also what about Edge of Tomorrow just for seeing tom cruise start out as a goofball coward before morphing into the ultimate know and do it all tom cruise character through endless repetition, and Oblivion for the scenario of an apocalypse brought on by an army of tom cruise clones
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Watched X. Any time I watch a horror movie at home I gauge its effectiveness by how often I get uncomfortable and gotta pause it, so with this one - eh, a couple of times.
Not a ton to say of it other than Iām impressed to see a movie set in the late 70s that actually looks the part. Not just the set design, but the chunky film grain on the movie itself. Adds a lot to it, in its own way.
i still think sometimes about the jarring experience while watching The Love Witch of this beautiful grainy 35mm print that for one brief moment shows contemporary 2000s cars
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Worst person in the world finally opening this week, woohoooo \ā/
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watched morbius on the twitch 24 hour stream and it was the least gay vampire movie i have ever seen. completely sexless in a way that only marvel with disney involvemnet has been. When the villain gets powers the guy who had been his caretaker tries to reason and the bad vamp says āIām so much stronger now daddyā before slapping him and it was still somehow not gay at all. absolute garbage
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DĆvka na koÅ”tÄti (AKA The Girl on the Broomstick)
Nothing really jumped out about it, but the whole thing was enjoyable.
Iād watch more VĆ”clav VorlĆÄek films if they crossed my path.
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Have you seen Days of Thunder? It has similar energy but without being about the military.
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cronenberg day for me later, getting hype
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Tom Cruise excels in the Strangereal universe
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Best thing about WW84?
Well, that is the Peugeot 504
ā¦ and thatās it, kinda baffled how they dropped the ball on this, when they just had to milk nostalgiaā¦
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Playtime is great, should have watched it sooner, feels like a whole movie based on the visual style of like those real estate development billboards where they show lots of little photoshopped people striding purposefully to nowhere in particular through functionally unintelligible though gleaming buildings. Except every frame is like that and itās all in motion so itās disorienting back and forth of visual levels where even the people inside the film seem constantly startled and distracted by the shifts in screen emphasis caused by multiple people walking in different directions at one. Lots of high-effort but very dumb visual gags going on as well which are the best kind. Thereās like a nominal parody of āthe modernā going on but it feels swamped beneath a delight in the bag of tricks opened by a pop modernist aesthetic of plate glass, mannequins, cement trucks, neon signs etc. OK, the part where the cars on the roundabout form a tricolour while exuberant accordion music plays was maybe a little much.
i was going to make a joke about how the featureless artificial city they made to film this one was later homaged by steven spielberg for the time he built an artificial airport for āthe terminalāā¦ but it turned out to be true!! that was the stated influence! idk. itās kind of funny to compare them because i think something that helps drive the pleasure of visual surfaces in this movie is the fact that there are no ads anywhere, like there are brand names occasionally but theyāre just unillustrated text for the most part. unrepresentable dark matter of public space.
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thatās the fuckin stuff baby fuck yes
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so excited
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We have spent the last week very slowly watching RRR and it really is as good as everyone says. SS Rajamouli is the only living director who actually knows how to make an action movie. All others are pretenders to the throne. Unhinged energy and some truly inspirational bro moments. Very glad I saw it
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God itās such a fun movie. Feels dangerous to even watch a clip of it when it pops up on Twitter, or else I feel like Iām gonna hunker down for three hours and watch it all again.
Watched Darkman for the first time. Damn that was a cool, goofy movie. Iād seen the gif of Liam Neeson snapping for years, but the context (getting mad at a crooked carny) was pretty funny given just how hard he loses it.
Itās also surprisingly believable? I mean, itās not, in a ton of ways, but the fight scenes make sense - guy was, as he maintains, a scientist whose pain receptors are cut off. He canāt really fight for shit.
Googled it afterward and saw the trailers for the sequels (donāt think Iāll be watching those!) and saw thereās talk as of this year of getting the crew back together for a proper sequel. If they can get Raimi on board again, hell yeah, Iād watch that.
I donāt think Iāve gotten as good of an absurd chuckle as when the gangsters attack his lab, but that one guy is inexplicably using the other guyās gun leg as his weapon, so the camera cuts to that guy gleefully smiling, hopping on one foot. Incredible stuff.
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lost my mind with the delayed title card drop in RRR. should have seen this in theaters
also sorry to tom cruise āthe last true movie starā but the physical prowess and charisma displayed by the main actors and filmmaking in RRR obliterates the highs of his career
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Droppinā this in the thread because as far as Iām concerned itās one of the best āfightā scenes in a movie Iāve seen in a while.
Smoked that English dude and his flamenco dancing.
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The final fight scene where the two bros combine into one voltron bro and do 360 no scope kills with perfect coordination and then cop bro transforms into a valiant warrior is absolutely the most hype I have ever been for a fight scene of any kind in a movie ever. It is cinema
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Correct. Itās missing some key context, and also everyone should just, yāknow. Watch the movie.
Edit: ah whoops ya deleted your post, but yeah, everyone should watch the movie before watching the clip I posted (consider it there for posterity when you revisit it, because itās really goddamn good and youāll wanna see it again)
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