I pretend he’s thinking his new project at that time.
After all, his revolution trilogy success raise Maoism popular again in Chinese Internet Community, especially let the bullets fly.
Zhang yimou and Jiang Wen is more like political activist than only an artist. Reminds me of Koji Wakamatsu in Japanese new wave.
I loved Let the Bullets Fly, need to rewatch
I watched it several times and still could found something new even last month:
When SIX rip his belly off and ask the crowd at teahouse, Hu Wan smile but has a little tears on his face, very hard to noticed.
the matrix: still a really good movie!
more beautiful compositions in the first ten minutes than in fifteen years of mcu movies. sad. hoping lana can save blockbuster filmmaking!
I finally got around to seeing Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. I’d been curious about it ever since I saw those three 1990s Gamera films and learned that this was by the same director.
And I liked it. The music is good and although the effects aren’t always convincing they are used well. Also, when characters explained how “souls” were involved in the events, I recognized the word “damashii.”
This movie seemed to take itself seriously and not at the same time, which I think worked for the story they were trying to tell. The tone was similar to that Gamera trilogy.
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Also, I liked Inception. I only saw it once in the theater when it was new, but it was fun to debate with coworkers at the time exactly what parts were not in a dream. What they did with the slowed-down music was clever. My main complaint was how boring the dreams were. Unless mine are particularly strange, the dreams in that movie are not very dream-like.
i think France is the first Dumont movie i’ve actually liked. the setting and subject work really well with his formal interests.
also watched my favourite christmas movie, hunger games: catching fire.
Léa Seydoux <3 
ohh man the lost boys still fucking rocks. I watched it in not VHS quality for the first time ever and I am obsessed with how gay joel schumacher made the little brother, sammy, like he has this poster on his wall in his room
and his david bowie jr outfits the entire time, and how he never looks at a woman
its funny that keifer sutherland did an apology interview for his mullet in 2019 because the lost boys are like trans dude icons hahaha
oh yeha also it takes place in a city I went every other weekend renamed to sound like the city I grew up in
keifer is mega-hot in that movie, also he’s 21 but he looks like a 29 year old pretending to be 21, it’s weird
that and @MintyJuffowup’s av is my Kiefer Sutherland
Last night, having our plans canceled by Covid (a breakout in my wife’s family), we wound up sort of watching the Jim Carrey and Benedict Cumberbatch Grinch movies back-to-back. Now I have a bunch of half-formed thoughts.
You may not be surprised that I think the older movie is the better one. What’s most striking is how sanitized the newer one is? Carrey’s Grinch literally lives in a junk heap, the Whos are all pretty afraid of him. Cumberbatch lives in this very cozy, sunlit IKEA demo room place. He goes shopping in town and nobody really bats an eye at his presence at all.
Carrey’s Grinch gets a facefull of Christine Baranski Who-boobs, and casually swears. Cumberbatch’s has perfect teeth and is shown to be technically wearing pants. Carrey’s Grinch cobbles together his sleigh from scrap metal and it looks like arctic Mad Max shit. Cumberbatch’s looks like his could be in a Macy’s Christmas Parade float and he has gadgets that would make James Bond envious.
They both get sad childhood stories because why else would anyone dislike Christmas? (They both remark on the excess of the season, but it’s way more believable from Carrey’s Grinch because, as he says, he lives among all the trash generated by the holiday).
Another big contrast is Cindy-Lou. She’s portrayed as thoughtful (and very proactive) in both but her involvement with the Grinch in the newer movie is almost wholly by accident, which I think cheapens the depiction of the affection between the two of them at the end.
Yeah anyway. The new one is cute I guess, but it also kinda sucks that it got Disneyfied
The Jim Carrey grinch is fucking weird and horny. There’s a key party joke! I sort of love it honestly, its so loud and trashy and jim carrey eats glass.
I entirely forgot we watched cumbergrinch lol
The completely unhinged Mike Myers cat in the hat movie is arguably directly responsible for this, and probably has had even more indirect influence over this sort of thing in general.
the grinch is such a short story even the 30 minute one is streching things i’m amazed they managed to make two entire movies out of it. the things i remember most about the jim carrey ones are the jewish who joke, how horny christine baranski is for him, and the drunk driving spree. the jim carrey one is actually the toned down version from the original pitch which was like “a teen grinch with attitude for the 90s”
To this day when someone asks me if I’m busy for something and I want to make it sarcastically clear that I don’t want to go I’ll say I need to check my schedule and say “shtaaare into the abyssh” in Carrey Grinchvoice
When my younger kid was like 3 Carreygrinch was the only ostensibly live-action movie he would watch, I guess because everyone looks like a cartoon, so I blame that movie’s manic gross energy for his ADHD
I remember really not liking it when it came out because it was too garish and hyper and I couldn’t get any purchase on it tonally between jim carrey movies and the boris karloff grinch but it’s actually aged well
no its still terrible, it’s just an unfashionable sort of shitty instead of the current trend of lifeless disney shitty
Can’t forget the Halloween grinch film
I remember being at a terrible concert in 2008 where between acts they played the Carrey Grinch but muted on the screens with “Enter Sandman” on the PA
