Movies of the good kind we have looked upon.

[Animavore]

Just watched The Raid 2. Holy shit that final fight scene! Action packed from start to finish. Better paced than the first one. Larger scope. Excellent car chase. Crazy hammer-wielding lady. Lot's of 'ouch' moments.

[tattuchu]

Just watched The Raid 2. Holy shit that final fight scene! Action packed from start to finish. Better paced than the first one. Larger scope. Excellent car chase. Crazy hammer-wielding lady. Lot's of 'ouch' moments.

I never even heard of the first one

...just looked it up. Looks cool.



Anyway I just watched The Darjeeling Limited. Beautiful funny and sad, with emphasis on the sad. I liked it.

[Animavore]

Don't watch The Raid if you've a heart condition.

[tattuchu]

Don't watch The Raid if you've a heart condition.

But I want to die.

Anyhow, just watched Fantastic Mr. Fox. Most perfect movie ever. Ever.

[tattuchu]

Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. Includes my favorite line from any of his films: "What kind of bird are you? No. What kind of bird. Are you.

[tattuchu]

About Schmidt. Great role for Jack Nicholson. If you want a good cry, this is the one.

[macdoc]

oh fuck just watch it.....brilliant...get the headphones on loud......

[Xamonas Chegwé]

oh fuck just watch it.....brilliant...get the headphones on loud......

IMG fail.

[macdoc]

Was a total treat - needs headphones to really get into it.

This too is a treat. Nother trip down memory lane as I grew up right through this societal shift.



This is an interesting article about Michelle Phillips that I stumbled on .

looked up Michelle Phillips of Mamas and Poppas :naughty2: - what a gorgeous creature and still is.



good article - quite a life even early on in the crazy exotic and still going

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/featu ... lips200712

Did not know Denny was Canadian.

Movie is quite a trip through memory lane….glad they give Eric Anderson his due especially Thirsty Boots as critical to the civil rights movement.

They kicked it off with Mamas and Pappas bio song and keep that theme going through…

one of the neat bits in the article

The path from straight folk to something new got an even bigger boost about a year later, when another Village folkie, Roger McGuinn, a friend of Sebastian’s and the Phillipses’, inserted eight notes inspired by Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” into Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man” and played the song in the beat he says the Beatles had picked up from Phil Spector, the songwriter turned music producer. The result: McGuinn’s group the Byrds’ version of “Mr. Tambourine Man” helped give birth to the phenomenon known as folk rock.

Even before this signal moment, John Phillips—guitar strapped to his chest, prowling the streets on amphetamines—was coming at the folk-plus-other mix a third way: by channeling the smooth balladeers of his early teen years. One day, late in their first autumn in New York, John set a verse—“All the leaves are brown / and the sky is grey / I’ve been for a walk on a winter’s day”—to a moody, slightly somber melody. Later, in their room in the Hotel Earl, Michelle recalls, a speed-addled John “woke me and said, ‘Help me write this!’ ” She groggily muttered, “Tomorrow.” “No,” he said. “Help me now. You’ll thank me for this someday.”

Michelle sat up and summoned a recent visit to St. Patrick’s Cathedral (her years in Mexico had given her an affection for Catholic churches) and came up with: “Stopped into a church I passed along the way / Well, I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray.” John, who’d loathed parochial school, “hated the line,” Michelle says, but kept it in for lack of anything better. Lucky he did; the line gave the song its arc of desperation to epiphany. Thus was born one of the first clarion calls of a changing culture, “California Dreamin’.”

Good article and the movie is on Netflix.

[macdoc]

Nother wonderful music doc...

[tattuchu]

Transformers: Age of Extinction. No really. It was fun. Good empty-headed fun.

[macdoc]

But no Megan Fox..

[SteveB]

Some other hawt chick to replace her, no doubt.

[tattuchu]

Some other hawt chick to replace her, no doubt.

Yep. Plus Mark Wahlberg instead of Shia LaDouche.

[SteveB]

How to Train Your Dragon 2 was pretty good.