If you haven’t seen it already, you oughta watch the director’s previous movie, Psycho Goreman, it’s a hoot.
Anyway, Superman went up on HBO Max today so I watched that and…really enjoyed it. Fun movie, but goddamn I loved Mister Terrific. Really appreciate a movie that flexes the most out of a PG-13 rating and has its characters say “shit” a lot, where it would make sense.
oh yeah the 1997 “drive” would be way up there too
The tragic tale of a man who lusts for eggs but forces beyond his control cannot allow it in William Wellman’s “Battleground”
The Man From London by Bela Tarr
It’s a slow paced black and white film.
At a few key points it’s hard to tell what’s happening. It’s also hard to tell if the film is being intentionally or accidentally ambiguous.
Overall, I liked it, but I don’t think it’s Tarr at his best.
Andy Lau is wasted in ‘The Great Wall’, and that’s the theme of this movie, things being wasted:
Money, talent, actors, time, effort, colors, sound, light, air — everything could have been put to better use.
Priscilla Presley’s three second cameo in the new Naked Gun is a pretty good gag.
Over the past week: The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs, The Getaway, Alfredo Garcia, Cross of Iron. I don’t think I recommend doing it like that
Well you started strong and ended strong shame about the middle there
Have been trawling this thread for things to watch, tonight was Where Eagles Dare.
So much plot armor! So splodey! The plot is crazy nonsense.. Clint Eastwood is the audience stand-in, staring in disbelief and demanding explanation as all the British shenanigans bloom flawlessly around him.
That snowplow vs Nazi fighter planes scene was dope, though.
Watched White Lightening. Not used to watching a Burt Reynolds movie where shit can get real dark. I am so used to his Smoky and the Bandit style of easy going action comedy.
saw Spike Lee’s remake / reimagining of Kurosawa’s High and Low, called Highest 2 Lowest.
entertaining as fuck! denzel chews the fuck out of the scenery in every sequence. i don’t necessarily think it’s a great film, but i really enjoyed it nonetheless. great soundtrack too. dropping James Brown’s The Payback while they’re driving to track down A$AP Rocky… chef’s kiss
it’s not a patch on the original but it tries to do something a bit different; worth a watch for sure
inagurated my horror cinema season for the year ln with the miike takashi film “one missed call” which i thought was really good and certainly one of the better movies in the miike takashi filmography… really creepy and gross and sad but thoroughly entertaining. there’s a haunted hospital sequence that is some of the more effective horror filmmaking ive seen in general…
Watched Heart Eyes. Pretty fun even if the romcom portion of it gets abandoned about 30 minutes in to become just a slasher.
Megadoc and Hearts of Darkness were both playing at different spots this weekend. Shia seemed like he was intentionally trying to be a Dennis Hopper.
Very sad to be the bearer of bad news but one battle after another was kind of mid!
leonardo dicaprio just invested in a luxury hotel in tel aviv lmao genuinely think PTA “pushed fiona apple out of a moving car” (not to mention The Master was the last watchable movie he directed) and him are two of the worst choices imaginable to sorta-adapt vineland which is already pynchon’s weakest novel. listening to PTA talk about writing it over 20 years makes it sound like some bullshit that he just wanted to finish up so he could cash in on this trend of directors making bad movies about Our Current Political Moment. at least ari aster doesn’t think he’s still a precocious boy genius at the age of 55
I for one am shocked and stunned a movie with a fortnite tie-in event is mid and has very little of substance to say. At least Benicio understood the assignment.
Yes he was definitely the best part!
I do think getting like cinephile auteur bros to just make mid budget action movies is a really fantastic idea, just don’t encourage them to try to make it “““relevant”””” because I’m not interested in their opinions. Only their ability to do epic oners and split diopters and shit (idk if there are split diopter shots in this movie but you know what I mean)
after The Hunted it felt like that’s what Friedkin was doing, making great low budget genre films like bug and killer joe, and all of them fucking ripped including the caine mutiny adaptation he did for TV before he died. they should of let him make more shit in the 2000s. though I’m not sure if he’s like an auteur bro type guy because he was way too cool for that shit
You should go to Europe and try to get Brian De Palma out of retirement. Actually maybe don’t do that, I watched his last movie from 2019 about hunting ISIS guys or whatever and it was spectacularly odd…Guy Pearce seemed to be trying to desperately escape in every one of his scenes until he finally got pissed off enough to storm off the set in the last one.
