I’ve always had a hunch that I won’t like Brick but I kinda wanna watch it now if only to fully appreciate your Rugrats dig.
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i thought the final twist was more: the only way to be happy in such a nightmare world is to detach yourself from reality entirely
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Oh and as regards everything everywhere, the first 20 minutes did show a lot of promise. I loved the way language was used in that first scene, with characters freely switching between mandarin, cantonese, and english based on convenience, felt absolutely true to my youth growing up in a multilingual household.
The real problem with the movie is the way it couldn’t let any visual gag go. The hot dog finger universe was funny enough to see once, but to keep going back to it felt like I was watching a madtv sketch that refused to end.
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dissassociation baybeeeeeee [airhorn]
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Building on Tulpa’s reply, taken as a whole in the Imagination trilogy, the follow up Baron Muchhausen is thematically about how fantasy is capable of conquering the problems of reality, and a person who is more story than man can trescend mortality and the troubles of the world, which pretty clearly builds on the ending of Brazil to me.
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every time i go back to this it’s better and better. im not sure anyone has hit as hard 2 years in a row like cronenberg did '11/'12. at least nothing i was able to catch in a cinema.
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some parts were really painful to watch (in an enjoyable way. FUCK. GODDAMNIT.) like i felt super called out and validated throughout the whole thing in a really meaningful way
the more i think about it the more i like the movie
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obviously the subject is ~intense~ for what it is, but he manages to translate almost every aspect of the body horror he is known for into this, including the physicality of it.
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yeah its a movie about why people like cronenberg movies haha
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oh yeah i guess i didn’t think about the language-switching much coz i spend most of my time with multilingual people these days but that’s not something you see a lot of in Western cinema is it
idk maybe it helped that an instagram ad spoiled the emotional resolution of the film so i didn’t have to carry my prediction in my head for the runtime but i really thought the film kicked off about when youse think it went to shit. like i feel like they stuck the landing in a way that wouldn’t necessarily have worked if they’d employed any moderation at all. i really liked that even the hotdog fingers throwaway gag contributed to the emotional development of the story! (like, that it’s absurd and almost unthinkable to her, but that maybe if things were very different Mum could have been into women too)
i thought better of mentioning this in any public sphere but when i was writing my little letterboxd review i’d my rewatch i kept thinking about how @daphny used to put MSG in brownies years ago. and i’m pretty sure they’ve since said that was gross actually but… it sounds like it’d be a lot of brownie y’know
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watched the director’s cut of blair witch 2. it was pure camp genius, starring pre-burn notice stoner jeffrey donovan and goth kim director. felt like if you took the basic idea of the blair witch - found footage of the protagonists - and combined it with a freddy movie. direct satire of the idea that violent films or horror movies can cause you to do murders. “your balls will fall off in three days!”
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it was fantastic!!! 29 minutes in is the perfect place to start the movie btw. the documentarian behind some kind of monster made it
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Netflix added RRR (Rise Roar Revolt) a few days (weeks?) early, and holy shit, what a movie.
It’s another S.S. Rajamouli movie (the guy who did those Baahubali movies I was talking about a few weeks ago), and it definitely takes the wild action those movies had and ramps it up.
Breeziest 3 hour movie I’ve seen in a long time. Maybe the only bummer is that Netflix only has rights to the Hindi dub (not that I speak or understand any of it, just a matter of the lips not really syncing + heard a lot of Telegu when I worked at Kumon ages ago), but I can’t recommend giving it a whirl enough.
Seriously thinking about going to see it for when they do a one-night Alamo screening in a week or so. Feels like a good one to see on a big screen.
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I like how they decided to show the villains tearing through helpless crowds like musou protagonists without worrying that it would bias the audience by looking too cool
because in bollywood movies nothing can look too cool and that is an inhumane use of your combo on bystanders
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Baahubali does it a few times with the villainous uncle character and his whirling death chariot, which makes the moment when it gets smashed to shit pretty satisfying.
I feel like these movies satisfy a thing a lot of action movies fail to do - having a dude grab a guy by the leg and swing him into a bunch of other guys. Just a real crowd pleaser of a move.
RRR does a great bit where one of the characters shoots an arrow partially through a tree, with it stopping millimeters from a British soldier’s eye, and then the guy kicks it through the rest of the way into the soldier’s head. And that’s not even the wildest thing that happens in that scene!
Also kudos to Ray Stevenson and Alison Doody for playing the most absolutely, cartoonishly evil British people imaginable. Makes their comeuppances feel more than earned.
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another good lesson in this movie is that you can meet white women by surreptitiously throwing a handful of nails under their tires
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rrr was a good time, i can see why this one crossed over in the way it did.
i spent the weekend catching up on some other new releases. the northman is really really bad. the whole thing feels like a cutscene from the last of us. totally frictionless.
jackass 4.5 is great. i love how the .5 movies feel a bit more low key and have a bit of the tv show vibe to them. good dudes.
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Everything Everywhere Blah Blah Blah was good fun at the hour mark and gruelingly on-the-nose during its overlong ending that just would not trust its audience with Themes (or Lesbians Maybe?)
Still; not often can films provide reassurance that the 9-5 that is not Your Best Life can be determined by eating chap sticks or an enthusiastic hurdle jump into buttplugery
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I watched The Quick and The Dead. Fun movie. Young Russell Crowe is very pretty.
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over the past two days i watched jacques rivette’s le pont du nord and shusuke kaneko’s gamera 2: attack of legion, which feels like a pretty good triangulation of a certain selectbutton sensibility
check out this cool parisian kaiju slide in the rivette though
gamera 2 was soooo good i love gamera 
shinji higuchi did the effects and the monster designs and scale models were so good (i didn’t get screenshots bc i was too excited) and the color grading was gorgeous especially at the beginning with the snow
the main girl and boy were really cute and the girl who telepathically bonded with gamera dressed like a cool nyc insta lesbian in the winter and gamera is really cool he mostly gets beaten up in this movie and girls love him and he protecc
mariah was there
but it was mostly people talking in rooms which is what i like
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