Diary of the Dead
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Nirvana starring christopher lambert and this guy
Johnny mnemonic + existenz + âI cornered you, spaghetti!â
It somehow works even if the plot is nonsense. Filling out a cyberpunk dystopian city with italian comedy actors gives the whole thing a euro comics vibe, like the movie was ripped from the pages of metal hurlant. The b plot is about that extremely italian man trying to convince anyone he encounters that theyâre all just npcs in an adventure game only to get killed by increasingly improbable enemies.
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Digital Video Editing with Adobe Premiere Pro: The Real-World Guide to Set Up and Workflow (2020) - would have put this with its spiritual brethren in the shit j-horror thread but it is in fact korean and p good, a 40min sorta-found-footage one about the travails of doing editing work on haunted movie footage. had at least one namedrop of a famous 2003 romcom that made me laugh hard. worth checking out imo
Road House (1984) - was really not prepared for the cast. john doe from x as an evil william forsythe type? sam elliot kicking out peopleâs knees? ben gazzara in a climactic final punch-out with patrick swayze??? itâs also really funny and videogamey how the progress of swayze cleaning up the town is reflected by slow mutation of this random backwater bar from a big dirty shed with a chickenwire enclosure around the stage to like a packed-yet-tidy âurban cowboyâ new wave club. lv1 bar / lv50 bar
gazzara plays a good mcmansion satan and itâs really funny and surprisingly effective that the main way we know heâs evil for most of the running time is just the variety of dumb vehicles he uses for puttering around his enormous grounds (quadbike sorta thing, helicopter, and my favourite - - gigantic monster truck, which also appears in one great scene of havoc and livens up many shots when we just see the bad guys pulling up in it to a random parking lot).
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road house is so goddamn good and I will never understood how people thought it was being ironic for decades with the insanely stacked cast of great actors and esoteric choices of cool people that can only be intentional
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Did a double feature of Naked Gun and Weapons - Naked Weapons.
Naked Gun: After all the positive recommendations I have come away feeling I was hustled. Itâs not bad per se. It was very forgettable but had some great streaks of surrealism in there. They really go for it with some really strange formal jokes like the montage, or an extended ironic celebration of the Black Eyed Peas. I think Neeson is OK but the biggest problem is that the film leans too much into cinematic realism visually to feel like it has a foundation as a humorous world. A recurring joke in the series is how many people Drebin kills as a policeman which feels kinda comical while still maintaining a satirical send-up of police violence in cop fiction. In the reboot it occasionally feels just dark and kind of disturbing which I think the visual style doesnât help with. Classic Naked Gun reads very artificial, verging on Tex Avery but this feels like a parody of Bad Boys or any LAPD action thriller. The staples of Naked Gun were born in lampooning hokey cop shows. Wordplay jokes still do quite well but the delivery is not quite deadpan enough. It sometimes feels like Neeson is doing an Eastwood impression and both he and the main villain have almost equally gravelly voices.
Weapons: Very good, I recommend. I liked how much itâs about surveillance not really making us safer, and school shootings being in the mix without being the explicit focus. The image of an enormous rifle floating over a suburban home felt very Magritte in the context of everything and hits strongly before the big reveal. Surprised at how good its comedic sensibilities were.
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is road house the best english-language action movie of the 80s⌠possibly imo
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lmao not even remotely
die hard, they live, robocop, escape from new york, mad max 2, to live and die in la, streets of fire
I like road house (its such a silly film) but it doesnât even rank in the top 10 for the decade
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not beating the road house is the best english language movie of the 80s allegations
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are we pretending those are bad movies now or what
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theyâre ok
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I try to teach the same way Dalton cools.
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MIFF part 2 (of 2)
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A woman travels endlessly through alternate realities, repeatedly killing the serial killer who murdered her daughter. She arrives in one reality just in time to save his next victim, who joins her on her killing spree. Her sidekick is a great character, and gave me John Conner in Terminator 2 vibes. Despite all her vengeance, there isnât a single reality where her daughter is alive, and he is dead. Grief is like that, huh. I really like that the movie didnât go into too much detail about how her dimension hopping machine worked. Thereâs a tangent in the middle of the movie where she has to find a new battery for it, and even that felt like too much.
SORRY, BABY
A woman is a victim of sexual violence, commited by her Professor. How do you continue on after something like that? Frustratingly, this film doesnât really have much to say about it at all. Not really. Itâs more concerned with vignettes with her boring, annoying friends. Tonally the whole film just felt off to me. Just really tired observations. I didnât want like, misery porn, but it just felt too slight. It didnât help that after I watched the film I looked up the lead actress (who also wrote and directed it) and her comedy videos she just plays the same character. Uh.
THE GOLDEN SPURTLE
A documentary featuring an absolutely fantastic cast of characters in a Scottish country village who come together to put on a porridge cooking competition. The heart of the film comes through not so much from absurdity of the competition (the documentary doesnât really even concern itself with who ultimately wins) but the warmth and humour of the characters. A quote from the organiser of the competition goes something like âWhen God was making Scotland, Gabriel asked him is it fair to gift all these people such intelligence and a beautiful place to live? And God replied Iâm not done yet. Wait till you see who they get as neighboursâ. Good shit.
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I couldnât believe that something praised this much has a) two separate scenes where a character expresses performative disgust at Lolita and b) the same depiction of a realistic panic attack thatâs in every other Netflix series nowadays (complete with a very didactic therapeutic tutorial on how to deal with it, at least delivered by John Carroll Lynch this time around). Felt extremely social media brained to me and learning about those videos makes perfect sense.
I get why many people feel itâs important or relate to it, itâs a very tasteful and measured take on a very delicate subject matter, but I feel you can tackle it in a -too- tasteful way? Like at the end, the main character tells someone that they can always share their worst thoughts with her, but it feels so hollow when she never voices a single problematic or repulsive thought. Itâs like a message saying, feel free to have a mental health crisis, unless it gets ugly. Aestheticized suffering from sexual abuse #A24menheragirls
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And after that they tell their friend, Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
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The one dimension to Sorry, Baby that I think may save it a little bit from these criticisms is a presence of slight irony in Agnesâ performance that made me more concerned that after the movie was over she wouldnât be returning to the world of people nearly as much as I think the tenor of some of those late scenes could lead you to think.
That ending though was sad to me. It reminded me of the Xiu Xiu song Nieces Pieces.
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the end made me think of renoirâs the river so i got to give myself a nice lmao at that
I think I need to establish a personal subgenre called After School Special Movies, which are movies that treat a potentially fraught subject with the didactic heavy blandness of an NGO-produced informative pamphlet. Inaugural members: The Whale re: obesity and The Accountant re: autism
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I can picture exactly the kind of high school psychology/health class teacher who would make students watch this in class, which would actually kind of rule (also nonzero chance this teacher is also autistic lol)
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When the jail suddenly decided we were all required to go to a mandatory safety training even though we had all been going to the jail like five days a week for years the guy running it, when trying to emphasize how scarily ingenious prisoners were about creating improvised weapons, turned to the TV stand and played us a prison fight scene from the hilarious DTV Michael Jai White vehicle Blood & Bone
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Caught High and Low yesterday and it indeed seemed ripe for a 2025 remake. Hoping to catch that in the theater this week.
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