I finally watched f9, which I refused to watch until I had my nova cause it has a nova in it, (I remember my friends bringing over the first movie when I was in the middle of playing mgs2 the first time, and when it got to the reveal of the charger in the garage thinking, finally, and the idea kind of forming in my head that if I ever went through the hassle of getting a car, it might as well be a cool old muscle car. and when I saw 5 in theaters was thinking I finally need to get that car I’ve always wanted, and every successive movie thinking “maybe it’ll be done by the next one”) and anyway, I loved it. I still like 5 and 6 the best cause those have paul walker and less dumb spy movie shit but it’s definitely up there with them. Loved seeing the tokyo drift fellas crazed and high on rocket fuel. all the flashback stuff is great too, what work by the casting director. and genius making dom’s brother into a mustang asshole. the series needed one. just stop letting anyone but justin lin make these things, it doesn’t work
agree with 5 and 6 being the best, but I think I still like 8 better than 9, they’re getting a little too hung up on their own mythos, and the sentimentalism has been so shot from 7 onward that I kind of preferred the Rock and Statham show
I’ve seen all of Brosnan, Craig and part of early Connery. I have seen License to Kill and I love Dalton’s bond from that movie alone. I’ve seen only bits and pieces of Moore through TBS and Spike TV marathon broadcasts in the nineties and early 2000s. So it will be an interesting journey watching these for the first time in a more complete form.
Seriously, this might have been my favorite part of 9, just seeing the Tokyo Drift Middle Aged Man Squad off doing their own weird rocket shit. I’m glad they are at least a side part of the group now.
John Cena as Mustang Asshole is such casting.
8’s misogyny was real gratuitous, man, idk
Putting the new white guy in a blue BRZ was a fantastic meta joke though
oh it’s the bond talk again with the same dudes as last time, we’ll I HAVE SOMETHING NEW TO SAY
since we had this talk I saw casino royale and license to kill
casino royale got turned off after I fell asleep and changed into poker after dark on NBC. I can’t even remember anything about it anymore, I might have posted about it but that was probably one of the worst movies to recommend me
BUT HOLY SHIT THE SEAMAN STATUE IN LISCENSE TO KILL? EVIL HOT BENICIO DEL TORO?? THE FIGHTER PILOT LADY WHO JUST TELLS BOND TO SHUT UP?? she should have her own emanuelle movie. I’m never gonna watch another bond movie again because he just went so fucking hard in license to kill I can’t imagine anything topping that
pluto.tv has a channel that’s only for bond movies. this is information for someone else though because I’m DONE with bond
Weird Bond would come up cause I watched the new one on a plane. What lugubrious crap, who prestige TV’d the hell out of this after we had Craig bursting through drywall like a buffalo in Casino Royale
Also watched on a plane: Tenet. I guess this one is slightly less self serious, like at least the characters go out of their way to say “don’t think about this too hard just go with it,” but Nolan can’t help but remake The Prestige over and over again (his best movie, because it’s explicitly about what all his movies are about, magic tricks). It is very funny that these ultracompetent superoperators treat as shocking revelations super signposted and obvious twists, and maybe even more funny that the movie doesn’t understand how funny it is? Eh, no, it’s just annoying honestly.
Good plane movies.
Literally the True Detective director
THANK YOU
have a nice honeymoooooooon
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if the batman had come out when I was like 16 I probably would have gone ape shit for it. really liked the batmobile
COSMOPOLIS WAS SO FUCKING GOOD I’ve never seen the subtitles of a movie just be HUGE PARAGRAPHS before and the way the movie seamlessly went from complete nonsense talking heads lyrics of dialogue to sentences of things that actually make sense was amazing. what a fucking screenplay
the incredibly erotic prostate exam was a plus too. Pattinson makes sad Jamie Stewart faces a lot
YES
always liked pattinson after that
excellent direction, excellent casting, excellent source material
(Jason Derulo saying “Jason Derulo” voice): Do~n Delillo
batman was like a solid three stars and fast 8 is maybe one of the worst movies i’ve ever seen. though the half hour of hobbs and shaw i watched was worse
the batman could’ve stood to be an hour shorter but I like the realization of batman as a creep with severe ptsd. Wish the indictment of Wayne’s billionaire status was more aggressively pursued, though it does at least make his absolute irresponsibility about his own wealth the source of corruption in gotham.
went to a matinee showing of The Northman with a friend today and had the whole theater to ourselves. good time; lots of butts.
been seeing people kind of talk about this film as Eggers’ sell-out film but frankly idk what people want from this kind of thing. it’s basically like “what if the guy who made The Witch and The Lighthouse tried to make a movie like Gladiator but on a smaller scale.”
if that sounds fun then i recommend it.
overall i had fun watching it and there is a lot of cool cinematography and costumes and all that stuff. my feeling is that if a movie like this can appeal to kids, maybe it can be a gateway to weirder shit for them. an avenue that doesn’t really exist (for the most part) within the MCU. like i’m pretty sure every teenage boy on the planet is gonna lose their shit when they see Alexander Skarsgård catch a spear mid air and throw it back to kill a dude within 5 seconds. and if they decide “hey i wonder what else this director did,” then hey, maybe cinema isn’t dead, idk.
still, the monkey’s paw effect of this is that the film is about Vikings and in 2022 that is loaded.
im glad its called the northman so i can headcanon it as being eric northman from true bloods origin story
The North Man >>> The Bat Man