That movie seemed so damn mysterious and sinister before it came out. I was a young kid, hyped for Teh Happening. And, boy, was I let down.
Ice Cream Man is an amazingly odd movie. Everything about it feels like an early-mid 90s kids comedy right down to the goofy, cheap synthesizer soundtrack, but then they add a bunch of gore and Clint Howard. It feels like an extended episode of Eerie, Indiana.
Goofy fun and highly recommended if you are or were into kids’ horror and wondered what it’d be like if Eerie, Indiana had blood and gore.
Also, my theory is that Heavyweights bogarted all of the heavy child actors, so they had to hire a thin kid and put a pillow under his shirt:
This isn’t just some side character we only see once – he’s one of the main characters, and he has a pillow shoved under his shirt for every scene!
(Also, Heavyweights and Camp Nowhere would go good back-to-back)
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had a Saturday Matinee Double Feature in my apartment yesterday with two films:
Above Suspicion (1943)
It opens with a wedding in England, and basically a professor and his wife are enlisted by the US to infiltrate Germany as spies. It starts off pretty solid and has some fun banter and sets, but slowly devolves into a boring morass of whatever about midway through. Also, the anti-German sentiment is (un)surprisingly super strong throughout the movie, which is to be expected.
Salò: 120 Days of Sodom
a notorious film and one i hadn’t seen in over 15 years. a friend of mine recently rewatched it a drive-in double-feature night hosted by John Waters (it was accompanied by Climax). he commented on how the film holds up really well, and i had coincidentally been wanting to rewatch it recently (i’ve become more of a direct Pasolini fan in the past few years), so i did. anyway, i mean…obvious commentary about parts of it being rough to watch aside, i think it’s a really good movie. it makes me sad in that it hints at a direction of film making that Pasolini was headed towards that sadly we never got to see. i think its portrayal of fascists as only being able to receive pleasure at the suffering of others is probably even more relevant now than it was in the 70s (though perhaps not in Italy, where it was enough for them at the time to murder him). it’s not uplifting, but there’s really a lot going on beyond just the “torture porn” aspects. the sets, the shots, the acting, the allegory; it’s just pulled off so well. directors like Von Trier and Noe wish they could be this good.
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yeah, Salo is actually an incredible film.
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that toned-down big beat hits weird in a kids movie. Surrender came out 20 years ago
the whole manufactured pop soundtrack is weird as hell
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this is just the current-era equivalent of shit like Rock a Doodle, the children of people who came of age doing bad ecstasy at field raves need cartoons too
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yeah but the rest of the soundtrack is kids bop, no bangers at all. this would be like a 90s kids movie having Misty Mountain Hop surrounded by off-brand eurodance
the intended audience of the movie enjoyed it, I liked the lack of casual sexism/homophobia from the later Wallace and Gromit movies
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salo actually rules and it fucking BOTHERS me that people think I’m just being edgy when i say its one of my favorites, im glad it was shown with climax that’s the only gaspar noe movie id watch more than once
like its frustrating that everyone writes everything transgressive off as torture porn IM SORRY THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS MOVIE AND HOSTEL, OR THE GUINEA PIG FILMS, OR FACES OF DEATH jesus.
i got the new jodorowsky box set, im really excited to watch psychomagick
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I got about 3 seconds into Flatliners before realising: 1. I was in for a great time; 2. This Joel guy isn’t big on subtlety
the mise en scenes in this, it’s like what if Micheal Bay had class?
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subscribed to the bfi player due to working from home for over 6 months
immediately rewatched the king of new york
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Attempting to watch one movie a day this month. Police Story felt like a sketch comedy show but with action scenes instead of skits & stunts instead of punchlines. It has it all*, jokes, romance, a courtroom scene, office drama. The locations made me want to see more of Hong Kong.
[*] no singing!
Nighthawks: a long-forgotten Rudie post made me expect Stallone’s scrotum to make an apperance. It’s hard to keep all the deep movie lore straight. This was a solid B-, what if The Day of the Jackal had no boring quiet bits. Love to watch a British man tell NYPD they’re too worried about civilians and procedure to take down a floppy-haired terrorist.
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Bobby Briggs seemed like a pretty cool guy prior to the 2-4-5 Trioxin disaster of '88.
Return of the Living Dead 2 is probably my favorite RotLD movie. The first one has Linea Quiggley looking her absolute best, but part 2 feels like some sort of Light Joe Dante (Tom Virgil?) zombie movie. The goofs with the zombies are pretty amusing, but I feel like the zombie make-up needed like, a layer of powder or something to give them a more dry look and to hide the mask-y look of the faces.
One of my favorite scenes is when the kid is trying to reach somebody on the radio in the ambulance, and a zombie carrying two jars of brains overhears the kid and gets on the radio. The Doctor questions the zombie who the president is, and the Zombie has to think, and then says, “Harry Truman!”.
Bobby Briggs is in a tussle with a zombie when they lean on a remote turning on the kid’s sister’s exercise tape, which distracts all of the zombies in the room.
Return of the Living Dead 2 is one of those movies where you feel like the characters accomplished a lot, it’s fun. Highly recommended.
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There is a moment in that movie where two characters seem to realize that they were also characters in the past movie. I always think that’s funny.
Yes! Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Living Dead.
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Love Christina Applegate’s outfit.
I guess this is where I got sarcastically referring to somebody someone is obsessed with as a “moon goddess”.
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CAP’N CRUNCH AND WAFFLES!!!
I need to figure out what Kenny’s recipe for Mocha Swiss Amaretto Belgian waffles is. I assume he mixed in some swiss miss hot chocolate and amaretto creamer. I just ordered a $10 waffle iron off of Amazon.
I watched the shit out of this movie as a kid. I’m pretty sure I learned “Eat shit!” from this movie. Watching this as an adult, though, how the hell did she get the equivalent of a $58k/year job without anybody checking her references? She’s not even interviewed! The position rightfully belongs to Lucy Moran or the lady from Kingergarten Cop that I thought was Parker Posey. Also, David “Head Inventory Clerk” Duchovny wouldn’t be walking around like such hot shit, he’s just the lead inventory clerk! That’s it!
This movie would good go back-to-back with Adventures in Babysitting. Adventures is very mid-80s, and Don’t Tell Mom is very early 90s, they both feature Keith Coogan as the brother, and they’re both pretty fun. I can’t stand the music in Don’t Tell Mom, though.
Yo, park it yourself, Metallica breath!
Kenny’s Belgian waffle subplot is my favorite part of the movie.
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i haven’t seen it in years, but is don’t tell mom the babysitter’s dead another one of those 80s-90s movies where certain supporting characters just make a lot more sense if you assume they are smoking weed all the time, even though there are no actual pots smoken in the movie?
no amount of evidence you could present would convince me that the movie just isn’t 90 mionutes of the scene where they skeet shoot the dishes
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