Watched Gerald’s Game and we were both pretty .___. through most of it until the hand scene. I abruptly discovered that despite not minding gore, body horror, and most other depictions of injury, death etc. I really cannot stand graphic detailed hand injury. I think something inside me regarding my own injury really triggered a vulnerability point. We were both flailing and screaming and I was exhausted and full of cortisol by the end of it.
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damn that looney tune was good
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Watched this today and it was so incredibly frustrating, just felt like the laziest fucking job, like some fuckin History Channel shit, all this time wasted on how many fucking stab wounds all these bodies had, almost no time detailing all the absolutely crazy shit O’Neill uncovered – why lead off with the Jolly shit! Build to it – !!
Like I understand since time is limited one might omit the bit about Bugliosi stalking a milkman he irrationally believed cucked him but that should be in the movie cuz it’s funny as hell
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at a bare minimum they needed 6 episodes to tell the story, like Morris did w/ Wormwood. tell me why the Curious Case of Natalia Grace has 3 f’n seasons but one of the seminal stories of the 20th century gets 90 minutes
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if one were conspiratorially minded (lol), one might wonder if this was a deliberate hack job to make people stop talking about the book altogether
edit: i mostly feel kinda bad for O’Neill, who spent all this time on this thing, didn’t hand it over to any publisher unless they were gonna play it his way, and then he gets traction and a streaming service just kind of puts a big fat turd on top of all that work
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I gotta say, I haven’t been very impressed with Errol Morris lately. Wormwood didn’t stick in my mind at all, and I thought the Bannon documentary was shockingly mediocre, a real low point for him. He used to be one of my favorite documentary filmmakers! I’m sorry to hear this one’s rough too. Errol, what happened?
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Wormwood at least gives the viewer enough background to comprehend why the son of the guy who died may not be crazy (even though it fixates way too much on this idea because i guess Morris thought the “family impact” angle was better than the “government kills people doing mind control experiments” angle)
this film…if i had to detail all of the things left out of this movie, i would have to rewrite the fucking book. it really leaves the viewer thinking that O’Neill is just some old guy who noticed some weird coincidences, but the main message it leaves off on is “gee, it sure is great that reality is just too boring for any of these theories to be real”
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~ limited hangout ~
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Has USAID made any payments to Errol Morris lately
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Vividly remember the part in the first episode of Wormwood where there’s a staged scene of Tim Blake Nelson dressed as Spy vs. Spy looking glazed-eyed and cackling evilly and just thinking, fuck this. Haven’t bothered with anything since.
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hi I’m currently in the middle of finding out about A Working Man and
holy piss shit
fuck me up please
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No more Statham. Make him lose 50 pounds and do smarm again. Give Michael Jai White all these roles
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He can be big and smarmy
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Now oily Jason I can get into.
Watched Sonic the Hedgehog 3. I should by all accounts hate these movies (not a Jim Carrey fan, don’t give much wiggle room for dumb comedies, kids movies, or dumb kid movie comedies), but…they’re fine?
There’s a real earnestness to how seriously (even with the weird deviations established in the first movie) they take the plot and characters and I think it works?
Anyway, I dunno, it was alright. I would watch another one of these.
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the tone didn’t really work for me – I liked Pattinson doing a weird Jerry Lewis bit but otherwise I basically wanted it to be more like Verhoeven, both more slapstick and more harsh, and instead it gave me neither, but in a way that’s admittedly very close to all of Bong’s pre parasite work. My wife who reads a lot of mainstream SF thought it worked much better though so who knows
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Its definitely on the low end of bong, only movie I liked less was okja but I still liked it
- Parasite
- Memories of murder
- Snowpiercer
- The host
- Mickey 17
- Okja
I still haven’t seen Mother
Feel inclined to think the weaknesses of Mickey 17 came from the source material (contemporary sff is… not particularly good overall)
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Saw Wings of Desire today after having it on my watchlist for almost 12 years. The middle sags a bit but it rules otherwise.
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