Konga.

So... King Kong is really fun.
really really fun, like snow fight
fun, or ultimate frisbee fun.

its not perfect, its kind of long
and leaves alot of loose story lines
and after the second act cancels out
almost all the charaters minus the
heavys. (you have no clue what
happens to the built up characters
from the ship)
none of that matters, because
some of the set pieces and CGI
is fricken amazing. I would not take
kids to the stuff. its pretty violent
and harsh. (kong breaks a T-Rex's
jaw in half, snashes it down into the
ground and then begins to toy with
its limp hanging on by a thread
face) THATS F'd UP!!!
However, its goodtimes.

Today i revisited "The Story of a Cheat"
its really good. You can pinpoint how
influential it was to truffeaut and junet.
(influential is a nice way of putting it,
they fricken stole whole scenes and ideas)

I also cracked opn the 60's samurai
classic set from criterion, Started it with
"Sword of the Beast" it was pretty good,
short, (84 minutes) beautifully shot, the
transfer looks amazing, very rich low
contrast B&W, pretty fabulous. Its kind
of westernish- story dealing with gold
prospectors, corrupt law enforcement,
thug filled gangs, and the one man who
stood up to them all.
it sounds pretty formulaic but its pretty
rad, i dont remember samurai movies where
the fights are always happening on the run.
It seems a movie which focus so much on honor,
features a main character always on the run,
that seems funny for some reasson. It makes
sense, but its just funny, its so non-standoffish
its non-cinematic but amazingly cinematic at
the sametime. That probably makes no sense,
but neither does the amount of attention i have
given this one small part of the movie.

Point is, Give it a watch.

I also DL'd Masters of Horror
at the suggestion of team Trechal.
Dammit.
The Argento one scared the crap out
of me, i wached it at 2am, needing to
wake at 6am. The gore alone creeped
me out. and im oddly grossed out by
watching Sex with monster faced
girls; odd.
Joe Dantes was so awesome!!!
the fnal image of zombies on the
march is so awesome i was crying.
All around great ep.
Tobe Hoopers was kind of eh' it had some good
production design, some nice camera work in places
but the overall story was pretty lame. Plus how many
movies use that same looking goth/rock looking
night club. with the whole starwars cantina editing:
Whoa that girl has a tattoo, holy cow that dudes
has a nose ring and hes drinking something green
this is so hardcore!!!! dumb.
and billy corgan did the music. also dumb.

off to bed
hopefully i will finish the 60's samurai box set
by next post. i need to watch more stuff.

a bit of sad news.
i tried to watch this Chris Marker
Doc called "A Grin without a Cat"
it conquered me. Its the first movie in
a while i had to hive up on.

no es bueno.