The Despecialized cuts are the only thing that resembles my crusty childhood VHS tapes recorded over successive Christmases and are well worth seeking out whenever you want to scratch that particular nostalgic itch while not being lied to
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The version of Demonlover I chose has out-of-sync French dub & Eng subtitles and I didnâât feel up to dealing with that so: New Rose Hotel. I expected a dreamy reflection on ennui & failure so 80 minutes of co-producers Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken act-ing at each other in various Japanese hotel rooms + 20 minutes of repeated flashback scenes didnât land well for me. Asia Argento has some bursts where she plays her character like a real person and not as a sex object employed by and (inevitably) betraying the protagonist(s? ) in the ineffable womanly way of all Gibsonâs female characters.
I liked the extensive in-universe green-tinted video footage. I didnât like how the main MacGuffin (a person) only appeared in the footage and never a âreal-lifeâ scene. I feel like this would have worked great in a small theatre production where the MacGuffin is played by an expensive brand-name actor who the company could never afford to appear every performance. Same for the whole movie/story.
The last third of the movie is all flashbacks and is so ham-fisted. Thereâs an early scene where the MacGuffin handles a device, and then later an identical device appears in an odd place, huh. In the climax, plot twist, the MacGuffin dies âsome one must have reprogrammed the machine!â Ah, I see. Then the scene with the oddly-placed device is shown 4 more times, and in-universe footage of the MacGuffin with their last breath retrieving a device from the reprogrammed machine, then the oddly-placed device scene again, yes ok thanks I got it.
Still liked it, thought it was not great
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I 100% recommend dealing with it and the massive headache youâll get from having to constantly mentally sync dialogue
I did this for half an hour once and the net result is like if you had your eyes crossed the whole time
I figured it was a trivial challenge and lasted about 10 minutes, after like 10 lines of dialogue
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Itâs amazing how you take the simple things in life for granted until you run up against something obviously broken
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saw miikeâs audition. still processing it but felt viscerally sick multiple times, mildly sick other times and very little of this was related to the gore. frankly, it was hard not to cheer for the gore by the time I got there. felt like karmic backlash.
also, I like these lingering shots
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I still remember the exact feeling I had when I went to a screening of this in college having zero idea what it was and the bag moved. I donât think I can ever feel that feeling again, that kind of shock and surprise. Iâm too old
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in the movie, isnât this character played by Yoshitaka Amano?
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i realized today iâve never seen godfather 2 so i watched that. i enjoyed it, considering watching godfather 3 but ive heard its not as good
Turns out Total Recall is pretty fun.
After watching again Master and Commander On The Far Side of The World (best movie) I gave Peter Weirâs Picnic At Hanging Rock another shot. I had watched 15 minutes of it back when I was binging Criterion and turned it off because the Intense Miasma of Sapphire Energy wasnât for me. It still wasnât even after the event. It has a strange mood throughout. Itâs a good movie (i think?) but I did not enjoy the experience. It is sometimes good to experience things that are not for you.
I am reaching the bottom of available war movies on youtube/J-prime. Will I sign up for netflix finally???
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âWow this has to be how my friends felt when I made them watch Chungking Express.â
I mean I could watch a dozen films about kamikaze pilots and the brave sacrifices those boys made.
This 1995 light cyberpunk movie about a criminal whoâs framed for a murder by the guy from Star Trek who controls time and space and as punishment is used in an experiment where his consciousness is put into the body of the woman he was framed for murdering. Based on a Jean Marie Stine novel. The acting in this is really bad, and the random appearance by Guy from Popular SciFi TV Show and the mix of 1995 with Blade Runner really makes this feel like a 1994 FMV game with all of the interactive parts cut out.
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watched pulse and maybe now wasnât the exact right time to watch a horror film where the terror is being eternally isolated from everyone
sure is beautiful tho
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Pulse just looks lonely to me. itâs great.
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Pulse remains my favorite of Kiyoshi Kurosawaâs horror movie period
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not sure why they made an edgy reboot of disneyâs flubber but watched Venom on recommendation of a friend who doesnât like superhero movies - i enjoyed it, there were only a few parts where it felt like it was entering that familiar moneyshot zone of two special effects flailing at each other for blandly heroic reasons and even then there was so much emphasis on the virtual slime effects(!) that it was abstractly interesting to look at at least. tom hardy afficionados are rolling their eyes but it did benefit a lot from his performance as a sweaty, muttering gremlin who seemed barely aware of what was going on at any time. it did the kind of creepy blockbuster thing of adding in topical or political analogies that it doesnât really have much interest in pursuing, in this case by presenting the main guy and the main villain as, sorta glenn greenwald and elon musk, or at least versions of those two who perform as advertised and spend less time getting into arguments online. the venom symbiote decides to save the world because apparently he is âkind of a loserâ on his home planet - be careful who youâre rude to in high school!! my favourite part was when it transforms into Girl Venom who is 7ft high and has breasts and you can sense a thousand very specific fetishes being awoken for every frame the thingâs onscreen. i think mass media should be measured on the quality and quantity of bizarre sexual obsessions it imparts to its audience and so on that measure will award this with 100 stars. the entire last 30 minutes of the movie consists of credits, an eminem music video, a long clip of an unrelated spiderman movie and also an inevitable sequel teaser where we meet the movie version of carnage⌠as played by woody harrelson in a carrot top wig!! leave the audience wanting more as they say.
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Pulse hits hard. I need to watch it again.
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wait a minute is thatâŚ
it is!
tim rogers showing carlton that ticks can explode, and that a little second-hand tick blood is nothing to worry about.
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