Election is Matthew Broderick’s best movie.
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Yeah, I thought that was the one everyone was talking about…
Yokai Monsters - 100 Monsters: This one was pretty fun. Not a ton of monsters, at least til the end, where they show up and just kinda dance around and scare people to death/madness.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do The Universe: Well, it’s no Do America, but it’s alright. Kinda blows all its best jokes up front and kinda sputters to the end, but it’s fun to see them again, I guess!
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I’d never got around to a Johnnie To movie and Election wasn’t streaming anywhere I could find so while I was waiting for a download I found Throw Down on Criterion Channel and booted it up. Came for the Kurosawa Sugata Sanshiro homage, stayed for the “Hong Kong King of Fighters while extremely hungover” arcade experience.
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No I hadn’t but considering how much I enjoyed this movie thank you for pointing it out!!
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Was dipping into clips of the recently passed Philip Baker Hall on youtube and having immersed myself lately in Chapo-adjacent content and subreddits recommending this, finally got around to watching his one-man show as Nixon, Secret Honor. Really good stuff
Matt Christman said this was the only good Altman but idk, loved 3 Women and eager to get to his other (70s in particular) stuff
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idiotically heretical, take it from me, a person who has been trying to source a new HealtH rip for years
I wasn’t even aware that anyone disliked short cuts
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California Split c’mon!!!
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I wish Elliott Gould had gotten even more beat up by the end of the movie, I felt like they could’ve taken that bit further
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even fucking gosford park is great. and popeye?? come on
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his long goodbye is like… as canonical as it gets, even more than nashville or mash in modern terms
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McCabe!!!
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Psychomania - I was expecting more of this
and less of this
I had a hard time paying any attention to what was going on. As far as I can tell, a spoiled member of a local ruffian youth biker gang hassles his spirit-talker mom into giving him the secret of coming back from the dead which apparently has something to do with frogs and “believing you’ll come back”. And then it’s just a bunch of English dorks on amphetamines ending themselves in motorcycle accidents (intentionals?) so they can come back from the dead and get into more motorcycle wrecks and hassle grocery stores. Calling it a “biker zombie movie” is a bit deceptive and also makes it sound a lot more interesting than it actually is.
The helmets are cool, at least.
And some of the soundtrack is decent.
It’s not me that scares you [places frog in jacket], it’s the world.
Knightriders is the better movie about a subculture of biker misfits.
The Biker Ghoul scene from Cemetery Man is the better biker zombie movie.
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I watched the Dr Strange multiverse marvel movie and it was fine. It was fine. some of the Raimi stuff was very corny and it hit me less hard than I expected it would. I really appreciate the final 15 minutes, though, as he manages to squeak a straight up deadite in there somehow, and it’s fun stuff!
A few months ago my friends and I were groaning about some terrible twitter thread we found where huge MCU fans were arguing about whether this movie was too gory. It’s barely gory at all so that conversation is even funnier to me now than it was before, particularly because the best death in the movie is not gory at all. (Someone turns Reed Richards into basically a pile of spaghetti!!! Jim from The Office dies screaming while being turned into long wiggly noodles!!! lmao)
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Am getting myself sorted on Altman but watched Blue Collar thanks to @bib and it fucked up my day pretty bad. Richard Pryor lightened the mood but, man, it got ugly and its outlook on organized labor combined with the time I’ve been having trying to get a work from home deal with my irl union is really getting to me
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easily his best film role I thin
bonus points for Ed Begley Jr reading catch 22 in the background
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Yeah, I only have addled memories of him as the Tim and Eric Cinco Phone guy so didn’t recognize him lol
shout out
yeah i love that shit. i mean i maybe love every movie overtly about labor that i’ve seen but that one in particular. everyone’s great but yes pryor there is huge, just beautiful stuff
just #schradered and watched auto focus for the first time this week myself, that was great too. just miserable, miserable shit, i love it. dafoe the god. an all-time great jerk off scene
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