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Top Gun Maverick Owned!
Just men conveying feelings by staring at each other.
Plane Footage was bad THEY CUT AWAY FROM A PLANE LANDING ON A CARRIER.
That they found and held an emotional center and I was genuinely holding my breath during the action scenes what the hell. Fantastic theater experience.
Signed,
A Dad
Who between ages 2-6 watched Top Gun, Robotech, and Final Countdown every day
A Son
A War Movie Podcaster
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i look forward to watching this the next time i’m on an airplane
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Is this still a thing?
Last time I was on a longish flight it was a ‘connect your phone to our entertainment service’ thing, instead of the old fashioned there are movies on a screen in the back of the seat in front of you.
If I wanted to watch movies on my phone I’d just put some movies on my phone.
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Oh yeah ive been on those flights a lot pre pandemic too. The worst part is on air Canada at least they didn’t even have any new releases just a bunch of old stuff. And not good old stuff either, just the things you would have expected to see on airplanes like five years before that
Anyway this time I was lucky and they had those back of the seat things and more recent movies. I guess maybe because it was a much longer flight? Usually the international ones are better equipped
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I can’t believe I had to get sick these past two weeks and miss Top Gun in IMAX. what a tiny release window. that sucks.
muting Freddie Got Fingered and playing Angelo Badalamenti music, fantastic
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this actually sounds kind of nice, whenever i’ve flown the screens have been dogshit
Showed Misty Mr. Nice Guy, a solid 90s Jackie Chan film set in an oddly Americanised, gang-filled Melbourne, which is a bit of a guilty(?) pleasure of mine. Very over the top, very thinly contrived plot, but with a lot of fun little details which are very enjoyable, and plenty of good action scenes.
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you know Vancouver has its own local version of that too
pictured: The Bronx
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I mean, that doesn’t entirely count, this is Melbourne playing Melbourne, haha
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The Bad Guys is good. Fox lady is cute. Cars are well cared for. Richard Ayoade is a guinea pig. Flawless.
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Splendour (1999) - gregg araki romcom on the theme of, what if you were dating two hot but dumb guys at the same time? and they both know about each other, this isn’t that kind of movie (although one of the characters does intone in a dead voice that Three’s Company was “very progressive, for its time”). they start out hostile but grow to like each other and then become inseperable, and pretty soon everybody’s living together. so the whole conflict is just like - okay, but what if they were dopes? like just sweetly amiable and pliant henchmen-type guys who seem like their dream job is being foiled by the Power Rangers every week. it’s funny bc at first it has to set them up as more conventionally plausible romantic leads before being like no, this is actually a movie about dating the Voros Twins. and to her credit the main lady gets into it, she grows into the role of being like the Tron Bonne figure yelling sassy and exasperated quips while wrangling these two guys around. but midway through the movie she gets pregnant (one of the bfs gives the helpful comment “you know… Bjork had a kid”) and she has to weigh up her commitment to the lunk lifestyle vs that of marriage to a smarmy director guy.
this was a weird viewing experience in that it was 100% light and frothy but i was constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop just from remembering the bleaker parts of araki’s other films, like waiting for the director character to do some casting couch bullshit or whatever, when in fact that character ends up being more like an exercise in how unlikeable you can make somebody without ever having them do anything actually bad or flunk the prospective romcom love interest test. (points for having him talk up ‘the bicycle thieves’ and keep referring to his therapist as “the wise old owl”. the part where he compliments the heroine on being comfortable enough to eat like that in front of him was maybe overegging it a bit.) but the final interrupted wedding sequence is very fun.
overall as an attempt at doing something mildly perverse within a very clean-cut form it was maybe a bit too classicist for me compared to Nowhere, but i liked it, and it was probably good practice for his most important credit of all. no complaints.
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i watched the super mario bros movie and it rocked. shame to hear the production was so troubled but honestly i’m glad kid Teg understood how much it rocks.
the sets! the costumes! there’s so many good lines of dialogue! goofy callbacks! it has such complete derision for the concept of making a videogame movie about super mario bros while simultaneously putting a million little subtle details just to show they know, that their divergence is purposeful.
hoskins and leguizamo and daisy are genuinely charming, hopper is more animated than normal, and it’s full of just fun gross kid stuff.
it’s also at this interesting transitionary period between CGI and practical effects where they’re still doing complicated animatronics and clever editing for practical stuff instead of just CGI-ing everything and it really adds to the movie. bob hoskins rotating while flying between dimensions dot gif. if it was made today like 80% of it would be done in post and it would be fucking terrible.
there’s no way the new film is nearly this good.
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yeah i genuinely can’t understand the perspective of people who claim to not like the SMB movie. it’s uneven, sure, but it’s fun. idk - it’s not even “so bad it’s good” or something, it’s just legitimately fun.
i feel like people who hate it are either lying and just repeating opinions they believe to be correct, or…they’re highly unimaginative and boring?
if someone here though hates it, i’d wanna hear why because you probably have some legit reasons
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It’s a kids fantasy movie about two union plumbers fighting dinosaur Donald trump it’s impossible for me not to love it.
(And it got cut from the final film but there’s secondary non union plumber antagonists in an extended sub plot that is alluded to a few times in the theatrical version)
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Scapelli!
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I like the cartoon world of Mario but not Mario or the other human characters themselves so the movie is way aesthetically off. Totally fine as a movie but contains nothing I like about Mario art or music etc.
Watched it on home video expecting “Mario” as a kid, felt disappointed
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