Metal Reviews

Watching Superbad again. Are all American high schoolers this lame at drinking?


EDIT: Some gems though.
"Evan... I'm wet!"
"Yeah, they said that would happen, in health..."

Global Metal

I like the first documentary a bit better, but this one was pretty great. Highlights were Japan and Israel.

The movie was worth it to see a basement full of aging Japanese men sing (yell?) along to Deep Purple.

Marty Friedman was pretty awesome as well. Death Panda sounds like such an awesome project.

To me it looks like "What would happen if The Day After Tomorrow didn't have a happy ending, and then we turn the result into a Stephen King adaption?" I most likely won't see it, unless it gets really good reviews... which I don't expect it to.
But I've heard it'll be Viggo's last movie, so maybe that'll be enough to make me see it...

Just found out that Juliette Lewis is a Scientologist. What. The. Fuck??

The book is awesome (and incredibly depressing), and has nothing in common with The Happening and I Am Legend besides a very basic, post apocalyptic setting. If they follow this book, this will indeed be a great movie. Still, it might also be a very hard film to translate from the page. There is very little plot; it's mostly dialogue, dialogue, dialogue.

Edit: Oh fucking sweet! The guy who plays Jack McCall in Deadwood is in this! Fantastic actor.

Meant the trailer, never read the book.

What are all these amazing films that Viggo's been such a great actor in, then?

I wouldn't call it amazing, but Appaloosa is worth seeing. Solid acting in that movie. This is coming from someone that doesn't normally watch Westerns.

May I point out the obvious Lord of the Rings?

+1 on Appaloosa, good movie.

Viggo was excellent in Eastern Promises.

Eastern Promises was the best I've seen him (poor film, though). He was rubbish in LOTR, though, totally emotionless - same face whether Arwen was holding onto him or when he was about to attack Mordor. Totally phoned it in.

Ya, I'm not a big fan of Viggo either. He was fine in Fellowship when he was all Striderlike and rugged and mysterious, but I found he got worse and worse as the trilogy went on- definitely the weakest link there, besides Liv Tyler. But I enjoyed him in Eastern Promises and he was okay in History of Violence- hopefully he'll be okay here.

I thought he was great in Appaloosa, Eastern Promises and History of Violence, although the latter two had David Cronenberg's problem of being really boring for the first half. John Hillcoat (if you haven't seen The Proposition and want to see a gruesome and beautiful Western then I would recommend it) and the actor playing the kid are sweet too. The Road's been delayed a lot, which can be a bad sign, but in an interview I read a while ago Viggo said it was because they didn't want people to have forgotten about the movie by time the Academy Awards roll around.

The Class - Really enjoyed this. Very tense and lots of dialogue that had a great balance between mundane/realistic but also relevant to bigger ideas.

Barfly

Good flick.
Bukowski, one of my favorites, and Rourke is a very under appreciated actor.

It was great. First time I'd ever seen it.

"Last time I saw you you didn't have nothin, now you've got a woman and a radio."

"I've always had a radio Jimmy."

Yeah, it's chock full of quality quotes.
Ever read any Bukowski?

Nope.

I can't remember the last thing I've read. Probably something from school, Catcher in the Rye I think.