Play Safe, Don’t Celebrate

This is a little game deviced over on Blog Cabins and round about The Movie Whore, I got tagged to play along. The object should be self evident.

Alien
Babette’s Feast
Chinatown
Dancer in the Dark
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fog of War, the
Godfather, the
Hoffa
Illusionist, the
Joy luck club, the
Kiss kiss bang bang
L.A. Confidential
Matrix
Night of the Living Dead
Once Upon a Time in the West
Pi
Queen, the
Rain Man
Sword of Doom
This is Spinal Tap
Unforgiven
Vertigo
X-files, the
Yes men, the
Zentropa

That should make for a good mix.
I found this site helpful.

Kim OJ

Still in the process of scripting Catharsis with its time travel theme, I thought it might be beneficial to see how others had dealt with the problems, and learn from it, so I watched Dejavu. Dejavu is in essence a movie we have all seen before, but you should be warned that this rant contains spoilers. As I re-watched this movie (forgetting that I had seen it before, but getting that sense of dejavu as it progressed), and wondered why it did not make a bigger impression on me the first or second time. It had a good cast, plot potential, and a big budget, but in the end it fell for the classic Hollywood sin of a forced happy ending.

When you open that door

Dejavu falls into the category of science fiction with its time travel plot, and it even dives into a short overview of some time travel theories. This creates the assumption of scientific validity in the audience’s mind, and the anticipation that the movie will show which theory is correct. When you open that door you have to follow through, but Dejavu fails by breaking the rules of all the theories and therefore not answering the question either. So the audience is left with the sad feeling of unrealized anticipation, and in its place is served a happy ending.

The Happy Ending

Happy endings do better at the box office. It is a sad fact. So I blame greed, when a movie, that had aligned it self with the deterministic view of time travel up until the last 15 minutes, suddenly changes course and steers straight towards the happy ending. This movie could have been a shocking tragedy with an unsuspected breach of Hollywood formula. It could have followed its own rules, followed through on its setup, and given its audience closure, but in stead they went straight for your dollars. I feel confident that Catharsis will not suffer from these mistakes.

- Kim OJ

What started as an innocuous night unraveled into a thing of bleeding ear drums and disappointed hookers. Thursday night I get a call from a fellow classmate, she invited me to a short film viewing at a local bar. why not I think, I’ll call the LRP crew up and we’ll head out and check out the competition.

The place was the ‘Toad in the Hole’ and I got kicked out. We show up, say hi to the hostess and order a round of drinks; there was no hard liquor, only beer and wine. Thirty minutes later our last member appears after taking an $80 cab ride from the next town over. I see a cute girl chatting it up with my crew, I buy her a drink and next thing I know, she’s 18, her boyfriend is the bartender and I’m out the door.

I thought she was young, but god damn, I must be getting old. after about 20 minutes of calming the boys down from torching the place I found the manager and talked my way back in, bought a beer and continued to enjoy the evening.

Things got worse. The evening began with musical acts that were reminiscent of chainsaws splitting your head in half and of hysterical cries of a madman eating his testicles.

The first film came on, it was a cute expose of a mother and daughter battling over which dress to wear to grandma’s.

the second was some experimental piece of crap that made me long for napalm and cyanide.

As for the third we saved the show, with our film,’keeping it cool’. The crowd laughed and we went home, not before I made the suggestion that hookers and blow would be a good idea, my boy went on craigslist.com and found what we were looking for.

In that moment I felt dirty and cheap, like the perfume samples from people magazine.
The pimp wouldn’t let her go alone and I didn’t want a pimp in my house. needless to say, everyone went home and I jerked off and went to bed.

- Marco

What’s up Folks! Check the new film clip out.

Roadhouse


It’s me and Dave Lockhart beating the crap out of each other.

- Marco

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