He loads his arms! We’re right there in that Canyon! That lady comes on screen and we go “wait who?”
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keep asking people if they caught the new donald westlake yet
KAALA (2018) is the best 2010s-to-present movie I’ve seen in terms of popularizing left ideas about struggle. It’s kind of like if Andor, instead of being an American prestige TV series, was a Tamil action mass-hero flick. it takes all the action hero superstar clichés and transforms them into a story of collective pluralist proletarian struggle. does that make any sense? probably not but give it a try. it’s got SUPER STAR RAJNI KANTH who is like Tamil cinema’s id for the past 40 years or so. it’s directed by Pa. Ranjith who (along with Vetrimaaran and Mari Selvaraj) is part of Tamil cinema’s socially conscious golden generation of filmmakers. check out my brief review but (more importantly) the reviews I “liked” on letterbox, to whet your appetite…
it’s on YouTube with subtitles, if you watch it please let me know what you think, I would love to discuss…
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Blind bought the steelbook Shin Godzilla 4k to watch on my new player. Movie ruled.
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Oooh I thought Wake Up, Dead Man was easily the most fun Knives Out movie. The others had fairly obvious moral divides among the characters, but here things were weird enough that you were actually pretty uncertain all the way through what a clear motive would be. Had a really good time with it!
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Wake Up Dead Man absolutely rips
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I don’t know if I was in the mood for in the mood for love yesterday but I finally saw that last night. I think I liked the weird 2001 short more
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Today I watched The Visitor (1978). Everything I read about this suggested it is a completely incomprehensible mind fuck, but it all kind of made a decent amount of sense to me. A little bit like if you took one of those demonic child movies and mixed it with 70s new age cult stuff where they believe Jesus was an alien or whatever.
Also kind of felt like, what if you gave a Neil Breen script to someone with more talent and more budget, cut out all the didactic monologues and replaced Breen with John Huston.
Has a few scenes where the satanic little girl menacingly plays some kind of Magnavox Odyssey knockoff console on a projector, with a sort of “Bart flying a kite at night” vibe
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The Visitor is one of the better kinds of bad movies
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Decided Kill Bill was actually worth going to the theater for, even in single-digit temperatures. The Fortnite sequence wasn’t shown, fortunately–I didn’t know about it specifically, but I stayed all the way through the credits, and nothing. I also realized that I’d forgotten enough about part two to suspect that multiple scenes had been readded to this version, when they weren’t. Elsewhere this would suggest padding, but really, if you’re not watching The Whole Bloody Affair to get the most Tarantino possible, there’s no point. I also didn’t know there’d be an intermission, and was kinda hoping there wouldn’t be, even thought I very much needed it–as is, I’m still wondering what it’d feel like to watch without the break.
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the second kill bill movie is soooooooooooooo bad
I read Gou Tanabe’s manga adaptation of Colour out of Space a few days ago and that made me realize I’d forgotten a lot about the 2019 movie, other than that I appreciated that they incorporated the melty family members from the story and that the ending was out of control in the best way.
So I watched it again. I still really like the last 5 seconds or so of the movie’s climactic scene (dad pounding on the trapdoor and then smearing up to show the house and its twinkling lights). For me, that visual alone basically makes up for the movie’s faults.
I hope Richard Stanley really gets to do his Dunwich movie.
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Have you seen the Dunwich Horror adaptation from the 70s? A Roger Corman production. I think it is easily one of the best adaptations of Lovecraft’s stuff we have. Lots of creative contrivances used to depict the impossible to depict, as well as some good eerie practical effects and music and just a generally strong atmosphere. Plus it’s got Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell in leading roles! A strange prog score by exotica musician Les Baxter too. It’s cool.
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Zooptopia 2 - cute movie, fun times. not groundbreaking by any means, but I enjoyed watching it. I bought tickets for 4DX, unprepared for how intense that experience is. it almost ruined the movie for me, actually; it really jostles you around all over the fucking place to the point where I felt I should have a seatbelt. I hurt my elbow and bit my tongue at least once.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula - I had avoided this movie for a long time because I heard it wasn’t very good, and watching it for the first time, I kind of agree. I would say, if anything, it’s a mixed bag. the sets and costumes are really astounding, and it’s worth existing if only for those elements. it still looks so much better than any modern film. also, I feel like the movie is really a touchstone for so many things: like clearly so much of all vampire and Castlevania stuff in the 90s pulled so, so much from this movie. the whole time I was watching it, it was like “oh so that’s where they got that idea.” also, the movie is frenetic, weirdly paced and sometimes ridiculous, so it also felt like a total forshadowing of Megalopolis. like if i’d seen this movie first, I would not have been as surprised by Megalopolis.
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I forgot to talk about megalopolis here, I told my therapist even about how much I love it
so I watched MEGADOC first, which just lays down that everyone is having a lot of fun being themselves in an acting team building exersize. except Shia lebouf who can’t handle doing things however he wants even thoguh its what he claims he desires. Aubrey Plaza is of course perfect and has the most erotic arm wrestling scene with Dustin Hoffman, I couldn’t beleive it didn’t make it in the movie. there’s an amazing interview with plaza where she describes Coppola as VERY VERY repressed and the interviewer goes ‘what did you say’ and she looks around and claims to forget while sipping from her golden goblet
then I watched the actual movie and was like WOOOO HELL YEAH cuz everyone’s stage acting and just having a fucking great time. the lighting indoors during the day looked like shit, but all the colorful lighting was fun. everyone was SO HORNY which is nice and honest. all actors are freaks. two freak out scenes! Coppola should have marketed this movie as the first movie with two eyes of the duck. I’m gonna headcanon the ending was bad cuz they didn’t think of one because nobody wanted to go home
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I forgot if I mentioned this when I saw it the second time a couple months back (and I dug it a lot more on the second viewing and got over the whole shadow of Musk hanging over the whole thing), but Copolla was in the theater with us sitting up front after doing a little intro, and during the scene where wow seduces shia a dude sitting behind me yelled out “this is bullshit!”
We later found out Francis slipped out to take a nap before the big q and an after so he wasn’t there for that dude’s reaction.
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There was a whole year of programming around Megalopolis here so I also got to see Dracula for Halloween, Megadoc, the latest cut of Apocalypse Now, and Hearts of Darkness.
The latter is wild side by side with Megadoc because Shia is so clearly trying to channel how much trouble Brando was.
They even showed god damn Rad with a q and a from whatever Coppola cousin’s kid was involved in the restoration of that.
And yeah Dracula fucking rules. I remember sort of inheriting the opinion that the costumes were wack as a kid but it’s absolutely gorgeous. It’s wild to realize that all the practical model effects are a direct line to like Wes Anderson’s second half of his career. Also that shot where Wino Forever is running down the stairs is great in IMAX.
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oh yeah when coppola is like ‘youre the worst actor ive ever had to work with’ and shia was like REALLY?? REALLY?? WORSE THAN BRANDo??? WORSE THAN SHOWING UP 700 POUNDS OVERWEIGHT??“” and im like yeah probably? maybe? its possible?
im glad he wrote the apology email after though shia seems kinda delicate
i need to watch dracula i havent seen it since it was new
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