unfortunately this movie didn’t have subs so i couldn’t watch past the opening credits
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I watched Rise of Skywalker and like… I didn’t hate it but it felt like a whole lot of nothing? It is rather stunning how none of the three movies feel all that connected in terms of direction but the first and third seemed to trade in a lot of “hey remember this from the earlier movies you loved?” which doesn’t quite work on someone who has seen them but wouldn’t consider himself a big fan of them (on the other hand I may have ended up missing some of the references). I think the second and third movies both ended on the exact same “not-Luke looking at a double sun/moon” reference which is pretty funny in terms of not really giving a fuck. I would make a comment on the movies seemingly shifting from “bury the past” to “buried by the past” but I don’t care enough, it was basically a blockbuster by the numbers.
I also spent a lot of time in the third movie trying to figure out who Adam Driver’s voice in it reminded me of, I ended up deciding on Javier Bardem from No Country For Old Men with a touch of Clive Owen.
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This is also kinda what Adam Driver looks like, too
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I watched Blackhat and The Matrix Resurrections today. Good movie day.
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I watched Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes last night
This shit rules, pleasant sf rom-comedy which does the whole ‘single-shot’ gimmick to narrative effect (the two minute time delay wouldn’t be nearly as fun to watch if you didn’t see those two minutes pass in real time)
Way fuckin better, more inventive, and more visually daring exploration of the bootstrap paradox than Nolan’s Tenet, and it was shot on a budget of less than 30k dollars.
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i still think this is one of the worst movies i’ve seen in recent memory
it does make me curious about that other “mind bending” nolan flick… i forgot the name but now i remember it is Inception
i suspect that one is better… i mean, how could it not be
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The antagonist is a woman whose nickname is Bad
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still significantly better than tenet (which means its merely bland instead of actively horrible)
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never saw inception but isn’t it just second-rate Paprika?
paprika is worse than inception actually
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…yeah?
paprika like other satoshi kon movies doesn’t want to tie up its plot so the whole structure just completely unravels in the second half. it’s a showcase of digital animation technology more than a complete story about any characters. also the fatphobia makes me cringe a little bit
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i mean i know why Paprika is flawed but does that mean it’s worth watching Inception? i guess i asked if it was second-rate Paprika, which isn’t the same question as “is it worth watching”
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I actually haven’t seen it in 11 years so it might be worth watching just for the comparison’s sake, and seeing if i change my mind
also the ending Really Makes You Think
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inception is worth watching because you can see in real time christopher nolan transform from a director who makes like semi cool weird walter hill/michael mann knockoff action movies to The Greatest Cinematic Mind of The Generation (jerkoff motion)
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if some powerful studio had just press ganged christopher nolan into making a dumb as rocks james bond movie with tom hardy as his follow up to batman begins all of this could have been avoided
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His movies since Memento have been a decades long James Bond demo reel like Star Trek XI/09 in slow motion
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I think Paprika is Satoshi Kon’s worst film, even though I like the soundtrack and think the movie is pretty. Inception only borrows like three images from Paprika because the anime aesthetic is too colorful for Nolan’s love of beige.
He does just love to make Beige-core American James Bond movies.
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I do love Dark Knight Rises for the supremely bad dialogue and breathless desperate Tory threats of a good time
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Inception is a fun pastiche of spy action stunts with dumb dumb psychoanalytic stuff. It’s too stupid to be upset about imo. Same with Tenet, which actually is almost awesome for how serious it takes its impossible to take seriously premise. “Temporal pincer attack” had me like that Vince McMahon meme template where he’s falling out of the chair.
They are like if videogames were movies. Inception ends with a Call of Duty level.
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