was tired and in need of a thing to have on in the background so i put on the new Mortal Kombat movie. i saw some praise for it throughout twitter but tbh i didn’t really enjoy it very much. it has a somewhat-fun first half and then i found myself increasingly bored as more and more of the movie focused on the Outworld crew. it’s pretty uneven, but also not as bad as it could have been. the movie concludes with a 2010-style dubstep remix of “Techno Syndrome”
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watched the golan-globus produced bronson vehicle kinjite:forbidden subjects. think these character names say everything that needs to be said.
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wow, uh. Not a good idea to watch Threads before bed.
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No, it isn’t! Such a great film that is so emotionally draining
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Yeah it is heinous. Such a strong vision, really remarkable. I am mitigating psychic damage by doing what I never do when I watch movies and checking my phone for nonsense pretty frequently 
I bet you could gut most of the score from The Witch and replace it with Pulse’s and show it to people who have already seen it and absolutely nobody would be able to tell the difference.
I recently watched this. I think it is on Amazon Prime if you want.
Edit: oh I was assuming you hadn’t seen it, but yes more people should see FATAL PULSE.
The end of The Haunted Mansion starring Eddie Murphy. Is this a real highway?
Isn’t it the same one that was in The Beyond?
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i’m gonna watch all of these eventually i promise
There is some OXbox James Bond game that is pretty forgettable except it features this Highway supposedly out of New Orleans (Louisana does have 20 mile over water highways but not like that.)
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Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
In popular culture
- A scene in Lucio Fulci’s 1981 supernatural horror film The Beyond was filmed on the causeway.
- A scene in the 2003 Disney film The Haunted Mansion was filmed on the causeway.
- A virtual re-creation of the causeway appears in the 2004 video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
tho that’s a north/south-aligned bridge so the sun wouldn’t be that low, can’t be the first shot
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wow we got thee of the five references listed on that page. nice work team.
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everyone else: watching good movies
me:shove corporate garbage down my throbbing gullet
stuff what I can remember watching recently
WW84: holy shit what the fuck are you doing Patty Jenkins
awful, terrible film
I don’t know what was too much for me, Gal Godot saving Egyptian children or beating beaten over the head with a Trump proxy in the main villain
however, I personally proffited from the production of the film so it’s hard to say whether it’s truly good or bad (ignoring that the building I work in and surrounding structures are in the background of some shots despite not actually existing in 1984)
Soul: hey this is kind of heavy for a Pixar movie (says man who argues that Toy Story 4 is about a man struggling with suicidal thoughts) but it’s also pretty good and it’s way better than most of the recent Disney/Pixar output (depending on who you are, you’re either raising your eyebrow in interest or feel like I’m damning it with faint praise)
also maybe because I didn’t actually search out a trailer for it but I enjoyed the act 2 twist instead of the whole thing being what was sold in those initial teasers
The Mitchells vs the Machines: hey this is that animated cartoon movie what Sony made and Lord Miller produced that was supposed to come out last fall
Netflix bought it
I’m really glad Netflix gave it a home but I’m mad I’ll never get to see this in a theater barring some insanity/Oscar-eligibility run
I’m convinced now more than ever that Sony Pictures Animation is the best cartoon movie house in Hollywood and I hope they get to keep making wacky, dumb shit and also that Lord Miller keeps working with them
but also let Gendy make that Popeye movie guys
(they won’t because they’re cowards)
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honestly jealous they didn’t make em like this when I was younger
ah fuck
I saw Monster Hunter too
it was way better than it had any right being and I love how small of a story it told
there’s a lot to say about Wonder Woman 84, but the movie’s interpretation of Max Lord could have been identical if Trump had died, like, twenty years ago. Every single aspect of his character and arc were inspired by 1980s media and the original comic book character’s pre-2010 details. Trump probably inspired the original version, back in 1987.
Actually, if you approach the movie from this perspective - that it was conceived and created in some kind of mental/social/cultural bubble where only 80s media and pre-2010 superhero comics are relevant - then many aspects of it make a lot more sense. It’s still a fantastic fever dream of a film, but you can see how it actually coheres when properly processed on its own unreasonable terms.
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Mortal Kombat is a movie where a lot decently choreographed fights happen and some cherry red CGI blood is spilled and absolutely everything in it exists to set up these fights, with a sprinkling of context so a dude can say ‘Flawless victory’
A weak 7/10 film, didn’t regret watching it.
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