also I did effectively punish my wife for liking it (decided we were going to watch Artists and Models to illustrate what I meant by a Jerry Lewis bit being the redeeming aspect of the film for me; she made it 45 minutes in and went downstairs while I got to watch the rest of my favorite Martin and Lewis movie)
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She’s right to do what she did. It ain’t no Disorderly Orderly.
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I might as well post about Octopus Army: Let’s Meet In Shibuya (Shibuya de aitai). Octopus Army was an urban/skater/hiphop fashion store in Tokyo that I most associate with having a tshirt of a melting mickey mouse ice cream saying I Don’t Think There Is Much Future For The Americans. In one of the PC Engine quiz games there was a question about the Octopus Army in Shibuya (???) which led me to find out there is a movie just called Octopus Army.
It isn’t very good but let’s continue. It was filmed in Shibuya in 1989 in a semi-guerilla style. It strangely despite the title features the shop in maybe two scenes as background. The main guy character is an ex-skatboarding hooligan about to get on a plane to uh…somewhere tomorrow. He works at the titular shop and tries to keep the current teenage hooligans in order (who knows how old any character in this movie is. They all look very young.) teen skateboard hooligans are the greatest threat to 1989 Shibuya apparently. They harass a Baskin Robbins (that I spent the whole movie trying to figure out where) and the two teen? Young adult? girl workers by themselves until our hero shows up and tries to fix stuff then the a man-woman cop duo show up and threaten to arrest our hero. Everyone runs away and the cops go “let’s go have sex.”
The guy hero and one of the baskin robbins ladies immediately fall in love. There’s a lot of miss connections also in this plot is the guy’s friend taking video of random pretty girls then getting pulled into a famous singer running away from her handlers. She kind of has a Faye Wong in Chunking Express space-alienness that well I certainly liked.
The true star of the movie is 1989 Shibuya and every wide shot it was just fascinating to see 1989 Shibuya and scream and pause. There was GRASS in SHIBUYA.
The story is poorly told and me and Lady Rude spent most of the movie going “what? Huh?” They keep cutting away from the story to a guy hanging out with some lawn chairs and babes and that was sprinkled throughout the movie so that guy could do a drag race at the end because this is just a Japanese 80s remake of American Grafitti.
There were two seperate uploads on youtube but I think me watching it caused some flag to be tripped because a week later both have been taken down. Sorry you can’t see a movie no one remembers and was only released in VIDEO CD.
If you want to see 80s Shibuya it is an absolute treat and a muddle mess otherwise.
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I’m watching Bong Joon Ho movies
I watched Parasite first. I thought it was okay.
I watched Memories of Murder second and loved it.
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OMG. I want that shirt so bad!
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Watched and enjoyed both Barking Dogs Never Bite and Snowpiercer.
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Did you know they solved the real case the movie was based on a few years ago?
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watched black box diaries last night because i love crying and feeling awful. no actually it was really good ive never seen a documentary allow a sexual assault victim to show so much joy (i mean she made it herself, she allowed herself to have happy moments, whatever). like everyones always afraid to show a person be happy when bad things happen to them but thats such a dishonest fuckign thing to do. it doesnt take away from the trauma!
i wasnt expecting it to go the way it did at all, i was so full of despair. but the doorman being so fucking ride or die for her made me cry
also
also
it doesnt have any stupid interstitial animations or lovingly crafted sets to shoot people being interviewed. and i love that
‘it’s been six months, six months since I became that girl who got raped’
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watched tobe hooper’s lifeforce… that was entertaining
thinking about the konami lifeforce that’s a good game…
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I watched The Host, Okja, and Mother.
The Host and Okja have the same weakness; CGI creature.
Is it harder to be scared of a CGI creature, or sympathetic toward one?
I think these two are the weakest Bong Joon Ho movies I’ve seen, but I still enjoyed them.
It and Barking Dogs Never Bite are both on Tubi if you ever feel like checking it out.
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watched the new looney tunes movie today (the first true looney tunes movie??) it isn’t nearly as good as the old ones (evidence below) but very pleasant and a damn sight more likable than nearly any other cartoons thing in the last twenty years. i think it was the most cheerful when they had to invent new gags rather than work on the old stuff, i really liked the farmer jim gags where they let their inventiveness out for a bit. i grew up on looney tunes/merrie melodies vhs tapes so it really shaped my sense of humor, and some of that too-grown-up above-your-head ‘pointing at the world beyond your comprehension’ stuff is there still
what else… yeah thank god it wasn’t trying to sell me anything
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also sorry to say ‘the resource’ being boba tea was both telegraphed and not a funny idea to begin with. if this was old looney tunes it would have been some shit like “pickled ham juice” or “counter-signed tax forms” or whatever idk I’m not tex Avery just saying
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Eephus is delightful. Love to watch middle aged men be stupid and fuck around on a dirt field while drinking beers. It’s possible that half of the charm comes from my romance with baseball, anyway. But still. It looks very good (particularly the the evening portion), the non sequiturs are funny (“do you put pizza on your ham?” “What, you mean ham on pizza.”), and i like that nothing happens. No fireworks or big home run, you’re just hanging out. It’s a beautiful way to pass the day
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Revisit the ‘hidden Trump’ episode again (pirated).
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Dead Talents Society (Netflix)
What if afterlife was a sns competition?
A taiwanese Slapstick Horror-comedy flick answers that question you never had.
Geeat time and highly recommended!
say what you will about Sony, but they tend to bankroll at least one movie per year that makes me go 
because i like it so much.
preparing for UK Mother’s Day
Galaxy Express 999 (Viz version): can feel when each manga chapter finishes. animation, design, effects all look fine, amazing when it’s 40+ years old
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obsessed with so many of the costumes that only show up for one second in toby damnit
the pleather thief behind
sequined maid dress
this barbarella fit
the space elves and shower curtain queens
NECKLACE
three fates
HER CURLY BANGS
cosplaying my favorite character from black emanuellle white emanuelle
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Enjoyed Hairpin Circus a quite a bit. It’s a 1972 Japanese movie about, exclusively, driving and light jazz. @hellojed, you might particularly enjoy how much it delivers on its premise.
Story is pretty so-so, but I loved how the main character, like the movie itself, seemed to resent moments where driving is not taking place, and resolves this by making the moments out of the driver’s seat as efficient and tight as possible.
Looking at the writer, I basically only know him for a few Godzilla and kaiju films. For the director, these two seemed like they had promise.
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finally watched excalibur to figure out why zack snyder is like that. pretty cool flick!
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