never look back.
I was laying down watching Pulse again and noticed Grandia for Saturn and Quake II on this guy’s table.
eta:
Langrisser on the left
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free streaming film series of 70s-80s b-movies from taiwan:
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the guy from Freaked and some guy who isn’t from Freaked preview a chunk of the soundtrack Frank Zappa did for The Fly. It’s uhhh… I’ve never listened to Frank Zappa, so, I don’t know what the fuck any of this even is but I do like The Fly.
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this supposed to be for the Cronenberg film?
hahaha that would have been something.
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its a shame they couldn’t have used this to cross-promote Frank Zappa-branded electric fly swatters
The Frank Zappa “The Fly” Fly Zapper
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I first heard of this movie through Rock Hudson’s Home Movies like five years ago but finally got around to watching it last night. It is absurdly, outrageously problematic in the typical way of 1950s gender politics, yet I still thought it was really fun and funny. Rock Hudson plays a man who Doris Day hates cause he’s always on their party line manipulating girls with his song writing abilities and smooth talking. When Rock’s friend comes around and says that he’s in love with this woman who has a problem with a SEX MANIAC hogging her phone line, he puts two and two together and starts tricking Doris Day into thinking he’s a gay man from Texas, all to make her fall in love with him and… I guess??.. show her, or himself?, that he is a 400IQ super genius creep with sex appeal? It really is as heinous as that sounds, but it’s also really charming and colorful. And the jokes, for all their horrid contents, are well structured and written in that impeccably on-time and snappy early Hollywood way. I have a new problematic fave. Has anyone else seen it?
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Yeah, I guess it’s part of a bunch of stuff that was uncovered when Bill S. Preston was working on his Zappa documentary. I lost the post I found this from so I don’t know if he went into detail as to why it fell through.
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OHMSS is definitely one of the most watchable bonds, up there with view to a kill and casino royale imo – really leans into the “tragic camp” angle
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I wish I could hang out in that house, wow…
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That is definitely the second best part of the film.
I watched the Director’s Cut of Troy. And instead of giving thoughts just gonna copy and paste my discord liveblog:
That's the Horse
Time for 20 minutes of Troy
wow this is both too expository and also expects you to already know the story
BRITISH ACCENTS
Orlando Bloomy
Braddius Pittomon
Titties
The top of Orlando’s hog
"Various shots were recut and extended. For instance, the love scene between Helen and Paris was reframed to include more nudity of Diane Kruger. "
This film is pretty bad
zoom in like this was an italian drama “this war will never be forgotten”
Lots a blonde blue eyes
I love all the indigo clothing
This big boat shot does not work
Because all the boat’s water patterns are the exact same 3 frames on a completely still ocean
Leans Over That’s Troy
So much of this I keep thinking “is this the b-roll they added to the DC?”
Maybe the most ORANGE AND TEAL MOVIE ever
Even the obilsques are teal somehow
EVERYONE HAS CG BLUE EYES
Is this the spice?
Yeeshhhh this dialog
Do not mock the gods
it is so weird there are camera changes and I can hear the ps2 loading
They redid the whole soundtrack for the DC and it is still not appropriate
I am real curious how a different soundtrack can change a film
The code: honor the gods, love your woman, defend your country
They couldn’t get 20 dudes on horse back?
They CGed 20 horses?
Pwnd
FATALITY
Achilles Wins
Beach Horses
Horse Violence
This film does show how messy sword combat is
The boat effects are so bad
Sean Beanos
God this “Achilles wants to be forever” subplot doesn’t fucking work because they keep hammering it and…anyone watches knows the ending?
Do You Love Her?
The Sword of Troy
The Power of Love
wow you can hear the overdubbing in a bathroom that happened
It is said the melange turned the fremen’s eyes blue
Color correction really is a bane
The composite wide shots really don’t work
“Hey we really don’t have that many of you so take little half steps”
Cool army slam
Okay this part is pretty good.
Again like how messy they make sword and spear combat
Really felt like two stupid armies slamming into each other
SPEAR THROUGH THE ARM
FATALITY
wow there is still 90 minutes left
That’s a whole movie
Gonna say glad I’ve never had to swing a sword and shield on a sandy plain to defend my homeland
I like SO guy
Where are they getting the wood for these pyres
Troy is surrounded by sand
Bradian Pittus Sex
Is Brad wearing a sock?
Brad Ass
Well that romance went as expected
Hahahahaha
Brad’s Second gave a look of “look at my rascal lord bedding the slave girl and not wanting to wake her up. What a cad.”
Pitts accent comes and goes
music video ass shot
Cool horns
AWESOME
Why did no one ever tell me about the tumbleweed fireballs
These rule
Why is Achilles helping?
hahahaha
all the greeks “achilles! Achilles!” Hector of troy under his breath “Achilles.”
Wilhelm scream
Those that consume the spice turn their eyes blue
It is the first stage of spice addiction
The third is you become a floating space testicle
The second is herpes
OH GROSS
Holy shit that’s gross
For all their subtle CG i knew this film was in trouble when it opened on a “dead” horse who you could see was just laying down and blinked twice
I see a jihad sweeping across the galaxy
I can’t believe Sean Bean is gonna live
Unless they radically change the book
GAME DAY
everyone putting on their armor
Brad is awful in this
If that wasn’t clear
Look at all these fun robes
How is brad’s skin orange and his armor teal?
May the force-gods be with you
And he was a good son
Hahahah
Really silly thing to put in a 3 hour movie
“That’s achille’s heel.”
PWND
why is the music like this
Why is it triumphment right now?
Oh
That’s peter otoole
At least one person does have actual unnaturally blue eyes like the fremen
“That’s the horse”
You gotta be kidding me
No
No
Where is all this wood coming from?
It’s vincent regan from SPACEJAIL
(That’s the horse)
The horse looks cool
Honk
Honk
It took me 3 hours to remember Orlando is Legolas
Of course he is gonna use a bow
Is that how it happens?
PARIS WINS
wow that sucked
Watch Alexander y’all.
i watched psychomagic and its the exact emotional opposite of watching an insex video, therapy is alright
Freaky is Blumhouse’s 2nd win this year after The Invisible Man. Vince Vaughn’s bodyswapping rendition of a bullied teenage girl from an out-and-out psychopath is pleasingly silly and surprisingly tender by the end. Certainly better than Happy Death Day 2 U’s irritating need to over-egg its own formula
Possessor is Cronenberg Jnr’s attempt at remaking Scanners with a psychic assassin who is Not Tilda Swinton. It has arty montages and does not skimp on the nasty. I also refuse to spoil whether this film has better headsplosions than something made 30+ years ago
Both were dope
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me watching Mank, when Mank appears: That’s Citizen Kane
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Mank starring Tany Shalhaub
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So, Mank.
Not sure where this’ll land, but it looked wonderful, and the pacing starts growing on me already.
I couldn’t hear any of the dialogue in tenet
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Nolan constructs films out of “characters” so cliche archetypal you just know who they are and their relationships to one another after 10 seconds of Actor Vibing.
But then he decides to make them say out loud with their words all of the things that he’s already told us via the magic of Context Provided By 120+ Years of Cinema, the Actors Acting.
He’s like Michael Mann’s insecure little brother.
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