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Watched âMischief 3000â a gonzo documentary filmed by a street racing film company that sneaked into the 2002 Gumball 3000, itself a âRallyâ across America where very wealthy people in very expensive sports cars drive very fast. The movie was originally released on DVD but a few years ago the original creator found the old DV tapes and remastered it, uploading the whole thing to youtube.
ItâsâŠfascinating, sometimes thrilling, sometimes crass. Itâs basically someoneâs home movie of them and a buddy taking their BMW across the US, dodging police, and doing some very illegal speeds. The cars get driven so hard that windshields crack and paint gets stripped off. There are some wrecks but nobody (at least in the documentary) gets injured. Multiple drivers are arrested, but appear at the next checkpoint. Drivers get pulled over by police and are ticketed frequently, sometimes multiple times a day. The police are overwhelmed both by the sheer number of drivers and the flagrant disregard for the law, and the many cameras suddenly being pointed at them, that they give up and let people go. Or, in the case of the Ruf team, come along for a high speed ride. One team, driving a Nissan R33 GTR, nearly gets shot by police after running a stop sign in the middle of nowhere, the driver asking the camera man âHow do you americans put up with this?â
2002 me would have been pumped for driving across country at 150 mph in a Ferrari, 2022 is thinking about the complex relationship between the rich and the police, and the immediate post 9/11 landscape. I may write a longer blog about it.
One of the other interesting things about the movie is thereâs a few racing events edited in, like a drift event from 2002. Back then nobody knew what drifting was, initial D wasnât popular at all, and so all the cars are nearly stock and clumsily sliding around the track. Itâs quaint.
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FINALLY got to see Memoria. I donât have it in me for an effortpost at this time, but itâs real good! Feels like there was sort of an effort on Weerasethakulâs part to make a slightly more accessible film for a wider audience, but it never feels like heâs giving anything up to do so, or treating the viewer as any less intelligent or curious.
For a while I thought âwow, this is easily his most grounded film Iâve seen.â Well, I wonât say anything!
Tons of interesting echoed motifs throughout the film that got me thinking and feeling, but I think most of them are red herrings. Cool though!
Thereâs a twist that is SO funny but it worked for me.
I think someone on here was talking about the video editing porn in Blow Out. Well, this film has a lengthy scene of EXCELLENT digital audio editing porn.
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nyoom
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This is just completely not true. For instance, R4 was released in 99, and had Drift cars, and nobody treated that like a new thing. Now, did drifting get more popular later? Sure, but lots of people knew what it was in 2002.
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I guess what I meant by ânobody knew what drifting wasâ I should have clarified âNobody at the event (The first US east coast drift event ever?) is in 1000 horsepower D1GP cars with custom steering suspensionâ and the sport is completely different from what it is now.
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Fair, it was the infancy of it being a sport and not just a driving technique.
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yeah itâs completely obvious what you mean after watching the video holy shit! kinda rules
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I Was Drifting In Mario Kart Back In '92
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In those days we called it power sliding though
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Watched this earlier today and agree completely with all of this.
The only ray of light in this thing is Rhys Ifans as Rasputin, and even then, they largely kinda fuck that up until his fight.
So, itâs a lot like Kingsman 2 in that thereâs like one fun action scene and the rest is garbo.
If the whole movie had been like this, it mightâve had a shot.
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I keep starting Branded to Kill too late and falling asleep during it.
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I was about to watch The Batman and then saw it had a three-hour runtime, fuck that
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watched hellraiser 2 and enjoyed it, very adventure game feeling, like 70% of the movie is just running plotlessly around a big indeterminate maze while running into weird shit which is then solved via inventory puzzles. every problem in the movie is worked out by an inventory puzzle!! use SHEET on CANDLES, use PHOTO on PINHEAD, use SKIN on TUBE MAN. when the cenobite guys corner the main girl in hell they say âweâre going to kill you!! eventually!! until then, feel free to look around and explore the areaâ and then they hand her an item and go away. at one point she leaves the same item on the ground and walks away and then has to backtrack into hell to pick it up again. there are more puzzle boxes and also a girl whoâs addicted to puzzles and a doctor who likes to talk about how the human brain is a puzzle while heâs in the middle of chopping one apart, which i believe is also one of the secret endings to the witness, eventually he turns into a Tube Man and spends the rest of the movie yelling medical-themed catchphrases at people (âthe doctor is IN!!! take two of these, and call me in the morning!!â) which is a slightly inexplicable yet fun touch. the lady who plays julia is good in this one too especially in the parts where she has no skin but is still vamping at people. anyway i liked it, be sure to also check out expert mode which contains several hours of new puzzles.
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honestly it would work ok as a streaming miniseries, it has like three films of plot crammed in. it looks QUITE good and R-Patty is great fun and thatâs like, pretty much all there is to it. i go back and forth on Catwomanâs characterisation but rn my take is âZoĂ« Kravitz was cheatedâ
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yeah this is exactly what happened when i was about to start watching it
last night i rewatched Billy Madison for the first time in a very long time. itâs really hard to imagine anything like this ever being made again, but not for problematic content or what have you, just moreso itâs such a strange combination of different types of humor that maybe only made sense at that moment in time. i would say overall it still âholds up,â but i wasnât bursting at the seams with laughter like i was in middle school whichâŠyeah, fair.
the thing is that this movie was also a hit with adults, right? is there comedy these days that has that sort of overlap between children and adults? i donât mean shows with adult humor that children watch (i think this is all that exists now, right?), but Billy Madison is an extraordinarily-silly movie. even itâs story makes no effort to really explain itself in a way that i donât think most comedies would ever attempt now (and itâs better for it that it doesnât try to explain itself).
i guess while watching it, my inner monologue was mostly just marveling at the fact that this is what used to also be considered a movie. you can just tell that these people were just fucking around and doing a lot with what was probably the largest budget theyâd ever had up until that point.
i think the window for Sandlerâs stand-up humor making any kind of cultural sense was exactly the period of time up through Happy Gilmore and it was right for him to eventually transition into where heâs at now.
a strange time capsule that mostly makes me think of childhood friends and sleepovers and quoting things like âstop looking at me, swan!â to each other.
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To this day I call my sisterâs husband âScuba Steveâ sometimes. And snippets of his comedy CD skits still bubble into my consciousness involuntarily. I donât know if I could recommend any of it to someone younger who wasnât around for it. Feels very You Had To Be There, and yet with all the years gone by I still find myself looking back on it kind of fondly. Fondly enough to quote it at my similarly-aged friends, anyway. Adam Sandler and Homestar Runner, the two halves of the Millennial Humor coin
Iâm not enamored of much of his later work. I havenât seen Uncut Gems yet, I should probably do that.
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the sand man is the jerry lewis of our time, heâs just had a much more successful side career as a serious actor
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I watched that movie so much as a kid any time someone mentions it i can only hear the doctors weird sing scream when he sucks peopleâs heads
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I showed my parents Thief and they really enjoyed it. My dad liked The Red Circle more when I showed it to him last week. Really putting my criterion blu ray backlog to good use by showing my dad movies.
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