Yeah that’s kinda where I’m coming from: I have empire strikes back already. It’s a better movie than any of the sequel trilogy. I know what a better movie than Empire looks like and it’s not a remake of empire that keeps looking at the camera hoping you’ll notice how it subverted something like Bioshock or a Joss Whedon joint, ultimately abandoning all it’s coolest concepts save for the two that weren’t going to make it to the third movie (Rey doesn’t have a connection to anyone, and the force is cool shit anyone can do). Like it’s just whatever.
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see this make sense to me because it’s disdain for TLJ that comes from it as part of being a part of a sequel trilogy nobody wanted. you can acknowledge its merits as a movie but in the end it’s shackled to a disney apparatus that blunted and ultimately retconned it.
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my favorite cute/annoying detail in glass onion was using the bee gees song the beatles lifted the french horn line in “i am the walrus” from
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just watched it again
it is both this and not in the typical rian johnson clever by half mode
it is still my favorite of his but it is not really a movie about con men any more than the tempest is about a sorcerer, and if that analogy was enervating hoo boy wait until you see the movie
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Saw Emily the Criminal and really liked it. It is much less social commentary than it appears to be at its start… it really ends up being more of a thriller/character study about one person who sucks in a compelling way than a story about all the systemic miseries that drive its characters to become credit card fraudsters. Aubrey Plaza carries the whole thing, but there is a disaster romance in here too, and the subject of her character’s inadvisable horniness is also extremely messy in a good way. I had fun!! If you are looking for a story with something profound to say about debt and crime though this is probably not it.
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Glass Onion ruled, it was exactly as fluffy and predictable as a midlevel poirot flick, and i enjoyed it deeply. Janelle Monae doing the mona lisa smile was wonderful throughout, the twist for their character also gave that some additional depth too.
Knives Out was a tightly wound mystery and this was a real goofy throw it all at the wall kinda thing. I’m here for both, sometimes you get the orient express and sometimes you get death in the clouds.
The movie had nothing more interesting to say about rich people than agatha christie did 80 years ago, but that’s okay. It’s nice to watch a summer movie in the winter and watch people die.
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film was so fucking good – thanks for the rec
i got pissed at three billboards for reasons i can’t quite remember so i went in with a bit of trepidation
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westworld was not very good but i liked the scenes about being chased by the robot in the weird functionless concrete tunnels underneath the park. i wonder if it was the inspiration for monkey island 2. felt like it was kind of simultaneously funny and disappointing that the themed worlds once we get to them are so instantly legible feeling as cinematic pastiche, there’s no sense of uncanniness bc we’re sort of instantly just moved into the deadening gravity wells of their respective genres. i guess if it has anything relating to videogames it’s as a prefiguration of that marvellous future when graphics and immersion are good enough to really make us feel like we’re wandering aimlessly around a movie we’d flick past if it we caught it on TV. it did make me respect jurassic park a bit more for finding any excuse to give us more colourful themepark junk to look at.
i guess i’d still rather have the conspicuously dumb 70s genre movie version of this stuff than whatever that new tv show was, iirc i watched the first five minutes of it and it had an artful credits sequence set to sad piano music followed by a scene of a naked lady whispering answers to invasive offscreen questions in a completely white room, very david cage-core
i did like the dynamic in this with the james brolin he-man character where you’re initially like “so if this guy is so tough why is he going to the goofy boutique cowboy park” and then it turns out oh, he’s really into acting out this stuff in even more of a brittle fussy way, and the protagonist is actually his kind of sadsack divorced friend - i should have known since (a) this was a michael crichton movie and (b) this came out in 1973, the “golden age” of being a divorced guy in a movie. i also liked that this has perhaps the singularly least capable scientists i’ve ever seen in one of these types of films - the single thing they do when the park goes haywire is try cutting the power, which instantly locks the electric doors, sealing them all inside to suffocate at their desks. you had a good go at it… thanks for your input.
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also I was thinking about this and there are two possible explanations in my mind:
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He forgot to or couldn’t cancel it. These were barely made in time and murdering her was a spur-of-the-moment decision, so it’s possible that it was made and even shipped before the murder occurred. A dumbass like him might have wanted to cancel it, but either forgot or could not.
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He purposefully sent it. The man has two talents: stealing ideas, and lying about things. This is an easy lie, he knows that he’s not supposed to know that she’s dead, so he sends the package as a part of that lie. Leaning towards this one since it’s shown that, while he’s an idiot, he’s perfectly good at lying to cover his ass.
Also was thinking about how the opening with Among Us was a perfect setup for the actual punchline of the murder being the stupidest plot conceivable, and that Blanc is actually really bad at stupid simple things.
Yeah I definitely think this is a perfect Poirot movie, down to the fact that its criticisms of rich people are totally toothless because the detective is actually perfectly happy to spend his time hanging out with rich people, and he’s also rich enough to do nothing at all for long periods of time and go insane in his penthouse.
I would watch these until they are totally rotten awful sequels for the sake of making money, and I’d watch those too. Perfect for my brain.
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i don’t think i’ve disliked watching a movie more than cabin in the woods. all the startling clamor of a modern horror movie punctuated with tiresome meta winks. high concept by way of incidental dialogue in a kevin smith movie
it looks like a paul w.s. anderson joint
would make a good ken levine game, zero stars
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I like the way it used “Last” by Nine Inch Nails to like kick off its credits. pretty sick.
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Skinamarink was incredibly creepy. It came out of nowhere for me but after watching the trailer I had a dreadful feeling that this movie would add to a long list of new releases all across the medium board that I was looking forward to and ended up disappointed by. But it did not disappoint. It’s far more interesting than I even excepcted it to be. My only advice for watching it is to not hold it to a criteria where you expect it to be based on a clear, rational and representative logic. It’s abstract, and may manage to have created some really exciting new cinematic images, but it is also covered with the marks of things that have inspired it. A bit of a brainy movie but also still viscerally horrifying. And it’s funny to me because that is exactly how I would describe Fleischer cartoons, which this movie is full of.
I got inspired to lie online and write a fun review on letterboxd for it
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My Glass Onion take is that I think I will watch whatever movies come out with Daniel Craig exasperatedly muttering “oh, fiddlesticks!” while channeling Foghorn Leghorn.
I liked the first one better but I had a pretty good time with this one, too.
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I didn’t read that at first and I was like “huh” but from now on I’m just going to respond to everything with “Were the Night Pillows there?”
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“but did u see them, the night pillows?”
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I saw Babylon and I am ambivalent about it.
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looks cool, did you see it at a festival or is it available online?
I’ve seen it up on some torrent sites!
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i loved that lie!
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the new GDT Pinocchio is pretty great. Like everything else i’ve watched of his, i feel like it’s missing something but its hard to say what. But it is absolutely gorgeous, and Pinocchio himself is tremendously charming. i also really like Ewan McGregor as the somewhat less than perfect cricket.
I think it’s a perfect family movie because it’s somewhat harrowing, it takes several moments to dunk on fascists, it moves real fast, it has songs (but not too many), and it’s got a real melancholy ending. Everything that would have stuck with me as a child for years and years.
Would definitely recommend it just to see extremely great stop action.
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