Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

[shook1]

NIL BY MOUTH.


Good stuff!

[kidlogic]

anyone seen Children of Men? apparently Anti War Dub by Digital Mystikz is in it

would you recommend it?

And Burial and Random trio apparently. Everyone I speak to highly recommends it. its on the list for takeouts at work, along with the new Blade Runner Cut.

Both of these are required viewing. so dope. I like the new BladeRunner version quite a bit... and Children is a visually stunning film. Good story and visually stunning.

[shook1]

anyone seen Children of Men? apparently Anti War Dub by Digital Mystikz is in it

would you recommend it?

And Burial and Random trio apparently. Everyone I speak to highly recommends it. its on the list for takeouts at work, along with the new Blade Runner Cut.

Both of these are required viewing. so dope. I like the new BladeRunner version quite a bit... and Children is a visually stunning film. Good story and visually stunning.

x2

[parson]

totally agree with Parson, Crumb is a great film about a great artist!

i will talk about horror/terror, but despite cheesy teenage terror or things like that, i will talk about Frank Darabont's 'The Mist' based on a novel by Stephen King.
I watched it yesterday, it blow my mind with fucked up situations, very huge (and good) dramatic moments, tentacles, religion even some gore with a big twilight zone taste (in the good way). Actors are good, and dialogues are simple and real, making a good film about people in a town surrounded by a spooky fog with something inside...

if you like this genre will be great, if you don't like it, i have to tell that is a good movie, darabont is a good director!
is one of that movies that makes big a genre!

anyone have seen it?

note: Parson, as Lovecraft fan i think is a must!

second post in the thread

the mist is a great movie. i love how its an examination of the human psyche as much as anything else.

[datura]

I bought the Lives Of Others today, can't wait to watch it.

[shane]

i watched the mist a couple days ago. wasn't bad but by the time i watched it i had heard so much about it that i already knew what to expect.

plus i watched it right after cloverfield, so the whole "end of the world" scenario or whatever couldn't compare.

[parson]

i loved how crazy shit could be happening all over the place and ppl were still like YOU'RE NUTS. CRAZY SHIT DOESN'T HAPPEN.

[BaronVon]

TAXIDERMIA... fucking brilliant, very odd film... peeping toms, professional competitive eaters, taxidermy. Any Questions?

Bloody brilliiant film. Probably one of the best i have seen in years. So hialriously dark and twisted. Absolutley loved it.

[BaronVon]

I watched Rescue Dawn last night. Good film, the part where they try and escape from the Prison Camp is so tense, my heart was pumping at double time. Christian Bale played a brilliant part, really dedicated method acting he lost so much weight to play that role. Looked like he was gonna keel over and die for real by the end.
The film looked amazing as well. Anyone know if they used old film stock? or was the colour affect a digital process???
Slightly humourous as well in a bizarre way.

[elbe]

watched this the other night

http://www.artificial-eye.com/dvd/ART281dvd/main.html

brilliant

[datura]

watched this the other night

http://www.artificial-eye.com/dvd/ART281dvd/main.html

brilliant

I enjoyed it a lot - esp the one blow kills when all the wire work and elaborate sword fights. The ending is fantastic as well!

I heard rumours of a sequel, but it's gone a bit quiet.

[elbe]

watched this the other night

http://www.artificial-eye.com/dvd/ART281dvd/main.html

brilliant

I enjoyed it a lot - esp the one blow kills when all the wire work and elaborate sword fights. The ending is fantastic as well!

I heard rumours of a sequel, but it's gone a bit quiet.

good story line, got lost on a couple of the flashbacks but in all thourougly enjoyable. Ichi is badman. Love the little facial twitches, whole film quite comical actually

[datura]

kitano definitely played it for laughs.

[elbe]

My fav comic moment when the aunts house is burnt down, the villages come running to look and the nephew standing there dressed as a geisha

[parson]

i love love love the end when they all dance. brings a tear to my eye every time :')

the dance number at the end of takeshis didn't have the same effect at all

[onelouder]

TAXIDERMIA... fucking brilliant, very odd film... peeping toms, professional competitive eaters, taxidermy. Any Questions?

Bloody brilliiant film. Probably one of the best i have seen in years. So hialriously dark and twisted. Absolutley loved it.

check out Hukkle as well

[wub]

Watched Planet Terror over the w/e and fucking loved it

Proper stupidly good exploitation film, pisses all over Deathproof IMO.

[elbe]

Watched 'This is England' the other day. It has had good reviews but I didn't rate it. Interesting had a good base but the acting was awfull, the lines seemed so contrived. Did make me think about the image of my nationality but didn't really asorb me in anyway.

