Sounds like a villenueve movie
i watched ‘the man who wasn’t there’ which was very good
underrated mid-tier coen bros imo
would make a good double feature with kingdom of the crystal skull
Last night I saw a midnight screening of The Blind Woman’s Curse, a 1970 mystical 19th-century-period-piece yakuza picture. A female yakuza boss is haunted by a curse placed on her by the all-star teamup of a woman she blinded in a fight years ago and a housecat who loves the taste of blood.
- She goes to women’s prison and recruits a gang of cellmates to get cool dragon back tattoos and fight in her gang.
- She beats up a rival yakuza boss whose entire gimmick is that he wears a red loincloth all the time and jiggles his smelly ass at the camera.
- She tries to romance a wandering ronin type dude who is too busy trying to give up his life of crime and become a restaurant waiter.
- The blind woman recruits a demented hunchback and hangs out in a theater doing william tell dagger tricks.
It was directed by Teruo Ishii, who pioneered ero guro film (!) but this one isn’t particularly disturbing. It’s a ton of fun, a big genre blend with a narrative that just wanders all over the place but stays entertaining throughout. I loved it!
hellraiser iv: bloodline
better than I expected but still ass
they gave pinhead a dog to maul people
Just realised that Tom Cruise buys a mask off this guy to get into the Illuminati orgy…
…and less than a year later he’s wearing a mask of the guy’s own face…
This can’t be real, I’m losing it
SITTING HERE
LIVID
WATCHING THE HOME VIDEO VERSION OF CATS
AND SEEING THEY CHANGED IT SO MR. MISTOFELEES NO LONGER HOLDS HIS HAT AT HIS CROTCH AS HE SHOOTS CARDS OUT OF IT WHILE FLYING THROUGH THE AIR
YOU HAVE DESECRATED ART, UNIVERSAL
forgot until just now that I actually picked your username
i watched hathway and uhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh why do people like it???
ill just post my letterboxd review because i dont want to put any more effort into thinking about it
there’s a cool armbar then one full hour of a heterosexual love triangle with jpeg backgrounds, then a jollybee commercial with 9/11 sprinkled in, climaxing with pristine, stiff, tweening robots shooting incomprehensibly at eachother. the best thing about it was i watched this before char’s counterattack. if i had seen that first i would have been pissed.
anyway so right after that i watched chars counterattack and i can’t fucking believe gundam literally addressed all of my fucking problems with char, and it also explains why people with char avatars hate it so much
i fucking love the nu gundam now! argh! toothpaste!
chars counterattack is just one of my favorite movies now
all the people saying “hathaway is so good because it has TALKING in it!” have never seen a fucking gundam in their lives. theres just no way
i hope all the people they paid to take photos of davao had a good time because their jpegs looked better than the fucking mobile suits
just go watch the thunderbolt movies theyre so much better
rewatched Predator and the main thing i kept thinking about this time is how the sad little trumpet theme that plays when they’re mourning the jesse ventura character just kept reminding me of the midi theme tune to the west wing. rip jesse ventura… you would have loved the west wing. it’s also very funny that this is the one character the movie slows down to get sad about! poor billy, the big tracker guy, he’s set up for the whole thing as this mysterious character and then he strips off his gun on the bridge and gets ready for a knife fight… and then immediately dies offscreen and nobody else reacts! but that part does set up the end of the movie when predator decides to take off his mask and gun for a fair fight and then this is basically the reason he dies shortly afterwards. he pulls a billy.
watched Warning: Do Not Play which is a korean horror movie about a movie directed by a ghost. the ghost parts weren’t that interesting to me but the lead was good, as a horror director looking to make the “scariest movie of all time”, and it’s remarkable how much more entertaining this kind of movie is when it’s all driven by a crazed, shady obsessive as opposed to a hapless innocent. there’s a funny thing where art is presented both as positive, life affirming etc (two different characters recover from suicide attempts while watching the exorcist) and also negative and destructive (it’s their separate attempts to chase this ideal which gets them haunted by a murderous ghost) and the two views are never really reconciled, there’s no point where one framing really absorbs the other or where a sensible midpoint between them is imagined, and something about that unsettled quality feels more true to me than how most biopic type pictures try to navigate the same back and forth.
Annette and the Green Knight are the two best movies of 2021 so far
Whenever I watch something random on a streaming service I always seem to land on Revisionist Western with a Short Run Time.
Thus: I watched Never Grow Old
It’s got some striking shots, and one source of novelty in that the movie revolves around an Irish immigrant (and the town’s undertaker) and his French wife, forced to convert from catholicism to fit in in the frontier town in which they’ve settled. A town which has already seen its star fade by 1849. There’s a heavy handed scene in which the town preacher goes on about the promise of America etc and It’s a Good Thing We Got Rid of the Savages so the viewer knows that the movie knows settlers are shitty.
John Cusack plays a somewhat hollow Intellectual Outlaw who waxes thoughtful whenever he’s in the middle of terrorizing people. And the decision was made to underline all his verbosity by giving him two sidekicks who can’t talk: an Italian man who doesn’t speak a word of English and only occasionally mutters a few words of Italian, and another man who’s had his tongue cut out. They do sell that bit well by demonstrating the difficulty he has eating and drinking.
Anyway, the undertaker gets mixed up in the outlaw’s business to predictable bad results. There’s a few good scenes, though, that do manage actual tension. Not much in the way of action although plenty of people get shot or killed one way or another.
I’ve watched worse, I suppose.
Watched Green Knight last night through Amazon’s app as that’s the only option my TV supports natively. I generally don’t use any streaming services outside of Night Flight and occasionally borrowing a HBO password to watch cartoons, so I didn’t have a baseline to compare anything to. Which ever gamma setting the Amazon app defaulted to was completely wrong and made everything extremely dark, and for the first hour of the movie I was convinced they were doing something artsy where you just could barely see occasional slivers of light giving the impression of where people might be on screen. The first time I got a good look at the main character was when he held the sword and everything lit up so it felt maybe intentional. That they kept cutting to reaction shots where you just couldn’t see anything was really bumming me out thought. I tried screwing around with my TV’s basic settings a bit, but it wasn’t until he got on the road and the exteriors were still all silhouettes that I realized something was very wrong and I tried some of the deeper options. How the hell do normal people manage this stuff?
As a medieval history master’s program drop out, who’s read Tolkien’s adaption, I don’t know if I was really feeling the movie. I can’t help but think the experience was colored (no pun intended) by my initial technical issues. I did go back and rewatch the beginning after I fixed it, which was good because i would have totally missed all the stuff with his mom.