I think its unfair to compare this schlock to real classic works of art like EC Comics stories
Wallace Wood worked himself to the bone making those comics and he probably should have gotten 90 million dollars given how many hours he poured into each panel
youâre damn right
Making the whole thing into a supernatural bluesman origin story really saves the whole thing imo and I wish that angle of it had been played up just a little bit more but not too much. Like just a small amount more fairytale/tall tale feeling and even more music than it already had
Megalopolis finally came to Japanese Theaters and I got to see it in iMax and it owned.
When it was over I looked at my wife and said âwell I guess thatâs what you get when you get the guy that made Black Pantherâ and she was like âyupâ and we both shrugged and went about our evening.
I owe you a second letterboxd review from the second screening I saw (with Coppola in attendance). Iâm like a year behind on logging stuff, and I want to be caught up by vhs fest next month.
In the meantime hereâs this
saw Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye in theaters. not really a movie so much as the first 3-4 episodes of the upcoming second season, but it was fine. i actually read ahead in the manga up through this point and they did a good job with the adaptation
written by ito kazunori of patlabor, ghost in the shell, and gamera fameâŚ
i watched the first of the heisei gamera trilogy movies recently and it was amazing⌠from what ive seen online ppl seem to like 2 and 3 even more, cant wait to see them⌠amazing models and miniatures and special effects
heisei gamera trilogy is amazing
the third one is kind of off but it does involve someone doing research with a dreamcast
2 is great
peace is an illusion. a god tier work. nice that the ultima ratio blimps use the ultima rpg font also lol.
Family movie was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. art was fun, the asymmetric designs looked interesting and the action scenes were very good. more heists and car chases in childrens films please
but the colours and lightingâŚ
I thought the lighting sucked, which is a problem when 90% of the movie happens underground or at night until the turtles are very literally and not at all figuratively brought into the light & accepted by New York
pacing was terrible, I could hear the act structure shift and clunk from first to second. dialogue was atrocious, too much referring to media teenagers might consume. made me appreciate Sonicâs media references, as he Risky Businesses around the house: itâs funny to watch, and thereâs a nod to another work, cheesy. here the turtles just âwoah this is totally avengers endgame right now!!â, supremely unhip. the music tracks are classic dad hiphop
old movie was Superman (1978)
the length of two movies, we watched it in two parts, stopping after the helicopter rescue & the other do-gooding bits. itâs too long!
special effects are dated. but I miss the old magic
what would they do if the shot got messed up, spend another week making more models to crush/flood? yes indeed
and the classic car stunts
I remember watching this when younger, and Lois slowly struggling to avoid suffocating while being buried alive + Superman pulling Loisâ lifeless, pale body from the car with her dirty clothes was pretty shocking to me. now I think of Palestinians
itâs shot like a 70s film, close and bright or close and dark. minor plot holes, like âwhy did Lex only have one competent henchwoman and one idiotic goonâ and âhow come Superman doesnât use the time reverse power more often, actually how does it even workâ. I have a soft spot for the interview flirting scene which has a surprise appearance of the best-looking frames in the film
I had to learn âCan You Read My Mind?â as a piece for piano lessons, so
canât wait to watch the sequel starring Terence Stamp (as featured in Modesty Blaise)!!
I feel like it being Gene Hackman somehow makes all of this work unquestioningly, like of course he could not be compelled to recruit an adequate number of qualified henchmen
He builds a villainous organization like he builds houses
28 Years Later is entertaining but has too many instances of contrived rescues where characters happen to be in the right place at the right time. Maybe the first two did as well and I just donât remember.
Speaking of, in the very last scene itâs hard to accept that the âJimmiesâ can safely operate in that careless way considering how easy it is to get infected with a single drop of blood (not to mention that they must have a laundry service back at base).
Also, why didnât they kill that alpha after drugging him?
Yeah, several times in Days actually. Naomie Harris and the other guy saving Cillian Murphy/Brendan Gleeson saving Harris & Murphy/the soldiers showing up right when Gleeson gets infected. Civil War also does it at least once that I can remember. A tic of Garlandâs.
RE: anything about Go Go Jimmy Rangers, itâs all meant to be as absurd and improbable as possible so I didnât probe the logic of it. One possibility is that they theyâre another type of infected and thatâs what allows them to do the acrobatics + explains their fearlessness around infected blood, but making it explicable and literal in that way would almost feel like a letdown for whatâs, at heart, a piss-take.
The alpha didnât get killed after getting drugged because that wasnât Kelsonâs M.O. He regarded the infected as sick people rather than monsters and had sympathy for them. He has a line later on about how the Bone Temple is made from both infected and uninfected bodies, and after the rendering process you canât tell which is which.
Track suits are water resistant and have long sleeves, what more do you want?
