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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan [Part II] (2005 - Martin Scorsese)

A bit of a disappointment really, this the second part. First of all, four hours?? More like 3 hours and 20 mins. And even though Bob Dylan, the phenomenon, the folk hero, the icon, is a very interesting story personally I would've appreciated more focusing on Bob Dylan, the musician. I totally missed the fact that the documentary "ended" in 1966 but I still would have liked to hear more about his collaboration with The Band and stuff. It's like Scorsese was more interested in Dylan's reactions to the world's reactions to Dylan, which is very interesting, but still... Compared to Scorsese's The Last Waltz I would rate this as average. The first part was top class but after this second part I was left with a feeling of Scorsese not having finished his work here. It felt like he was working rather as an editor than a director this time.

But, hey, I'll probably see it again soon and enjoy it a lot for what it is.

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Chariots of Fire (Hudson, 1981)

My father was a track star and even went as far as to the olympic trials, so it was a pleasure to watch this with him. It did get annoying after a while though, because he liked to regale me with how track has evolved, and then of course he and my brothers had a whole conversation about Liddell's "windmill style". I still liked the movie a lot though. I had more thoughts when I watched it last night, but they've all sort of left me.

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I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.
T.S Eliot, "Preludes"

Same here. Lack of me paying attention to any trailers and this episode's shorter length left me feeling slightly cheated.

But it was more of a case of the documentary being so good that I wanted it to carry on for another few hours than any fault with the film itself.

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"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how the Tatty 100 is done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves." - Brendan Behan

Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005)

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Evil Dead-

.......and so the marathon begins

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Yeah, well if it had carried on for another few hours and covered the rest of the 60's and the 70's as well I would have been more than satisfied. I just felt like the first part covered the early years in a very good way but the second part felt more like Scorsese wrapping it up. But, sure, 3 hours and 20 mins very well spent in front of the TV set, no question about that.

Evil Dead 2-

Ghost in the Shell - I'll add it to the list of 'movies ripped off by The Matrix'. Nice scenery, lame story.

My Own Private Idaho - good but not great. Disappointing ending.

Sin City (2005 - Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez)

Very entertaining and actually quite thought provoking. I found the primitive, almost neanderthal-like, depiction of society very interesting. It would be fun to hear what bell hooks has to say about this.

Copland

One of the most under-rated movies of the 90's in my opinion. Great story with plenty of twists and turns and back stabbing and all that other good stuff. Brilliant ensemble cast consisting of some of the best actors of our time including Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Harvey Keitel. Believe it or not I actually thought Sylvester Stallone did a pretty damn good job playing the lead role, a sheriff in charge of watching over a town that was home to hundreds of NYPD officers. The directer(James Mangold) also did a great job considering I had never heard of him before this movie. If you haven't seen Copland get off your ass and go watch it!

Army of Darkness -

Edit: Not because i was drunk at all

I also OLVE Brucey. He is a dish.

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The American Nightmare
Assault on Precinct 13 (original)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Aliens of the Deep
Brazil
Masters of Horror: Incident on and off a Mountain Road
Control Room
Real Fiction
Marathon
Doom
One Missed Call
Flightplan
Ginger Snaps
Saving Private Ryan
Two episodes of "Buffy" (season 2)
Christine
Cannibal Holocaust

I was trying to break 20 movies in 4 days, but I failed. Plus I got bored of watching just horror.

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What you think of Doom Ogy?

It was exactly as expected; dumb fun. It isn't the all out romp the things I had read online would have it out to be, but for the most part it is just a glorified early 90s macho flick. I was actually enjoying it quite a bit until the FPS sequence, which I thought just came off as incredibly awkward.

im curiours, what episodes of buffy were they?

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Undercoverlovers 100 REDUX

Surprise and Innocence.

I've been progressively watching Buffy at a friends house, though at a relatively slow rate (only two or so episodes a week).

Saw 2

Melinda and Melinda, B
2005 - Woody Allen

Wonder Boys, A
2000 - Curtis Hanson

A Woman Without Love, C+
1952 - Luis Buñuel