Peter Weir week(?) continue with Gallipoli. beautiful film about some dumb fellas in a very stupid circumstance. last I watched it was back in high school, didn’t notice the whistle before running in the opening scene
making the eldest search through the various Oxygène parts to find the laser music used for the running
I liked it too! I put my thoughts here but yeah, I think it hit dramatically where it needed to. Gooseworx did confirm the transfem thing with Jax today which made me think they should’ve made it more explicit in the show, rather than be coy about it. It’s a youtube show! There’s probably a lot fewer restrictions than you get with a network! It’d be a good place for it!
Anyways, I also watched The Final Countdown, a movie I’ve always been curious about since I was a kid, and it really super duper sucked! They definitely got access to this military equipment by working with the U.S. Navy and became so enamored they did nothing but film deck crews and pointless dogfights where were are made to imagine a Zero could pose a thread to a modern fucking tomcat, and feel good about causality getting fucked because the U.S. Navy is sloppy. Part of me was hoping for a Crimson Tide-style fight on the aircraft carrier between those who seek to effortlessly win World War 2 for the U.S., and those that don’t think we can or should change the course of history. What would have become of us if we hadn’t had to endure any death and struggle and futility in the largest war the world’s ever seen? How much more monstrous would we have become? Not something this movie is remotely capable of exploring.
It’s very funny to see Zipang also exist 20 years later as a “what if a modern aircraft carrier was sent back in time and won WW2 for the Imperial Japanese Navy?” counterpoint to The Final Countdown, and both arrive at the conclusion of, “that would rule for us.”
“race you to the pyramid!”
love this sullen shithead
Finding more of this man immediately. We love a true hater
Who is that guy and what did Peter Weir and his wife do to him?
there was a certain time for australians with media influence and incredible cultural cringe to both be paid for their thoughts and make a career out of them
see Clive James
Oh no! Its okay. I love it is boring and nothing happens and is mostly a document of 1980s peace time navy. And the TIME effect has stayed in my brain since I was 3.
I own it on 4K. Why! Why did they put it in 4K? Who cares about this movie as much as me??
Mmm what did you like about it?
In its favor I do think it is fun just seeing the minutiae of how a modern aircraft carrier works, it’s only through an enormous amount of well-trained activity that jets launch and land and this city on the water keeps working. A thing with virtually no input from the natural world around it, save the air and the sun.
The main reason I didn’t care for it was that it’s very toothless and meandering, and ultimately, nobody had to make a real choice or deal with any consequences. Convenience and blundering solve all causality problems, and they never even achieve their own objectives. I honestly “respect” Zipang more for at least doing the thing, even if the thing was utter nationalistic wankery.
The story is like, fully 2/3rds of the plot is devoted to “where the hell are we?” and we finally get the debate about what to do at that mark. Their conclusion is “we don’t know what to do,” and they seemingly don’t pick a course of action but we later learn they have defaulted to “destroy the Japanese attack fleet.”
The Japanese pilot is shown to be kind of unusually evil in a way I found a bit corny, he’s like strafing the survivors in the water, and almost shoots a dog later on, a 20-minute block is devoted to this pretty pointless standoff where demands are made and negotiated. They solve this by telling him stuff from the future about Pearl Harbor until he gets so stunned they shoot him.
I thought it might get a bit more interesting with Chapman being a senator and thus, apparently, meaning that the captain of the aircraft carrier needs to obey him. But in actuality, he does not obey him at all, which is reasonable, meaning that we’re made to watch as they go through the motions of the captain obeying him, and we sit through Capman’s attempted warning via radio to Pearl Harbor, followed by this whole “who are you, what are you doing here” thing again, and like, THEY don’t know what they’re doing here either, bud!!
Eventually the captain decides to ship senator Chapman to an island near Pearl Harbor where he’ll be rescued, presumably even further making him the obvious presidential pick, which super fucks up the timeline. He then preps to attack the Japanese. This to me almost feels pornographic because they’re going into this “battle” with cheat codes on, knowing exactly where the enemy is and will be, they have vastly superior firepower, it’ll be a complete massacre.
The captain does a speech to the crew where he says:
“We’re about to fight a battle that was lost before most of you were born. This time, with God’s help, it’s going to be different. Good luck.”
And I think we’re supposed to be psyched for this? Like, we’re gonna stop Pearl Harbor and kill the Japanese fleet and yeah!!! America will never endure a loss like this!! We’re gonna fix it!!
They load tf up, tons of lingering shots of missiles being armed onto their fighters, planes being positioned. Always fun to see that, you just wish it wasn’t for a mission that is essentially them firing 40 missiles at long range and wiping out a fleet.
