Continuity-wise 28 Weeks Later is out the window for the new ones.
Someone was just telling me Weeks was their favorite one. Whaaat!?
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Yeah I read that Garland kinda regretted letting the studio have free reign on the sequel. Though the way the new movies apparently brush aside the final scene of Weeks is really funny.
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It’s got it’s own Halloween style choose your own timeline thing going now
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Bone Temple is pretty rad!
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when danny boyle was promoting ‘years’ his justification was that paris was immediately nuked after the end of ‘weeks’
and yes bone temple is good, i loved it. such a weird, idiosyncratic avenue to go down for a horror franchise. one of the few “legacy sequels” that has any shot at being remembered a decade after release.
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McCabe and Mrs. Miller is still one of my favorite castration fables. Up there with The Conversation and Predator.
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Rewatched The Fall Guy today. Still in my mind a near perfect summer popcorn flick. And my personal kryptonite a movie about the art of making movies which always gets to me tbh.
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Yeah, I gotta watch The Bone Temple soon, because while I’ve got some tiny issues with 28 Years Later (mostly the kinda goofy and stilted kill cam moments?), it was way way way better than I could have hoped for.
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This gave 28 Years pt 1 unique character, which the second part seriously lacked imo. The second part also just went nowhere and had that abominable ending scene attached to it. I don’t get what people like about Bone Temple like at all, it was so languid when the first was so lively.
bone temple was a bummer. i was hoping an american director picking up on some threads that were deeply british would maybe be interesting, even in failure, but it just stripped out any specificity.
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Oh no, I’ll still check it out but I guess I’m in no rush now.
Honestly it’s funny how the kid actors in Weeks were kinda middling, and the kid in Years was great. You can do good movies with kids! You just gotta give them character!
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You may still end up liking it. I was not wanting something exactly like 28 Days Later going into Years, and was pleased with what we got, and really liked the edge Danny’s filmmaking gave the otherwise kind of mundane story. Bone Temple seems to be received better by people who were disappointed by 28 Years over all, from what I’ve seen. But if your ultimate problem is that you want a 28 Days Later pt. 2 deal, then Bone Temple won’t likely give you what you want either.
This worked for me, along with the more restrained formalist style, because what I appreciated was that it was ‘contemplative’, a ‘hangout’ movie, etc. Kelson gets positioned to co-lead and he’s a frazzled shell of a person, and then the nature of the story is, he’s observing and trying to form an empathetic bond. The Jimmies are also more grounded and that works because Spike is trapped with them and they’re no longer shocking but more excruciating and suffocating to be around. I like Bone Temple as the reconciliatory denouement and comedown from 28 Years Later.
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I can appreciate it more with that sort of framing. I was definitely more curious than disappointed with the way it is so literally the middle part of a story for its entire duration. It has almost like a road trip movie kind of feel to it, with breaks to be really high and zone out on a hike.
Perhaps another instance of expectations, and the self, gettin in the way of seeing clearly a thing that’s at least decent.
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Everything about Kelson in Bone Temple ruled. We’ve seen a bunch of different “survivor” archetypes over the years from Heston speeding around in his convertible to Michonne with her jawless pets, and Kelson feels very fresh and a reaction against a lot of that.
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Somebody disparagingly said that Kelson in Bone Temple basically turns into Mr. Rogers, but that’s secretly what makes the movie worthwhile. Samson and Jimmy Crystal are the neighbors who pop in. The climax is putting on a show with the Neighborhood of Make-Believe.
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Watched Greg Araki’s Totally Fucked Up tonight. Killer film. Tore my heart into pieces, I need 20 more of these.
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I watched Muzzy in Gondoland on youtube. This is one of those things you never hear about because it’s intended for kids learning English as a second language. It fuckin rules though. I checked it out because I liked Princess Sylvia’s design, so it was funny to find that the entire plot is that the evil advisor goblin Corvax likes Sylvia, she hates him, and so he uses his computer and his 3D modeling skills to make a fake Sylvia but screws up and makes a million of them. Very understandable problem, even enviable. This movie is so up my alley in every particular, not least that the ESL component makes the characters speak and act in extremely simple and straightforward ways, which makes the instances of subtlety and oddness more rich. The animation is gorgeous and neverendingly cute. The music has many moments of beauty.
The weirdest part is that it assumes the audience will intrinsically understand why the King and Queen are horrified and furious to hear that the gardener and the princess are in love, and instantly jail him while the princess protests. I’m an adult and I’m not sure I understand. I suppose the segregation of royal and peasant blood is just one of the ubiquitous human dynamics like hunger.
Waving to you from Gondoland…
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Oh I guess this is the thread for filmed movies with real people in them. Please move this wherever it ought to be.
I have “je suis… le grand Muzzy!” with his weird deep troll voice stuck in my head forever, from seeing the commercial 1000 times.
Je suis la jeune fille!
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