with all of these japanese gangster movies on amazon for free what should i watch
Video game developer Ken Levine stated that Angel Heart was one of several films that inspired the first-person shooter game BioShock Infinite.
Game designer Jane Jensen credits the film as one of the inspirations for Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers.
What a dumb movie, wow.
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i love the final destination movies (i barely remember the first one though i think it was too serious or something maybe ill watch it again) and wish they kept making them with different directors for each one, the stupid deaths in those movies are the closest ill get to more freddy krueger so ill fuckin take it
3 was the one with the PROPHETIC PHOTOS right?
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i’ve only seen the first final destination and watched i think like mere hours before i was about to get on an airplane. i don’t think i’ll ever see any of the others lol
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Yes! 3 had Fatal Frame like premonitions smeared across Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s high school yearbook photos.
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i just want contrived bugs bunny getting chased by the ox super gorey deaths, but not saw
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you know, ken levine being inspired by the racism in angel heart makes perfect sense
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after over a decade of advocacy, some which came from this very forum, i have seen the dion brothers/the gravy train. incredibly funny. wrecking ball climax all-time great stuff. malick could write a really tight script in the 70s.
I finally got around to seeing Bruce Bickford’s Cas’l over the weekend. It was just as mesmerizing as this preview had led me to believe it would be.
The DVD has sound issues despite being brand new, however, so I’ll eventually have to track down a rip of it. I’d also like to find his earlier film Prometheus’s Garden. But not for
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watched Poltergeist, another haunted house one, in part since i was curious about what a spielberg / tobe hooper collab would be like - maybe i set myself up for reading it through that lens, since i enjoyed it but at least part of the enjoyment came from the sense of something kind of at crosspurposes with itself. there are all these parts where the movie is showing or implying something dreadful and then there’ll be some incredibly soupy soundtrack intrusion or awkward moment of whimsy to undercut it. there’s a part where the mom is speaking to thin air and the vanished girl is replying as a distant electrical scream and the music tells us that it’s a magical, wondrous moment of family connection, but then there’s also a shot of the other daughter sobbing in horror at the situation. there’s a grating part midway through where Kids Say The Darndest Things About Souls and it’s followed immediately afterwards by a manic dream-state gore episode with exploding meat and melting flesh. i definitely enjoyed the sense of something which went deliriously harder on the horror scenes than the rest of the film would lead you to expect.
there’s some very on the nose political stuff early on, it opens on the national anthem and unintelligibly blurred patriotic imagery, there’s a giant evil clown puppet wearing red white and blue, a kid reads captain america in bed while simultaneously the dad reads a book called “reagan: the man for president” etc. the house is built on a graveyard but we’re explicitly told it’s NOT connected to native americans in any way. i think that rather than any kind of return of the repressed deal at least parts of the movie want to hint that there’s no repression, the characters are wrapped up in fantasy straight from the start and the subsequent slide into demons and magic is just a natural progression from there. the music is insisting that the characters are relateable and normal but at times they resemble the exorcist lady’s description of the dead: “they linger in a perpetual dream state - a nightmare from which they cannot awake”.
also, at one point the little girl chews on a circa 1982 luke skywalker toy which would probably be worth like $500 today.
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going through my 1-2gig brrips folder replacing every x264 encoded release with a x265 version where possible for fun
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if you had a bunch of 1-2gig encodes in the first place that’s not a bad idea
I replaced all mine before hevc was really available so I’m happy with the 8GB h264s, I mostly only get the 1-2gig hevc encodes if I need a movie to watch ASAP and I don’t want to hit my ratio anywhere it counts. hevc sure is nice for 4k transfers though!
they’re mainly just the movies I don’t care much about beyond a sick archival need or nostalgia fume huffing purposes
i have watched buck breaking and it is indeed over two hours of breaking down the entire history of the slave trade, jim crow and indeed all white supremacy and colonialism as a secret gay agenda focused on the sissification of the black male. absolutely wild that this thing exists.
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What’s with the sudden re-emergence of the hotep in popular culture?
too much time spent litigating weird corner cases of antisemitism has summoned Farrakhan’s spirit
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I got the whole of June off work and decided to have an Obayashi marathon. I found a bunch more of his movies online, so it was 21 in total. I watched them in release order, starting with House and ending with Labyrinth of Cinema.
After that last one I don’t think I can say “he never made anything quite as weird as House” anymore. It’s like after his first film, he was told to keep a lid on it and so spent the next few decades making mostly normal-ish films and then in the last years of his career he was given free reign to just let loose. I still haven’t seen anything he did between 1998 and 2017 though, so I have no idea what his output in that time is like.
I think my top 3 of his are still House, Bound for the Fields, the Mountains and the Sea Coast and School In The Crosshairs, although of the new ones I watched this time I think Chizuko’s Younger Sister was my favourite. Lonelyheart was fine, but I’d already correctly guessed who the ghost girl was before she even showed up, and it definitely feels like it’s romanticising creepy stalker behaviour.
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Is his version of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time worth watching? I could probably google this but that’s no fun: Is it much related to the animated version?
Compared to the anime version it’s a lot slower paced and a lot less eventful. It’s also very sentimental and melancholy in tone. It’s worth watching for fans of Obayashi, but I’d probably wouldn’t rank it among his best.
It has the same basic plot outline, but there’s not really any playing around with the time travel powers, ie. she doesn’t use them to redo exams or have an extra weekend day or anything like that. It’s kinda more like Groundhog Day as a metaphor for the onset of puberty.
The animated version is sort of intended as a sequel to the original novel, the aunt who mentions she had a similar experience in high school is basically the girl from this movie.
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