I need to see the two movies he made in Korea before they’re taken off of streaming.
Really dug Clockwatchers for the first 3/4 before its shambolic narrative falls apart at the end by which time Parker Posey and Lisa Kudrow have left Toni Collette all alone but maybe it’s supposed to feel terrible and empty and a mess like when your co-worker friend at a terrible job moves on. Shit, am I getting nostalgic about office jobs? Damn this pandemic, no. Anyway, Parker Posey is like 90% of what I like about this one (the other 10% is the production design and glorious 90s wide angle lens shots of the psychedelically mundane).
Her outfits are amazing throughout but plastic bag on head is a favourite.
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Lara Croft’s missing in action archaeologist dad has a marble mausoleum on the family property that’s in the shape of a adventurer’s tent.
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Our biochem corpus is far in advance of UNATCO’s, as is our electronic sentience.
And their ethical inflexibility has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider.
…the augmentation project?
Among other things…
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better lighting and blocking than anything made in the last decade
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Netflix, The Devil All The Time: narrated by the author of the novel it’s based on, and if the narration is any indication I’m glad I watched the movie instead of reading a guy ape Flannery O’Connor. A twisted tale of damaged psychos in the American sticks. It was pretty good, shot well, Robert Pattinson plays a real piece of shit which is really enough of a reason to watch a movie all by itself
EDIT: oh, I should have said, skinny, tough, reticent young Tom Holland as our stoic morally righteous hero made me miss @parker something fierce
I haven’t watched it ever but I always assumed Nightbreed was like a dumb zombie movie or something and apparently it’s some kind of weirdo dark fantasy horror thing?
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From memory it’s essentially Clive Barker’s Dances With Wolves but with fewer BDSM sexfreaks and the occasional scene where David Cronenberg kills people with a sack over his head
Best enjoyed with low expectations while you frequently ponder whose kink was responsible for this
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I mean it’s not quite dances with wolves because the thing is, it’s not a colonizer ‘going native’, it’s a dude who was always an outsider learning why he doesn’t fit in.
It’s about a gay guy going to a nightclub for the first time and becoming a regular.
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finally a good monhun outfit
i watched the stupid blockbuster video documentary on netflix because i ran out of jeopardy episodes to watch while washing dishes, it is like weirdly reverent of the Blockbuster Brand but is kind of interesting otherwise. a lot of it focuses on the last operating blockbuster in Bend Oregon which is like charming but feels out of step with the more interesting stuff about the story of the rise and fall of the corporation intercut with a very strange array of c-list celebrities and Vh1 style Remember the XX’s talking heads (they got Kevin Smith, Ron Funches, Jamie Kennedy and … the voice actor of Obi Wan Kenobi on Clone Wars, exactly who I want to hear from)
i’m only posting about it because it occurred to me that one of the weirdest things about it to me is it is presented like Blockbuster is this icon of 80s-90s nostalgia and the days of VHS and all that, but (and I did confirm this with facts) the actual peak era of blockbuster was like 1999-2003 ish. I feel like the corporate history in the doc is actually pretty decent so I’m sure that is mentioned, but in terms of people’s memories of the store the tendency is to push the nostalgia back a lot farther.
Anyway it was getting to me because all my memories of VHS rental places are either Hollywood video or local places, and Blockbuster I associate much more heavily with later dayz after they had already slaughtered all of the competition and DVD was king.
IDK it’s a weird movie. I would probably be more interested in a documentary about literally any other mega chain store from roughly that era. Give me the Rise and Fall of Good Guys documentary. (Apparently that was a west coast thing) Or Hard Rock Cafe or Planet Hollywood or something. What’s going on with those these days.
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hollywood video was a colossally superior franchise video rental store in nearly every respect* but especially when it came to foreign film selections. rented project a-ko, fulltime killer, ptu, city on fire and other bangers that i would never find at either of the two blockbuster locations in my small town.
*they notably didn’t have the n64 version of indiana jones and the infernal machine available for rent
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Game crazy, the Hollywood video owned used game store chain was better than GameStop too.
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their stickers NEVER ripped when you peeled them. I loved game crazy.
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yeah i’ve never got the blockbuster nostalgia? they decimated mom & pop stores and their selection was homogenous hollywood stuff with few exceptions. i guess it was better than current netflix where nothing made before 2018 is available except cheap TV serials
my rental nostalgia is for The Movie Store in my hometown which had very loose return policies and an interest in snes jrpgs, letting me play stuff like earthbound, chrono trigger and secret of mana that i couldn’t afford otherwise. and Wild & Wooly Video in louisville which was exactly the kind of place that comes to mind when you think of “great indie video store.” i never bothered getting on any private film trackers while they were still open because anything i could find on one i could get for $3 and a quick walk, and i’d wind up grabbing two other things that looked fun while i was browsing
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god i miss this
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i need to get out of the house more
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ANYWAY we watched WaterWorld which is a deeply unpleasant film for a huge amount of reasons:
- Costner’s character (the mariner?) is deeply fucking unlikeable from start to finish. Among other things, he attempts to sell the one woman in the movie for some paper, cuts a little girl’s hair for drawing on his boat with crayons, cuts the woman’s hair for trying to defend her, throws the little girl into the ocean, barely says anything and never expresses any emotion at all, and also murders an entire population of people (more on this later)
- The film is just like, really close to everyone’s face all the time? Like, please let me breathe this is a movie about the entire world being ocean and somehow it feels claustrophobic. Awful
- The line “Nothing’s free in waterworld” gets dropped almost immediately.
- Piss drinking
- They forgot the word for gasoline but the bad guy still manages to use the r-slur near the end of the movie
- The bad guys (smokers, because they smoke a lot of cigarettes) are portrayed as these animalistic raiders who just like, kill everyone…but they’re also the most stable population we meet in the movie. Like, most of them are just people and they happen to be supported by a group of raiders. And the climax of the movie is Costner casually killing every single one of them by blowing up their ship. because he was mad at dennis hopper.
Dennis Hopper was, in fact, the only good part of this movie, as he gleefully switches from childish to menacing to inspiring to con-artist. Everything else is awful.
Anyway I’m always interested in reevaluating big failures because I think that, often times, the fact that they are financial failures overshadows everything else about them. But this was a terrible, no good, very bad movie that was trying to be Wet Western and couldn’t even achieve the barest success. It was a financial failure because it fucking sucked.
The best thing it does it make me miserable for 1.8 hours, then give me .1 hours of a green island which is the most relieved I’ve ever been to see the color green in my life. But it’s not worth it.
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y’all i don’t think i really like movies all that much
no waterworld is not the thing i should be judging this on but the last like, 5 movies i’ve made posts about were all “what a miserable waste of time”
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even the smallest blockbuster had a catalog three times bigger than netflix.
It’s more a nostalgia for something less bad than netflix rather than something good.
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