looking back, the bathhouse scene with xenia onatopp in goldeneye made 9 year old me real confused about what exactly “sex” was
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i love how goldeneye’s soundtrack is like “bond needs to be modern so let’s make the whole thing sound like b-sides from michael jackson’s dangerous” just non stop breakbeats and samples with ancient synths it’s really an amazing artifact
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Fatboy Slim’s first Casio
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i have no comment to add about this particular scene that would be appropriate to share here
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it’s really weird to look at screenshots of this movie and see, like, recognizable famous actor famke janssen (not to mention alan cumming), because when i watched the movie the first time those people just were those characters. somehow it isn’t this way for sean bean, not like i knew who sean bean was at the time but i guess he just didn’t feel like he inhabited the role as much.
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Wow I feel like this movie potentially explains some horny anime
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kinda feel like the 60s was just generally horny anime but irl
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it’s funny how looking at stills of the actual cinematography from southland tales is nothing like the experience of watching or otherwise thinking about southland tales because the editing and the postproduction work is what makes it so insane
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Yeah there are very few stills from that movie that can communicate the whole of it. Maybe like a shot of Timberlake during the musical hallucination sequence, but even then.
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Watched Mank last night and liked it. But I like any movie about making movies, so. The tone was interesting for a Fincher movie, because it didn’t really have any melodramatic stretches with embittered people or shocking twists. Well, I think technically there was some of that, but Gary Oldman seems like an clown unphased by any of it.
I thought it looked kind of ugly though. There were only a few scene that the lighting seemed right enough to pull of the black and white look without too many hues of shadow obscuring details. The movie also had fake burns in the film which made me lol
the erotic dance scene is one of my favorite things captured on film
Fun fact: this was the most expensive and cgi intensive shot in the entire movie. Can you guess why?
they had to digitally erase all of the characters’ reflections from the surface of the table because vampires don’t have reflections
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A tablecloth would’ve been cheaper!
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It would’ve been! They shot the scene without thinking about it and had to fix it in post when they noticed how reflective the table was
John Young’s statement was so true it had to be printed twice.
how the hell did jim norton manage his way into spider-man?
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It’s a nicely lit film.
Back to war movies I saw Da 5 Bloods. It was good! someone needed to tell spike to cut it from 2.5 to 2. That said when it got intense I had to take off the headphones and pace around the room and just watch the subs. It felt very plane movie at that moment. I did that for plane movies a lot.
Isfet and uvnvnv talked about it way back when but as someone that has seen a LOT of war movies recently and enjoys a heist film (which this is equally both) (and a ptsd vibe film). It handles the war movie thing well. It presents a hyper reality to the past stuff that well…hmm. I was emotionally invested by that point so I kept thinking at the end of the film is the bombastic appropriate or is it being carried by my investment. Which is a successful movie so shut up and stop thinking.
I did also think wow someone needed to tell Spike Lee no a few more times. But I can’t believe Spike didn’t get everything he wanted.
A slow train ride of plot devices.
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God dang there are so many movies inside this movie that I got side tracked and meant to write about how thoughtful and complicated it treated Black American Masculinity.
Obviously none of the film would work with a white cast but I kept thinking about the vunerablity would have been impossible with aging white men.
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