excited for you to keep digging, i still need to get around to watching wife of a spy, but to the ends of the earth is maybe my favourite film of his yet. it’s really rad seeing how he works outside of the usual genres.
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I watched The Ninth Gate, now later in trying to chase the high of that Broken Sword + Gabriel Knight cinematic crossover event I can see clearly that the dark lord has been leading me on a path, this whole time, to become a The Da Vinci Code fan.
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immortalize your hometown in a movie by a man who doesn’t need a weapon because he is the weapon. who is he? what is he?
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I think 7 was just okay and fate of the furious was bad but I think the ice charger is my favorite car in one of these and I did like that it at least half-assedly tried to deal with dom in the first movie saying the seconds in a quarter mile race when he feels free are all he cares about not “his team and their bullshit” and the contradiction of this with the later justin lin movies. putting off seeing f9 for now cause it’s raining and storming all week but I’m hoping it’s a return to form.
I’m surprised to always see five constantly mentioned as “the good one.” it is great but six is just better. there’s no exploding toliet jokes, they fight their doppelgangers, the ending makes me want to weep.
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Not just a return to form - they also ditched gendered slurs and raised the cameras for the male gaze panning shots at the party scene above ass height. Instead of bitch Roman just says Tej now
Every actor is having an infectious amount of fun
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6 is weirdly underrated given that it’s got a bunch of good setpieces and uses the ensemble well before the pieces got really chopped up from 7 onward
I really don’t like 7, between CGI paul walker and the ronda rousey cameo and kurt russell’s horrible dialog it does nothing for me. 8 is pretty good imo, I don’t really love The Myth of Dom they’ve recentred the franchise on now that The Rock and Jason Statham are out, but 9 is otherwise perfectly enjoyable
The cameo in 9 is VVVVVVVVV good
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just completely hate 7 and especially 8. never want to see them again. statham baby horse shit can fuck off
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I find Statham utterly charmless and unconvincing as Stern Action Man, I only like him as Guy Ritchie semi-hapless protag punching way above his weight. Daniel Craig made that transition much more gracefully
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The worst movie, causes me tremendous psychic pain, but this is still amusing to me:
five minutes into the movie
across the country, an hour and forty-eight minutes into the movie:
vengeance for the hay bales is had
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Stephen Soderbergh made a pretty good and only a little bit cringe movie about the Panama papers awhile ago that I never heard of until recently, I sincerely believe some one powerful or rich or whatever suppressed all publicity for it. But like it’s still on Netflix. It has Meryl streep Gary Oldman and Antonio banderas in it
main thing I remember from this movie is really hoping that larry wilmore asked for his character to be named jeff
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The Evil Dead remake has a strong vision for what it wants to be, but what it wants to be is like The Best of a really terrible era of popular horror. Watching it last night, as like my third attempt in history, I couldn’t get myself to enjoy it even on those low, low terms. Its last shot with the Last Girl chainsawing into her deadite-other’s face as the sky rains blood and the cabin in the background burns orangely red, I’ll give it to Evil Dead (2013), that was a pretty sick visual.
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The king Arthur movie was bad but nowhere near as bad as it was made out to be. I actually sort of liked the way it was more mythic than faux historical. Another decent genre picture ruined by the quest for a Cinematic Universe IMO
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oh i used to have those ikea glasses theyre just weird looking and bendy
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graveyard of honor sucks ass for reasons mostly related to the constant rape but this was awesome
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I like the end of Evil Dead '13 more than the rest of the movie because it reminds me of the battle from Silent Hill 3 with Alessa, though, I suppose without the humor the whole movie kind of feels like that battle. Suspiria '18 also has this climax that reminded me of Silent Hill, though, I didn’t like that as much as ED13’s climax.
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I watched Batalla en el cielo or Battle in Heaven a week ago. I’m not sure what my final thoughts on it are, but I think I disagree with criticisms that it’s vapid, artsy exploitation. I think a lot people want to walk away with a “moral of the story” conclusion, whether it’s explicitly presented or easy to craft on one’s own, but the film resists and maybe even looks down on that instinct.
It follows in the tradition of neorealism. I read that the director, Carlos Reygadas, holds Andrei Tarkovsky as a primary influence. He made a lot of great choices from using non-actors, to shooting on location. At first, I was shocked and confused by the sex scenes in the film, but now I’ve gravitated more towards admiration for how deftly they were performed and staged. The actors portray a nuance to their emotions that feels honest.
On the other hand, the plotline is a bit too sensational. I don’t completely understand the characters’ motivations.
I’m curious if anyone else here has seen it or any other movies from Reygadas.
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