The worst feeling thing about Warfare imo is how they show photos of all the soldiers and the people who depicted them in the credits, but the family whose house they invaded and destroyed also show up in a blurred photograph in the same sequence. Baaarf.
As usual, it was a kinetic experience is all you can really give it positive credit for.
I love this one. I really wasnât prepared for it despite how many references there have been over the years.
Yeah I agree. Garland may have perplexing politics, but like, heâs not a bad director. I was never bored and found the real time gimmick kinda engaging, but overall the movie just felt too much like it was trying to have itâs cake and eat it to. I dunno, insert that one Goddard quote about how an anti-war film can never exist, or some Mark Fisher quote.
Not the most reactionary movie Iâve ever seen or anything, but not one Iâm ever gonna come back to.
Itâs always fun watching war movies with my dad. He loves war movies so much, but also has talked like 4 people out of enlisting. I think itâs just cause he likes the explosions and guns. His favorite movie is Starship Troopers after all.
Service guarantees citizenship!
Blue Moon. Ethan Hawke is really good.
Marty Supreme. Took me back to the first time I ever got stoned - where I first learned what it was like to âget highâ - at a Ping Pong table. Best work of TCâs career. Five Bags of Popcorn, one little Orange Sphere.
Someone just mentioned Eyes Wide Shut, which I also just saw for the first time. I usually have a high tolerance for this sort of thing but I just couldnât take more than the first 30 mins. A week later, I tried again, and got along much better with it. Every single shot is beautiful and meticulously crafted but itâs such an alien, cruel little world it has going on that you need to meet it on its terms. I think I finally understand where Mulholland Drive haters may be coming from a little better (THEYâRE STILL WRONG)
It Was Just an Accident â This movie ripped. Of course this was going to win the Palme dâOr, for many reasons tangentially related to its quality⌠But the quality is there regardless. Excellent thriller with some incredible performances from non-actors. I loved the wedding photographer.
Marty Supreme rips
eyes wide shut is interesting because in retrospect it is clearly the product of a guy who saw some weird shit in hollywood but doesnt have all the details and can only allude to what he thinks was going on. this is exemplified I think in the scene where alan cumming, looking like a young kubrick, is flirtatiously relating a story about the perverse sex lives of the rich and powerful to tom cruise, who is our surrogate for these proceedingsâŚyou can tell heâs happy to get it off his chest but still deeply troubled at the same time
That scene is such a good microcosm of the film. The clerk, who has never met the other character, delivers what is basically extremely troubling news in a comically forward manner of speaking. Your gut tells you no-one in this situation would/should behave like this, but because thereâs a 99% chance it hasnât happened to the viewer, who are they to know how theyâd behave? But then every other character and plot event is like this, too
the thing actors who worked with kubrick constantly hit upon is that realism in performance wasnât usually his highest objective. the ensemble in EWS is particularly striking because everybody in it seems kind of medicated yet within that half-interval too slow affect theyâre all very mannered and doing lots of actorly business
During the scene, Cummingâs clerk tells Tom Cruise character that another character came into the hotel with two âbigâ menâwhile spacing his hands out suggestively. The director loved it.
âThe detail and the zeal that he had for the tiniest of gestures and the intonation made me so interested in acting again,â Cumming said. âA lot of the time, my least favorite thing is to hear a director shouting, âThat was perfect, letâs go again.â You think, âWell, why are we going again if itâs perfect? Tell me what you want.â Often they just go again and they donât tell you why. And Stanley would, in such minute detail, tell me what he wanted. And of course thatâs nirvana for an actor.â
Cumming continued: âItâs so over the top, that performance. And I kept saying to him, âOh Stanley, thatâs too much. Heâs like, âNo, go on, do it!â He was like goading me on. But thereâs a thing that I do, I say, âthe men that came back, they came in this morning, big guys.â And I do a gesture⌠with my hands, like Iâm doing a penis size.â
âI thought surely he was going to tell me not to do that. Itâs so ridiculous,â Cumming added. âOne take I didnât do it, and he said, âWhy are you not doing the thing with your hands?'â
Guyâs name is Alan Cumming. Fuckin Kubrick, lol
Watched Without Warning, a 1994 TV movie in the spirit of the original War of the Worlds radio broadcast. It presents itself as what you are seeing on TV during what may be an alien attack.
I really enjoyed it, particularly how they pieced it all together and how the actors were directed. Felt very authentic. I donât necessarily think the story is particularly good, but, it kept me interested all the way to the (little bit underwhelming) ending.
Would love to see another project like this in the modern day.
Speaking of Kubrick, I watched Angelâs Egg, where the Kubrick Stare was prominently featured!
I finished Gravityâs Rainbow last night and this was the perfect allegory pairing! Iâm so glad I watched this in a theatre or I would have been checking my phone constantly. It got a little boring in pockets but overall it was a lot to chew on. Only complaint is the sound mixing was insane in my theatre and every line of dialogue was like getting smacked. In particular the screams at the end were nauseatingly loud. 4 and a half seraphimâsâ wings out of 6.
The other day (New Yearâs Eve?) I finished watching Batman Returns, when I had started a day or two before Christmas. Somehow in the last 30 something years I had never seen it, though I distinctly remember owning a Catwoman figureâŚand that little Penguin duck cat McDonalds toyâŚ
Anyway! Weird movie! I donât think I was ready for how many of Penguinâs lines were just so fucking nasty and horny. That guy wanted to fuck so bad.
The rest was pretty good and campy though. Villains all suitably nasty, Bruce falling prey to the age old folly of trying to get an unstable goth girlfriendâŚBatman blows that one guy up at one point. Like he probably killed a few people, in this one.
Was also surprised how much smaller it felt compared to Batman '89? Maybe Iâm misremembering that movie. Feels like the entire movie is like, the town square, a few office buildings, a room or two of Wayne Manor, a shot or two of the Batcave, Selinaâs apartment and the Zoo/sewers.
It wasnât bad because of that. Just felt smaller!
But I donât know how I feel about Bruce trying to scratch a CD like a record. I donât know how I feel about that.
Watched the running man 2025 and they beefed it so, so bad.
Iâm amused that their attempt to simulate a real world news broadcast featured John Delancie, fucking Q, as a news correspondent.
yeah heâs much more convincing as a talking head in a brony documentary I agree
The 2003 Zatoichi directed by Beat Takeshi is really good. Great soundtrack. I loved the restraint of the movie to withhold the elegant swordsmanâs violence you know it is going to deliver almost completely to the end.
