zardoz rules. in the end everyone dies becuase immortality is stupid. i love the aging punishment zone and the I WILLL NOTTTT JOIN YOUR MEDITATION REBEL who goes there. the way their perfect society falls apart becuase one mortal idiot with a big dick and no filter shows up is great. like hes a germ entering a clean room. the boner waveform rules too
i always think about how between zardoz and the night porter charlotte ramping had a fucking wild ass year
This movie is the most sustained attention I’ve ever given to anything associated with Stephen King other than I guess the shining and…idk it’s crazy to me that this is like one of the most famous writers out there
Oh wait I did watch the langoliers mini series that one was actually good
feel very lucky that I was the right age for Dreamcatcher to be sprung on me on TV with zero pre-existing awareness from my childhood self. a truly special confluence of big-budget studio filmmaking and absolutely insane fever dream. probably the last time anything like that can ever happen.
'iz time fuh you to go away, miztuh g’ay
it was so good to hear her go “This is fucking stupid. No wonder Stephen King sucks” to “yeah this movie rocks” about an hour in lmao
Tokyo Revengers I && II: Compared to the manga, the adult actors in the film resonate more easily with the dark themes of the story after teenage, let the fans deeply thought how the ties between the Yakuza and Yankees can be cut. The repeated failures foreshadow the impossibility of such a possibility.
Outrage && Beyond Outrage: fully worse than the Yakuza films or stories of the 80s, it lacks a background context and overly emphasizes futile violence, making it quite dull and superficial. Not to mention the depiction of internal bleeding in Beyond Outrage is completely unrealistic and meaningless, appearing as if adults are satisfying revenge desire for childish violence in a Disney-like amusement park.
Under Ninja: Manga has been hugely edited to effectively convey the essence of the dark humor, while also with a very restrained expression of violence match this humor vibe. A good work.
Love and Other Beasts: Yankees again. Like a mix of the drama Ikebukuro West Gate Park without idol actors and many films of Sion Sono, the female lead is very cute.
I will say that bit where Kitano tells his boss to stick his tongue out in Outrage is pretty brutal.
That and that bit where he storms that dentist office.
Better yakuza films out there, for sure, but there’s something about seeing Kitano’s old grumpy ass doing that kinda stuff.
These two scenes are very lackluster and deliberate to me in the story. But I agree with it works in Kitano’s Universe. His other image of characters from several Kitano’s works permeate into this film, creating a resonance together.
the family watched the first two Ranma movies. Which came on a Ranma movie collection with burned in English subs. The menus and discs are so descriptive as to say “Ranma Movie 1”.
I only really learned Ranma/Rumiko Takahashi stuff after the PC Engine project. We both really enjoyed both and laughed a lot. Neo Rude did not like the lecherous old man who is a constantly sexual harasser and underwear stealer. Which good Neo Rude! Dude sucks and is awful and brings the whole thing down.
Both movies are more or less the same but that they use the enormous cast of Ranma to do a comedy of errors and crossed meanings is fantastic.
The second movie is much hornier and has two scenes of tentacle attack and I immediately thought, “that sure was a stereotype about anime/Japan stuff from 1988 to 2008 huh?” Did Moe kill the tentacle monster? Hold on I gotta go write a parody song and a time machine.
Now if we wanna burn through the 9 OVAs in this set or save this precious resource.
I’ve never forgotten the song from the English trailer for movie 1. I assume this is the credits song. It holds up!
I could have sworn there was a trailer for Nihao My Concubine too, but I can’t find one on youtube.
Watching Metropolis all the way through for the first time (it’s on youtube) and my goodness this animated title card is plenty dope!
Or Faust
yeah, I saw Caligari with a live band last year – was indeed a treat.
I just saw it with a live organist. It’s one of those things that beforehand I would have swore I must have seen before at some point but while watching aside from a couple shots, was totally new to me.
Yeah Dr. Caligari is intense.
the motion picture “good fortune” is very cute and digestible it’s exactly what it says it is nothing more or less. the keanu fish out of water angel stuff was basically a retread of the movie michael in a good way. a solid twist on a scroogelike. shame aziz ansari is a dipshit but he still definitely has my number tonally as a writer/director
Zootopia 2 was very good. Better than the first one in essentially every respect except initial world building. The combination of full exculpation not being possible for all parties but also nobody dying was good, that seems like the ideal moral balance to strive for even if the incentives driving that choice probably had more to do with it being a cartoon than moral clarity. The good guys having neurotic or cringeworthy behavior as their only vices is also both a daring violation of the excess attraction to character complexity that has ruined a generation worth of stories, and in a weird way counterposes the danger of the villains as also being in that domain, just it’s own, much worse form of neuroticism that has the unfortunate special property of endangering life and therefore demands unique and uniquely serious attention.
robert kramer’s walk the walk is one of the 5 best movies i’ve watched this year and hardly anyone has seen it. incredibly tender impressionistic work of human/environmental portraiture about a family of three breaking apart across europe that uses extreme closeups in such an intimate way. i love when the characters make eye contact with the camera.
Female Perversions (1996) was a pretty fun watch, Tilda Swinton as a repressed bisexual lawyer erotic thrilling all over the place & losing her mind trying to be a girlboss while being furious at her kleptomaniac PhD candidate sister because she doesn’t see they’re both losing it for similar reasons. the tone is mostly black comedy which makes this more fun of a watch than a movie about how living up to patriarchal expectations drives everyone subject to them completely insane might be. the low points were mostly the pacing and how the scene where tilda eats pussy in a hammock(?!) is so baffling from a logistics perspective that i was laughing at the film instead of with it.
it ends with an almost Pieta-like image of Tilda cradling a suicidal trans boy that will stick with me for a minute. maybe the cycle of men making us all hate ourselves and each other can be broken. what a thought
finally watched Predator, my Step Brother’s favorite movie, which he showed to his son during thanksgiving. He knew which parts to mute because he’s seen it 30 times. Mom doesn’t let my nephew watch violent movies and Dad doesn’t let him watch swearing movies so between the two he should get the whole picture. Had to fight to get him not to play Subway surfers though.
Predator is such a weird film, there’s the cold war/contra backdrop going on, CIA guys, mercenaries with hinted-at pasts. Also, much like Aliens, it’s a movie about the Vietnam War. it’s weird the alien has a set of rules but they don’t preclude using an invisibility cloak or a laser.
So much of the film is unexplained, which is kind of refreshing. Dutch’s crew. His relationship with the CIA guy. The Predator. I feel like you couldn’t get away with that these days. There would need to be tons of establishing dialog and scenes.
