I watched 3 movies while trying to give my wrist a break. One of them was a warmovis on youtube marked as 1968 but was actually a 2008 Uwe Boll Vietnam movie. It has half an hour of getting To Know The Squad over and over and over again and then they all die in horrible ways. No one dies gracefully in this. Has Cody of Streets of Fire playing a racist CO.
I watched a Kung Fu movie I will not name but my patience for this kind of movie is so absolutely paper thin I’ll stop there.
Final movie was Stone a 1974 Ozploitation Biker movie. It has denim and Gotlieb Pinball Tables and Austalian accents and a WW2 Bunker and Australian Harrison Ford (who cannot act and I think is the writer/director). Good movie.
I wish I liked movies as much as I liked video games but that’s how my brain is.
By far his best looking movie, pitch-black comedy about dirtbags in the woods. Incredibly funny scene set to godsmack’s voodoo on a skipping discman. Third act full of private guilt that sits somewhere between kafka and beckett.
Joshua Burge might be one of the most amazing actors around today
i’m convinced that george lucas and david lynch are the two biggest transatlantic accent fans of the post-paramount decree era… dune is also in the genre of “transatlantic accent sci-fi”
Watched Lone Star (1996) which after Friends of Eddie Coyle and that one french movie continues my very slow crime drama watching. It has the most accurate depiction of Texas I’ve ever seen. If I get home sick I could just watch Lone Star. It manages to cover a long swath of the Texas experience including Boomer Men trying to make sense of their nuts Dads.
I wish I had gone to Mexico, at least once.
As a Texas Ex-pat I will never truly leave the state. I also was a little bit shocked it accurately talks about Texas History.
It gets a bit Academy Award Winner Crash at times but still ends in that uncomfortable place an indie movie should. I’ll have to see other stuff from the director.
i watched that that new animated predator movie, it was kinda fun, the human parts were dreadful, no rewards for guessing whether or not it turns out to be about found family (which i believe is what streaming service writers turn in a script about when you strike their knee with a rubber mallet). BUT it had some fun themed predators that seemed like they were reverse engineered from a toy line (positive) and sort of got at the appeal of the predator monster to me, which is that of something so bedecked in weird gimmick weapons that seeing someone get close to one should feel like watching them put their hand into a blender. and then most of the movie was just dialogue-free havoc in the tradition of stick figure fight animations, the killer bean web shorts etc, which i basically support.
the non-ambiguous “good” alternate ending of terminator 2 is technically worse filmmaking but the more bad terminator movies they make the more it feels like yeah sure that was it
yeah, I finally caught it a week ago too. I’m not a huge Alex Ross Perry fan (which I was complaining about to my neighbor before seeing it, whereupon he told me that they’re friends and occasional collaborators, oops), but I thought it did a good job of very gently interrogating their sincerity, and two hours in a theater listening to pavement songs with a crowd is always a good time.
i thought pavements was fine, but i actually prefer the music video ARP did for harness your hopes as a tighter little piece about how their legacy is processed 20 years later.
I don’t ordinarily write off an odd seeming or even contradicted tone in a movie, but I really couldn’t get any sort of a grip on Friendship. Paul Rudd and Tom Robinson felt, funnily enough, like they were performing two different comedy movies in the same scene. And at times it seemed like the movie was hoping to get you to feel sympathy for everyone and then also to think everyone was an asshole, not in a nuanced human way, but just some scenes would require people to be one way when they had just been convincingly made out to appear the other. It was confusing! But I guess part of the story is how some men out there really desperately need “Rules” to protect themselves from exposing too much about themselves and being seen and judged for who they really are.
It was a decently sad movie in an indirect way. I bet this was a movie that seeing it with an audience would have really frustrated me. Not a great film. Maybe kind of misguided, but I honestly can’t tell. I did enjoy it though.
I liked it a lot, found it of a piece with the recent seasons of the Rehearsal too, it’s all like millennial spectrum comedy… I think it’s very key to Tim R’s whole thing that he both a) grew up in a part of the country that still has affordable home ownership and middle class career trappings, and b) puts his characters in all these pathologically normative environments that aren’t even that generationally widespread, because his schtick is all about having like, catastrophically failed to learn the right social signifiers or how to behave normally. at its best it’s a good mix of like Jim Carrey Cable Guy shit and overloaded gag-heavy ZAZ comedy. most of the reviews I read were like “it’s really hard to tell what the appropriate degree of surrealism would be for a full length movie version of this, and it’s not clear they got it right” which is totally fair, but I enjoyed the result. having the main plot arc be losing your wife in the sewer system while trying to recapture a sense of whimsy is actually one of the funniest things I can think of and they largely delivered on that premise.
and granted I am saying all this as someone whose best and proudest creative effort is about someone having a breakdown while lost in the sewers so I am kind of a mark
Last night I watched 2 episodes of Lonesome Dove after my friend wouldn’t stop talking about it. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones are old cowboys. Some of the lines in the miniseries are pretty good.
