so its a hosoda movie
Iâm just upset that the movie vaguely equates the threat of doxxing (itâs not even like, dangerous doxxing, itâs just âlol you look like you do in real life nowâ) with child abuse
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The ending was really bad but I really enjoyed the first two thirds or so! I like that the most popular girl in school plays saxophone in a dancing jazz band.
if Hosoda made a movie that was as good and well written and paced and real as the scene where sax girl confesses to canoe guy, it would be his best movie by a long shot and it would embarrass Shinkai into actually having his characters kiss or fuck or whatever display of affection heâs allergic to
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I also liked the music and think that Kaho Nakamura does a great job with acting and singing throughout. Besides sax girl and canoe guy, thatâll be what I choose to remember.
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watched a double bill of gregg arakiâs ânowhereâ and lifetime original movie âdying for the crownâ, enjoyed both and feel like they have a connecting thread of wonderfully inane, disconnected dialogue. the former is kind of a liquid skies feeling thing about teens expressing themselves exclusively through nonsequitors while being stalked by an alien, the latter is a lifetime feeling thing about a rich suburban family expressing themselves mostly through nonsequitors while being stalked by⌠iâm sorry but i donât think i can realistically describe this character using any words other than âevil milfâ. like take a look at the picture below and see if you can guess who the villain is.
she looks like this for the whole thing and it becomes increasingly crazed feeling when like characters donât notice her because sheâs wearing sunglasses as a disguise or something as she glides behind them like an extra from The Eye Of Argon
anyway the backstory is that this lady was knocked off homecoming stage as a teen after an altercation with the protagonist and then became barren and dedicated her life to revenge. it has to be said that she was apparently also pretty supervillainy at the time of the original incident - when she hops on stage at the beginning sheâs wearing an orchid bouquet specifically because she knows the homecoming king is allergic to them and will instantly fall over and need to be hospitalised. later on this plot thread will pay off when she locks him in a limo (later a cabinet) full of orchids to die.
in between she murders her husband at the start of the movie by hitting him over the head with a conch shell(?), seduces the heroineâs teen daughter away by offering college application advice and info on where to find good discount clothes, gets hired for and tries to destroy the heroineâs flower arrangement business, murders the previous flower store employee by tasering her in the ass, and has like, some kind of teenage boy crony to do her bidding like place fake flower arrangement orders on her behalf (asked what he should do with a truck full of roses: âfind some girls to give em to⌠or guys.â âthis weekendâs gonna rockâ he replies enthusiastically. could definitely be an exchange from the former film.) oh and also whenever she has to pay for anything she pulls out a wad of cash from between her breasts and tells the recipient to âkeep the changeâ. this happens twice at like a ten minute remove. the ending of the movie shows her in prison building a prom crown out of scrap metal pieces, wearing it, and then taking it off to stab it into the prison wardenâs face.
in between she keeps notes on her scheming on a whiteboard
the moral of the movie is that even if you feel sorry for someone you shouldnât do anything to help them because what if theyâre a cartoonishly evil vamp lady trying to ruin your life? also it isnât really related to anything but iâd be remiss not to mention that the daughterâs love interest is one of the most powerful 30-year-olds-playing-teenagers things iâve seen in quite a while
my favourite scenes in nowhere were all the scenes of people hanging out in square empty rooms with huge portraits of themselves covering the walls but i also liked the bit where protagonist Dark introduced himself as âyou know, like the absence of lightâ. uncannily good at capturing the aesthetic feeling of like the anti-drug teen psa dimension.
some of the lifetime movie shots are almost as disconcertingly artificial in their use of colour coordination
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Anyone named Cody Hansen should be eliminated on general principle
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Triple feature of The Unknown (1927) with Lon Chaney
Freaks (1932) and Freaked (1993). The first two are a cut above imo but the latter is unbridled MTVNickelodeon90s fun times with some cool practical FX and groanworthy gags (in a good way). The intro title sequence rules:
EDIT: Flashing lights warning ^
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Okay, this was very clever. I really wish they had left out the time police and ended it some other way, though.
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The first movie I saw in 2022 was one for a podcast that wasnât very good.
Then between two weeks and a toddler screaming saw Urusai Yatsura 2:Beautiful Dreamer. Which I feel conflicted about. It has wonderful animation, every cell is a delight. The dream mystery is also very enjoyable. Neither Lady Rude or myself had any experience with the series and more or less understood the main characters by the end. This bluray also has linear notes on it that gave enough breakdown that escaped me otherwise.
On the other hand there is a lot of Nazi imagery just hanging around. Most of it in the nazis had cool uniforms and cool weapons and a cool look. Letâs just hang out with the 3rd Reich. Calculating 1984 Japan and how much that was just okay in this otherwise fun âfamily friendlyâ anime. And then It has the gawl to say every âevilâ person in history including Hitler was actually evil because of this trickster god. I pretty much bristle at anything that takes humanityâs actions out of Human Control.