There’s a really pointless struggle with the helicopter and Chapman where he bungles a flare gun and blows everyone up, which solves the causality problem, and history is saved by accident. The captain again avoids having to make a hard choice and God’s hand shields him from consequence.
They launch their fighters, intending to level the Japanese fleet, which would be an act of war by the U.S. against Japan, drawing them into a war the U.S. at the time didn’t choose to commit to (though the movie is at pains to tell us that FDR and Chapman both “know an attack from Japan is coming” and are already approving of war). Under these circumstances, of a mysterious American force destroying a Japanese fleet, the U.S. of the time may not have even stayed in the war! Or declared it!
We get the jets heading towards the battle, the big-ass battle they’ve been building up to the entire movie. But, the time storm shows up again, so they recall all fighters and are warped back to the present, avoiding the causality problem again. If you’re going to do this for the entire movie at least show the thing you’re so horny for! The captain just made a big speech about how it’s God’s will!
(Also, just want to note, the time portal follows them, whenever they change course it changes course, and nobody gives a fuck about this or questions why that is.)
I got a big kick out of the fact that Laskey said at the 11th hour “we know all the mistakes that are going to be made in the next 40 years and we can correct them!” and the captain’s just like, “shut the fuck up!” and that’s it. Maybe should’ve been something you thought of before this point? Like hours ago? Maybe you could’ve made a letter or transmission, or told Chapman? Or something?
They then raw-dogg the time warp with fucking personnel on the deck and people on staircases and shit. Have people brace themselves! You know what’s about to happen!
There’s then this victorious scene of all the jets returning and landing on the deck, but they’d already gone through the portal? So I guess maybe the jets were caught up in the portal too?
They get back home and the whole thing was pointless, END OF MOVIE
I’m not the Big Final Countdown Fan here but I think the utter pointlessness of everything that happens in it is kind of the charm.
If it is within you to find it.
I like it precisely for the same reasons you hate it. That they just have this giant what if philosophic argument for two hours, some MPs get killed, and then you find out this was a closed circle from the start. It is really well worked out and clever even if it’s goal was 2inches above the ground.
I think the freakazoid episode that was a parody of final countdown was better than the movie it was parodying
US (2018?ish)
Lost some of its drive from the first time watching it, but still like the themes it beings up in passing (class/status, how it affects behavioue towards others, family dynamics)… would hence rate Get Out higher than Us now, much to my surprise!
saw From Here To Eternity, the warmovis.
So many guys in this movie, dang. Frank Sinatra is a god damned disaster twink in here. The military looks pretty miserable. When Alma is like “When you live properly, you live safely” and I was like “yeah I get that, a lot”. The kiss on the beach was pretty good.
Saw Jaws at the Music Box. My partner and I had never seen it all the way through and it was funny and good and great to be in a packed theater with a bunch of cheering fans.
I want to see this for Burt.
From Here to Eternity is the movie that made Montgomery Clift the Guy of Warmovis. So much “dudes grappling with their own sexuality” in that movie.
saw sleepaway camp hosted by midnight mass!! felissa rose was there and she kept doing impressions and it was AMAZING
they were showing pictures of behind the scenes stuff that her mom took and there was a picture of her and Judy’s actress. and she was like oh oh oh I rememeber this picture like it was taken yesterday. you can see we’re friends we were nothing like our characters but all I could think of when taking it was ‘oh my god I’m touching Judy’s boobs’
and the funniest part is felissas boobs now are like five times the size of Judy’s, and felissa is a really energetic person who moves around a lot, so while she’s gushing about Judy’s chest her tits are bouncing around like crazy it was hilarious oh my god
she did really funny husky new york accents of her mom and agent, she bragged about how her dad opened a resort for gay men and that was the first place she ever performed singing when she was 8 so she always knew who her people were
entire audience was trans or gay, everyone laughed at the same stuff as me EXCEPT THE SHOTS OF ANGELA SILENTLY LOOKING UP FROM VERY LOW IN THE FRAME LIKE SHE IS A TINY MOUSE GETTING HER NINTENDO CONTROLLERS TAKEN AWAY. those shots are by far the funniest thing in the movie to me
oh also the cop going on and on about how much horrible awful screaming pain the pedophile must be in
oh also the big screen moose knuckle. apparently everyone in the camp brought their own clothes but production DID have to crop some of the guys tops and I’m so curious who brought a crop top and who had to get their shirt slashed. super fun
i fucking love sleepaway camp. “eat shit and live, bill.”
