Movies and such.
All the movies listed by barbarpappa IN THIS POST are all movies I want to see. Due to radness, on one point or another.
plus Public Enemies. but thats just for my J.Depp fix.
Again, the movies are: (copied and pasted because. because. Everything from here on up til 'Bunny and the Bull' is all barbarpappa, pics and all.)
-Daybreakers
The second movie from the two brothers who did the (in my opinion) awesome australian zombie film Undead. Undead was a low-budget movie with really good effects by the two brothers. And the effects wasn't just good because they did it themselves. The effects were seriously good.
Daybreakers has been in the making for years now and is about a future world where most of earths population has turned into vampires. The movie centers on a group of vampires trying to save the last few living humans. (for food I guess)
-La Horde
An upcoming french movie about gangsters vs cops vs ZOMBIES!!! The plot doesn't really have any originality at all but the movie is getting a great buzz. And the little footage I've seen looks awesome as there were an insane amount of zombies. You could almost say there was a horde of them.
-Viy
Here's a really sweet looking steampunkish movie from russia. It's about this british cartographer that travels to russia and encounters a bunch of mystical fantasty stuff. It looks fantastic. Just check out that carriage in the photo below. Beautiful!
-9
This was orginally a post-apocalyptic CGI short but has now turned into a full-lenght movie with Tim Burton and Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov producing. The movie is set in a future where the only things remaining after humanity has died of are these sweet-looking sentient dolls and the creepy robots that wants them dead.
-The Wolfman
A remake of the Wolf Man movies starring Benicio Del Toro as the.. wolf man. This looks like wonderful victorian horror gold. There's lots of photos of Del Toro in full wolf mode but the photo below with the sweet looking costumes makes me want to see the movie more.
-Thirst
The latest movie by Oldboy director Chan-wook Park about a priest that turns into a vampire. While the trailers hasn't really thrilled me I'm looking forward to this only on the strenght of the director. I have loved ever movie by Chan-wook Park and I have faith that this will be epic greatness. Avieyal: Thirst has been getting mixed views. but he's the Old Boy director! and though I've never seen the full movie, its reportedly the most epic Korean movie in the history of ever.
-Franklyn
I'm not 100% sure what this movie is about. But there's apparantly four different storylines intervined and it takes place in our world and this great looking steampunk dystopic world. I've heard the story is just okay but that it looks pretty. I'm okay with movies just looking pretty.
-1
Here's a pretty interesting russian movie. It's from a book by Stanisław Lem (One Human Minute) about this bookstore where all the books are transformed into this other book titled 1. And in these books are an almanac or something which describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of one minute. And hilarity ensues! (or something).
official sypnosis:
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.
Avi: Finally! someone that makes SENSE! I will need to read this book.
-Inglorious Basterds
Tarantinos latest movie about nazi-killing soldiers in WW2. I have enjoyed all of Tarantinos movies so I'm really looking forward to this. Should be interesting to see what he'll do when he can't cram in as much pop-culture stuff as possible in a movie.
-Creation
It's about damn time someone did a movie about Darwin, i guess it's because he would turn 200 this year. The below photo was enough to make me really excited for the movie.
-Bunny and the Bull
And finally here's a movie by the director of the excellent absurdist british comedy The Mighty Boosh. This will even star the two guys from that show so I guess this is the closest to a Mighty Boosh movie we'll have at the moment. It's about this guy who goes on a road trip.. in his own mind.
-Public Enemies
Jhonny Depp, man. I think I've gushed about this before. And 1920s American Gangsta. Guns. MUST WATCH.
-Breath
I've been so so so so tempted to buy the vcd. its in the bargain bin in yesasia.
yesasia sypnosis:
Kim Ki-Duk goes for something a little less extreme with Breath, a spare and potentially less disturbing film than one might expect from the well-known auteur, whose predilection with cruelty and violence have made him a notorious arthouse figure. The film stars Taiwanese actor Chang Chen as Jang Jin, a death row inmate who attempts to hasten his upcoming demise by stabbing himself in the throat with a sharpened toothbrush. The attempt is unsuccessful, only raising the concern of his cellmates, one of whom who carries an unspoken homoerotic crush on the doomed Jang. The suicide attempt also makes the news, reaching the attention of disaffected housewife Yeon (Zia), who passes her days sculpting, doing laundry, and generally looking like she's going to step off her balcony one day.
unspoken homoerotic crush? prison? *intriuged*
-No Mercy For The Rude
Korean comedy. twas rec'd by someone on jdrama.
Yesasia sypnosis:
Killa (Shin Ha Kyun of Save The Green Planet!) is a bright young man with a little problem, making his life hell on earth: his tongue is too short. Every time he opens his mouth, he ends up embarrassing himself. But there's a way out! A 100 million won operation will fix all his problems, but the key is finding the money. To get the money as fast as possible, Killa becomes a, well, killer. Eaten alive by the guilt of becoming a mere mercenary, he quickly makes a decision to kill only those who truly deserve it, to rid this society of all its rotten apples. As they say, No Mercy For The Rude.
so now the list of books i want are:
One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
...AS IF I HAVE FINISHED ALL THE STUFF I HAVE. -_-
plus Public Enemies. but thats just for my J.Depp fix.
