Taika Waititi’s only a producer on it, but Reservation Dogs is real good, avoids the treacly vibe of a lot of his stuff.
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The Sea Beast was a lot of fun, I think I loved it. I’m a big fan of pirate stuff and this really embraced the setting and vibe.
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this is almost certainly a scientology reference (in part)
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Last Night in Soho is a bewildering movie. it’s also sort of contrived and boring, but i mostly can’t get past its writing, i guess.
i had written multiple paragraphs about this movie but then the internet ate my draft so i’m just narrowing it down to this: i did not care for it. the plot feels contrived, is full of deus ex machina, and the film’s version of plot twist is consistently “we are making this up right now to directly contradict what you and the characters actually saw so that this movie’s plot has somewhere to go.”
none of the characters feel human - all archetypes just playing out their parts until they die or fulfill their on-screen duties for plot advancement. so much of the film’s writing feels like it is just forcing itself along from one plot point to the next without regard for anything else that’s come prior.
also i found it really bizarre that Ellie has like, a bully, in fucking university lol
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So, Melissa is watching The Predator (2018), because I guess some other show on TV ended and then she got sucked in. I’m halfway paying attention but like, this movie is basically a comedy? At the very least Melissa is laughing at things way more often then I’d expect someone to when watching a Predator movie.
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I’ve been putting on the Phantasms since they’re available to stream on Shudder/AMC+ (except for 2 despite being the Phantasm that AMC used to actually air on TV back in the day).
It clearly says “PARKING IN REAR”, but Jody parks in front not just once, but twice. Dune would be pissed if Jody weren’t already a dream.
Also, pro-tip: if you get AMC+ on Amazon, then you not only have access to whatever shit AMC has in their library, but you also get access to most of what’s on Shudder, as well. And, while Amazon’s streaming app is a gigantic pile of shit, so is Shudder’s, so there’s really no advantage to subscribing to Shudder over AMC+ except for maybe the fact that the random episodes of the Last Drive-In will be missing subtitles/closed captions on Amazon.
Also, fuck what Don Costcorelli or anybody else says, Phantasm 2 is still good and Fake Mike is arguably a better actor than Real Mike (who looks like a rat took human form).
Hot as Love would be a good band name.
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I swiped that car and also a phone booth from Phantasm
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Checking the coin return for change to buy more tootsie pops to suck on while checking coin returns.
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Freejack feels like a really boring low-budget scifi movie from like 1983 so I don’t know how the fuck it came out in 1992. Repo Man is the superior Emilio Estevez scifi movie which has Harry Dean Stanton as its scrawny weird-looking guy and he can act circles around Mick Jagger. Why even bother with Mick Jagger when you can get Buster Poindexter, anyway.
If you are going to watch Freejack, consider instead watching The Quiet Earth from the same director Geoff Murphy (also of the much lampoonable Under Siege 1 and 2)
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it wasnt my choice to watch this movie my roomates put it on, but yeah the reason we watched it is because of quiet earth and undersiege
they’re my roomates when they do things i dont like
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I somehow missed the Nadja talk in the last movie thread (plus the Lost Highway soundtrack-Billy Corgan digression). Remember when Space Ghost used that Rammstein song in place of the Sonny Sharrock intro for an episode? Just like David Lynch gave us Hannah Montana, I gotta believe Rammstein blowing up with Du Hast from that second record was primed by DL giving some shine to songs from their first. The Family Values Tour wouldn’t have been the same if it weren’t for David Lynch.
I haven’t seen Nadja since I was like 16 and it was constantly on IFC back when that C showed Fs that were actually I, and totally uncut instead of Real Housewives or whatever, and I must have watched that thing in pieces a million times for teen reasons.
The grainy vampire vision was all shot on a Fisher Price Pixel Vision camera which uses audio cassettes as its medium. Right before the pandemic, a local film maker I was working with through my job offered me her old Pixel Vision and I passed it up because those things are worth a million dollars now.
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BRILLANT NUMBER ONE thats the black and white episode where they give space ghost eyeballs by drawing dots on his eyes and it makes it so he cant see
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I was obsessed with most of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, but I was especially obsessed with this episode
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Yes! One of my all time favorites and the only one that isn’t on HBO+ because apparently Rammstein are harder to license than Pavement.
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The Pavement episode is so good though. I adore how they just call them “The Beatles.” It might be my favorite joke of all time.
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I love his granny glasses he wears over his glasses
thinking about it they were way better at interviewing musicians than just about anybody, the relaxed chaotic structure must be the right wavelength
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I watched Freejack on cable and my only recollection thereof was someone saying “hey, you’re a freejack” nonplussed to the protagonist.
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I bought some of those with this episode in mind
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