2014 felt like such strong US nationalist propaganda. Everyone is an individual because nations need people to act as individuals and sacrifice themselves, but never actually lose their lives because this is a movie and the atomic family must be reunited by the end of it. This is basically the American hero, hoo-rah Nurse!
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oh yeah i’ve forgotten a lot of the plot of godzilla but i remember the nuke stuff in it being very irritating. it probably still is in the sequel too but it just becomes… so incoherent by the end of it.
as i was watching the movie i was developing this whole elaborate theory of the sickening trend in blockbuster movies where the villain is actually written really sympathetically, and everything they say makes total sense, except then they have then be just like randomly violent simply to prove to the audience that they are Bad. the best recent example of this is the vulture from spider-man homecoming. he does literally nothing wrong the entire movie, except just occasionally kill some random people. it’s both lazy writing and also probably some kind of cia funded plot to make people think hard working union guys are also ruthless killers or whatever.
king of the monsters kind of does that too but its so half assed about it, and then by the end the dominant plot is also mostly just about how what really matters is Fambly, but then all the stuff the supporting characters do is way more interesting and doesn’t vibe with it at all. like i want a whole movie about the totally neglected Nu Mothra Twins who are basically just in the movie for vibes
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Just complete trash so I stopped taking notes but bottom line:
a Hairspray/Bright mashup as bait for video essayists
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is it normal to look at that first picture and get very angry
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Yes
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I only want to hear about this movie from one person and that’s Jenny Nicholson
I went looking and didn’t see any! It’s fish in a barrel
In the sequel they introduce the indigenous people the settlers slaughtered when they built their town: werewolves
The town’s power plant runs on their moon stone
The lead girl gets Horizon Zero Dawn hair from them
truly fascinated by this bizarre world zombies posits where no one sees race except for like D&D race
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This is the problem with literally every ‘urban fantasy’ thing ever
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The last red peony gambler film, everyone looks great marching off to a more tragic than usual end for this series
brutal tales of chivalry 8 - forbidden love (6, 7 and 9 don’t have english subtitles):
prison red or funeral white
blood of revenge:
I think I’m out of chivalrous yakuza movies with subtitles
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i’ve been making a dent into all these, they have a rhythm i’m enjoying
ive always thought domino was good, it suggests like an entire alternate universe where richard kelly became a brilliant pop auteur screenwriter instead of disappearing inside southland tales lore for the rest of his life
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the only part of domino I remember was that tom waits cameo where he just says a bunch of weird shit in the desert
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one time the account for the movie domino became my friend on myspace and i got excited because i thought it was a real girl
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Domino, and that whole period of Tony Scott’s career rips. i also love that he grew up around where i did, and i get to claim that while everyone else talks about his brother. rip.
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i watched the movie Under The Silver Lake last night…
very pretty movie given what i’d imagine the budget was. i felt like it captured a lot of places around LA i’ve been to or around before pretty nicely.
this movie does capture a sort of feeling that i think is interesting and in the air - a sort of frustrated paranoia. a feeling that elites are talking to each other, and the rest of us are not invited. i’ve heard people mention this movie in the context of like Epstein-type human trafficking and Hollywood cabal type conspiracy theories. there are certainly a lot of places you can go with that… but i found it a little empty by the end.
someone on letterboxd called this movie “2 Inherent 2 Vice” and i honestly have to agree, as a huge fan of (the movie… never read the book) Inherent Vice. this is clearly indebted to that, but also kinda feels like a pale imitation. it’s more like… Donnie Darko meets Inherent Vice. it’s a very adolescent/immature film in a lot of ways.
the score is also orchestral, and it’s composed by Disasterpeace. i know Rich a little bit and i remember him telling me one of the last times i talked to him that this film was a huge hassle to work on and by the time they spent all the money on recording with an orchestra, he didn’t actually get paid very much for this film. i’d have to imagine it being kind of a flop didn’t help that either.
it features the Mulholland Drive diner guy as “conspiracy man”. there are some interesting/haunting scenes in the film but it definitely fails to capture anything nearly as unsettling or tense as a David Lynch film in general (let alone that diner scene). i think that’s just partly because once the film gets going, there’s too much happening at any given moment to feel focused enough on one thing.
also this is David Yow (of the Jesus Lizard) as… “the Homeless King”. probably sounded better on paper than in real life. the sort of magical realism stuff in this film kinda fell flat for me. it’s kind of like… not as weird as it wants to be. which again is a bummer because it looked nice and it’s nice to see more ambitious projects on (given the level of ambition anyway) smaller budgets.
i saw someone else compare it to Southland Tales and i also think that’s a decently fair comparison. this one is a little more reigned in/less bonkers than Southland Tales but it has a similar vibe of someone who is more than a little out of their element trying to swing for big ambitious arty statement sort of project. that said, it was an enjoyable experience from beginning to end. but it also just wasn’t as weird or as deep as it was trying to be, and i just kinda felt like it had wasted my time a little bit by the end.
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i hated that movie so much. Southland Tales is a big swing at a lot of ideas, whereas this had no actual ambition. absolutely nothing to it at all. even something like Dispatches from Elsewhere had so many more ideas than this.
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I watched that movie twice. Came away with a similar feeling as you the first time, then decided to watch it with some friends and that was the most awkward viewing experience I’ve ever had. Everyone absolutely hated it which felt so bad at the time, and a second viewing did make me like it less.
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been randomly watching the harry potter movies
i enjoy the magic shit but every “message” is just trash fuck you jkr
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