By I can’t even tell you how awesome it is that the blogs aren’t even fully functional yet and we still have a bunch of great work from community members filling the dark recesses of the site. You people make me happy.
Because of the missing functionality, I’m here to point you toward some of the great things we’ve had posted by community members this week. These are going to serve as your weekly community recaps from here on, so get used to clicking on them. You’ll want to read this stuff.Â
I can't even tell you how awesome it is that the blogs aren't even fully functional yet and we still have a bunch of great work from community members filling the dark recesses of the site. You people make me happy.
Because of the missing functionality, I'm here to point you toward some of the great things we've had posted by community members this week. These are going to serve as your weekly community recaps from here on, so get used to clicking on them. You'll want to read this stuff. {{page_break}}
Before the staff even got started with its content, we had the lovely Manic Maverick post the very first Flixist community blog! So, congrats for that. With Halloween coming up, his introduction is quite fitting, as he goes into detail about his obsession with horror flicks, saying,
"One of my main obsessions included zombies. The idea of humanity becoming extinct due to a mysterious, mind-boggling disease was brilliant to me. A world torn asunder and reduced to ruin by a growing wave of slow-moving, shambling, people who should have stopped moving ages ago." Read the full post here.
Wanderingpixel gave us a dual review of a couple of wildly different movies, one of which you may have never heard of. Restrepo is the movie in question: a documentary about the Taliban and the terror of war. And according to pixel, it's quite good, too. As he says,
"Restrepo is about as simplistic as it gets when it comes to war documentaries. There are no interviews, no narration, and no agenda. This is pure, uncensored, war." Read the full post here.
Gatsby hit us with a review double-shot, taking on Let the Right One In and its recently released remake, Let Me In. So, which one prevailed? I'll let you learn that for yourself, but maybe this excerpt will give you a little hint.
"It's not the retarded and deformed “Let the Right One In” clone that everyone thought it'd be. It's much more accurate to say that it's like a twin of “Let the Right One In”, you can look at both of them and see the same face, but which one you like better is something that's totally up to who you are and what you like in a person." Read part one here, and read part two here.
LizRugg watched Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles and let us know her thoughts about it. It's a super long film, so you had better be prepared if you're interested in watching it. Otherwise, just check out Liz's thoughts, and check out her full blog for a couple of other posts that are worth your time.
"All of this is not to say that I hated Jeanne. Sure, watching it was hard, but it was meant to be. The film is bringing to the forefront of cinema the strictly imposed structuralism that was (and is) constraining women." Read the full post here.