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How I spent my Saturday

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:31:29 -0700

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Films upcoming

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:44:11 -0700

I'm not sure what Beau saw, but there are some totally awesome-looking movies coming out this year. For one, there are finally movies opening this upcoming weekend at the Cameras to see!

Iron Man (well, it opened this past weekend, but I don't see movies opening weekend, and I haven't heard an ill word spoken for it so I might as well see it)
Redbelt (already mentioned)
Son of Rambow (looks cute but I might miss it)
Speed Racer!!
Standard Operating Procedure

Coming soon:

Blindness
The Happening (looks better than its title sounds)
Henry Poole is Here
War, Inc. (looks like Idiocracy × Southland Tales × Why We Fight—could be a complete failure, but I am optimistic)
Pineapple Express (see the R-rated trailer on the official site)
The Fall (which looks like it's going to actually come to theaters!)
Get Smart
The Tracey Fragments (could be good)
The Dark Knight!!

Also the new X-Files and possibly Babylon A.D., but they don't have trailers out yet. There was some other trailer I saw for a comedy that looked almost okay, but then the title was in big red block letters. Nn.

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Repo Tales

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:18:25 -0700

protocat: I saw Southland Tales recently!
protocat: I think I told you. :o
markpasc: woohoo!
markpasc: i'm not sure you told me you saw it. i know you wanted to see it.
protocat: Southland Tales was the best remake of Repo Man that John Waters and David Lynch could have done.
protocat: Plus the Strange Days cast.
protocat: It was a good reunion!
markpasc: omg do you know what i just saw this past week from Netﬂix? REPO MAN
protocat: ahahhaa I love Repo Man. That's one of my favorite ﬁlms ever.
markpasc: and i was totally going to write about how it reminded me of Southland Tales
markpasc: in pretty much the same exact way you just said

Southland Tales seemed to be a strange hybrid in many ways. With its large ensemble of weird characters, it reminded me most not of any movie, but of Matt Ruff's novel Sewer, Gas & Electric. Repo Man felt like an archetype of a particular genre you no longer see: the ’80s character adventure. Southland Tales is somewhat that, but an even better contemporary example is Be Kind Rewind, which is such a strong example of the genre that it feels like a movie of the ’80s.

I thought I was going to write a whole post about this but that's the core idea.

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Movie trailers!

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:54:13 -0700

He Was a Quiet Man
Uwe Boll's Postal
Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
Surfwise
David Mamet's Redbelt! Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor! In a leading role!
Planet B-Boy (I liked the teaser they had with just dancing a little better, so I don't know how I'll like the movie)
Leatherheads
Paranoid Park

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Omg yes

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:31:02 -0800

Four months is long enough to forget all its flaws, so I'm totally looking forward to:

Southland Tales

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Movies I watched on vacation

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:39 -0800

Children of Men
Serenity (twice, during and after watching all the rest of Firefly with mom)
The Fountain
So Goes the Nation
CSA: Confederate States of America
Bubble
The Good German
Fido
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox (directed and co-shot by Sarah Lamm, who was on The Sound of Young America about it)
Ocean's Thirteen
Balls of Fury
The Simpsons Movie

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Southland Tales

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:32:55 -0800

Southland Tales - official trailer

Southland Tales is the best Philip K. Dick movie this year, made only more accurate an adaptation by not actually being from any Philip K. Dick novel. It's more a pastiche of his work, and a film that revels in the same themes (and features two outright references). It's also just as messy and stoner-wise, and just as pulp as PKD's work, with the same taste in names, and a few bits of laughably bad dialogue that they pound through, thematically. One should probably expect all this of writer-director Richard Kelly, who previously wrote-directed Donnie Darko.

It's beautifully flawed, and you should probably go see it if you care, since it'll be completely gone from theaters in a couple of weeks. See also Victoria Large's review at notcoming.

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Chasing Ghosts

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:11:11 -0800

Chasing Ghosts Trailer

Here's a review at notcoming:

If Mitchell and The King of Kong is the extreme extrovert of arcade game documentaries, Chasing Ghosts is the shy introvert that makes you feel nostalgic for a time and a place you may not have been a part of in the first place, but which feels comfortingly familiar even as you see it for the first time.

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Southland Tales?

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:38:54 -0700

...wtf?

Southland Tales - official trailer

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More Netflix Watch Instantly picks

nobody@vox.com(markpasc) — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:45:31 -0700

The old school Doctor Who is more in there because I watched it than because I picked it. May not be the most representative story if you want to see old Doctor Who.

P.S. OMG King of Kong is opening this weekend at the Camera 12! I'll have to finally go to the 12 to see something I guess.

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