we’ve only seen two but i’m so happy that there’s like 7 more of these
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yes
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The Blood of Heroes / Salute of the Jugger. movie about Rutger Hauer and Joan Chen playing a post apocalyptic sport that involves putting a dog skull on a spike. Sole director credit of david peoples, writer of unforgiven, blade runner, 12 monkeys, soldier. Really great ending.
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Abunômaru: Ingyaku
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oh apparently the non uncut version ends earlier, so don’t watch that version
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Confess, Fletch is incredibly fun. Nothing but wall to wall delightful actors chewing the scenery in the frothiest little bubble of a murder mystery. Close to an ideal dadmovie. There used to be like ten breezy middlebrow studio movies like this a year and I really miss em
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I liked this movie too.
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watching the fellowship of the ring extended edition appendices and thought this shot of Sean Astin’s prosthetic foot being removed looked incredibly gnarly
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This is why they say not to look at your feet when you’re tripping
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Did not expect a later episode of this to suddenly extensively involve time travel.
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Are these worth seeing? I like Noroi and Occult. From a quick search, I gather that English subtitles don’t yet exist for all episodes.
if you can have fun with these kinds of movies, absolutely.
like, they are scary sometimes for sure but… the director character is such an unhinged and dangerous asshole that it sometimes deflates the horror by a lot, but instead of being annoying or a disappointment its bewildering, awful or even really funny.
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Well, I did manage to find subtitles for 7 of 9 episodes, so that should be good enough to try it out.
The movie I watched today (actually yesterday) is Q: The Winged Serpent. Like Larry Cohen’s The Stuff and God Told Me To, it’s pretty entertaining. Especially the climactic scene with the winged serpent. It has those Ghostbusters-looking special effects that are not entirely convincing but are a lot more fun than a lot of the slick modern computer graphics stuff. I particularly like how it looks when some of the police officers get flung off the roof of the building.
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i kind of want a bunch of naked burt reynolds stickers to vandalize the world with.
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I’m a big fan of Q, I love that it’s more a character study of a particular breed of NYC loser than it is a monster movie, but it doesn’t shirk the monster movie stuff, either
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American Psycho 2 is seriously corny, both authentically and in a put on way, always an obvious hack job, and occasionally incoherent in baffling ways. I was worried that it would be boring, but it’s actually a fun watch to study and just be exposed to. I am not going to write a lot of words about. It doesn’t deserve that. But if you and some friends ever thought it could be worth watching… I’ve done my homework and can report back to say that is probably an instinct worth giving into.
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watching The Bad Guys again, wish there were more big dumb caper action movies for kids like this. I guess Spies in Disguise was
will never not love keyframing characters in big fights scenes on (separate) 12s? to get that comic book/Saturday morning cartoon vibe
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watched nope
at the star lasso scene the spectacle allegory clicked. you will be consumed. it will eat you alive. jupe was trapped in spectacle and tried to tame it (in the gordy’s incident and jean jacket) only to be consumed while lucky said nope. you literally need to break your gaze to break it.
i was delighted when a paparazzo in a mirrored helmet arrived to remove any doubt in my mind.
ending on the advertisement card to tour the real life set is perfect. come on down to the most photographed barn in america.
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Being John Malkovich is such a lightning in a bottle movie. I dont know if it was an incredible idea Charlie Kaufman slowly developed for years and years while working on 90s sitcoms, but he’s never gotten close again. I really dont like any of his other movies except eternal sunshine*.
And while you still see Malkovich’s fingerprints 20+ years later in prestige comedy tv shows, “indie” movies, etc, few have evolved past it. Get Out probably gets the closest to taking Malkovich somewhere new, but it still wears its influence on its sleeve, going as far as casting Catherine Keener in a similar role and having the “the sunken place” imitate “Malkovich vision”.
I think the key thing is this germ of a dumb sketch comedy concept (“a schmuck enters a portal and becomes John Malkovich”) flowers into thoughtful points about body expression/body dysmorphia, jealously toward a friend/loved one, lust for a person when they act as someone else, and more. The movie isn’t very didactic about it, it very quickly jokes about some of these concepts but later sells them by tangibly making you feel it through the story.
Compare this to most other movies, who spend endless dialogue in the last act explicitly stating its points, points that usual amount to “love is good”, “dont be bad”, “fight for what you believe in”. Part of Get Out’s success is it is about tangible ideas and doesn’t need to hammer them home.
*i think the frustrating thing with Kaufman is if you only watch Malkovich, you’d figure he recognizes the schmuck main character Craig is ultimately a villain, the guy is basically sent to hell in the end. But then you see all of kaufman’s followup films and you start realizing he cant stop making self-deprecating movies about white male artist caricatures that he sympathizes with a bit too much. they become more mouth pieces for his frustrations. Malkovich has such an expanse of ideas and jokes that (mostly) all work together, but Kaufman’s sensibilities have seemed to get narrower.
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