tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post6172362037313702080..comments2024-03-14T19:14:03.059-05:00Comments on Acidemic - Film: Best Films of 2013Erich Kuerstenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-18538742706442891932014-01-06T09:48:57.226-05:002014-01-06T09:48:57.226-05:00Nicolas Windign Refn is Danish, not Swedish.Nicolas Windign Refn is Danish, not Swedish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-48716068025599644482014-01-06T03:06:06.241-05:002014-01-06T03:06:06.241-05:00Thanks Doug, I actually read everything of King...Thanks Doug, I actually read everything of King's except the Shining and Carrie -- too many memories, but yeah - Salem's Lot, Cujo, Graveyard Shift, Christine and the Stand all sent me too, I started a novel in his style but never finished it and it was before computers so it was typed on a regular typewriter and now it's gone.... But the movie is so over the edge, by the end you're just like man these people are crazy, that chill when you first realize the deep dude you spent the party talking to thinks there are microphones in his teeth. Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-6682475893398299702014-01-05T23:01:16.608-05:002014-01-05T23:01:16.608-05:00A great list, but "Room 237" ... man, I ...A great list, but "Room 237" ... man, I have mixed thoughts on that one. I love the source film (and King's book made me be a writer), but this documentary/examination/mind trip kind of left me cold in the end. There were brilliant moments, but overall, it was disappointing in more ways than not.Doug Brunellhttp://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Men-Doug-Brunell/dp/1484892658/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1388979583&sr=8-1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-74129045784083983542014-01-05T11:49:01.696-05:002014-01-05T11:49:01.696-05:00So happy to finally see Byzantium on a list. Great...So happy to finally see Byzantium on a list. Great movie and very underrated !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-73441533106227878852014-01-02T16:38:13.113-05:002014-01-02T16:38:13.113-05:00I watched Only God Forgives on Netflix last night....I watched Only God Forgives on Netflix last night. Holy Cow! What a great movie! I have been ignoring this movie based on how much I hated DRIVE (Thief with the good parts cut out, Everyone is garbage and needs to be disposed of, ugh). I loved Only God Forgives. A little David Lynch, a little Seijan Suzuki, a little Beat Takeshi - quite the melange of crimson glee.johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11799326880962880585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-784237826915945662013-12-31T17:13:26.525-05:002013-12-31T17:13:26.525-05:00Happy New Year Erich, have a great 2014 my old mat...Happy New Year Erich, have a great 2014 my old mate.jervaise brooke hamsternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-6622795421648659912013-12-31T15:48:40.861-05:002013-12-31T15:48:40.861-05:00Oh! And BYZANTIUM! What a great, beautiful movie...Oh! And BYZANTIUM! What a great, beautiful movie!johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11799326880962880585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-54701306548689373652013-12-31T15:47:11.507-05:002013-12-31T15:47:11.507-05:00Great List! I have seen most of these, many on yo...Great List! I have seen most of these, many on your recommendation, and the remaining are on my To Do List. Re: Your Scott Pilgrim review a few years ago, I sense you are not a Michael Cera fan. By all means, overlook that movie and see Crystal Fairy and the Magic Cactus and 2012 on Netflix. The most positive expression of the benefits of organic hallucinogens I remember seeing. It's just a small movie, an ugly American asshole goes to Chile to do drugs and meets a pain in the ass New Hippie Chick American who is doing the same, but it goes in a different direction than I thought it would. It also shows what a Moon Scape with a Beach that Chile is. So glad Spring Breakers is so high on your list. I love that movie. Every frame of it. The New Yorker just said there were three Jay Gatsbys this year, Gatsby, Spring Breakers' Alien, and Wolf of Wall Street. James Franco wins the solid gold grill from me! Happy New Year! Your page is the best!johnnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11799326880962880585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-58202181551402975642013-12-30T19:56:13.879-05:002013-12-30T19:56:13.879-05:00Thanks Bigplatts. I never really got into Lester B...Thanks Bigplatts. I never really got into Lester Bangs but maybe I should. Kerouac of course a huge inspiration, the whole beat thing and Hunter S. Thompson style gonzo journalism applied to film and film theory, that's my bag. I been writing all my life but began writing professionally via doing capsule music and moviereviews for the old search engine MUZE back in the day -- they had kiosks in Tower Records with my voice in it! That was like 1999 so it's been like 14 years nonstop. That's my advice...just keep writing until you find your voice, then keep writing in that voice... and never stop ever, until daily writing is as essential to your sanity as sleepingErich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-54034025483027208502013-12-30T19:52:37.524-05:002013-12-30T19:52:37.524-05:00Hi Katy! It's funny but I don't like much ...Hi Katy! It's funny but I don't like much of del Toro's stuff before this, I need to finish PL but the queasy dread of this girl blankness and the sadistic father and the keyed up Dickensian dread has been too much for me. I like the lack of kids in Pacific Rim. That Pinocchio things sounds interesting but it could be more Dickensian child abuse too. Anyway, you may have just given me the courage to finish Pan, so thanks.... I hopeErich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-33827568705909344532013-12-30T19:43:57.689-05:002013-12-30T19:43:57.689-05:00Wolf of Wall Street? thoughts? need more than a se...Wolf of Wall Street? thoughts? need more than a sentence on that. i liked hustle, then saw wolf, watched hustle again and it just pales in comparisonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-35131135560239805262013-12-29T17:23:17.141-05:002013-12-29T17:23:17.141-05:00A good list (and thank the gods you put OGF on her...A good list (and thank the gods you put OGF on here because the critics sure won't be) plus you've made me excited for American Hustle which seems like it could go either way based on the reviews I keep reading. <br /><br />Plus I gotta ask, you a fan of Lester Bangs or Kerouac? Because you've got that real speed demon type of writing that they had. You write for a job/how long you been writing for? (I ask mainly because I wanna write like dat). Bigplattshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00674352542637034746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30487573.post-43088446841160636512013-12-29T01:35:26.311-05:002013-12-29T01:35:26.311-05:00Best-of lists shouldn't all have the same damn...Best-of lists shouldn't all have the same damn things on them, anyway.<br /><br />I've seen a few of these, which is sort of surprising, because I don't see many movies. "Only God Forgives" worked for me because it knocked me so off-base - in fact, it threw me off enough that I immediately went and watched "Bronson" and "Valhalla Rising," too.<br /><br />"John Dies at the End" was a good trip.<br /><br />"Pacific Rim" I did not like as much despite (or possibly because) of my love for del Toro. "Pan's Labyrinth" is the best (okay, one of the best) things ever, and "The Devil's Backbone" is pretty great, too. Still, it looks like he has big things ahead: His next couple projects look to be a stop-action Pinocchio with voices by Tom Waits and Christopher Walken and music by Nick Cave, and a "Slaughterhouse 5" adaptation with a Charlie Kaufman screenplay!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.com