Shit I liked this year, a compendium

The Right Stuff

In The Loop
Inglorious Bastards
Adventureland
The Hurt Locker

The Swell Stuff
Up
Coraline

The Fun But Ultimately Pointless Stuff
Star Trek
Zombieland


The Eye-gouging Stuff
District 9
HP 6
Twilight II
9
Watchmen
Seriously, I can't believe my friends convinced to me to see all of these in the theatres

The Unseen Stuff
A Serious Man
Moon
Ponyo
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Where the Wild Things Are


this just tells me, hey, you saw that in theatres! at a later point, plus gives my opinion. I am sure I saw more but can't think of them. hmm.

twilight of the gods

so i have had a couple of days of weird coincidences. ran into my friend Amy and heard Andrew Bird who she loves later. watched a Woody Allen movie that mentioned Wagner then listened to WNYC's radiolab later that evening a whole episode on Wagner's Ring Cycle. decide to finish reading my latest volume of transmet this morning then check twitter to see that Amanda Palmer and Warren Ellis were getting in an argument then Palmer later tweets about listening to radiolab, too. and i had before watching the movie had a serious desire to listen to The Shins and then Zac Braff is in the movie. albeit for like five seconds of screen time and a whopping two lines. but this morning i am listening to another wync's radiolab podcast and its about Orson Welles and the war of the worlds, and in the movie theres a theatre that is having a Welles festival.

omg. my brain just exploded.

So I haven't updated this in a while. Sorry, real life sometimes get in the way. I am crazy busy these days, to the point where i am just regressing to an earlier less stressful time. To wit, I've been playing on my gameboy (tetris, btw) constantly, and am presently listening to the Final Fantasy VIII soundtrack. Pretty soon here I might want to watch some anime or something. (Last two I watched were Serial Experiments Lain and Paranoia Agent--both awesome). I've also been cranky and belligerent lately. Sorry about that.

Film Guild future roster to the best of my knowledge:
Let the Right One In
Fido
Timecrimes
Harold and Maude

and we need to play a Woody Allen movie at some point. Because we played one last year. and because I love him.

I've been going to the movies a ton this year, its bizarre. To the best of my knowledge movies I've seen in the theatre this year: Star Trek, HP 6, Zombieland, 9, District 9, Up, The Hurt Locker, In the Loop, and I still intend to see a few more (Cold Souls, Where the Wild Things Are, etc.)

Teacherisms

Teachers can say some pretty hilarious things. Itp/c I intend to document all these things.

My Accounting teacher (male)

-You *must* know how to do this before the test. If you can't do it then you should just kill yourself. We are going to do an example, if you can't do it, kill yourself before I kill you.

-You are all my accouting children. I can not get rid of you, I have to take you as you are. I cannot push you back into my stomach.

My Math Teacher

-Italy is dangerous.

-Things happen in time.

-There's no limbo in Markov Chains. (Translation: wherever you are/going thats where you are/will be)

3 Greek Bros.

It turns out that Solyent Green isn't really about eating people. More about gov't manipulation and whether or not you are guilty of a crime you don't know you are committing. Just some food for thought.

Billy: Its What's For Dinner!

Billy, don’t be a hero. Especially if that means also being the main course. Dinner a la Donner Party is not something that most of us will probably ever experience, but that doesn’t mean films don’t like serving us up a big plate of cannibalism on the big screen. Heres a list I’ve compiled of movies with cannibalism and rated them on just how meaty they are. Zombie movies don’t count, because the zombies can’t help it that they need to feast on the flesh of the living. It’s their addiction.

Sweeney Todd

This is light-weight, starters of cinema cannibalism. A few very obviously crazy Brits decide to throw some human tissue into the meat pies as a way of cleverly getting rid of the bodies that are staking up anyways. Times are tough and you do what you have to, which seems to be a theme of these movies. Cannibalism is only condoned in times of extreme economic hardship (we better hope that stimulus package passes).

Verdict: No one knows that they are eating their cousins, so altogether its not that bad. These chefs get their cake and to eat it too when it all comes to light. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Rating: Biting your tongue

Solyent Green

The granddaddy of all mommy-munching movies. Again, it’s a limited number of people who decide to feed everyone else, well, everyone else, and heck, its only on Tuesdays. Albeit, it is the government who makes the decisions, so it’s a little worse. The most affecting moment in the film is when the elderly man is eating a piece of lettuce and watching the way he savors it, and doesn’t even involve eating humans at all.

Verdict: Big brother is watching you eat that cake, and thinking about making you into bacon, but only if you are old anyways. SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

Rating: Putting your foot in your mouth

Delicatessen

I would say that this is the worse of all cannibalism on the silver screen. The fundamental difference is that everyone chooses to eat their (literally) neighbors. Its premeditated murder. The butcher who lives in apartment finds new tenants who he then kills and sells to all of the others in the building. When pickings get lean he offs the mother-in-law of someone already in the building. The residents all might be a little crazy, they all clearly have their quirks, but not to the degree of Todd or Hannibal Lector which is what makes it so terrifying.

Verdict: When times are lean don’t go through with that ad for an apartment, looking for a plump and juicy tenant. Gorgeous and gruesome, this movie is a real treat.

Rating: Taking a bite out of your arm

The Road

So, this movie isn’t out yet but if they follow the book there will be enough dead baby eating that even I won’t want to make dead baby jokes (How do you get a dead baby in a shoebox? Blender. How do you get a dead baby out of a shoebox? Nacho chips.). The most horrifying part of the book was when the man and boy find that cellar full of people that are being stored for eating. This is premeditated man munching to the extreme.

Verdict: Twins due next week? You better get some charcoal for the bbq.

Rating: BRAINS!!! And dead babies galore.

Honorable Mention: Cannibal: The Musical, if only for the cowbell and the singing