IT’S PAYNE!
Such a weird decision to make a movie out of a game entirely built out of action movie quotations and then barely put any action in your movie, and what little there is have absolutely no relation to all the action movies that inspired the game. Just one of the weirdest movies ever made
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A few days later and the most wild thing in this movie is they licensed the beatles to let you know it was 1969.
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I laughed so hard when he puts the shotgun over his head in slow motion and ejects a perfectly good shell directly into his own face
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Having just watched The Wind Rises, I’m having trouble reconciling Miyazaki’s pacifism with his glorification of Horikoshi
The war seems pretty far away from his thoughts. He’s a very nice man; he helps a woman get her umbrella back. He’d rather make planes for other reasons than war, but he just has to make planes because he’s so good at it. So he builds death machines. The movie is less interested in his duality than in the deification of his craft. Hard work and talent are more important than ethics and being true to oneself
This wouldn’t have surprised me if it came from just about any other Japanese artist but not from a pacifist
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I read it as him being bound up in his dreams and craft to the point of inattentional delusion. That scene where they try to get him in the back of the car was so jarring because nothing of consequence happens with regards to his station or role as a war engineer. In fact being a war engineer is a great way to find true love or something.
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i feel like hayao miyazaki’s films themselves contain entirely incoherent politics to a notable extent for a filmmaker who is often spoken of as being political. the wind rises is one of the most “what did he mean by this???” movies ive ever seen that seemed to be trying to make a point
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It’s a metaphor for the way he feels about anime
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I think the contradiction is basically table stakes the way it is in Mononoke, he admires large scale human ingenuity and engineering at the same time as it is probably bad on the whole
Isn’t the lead character in the wind rises based on his father? Nothing says “No one else will appreciate how inherently contradictory this is” like “based on his father.”
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anyway I love when people really commit to contradicting themselves, it’s a lot more interesting than when they meekly try to have something both ways or pick a winner, and he’s great at it
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speaking of fetishizing the mitsubishi zero i haven’t seen anyone express that oppenheimer runs a risk of hagiography, like, nolan’s politics have to run aground this time, right?
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speaking as someone who actually teared up on seeing the intact Zero at pearl harbor and who was just in New Mexico in anticipation of seeing Oppenheimer… I’m sure it’s fine
critics and actors are very hyped for this movie
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i mean i picked up sadako and the thousand paper cranes in second grade and bawled then started advocating flag burning so we’re coming from different places i think
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I feel like all I’ve seen about Oppenheimer online is people preemptively scolding the people who will like it
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I feel like the nolan backlash people have outnumbered and been out embarrassing the nolan fantatics for a long time now. yelling at a group of people that doesn’t substantially exist anymore. feel like all you heard about tenet was people neil degrasse tysoning it, etc. who gives a shit.
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nolan definitely starting to build up a “i can’t believe wes anderson made another wes anderson movie”-style contingent
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I mean this actually works, it is a movie laden with ambivalence about engineering beautiful works of art that only have a truly terrible purpose and the impossibility of reconciling the need to create beauty with the reality of how those beautiful things are used
I think only a pacifist could have made the wind rises.
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oh no i loved tenet and tdkr before that. i just don’t love the bomb
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I get that, part 8 of twin peaks s3 is probably the only atomic bomb movie anyone needed
“Auschwitz and Hiroshima, the sister events that sealed forever the fate of the West.”
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