have to see.

[Drinkey McDrinkerstein]

Ha nice hidden Starfleet emblem. Interesting that the Star Trek motifs seem to end there. I'm not a Trekkie though.

That emblem is what really made me think of the Dark Knight posters

[Tubesock Shakur]

Bill Murray just signed on for Ghostbusters 3 apparently. The Toronto sun ran an article but pulled it from their site. Guess we'll have to see.

I hope the do right by him and either make him a ghost or kill him in the first 10 min. Like he has requested.

[xuclarockerx]

hahaha

[faxman75]

The New Superman goes to jail movie.

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[TallGuyCM]

Really interested to hear what Gabe and Matt thought about Rust and Bone...

[Mugwog]

THR: Roundtables with some directors of this season's highlighted films

[getbetter]

Has anyone seen any of these beatnik films being shown at Cinefamily? Pulling My Daisies, Bongo Espresso Happening, Shadow, Johnny Staccato?Are they worth obtaining to watch?

[schoolofruckus]

Really interested to hear what Gabe and Matt thought about Rust and Bone...

I haven't seen it yet. I'm not getting the sense that it's all that great....did you see it?

THR: Roundtables with some directors of this season's highlighted films

Between Russell taking the aforementioned hate-shit on Huckabees and Tarantino childishly planning his retirement over the ascent of digital cinema - which I referred to on Twitter yesterday as the equivalent of his beloved Elvis quitting music over the rise of iTunes - this was like being shanked repeatedly.

Has anyone seen any of these beatnik films being shown at Cinefamily? Pulling My Daisies, Bongo Espresso Happening, Shadow, Johnny Staccato?Are they worth obtaining to watch?

Shadows is actually pretty low on my personal hierarchy of Cassavetes films, but it's absolutely essential. Johnny Staccato episodes are fun to watch if you enjoy Cassavetes on-screen as much as I do. Naked Lunch was enjoyable also. I haven't seen any other films in the series, including On the Road (I bailed on the screening Sunday in order to keep reading the book, which I had endeavored to finish by then).

I also missed out on Promised Land last night, so I caught Killing Them Softly instead. It is one of the brashest, angriest films I've ever seen, and in many ways, the least subtle film I've seen since maybe Fahrenheit 9/11....but I LOVED it. I'm still considering some of its smaller moments....it's easy to read the film as Dominik on a soap box (and the way this film plays with its music cues and other touches, it would literally be a box with the word "soap" scrawled on the front), ranting into a megaphone about how broken this country is, but I'm inclined to think there's more to it than just "America is fucked, maaaan!" It felt to me like more of a call to action, reserving the bulk of its scorn for those who sit back and accept a broken system or expect it to fix itself. I mean, the film is so fucking confrontational that it literally scores a scene of two men shooting up with The Velvet Underground's "Heroin", almost as if begging you to fight it. But hey, that sort of shit doesn't work for everyone, so handy that it's also super easy to enjoy as a superficial (if unconventional) heist film.

The pans and Cinemascores (this was the rare film to get an F grade) and box office are bullshit. Go see this movie before it leaves theaters.

[ods..]

I agree with Randy (!), Brick is pretty empty outside of its gimmick. If you want neo-noir, go with John Dahl.

I've only seen Dahl's Rounders, what else of his is worth checking out?

[SoulDischarge]

Red Rock West and The Last Seduction.