Still have my fingers crossed that Andor season 2 will finally introduce lawyers to the star wars universe
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God damn that would be so good
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Fox In Space Episode 2
holy shit and god damn. The writing, the voice acting, the subtle facial animations, the music. The way that it takes the SNES gameās polygonal structures and turns them into actual set dressing. Everything about this was amazing. I really hope the next episode doesnāt take another 6 years of work.
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A Man Called Otto: let my reference my thoughts about Toy Story 4:
A Man Called Otto is a fucking weird dramedy about a man who is suicidal finding the will to live again through chance encounters and is okay
Tom Hanks you can stop making movies about how youāre going to die
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: holy fuck this movie goddamn whips, animators whipping their dicks out and having fun with a bunch of silly characters
I think between this and The Bad Guys that DWA is the only house that gets how to use 2D to enhance 3D
(TMNT is probably going to change this)
After the 3-hour making of Peter Jacksonās King Kong, I am watching the extended edition of Peter Jacksonās King Kong. It is surprisingly intense and scary. Knowing the kinds of movies he made before LotR, as I hadnāt when this first came out, it seems obvious where the tension and grizzly horror movie violence and pain is coming from. Itās a good flick, when itās not being a monkey romance movie!
Hey, speaking of grizzly pain and horror, whatās hurting me right now is this:
I learned the original concept design for the Skull Island natives in PJās version was that theyād be adorned with scraps of dutch colonial armor and symbols of Christianity, with poofy pants, metal collar pieces, crucifixes, which sounded really cool to me. I wish they went with that route instead of basically depicting these non-white natives in the same crazed menace as the orcs in LotR. It would be kind of cool for this movie to have put a little irony into the exoticizing and othering horror, but alas.
I did watch the original King Kong for this, which is pretty incredible for a 30s adventure film. There is so much wonderful spectacle in the stop motion and special effects, as well as generally in the adventure premise itself. My favorite sequence was when the crew is charged at and kills a stegosaurus. It amazed me to see the actors actually walk towards the stegosaurus, realizing the whole mise en scene wasnāt a projection but mostly a set with just a projected screen at the far end. My mind broke!!!
Iāve been feeling kind of curious to see Skull Island. But also in another way Iām totally disinterested in watching it. American Kaiju movies are garbage, which Godzilla 2014 and Kong obviously fancy themselves as.
I would however be interested to play the King Kong videogame again. That thing is surprisingly cool for a movie game. Remarkably, it gave you an easy 1000 gamerscore on the 360 for just completing the story.
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Iāve tried to watch Look Whoās Howling, Too! Your Sister is a Werewolf like, 3 times, but itās apparently something Iāll need to actually sit down and watch because every time I look back at the screen itās either a close up of Christopher Lee, a close-up of Reb Brown, or thereās some kind of literal werewolf threesome going on. All Iāve been able to ascertain from my half-viewings is that somebodyās sister is a werewolf. Possibly mine.
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that movie was definitely always planned to be about werewolves and no other famous movie monsters at all
the credits burned sybil dannings tits into my brain
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watching x y and zee, i wondered if the 70s were that grimy and awful
avatar 2 looks so much better as a regular 4K transfer than with 3D or VFR lmao
like the CGI is actually impressive to me now rather than being this massive less-than-the-sum-of-its parts thing
how is mission impossible 2 such a trainwreck when every other one is so tightly wound
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you canāt pin John Woo down with logic, man
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try watching mission impossible 3 i think thatās one of the first times in my life i could identify being depressed
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if tightly wound > train wreck I donāt wanna be right
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MI:2 is great.
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I watched Walker last weekend not knowing anything about it besides filibustering and Alex Cox.
Of course an Alex Cox 1850s period piece would have an Apple IIe in it. The scenes of Walker amid these Peckinpah-style battle sequences were handled so well. I canāt vouch for how accurate the sign language stuff was but I could see some tumblr account embracing that aspect of the movie if it was on the up and up.
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Oh and infinite bonus points for casting Richard Edson as the unitās drummer boy
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when heās in a room alone with his dead wife and heās signing at her body in griefā¦! god tier
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Yes!!!
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yeah 3 is extremely bad and wastes one of the best casts they ever had due to a combination of a) jjās claustrophobic direction and b) Tom Cruise basically being in his villain era and trying not to play a villain (not surprising that the only good performances he had around then were magnolia, eyes wide shut, and collateral).
Iād put 2 above it even though I donāt particularly love 2, the franchise was on life support until ghost protocol when it was saved by a combination of a) Brad Birdās much much bigger more playful setpieces and b) Tom Cruise finally getting divorced again and turning 50 and the old man striving becoming the point. it took a long time for him to be a good leading man again!
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