I also thought the Musk parallel was completely obvious, but later read an interview where Bong Joon Ho said that when the movie was made (2020-2021) , his inspiration was Ceaucescu and other older dictators
Musk’s just too much Ceaucescu-like
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come to think of it, Ceaușescu was also obsessed with ethnonationalist breeding projects, as well as slashing essential services and impoverishing the population out of a misguided fixation on removing national debt
(not to mention his infatuation with his fascist antecedents, another parallel with musk)
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watched rivette’s out 1 in the theater over the course of two days this weekend. i’m finally a real cinephile!
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Damn, in just two days?
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yep! 15-30 minute intermissions between episodes but otherwise cruised through it
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it’s funny how little i remember of that now, so many years later… yet i am left with the feeling that it is Good…
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yeah, I didn’t really like Mickey 17… this is common to basically his entire filmography except Parasite so it’s on me for expecting otherwise, but I found the shaggy dog aspects hard to enjoy on account of it being alternately funny and a bummer in like, opposite ways to what I’d have preferred. my wife loved it though.
the performances are fairly weird and good but the tone just didn’t work for me, it was constantly on the verge of slapstick but refused to go there
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i watched the Errol Morris adaptation of CHAOS by Tom O’Neill. if you haven’t read CHAOS, well…it’s sort of too much to try to explain without sounding crazy, and the miracle of the book is that, once you’ve read it, it does all kind of come together, even if you’re left with no real answers.
anyway, this film adaptation is truly godawful. it does nothing to capture what made the book compelling, and if anything, it often feels like Morris has outright contempt or just hostility towards O’Neill and his whole premise.
it feels like what could have been a pack-in CD with the book, if the book came out in the late 90s or something. i can’t see anyone watching this and thinking that the book is worth reading.
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I watched every Nicolas Winding Refn movie.
Drive is my favorite.
Pusher and Only God Forgives are also up there.
All his movies are good.
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I didn’t like Shrek 24 years ago and I like it even less after watching it again today. I don’t get it.
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takeshi kitano’s Getting Any is about an incel dweeb obsessed with having car sex. at the end of the movie he gets turned into a giant fly, and the earth defense force collects a bunch of shit to make a trap for him. he lands on the big shit pile and a giant swatter comes down and repeatedly smashes him into it. his last words are “car sex” and then he dies and everyone cheers. truly the movie of our time. this was his follow up to sonatine.
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haven’t seen haywire in a while maybe i should give it a rewatch before i see this…
“I’d actually love to see a version with 20 minutes more fat on it.” Lem Dobbs straight up says this to Soderbergh in the DVD commentary for The Limey, that all of his movies would benefit from being 10 minutes longer
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It actually made me want to read the book, but mostly because how much it doesn’t seem to talk about what is in the book.
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well that’s a plus!
reminded me that one of the things i love in the film is that they interview one of the prosecutors, and they let O’Neill say something about how the Helter Skelter story doesn’t really check out, but then they do absolutely zero work to show why O’Neill thinks this. in the book, there are so many pages dedicated to showing how Bugliosi’s story doesn’t match with the documented facts of the case (many of which were not permitted to be talked about at trial).
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add me to the list of people who think it’s weird to make a movie about that book without actually delving into any of the super weird shit the book talks about!!
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Kissing Jessica Stein
a kind of fun bi-curious romance movie with a sad-ish ending
It’s pretty much impossible to talk about this movie without spoilers.
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Anora
What if Cinderella was a sad story?
Not sure this deserved to win all the awards, but it is good.
Ong-Bak
Tony Jaa’s fights and stunts are excellent.
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Saw Mickey 17. It was just okay.