Last I heard was 2021, and there are already preorders for the figure, so it can’t have slipped too much.
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I listened to an interview with The Green Knight’s cinematographer, in which he says that (in the St. Winifred episode, specifically) he was trying to shoot as dark as he possibly could while still keeping things visually coherent. He feared what would happen when The Streaming Companies got Their Compression Hands On It, but d*ng it looked great projected.
(I found the movie perfectly legible, despite some snowballing vision cloudiness that really should be sending me to an eye doctor with more haste. I guess mileage varies!)
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What Happened To Monday is a movie that dares to ask “what if the Nazis had a point?” Abhorrent politics and the Most Liberal-ass movie Ive seen in a long time
“Every life is precious, also maybe sometimes we should systematically exterminate poor people”
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What if GMOs caused overpopulation, somehow, through their genetically modified evil, and that made genocide understandable (but bad (but maybe not bad?))?
??? I didn’t love this movie or anything but the poor-liquefying government-corp is presented as unambiguous bad guys. I think? Did I miss something?
I dwelled on this and I have three things to say about it:
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I was drunk and slightly drugged when I posted this originally. Upon reflection it’s not nearly as bad as I was saying, BUT
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Plots featuring Overpopulation as the main problem always bug the hell out of me. Overpopulation will never be a problem because people just stop having kids when life starts sucking, among other things. The fact that it’s caused in this movie by GMOs, another non-problem, is just annoying icing on the cake. I ingested too many movies and shows and books with this plot when I was a kid that I was genuinely worried about it - finding out it is essentially made up was a relief, but also made me mad.
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The ending, which is “They stopped the genocide…but now there are too many babies!!! ominous music,” is definitely gesturing towards “maybe the genocidists had a point.” It very much felt like “Well, you stopped the bad thing, but now something worse is happening. What’s your answer to that???” Centrist/Liberal bullshit of “we can’t stop bad things, we can only slightly lessen the horrible things and you’ll just have to be happy with that.”
Obviously I’m reading way too much into this, but that’s pretty much my entire schtick. I wouldn’t have had as much of a problem with it if it wasn’t such a boring movie that gave me a bunch of time to think about its politics.
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Fair. It was boring enough that I certainly can’t recall any of these details!
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Eva 3.0 + 1.0 was wonderful!
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Caught The Woman Who Ran one of the recent Hong Sang-soo films at my local theatre, and it was a good time! Being back in a theatre was weird of course. I was with two friends, neither had seen a Hong movie before, but I figured they are usually formally interesting enough that maybe if the drama is too quiet and boring for them they’d find something to pay attention to and think about. But this was one of his least formally weird films, and all it really was was three conversations between three women for the whole movie! It was good though, kind of funny, and, as always, the relationships were intimate even when the conversations were small talky and impersonal seeming. What I like about Hong’s movies is it doesn’t have this cynical attitude about mundane conversation, I think he understands that most of our lives together are kind of mundane and small talk or impersonal language and conversation can play a part in speaking directly to someone and showing what you know about them. My friends seemed to appreciate the film for that too, which made my first theatre going experience in like two years really positive!
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Looks like Criterion has 11 PM streaming. Now I’m even more bummed they still don’t have a Samsung app.
ive been working my way very slowly through once upon a time in hollywood bc it just showed up on netflix and, i hate to admit this because tarantino the person is such an obnoxious dbag, but… it’s good
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hmm… i dunno i feel like ultimately it’s really well done on a moment by moment level but not much more to it than that. in a weird way it’s a relief as i thought after hateful eight (sucked) i would never have to worry about liking his movies again lol. i know it is kind of pointless to say this but i feel like the whole manson angle was totally unnecessary. like i get it and everything, but the movie that it would have been without that is still more interesting to me.
it did make me miss la a lot though. i wish i could watch inherent vice again. apparently paul anderson’s next movie is also kind of set in this era of hollywood, well, maybe a little later? idk. everything i’ve heard makes it seem like it’s going to be boogie nights but about normal movies instead of porn. i bet it will be great!
easily his best movie since Jackie Brown, just a real fun time, it’s sentimental without being exploitative
Probably true - I have a soft spot for inglorious basterds due to a memorable experience the first time I saw it but wow it doesn’t hold up. Other than a few key scenes, which are great.
I don’t really know if kill bill is good or bad but I think it is notable. It’s hard to compare something like this to that though lol.
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agreed w both of these
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I don’t mind tarantino being annoying since he genuinely doesn’t like cops. if he made movies where a cops ear gets cut off and a guy talks into it to see if he can still hear from it (lol), and shooting cops is considered okay by the characters because cops aren’t real people, etc, but then turned around and in real life was all with some mealy mouthed “well it’s just a movie, I know they got a tough job etc” then it’d be different
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this isn’t about any one movie in particular, but i am just really appreciative of dwayne ‘the rock’ johnson for becoming the definitive wrestler-turned-action movie star guy of this generation, because of the way his monopolization of normal ‘big strong awesome guy’ roles has made it possible for like dave bautista and john cena to do way weirder and funnier stuff. i feel like it would be so obnoxious if they were all just competing over the same boring muscle hero roles
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the rock was still pretty weird and funny in the baywatch reboot but that was the last thing he showed any real personality in (and I can’t think of much between that and pain and gain)
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The Rock made Southland Tales, so he’s done his weird phase well.
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