Again, the movies are: (copied and pasted because. because. Everything from here on up til 'Bunny and the Bull' is all barbarpappa, pics and all.)
-Daybreakers
The second movie from the two brothers who did the (in my opinion) awesome australian zombie film Undead. Undead was a low-budget movie with really good effects by the two brothers. And the effects wasn't just good because they did it themselves. The effects were seriously good.
Daybreakers has been in the making for years now and is about a future world where most of earths population has turned into vampires. The movie centers on a group of vampires trying to save the last few living humans. (for food I guess)
-La Horde
An upcoming french movie about gangsters vs cops vs ZOMBIES!!! The plot doesn't really have any originality at all but the movie is getting a great buzz. And the little footage I've seen looks awesome as there were an insane amount of zombies. You could almost say there was a horde of them.
-Viy
Here's a really sweet looking steampunkish movie from russia. It's about this british cartographer that travels to russia and encounters a bunch of mystical fantasty stuff. It looks fantastic. Just check out that carriage in the photo below. Beautiful!
-9
This was orginally a post-apocalyptic CGI short but has now turned into a full-lenght movie with Tim Burton and Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov producing. The movie is set in a future where the only things remaining after humanity has died of are these sweet-looking sentient dolls and the creepy robots that wants them dead.
-The Wolfman
A remake of the Wolf Man movies starring Benicio Del Toro as the.. wolf man. This looks like wonderful victorian horror gold. There's lots of photos of Del Toro in full wolf mode but the photo below with the sweet looking costumes makes me want to see the movie more.
-Thirst
The latest movie by Oldboy director Chan-wook Park about a priest that turns into a vampire. While the trailers hasn't really thrilled me I'm looking forward to this only on the strenght of the director. I have loved ever movie by Chan-wook Park and I have faith that this will be epic greatness. Avieyal: Thirst has been getting mixed views. but he's the Old Boy director! and though I've never seen the full movie, its reportedly the most epic Korean movie in the history of ever.
-Franklyn
I'm not 100% sure what this movie is about. But there's apparantly four different storylines intervined and it takes place in our world and this great looking steampunk dystopic world. I've heard the story is just okay but that it looks pretty. I'm okay with movies just looking pretty.
-1
Here's a pretty interesting russian movie. It's from a book by Stanisław Lem (One Human Minute) about this bookstore where all the books are transformed into this other book titled 1. And in these books are an almanac or something which describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of one minute. And hilarity ensues! (or something).
official sypnosis:
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.
Avi: Finally! someone that makes SENSE! I will need to read this book.
-Inglorious Basterds
Tarantinos latest movie about nazi-killing soldiers in WW2. I have enjoyed all of Tarantinos movies so I'm really looking forward to this. Should be interesting to see what he'll do when he can't cram in as much pop-culture stuff as possible in a movie.
-Creation
It's about damn time someone did a movie about Darwin, i guess it's because he would turn 200 this year. The below photo was enough to make me really excited for the movie.
-Bunny and the Bull
And finally here's a movie by the director of the excellent absurdist british comedy The Mighty Boosh. This will even star the two guys from that show so I guess this is the closest to a Mighty Boosh movie we'll have at the moment. It's about this guy who goes on a road trip.. in his own mind.
-Public Enemies
Jhonny Depp, man. I think I've gushed about this before. And 1920s American Gangsta. Guns. MUST WATCH.
-Breath
I've been so so so so tempted to buy the vcd. its in the bargain bin in yesasia.
yesasia sypnosis:
Kim Ki-Duk goes for something a little less extreme with Breath, a spare and potentially less disturbing film than one might expect from the well-known auteur, whose predilection with cruelty and violence have made him a notorious arthouse figure. The film stars Taiwanese actor Chang Chen as Jang Jin, a death row inmate who attempts to hasten his upcoming demise by stabbing himself in the throat with a sharpened toothbrush. The attempt is unsuccessful, only raising the concern of his cellmates, one of whom who carries an unspoken homoerotic crush on the doomed Jang. The suicide attempt also makes the news, reaching the attention of disaffected housewife Yeon (Zia), who passes her days sculpting, doing laundry, and generally looking like she's going to step off her balcony one day.
unspoken homoerotic crush? prison? *intriuged*
-No Mercy For The Rude
Korean comedy. twas rec'd by someone on jdrama.
Yesasia sypnosis:
Killa (Shin Ha Kyun of Save The Green Planet!) is a bright young man with a little problem, making his life hell on earth: his tongue is too short. Every time he opens his mouth, he ends up embarrassing himself. But there's a way out! A 100 million won operation will fix all his problems, but the key is finding the money. To get the money as fast as possible, Killa becomes a, well, killer. Eaten alive by the guilt of becoming a mere mercenary, he quickly makes a decision to kill only those who truly deserve it, to rid this society of all its rotten apples. As they say, No Mercy For The Rude.
so now the list of books i want are:
One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
...AS IF I HAVE FINISHED ALL THE STUFF I HAVE. -_-