I can’t wait
I did forget about star trek actually, it is pretty good I guess. I know this will be funny to a lot of people here but idk if I think The Force Awakens is that great a movie. It’s like… Maybe in the bottom third of my rankings for Star Wars at this point. Might change if I ever go through them all again though I still haven’t been able to get through the last one a second time
MI2 was truly the template for the post-3 movies even if it was, generously put, a mess: it was the first movie to do the ‘he’s wearing a mask under his mask!’ gag, it was the first one to showcase cruise’s propensity for self destructive on-location stunts (He didn’t do the entire freeclimb but he actually was climbing those cliffs in a lot of those shots) and it was the one that had jokes and leaned into being campy.
I bet the script was real boring, but when woo approached how to film it, he had the special kind of genius to have the meet cute phone convo between thandiwe newton and tom cruise take place during a high octane car chase instead of like a 4-stars-on-yelp restaurant like every other scene in 3 was.
it will surprise no one to hear i’m fond of m:i2 as one of the resident john woo fangirls of the forum, obviously not his best work but the motorcycle jousting stuff goes incredibly hard and it’s all sick as fuck in-camera stuntwork and special effects work.
I remember seeing Dead Heat on television more than once as a kid, and being surprised that something so violent was on regular network TV in the middle of the day. I’m not sure how violent it actually is because I haven’t seen it since that time, but I’ve been meaning to watch it again at some point.
i wouldnt call it particularly violent i dont think in comparison to other things within the loose sphere of “cop film” but certainlt its got people getting riddled with bullets and also melting into goo or decomposing so i can see especially a kid getting that impression!
its definitely worth revisiting, the folks doing costuming and special effects cared like way too much about this movies visuals and the progression of the main character aesthetically throughout the film. i think its quite the gem
but also my friend n i mostly watch exploitation films and trashy anime ovas and dvd action flicks so my perspective on what is acceptable is extremely warped so who knows
I put on Pin yesterday and was expecting a killer dummy movie based on the trailer, but it wound up being a lot weirder than that. Definitely more of a psychological horror than like, a killer doll movie. Also, it has Step-Father himself Terry O’Quinn.
Just to add to the dead heat discussion, VS did a 4k release of last year and it is a great transfer. Saw it for the first time on 4k and it looked great.
Pin is incredible
they waste him so bad in in that movie i havent watched a mission impossible since
you could spend your time watching that movie where he gets addicted to huffing gasoline fumes or before the devil knows you’re dead which is a real Don’t Let Rockstar Games Watch This One™ joint instead
we watched bright future which i hadnt seen since high school. i love that fucking movie. i love the end. i love the shots of crappy shitty tokyo and dudes doing stuff that sucks for no good reason. the ending is kind of dumb but who cares. let’s have a goal (to release freshwater acclimated poisonous jellyfish into the waterways of a metropolis) and give it our all
MI7 was a bit of a mess.
it was weirdly campy like they were trying to recall the original TV show at the same time as the de palma movie (which was never that great to begin with, and the two are not very compatible), and without spoiling anything, the script makes it seem like Ethan has a world historical serial monogamy problem. the pom klementieff character was a bizarre choice in every scene she was in. like “how do we make xenia onatopp more problematically exotic 30 years later.” essentially all the women were far more poorly handled than in the last few movies, and it’s fallen victim to the F&F thing of constantly restating its own premises, grasping at meaning. the plotting was constantly oscillating between “enjoyably silly” and “overbearingly serious.”
it’s got some good set-pieces for sure but overall I would put it easily below the last 3, essentially in between the great ones and the not great ones
the ending is beautiful, that movie is beautiful, I love the office break-in scene
Watching the recent HBO doc about Rock Hudson, finding it pretty decent. It has this fun loving story-teller vibe where lots of his close gay friends talk about the way they knew him. Documentary film is at a real, real low point in general, so I was skeptical about checking this out despite being interested in the subject. But it’s a good presentation and story.
I do not feel like I wasted my time and could have just read a wiki page like most direct-to-steaming documentary makes me feel.
yeah, this wasn’t very good.
there’s an early scene with all the heads of the us security orgs doing an exposition dump that cuts so rapidly mid sentence that it feels like a metal gear plot performed by a greek chorus. that was a highlight.
the way it tries to critique - or at least acknowledge - the women in his life is so bad when it literally makes them all interchangeable seconds later. likewise, any talk about the importance of friendship and the team is instantly undercut by him actually only treating the mission as important. there is definitely something that could be done there, but the writing all stops a stage too early in order to go back over the same, boring already outdated plot.
most of the last act is just a good set piece, but rome stuff is dreadful. two interminable rome chase scenes this year between fast x and this.
The first thing I do now whenever I see an interesting trailer for a documentary is just read the wikipedia about the subject. I imagine this is a real problem for documentary filmmakers these days. But they won’t stop marketing them as mysteries, even when the answer is “no one really knows who did this or why it happened but it sure is weird, right?” It reminds me of those old live TV shows where they would film guys going into the pyramids and stuff. The ads always made it seem like they might find aliens or living mummies or something but then it’s always just a dark tunnel full of dirt
all documentaries (im sure there are a couple exceptions that prove the rule but i cant think of them right now) that hinge on whodunnit mystery are fucking crap they make me so mad. youre not presenting information youre withholding it!!! argh!
guzoo: the thing forsaken by god (part 1) - has a really admirable commitment to making the big rubber bag monster chase people by being hurled out of doorways at them which happens more than you’d expect and is delightful each time. equally admirable commitment to not explaining anything that happens. at the end one of the girls soothes guzoo with some kind of flute song and then after they escape they find an upside down turtle and pick it up and decide to adopt it and that’s the end of the movie. i’m not sure if that was meant to be guzoo in disguise but i prefer to think it was just an unrelated turtle everything happened to work out for.
