It was so weird to root for Shia but I couldn’t help it when he really had to stress that he’s not down with Jon Voight’s politics before getting into anything else about working with him.
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I do really want to rewatch Megalopolis. seeing it in a theater, there’s just so much happening all of the time.
will never forget how it felt watching the “what do you think of this boner?” scene for the first time. I know it’s juvenile to fixate on that, but I honestly couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing in a movie where a lot of the time I was like “wow, what am I even watching right now?”
I don’t think it’s bad and I feel like anyone who jumped on the hate bandwagon has no room in their heart for camp or spectacle. like i’d rather watch 100 films like that over 90% of what Hollywood seems capable of producing right now
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You are in for a treat (although Commissioner Gordon being a shithead does sort of cast a freely moving independent shadow over the whole thing).
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well he said they ‘talked it out’ or whatver. came to a professional agreement. Jon voights presence is worth it for when he pretends to get crushed by rocks and lets out an anime girl ‘hewp’
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Yes!!!
I still think it’s absolutely wild that Voight and Hoffman didn’t really have much in the way of scenes together.
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I mean that’s a very Dracula thing to do you have to admit
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Not ones I just watched but someone on tiktok was asking for spooky movie recommendations, preferably stuff they hadn’t already seen so I suggested Dogtooth, The Idiots and Trouble Every Day and some scold came at me about these films being “the diet version of A Serbian Film” and begging the person who was asking for reccs to block me. I kinda wanna know what makes those films so objectionable to them.
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some people don’t like fun
maybe those are more creepy/offputing than spooky. no jumpscares
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MARTY SUPREME… incredible
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the diet version of a serbian film…so what does that mean a serbian film is better? or I suppose more realistically, this person measures all transgressive movies against a terrible one. amazing.
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Chariots of Fire.
This movie seems to be considered a bit of a joke these days. I feel it stills works as intended.
Such a great Vangelis soundtrack
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Wake up Dead Man:
You have to give kudos to Rian Johnson for continuing to do these, because they continue to manage to push all the right buttons for me. Josh O’Connor is great in this, loved the way how it is resolved… looking foeward to re-watch with OV audio.
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Well, you would, wouldn’t you.
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If they want to keep making these that’s fine, this one was fine, but honestly I think watching a couple Columbo episodes is a better use of one’s time.
The way Johnson feels compelled to include “terminally online right winger” as a character in every one of these started out kind of amusing but is now just getting tiresome.
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Elsbeth is also just very reliably entertaining, it doesn’t have the cachet of Poker Face but it’s at least as good
The British were coming
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I swear that song is what put that movie over. It’s so good.
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I watched the new 4K version of John Woo’s The Killer. This was one I wanted to watch at least 2 decades ago but as I recall, there was some issue preventing a western DVD release. Feels like I’d been missing out. I found it funny how the old school US trailer calls the film a ‘comedy thriller’.
I think I need to go see the A Better Tomorrow trilogy and Hard Boiled. I think I also just need to watch more HK cinema in general.
Also watched the new 4K Angel’s Egg release. Not sure if they used any AI noise reduction on this one like with Macross but I couldn’t fault the visuals. The sketchy art style in the backgrounds and pitch black shadows come out really well. I think the newly re-translated subtitles might be a downgrade though. Seemed like they tried to punch it up a bit and made it a tad stilted.
At first I was a bit disappointed because I saw it was in widescreen format, and figured they must have cropped it that way for the cinematic release. But then I compared it to my old bootleg DVD and apparently it was just always like that? Unless the original VHS was open matte and all subsequent releases went with the widescreen.
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i’ve never seen Chariots of Fire, but my main connection to it is a story that my mom told me about Alec Baldwin’s dad.
Alec Baldwin’s dad, Al Baldwin, was a gym teacher in the town I grew up in (well before I was born) and he worked with my mom. apparently the Vangelis soundtrack to Chariots of Fire was his favorite music of all time, so they played it at his memorial after he passed away.
not a great story, but a piece of trivia that lives in my head
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the gym at eldest’s school is in the Eric Liddell Building, am sure we’ll be watching Chariots again soon but pausing to point out where our old flat was in the background of the first race
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