Like not sure if Iâll show it to Neo Rude until they are way older because of these issues because otherwise it is so fun to look at. Still managed to watch a movie as a family over two sessions and the kid just happily screamed the whole time so A+ experience got what I think is another chill anime over here before we start looking what is on Japanese streaming services.
doublebill of Hackers and Catalinaville, the latter being the porn movie the famous âthrow me some numbersâ scene came from although since iâm a prude i watched the expurgated just-the-plot cut thatâs on youtube. in the end it is hard to say which is the better movie, comparatively. hackers had a lot of good background fashions and i did enjoy that they all congregate in a club thatâs just the runaway hideout from the tmnt movie except also with a big screen for playing WipeOut (did someone from sb write this) but the main character was repellent enough to consistently be a drag. i guess itâs funny to think there was a window where people were open to the idea of this type of character as potentially being a hero, as opposed to at best the heroâs sidekick. after spending some years thinking about the power for both good and evil latent in the idea of the movie hacker, society as a whole has decided: okay, but only if they can be kept under the moral guidance of a bruce willis or similar. otherwise theyâre essentially a Lifetime movie villain.
my favourite part of hackers was at the big climax in the train station where after a movieâs worth of trying admirably to make hacking seem, like, visually interesting and intelligible, they seemed to exhaust themselves and just ended up at âshots of the protagonists typing in a slowly spinning phone box in front of footage of an explosion or whatever, and this goes on for like a full minute.â does that imply theyâre doing good or bad. well, i guess it turned out they were doing good.
catalinaville wisely decided not to focus on hacking for the most part, although there are occasional shots whenever someoneâs at the computer of just like, having a huge zoom to a random keyboard key getting tapped by a huge finger, or a shot of a floppy disk popping out. mostly when they have to represent computer things they use my preferred method of just showing someone looking tired while typing and then either going âargghâ or âyessâ to let us know how itâs going. otherwise a lot of the plot parts are like, an action thriller about being chased around by henchmen while trying to protect a disk⌠as i was watching i was trying to figure out how the genre thriller parts would intersect with the sex scenes. would there be a part where he fights a henchman and then they just have sex instead and thatâs how he learns a password, or similar⌠but it turns out no, nearly all the sex in the movie is just between people who already know and like each other and would probably be down for it even if they werenât being pulled into a floppy-disk-centered conspiracy. which makes the latter seem kind of superfluousâŚ? i guess the way that intersects with the thriller aspect is that every so often one of them gets blown away by masked intruders holding assault rifles. the conspiracy centers around a new type of wireless fax technology, âworth billionsâ.
ultimately i guess i have to give the win to hackers purely because i was always delighted by the scenes where the bad guy scoots around on a skateboard or where the protags are kind of awkwardly slipping around an indoor environment because theyâre still wearing rollerblades. they should remake this movie except everyone is silently gliding around in heelys for the whole thing.
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watched my first movie of the year last nite. atonement with kiera knightley and james mcavoy. it was decently shot and i wish i couldâve taken some screenshots or made some gifs. the length was just right and i didnât really stop to see how much time was left too often. story wise, i guessed how it would end about 45 mins in but that didnât make it any less enjoyable.
itâs your usual tragic romance fare but i liked it and may rewatch it again in the future. i didnât leave a review on letterboxd because i was left speechless by the end. the war epic parts didnât seem to glorify the conflict which is a rarity with things like this. the actors did a great job and everyone was convincing. itâs on prime as a rental if you wanna check it out.
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watched a french cop superhero movie called âHow I Became A Superheroâ. netflix garbage, looks like every other netflix movie. i had a decently fun time with it but totally a nonrecommendation.
finally watched Labyrinth for the first time, holy shit. every fucking second ruled, even the incredibly sinister ballroom dance thing which could definitely be read as bowie lusting after a 15 year old. what a mess of a movie, what a weird overambitious trainwreck.
oh i guess the song in the swampy foresty area with those weird head-removal guys kinda sucked, i sort of hated that.
but everything else was amazing, i canât believe i didnât watch it prior.
i described labyrinth and the mario movie to alicia as being made âbefore they forgot how to make moviesâ, inspired by watching the french superhero cop movie, marking me as an official jerk but i donât care itâs true all movies look the same now if they have a comparable budget
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Finally got around to watching Prospect and it was much more of a played-straight Western in Space than Iâd anticipated but it was pretty good. Fun prop/costume design for something ostensibly on a very tight budget.
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i was just very happy with this progression and wanted to share it
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YEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS WAX
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I appreciate âChilly Downâ more every time I watch Labyrinth until now itâs my favourite song. itâs just so weird and tonally mismatched to the other tracks! the vocals sounds way undermixed! I love it
Danny John-Jules was one of the vocalists, he put up the demo with Bowieâs vocals on his youtube a while back
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First Time Iâve ever seen anyone talk-up Chilly Down but I do like that it ends with muppets politely offering to do a body horror on Jennifer Connelly before she nopes her way out of the scene entirely
As an aside I wish I had the same affection for Dark Crystal; a film too epic for levity
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Leviathan (1989)
I imagine the pitch for this movie was
âWhat if we made a movie that was like Alien.â
Itâs not a budget knock-off, itâs got excellent production values; the actors and effects are good.
Itâs a copy. Itâs not a bad one, but it is a âwhy does this exist?â one.