Yeah i love prince of darkness. The sov nightmare message scene is my favourite thing in any carpenter movie
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John Carpenter pretty much made great movies across the board (there’s shit like Vampires which is awful, obviously, but some people like it)…that’s what I personally believe!
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that was my favorite part too
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My favorite part of Prince of Darkness (apart from reading about the insanely dangerous thing they did for the mirror scene) is the hot young stud student who doesn’t look a day under 42.
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the canonical actually-bad-carpenter list is like Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Vampires, and The Ward and the first two are basically ruined by casting the worst men in hollywood
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vampires needs to be way less about punching Sheryl Lee in the face on top of the james woods thing
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we were re-watching the first saw becuase the violence is cool, and i tried to watch the whole thing but like i always fall asleep when they start talking, but not until the doctor could tell his cellmate that ‘everything he does is PRE THOUGHT OUT’ and the phrase pre thought out, and the fact that a DOCTOR used it was just too much for me, i cant stop thinking about it
prethought out
thats how doctors talk
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dr. gordon lets adam caress his face with his poopy toilet hand. that’s true love. jigsaw was just trying to bring those boys together
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still amazing to me that these characters have names and not designations like they’re in a jrpg. its all obessive detective, shitty doctor, addicted woman, bad roomate etc to me
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third time watching Babylon this year, this time the OV.
Say what you want, but there is something about how Chazelle makes his movies that tells you he means it.
Not sure whether I can pinpoint it, but the payin’ respects-montage in Babylon is the only bit of (virtual) celluloid that feels like it isn’t infused with an idea of where the movie wants to go — and correctly so in the scope of Babylon, the movie itself, there is no more place to go, no further path to traverese, it just ends in chaos that cannot be contained or tamed.
Really appreciated Brad Pitt’s Jack Conrad this time, a character stuck in a rough patch of having to confront his own time’s up, the supposed shunning of his craft by snobbish upperclass elites (even when he’s sure the $$$ tell a different story) that slowly invade and take over his domain — heartbreaking to see how he’s unable to deal w/ it, while having the outlook of being resigned to ride out his career by mediocre output, until he’d fade away slowly … and all the while he’s hung up on a friendship that wasn’t a ‘best bro’s’ kind of deal, but rather a supporting one that, when gone, leaves him stranded in a void. Telling that he is lead by his example even then!
Also have to give a shoutout to the supporting cast finding their way in life feeling natural, instead of being happily-ever-after’ed in a 20 second clip.
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there needs to be more ‘we’re gonna die so we might as well fuck’ desperation in saw movies but they’re too nu metal for homosexuals to even exist
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def by temptation is so good. powerful ernest dickerson cinematography all over that thing.
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Saw always annoys the hell out of me because I’m so ready for it to be a puzzlebox one-location movie and 50% of the runtime is “let’s cut to the stupid cops doing boring procedural shit”.
Cube is Saw done right!!
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yeah but I’ve already seen cube and that series turns to shit aside from the first one too, and it’s SO hamfisted it barely holds up. saw 5 is better than cube 2.
i usually fast forward saw movies to the killing parts because yeah I don’t care about detectives talking about how they’re incompetent, but eventually all the cops think a different cop is in on it and they keep getting put into eachothers traps and it’s really fucking funny how stupid they are, and how backstabby and convuluted their conspiracies get
also these movies don’t believe in establishing shots so it’s really fun to guess WHERE ARE WE as we watch a dude (from inside the building) walk into a green and rust covered industrial complex for the 50th time
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It’s funny, I started watching Cube last Saturday and fell asleep halfway through. I probably would have for Saw, too.
i fell asleep during the first saw and almost fell asleep during the fourth one thats why those movies have loud noises i thought to wake you up for the good stuff
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