Just wanted to point out to everybody that a long piece of writing isn't necessary (though appreciated) when talking about your movies. You can kick off the discussion any way you like.

Reuben (Discotarantula here) once described Night of the Hunger as an anomaly in the history of film. He meant that it does not belong to a film movement, or to any sort of historical progression in film; it seems to have become a film in spite of history, and in spite of its own troublesome birth (Reuben, please accept my apologies for this ( Read more... )

When I consider the last three or four years of my life, there has been no darker omen than the word “restructuring.” In 2009, my entire office was laid off due to “restructuring.” In 2010, at a different job, I got screwed out of a week's worth of paid vacation time because of “restructuring.” Presently, “restructuring” is holding back several ( Read more... )

This is the post to make reservations for next week.
Tues, June 5th
Thurs, June 7th
Fri, June 8th
Sat, June 9th
Sun, Jun 10th

I've removed all the doubles as far as I can tell, so here is the final list. It is 599 films long, spanning from 1912 to 2011 ( Read more... )

They can.

Otherwise, I'm removing those movies, and the new canon exercise will begin early next week some time.

Can someone try contacting kneadforspeed and sadboyq and seeing if they still want to participate?

Hey if you guys want your movies on the list, you need to post a list or update your list with the dates by Wed 11:59 central, ok?

myglock_yrface
kneadforspeed
murdermystery
sadboyq

mine might be longer than a week's worth, since i didn't get around to participating in the last one. we'll see!

nausicaa of the valley of the wind doesn't hold up nearly as well as i thought it would. maybe it's unfair to hold this against it, due to the era it was created in, but a lot of the animation looked pretty cheap and unconvincing. ( Read more... )

Still waiting on...

myglock_yrface
kneadforspeed
murdermystery
beforetheflood
sadboyq