I never really got the appeal of Empire Records. Everyone knows record store employees are stereotypically supposed to have cool taste but that movie’s soundtrack is all 90s alt-soft rock stuff like the Gin Blossoms and Edin McCain.
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90s nostalgia
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The best song in the movie was Video Killed the Radio Star.
I’m glad I was part of the Napster generation and not the “hang out in music stores” generation because I remember the last CD I bought from an actual music store was They Might Be Giants’ Apollo 18 based solely on hearing, I think it was The Guitar, playing over the sound system. I wound up hating like, every other track and being filled with regret for having spent money on it just for one goddamn song.
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For teenage Mikey, it was Liv Tyler and Robin Tunney
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Likewise
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the real soundtrack for true connoisseurs of 90s music is Coneheads
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When it comes to under appreciated 90s soundtracks, I always gotta rep for A Matter of Degrees. It’s got Mike Watt, Schooly D, the Pixies, and Miracle Legion (aka Polaris of Pete and Pete fame).
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Night at the Roxbury Baby!!!
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Saw The Celebration. Unbelievable. I need to see everything from Thomas Vinterberg now.
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Watched The Good Dinosaur finally and god what an UNBELIEVABLY strange pixar movie. I do not understand how this was made.
There’s some really clever cute stuff in here. The way they balanced human and dog traits for the human character is really fascinating. The human comes across as a pure mix of like, things a person would do and things an animal would do. Wild as shit.
However the movie is totally uninterested in answering the question of “what would the world be like if dinosaurs had survived the asteroid” which is, unfortunately, like, the entire question posed by the existence of the movie in the first place. The movie makes no attempt to depict a “dino society” and it means that every time a dinosaur appears on screen you are totally at a loss as to whether they will meet each other and talk like humans, or whether they will fight and antagonize one another like animals. The wild thing is that the main dino character does not seem to know what to expect here, either!!
How the hell was this movie made? I must know. We watched some documentary type clip about it where they kept saying “the world was so important to us” but what they meant I guess was building 100 mile diameter sets out of Idaho state 3D terrain data they downloaded from the United States Geological Survey. Damn. Oddest movie I have seen in weeks
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i remember installing the demo for Expect No Mercy on my family’s Windows 98/ME computer and it insisting on installing ‘WinG’, which i guess was a precursor to DirectX. installing it meant we couldn’t go above 800x600 and 256 colours or some such until i found a directX installer on some other game disc
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rewatched universal soldier day of reckoning havent seen this in sooo long… its ok ig. baseball bat fight goes so hard tho… i like the swagless suburban setting a lot, reminds me of the card counter… like oh yeah movies set in the 99% of this country that is just strip malls and model houses. its so crazy when the logic of mk ultra sleeper agents proceeds along its course leading to them plotting the downfall of the american government. probably better than a lot of movies it could be compared to but those probably werent actually very good to begin with… moody neo-noir shit used to be something i enjoyed a lot ig. think i def like regeneration more bc its just way more actiony but its a cute little duology idk i cant help but feel this ones coasting a little on the novelty of its referents tho
oh!! he has a new movie coming out… def a guy im glad is still working as a director. was alone good
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The Island of Dr. Moreau, just a movie about David Thewlis hangin’ out with little critters that’s all
Kojima-ass ending lol
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rewatched AI with some friends for the first time in 3 years. it’s the best hollywood movie ever made, probably. as imperfect as it is i found myself really appreciating the middle section on rewatch, which initially registered as the obvious weak point - the stress and heartache is just unbearable without it. beyond and maybe against the obvious “message” it inherits from its subgenre, a major aesthetic-thematic thesis (which it shares explicitly with close encounters) is that our humanizing trait is something truly alien to our enduring social and personal identity. our deepest drives and most profound feelings do not belong to us, and that’s key to how spielberg approaches “emotional manipulation” stylistically in such an extremely visually complex movie, too complex to even start talking about on this little sleep. a friendly acquaintance wrote this in an essay and i think it’s spot on:
i don’t think he intended the comparison favorably but bresson/spielberg is a hell of a dyad
it’s so deeply perverted that the final sequence, the most fucked up ending of any movie i’ve ever seen, is shot like the folgers incest commercial
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yeah that bit has me gasping in the theatre, just profoundly creepy
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watched Goldfinger, if you ever wanted to hear sean connery pronounce the word “pussy” in multiple increasingly unlikely ways this movie is for you, it’s funny how much j bond himself is just a kind of oblong non-presence that sits there for all the fun parts of the movie to orbit around. as far as i can tell the single thing that he accomplishes in the film is also the absolute worst element (assaulting a woman until she turns Moral enough to go and thwart the villain’s plans herself?). a more charming part is the feeling of like, reproducing America for the exotic delight of british audiences, so there are some gorgeous technicolour shots of random highway fast food spots including KFC, portrayed with as much enthusiam as any of the fancy modernist lairs in the film.
the opening song is good and has really delightful, written-on-the-way-to-the-studio lyrics. goldfinger, such a cold finger… he loves gold… he loves only gold… he loves gold. i wonder if this was the inspiration for that one song in lupin iii?
also it reminded me that for the “james bond junior” cartoon in the 90s they decided to modernise oddjob by i guess having him join the gi joe version of run dmc?
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Shirley Basset’s Goldfinger is probably the best Bond theme!
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Feel like I heard somewhere that part of that Lupin theme being like it is was a push by Miyazaki to present Lupin as a kinder, friendlier alternative to Monkey Punch’s real, uh, rapey manga version.
But I wouldn’t doubt Goldfinger’s theme influenced it, either!
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Definitely check out the documentary about this film, Lost Soul
Yeah we watched Island of Lost Souls (steamy gleamy silver nitrate fever dreams of bestiality and vivisection and Charles Laughton bein’ a campy little scamp, love this one) → The Island of Dr. Moreau → Lost Soul
The only one I hadn’t seen was Dr. Moreau and maybe because of that and because for years I’d heard “the making-of is way better than the movie it’s crazy that’s the one to watch” anytime it’s been referenced online or irl, I have to say I like the actual film more! Or at least more than I’d expected. Like, it’s not my favourite thing ever but from the opening of David Thewlis duking it out with two demonically dehydrated dudes on a dingy to the narrated stock footage montage straight outta Sons of Liberty at the end I was thoroughly entertained and uh transported by such a mess of mad gestures.
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