when a 35mm print of millennium mambo was screening near me, i ended up going to see it 2 days in a row.
l’intrus is the only other film i remember doing this for.
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to me, Safety Last! is a horror film
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Watched several of the Senritsu Kaiki File Kowasugis with a friend this weekend mostly out of order with bad subtitles because I figured they were self-contained. The best was Hanako in the Toilet and The Most Terrifying Movie in History, but we didn’t get to the Final Chapter. They get very Koji Shiraishi (which makes sense because they’re by Koji Shiraishi) after the first one.
We also watched Creep, which didn’t do anything for me. Jim from the Office plays it too hard too early. I put on the Rise of Leslie Vernon after that (which I had already seen) which I think is the better movie. I don’t really like anything from/featuring Jim. 
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Different guy. Mark Duplass just kind of looks like Jim from office.
Watched Martin & Lewis’ Artists and Models last night with miffy, had an absolutely wonderful time, have never actually seen a full movie with this duo before, dunno if I need to see another, it was like this was tailor made for me, doubt anything else can compare.
Do you remember last Labor Day when I did a Jerry Lewis-inspired gamer stream telethon where I raised money for “legitimate charity” by playing Batman for ZX Spectrum (The Microsoft Windows Remake) for 24 hours straight? Of course you do, I’ve been saying “I’m Batman” 300 times a day ever since. Anyway be glad I didn’t see this movie beforehand cuz this Jerry Lewis is obsessed with comics and in love with Bat Lady (wholly original character do not steal) and yes at one point he does screech “OH BAT LADY MY BAT LADY” and yes I would have alienated myself from all my friends and charity donators by imitating that non-fucking-stop. Thankfully my Bat-fever has faded some, I won’t fall into that trap now, don’t worry, I’m safe to talk to, I won’t do it. Not even once. Unless you ask me to.
Bat Lady is drawn by Martin & Lewis’ new neighbor, played Dorothy Malone from Written on the Wind (one of my favorite movies – that shot where she clutches the model derrick!!). Her friend/secretary(?)/Bat Lady model is played by Shirley MacLaine, pictured above. I have never seen a young Shirley MacLaine – yeah I’ve never seen The Apartment, so what!! I’ll get to it!! But she is very cute and charming here and also when she dressed up as Bat Lady it’s…well it’s something, it’s something for the perverts, there’s lots of foot stuff in this movie, makes me think the Looney Tunes director who ran this show really had a thing for piggies. There’s a scene where Malone gets out of the tub and walks into the bedroom wearing nothing but a towel and some high heels that was very funny, to me. Shirley gets her own slapstick musical number and Jerry really gives her the spotlight during it, it really shocked me, I don’t think the songs in this movie were very good but I did enjoy most of the performances, gotta love it.
This is from 1955, this is right after Seduction of the Innocent and the juvenile delinquency hearings and the founding of the Comics Code Authority and the American comic industry turning to absolute shit. Was surprised to see the protagonists making comics considering the climate but they’re always cracking jokes about how gruesome and harmful funny books are, the kid above is chomping down on a thumb because he’s 100% brain damaged by Bat Lady, Malone quits the book because the publisher is pressuring her to add more gore, Dean gives up on his dream of becoming a painter and swoops in to fill her shoes, he gets a huge advance and spends the remainder of the film making it rain. A cartoonist with money is maybe the most unrealistic thing I’ve ever seen in a motion picture but I didn’t let that bug me none, I got a kick out of it, I got a kick out of Dean’s character being pretty sleazy, it was pretty sick.
In my game there’s a big ol’ monument to California (which fell into the sea) and it’s been one of those locations I’ve been chipping at for years cuz it’s kinda complex and has all these movie star heads on it and also a computer (silicon valley y’know) and an old timey prospector (who can forget the “49er gold rush”) but I’m junking it all and just copying this. Jerry had a bad back and needed a massage, see, and that lead to comedic hijinks that did have me laughing. The French were right about him and everyone who mocked them is a fool. I’ll also be copying that shot of MacLaine on the phone, that’s a great office and a great pose and they’re all mine now, thanks Hollywood.
OK so Jerry and Dean are no longer starving cuz Dean stole his dreamgirl’s job and his boyfriend’s dreams: Jerry talks in his sleep and, unbeknownst to him, Dean is taking all that pillow talk and turning it into comic gold. This grants them entry to high society, where there’s a seemingly never-ending supply of hot babes wearing absurd, brightly colored outfits and I guess modern cartoonists do see that sort of thing a lot in real life due to conventions and such, but modern stuff is so tacky, unlike the looks in this movie, which are tacky but Technicolor. That makes a big difference!! Anyway success also puts Dean in the crosshairs of the Soviets? Cuz some of Jerry’s naptime nonsense turned out to be the secret formula for some kind of space-age rocket-fuel?
So the commies send Eva Gabor to seduce Dean but she settles for Jerry, who spends the climax of the film dressed like a mouse (another of Dorothy Malone’s creations). There’s also a scene where Shirley MacLaine is tied to a chair and opens a door knob with her mouth that is some real freak shit that somehow made it past the censors, pretty sure I saw a recreation of that scene in one of those “Top recommendations from Clips4Sale” digests that keep appearing in my inbox for some reason, maybe the peak bit of perversion in the entire movie, really, really something.
