I totally missed the Bruce Campbell cameo (he’s the surgeon) and the Pete Fonda cameo (He’s the surfer dude) the rip on Archive dot org is from a VHS, so quality is…muddy
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Watched 28 years later with @gimelrey . It was sort of like Death Stranding if Kojima were a competent writer. I cried once. The soundtrack was top notch.
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The ending where Jimmy Savile cosplaying Droogs show up doing parkour is one of the funniest and most unexpected things I’ve seen in a movie. Is it a stretch to say this was a payoff for the Power Rangers action figure the kid leaves behind at the beginning when he resolves to become a man and put away childish things?
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All I heard was that it has a notable number of penises in it, which shot it right to the top of my list
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If one of those guys isn’t wearing a prosthetic and that’s au naturel he’s a very lucky man. Don’t ask which one; You’ll know him when you see him.
watching Escape from LA again. damn these opening credits are perfection.
STACEY KEACH
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And the tony hawk cameo (he is pete fonda’s stunt double once they start surfing)
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It always had a little undercurrent of Kurt Russell’s input as a hardcore libertarian but it’s still pretty rad.
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The speech at the end has one bit that rings false but I can ignore the weird idea of a christian fascist also being against “red meat” because the rest of it rocks
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Sinners: I guess I’m going against the grain here but I just do not find the idea of attaching a melodramatic, libby dissertation about the role of black culture in American history to the plot of fuckin From Dusk Til Dawn to be an illuminating or interesting one and the whole thing does not cohere. What should have been an explosion of taut action when the vampires finally burst in was a wet fart of time dilation nonsense. Production values attached to genre without the fire of passion or glint of clever intellect for manipulating genre: an apotheosis of middlebrow. It literally would have been better to just cut the vampires entirely and have the Klan be the villains and steal Assault on Precinct 13 instead.
It had to be either more exploitation or less stupid, that’s my diagnosis.
The kid they found to play the blues was fuckin fire, though.
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probably the most important part of Sinners for me.
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the actual vampire fighting action in sinners wasnt very good at all…
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looking forward to all 200 gorgeous screenshots you take from patlabor 2
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patlabor is the best
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Patlabor 2 is one of the first anime films I ever saw but I was so young that nothing of it lingered in my mind except those indelible images of tanks rolling through city streets, soldiers patrolling every block while wearing bored expressions. Permanently imprinted on me, and I couldn’t even speak english back then so I didn’t know what the actual plot was until I rewatched all of patlabor as an adult
I really love that Patlabor, taken as a whole, seems to encompass every possible genre and mood
No matter who you are, there is a patlabor that will speak to you directly
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need to watch the oshii mamoru-directed patlabor live-action sequel series so bad…
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completely agree. have felt kind of nuts hearing so much unanimous praise for it. i thought it felt hardly any more substantial to me than Black Panther, which has left me wondering what exactly so many people’s problems with Marvel movies actually are. Because bad scripts and trite messaging didn’t seem to bother anyone this time.
Spending exorbitant sums of money and labor to produce what is basically an elevated EC Comics story is so disturbing to me. You can say it’s cool that a filmmaker made something that wasn’t an established franchise film, and that its owned by the creators, or that its cast or crew were largely Black, but I just find it bleak and enervating that the bar for celebration is this low and couched so much in commercial thinking. I watched Sinners and it just reminds me of things like people scraping plates of food into the trash, landfills stuffed with popcorn buckets and SHEIN shit. Depressing. Nothing about this movie justified any of its expense.
What I mean is that a protégé’ of Roger Corman could have made a movie like this on a fraction of its cost! And something about that would feel right. Wally Wood didn’t need all 90million to get his stories out, even accounting for inflation! To me it’s not just an economic excess, it just feels so against the spirit of pulp genre to me that I can’t help but feel like something sacred is being disrespected. The scale of Sinners is like they turned those Penitentiary movies into a Hollywood musical from the 1930s and 1940s.
Of course there are good things about it. But I’m hating here right now.
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also the big vampire fight at the end had embarrassing call of duty zombies energy