Going to see The Rock a few hours before Scotland Morocco in the World Cup. Not sure I will survive the evening
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Cars 2 has a lot of car on car violence.
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Today I watched the 1992 Hong Kong film, The Cat, which according to the trailer on YouTube, is also known as ā1000 Years Cat Theā. Itās a sci-fi horror film about a girl and her cat who come from outer space, and are trying to get back to their home planet before some fungal slime monster gets them. Lots of fun gore effects and wacky set pieces, like a sort of kung fu battle between the cat and a dog in a junkyard.
The movie also has a Japanese cut, which weirdly is pretty much a different movie with different actors that was filmed simultaneously. So itās like 80% new scenes with certain parts from the HK version either re-shot with the different actors, or spliced in as-is but with slightly different context. So you have weird stuff like the character Inspector Wong being a totally different guy in the JP version, but the HK actor is still in there with some of the same scenes, but now heās supposed to be a different guy.
The JP version also seems to flow more coherently, like a lot of scenes in the HK version just sort of happen haphazardously, but in the JP cut the context is explained a bit more. Even weirder is that the HK version has a lot of inconsistencies that seem to be explained by them using bits of the JP cut, like the cat not getting his tail back until right at the end, so in the HK version thereās a bunch of shots where he seems to be missing his tail randomly.
Unfortunately the JP version is kinda tedious overall though, kinda drawn out and the main character went from being a charismatic author who solves mysteries to some sad sack who seems to hate his girlfriend. On the plus side it includes a scene where the cat drives a car.
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From the director of Riki Oh! Been wanting to see that for years, and now that the bd is out Iām waiting for my friends to not be busy to watch it with me.
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I still havenāt seen Riki Oh, I should probably get onto that one of these days ā¦
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Its the best!
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I love Riki-oh
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Notorious fucking rocks
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Finally watched Ken Russellās āThe Devilsā. What an insane fucking movie.
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A Cure for Wellness:
wellā¦ that was a wild ride.
Thereās something clever to be said about Capitalism and the horrors it conjours (one of the best bit of the movie being that the real horror happens/is depicted in the first few minutes, and you donāt even realize that, since it is too normalized footage. Brutal! 
) but idk what exactly. Gonna think about some things in this for a long, long timeā¦
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that Speed Racer 4k disc came out last week
I stayed late at work tonight and abused the fact that Iām the guy who runs the theater and watched it on a big screen
Speed Racer is still a good movie and somehow an even more salient and scathing critique of capitalism in 2026
Iām going home right now and Iām gonna watch the races again because apparently someone at Warner was bored and did up the HDR grade to have 4000 nit highlights
please blind me movie
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Backrooms was awesome. For some reason though, possibly because Iām a dumbass, I went and saw it 6pm on a Saturday night. I guess I wanted to be in a full screening to keep my finger on the pulse on the reactions to contemporary films based on an internet meme? The cinema was filled with teenagers heckling the movie. I walked out of there thinking that the current generation of kids are doomed. But then I thought, wait a minute, didnāt a kid fuckinā make this whole movie?
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I saw it last night at a sold out screening. It was the youngest crowd Iāve ever seen at that theater. They were surprisingly respectful! They seemed very into it, reacted well to the scary bits, no heckling. I guess I got lucky. Probably helped that it was an indie nonprofit theater rather than a major cineplex. Before and after the movie I did hear a lot of 17 year olds talking animatedly about stupid youtube trivia, lol.
The movie was better than I expected! Parsons wisely pulled back a bit on the goofy government conspiracy thriller aspect that was so prominent in his web series, but itās still in there and still the weakest part imo. I think his stuff is strongest when it focuses on uncanny, unexplainable spaces, and this movie did not skimp on that. You really get to see those backrooms, the camera is loving those backrooms and all their variations. The kitchen scene was one of my favorite bits, even if it was yet another homage to the Texas Chainsaw Massacreās dinner scene that everybody in the world likes to reference. This was a unique spin on it though.
Movie gets bonus points from me for using a song from the new Boards of Canada album as its credits music. It worked really well!
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Theres a local horror movie premiere tonight, that I kinda feel obligated to be at because some friends worked on it and also kinda want to skip since the last one from this director was kinda gen Z bro-y (and also got an amazing burn on letterboxd from a SOV filmmaker I like that all the special features on its disc were formatted for TikTok).
I was thinking Iād go see Mortal Kombat instead but my partner gave me a lecture about how itās my civic duty to see I Love Boosters, and my film professor friend just posted about how she liked Backrooms.
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i wanna see backrooms after reading about how biphobia is an integral part of the lore. that is so fuckin funny. watching backrooms on the bisexual ikea couch
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