watching a movie called MASSACRE MAFIA STYLE on tubi, which is about italian culture, so naturally the movie opens without any context a montage of the two mob guys shooting an entire office full of black people set to light hearted music. All the mafia guys get introductions with like where theyre from and multiple of them are members of the “Sons of Sicily Defense League.” and then they go to a party and theres a musical number about fucking 800 different kinds of pasta italian people love to eat. This all happens within the first 20 minutes. Our hero loves killing innocent people actually, there’s a part where he makes a woman get on her knees and then blows her head off with a shotgun and then it shows her corpse which is covered in like red circles made with marker because italians are also the best artists in the world. In the next scene he then proceeds to give an insane monologue about how he and his mafia colleagues have brought Dishonor and Disrespect and Shame on italian tradition with Violence and how Mother Italy just wants to know if you ate enough. They kill every non sicilian person almost everywhere they go. DUKE MITCHELL was like, hollywood is getting us italians all wrong, we are actually much more racist than you think. The moment when an italian child is baptized, the future is not in the galaxies, but in the code of tradition and honor passed down to him by his people
Based on a post here from @vodselbt I saw Skinamarink. Super enjoyed myself–it’s very scary, and it has a really unique look and tone. I think everyone who enjoys slower or lower-key horror stuff should watch this, even if you think you’ll hate it. It’s just super weird and the good bits really, really hit. It is so, so cool that there’s a straight up experimental horror movie in theaters right now, no matter what you think of it.
I enjoyed myself but I do think it’s like, a half hour too long at LEAST… There were sections where I could feel myself legit falling asleep and I felt so bad because the good parts of this movie are really good. I think I could have really enjoyed like, a 60-70 minute version of this movie. Host was 65 minutes and I liked that shit. Skinamarink has a lot of really good long slow sections… but then there’s a lot of long slow sections where I wasn’t interested or scared. The scary shit is really, really scary, but once you figure out the cinematic language the director is using then there’s a lot of bits that feel like padding.
The whole gimmick of this movie visually is that the camera deliberately avoids looking at the characters. Characters only occupy the center of the frame in very frightening, significant moments. The rest of the time, the characters are out of frame or barely visible–and in the case of the two protagonists, two children aged six and four, whenever they’re in frame the camera focuses on their legs and feet. Instead of looking at their faces, the camera focuses on walls, floors, ceilings, and props. The lighting is quite good and everything is so violently VHS grained that the whole environment looks like it’s writhing. When you start watching, every shadow is seething so intensely that you kind of expect that a bad guy will pop out of it. After about 30 minutes, though, you’ve learned what to expect from the film grain and the shadows and it’s less impactful. Still looks very good.
After watching the movie I watched Heck, a 30 min short that the director released as a proof of concept 2 years ago. It’s fine!! It has some corny ass shit in it and I’m very glad that Skinamarink is a different story. Unfortunately they are similar enough that watching Heck actually kind of diminished my enjoyment of Skinamarink by suggesting some much-less-satisfying solutions to some of Skinamarink’s cool ambiguities. If you want to watch Skinamarink I dunno that I would recommend watching it because it is just way too similar to the released movie. Go in to Skinamarink fresh IMO.
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kinda explains a lot
Duke Mitchell was an actor and singer (providing the singing voice of Fred Flintstone)
this also, explains a lot
he has TWO of probably the biggest coke nails I have ever seen
you gotta watch something to counteract this shit lmfao
like a sal mineo movie or somethin
Look at this woman’s hands…an angel’s hands. They smell of olive oil and oregano. I love these hands!
So glad you dug Ravager!
The Phantasm theme is the sixth pillar of hip hop!
I watched Sneakers (1992) and it was a big nothing of a movie, just like The Menu. Sneakers made over 100 million dollars in 1992 and I have never seen or heard anyone ever talk about it. A film with Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier and Ben Kingsley with one of the worst attempts at an american accent ever.
it sure is a big dumb fun nothing of a movie, the cast make it
pretty popular in some crowds, the Sneakers/Hackers double feature is a staple
Yeah I love Sneakers and never met anyone who didn’t tbf. Ocean’s 11 with 90s grain instead of 00s slickness
The shitty CEO at a company I used to work for had a Japanese poster for Sneakers hanging in his office. I had to explain to people how katakana works, that it just said Robert Redford in a different alphabet.
This is nothing against the movie, just a weird memory connected to it.
sneakers was one of my favorite movies when i was a kid cuz im from the south bay and its full of south bay refrences
@Felix have you seen Zama? I watched it earlier this month and thought of you for some reason.
I haven’t but I will! thank you for thinking of me
Zama is so good!!!
zara is so good. didn’t associate it with felix though…
I think that main character feels like a semi successful and self sabotaging man which Felix could find interesting.
That plus the whole bureaucratic exile part of his character
It’s taken 19 years of posting but I finally have an identity on these forums, I am the guy who didn’t love Sneakers.
Today, I watched Bullet Train and there was too much talking and it was too long of a movie. It was so dumb.