Abel ferrara is so fucking awesome. Obviously the big ones are all good but gogo tales, r xmas, the blackout, dangerous game. All-timers.
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the blackout kicks so much ass until the really embarrassing credits sequence lol
also i love new rose hotel, r xmas and mary as well
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I almost mentioned mary too.
New rose hotel, the addiction, king of new york, body snatchers all incredible of course.
China girl is way better than it has any reason to be. Tomasso and 4:44 also good. There are so many!
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watched rx mas for christmas season 2024 and that was great… i recommend it to anyone looking for a christmas eve movie this year…
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shoutout to abel/asia which is not good by any definition but abel ferrara tries and fails to explain fucking aspect ratios to asia argento on a fucking napkin for like 10 minutes while she doesnt give a shit at all because they’re super high on coke the entire time but the funniest thing is that asked about this later ferrara simply said “It’s terrible, it’s horrible. It’s a good idea, but she fucked it up, naturally.”
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Predator is definitely worth watching but it’s the kind of thing where very little about it is surprising in the wake of all the stuff it influenced.
Predator 2 on the other hand is an unsung masterpiece and one of the weirdest high profile sequels to ever get made. The franchise has not done anything as funny as that ever since
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apparently the new Ari Aster that just played at Cannes is a very good Covid movie but I’ll believe it when I see it
Predator 2 is one of the sweatiest movies of all time and has enormous resident evil 3 energy
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seconding the body snatchers recs by sharing nicole brenez’s invaluable perspective on the movie (her book on ferrara is generally some of the best film criticism I’ve ever read)
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I want to not agree with that reading but all I remember from the movie is Forest Whitaker’s crazed performance
Setting it in an American military base was so genius. It’s exactly the kind of culture where the ONION HEADS, as Forest Whitaker would say, could thrive without notice.
Tom Cruise repeatedly kicks a man in the head while telling him he’s been spending too much time on the internet. 5 Stars.
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i picked the outside option, getting too high and falling asleep
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His Mandarin is so pleasant to hear. I forgot to mention that I saw Caught by the Tides. It means so much more to me than his previous decade of work. Recontextualizing old scenes and footage and placing them in a sequence that spans decades and regions, the film hit on what I consider the true meaning of nostalgia.
The scene that opens the film shows a group of women taking turns, singing songs from memory. One by one, they sing a few lines and end abruptly saying “that’s all I remember.” The rest of the movie embodies that scene so fully, it’s painful to consider.
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All Dogs Go To Heaven. Not as fucked up as it was sold to me.
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Volcano (1997). I went with my roommate to Classified Cinema - which shows a secret movie once a month. Before the movie there was a science presentation by a Pacific Science Center employee that was themed around geology, I though the movie might be The Core.
Anyway this movie is way funnier than I thought it would be. Big cheers and claps as a dog jumped out of an exploding house. at least one guy melts on screen. This movie is about…fantasy public infrastructure saving the day. Was not expecting the volcano to solve racism by making everyone covered in ash so the little boy at the end would say “everyone looks the same!”. Lava VFX are still pretty good and convincing. Kinda nostalgic for when disaster movies were about natural disasters and not…whatever the fuck we got now.
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what did you think of the songs
never wrote up our viewing since I looked at some details and got too affected by Judith Barsi
arguably ADGtH is the most successful Bluth movie because someone actually drowns in the required Don Bluth Underwater Scene
racist Norelans gator goes hard though
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having a hell of a time trying to keep The Rescuers ending separate from the middle of All Dogs Go to Heaven
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well this is easy, The Rescuers doesn’t have Burt Reynolds singing