What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[gravedigger]

BLACK DYNAMITE- Honestly, I haven't understood the crazy love the internerds have for Michael Jai White. Then I watched this movie. Holy shit, it's amazing. I daresay it's a better homage to a particular '70's genre than GRINDHOUSE. So crazy and awesome.

[Ari]

Totally with you Grave.

[Matt]

'Stir Crazy' (1980)

Again, another film from my youth that I probably shouldn't have revisited. Pryor and Wilder do make a good team, but Wilder is DIALED UP TO 11 here and it gets pretty damned grating.

Thoughts:
- There are some really bizarre scene transitions that totally skip plot details...how did this person know THIS??? Why did they go HERE??? It's like minor plot points got dropped on the cutting room floor.
- It's not very funny, especially in the second half. You've got a prison rodeo and an escape sequence, and none of it is really played for laughs. It's a bizarre tonal shift, especially since the first half of the film is so manic.
- There's a nude bar scene that is totally unneeded. I mean, I like looking at the nude gals as much as the next guy, but there was really no reason that the film couldn't have done the scene another way, tone down the language a bit, and made the film PG.

'Silver Streak' was much better.

[BillyG]

What do you think they'd do to us if we were in here, Rich?

THEY WOULD FUCK US, GENE!

[Ed Hocken]

I saw Silver Streak for the first time a while ago and I had no idea that Gene Wilder was an action star in that movie. That movie is basically Pineapple Express for the 1970s.

[patronsaintofcheeseburgers]

Kick Ass...it was glorious...buy this if you haven't already.

[Abraham Smashington]

Taking Woodstock.

I actually really dug this flick. Ang can shoot, that's for sure. Loved Liev Schrieber's character, dug on Dimitri and I actually enjoyed that they didn't focus on the music. In fact there is pretty much no "footage" of the actual concert in this flick. Instead it's all about the people that put it together. My only gripe was that it was about 20 mins too long. IT looked great on blu though.

[patronsaintofcheeseburgers]

Half of "I know what you did last Summer"...fuck I don't remember it being this boring/weak

[Abraham Smashington]

That's probably because you saw it when you were like 16. Fuck that movie and its sequels.

[Ed Hocken]

Taking Woodstock, eh?

How's my other celebrity doppleganger Emil Hirsch in this?

[Abraham Smashington]

Not bad. He's not in it that much. But he plays a Vet well.

[Ben Thomas]

Half of "I know what you did last Summer"...fuck I don't remember it being this boring/weak

Always thought that was a terrible film. Never saw the sequels and only watched that one cos it came free with one of my first DVD players.

[Ed Hocken]

I always enjoy seeing that guy get work. At some point, I'll need to get the nerve to watch In the Wild.

Dude was great in MILK, in my view.

[patronsaintofcheeseburgers]

Yeah it is on Instant...about to fall off. I may just let it.

[Ben Thomas]

I'll need to get the nerve to watch Into the Wild.

Its INCREDIBLE. Its a tad tough to get through the end sequence, but so worth it. Hirsch is great in it (his best work in my opinion) and it's Penn's most mature, restrained directorial work. Its a beautiful travelogue of unseen America and a really well-written, well acted film. Worthy of standing beside the other great American films of 2007.

Ed, please watch it post-haste. I really don't think you'll regret it.