What the fuck is wrong with Michael Jackson my man?
When you get to Boondock Saints you will truly have reached rock bottom
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Boondock Saints is The Matrix for fascists send tweet
The documentary is way more fun than the actual movie, yeah.
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i am not going to rewatch it to test this, but i would imagine that willem dafoe being an absolute madman and âunderstanding the assignmentâ as the kids today say would make boondock saints still pretty entertaining to watch, despite it all
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It doesnât, surprisingly.
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violent streets. this was a weird one. turns into a 70s transphobic slasher movie for a while in the middle
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some friends were doing an online film club during the peak of the pandemic and my pick was gonna be either speed racer, or just surprise people with sin city. i canât think of anything that was such a big cultural reference for so long, then it just disappeared off a cliff.
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Max Payne is definitely the weirdest movie. Like the game is what if blood opera + Matrixcam + Remedyâs patented hallucinatory existentialism and the movie is like what if we ignored all the explicit cinematic references and made a movie just out of the hallucination stuff.
Sin City I still really like tbh
Boondock Saints⌠well it has a couple funny lines. Actually it has a kind of nasty reactionary verve, I anticipate you finding some value/entertainment in it
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You really are making the deep dive though. I respect it. Welcome to the Valhalla of my people
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otaku but for masshole culture
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I remember hating all this dorm room shit soooooo much,
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I was not a tony scott appreciator in his day, but everytime a famous person kills themselves I canât help but feel a bit of kinship with them and now that every action director has moved on to trying to ape stahelski and leitch instead of scott and greengrass maybe I can better appreciate him. we would of never got the max payne 3 we got without him
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MP3 really is just Man on Fire fanfic
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boondocks saints possibly my least favorite movie. bottom five anyway
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i watched double dragon because tubi is the video store now
any movie that allows mark dacascos to do several flips is an automatic three stars but i am truly fascinated by the elaborate super mario bros the movie level of cyberpunk worldbuilding. in 2000 there was an earthquake and LA turned into The Warriors but the cops eventually had a truce that said the gangs were allowed to do the purge every night but not in the daytime?
and now in the future year 2007 global warming or the earthquake have New Angeles (this is shot in ohio) underwater and there are like boat tours of mannâs chinese theatre and the hollywood sign also the air quality is so bad that they sell oxygen in phone booths.
all the computer/handheld PDA tech is that perfect weird black box nonsense with silicon graphics styles i love it. the Dragon Wagon which the lee bros drive is also basically a car from Dinohattan with weird ass ghostbusters ass erector set shit and a rocket on the back
so in the power vaccum from the police, marion from the video games played by alyssa milano runs basically a group of radical teen cops/guardian angels named the power corp who all dress like they are from nickelodeon roundhouse and hang out in a building that is 1/3 the foot clan hideout 1/3 the lost boys from hook and 1/3 the militant hideout from hackers there is a double dragon machine there which i have to wonder if there is an in univese explanation for. (at one point someone in a fight with milano does say âwhoâs the boss, now?â)
robert patrick, functionally playing dennis hopperâs king koopa is a white guy who has named himself after a japanese warlord named koga shuko and he runs a megacorp and everyone has accepted this to the level of there being a cyberpunk version of rice krispies named SHUKO Krispies also he says shit like âYour incompetence sticks needles in the flesh of my honor!â.
this movie also seems to have accurately predicted some things like vapes and GPS rerouting. abobo gets mutated into a giant creature in a method similar to the goombaization process in mario movie and all of his scenes are wild but the wildest are a scene that definitely awakened a fetish in some child where marion keeps stuffing him full of spinach as torture and another scene where his pathos at being mutated is played absolutely straight like a single tear rolls down his cheek in a dramatic mirror scene like something out of tokusatsu.
the news station has vanna white and george hamilton as anchors and andy dick as the weatherman and they are not playing characters they are all themselves in sort of a weird attempt at robocop style tv parody. also a bit of demolition man-esque soft on crime conservative jokes with all the news reporters saying the gangs are misunderstood and need a hug before getting the hell off the street before night.
the score itself is absolutely wild i donât know how it was allowed to be in movie theaters.
this composer is also the guy who did the american office theme?
the movie is partially written by batman the animated series creator paul dini and better call saul showrunner peter gould just a weird assembly of talent
anyway this worldbuilding is out of itâs fucking mind and extremely sleazypunk it looks and feels like a bizzare nickelodeon show where they are allowed to cuss and be hornier (including a nondescript green slime flow in a building) and i should have watched it sooner
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itâs so weird to realize that this was an era in which a movie this batshit could come out and the general popular wisdom/public memory about it was just that it was like⌠a âbad movie.â bad movies used to be so much more interestingâŚ
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This [Fear Street 1994] is supposed to take place in 1994, but Calibri wouldnât exist for another 13 years (2007). You wouldnât start seeing it until Vista, I want to say. This kid wouldâve been using like, Windows 3.x, and 3.1 debuted with Times New Roman (Serif), Arial (Sans), and Courier (Mono), so he probably shouldâve been using Arial. People always really seem to fuck up type when it comes to this nostalgia shit. 
I guess it couldâve been worse, and everything couldâve been set in some bit font.
These kids are supposed to be GenX, but they all come off as way too modern. And, this movie does that Suicide Squad thing where almost every single scene has a pop song playing during it. In this case, itâs usually a cover of a mid-90s song. Very annoying. Let your fucking movie breathe.
Kids werenât listening to their Walkmen as much as this movie thinks â batteries kind of cost money.
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I mean, I kinda was, but I also wasnât interacting at all with other humans, so I would not be a good movie character, haha.
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It was only recently that people only ever watched what they wanted. I think watching a bunch of stuff is cool. It is why I loved watching movies on planes.
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