Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
January 2008 activity
Total Log Entries: 53
- Adam (8)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (12)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (4)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (1)
- Thomas (2)
- Victoria (3)
Total Comments: 41
- Land of the Minotaur (0)
- Don’t Go in the Woods (0)
- Road House (0)
- There Will Be Blood (18)
- Vixen! (0)
- Cloverfield (0)
- Prisoners of the Lost Universe (0)
- Firing Line (0)
- Blue Skies (1)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (0)
- Wild at Heart (1)
- Gone Baby Gone (1)
- The Shop Around The Corner (0)
- La Vie En Rose (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Die Hard With A Vengeance (5)
- Coal Miner’s Daughter (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (0)
- Tenebre (0)
- Voodoo Black Exorcist (0)
- Death By Dialogue (0)
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism (0)
- Saved! (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (2)
- Wall Street (0)
- Dreamcatcher (1)
- Halloween (2)
- Fearless (0)
- Atonement (1)
- Youth Without Youth (0)
- Dans la Ville de Sylvia (0)
- Offside (3)
- Scoop (0)
- The Man From London (0)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (0)
- RoboCop 3 (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
- For Your Consideration (0)
- Eraserhead (0)
- Prime Time (0)
- The Manipulator (0)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Flash Gordon (0)
- I Am Legend (3)
- Week End (0)
- Southland Tales (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Wild Hogs (0)
- Futurama: Bender’s Big Score (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (3)
- Epic Movie (0)
- The Elephant Man (0)
Full Archive
Wall Street / USA / 1987
Is it just me, or do Oliver Stone’s movies – across the board – resemble big, hard penises? And who is a bigger dick than Michael Douglas in this movie? And I know that I am supposed to hate him, but to be honest, Gordon Gecko is an inspiration. I need to learn to be more aggressive; think less about creating, and more about owning, becoming a real player.
J/K.
Wall Street somehow succeeds because Stone has matched his cloying style of filmmaking with one of the few subjects greasy enough to handle it. He does 80s hedonism better than Mary Harron did it in American Psycho because he understands that you don’t need the murder-as-metaphor to make it brutal. Just show those guys like they were, give or take a little David Mamet style grandiosity, and leave it at that.
And! Oh! There’s the added bonus of the “interior design” scene: Daryl Hannah slaps fake exposed brick and soooo-80s art all over Charlie Sheen’s new Upper East Side apartment, making it look like a set for some early VH1 talk show, all set to Talking Heads’ “Naive Melody.”
Hoooome … is where I want to be. Nice.
by Teddy Blanks | Source: Streaming Video
10 Jan 2008 11:08 PM | Submit Comment