[wub]

Watched 'This is England' the other day. It has had good reviews but I didn't rate it. Interesting had a good base but the acting was awfull, the lines seemed so contrived. Did make me think about the image of my nationality but didn't really asorb me in anyway.

It lost me about half way through. It was all good until they went to The National Front meeting, then it got a bit meh after that.

[bright maroon]

My fav comic moment when the aunts house is burnt down, the villages come running to look and the nephew standing there dressed as a geisha

Furisode from In Ghostly Japan by Laifcado Hearn

Recently, while passing through a little street tenanted cheifly by dealers in old wares, I noticed a furisode, or long-sleeved robe, of the rich purple tint called murasaki, hanging before one of the shops. It was a robe of such as might have been worn by a lady of rank in the time of the Tokagawa. I stopped to look at the five crests upon it; and in the same moment there came to my recollection this legend of a similar robe said to have once caused the destruction of Yedo.

Nearly two hundred and fifty years ago, the daughter of a rich merchant of the city of the Shoguns, while attending some temple-festival, perceived in the crowd a young samuri of remarkable beauty, and immediatly fell in love with him. Unhappily for her, he disappeared in the press before she could learn through her attendants who he was or whence he had come. But his image remained vivid in her memory, - even to the least detail of his costume. The holiday attire then worn by samuri youths was scarecly less brilliant than that of young girls; and the upper dress of the handsome stranger had seemed wonderfully beautiful to the enamoured maiden. She fancied that by wearing a robe of like quality and color, bearing the same crest, she might be able to attract his notice on some future occasion.

Accordingly she had such a robe made, with very long sleeves, according to the fashion of the period; and she prized it greatly. She wore it whenever she went out; and when at hom she would suspend it in her room, and try to imagine the form of her unknown beloved within it. Sometimes she would pass hours before it, - dreaming and weeping by turns. And she would pray to the gods and the Buddhas that she might win the young man's affection, - often repeating the invocation of the Nichiren sect: Namu myo ho renge kyo!

But she never saw the youth again; and she pined with longing for him, and sickened, and died, and was buried. After her burial, the long-sleeved robe that she had so much prized was give to the buddhist temple of which her family were parishioners. It is an old custom to thus dispose of the garments of the dead.

The priest was able to sell the robe at a good price; for it was a costly silk, and bore no trace of the tears that had fallen upon it. It was bought by a girl of about the same age as the dead lady. She wore it only one day. Then she fell sick, and began to act strangely, - crying out that she was haunted by the vision of a beautiful young man. and that for the love of him she was going to die. And within a little while she died; and the long-sleeved robe was a secong time presented to the temple.

Again the priest sold it; and again it became the property of a young girl, who wore it only once. Then she also sickened, and talked of a beautiful shadow, and died, and was buried. And the robe was given a third time to the temple; and the priest wondered and doubted.

Nevertheless he ventured to sell the luckless garment once more. Once more it was purchased by a girl and once more worn; and the wearer pined and died. And the robe was given a fouth time to the temple.

Then the priest felt sure that there was some evil influence at work; and he told his alcolytes to make a fire in the temple-cout, and to burn the robe.

So they made a fire, into which the robe was thrown. But as the silk began to burn, there suddenly appeared upon it dazzling characters of flame, - the characters of the invocation, Namu myo ho renge kyo; - and these, one by one, leaped like great sparks to the temple roof; and the temple took fire.

srebme from the burning temple presently dropped upon neighboring roofs; and the whole street was soon ablaze. Then a sea-wind, rising, blew destruction into further streets; and the conflagration spread from street to street, and from district into disctrict, till nearly the whole of the city was consumed. And this calamity, which occured upon the eighteenth day of the first month of the first year of Meireki (1655), is still remembered in Tokyo as the Furisode-Kwaji, - the Great Fire of teh Long-Sleeved Robe.

According to a story-book called Kibun-Daijin, the name of the girl who caused the robe to be made was O-Same; and she was the daughter of Hikoyemon, a wine-merchant of Hyakusho-machi, in the district of Azabu. Beacuause of her beauty she was also called Azabu-Komachi, or the Komachi of Azabu. The same book says that the temple of the tradition was a Nichiren temple called Honmyoji, in the district of Hongo; and that the crest upon the robe was a kikyo-flower. But there are many different versions of the story; and I distrust the Kibun-Daijin because it asserts that the beautiful samuri was not really a man, but a transformed dragon, or water serpent, that used to inhabit the lake at Uyeno,- Shinobazu-no-Ike.


So yeah - Bottom right is the kikyo crest..