Surprised there’s no love among my friends for the 90s Brady Bunch Movie… I think it’s really funny.
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It absolutely blows my mind how the Planet of the Apes reboot movies are fucking fantastic when they should be the worst conceivable dreck. I think I’m gonna watch the second one for the fourth time.
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I watched that Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Let me tell you, they played the songs you know. They had fights. They had the closest thing Marvel movies have to earnest emotion.
I think you could have taken 15 minutes off the run time removing “slow camera and action before the character does the emotional thing.”
It does spin it’s wheels to arrive at almost the same place it started at.
Adam Warlock is used worse than he was in the video game. Like some vestigal plotthread from two scripts ago but we gotta have him in there.
On top of “slow before emotional thing” there was at least 6 “oh character might die but then does not.” Spoilers!
All that said it was pretty and I like seeing them yell at each other even if that also kind of lost the thread. Maybe the most “almost fun” I’ve had at the cinema.
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drank some THC juice and watched Hugo the Hippo, an excellent mix of 70s Euro (Hungarian) animation, Burl Ives, Paul Lynde, meandering Osmond songs, moog squiggles and stock Saturday morning cartoon SFX
unfortunately available only as a Warner Bros. Archive DVD pan and scan in the US, really need that Hugo side-eye restored and remastered
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Incredible
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I want to be a cop now
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Bend it Like Beckham is very good.
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IT stuff because I’ve been putting the movies and miniseries on as background noise because they’re like, 3 hours.
- Why are the Dudes so handsy with Adult Beverly? There’s literally a shot where Mike slides in to put his arm around Beverly. You’ll have shots where they’re all just chilling and somebody will be giving her a shoulder rub, or will have their arm around her. Like, you guys may have been best bros 30 years ago, but you motherfuckers forgot each other existed until like, 2 hours ago, so you’re all being real weird.
- What’s with the lit bombs just chilling in the rain when Georgie is running after his boat? I don’t know enough about 1950s construction to know if things that look like bombs were used to light construction zones or something.
- The Miniseries does a better job of making me believe these kids are all in the same age range, though, Beverly looks more like The Lost Rascal and less like somebody with a Bad Reputation. In the movies, Ben looks like he’s like, 11 trying to hook up with a 16 year old Beverly.
- Eddie is probably my favorite in both versions. Whoever plays Adult Eddie in the Movies would be a good Psycho 2 Norman Bates or like, Vocalist from Jane’s Addiction.
- [Movies] The goofy monsters running at the character/camera doesn’t do much for me, but it especially doesn’t do much for me when you keep doing it over and over again and your monsters are CG goofballs.
- [Movies] If the point of taking on the form a clown is to lure people in, then why does Bill Skarsguard already look like an Ominous Evil Clown? And, if it’s fear that makes people taste better, then why does It even bother to try to make people feel at ease to begin with?
- Wait, is this scene why Ben has the New Kids on the Block obsession in the Movies?
- There seems to be a bit more focus given to Adult Ben in the Miniseries whereas Adult Ben gets considerably less focus in the Movies. I don’t even recognize who the fuck he’s played by in the movies, so clearly he’s not as important as Professor X or the guy from Superbad. I assume it’s because they got John Ritter, though, they could’ve just cast him as Adult Bill, but maybe he didn’t want to do the stutter.
- [Miniseries] Can’t believe they waste Cory Haim’s dad from License to Drive on a character that barely gets any screen time. He’s a considerably better actor than the rest of the Adult Losers, so go figure.
- This is the most iconic scene/line in the Miniseries for me. Maybe it’s because I’m an asthmatic.
- Wait, so… It is JENOVA.
Other good scenes:
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my only celebrity connection in this world is that my sister dated the actor who played young eddie in the miniseries for like 3 or 4 years
he’s a dj and a sommelier now
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watches Joseph Kosinsky’s newest short flic today:
… errrrrrrrr 
Well, guess i rewatch the ASMR carwash vid now
Are they still friends?