Wait no that was the peak, that was horrible, the rest was great though, five stars for Artists and Models, the movie that proves that comic books really are for freaks and weirdos.
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this sounds awesome
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Confess, Fletch!
This one was real good. I think John Hamm secretly has Chevy Chase-class asshole origins, but has successfully reformed himself into the kind of charming cad persona that maybe makes him even more suited to this role than Chase. This one kicks it up to eleven by having him deploy his uniquely American charms against all kinds of European weirdos, kind of similar vibes to Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds. I think making American idiocy look cooler than European sophistication is an endlessly good bit and more people should indulge. -
See How They Run
Not great but still watchable. Saoirse Ronan should be in every movie. Every movie she is not in is worse because it lacks her. It’s just the way I feel. Kind of an anti mystery, does the thing where characters talk about how bad it is in movies when X happens, so then you know X is definitely gonna happen in this movie. Dumb gimmick but the performances save it.
Goofy anti-whodunnits are the best kind of airplane movies , I think. I briefly nodded off during the climactic speech where the culprit reveals himself but in this case I think it is actually how you are supposed to watch the movie. It’s very funny how little it matters.
- Amsterdam
Was surprised by how much I didn’t hate this. I know the director is a human monster but others have done worse. Friedkin punched guys in the head to get them to act better! Anyway I don’t know why this one was so panned. The cast is charming , the plot is breezy (people complained about the length but this is shorter than like every marvel movie). Everyone talks too much, needed to have more faith in the actors ability to convey these ideas through acting, not just talking. It seems like critics hated it basically because to them there’s nothing worse than Oscar bait gone bad. I have a feeling it was received as a too on the nose parable about the rise of fascism in America, but it’s actually a movie about how the best friendships are immortal but also in a constant state of decline after the “glory days” are over. Also Taylor Swift gets run over by a truck
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Hooting Howlering Plane Movies!!!
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i usually cannot care in the least about the startlingly large genre of romcoms about the minutia of the emotional lives of rich white people with media jobs in ny/la but “sleeping with other people” had enough names attached whose work i dig that i figured i’d give it a shot and i did really like a lot of it. good chemistry between the leads and i guess the usual hollywood clothes on sex scenes are corny (like just fade to black or whatever) but it’s i find it likeable and one of the best attempts at a harrymetsallylike. it probably would have gone from pleasant and somewhat emotionally realistic to a recommend if they had built the story around cutting the whole last act but u cant win em all. also there is one scene where jason sudekis teaches alison brie how to masturbate by fingering a bottle and ends with him saying that she should use her clit like a dj that might be one of the stupidest things i have ever seen but it’s still fun
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That spoiler text is really going to teach some people something they need.
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RRR
3 hours of insane shit happening constantly. It didn’t feel like 3 hours. I forgot movies could be like this and just go on a bunch of directions with multiple climaxes and twists.
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Forgot to mention this, but while watching this, the thought came to me:
What if Bruce Wayne had gone back in time and murdered his own parents to keep them from creating Demon God Soldiers? Bruce Wayne being the one to murder his own parents has to already be a comic, right?
I definitely recommend this series but it’s hard to single out all of the cool parts without spoiling it. It should be watched in order. I hope Shudder or like, Arrow picks it up and gives it proper subtitles and stuff.
watched Return to Seoul the other night and had a lot of fun. Park Ji-Min reaaalllly carried that whole movie, so it was nice to read that she had a very big part of developing Freddie as a character. she just feels like a real person! it’s nice that it wasn’t some overblown sappy adoption story but was more like… you are the person you are because of the choices you make, not necessarily where you came from, etc. i really really like the bit where Freddie is sitting with her biological family and they’re being very melodramatic in a way that i recognize in my own halmoni and basically just being like… weirded out by the whole spectacle of it. to be fair, it’s a movie that’s very much for me bc i too am a person who doesn’t really ID with either of my parent’s ethnic groups (though I still got excited when they said Gunsan. that’s where half my family comes from too, bro!) still not sure how i feel about that arms dealing for south korea subplot??, but it was so minor that i almost forgot it when thinking about it the next day.
dance scenes are always good
also did you all know there’s a celine dion themed rom-com coming out? it’s true, i saw the trailer! it’s called love again and it looks terrible.
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This was my Film of the Year 2022 and I will eagerly await the buzz surrounding the next big Tollywood thing (whatever that is…?)
glass is one of the most evil m night movies ive ever seen despite ending on an extremely sentimental note…its really funny to me he dropped that shit in theaters right before that shitty avengers movie all my co workers were crying about for like a whole month cuz none of them said anything about this movie and i have no doubt its like 100x more brutal. loved all the POV: you are getting punched in the face shots and that he really stuck to his guns giving the audience a blackpilled nightmare instead of some dumb cgi mess. fuck im just thinking about the funny ass 9/11 footage at the beginning of bvs…im so glad we didnt see any buildings get nuked in this one. anyway i saw that trade of doom patrol on the nazi psychatrists shelf i can see right through your game to make grant morrison ass movies now m. night!!!
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caput and i watched My Cousin Vinnie, movie still whips ass, marisa tomei is 10000% perfect, so many good looks. joe pesci’s all-white patrick ewing reeboks are a Powerful Italian Artifact
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My Cousin Vinnie still second best lawyer movie and best criminal lawyer movie, contains the most powerful encapsulation of defense work on screen
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What’s the best one???