Can we crash a DJ Pants party?
rewatched black coal thin ice which i havent seen in a few years. liao fan is great at playing a dirtball cop on the level of harry from disco elysium… (and also like disco elysium maybe the tiniest bit) there’s that question of like, does this character have a problem with women or does this writer have a problem with women, also to what extent is this productively “about” misogyny and to what extent is this just kind of misogynist
let’s all love neo-noir…
i am like pretty fond of it tho like i think the director yinan diao is part of sort of a generation of directors who have a bit of an internet-driven slightly extra-canonical and like… very international movie nerd vibe. i got that same vibe from like… bacurau and tár too. as far as stuff ive watched recently i mean. like sort of referencing or touching on directors like claire denis and takeshi kitano with austere digital cinematography that is both like… disarming and revealing at once
there’s a bit of a vibe of tightly controlled perfectionism (he’s directed 4 films in 20 years for whatever thats worth) and like there are some really fantastic shots i could imagine took literal dozens of takes to get down… also lots of really dreamy vibes injected into what is otherwise a pretty mid mystery (ig i dont really watch mysteries for the mystery tho) also very very beautifully shot. still havent seen the directors more recent movie the wild goose lake
also has the vibe of taking place in like, china’s chicago kind of which i appreciated
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I watched wild goose lake the other week and I def think the director is critical of misogyny at least in that film
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rewatching Decision to Leave (OV w/ subs) confirms what i thought, namely that i love this movie. 2nd time round i could appreciate properly the pacing, DoP’s expertise, use of language & mise-en-scene in general. Gets a well deserved 
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yeah i watched decision to leave ln and i was quite pleasantly surprised. like, park chan-wook is one of the first directors who comes to mind when i think of directors who are like… just a little too preoccupied by ugly violence of various kinds against women. so it was nice to see he made a movie where he’s calmed down a little bit on that front. maybe the only two of his movies i actually think i enjoy are this and the handmaiden.
it felt like a 2 hour playground of trick setups and cool match cuts which are the kinds of things he’s great at!! also embraces a lot of very contemporary tricks… there are gimbal shots, that interrogation sequence using digital rack focuses…
i loved that it went right for pure movie melodrama at the end. like it felt like a very impersonal movie and i loved it for that. also felt like maybe the first movie of a much more mature phase of his career!
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Saw Last Starfighter for the first time in a long time. The “good spaceguys” were getting uncomfortably facisy whenever they would address the bad spaceguys and didn’t hold back thier disappointment when earth guy didn’t share thier dream of glorious genocide.
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I watched soooo many movies recently thanks to finally getting on a private tracker with rare or weird old shit I wanted to see on it… too many things to recount here…
But one I thought was really interesting was a Cuban action movie from 1985, Jibaro, which is set during the early years of the revolution. Almost all the character conflicts in the story are historical/didactic revolutionary conflicts (landowner vs renter farmer, capitalist vs communist, etc) except for the conflict between the two main characters
The main characters do not really disagree about the revolution. In fact they are both remarkably politically passive despite one of them being a revolutionary official by the end of the movie. The conflict between them, the thing that prevents the protagonist from full embracing the revolution for most of the runtime… is that both of them are trying to cheat on their wives with the same early-20s hot girl. This this competition between them for the attentions of a woman (who it seems does not like either of them) leads them to blows and ruins their friendship for like, the entire movie. It is the core conflict in the movie. Also they are both like 50
So all the background characters are like “we need to establish the agrarian reform! we need to break the grip of the landowners! we need to fight the counterrevolutionaries!” and the two main characters are saying like “I cannot fucking BELIEVE you are also flirting with this girl that neither of us are married to” And their conflict is only resolved by the girl leaving town to go study in Havana.
I would not call the movie “good” but I am so glad I saw it, haha. I also got a bunch of Soviet cartoons and shit so I am really excited to watch a bunch more stuff that is absolutely not for sale in the United States
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